Podcasts about Zazu

In this very special episode of Friendless, host James Avramenko dives into an insightful and heartfelt conversation with Zazu Payne, a biomedical engineer, board game enthusiast, and self-proclaimed 'friendship guru'. Zazu shares his journey from being a self-described 'selfish guy' to someone deeply invested in building authentic connections through community and faith. They discuss the power of vulnerability, the beauty in others, and how true friendships can start in the most unexpected places. Tune in for a candid discussion on the complexities of friendship and the courage it takes to show up genuinely in our increasingly disconnected world.Follow Zazu on Instagram @zazux2_gamesSign up for the Friendless Substack HERE!Follow Friendless on TikTokand on InstagramSupport the show, Buy Me A Coffee!!Create your podcast today! #madeonzencastr

The Mariners are in Cincinnati as they begin a roadtrip in a hitter friendly ballpark, so how will the offense respond and what's realistic for this team? :30- The Ol' Judge is here! The honorable Bucknelius Cornhole representing. - ZaZu the Swaplord as a nickname for Hollander really has legs.. - Julio is great, but Elly de la Cruz is the most talented player on the field tonight. - The Warriors are going to lose tonight and Adam Silver is going to poop himself. - Retiring Shadeur Sanders and Travis Hunter's number at Colorado just makes sense. - Draftmas has passed Freedom on the list of things Americans love. :45- We close out the show with one last thing!

ANDRES GONZALEZ (ESPN/Sirius XM) joins the show to discuss Rory's big win at the Masters. Could getting over the Masters unlock even more for Rory? Who else could achieve the career Grand Slam and how close are they? :30- ABCs of the Mariners - X is for eXhale- does that sweep allow for some relief and a little bit of an exhale? - Y is for youth movement- Ben Williamson is on his way up and could be a great addition to the roster. - Z is for Zazu the Swap Lord- is that a good nickname for Hollander? :45- We close out the show with one last thing!

In this episode, Dorra Mahbouli speaks with Rinse Jacobs, former Solaris executive and now CEO of Zazu, the rising B2B fintech reshaping SME banking in Africa. Zazu is building Africa's first finance super-app, offering a unified platform that addresses the fragmented, outdated financial tools SMEs currently rely on.With over 44 million underbanked SMEs across the continent and a $5.1 trillion credit gap in emerging markets, Zazu positions itself as the go-to digital banking solution for SMEs—combining payments, finance management, and credit access in one place. Backed by VCs and built by FinTech veterans, Zazu is now expanding beyond South Africa into other African and MENA markets to support SME growth at scale.Find it here or reach out to Rinse on LinkedIn.

 El próximo viernes, día 4 de abril, finaliza el plazo para formalizar la preinscripción en las escuelas infantiles de Pamplona para realizar el primer ciclo de Educación Infantil. Hablamos con Inés Zazu, directora de Escuelas Infantiles de Pamplona

To all who come to this happy podcast, welcome! In this Season 4 Trailer, The Mouse and Me creator and host, Scott Jacobs, recaps the incredible Guests he's interviewed including Jonathan Freeman (the voice of Jafar from the Aladdin movies and from Aladdin on Broadway), Chris Gattelli who won the Tony award for Best Choreography for Newsies, Jen Cody (the voice of Charlotte Le Bouff from The Princess and the Frog), Don Darryl Rivera who was the original and is still Iago in Aladdin on Broadway, Sam Strasfeld and Nic Dromard from Broadway's Mary Poppins, Nick LaMedica who played Zazu on Broadway in The Lion King and is currently playing Zazu on the US national tour. Scott also spoke with Thomas Schultheis, Rory Donovan, Andy Grobengieser, Michael “Koz” Kosarin, Linda Griffin, Angie Schworer, Dennis Stowe, Jared Bradshaw, Meredith Patterson, Robert Creighton, Victor Amerling, Jess LeProtto, Patrick Wetzel, Aaron Kaburick, Roz Ryan who was the voice of Thalia from Hercules, and more if you can believe it! subscribe to The Mouse and Me, rate the show, and leave a review. Doing those three quick things really helps with the discoverability and credibility of The Mouse and Me and Scott would really appreciate it! Also, you can support the show by visiting patreon.com/themouseandme. All donations will be put towards advertising so Scott can continue to produce exciting content for you. And finally, follow the show on Facebook and Instagram by searching The Mouse and Me. There, you'll see questions, pictures, information about past, current, and upcoming Guests, fun facts, and other neat things. We hope you have the best day ever and we'll see ya real soon…for Season 4 of The Mouse and Me!  Email: TheMouseAndMePodcast@gmail.com Support: www.patreon.com/themouseandme FB & Instagram: The Mouse and Me TikTok: @TheMouseAndMePodcast Twitter: @MouseMePodcast Music by Kevin MacLeod from https://incompetech.filmmusic.io

Find the 9 Points Rating System Here: https://www.alostplot.com/9-points/ Find the Lord of the Rings, the War of the Rohirrim Review here: https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/maverick51411/episodes/2024-12-19T12_16_58-08_00Find the Back to the Future Review here: https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/maverick51411/episodes/2024-08-08T15_26_59-07_00In this episode, Maverick and Andrew review Disney's latest release, Mufasa, exploring its shortcomings in storytelling, character development, and dialogue. They discuss the pitfalls of relying on established intellectual property (IP) and how the film fails to deliver compelling characters, particularly Mufasa, who lacks growth and depth. The hosts critique the villains, Obasi and Kairos, and highlight the poor execution of dialogue that detracts from the overall narrative. Ultimately, they compare Mufasa unfavorably to the original Lion King, emphasizing the wasted potential in this new installment. They critique the writing and motivations behind characters like Scar, Zazu, and Rafiki, arguing that the film fails to deliver a coherent narrative. The discussion highlights the impact of established intellectual property on storytelling, suggesting that the film lacks originality and depth, ultimately leading to a disappointing viewing experience.----------Highlights:0:00 ‘Mufasa' Introduction5:01 Opening Scene8:13 Mufasa's Introduction16:46 Obasi and King Kiros28:37 Side Characters35:58 Scar Was Done Dirty47:07 Lasting Impact#mufasa #thelionking #scar #taka #disney #disneysucks #flop #fail #failure #filmthoughts #alostplot #podcast #podcaster #moviemeditations #animation #kidsmovie #2024 #2024movies #animals #animalkingdom #circleoflife #lions #lion #simba #sarabi #zazu #africa #africanplains #establishedip #ip #critique #dialogue #characterarc #storyarc #villains 

Extrait : « … elle s'active pour rencontrer ses idoles et réussir ce que personne n'avait fait depuis des années : réunir autour d'un même projet, cinq ans après leur rupture et la grosse fâcherie, Donald Fagen et Walter Becker, les deux fondateurs de Steely Dan, un groupe de soft rock folk jazz qui avait vendu la bagatelle de 40 millions de disques dans les années 70. Zazu, l'album qui résulte de la réunion de tout ce beau monde, sort en 1986. Un album chiadé, avec des mélodies très travaillées et variées, accompagnées d'une voix chaleureuse et joyeuse … »Pour commenter les épisodes, tu peux le faire sur ton appli de podcasts habituelle, c'est toujours bon pour l'audience. Mais également sur le site web dédié, il y a une section Le Bar, ouverte 24/24, pour causer du podcast ou de musique en général, je t'y attends avec impatience. Enfin, si tu souhaites me soumettre une chanson, c'est aussi sur le site web que ça se passe. Pour soutenir Good Morning Music et Gros Naze :1. Abonne-toi2. Laisse-moi un avis et 5 étoiles sur Apple Podcasts, ou Spotify et Podcast Addict3. Partage ton épisode préféré à 3 personnes autour de toi. Ou 3.000 si tu connais plein de monde. Good Morning Music Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast.com/privacy pour plus d'informations.

"What if the missing piece to your personal and professional growth is healing the deepest parts of yourself? That's where true transformation begins."In this special roundtable episode, I'm joined by two incredible women, Lisa Marie and Dr. Zazu, who are both nearing completion of The Metamorphosis Method Certification. Together, we explore their journeys through the program, discussing how this deep, transformative work has impacted their personal lives, professional paths, and the way they show up for their clients.We dive into the emotional layers of healing childhood wounds, the breakthroughs that come from breathwork, and the power of integrating The Metamorphosis Method into their practices. From tackling their own growth to witnessing life-changing results in their clients, this episode is filled with stories of vulnerability, courage, and empowerment. If you're curious about how inner healing can revolutionize not only your business but your entire life, this episode will show you what's possible. CONTACT LISA MARIEGet your 5-Minute Energy Shift FreebieWebsiteFollow on IG @lifepurified_byyouAnd on FB Life PurifiedCONTACT DR. ZAZUWebsiteFreebie + My Pleasurable Conception & Pregnancy Journey BookFollow on IG @dr_zazu_cioce_dpt  TODAY'S HIGHLIGHTS(00:00) Intro(02:01) Meet The Metamorphosis Method graduates(02:58) Zazu's journey and discoveries(06:28) Lisa's path to healing(09:01) The power of breathwork(10:17) Zazu's personal growth and client impact(18:29) From victim mode to victor mode(24:34) From learning into practice(29:11) Breathwork for healing and emotional release(32:05) Ancestral healing, maternal lineage, and womb energy(39:11) How Lisa is implementing the work in her business(44:47) Exchanges sessions(54:29) Why this is for you Q&AI'm preparing a live Q&A episode and I'd love to get as many questions as possible.Submit your questions to info@alysebreathes.comFollow and leave a review of the podcast You'll be included in the contest to win a private session with me. For those of you who leave a review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you listen your podcasts from, and send us a screenshot of it, you'll get a $250 credit, you can apply to anything else in my world.The questions that get to be discussed on the podcast will be completely anonymous.**WAYS TO ENTER MY WORLD**The Metamorphosis Method starts February, 2025 and you can now enroll. Master my proven methodology, just like Dr. Zazu and Lisa Marie did, to guide your clients to rapidly and efficiently transmute lifetimes of familial and ancestral trauma. Email me and see if this is really a fit for you.CONTACT ALYSEJoin my FB groupIG @alyse_breathesVisit alysebreathes.cominfo@alysebreathes.com

Vector says he has paid a very steep price for insisting on being himself in a country like Nigeria - he has been shadow banned, he says. But he insists on being himself, making his art, and speaking his mind, telling me he has no fear of any man who owns a mic. From studying witchcraft at the University of Lagos to teaching his daughters how to box and defend themselves, this ‘song of a gun' tells me about growing up amidst the violence of Lagos Island, being detached without being inhuman, how his wife and daughters have helped him understand tenderness and why he didn't cry when his father passed. We speak about regrets he may have about the epic scuffle with MI, why exactly that was a battle he had to fight and recent misunderstandings in the media of what he said about Burna Boy, Nigeria - and that time Portable heard Vector rap about ‘Zazu' (Lion King') and thought he was being attacked.Then I ask him if he is happy with where his career is today. Everything about this episode is fire. Exclusive Patron-only Content Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

¿Has viajado con tu perro alguna vez? ¿Ha sido en coche, avión o barco? ¿Tu perro lo llevó bien o mal? ¿Te ha gustado este podcast? Escríbeme en comentarios! Te leooo! ℹ️ ¿No sabes si llevar a tu perro o no de vacaciones? Seguro que dudas cuál de las dos opciones es mejor… ⚠️ Por un lado no sabes qué lugar elegir para dejarlo, en quién confiar, si lo van a cuidar bien o qué pasos seguir para dejarlo con desconocidos sin causarle estrés. Por otro lado, si te lo llevas de vacaciones, no sabes si le va a estresar el cambio de lugar y rutinas y si vas a poder llevártelo a cualquier sitio. ¿Y si quieres visitar un lugar turístico y tienes que dejar a tu perro en el alojamiento? ¿Se portará bien, la liará? ➡️ Si tienes este problema y quieres saber cómo hacer bien ambas opciones, hay varias técnicas eficaces que explico en una clase paso a paso para que tu perro se adapte a un lugar nuevo esté contigo o sin ti. Antes de invertir 800€ en un adiestramiento presencial comprueba si puedes solucionar este problema por menos de lo que te cuesta tu pizza favorita al mes. ➡️ Voy a impartir una clase de 2h en el canal privado de Perrunología en la que Zazu, nuestra experta en cambios de rutina en perros te va a explicar los pasos a seguir para que tu perro no se estrese con el cambio que le va a suponer quedarse en un hotel canino sin ti o irse contigo de vacaciones y exponerse a una rutina, horarios y lugar nuevo. ➡️ La clase está en el canal privado de Perrunología y puedes entrar hoy mismo, ver la clase #262 “Vacaciones con y sin mi perro”, y empezar a planificar tus vacaciones sabiendo el paso a paso que debes hacer para dejar a tu perro en un hotel o llevarlo contigo sin que le estrese el cambio. Aquí te dejo la web para que puedas acceder. Una cosa IMPORTANTE El segundo vídeo de 1min de la web es un paso a paso que te enseño para que sepas cómo darte de alta fácilmente: Perrosypunto.com/perrunologia Por cierto: Perrunología es un canal privado de Telegram en el que te enseño todas las soluciones para tener un perro educado, equilibrado y feliz. Ya hay más de 1.150 perrunólogos que son más felices con sus perros gracias a este canal y ahora te toca a ti!! ‍♀️

General Moses, a.k.a. Adam Carswell, shares the classic record of the week, “ZaZu” by Aylen, and how General Moses discovered this track. In this episode, General Moses talks about:The classic record of the week, “ZaZu” by AylenHow General Moses discovered this song What genre you'd consider this track as General Moses would like to give a huge thanks to everyone listening for contributing their most valuable resource—their time.Episode Resources:Follow General Moses on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61556963347755 Listen to General Moses's music: https://open.spotify.com/artist/7aXBCWkF4GaqldpokuDaiM Follow General Moses on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/generalmoses9/ Join General Moses's Telegram community: https://t.me/+VuN1DhvZ8DMyOWUx Listen to “ZaZu” by Aylen: https://open.spotify.com/track/65VHpSh5psAV1Es6FuQzWt?si=afa2f0253d8049f2 Timestamped Shownotes:00:33 – What is the classic record of the week?01:00 – What genre would you qualify the track “ZaZu” by Aylen as?

This week we're back with the popular Roundtable episode of the program. In this version we invited Ashley Bower and Deremy Dove to share their ballots with host Thomas Sena. Enjoy and don't forget to vote! https://forms.gle/ECAVQbPBE6r3krpS6Transcript:Track 2:[0:42] Yes, hello, welcome to the SNL Hall of Fame podcast.Track 2:[0:45] I'm your master of ceremonies, your co-host for today's proceedings, Thomas Senna. Everybody, welcome. I think I would be remiss, and I think I need to do, Jamie, do a solid here, because it's very important to Jamie for me to tell you to wipe your feet before you enter the SNL Hall of Fame. I think Jamie would fire me from this post if I didn't tell you guys that. So welcome to the SNL Hall of Fame. Today is our customary end of season extravaganza. It's the SNL Hall of Fame Roundtable. This is the show in which we invite SNL Hall of Fame voters to share their ballots and their thought processes behind their choices. So this is always an interesting exercise to get into the psyche of some of the voters.Track 2:[1:40] Previous roundtables, I think minds have been changed. I think people have stood on islands and been steadfast on who they're voting for. It was interesting to see. I think we all just gained a great insight as to what voters may be thinking. Friendships were formed. I think rivalries were formed. So we've had some interesting roundtables in the past. It's always nice to get a peek into the mindset of SNL Hall of Fame voters. So with me today is two of my guests for this past season on the SNL Hall of Fame podcast.Track 2:[2:16] One first-time roundtable panelist, which is going to be fun. I'm excited to hear her thoughts today.Track 2:[2:24] So we have two panelists, and for full disclosure, for transparency here on the SNL Hall of Fame podcast, I will be sharing my ballot as well. So it's going to be the three of us sharing ballots today. So I'm not just like the co-host here on the SNL Hall of Fame. I am a panelist today, and I will give some transparency and let you all know my ballot and how I'm feeling about the voting cycle, about the votes this year. So without further ado, let me introduce our panel for today. And I have an icebreaker question, too. So I'm going to introduce them. My icebreaker question, I asked this last panel, last roundtable, and got some interesting responses. I haven't asked these to this question. I don't think. So...Track 2:[3:15] I want to ask which current cast member, not including Kenan Thompson, because that's the obvious one. Kenan's an SNL Hall of Famer. So not including Kenan Thompson, who on the current cast could you see in the SNL Hall of Fame someday? So that's going to be the little icebreaker question. Get a little peek into the mindset of our panel today. So my first guest, Ashley Bauer, SNL super fan. My guest for Kate McKinnon this year. Ashley did such a great job. And Ashley, thank you so much for joining us today here on the roundtable. How are you? Good. Good to see and talk to you again. Excited to be back. Yeah, this is great. So which current cast member, not including Kenan, that's the obvious one, could you see in the SNL Hall of Fame someday?Track 2:[4:03] So I thought about this and I went back and forth between two, but I think my vote's going to ultimately go to Bowen Yang. I'm going to have to give it to Bowen. And I think he kind of came out of the gate, you know, really with a bang. And he's really been in some pretty epic and memorable sketches already. And I kind of think he's a jack of all trades. And it's rare that he's in something I'm not dying of laughter in. So, yeah, I'm going to go with Bowen. Bowen's like Mr. Charisma. He really is. I love the iceberg weekend update sketch that he did. That was a really great performance. It's like one of the most memorable things that I can think of that Bowen's done. He's just a very likable person, a lot of charisma. Bowen Yang, Ashley could see in the SNL Hall of Fame someday. That's awesome. All right, so also with us is my partner in crime on the Pop Culture 5 podcast. He also is co-host of the Bigger Than the Game podcast. He's just podcasting all over the place.Track 2:[5:07] He's everywhere. And he was my guest for Tracy Morgan. this season on the SNL Hall of Fame. So I'm welcoming Mr. Deremy Dove to the proceedings. Deremy, how are you? I'm good, man. Always a pleasure to talk SNL and SNL Hall of Fame with you guys. So I'm honored to be on. Yeah, you're one of our go-to guests for the SNL Hall of Fame. Your insights are always so great. So welcome. You've been on for Dick Ebersole. You were on for Adam McKay and this year for Tracy Morgan, which was an interesting one. I think we did Tracy Justice with kind of a more loose sort of format I think Tracy would have wanted it that way I agree I agree absolutely yeah that was fun so who on the current cast not including Keenan could you see in the SNL Hall of Fame uh like like Ashley said it was there's a few who I was going back and forth with but I I went with James Austin Johnson um as my pick I think he um.Track 2:[6:02] He really brings, I love the impressions he does, and he kind of fits that mold of like what I think of. I think of just like what you need to make a great SNL cast member. He has that design. I feel I get like some Daryl Hammond kind of feels from him. I just really love what James Austin Johnson can bring to the table. And I see him. I don't know if he's going to be like the big star, but he's that person when we have rankings in a few years. It's going to be like, we'll be surprised. We'll be like, oh, James Austin Johnson, he's a Hall of Famer. He's a top whatever cast member of all time. So he's who I pick as like that future Hall of Famer for the current cast. I could see that.Track 2:[6:44] He's not just, so he started obviously with his Trump and Biden impressions. And I think he got hired on the strength of that. But he's not just an impressionist. I think he's filling out a lot of important kind of glue guy types of roles. He's kind of branching out and not just being an impressionist. Right, right. Yeah, he plays the dad role really well, kind of the everyday. Because I could see maybe a little bit of Phil Hartman in him, too. Yeah, it's big. In that ways. I mean, Phil's personally one of my top three cast members of all time. So I don't think James is on that tier. But I think there's elements of Phil Hartman that I can see in James. Yeah, I think he's a glue, like you said, a glue guy. And I and I feel like especially those if you're listening to the show or you vote for the SNL Hall of Fame, you're probably a big fan. We all know how important the glue people are to an SNL cast. And I think he fits that role very well. Yeah. What do you think, Ashley? James Austin Johnson's trajectory?Track 2:[7:42] I had to laugh because that was actually who I went between. I was going between whether or not I wanted to vote for Bowen Yang or James Austin Johnson. So I am right there with you, Deremy. I agree. I think he's so versatile. You're right. He definitely evokes some of the greats in the past. He has that, Tom, you said charisma for Bowen. I think James Austin Johnson does too. He just has this swagger every time he's in a sketch. And yeah, he can play just a side character or the main character. Or he can do an impression yeah i was really close to voting for him but um ultimately went with bowen obviously but 1000 agree yeah good solid choices i think i could see in a few years we could be looking up and seeing heidi gardner having the hall of fame kind of resume she has talent she's a hall of fame talent i think she needs to get maybe a couple more seasons have some more good sketches she's very good on weekend update i think that's a lot of times where she's shines is coming on weekend update and doing kind of off the wall but sometimes relatable.Track 2:[8:46] Characters heidi so i can definitely see heidi forming a case uh dark horse it's for me and he's been awesome i think he's my mvp of season 49 is andrew just mugs honestly yeah he has and he has his own lane on the show too it's almost like a will forte ish kind of lane like andrew he has a more offbeat kind of sense of humor than a lot of the cast and i think he's all of my My favorite pieces from this current season 49 have been Andrew Dismuke's pieces, quite frankly. So I see maybe Andrew a little bit of a dark horse, but I wouldn't be surprised if he if he continues what he's doing this season. We could be possibly making a case for Andrew Dismuke. So those are a couple of people that I wanted to shout out.Track 2:[9:29] So how this SNL Hall of Fame voting is going to work every season. The voters have up to 15 votes that they can use. Voters can use one vote if they'd like. I don't know why they would, but maybe that's, you know, they're very hardcore and stringent and they only think one person deserves to be in the SNL Hall of Fame each season. Though from looking at the ballot, that would just mean like, I think you're an SNL Grinch or something and you might be shamed if you just come on here and say you're just using one vote. I don't know. So I'm curious, how many votes, Jeremy, are you leaning toward using today? I'm using all 15. All 15. All 15. I think there's some easy slam dunk people to put in, and there's a lot of people who I don't want to knock the SNL family, the SNL fan base, but I'm just like, why are these people still on the ballot? And this is a shame, and I'm going to stick up for it. I'm going to continue to do it. So I got all 15. Jeremy's going to be an advocate. Awesome. All 15, the opposite of a Grinch. Good job, my man. Yes, yes, yes. Ashley, how many votes are you using?Track 2:[10:39] I'm going to copy Deremy again. I'm using all 15. I found it difficult to keep it at 15, to be honest. And there was one that I realized wasn't on the list. And so I had to unfortunately kind of kick somebody off to make sure this person got on my ballot. But yeah, again, a lot of great, so much talent over the years. And I'm going to fight for them too. All right. So both Jeremy and Ashley are using 15. Coming in, I have 13 locks. So what I'm doing right now is I have 13 on my list that I feel are locks for me. But I have two that are open. So I think my goal here, one of my goals here on this roundtable is to be persuaded maybe as to how I'm going to use those final two votes. Votes so 13 i have locked in but you dare me you ashley you could persuade me you can make the case for maybe somebody that i don't have on my list and as to why they should be in the eston hall of fame so if there's anybody that's a grinch it seems like it's uh it might be me more so than ashley and dare me but it's strategic grinch it's it's i'm utilizing strategery on the round.Track 2:[11:52] Well done yes uh so then i'm gonna name the nominees and then we'll get to it just to refresh everybody's memory uh on who the nominees are uh this season on the snl hall of fame uh in the cast member category we have 13 cast members first time nominees rachel dratch will forte taryn killam kate mckinnon tracy morgan lorraine newman and adam sandler returning to the ballot We have Fred Armisen, Vanessa Baer, Ana Gasteyer, and Chris Parnell. And their final time on the ballot.Track 2:[12:32] Maya rudolph and molly shannon so that means if maya and molly don't get voted in in this cycle they're off the ballot so i know jeremy's shaking his head what a shame i can't believe it i know i know it's the will of the people i don't know what to say that's true that's true so for the host category there's 12 on the ballot first time nominees john ham and hathaway and martin short returning to the ballot but not for their final time candace bergen jim carrey buck henry scarlett johansson and paul rudd final time on the ballot for these folks melissa mccarthy john mulaney emma stone and justin timberlake we'll see if emma stone she's been on the ballot since snl hall of fame season one she just became a five-timer here in season 49 we'll see if that That helps bumper up as far as making the SNL Hall of Fame. So I'm curious about that. Musical guests. There's one first-time nominee. That's Pearl Jam. Great episode with Ryan McNeil. I love doing that Pearl Jam episode. Returning to the ballot, we have David Bowie, Dave Grohl, and Lady Gaga.Track 2:[13:43] On the ballot for the final time, Paul McCartney, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, and Prince. So those are the musical guests, which is always a fascinating category to me, musical guests. And we'll probably get into that and your philosophies behind musical guests and the SNL Hall of Fame as well. Writers, there's eight writers on the ballot. First-time writers, John Mulaney. So yes, you heard him as a host. John Mulaney is also on the ballot as a writer. So when we did the draft, I believe it was Matt Ardill who said, let's, you know, John Mulaney is a great host. But he's also known for a writer. Let's put him on the ballot as a writer, too, and just kind of see what happens. So Mulaney's on the ballot for the first time as a writer, as is Julio Torres.Track 2:[14:28] Returning is Jack Handy, Adam McKay, Paul Lappel, Herb Sargent, and Rosie Schuster. Final time on the ballot for Frankenden Davis and Michael O'Donohue. So the writer's always interesting, again, to me. And one producer on the ballot, Dick Ebersole, which Jeremy and I did an episode on. I believe back in season three. Yes. Yeah. So Dick Ebersole on the ballot still here on the SNL Hall of Fame. So with that said, let's reveal those ballots, those votes. So I'm going to start with Deremy to kick things off. Who's the first person, Deremy, you want to talk about who you're voting for? Well, I just think you guys did a great episode on this person. And if there's the biggest lock or just slam dunk for the Hall of Fame, SNL Hall of Fame, it's this person. And let's just get her out the way because it's just so obvious. But Kate McKinnon, I think it's just, we're looking at somebody who.Track 2:[15:32] Is a top 10, maybe top five cast member of all time. And we're almost at 50 year history of the show. And someone, I heard you guys talk about just, just a prodigy and just from day one, you're just like, you know, and for me, I get nervous with that because I'm always like, oh, this person shows so much promise and you start thinking, can they be a great, but there's so many great names in SNL history. You don't want to put that pressure, but Kate McKinnon lived up to deliver and exceeded all these expectations. And when I think of SNL in the decade of the 2010s, she's the first name that comes to my mind. So I figured let's just the number one slam dunk on this list to me, Kate McKinnon. Yeah, the most recent cast member on the ballot. Season 47 was her final season, and she went through the waiting period for the SNL Hall of Fame on the ballot this year. I wonder if there's going to be some sort of recency bias maybe against Kate, because she's so recent, and maybe some people feel like they need to put others ahead of Kate in the Hall of Fame. I mean, that's the only reason that I could think of as to why somebody would not vote for her. Because I agree with you, Jeremy. I think she's a slam dunk. Definitely on my ballot. I assume, Ashley, you were my guest for Kate McKinnon. I assume Kate's on your ballot.Track 2:[16:56] I feel like I could call myself a Kate fan. And my entire podcast should have been thrown away if I didn't put Kate on my ballot. So, yeah, she was actually my number one. I think, Jeremy, you and I are on the same wavelength. We're twins. We're SNL twins.Track 2:[17:09] Yes. So, I was going to come out of the gate strong with Kate, too. And, yeah, like, I was worried about that, too, was, yeah, is she too, quote, unquote, young? Is she still too junior? We were kind of talking about, you know, are we putting people up with, you know, people like Phil Hartman and all these kind of big greats. But I think she is up there already. I think she has proved herself to be a name that will forever echo the halls of Saturday Night Live with the impact that she's had. Yeah, and I can't imagine, you know, don't sleep on her just because we think she's going to sit on this ballot for a little bit. Like, I think she's she deserved it for sure. Yeah, I definitely agree. And I know some people have a philosophy of deciding whether somebody's a first ballot or not. I've always been of the mind, even in sports halls of fame, that if somebody's a Hall of Famer, they're a Hall of Famer. And I don't think there should be tiers as far as first ballot Hall of Fame. And to me, if they're a Hall of Famer, they're a Hall of Famer. And I don't look at them as like, I don't separate the Hall of Fame into tiers like that. Some people do. I think Kate's, even if somebody does separate into tiers, I think Kate's a quote-unquote first ballot Hall of Famer, even if somebody is strict like that. To me, she's almost comfortably in the top 10 all-time cast members.Track 2:[18:28] For me and i hope i hope as the years go along that people really have an appreciation for what she did on the show i know there were a lot of maybe hardcore snl fans toward the end of her tenure who were like oh we need some new blood i'm kind of sick of kate and that's unfortunate because we didn't know how good we had it with kate honestly apparently some people didn't know because she's an all-timers all-timer so that's just kind of where i stand so jeremy i'm curious i don't know if we've talked about this do you separate halls of fame in general into like Like, if somebody's a first ballot, if somebody's not? No, I don't have, like, the tier list. Like, I don't do, like, oh, you're on tier one. But there are in SNL Hall of Fame or in Sports Hall of Fame, there are names that are, like, you can just say their name and there's, like, enough said. And, like, you know, you stand up and you sit down. And there's some Hall of Famers where you have to have a discussion more and, you know, talk about it and you might have some debate. And I understand there's, like, both. But once they're in, there's no separation. You're a Hall of Famer. But there's some where it's like, you know, in the NFL, if I say Tom Brady, and if someone goes, really, I'm not sure about him, I'd be like, what's wrong with you? And, you know, Kate McKinnon's like on that level.Track 2:[19:40] It's like if someone's like, I don't know. I'd be like, really? You don't know about Kate McKinnon? Like, it's going to be a long day. So it's like Kate McKinnon's just, you just got to say her name, and then you sit back down. Exactly. No, I'm with you. I'm going to suck up to Ashley here and say Kate McKinnon's like Tim Duncan. In the nba like tim duncan ashley's his first fans oh okay nice tim tim duncan is like you say tim duncan it's like oh he's like a top 10 all-time great nba player like for sure hall of fame like he's on that first tier of hall of famer so to me kate mckinnon's like a tim duncan yeah like it's just a no-brainer like that absolutely and ashley like did a raise the roof there so i'm on her good side i i think my love for saturday night live may be tied with my love for the san antonio spurs it's really close i'm quite a fan girl when it comes to both so yeah tom could not have picked a better reference for me exactly and i'm jealous you get to follow victor wimpy llama same year how many years she's so lucky with the spurs, I was really happy that draft day, for sure. Oh, I bet. So, Deremy, Kate McKinnon, all three of us have Kate McKinnon on our ballots. Ashley, I want to go to you. Who do you want to start with?Track 2:[20:56] The next person I had right after Kate McKinnon on my list that I want to put on my ballot is Maya Rudolph.Track 2:[21:03] Again, I think she's another name. You say her name and it's no question. Profession the the breadth and the depth of talent that she had while on that show i i think was unmatched and i don't think there's been anyone like maya since on the show that's been able to kind of hold the candle to what she was able to do um i mean vocally she could do any of the you know finger impressions and and give us either you know song parodies um but she could also just really own and commit to being silly and ridiculous um but comes to mind is the sketch that she did with kristin wig where they're the prize girls on the on the game show and kate's you know driving around in the golf cart and they're just acting ridiculous and there's a lot of breaking and again i'm sure lauren wasn't too pleased with it but you could get these really serious impressions like beyonce out of maya but then also these just ridiculous ditzy dumb you you know, physical comedy, throw yourself type of sketches from her. And I think she's definitely, you know, she belongs in this hall of fame. Yeah. Well said. I think we've talked a little bit about Maya. Jeremy, is this the, one of the ones you've been upset about over the last few seasons? Yes, Ashley. I don't know what it is. We're on the same page. I'm going to say this. I think Maya Rudolph is the most.Track 2:[22:26] Under appreciated underrated cast member in the history of snl and i think it's crazy i to me i think she's top 10 but at most i'll give someone top 15 like cast member of all time um i think and maybe that's like a people have that sexist view could we say glue guy so we think of just like phil hartman dan akroyd no to me it's a glue person because my rudolph I think maybe the only glue person I think of more than her is a Phil Hartman, in my opinion. I just think, like what Ashley said, the versatility, what she was able to do, how unique she was, where before or since there's not a talent that Saturday Night Live has seen like her. And I think it's a travesty that she's been on this ballot for so long. So absolutely Maya Rudolph. off.Track 2:[23:17] Jeremy, you could partly blame me for some of that because I have been one of those people that's a little on the fence about Maya. And I know that's one of the things that you and I probably disagree about the most. Absolutely. As far as us in the Hall of Fame. And Ashley wants to throw a tomato at me right now, I think. And I love Maya. I love Maya.Track 2:[23:37] I'll watch anything that she pops up. If she's on a podcast, she was just on Dax Shepard's podcast. And I made sure that moved up in the queue. you like i wanted to listen to maya on dax's podcast like i absolutely love maya and i landed on why i was on the fence about it in the beginning and i talked this over we did actually a relitigation episode with rebecca north she came on and advocated for maya and i think for me i think maya was in the wrong era i think the the type of humor that was around when maya was on the cast probably in the early 2000s. I don't think it really fit the skill set that she had. I think she was honestly better than a lot of the material that was on the show around that time. I think if she was on the show early 90s, or even if she got to be more part of the cast in the other Golden Era from about 2007, I know she overlapped a little bit, but I would have liked to see her move on into like 2012 and you know i think she left the cast a little too soon before it really gelled and blossomed so i just think a lot of the material a lot of this the humor in the early 2000s.Track 2:[24:49] I always felt like it was a little edgelordy it was just weird all around like we were in a weird time in the country and just in comedy in general and i think the humor was just kind of off in the early 2000s and i didn't and i think that that didn't cater to to what made maya truly great I always love watching her on screen, but there was always something missing, but I think I landed on that it wasn't her fault. Really?Track 2:[25:15] You know, what gets me is like a lot and not this isn't at you, Thomas, but a lot of people look at the ladies of that era with Maya as like really breaking through the boys club of Saturday Night Live. And Maya was a big part of that.Track 2:[25:28] And the other women to me get talked about so much more than her when I think she was the best of those ladies who broke through, which is always kind of weird and conflicting for me where it's like there was great women on SNL before. But you know they had to fight that boys club and then it's like that's the era where it's like oh like the ladies broke through but then they leave maybe like one of the biggest pieces or the biggest piece off that list when we're talking about we give amy polar love and everybody like we don't give maya rudolph so it always kind of confuses me yeah i can agree with that what do you think about that ashley oh gosh yeah i can't imagine anybody being on the fence about maya rudolph um i think you saw my jaw hit the floor um because yeah it was oh yeah we talked you know jeremy.Track 2:[26:13] You talked about the glue person i think she could have been in every sketch and she held it together she always brought something to it even if she wasn't the star of that sketch or wasn't bringing her main like impressions um to it and again i know on my kate podcast i talked about you know to me when i think of somebody in the hall of fame for saturday night live is you know does their talent take them beyond the show and again look at her i mean she's still making amazing stuff and i i do i see where you're coming from tom a little bit when you're talking about um you know it not being her fault i can see that i think had she stayed and gotten to do a little bit more with like tina fey and annie puller she was like kind of in this weird she She wasn't on too long before they left.Track 2:[26:59] But then kind of also left herself not long after like Kristen wig and stuff was there, you know, only overlapped a little bit with those. I think she was kind of a little bit in between where it really would have catapulted her to a little bit more star power. Had she had a little bit, you know, better chemistry to meld with, but I loved her every second she was on the show. I loved every sketch that she was in. Um, huge fan of her impressions, of course, who I thought she was really good at it.Track 2:[27:32] Yeah, I'm trying to like, I'm a lawyer in my day job and I'm totally failing right now because I'm like, how do I advocate and convince Tom to put Maya on this ballot? Well, I will say that she's one of my locks. So Maya's on my ballot as a lock. So and I think I think she's going to get in this time around. But I had to have a sort of epiphany as to why I didn't 100 percent connect with Maya like everybody else. And it was like a goodwill hunting thing. I had to look at Maya and say, it's not your fault. And then she's in the SNL Hall of Fame as far as I'm concerned. So I'm writing my previous wrong and putting her as a lock on my ballot. And I think it's going to happen for her. I think she's going to get in this time around. That's just my gut feeling. I hope so. Yeah, I think you'll be fine. I will withdraw my objection. I apologize, Tyler. I've apologized. I've done all of, I think, the right thing here and admitted my error. And arrived at a proper conclusion, I think. So Maya Rudolph is on all three of our ballots here on the SNL Hall of Fame. I'm curious. I'll stick with you, Ashley. I'm curious as to who you want to talk about next. So this is a name that I am shocked is still on the ballot.Track 2:[28:51] That she hasn't been voted into the Hall of Fame yet. I got to go with Molly Shannon. Yeah, I think I talked a little bit on on my episode about, you know, what really made me fall in love with Saturday Night Live. And again, I think, you know, there's a few other names from her era that are on my ballot, too, that I won't bring up yet. But again.Track 2:[29:12] I mean, Mary Catherine Gallagher, just how can you not put Mary Catherine Gallagher in the Hall of Fame? She's a superstar. It's literally on her name. Well said. Yeah, she's on my ballot. So Molly Shannon is one of those. And similar to Maya Rudolph, this is her last year on the ballot. So if she doesn't get in, she's just off the ballot.Track 2:[29:33] So I have her as a lock. So that's one of my other locks. Um daramie uh molly shannon uh what are you what's your feeling on molly oh absolutely a lock um and and i agree with you guys i agree with ashley like she should have she should have been in i'm always going to give love for those cast members and writers who bridge a gap at a really tough time in snl history when i know like we all know the stuff like every year saturday night dead and blah blah blah and it's like okay but there's certain points in the show's history where it was really at a shaky point and on the rocks and she came midway through that awful 94 95 season and stayed on one of the few people who stayed on and really helped bring in a new transition with that fall of 95 96 cast and just the different characters the way she just jumped into the bazaar and didn't hold back and could you know have mary katherine gallagher but just really brought such a weird uncomfortable character to the mainstream and she was able to do that time and time again on this show uh definitely a hall of famer for.Track 2:[30:44] Yeah that's both of you said everything i think especially like she i think mary catherine gallagher on the snn they did a character count and i think mary catherine gallagher finished top five i want to say and that that's that's molly shannon's work her physicality is something.Track 2:[31:01] That i think everybody will always mention probably to her detriment like you watch some of those sketches back and she probably will admit like yeah she could have heard like she probably shouldn't have done that necessarily like i bet the producers on the show and writers and stuff like what are you doing like you don't have to like totally throw yourself through this table or wall or so i think she did a little damage to her body but she sacrificed herself for the good of the show and for our entertainment and she's just so wonderful and she has a really great memoir called hello molly uh i don't know if you have ever if you have a chance to read it i don't you need to pick that up Ashley if you haven't it's so good it's in my it's in my to read list right now for sure I admit I got a little bit sidetracked by some other kind of book talk recommendations that I very cliche got into but it is downloaded it is in my queue I've been dying to read it and yeah yeah you were talking about her physicality and I think what I loved about her too is we haven't seen a female comedian do physical comedy to the extreme like chris farley did you know when i think of extreme physical physical comedy to their actual physical real detriment you know obviously um you know chris farley would chug you know i don't even know how much like caffeine or espressos to get into that you know really hyper mindset in addition to you.Track 2:[32:31] Know, throwing himself through walls and tables.Track 2:[32:34] I loved that a female comedian would do that. And it was, I can be just as funny as the men who do this. And it's not improper. It's not inappropriate.Track 2:[32:43] She nailed it. I think it worked for her. And you're right. She did have so many quirky characters that I feel like other comedians who came after her tried to do, you know, they tried to bring that kind of weird and unique humor, but it didn't really land, or at least I didn't really get it. First person that comes to mind is Kyle Mooney. I apologize to Kyle Mooney fans, but he was just somebody that I couldn't really understand.Track 2:[33:11] I applauded his attempt and because, you know, comedy is so subjective and there's something out there for everybody. But I think Molly was that weird kind of quirky as a weird, quirky girl, awkward, you know, growing up, I was like, Oh, I feel seen like people can laugh with her and not at her. And that was really, really awesome to see. Do we have a Kristen Wiig or Kate McKinnon without Molly Shannon? Yeah, she's a trailblazer. Yeah, exactly.Track 2:[33:42] And I'm looking at Molly's trajectory as far as voting, and she started off at 34% after season one, and she's climbed to 47, 54, and then 57 last time around. So she just needs that last kind of push to get into the Hall of Fame. And with Maya, she started off at 47, and then she's been at 57, 58, and 58 the last few times. So I think both Molly and Maya both hovering around like the 57 to 58 percent of the vote mark. This is their last time. I think Molly's going to get into that's my gut feeling as well. I think the fact that I think voters will look at it and say that Molly and both Molly and Maya deserve it. And they've been on the cusp. They've been so close. And again, I blame myself for Maya. I've voted for Molly in the past. So I'm off the hook as far as Molly goes. But I would love to see both of them get into the SNL Hall of Fame. So we've had agreements on Kate McKinnon, Maya Rudolph, and Molly Shannon, three great cast members. Jeremy, I'm wondering who you have as far as non-cast members.Track 2:[34:53] Yeah, that's actually where I was going to go next because I'm like, you know what, let's just get weird on this roundtable. Let's get weird. Let's get weird. and I'm gonna go with this person and I'll be honest Thomas and, you know have listened to snl hall of fame since season one and usually when i'm listening the the conversation's great and you kind of lean me either way i'm thinking either where i'm like yeah they're hall of famer they're already just you're proving that or i don't think so and you're kind of going that way never have i been more conflicted listening than to the michael o'donohue episode where you had brad and gary on and i'm driving around and i'm going yeah and then right away. Then the next, someone makes a point and I go, no, he's not a hall of famer. Then I'm like, but yeah, he is. And I was just back and forth, like, and I'm like, I really don't know.Track 2:[35:40] And so I thought about it a lot, but I I'm going to vote them in. Okay. And I can understand if people don't, but I'm going to go there because of when the show started and, you know, because we've been making sports references, I'm going to keep that train going. You know, the dynasty docu-series just happened with the Patriots. And of course when you look at the Patriots dynasty there's a lot of players coaches, administrators who are a part of it but the big three like headed leadership Robert Kraft Bill Belichick, Tom Brady. When you look at the first year SNL the three headed leadership it was Lorne Chevy Chase and Michael O'Donohue and Michael really did if you listen to a lot of people that original those first five years You know, Saturday Night Live brought an edge. It was cool. It was hip. It was something that TV in the 70s hadn't seen yet. And who really helped to bring that sensibility was Michael O'Donoghue. And he's also done things, especially in the early 80s, that really could hurt the show. So I understand the negative, but I feel like his positives do outweigh the negatives, which is why I kind of went with he should be voted on. And he was a part of that original crew and I feel like everyone who was a part of the first season in my opinion should Be in the Hall of Fame just because you were a part of the foundation and you started this.Track 2:[37:05] Huge franchise that will stay in pop culture forever, no matter how long the show is on or when it goes off. So I vote for Michael O'Donohue. It's interesting that you bring up O'Donohue because I've, I put him on and then took him off. Like I alternated just so many over the last few days. I was like, nah, I don't know Don Hugh. And then I thought, and then I would think about what Brad and Gary said. I'm like, well, those are good points. I'll put them on. And then I took him off again. As of right now, Now he's not one of my 13 locks and he was one of the ones where I could be persuaded for him to end up on my final ballot. He went actually, I think Brad and Gary did a really great job of advocating for Michael O'Donohue because he went from 11% of the vote after season three to barely, like barely staying on the ballot. He got 35% last year. So that was quite the jump for Michael O'Donohue. I have, I don't know. It's just some, I don't know if it's just his, his persona or something like the, the, the edgy bordering on mean material that he possibly wrote that sometimes rubs me the wrong way. But, but I, I, I definitely grant like how important he was, uh, to the show. Uh, Ashley, it was Michael O'Donoghue, somebody that you've been maybe considering, uh.Track 2:[38:20] He is not on my ballot actually. And yeah, it was one of those things where I totally agree with you, Jeremy. He, I mean, he was part of that first season and I, I do agree with your statement that anyone from that first season because of what they created and what we have now is because of them. Um, but again, I wasn't a huge fan of, of his, some of his sketches were, I don't know, maybe it's just cause they didn't age well looking back at them. Um, but I do have a few writers on my ballot for sure. Um, and he just didn't land in one of my top favorites. Um, so. Yeah. He, uh, looking at his sketches, like, so this will be have like the, the good and the bad of it. Like he wrote Godfather therapy with, uh, Belushi Belushi, which was awesome. He wrote the last voyage of the starship enterprise, which I think is one of the better sketches of those early five seasons. Absolutely. Both of those. Yeah. Yeah, those are great. Norman Bates' School of Motel Management was awesome.Track 2:[39:18] I even liked the, he had a weird concept of the attack of the atomic lobsters that was like, I think O'Donohue's sense of humor kind of reigned in a little bit. Then like you have things like the Needle, the Needles Impressionist, where he just said like, here's my impression of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir with needles stuck in their eyes. And he would just like yell he would like mind putting needles in his eyes and just yell so it's just kind of interesting uh but again Jeremy he's not like totally off my ballot it's just something that I have to like keep thinking about well don't get me wrong like I so personally I agree with you guys like there's a lot of things that I'm like uh it doesn't I mean there's some sketches he wrote that hits me it's a lot that don't but I have to take myself out of it and look back on what, for our parents' generation, what TV was like in 1975.Track 2:[40:14] And we look at it like, we look at the late 60s into the 70s, music and movies were ahead of the game, where they reflected what society was doing. TV was dead last. And I think about what really changed TV. I think of, number one, like Norman Lear and his sitcoms, and then, number two, like when Saturday Night Live premiered. So like him doing like the needles in the eye, like it's not, I don't laugh at it, but like at that point, TV was so far behind. That was just bizarre to see on television where you're used to seeing, you know.Track 2:[40:47] Green Acres and Mr. Ed, you know, not that long before. And that was like, that's what you got. And then even like in late night, it was Johnny Carson.Track 2:[40:55] So then it's like, you're getting this and just this sensibility. That's just, whoa, like the counterculture is taking over NBC for an hour and a half on Saturday nights. Like it was very different for that generation, which is why I had to take myself and my personal taste out of it and look like that was different for that time. Totally no i agree i mean that's that's why he's still kind of like i might be persuaded honestly he might end up on my list of 15 i'm trying i'm trying i know yeah you're very persuasive you do that on our other pod too on pop culture five you always kind of like get me on your side yeah so and michael donahue was the first person to appear on camera on snl like just a little like historical fun fact the first person that we see on snl it was michael o'donohue and that wolverine sketch so but Jeremy has Michael O'Donohue Ashley's probably a no I'm a maybe at this point Ashley you said that you had a writer or a couple writers I'm curious if you want to reveal one of those yeah so I have four writers actually um and I I gotta go with my girl Paula Pell brilliant just absolute brilliance like she is my comedy um I if I saw her on the street I might might die just like i would next to kate and tina fey but i think because we got paula pell like in the era of tina fey to such strong writers at the same time we got such great stuff out of them.Track 2:[42:25] Um and again i keep repeating myself but what they've been able to do beyond the show as well, you know like conan o'brien when he was on and what he's been able to do afterwards because he had such talent i think paul is the same way and she kind of stays in the you know she doesn't really take that limelight that I feel like she deserves she's kind of I think happy to be a writer and not necessarily take those starring roles but when she does you know come in and do even just like a supporting actress I sign me up I'm gonna see it every single day any chance I get to see Paula Pell and again I think what she was able to do with around that time with Tina was pushing again we talked about Jeremy you said um breaking the boys club not just for the the comedians we saw on TV, but I think that's what Paula and Tina were doing in the writers room was they were trying to break up that boys club, and again say women are funny too and we can be silly and ridiculous and I think even bringing in the.Track 2:[43:21] You know, the topical humor of calling stuff out and making it funny, though, like bringing up issues in a way that made everybody laugh instead of making them uncomfortable. So we could talk about it and kind of understand it and see it. And I think she was such a trailblazer for it. Yeah, she was one of the minds behind some of the great recurring sketches of that era. She was she was behind the cheerleaders and other just really big recurring sketches like that. She was like you could you definitely felt her voice in that era. And it meshed well with, like you said, Will Ferrell, Sherry O'Terry, and all of those. And she has Girls 5, Ebba. That's kind of like the thing that she's involved with right now. Paula Pell. Deremy, I'm curious before I kind of – because I have a little situation here with Paula Pell and another writer that I might want to hash out. But, Deremy, I want to get your thoughts on Paula Pell. Oh, she's on my list. That's a slam dunk.Track 2:[44:17] Should have been in for a writer. She's the first ballot. Hall of Famer in my opinion um I talked about you know with Molly Shannon those who helped really re like revigorate and save the show in like the fall of 95 we talk about the people on screen you always give credit to those behind the camera and like the writers Paula Pell's one of those people and you mentioned I mean from like the cheerleaders to Debbie Downer to Justin Timberlake in the omelette ville like so that's like over different years she's doing these memorable characters and like writing these great sketches um and just someone you know that lauren trusted you know like i think ashley great point like how huge was it for when tina fey became the first female head writer that having a paula pell there like i'm sure that was like a big help and i just think she's getting this just due now because like in the public eyes because of girls five ever but like.Track 2:[45:16] Maybe it's by design. I know she was behind the scenes, but to me, she's one of those writers who should have always been talked about up there with a Smigel, a Jack Handy, all those people. She's that great. She's a slam dunk for me. me yeah it seems like if you ask somebody who worked at snl around that time they would tell you that paula pell was probably the funniest person yeah in the building so that's kind of the that's the reputation that she had uh and by the way if you listen to wtf with mark maron paula pell was a recent guest yes on and she was great she's hilarious she's so likable love paula pell that was a really great interview she did with mark maron um paul is not a lock on my list and she's honestly one like that I'm not discounting and I wanted to hash it out because I don't know I have another writer that might be a little I'm gonna take controversial but a lot of people might tell me might urge me to put Paula Pell in ahead of him for many reasons I want to hash out as to whether I should swap out Paula Pell for this person or if I should add Paula Pell to my list and keep this person so i want to kind of dive into i have julio torres.Track 2:[46:25] On on my list and i and i didn't think that i didn't think that was i was gonna feel that way heading into the season but then i started looking at the sketches that he wrote and his unique voice and i know the one limiting factor is he was only on the show for he was only a writer on the show for like three seasons but some of the stuff that julio did i mean he he was behind uh papyrus which we saw a second installment papyrus 2 now the actress with emma stone he uh he also wrote wells for boys which was another wonderful emma stone pre-tape he wrote a lot of really great political things he had the melania moments his so you julio had just like such a clever unique voice at that time of the show i think he really stood out he had a really great one with With Lin-Manuel Miranda.Track 2:[47:18] Where Lin-Manuel Miranda played a character. That was like. He was in Montana or North Dakota or something. And he called his mom. Because he was an immigrant that called his mom. And was describing like how his life was. So like. Julio Torres' voice was just so unique. And to me he was almost like a comet. That came through SNL. And he made the show so great. But he just wasn't there. For a long time. Where somebody like Paula Pell was. Was and so i want i was wondering about like the merits of of julio torres in that should i i don't know ashley like should i move another rider a more of a legacy rider in front of him or like what do you what do you think about julio's contributions and then even like compared to somebody like paul appell.Track 2:[48:06] Yeah, I mean, and not to discount Julio Torres. Yeah, I loved his sketches. I thought they were hilarious. And I don't want to say that somebody doesn't deserve to be on a ballot just because they weren't on Saturday Night Live for I don't think there's a requisite amount of time. I think we could, you know, vote somebody in who was in for one season. Obviously, we've got some hosts on the ballot that aren't necessarily in the five timers club and things like that. But I think to me, the difference between if we're going to put Julio and Paula together is not just not that Paula was legacy because she was on for so long, but because of what her sketches did to, you know, move the show. Like Jeremy said, you know, taking it out of an era like she came in, I think, right at the right time to kind of rescue a drowning show and then continue to evolve it and stay relevant and kind of help us, you know, continue to keep SNL moving with the times.Track 2:[49:01] Whereas you know i mean i get papyrus and they just did you know part two a couple weeks ago is just genius um i think it should be nominated for like an emmy for a short or something but um yeah given the two i really think paula um i mean is julio again i hate i hate to do this but this isn't his last year on the ballot correct no and you're right no this is his first year actually so i mean that that plays a role yeah that plays a role too in the thought process i think yeah yeah so i i think you got to go with paula i really do i think and again julio he's also someone who continues to write um and doing great things for other shows you know that we still watch today and so definitely not to discount his humor what what he did um his sketches.Track 2:[49:50] But i'm biased i'm like i said i would fangirl over paula pell in the street so So yeah, you know where I stand. Yeah, I think Jeremy, the thing about Julio to me was like his batting average, putting in sports terms, like his batting average was just so high that it was hard for me to discount. He did so much in such a little time, like almost everything that he did was a hit for me. And to me, that plays a big role. Like, is it quantity or even if he was only on the show for three seasons, but his batting average is super high? Like, how do you weigh stuff like that? No, it's hard. I feel like you could have both on there, and I think that would solve it, but if you have to choose.Track 2:[50:31] Between one or the other, I would put Paula just because.Track 2:[50:35] A little bit of the longevity and what she did over different eras. So her batting average was, you know, it, you know, if you have someone who hit three 50 for three seasons and someone who hit three 25 for, you know, 15 seasons, like it's like, you know, I'm gonna go with that three 25 for 15 over three 50 for the three. So it's like, I have to weigh it like that. I'm probably gonna, you gotta, it's hard because like my, The guy who I look at is either, I go back and forth between first or second greatest cast members, Eddie Murphy. And he wasn't on very long, but what he did was amazing. So I hear you. It's tough. And I think with Julio bringing that different sensibility to a show and really bringing that diversity in a different mind, that's a great factor for him. But Paula did that too. Yeah. So it's like, it's, it's just hard. Like if you have to pick one or the other, I would go with Paula, but it's a tough choice. Yeah. So I think all of that weighs into my thought process. I think, I think.Track 2:[51:40] I think it either come down for me to Julio or Paula, or you're right. I could, I could just put both of them on. I might have room to do that. It's all, I mean, nothing's set in stone right now. I just wanted to hash that out. Cause I think it's interesting. And Julio actually has a better case than I thought even like on the surface, you're like, okay, Julio Torres, like, you know, memorable, talented rider. But then you start looking at his work and it was like, oh my gosh, he might actually have a real case here. Like more so than I thought. So, uh, so I just wanted to hash that out. And I thought that was the perfect time to do it. But Paula Pell is one of the other ones where I was like, man, I love Paula Pell. And I was just considering that. So, yeah, thanks for – see, here, we're all learning something. And we're all kind of like – or at least I'm like kind of getting my thought process in order and maybe swayed a certain way. So, yeah, Deremy, I wonder what is next on your list.Track 2:[52:29] Another crime I'm trying to justify or undo on the SNL Hall of Fame. You came with anger, everybody. Deremy's just like – I'm just like, jeez. here we go i brought this per i think i was on the season three round table before and i nominated this person then and they're still on here but we're talking about you know because ashley you just brought up like host and we're talking about the og five-timer guy he was on 10 times in the first five years he was the person who suggested doing recurring sketches like to that to the original like cast like hey you should do that samurai thing again john like come on i mean it's classic when they did the samurai and belushi like by accident cuts him on the forehead and they're all wearing like the bandage you got to have buck henry on here the og the five timers club is such a known thing in the snl like pantheon and how do we not have the og of the five timers club in the snl hall of fame he should be a first ballot guy because he's one of those people.Track 2:[53:37] I think of him and Steve Martin, where people to this day get confused and say they were part of the original cast. Because that's how much they are a staple of that show. And so I'm just like, outside of maybe Steve Martin, to me there's no more important host than Buck Henry. So it's like, how is he not in the Hall of Fame yet? I don't know. I don't get it. But I'm going to do it again.Track 2:[54:04] Nominate and bring up buck henry for the snl hall of fame let's hopefully we get it right this time people yeah he's on he's a lock on my list too and and i voted for him in the past i think he's just so important to the show he's a 10 timer yeah but it's not just the quantity of like he he was solid like you watch every single one of his hosting gigs there's a reason why they asked him twice a year to come back and he always hosted the finale and it was just like i think the cast and the crew and the producers it was just like they knew they were in good hands with buck henry and they could throw stuff at him and he would he would be great in it he could he could lead a sketch he can just find like a role to kind of hang back and just be a supporting player i think buck just in synonymous with the show i mean he wrote the graduate uh and he was a great writer but people know him for snl like i think that's just as far as on screen especially like he they know him as like the guy who used to host SNL a bunch. And I think, yeah, I think Buck Henry needs to get in. So he's for sure on my list. I don't know how you feel about Buck Henry, Ashley, if we have to like persuade you or where do you stand on this?Track 2:[55:15] I don't, it wasn't a matter of not being persuaded that he deserved to be on it. I think just because I, like I said, at the beginning of this, I had such a hard time whittling my list down to my 15 votes. And that I, you know, have a little bit, you know, my bias is going to show through with my votes of, you know, kind of the more...Track 2:[55:37] Relatively recent um you know people i only have three hosts on my list actually, because again i had such a really hard time with it so i i had to give that spot to somebody else and i think it was kind of me selfishly hoping that somebody else like like you guys would push him through because i agree he believes or excuse me i agree that he deserves to be in the hall of fame um i'm not against it i don't think you have to convince me that he deserves it but you may have to convince me to take somebody else off my list if i'm going to put him on mine so a lot of it's like an era maybe kind of thing like uh buck henry's a more old timer maybe and so so so we're looking at like an era that more so like resonated with you possibly i will say this buck henry was on the ballot for the first time after season three so this is not his final year he's been.Track 2:[56:32] On twice before he went from 23 after season three to 48 so he made quite the jump so i think uh this being his third time on the ballot i wouldn't be surprised uh i would be a little surprised if he got in but i but i think he's gonna be one of those where it's like he's inching toward there so you have another couple seasons after this ashley to to write this wrong that might be made so yeah so this isn't totally the last chance for buck henry and i think that was the thing is you know there's so many greats from that original era that are in the hall of fame already that it was kind of a shock that he isn't on that list um because i mean like how do we get anywhere with it we are today without jane curtain gilda radner you know these ogs um that again like derry said started the show um they made us know what it is and yeah you're right.Track 2:[57:26] Literally you know wrote one of the greatest films of all time you know and then we're like oh no but his his work on snl don't worry about um you know the graduate um thing about snl so you're right i think next year i'll have an updated ballot okay okay so so we'll check back in next year i think if buck henry was more famous just in general in pop culture he would probably get in but he's He's just like a writer, a movie writer. So he just kind of like is under the radar. But I think if he was a little more famous, like Steve Martin or something like that, then I think Buck Henry would be in. So we'll see. I'm curious to see where Buck Henry lands this year. What host do you have, Ashley? So I actually, yeah, kind of going like a little bit more to an older era, I put Martin Short instead of Buck Henry as my vote for one of my hosts. Because, again, he's somebody else that I find synonymous with SNL.Track 2:[58:26] And, again, just that silly, quirky... You know, doesn't apologize for how he is or who he is or his comedy or anything. And even to this day, I mean, we saw him, you know, a couple of weeks ago with, with Kristen Wiggs episode and just still making, he made Lauren break. I mean, come on, like how, how epic is that when you make Lauren Michaels laugh at a sketch? I think that shows how great and how funny he actually is. Every time he's on, I get so happy.Track 2:[58:56] I think because of what he's been able to do, the fact that, yeah, he keeps coming back. As well we keep inviting him back no matter what um i mean they brought him back for kristen wig they brought him back for uh steve martin he's just somebody again it wasn't just a glue person but could you know steal the scene and steal the sketch no matter what he was in yeah just always a wildly entertaining person to watch martin short and he he hosted two all-time classic christmas episodes he has two of the better monologues i've ever seen i'm still teetering though i'm kind of on the fence he's not a lock for me but he's one of those where i just like kind of wanted to wait and see what other people said and i'll do some more thinking on so i didn't totally discount martin short he's in that michael o'donoghue paul appell range where i'm just like i don't know not not a lock for me but i want to see somebody make the case uh jeremy where do you stand on martin short he's a new on my list i don't i don't have him on mine um i think there There is no, in my lifetime, there's no more guaranteed lock to make a person laugh. If I have to pick someone in the world to save my life, like, I dare me, you can only survive if you pick someone to make me laugh.Track 2:[1:00:10] I'm Martin Shorts, like, he's on my Mount Rushmore, probably like number one. Like, he's just that naturally funny. Like, he's like the ultimate talk show person. and it makes sense he's the ultimate person to kind of fill in on SNL and to be there and to come on but I just don't I know he was on for the cast for that season that transition that Steinbrenner year I just still don't.Track 2:[1:00:34] When I think of Martin Short, I don't think of SNL with him. I know that's a part of his history, but I'm going to go to movies. I'm going to go to his talk show appearances. I'm going to go to other things. I'm not his, you know, not his relationship with Steve Martin. I'm not going to go to SNL. And I think that's why. But I still do believe like he's hilarious and he's funny. And I'm always glad when I see him there. But I don't think of him like, oh, as a host or as even a cast member. Like yeah he's one of those you know for our podcast essential people so that's why i don't have him on my list but i could be persuaded to like for sure but he's off mine he had more of a case after i after i re-watched some of his at least a couple of his episodes he had he had the episode there was one in the late 90s that was classic though his episode in 2012 when paul mccartney was the musical guest that's like a stone cold classic episode to me as well and his His monologues there were great. So when I watched specifically even those two episodes, I'm like, all right, yeah.Track 2:[1:01:35] I mean, he put in two amazing performances here. One thing that's interesting about him, too, is he has another, you know, in the 80s, he hosted with Chevy Chase and Steve Martin. And then he also co-hosted with Steve Martin. So some of his hosting gigs have been with other people as well where Martin wasn't totally featured. So I could see both sides. That's why I am kind of like he's still up in the air for me. But anything to add on that, Ashley?Track 2:[1:02:05] I think I'm going to steal your Maya Rudolph explanation. And I think Martin Short was, I think, the victim of being a cast member on a time where maybe his type of comedy or whatever the reason didn't mesh with everything else going on. And you're right, he wasn't on very long and he ended up doing much bigger things, after Saturday Night Live. But I think...Track 2:[1:02:29] The reason Lorne kept bringing him back was because he understood that maybe, the time that he was a cast member, maybe not have been the best time to have him shine, but recognizing his talent, his comedy, what he's able to do.Track 2:[1:02:45] And I think that's why I would vote for him as a host, as opposed to a cast member is you're right. Every time he came back to host, whether it was by himself or, or with, you know, the three amigos, I just, Just, it makes me wish that he would have been on. And sometimes it makes me forget that he wasn't on longer than he was.Track 2:[1:03:05] Because my brain has clicked and associated him so much with Saturday Night Live. And I think, too, just his association with all the other greats on SNL, I think, helped bring him along a little bit to that star power. But I think even without them, he can stand on his own. So and i should say too like uh for snl hall of fame purposes and how how it was set up a few years ago um we there are the categories technically so martin short isn't eligible as a cast member because he was only on for the one season that's why he's on host but it's up to each individual uh voter and it's just to what their criteria is so if they want to count his cat time as a cast member that's up to the voter uh technically it's just kind of his host hosting gigs that we're looking at, but that's interesting as far as... This is why we do these things, is kind of peek into the criteria of a certain individual. Like Jeremy brought up, Martin Short made his mark elsewhere other than SNL. And so there's all sorts of different factors, but I can definitely see Martin Short. I'm curious. This is his first year on the ballot, so I'm curious to see how voters feel about him. So this will definitely be interesting. Jeremy, I want to go back to you for your next pick. I'm gonna go back to

In Episode 4 of "I Want That Too," where we venture into the world of Disney merchandise, with a special focus on the Tiki culture found within the Disney universe. Join entertainment writer Jim Hill and co-host Lauren Hersey as they uncover the stories behind Disney collectibles, explore the history of the Enchanted Tiki Room, and dive into the resurgence of Tiki culture among Disney fans and collectors. In This Episode: The Significance of April 5th in Disney Park History: Discover why this date holds a special place in the hearts of Disney fans. Spotlight on Tiki Culture: A deep dive into the history of the Enchanted Tiki Room and its controversial management change, exploring how Tiki culture has been integrated into the Disney parks and merchandise. Featured Merchandise: The newly released Zazu shoulder plush in celebration of "The Lion King's" 30th anniversary and a look at the coveted Tiki mugs that have become a collector's dream. Book Review: "Before the Birds Sang Words" by Ken Bruce, offers an in-depth exploration of Disney's feathered friends and the technology behind their creation. Sponsor Shoutout: A big thank you to TouringPlans.com for making this deep dive into Disney's Tiki culture possible. Listener Engagement: We invite our listeners to share their Disney collections and stories. Reach out to us at Lauren@laurenhersey.com or Jim@jimhillmedia.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On Episode 107, I speak with Pelvic Floor Specialist and Energy Healer, Dr. Arántzazu Cioce. Zazu started her healer journey as a Doctor of Physical Therapy, specializing in Pelvic Health and supporting mothers during pregnancy, birth and the postpartum period. Working within the traditional hospital and outpatient clinics she saw that there continued to be a gap in support and care for women having babies, and knew that a more WHOLE-istic way of caring for people was how she was meant to serve others. So she started her own Physical Therapy practice, Phoenix Physical Therapy and also started supporting mamas as a Birth Doula and Birth Educator to empower birthing people to stand up for their rights in birth and in their experience.  She always sensed there was something deeper to be explored when it came to healing our physical bodies by tapping into our emotional and intuitive experiences, and it was then through her personal journey with grief and death, that she was opened to the world of energy healing and collaborating with Spirit along the healing path. Now after a decade of experience working with the physical body, she has unlocked her own combination of physical, energy and intuitive healing work, individualizing care as unique as each individual she works with to create deep transformation. She is currently creating sacred virtual spaces for those mothers who seek both EMPOWERMENT within our current medical system and INTUITIVE RECONNECTION with their bodies and babies during conception, pregnancy, birth and postpartum. Zazu began giving me PT for my shoulder back in August and has since become a soul sister and fellow lightworker friend! We always have a good time, and I hope you enjoy learning about her! You can find her on IG at @dr_zazu_cioce_dpt and @integratedmamamethod   To learn more about me (Karen) and the work that I do, go to rebalancewithreiki.com - if you are local to Northern NJ and you'd like to check out my store front you can visit my page moonmagicwellness.com. For more information about my online course Spiritual Seekers 101 go here. For more info and to book a distance healing session with me go here.

2024an ospatzen da Eduardo Chillida euskal artista entzutetsua jaio zeneko mendeurrena. 'Zuhaitzaren antzerakoa naiz –esan ohi zuen–. Sustraiak hemen nire herrian ditut, adarrak, berriz, munduari irekita zabal-zabalik'....

Posthumous music releases are tricky. Especially for the creative decision maker left behind. You're navigating loss, assumption, expectation, doubt... all without input from the voice. In the case of Mama Zu, the voice is Jessi Zazu, a crucial figure in the Middle Tennessee indie music scene who died from cancer seven years ago at the age of 28. Before her death, Zazu had been making what became Quilt Floor with Linwood Regensberg her longtime bandmate in Those Darlins and the person responsible for finishing Mama Zu's recordings without her. There had been talk of the recordings around town for years but it took time for Regensberg to even restart it.

‘De leeuwenkoning' is de tekenfilm die Radio 1-presentatrice Annelies Moons met stip het vaakst heeft gezien. Zelfs als student was er een periode dat ze die elke week bekeek, als een soort compagnon de route. In die mate zelf, dat ze haar zoontje Hugo bijna als tweede naam Mufasa had gegeven. Dat het niet is gebeurd, daar heeft ze nu een beetje spijt van. Over de remake dan: die is erg trouw gebleven aan het origineel, al hebben de vrouwelijke rollen wel meer diepgang gekregen. Allicht ook omdat een zekere Beyoncé Knowles-Carter de stem van Nala heeft ingesproken. Het extra nummer dat zij aan de film heeft toegevoegd, is dan weer weinig memorabel. En de tierlantijntjes die ze toevoegt aan ‘Can you feel the love tonight' waren niet nodig. Bovendien is deze versie logischerwijs minder cartoonesk, wat afbreuk doet aan de grappen. Ook de hyena's verliezen alle humor op het rare, weerkerende aanschurken na. En Scar is een sof geworden. Kortom: voor haar is het “een dramatische leeuwenfilm” geworden, voor zover dat een ding is. Of “half z'n gat”, zoals we in Leuven zeggen. Wel een pluspunt: Annelies is meter van Steven het steppeslurfhondje, en dat dier zit nu ook in ‘The Lion King'. Had ze zelf een stemmetje mogen inspreken, kiest ze voor Zazu. Omdat ze zelf ook wel eens te veel babbelt. Oordeel vooral zelf.

jD, Matt, and Thomas are joined by Will Norman to discuss the potential Hall of Fame career of Rachel Dratch.Transcript:Track 2:[0:42] All right. Thank you so much, Doug DeNance. It is great to be back here at the SNL Hall of Fame podcast.Step inside the SNL Hall of Fame if you would, but please wipe your feet.The SNL Hall of Fame podcast is a weekly affair.Each episode, we take a deep dive into the career of a former cast member, host, musical guest, or writer, and add them to the ballot for your consideration.Once the nominees have been announced, we turn to you, the listener, to vote for the most deserving and help determine who will be enshrined for perpetuity in the hall.That's how we play this game.It's all about you, ultimately. You get to listen, you get to vote, you get to enjoy the members as they regale us in the SNL Hall of Fame.So there's that i hope you're doing well this week we've got a spectacular episode for you we are talking about rachel dratch and we're going to be joined by a repeat guest will normanwho always brings the goods in conversation with thomas senna but before we do any of that it's time for me to walk down the hall to our friend matt's.Track 3:[1:56] Minutiae minute corner hey matt Matt, how's it going, buddy? Great, JD, and you?I am super star-rific. Talking about Rachel Dratch today, and I think she's funny as hell.Me too, me too. She is one of those people who I have always felt is underappreciated.Underappreciated, yeah. All of the heavy lifting that she does.So you want to hear some facts about Rachel? Sure do. Okay, Rachel Dresch, 4'11 and 1 1⁄2, born February 22, 1966.She grew up in Lexington, Massachusetts, attending the National Theater Institute at Eugene O'Neill Theater Center in Connecticut.Now, she is a Second City alum, and she attended Second City and Improv Olympics with Tina Fey and Amy Poehler.Many of their sketches are still available on YouTube.So if you want to see very young Tina, Amy and Rachel, just Google them.And it's it's actually it's still it still holds up a lot of old Second City sketches done by the theater groups back then did not hold up. But this one did.[3:11] It's because it's pure Rachel just being Rachel.Now, she studied under Del Close and that for improv nerds out there is like improv Jesus.He is.Like one of the creators of the form. And additionally, she also spent time in the Groundlings.[3:34] And so she's done the improv trifecta, as well as being a founding member of UCB.Jeez. Not to mention, she was also on the Harvard Lampoon.So she is basically a member of the comedy Illuminati at this point.So she graduated in 1988 from Dartmouth College and has played cello since high school.So she's a talented musician in her own right.[3:59] She has 127 acting roles and was the original Jenna Maroney on 30 Rock before being recast. Right, I forgot about that.Yeah, if you watch that original pilot, it's a very different energy.As much as I love Rachel, I can understand why they changed the casting to mix it up a bit.The good thing about that is we have her variety of bonkers secondary characters, from the cat wrangler to the weird blue hallucination when the gas is left on in the gas episode.Her first television role was on SNL, but she simultaneously made her film debut on Serious Business that same year.She is also a published author with Girl Walks Into a Bar, which is flipping awesome.And if you get it, I recommend getting the audiobook because she reads that, which is really, it's on Audible.Not a plug for Audible, but it's on there and it's awesome.She has produced a one-woman show called My Life as an SNL cast member, which she ran at UCB before her Broadway debut in Wicked.[5:10] Um as tina after which she wrote the off-broadway play tail spin uh this tail exclamation mark spin exclamation mark which is why i said it a bit weird there yeah she's won thejoseph jefferson award for an actress in a review for paradigm lost uh in 1998 and for promise keepers losers Losers Weepers, in 1999 at Second City Chicago.So from the get-go, she was recognized for her improv chops, has done voice work appearing in movies and television shows, including Spider-Man Across the Universe, or excuse me,Spider-Man Across the Spider-Verse, as Ms.Weber, the guidance counselor, which when you look at the picture, like a still of that character, of course it's her.It looks so much like her. Oh, wild.[6:34] Um, yeah. So for example, she did the escape from Scientology trivia obstacle course, the Julia Robsticle course, uh, Julia Roberts themed trivia obstacle course, and the escapeMargot Robbie's moment course.And they are all as bonkers as you can, can guess.They she and billy are actually quite close and she subsequently did a parody of jay-z's empire state of mind with billy eichner called forest hills state of mind and it is hilarious also onyoutube which i highly recommend, Cool. Well, I think we're locked and loaded here and ready to go downstairs with Thomas and his special guest, Will Norman.Excellent. Can't wait. All right, Thomas, take it away.Track 4:[7:50] All right, J.D., Matt, thank you so much for that.And we are in the midst of season five of the SNL Hall of Fame.This is our second nominee that we're talking about this season.The one, the only Rachel Dratch is our topic today. And to join me to talk about all things Rachel Dratch on SNL, a returning guest here on the SNL Hall of Fame, it's Will Norman.Mr. Will Norman, my guest for Beyonce and for Daryl Hammond.Welcome back to the SNL Hall of Fame, Will.It is great to be back, Thomas. Thanks for having me. I'm just trying to slowly climb towards a five-timers jacket, so thanks for letting me come back, at least today.But yeah, I'm excited to talk about Rachel with you today.Obviously, we'll get into the details, but, you know, one of my favorite cast members and excited to kind of talk about her career and all her contributions to the show.Yeah, I'm looking forward to it. It was a lot of fun going back and rewatching stuff, doing the prep for this.It's always fun. Rachel kind of pops off screen.[8:53] So it's always fun to revisit a lot of what Rachel did on SNL.And you are my guest, Will, for Daryl Hammond, who is a newly minted SNL Hall of Famer.Will, so pat yourself on the back. What do you think, Daryl Hammond, Hall of Famer? We did it. We did it, Thomas.I feel like we made a great case for him. And Daryl's definitely deserving of it. So happy that he was able and the fans recognized his contributions and got him in. So it's awesome.Yeah, absolutely. In my book, probably in your book, we've mentioned top 20 cast member, in my opinion.To me, that's an SNL Hall of Famer. If you're top 20, you're an SNL Hall of Famer in my book. So people agreed. That's awesome. Yeah, couldn't agree more.Yes, absolutely. So we'll see if Rachel Dratch can get there.I know on the SNN's cast member countdown, she was pretty high.I think she was in the top 30 on the Saturday Night Network's cast member countdown.So she appears to be beloved by a lot of viewers and a lot of fans, myself included, yourself included, Will.I wanted to ask you about Rachel. So what were your impressions of Rachel Dratch when you first saw her?It could be on SNL or wherever you first saw her.[10:04] Yeah, I mean, I think my introductions to Rachel, I think were, you know, obviously during her time during SNL, I think in my time watching the cast that she came into was one ofmy favorite casts and kind of seeing her grow a little bit.And, you know, I've always thought of her as just being a very, you know, a great character actor, like she is so good at finding these nuances and weird characters to bring to life.She's also really good at being a part of an ensemble you know she's willing to be in the mix just not necessarily be centered in the sketch but she always makes the sketch better being apart of it and a couple other things that like i might still got to know rachel was like, she's very good at self-deprecation which i think uh yes you know is is is something i really appreciateit's one of my favorite types of of humor since the humor so she always brings that to her her comedy styles and her sketches and then this is kind of an another i think separate But a lot oftimes we talk about all the male performers, how well they are at portraying women.And I feel like Rachel is very great as a performer portraying men.And you see that in some of the characters that she does so much.And I think that kind of goes under the radar a lot.But I've always heard her ability to play different characters and kind of be really weird with it.[11:14] Great line delivery, be in the mix, but also make everything better has always stood out to me. And so it's been it was fun to go back and rewatch her stuff and watching herprogression as a cast number two and get her flowers throughout her time on the cast.What about you? Yeah, no, you're right. That's such a good point.One of the things that I did know was how she portrayed like especially older men really well, older, kind of like kooky, squirrely kind of men really well.Well, she almost inhabited or, you know, harnessed like a Dana Carvey kind of spirit in an interesting way when she did those characters. That's something that stood out to me.And then that's an interesting point you brought up about the self-deprecation.And that came through the, I automatically think of like these weekend update corresponded things that she would do with Amy and Tina.Where she would be like, I'm on location out here reporting the blizzard or whatever.And then they make her stay out there. where Amy and Tina are drinking like hot tea at the desk and they're like, oh, this is so good.And then Rachel's out there shivering and freezing. And so she's able to, yeah, she's able to poke fun at herself.There's also another one where she and Tracy Morgan had like a little talk show and John Stewart was on.And she was almost kind of she was the straight laced one, like kind of nervous talking to John Stewart. And Tracy was kind of ribbing her a little bit.John, do you think you're going to remain on cable or might you consider expanding to a wider market?[12:41] Look at Dress pretending to be all interested in TV markets when she's just trying to get her freak on.What? You don't care about no daily show. You're just trying to be his daily ho.[12:53] Freaky, that is not true. Look at Dress starting all red.Oh, my God. I'm really sorry. um okay um so she makes fun of herself a lot of the uh the writing on the show made fun of her but it's in a loving way like everybody obviously lovedrachel and it's just sort of like in a in a it was almost like big hug when when they would do that with rachel she's so likable that's something that stands out to me and stood out to me atthe time will she's so likable yes yes she definitely is and that's where you know i think she's she's already likable in her presence on on the show and the sketches that she shows up in andthen her willingness to make fun of things to find the funny and to your point never felt like it was a mean spirit it always felt like it was something that she was like if this is funny i'mgonna do it and going to you know put my all into it and so i've always really liked how um like i said like you said how likable she she has been in the sketches that she did and how she'shas a warmth to her performance a lot of times but can be super weird as well where you're rooting for even she's playing weirdo yeah exactly and And and when when when she joinedthe cast.[13:57] I remember when she did, she almost reminded me of like a Sherry Oteri who was still on the cast. And they overlapped for one year.They were on the cast together. It's one of those strange SNL things where it's like, oh, I forgot Rachel Dratch and Sherry Oteri were on the cast together.That's certain pairings that happens sometimes.Like you forget. Like I was going through old sketches today.I'm like, I forgot that Vanessa Bear and Melissa Villasenor were on the cast at the same time.That's just kind of a weird one to me. but sherry and rachel uh well that was that was one of those weird ones but rachel reminded me of sherry so i think initially i was wondering like youknow they kind of have somebody like this but it turned out that was sherry's last season so i think rachel was a good successor to sherry but also added some different elements i think shewas able to even get a little bit.[14:43] Weirder uh in in some ways than even sherry did yes no i agree she definitely i do think she did did get weirder than than than sherry did for sure and i think uh to your point whenyou have those new cast members that come in and they're on it's a deep cast and there's a bench coming in it's one it's fun to go back and see someone they're a featured player you knowthey're going to be awesome later you're like oh that's that's fun like there's that crossover there and.[15:08] She did, you know, as you mentioned just now, like she definitely did bring a Sherry O'Terry energy and vibe to the show.And I think one thing we'll talk about over the time here is similar to Sherry, such a great scene partner that Rachel was with a lot of the cast that she was with, specifically Jimmy Fallonor Will Ferrell.She was a really great scene partner with him and able to, you know, find great characters to have lasting impressions on the show while inhabiting that same energy that Sherry brought.Yeah yeah exactly another one i just thought about molly shannon was on the cast with chris farley and adam sandler no i didn't realize that that's kind of weird you know she started at theend of season 20 so she overlapped by a few episodes but technically molly shannon was on the cast with chris farley and adam sandler so that that's another one that's kind of wild to me.[15:56] Yeah so you had mentioned and we talked about you know she joined sherry o'terry was there but also Also, I mean, she joined and established Will Ferrell, Molly Shannon, AnaGasteyer, Chris Catan, all those people were on the cast already for a few years. Rachel joined in season 25.So this was the fifth season that a lot of those people had been on the cast together.So what do you think might be like the expectations of a new cast member when you're joining a big group of veterans?Where does a new cast member from a viewer standpoint, where do you want them to fall in?Yeah, you know, that's a great question. And I think when, when you see, when you have a stack cast that you love and you, and you like all the people that are on the cast, you see a newperson show up, I think in some ways it's, it's helpful for the cast member because there's not pressure on them to immediately be great.You know, you had those years where all of a sudden there's a bunch of new people and it's like, okay, I got to love somebody here. Like someone's got to take the torch.[16:51] But when you have an established cast, you're kind of wondering one, okay, what role is this person going to fill?You know, we have an absolutely stacked team. We brought in this rookie. what skill set are they bringing to the table are they going to be you know of the archetypes of SNL they'regoing to be the impressionist are they going to be someone who's going to be great as a character actor are they going to be someone who's going to um just be a you know a feature playerjust kind of be in the mix of things they're straight person to sketches kind of figuring out what their actual style of comedy is going to be and then you're also looking at it morespecifically do they inhabit any of the same kinds of personality types that a current cast number does is this the next generation's version of you know a sherry or terry is this person goingto be like an adam sandler they're going to do songs and stuff on update or they're going to be doing features you're trying to figure out where they fit in the grand scheme of the show andso.[17:39] I think when I'm watching new cast members, my own personal criteria is I'm just kind of seeing how do you meld with the rest of the cast?Who are they pairing you up with? What parts are they giving you as they kind of help you go along?And then I've said this before, I'm sure in previous podcasts, but I'm always a big, fairly or unfairly, I really judge people's first weekend update appearances because it's one of the firsttimes you get to see that cast member somewhat as themselves, probably doing something they auditioned on the show with to see what their style is.So those are kinds of the things you have that wait and see approach with new cast members.I want to love every new cast member that comes in. I think most fans don't see them on the bumper and go, I hope this person's terrible.You want the show to be good, right?[18:19] So I'm rooting for them. I just want to see where they fit in.So that's kind of where I view it. But what about you? What are your criteria? What are you looking at?Yeah, I think a lot of it's similar. It's almost like a new present in a way that the show is giving us every year.It's just like the possibilities are endless like what skill set to this person have i don't i i tend to look for something that's like skill sets that aren't overlapping is is a big one because if it'sjust complete overlapping skill sets just like okay well show's probably not going to use that much because i already have somebody who does this so it's just like finding out how thatperson sticks out uh then a good example this year chloe trost joined an established cast and chloe trost we found out it's a really good singer first of all so they're using her a lot as far assinging goes maybe a lot of the stuff that cecily strong maybe we used to do chloe trost is starting to do so she's kind of finding her niche she's gonna get more other things to do that's anexample of like this person's finding their niche you bring up a good point about weekend update too that's really that's a lot the weekend update desk i always harp on this is the castmembers struggling.[19:26] They want to do well on the show. They want people to know who they are.Write a good weekend update, Vs. Get that on.If you're going to get on the show, be on a weekend update. It's going to be on every week. They don't put a weekend update. Yeah, exactly.And those tend to be memorable.And right away, like last season, Michael Longfellow endured himself because of weekend update in a lot of ways. So did Marcelo Hernandez.Those are two examples of people who just like shined on weekend update.And now we're hoping like when's Longfellow going to be on weekend update? Right.His last one. What weird character. what costume is he going to wear what is he going to be on his himself and do stand-up or what so I think that's a good point about the update desk soshe Rachel Dratch joined in season 25 episode three she made her mark right away like she played Calista Flockhart in her in her very first she did a really oddball version of CalistaFlockhart in her very first episode that was season 25 episode three so she was officially joined the cast like like three episodes into that first season so So right away, I think we saw thatshe was a bit of an oddball, Rachel Dratch, which is a good thing.That's like when I when I call somebody an oddball, that's like that's like a really high compliment coming from me. Yeah, I'm with you. Yeah.Yeah. So she she shined right away. She had other good characters and sketches right away in season 25.[20:42] But, you know, you're my guest. Let's I want to give the floor to you.Like what characters or or sketch would you like to lead off with in this discussion? and Will?Yeah. So, I mean, there's so many to choose from and I feel like there's going to be a couple of deep cuts I think we'll get to eventually.And I want to start with this one just because I think that it's probably one of the ones we're talking about a potential Hall of Fame resume.It's probably one of the ones that let's say the general population is most familiar with and that's Debbie Downer, right?So Debbie Downer, obviously for those not familiar, is a character where Rachel would play essentially a Debbie Downer in real life, someone who is always bringing up bad news ingroup settings and always bringing and finding the negative and the way they did the sketch, obviously a lot of fun sound effects and womp womps and sad trombone and, you know,animal noises, whatever there was, they were talking about and a lot of closeups on Rachel. And.[21:35] They did a sketch quite a few times over the course of the show.I think obviously many are familiar with the most famous one of them breaking a Disney world with Lindsay Lohan.I personally enjoyed that. That is a favorite of mine.I, you know, I just don't like when people don't break as much, but it's, it's obviously a classic for a reason.That's an example to me that breaking works, breaking like elevated a sketch in that case.Yes. Yes. And same thing with, um, you know, there's a lot similar thing with birthday party with Ben Affleck.There's a Thanksgiving dinner with Luke Wilson. There's a lot of iterations of the sketch.And whether you look in the Disney World example or not, we're talking about from a cast and performance standpoint, understanding kind of what Rachel brought to the table.[22:13] It is a fun premise, right? Someone that's, you know, we all know a Debbie Downer of sorts in our lives, but the use of her having to try to be the straight person in the sketch and,you know, or not necessarily a straight person, but trying to like say, deliver these lines and these very sad news about feline AIDS being the number one killer of domestic cats or talkingabout how bird flu is worse than SARS and these close-ups of her with a ridiculous sound effect and making a face to camera and then going back into the normal life of the world of thesketch.Those kinds of things are the ones obviously very fun to watch, but just as a cast member, having someone who's able to do those kinds of things and be really silly and play into theridiculousness of the sketch, sketch, trying to keep it together.I think it's just a really good example of what Rachel Drash brings to the table.So if you're looking at the highlight reel of like, all right, give me some Rachel Drash sketches.That's why I say Debbie Downer is obviously one I think most people go to or have shared with their friends to say, hey, this is kind of who Rachel Drash is, what she brings to the table.Yeah, her face was so expressive. I think that's a lot of what made the sketch and probably what contributed to them breaking in that first debbie downer sketch in the first place was justrachel's expressive face and especially when you do like a tight zoom.[23:36] Onto her expressive face and she she knows what face she's making everybody the whole rest of the cast see it so that's that was part of the charm and i think if somebody elsewould have played debbie downer let's say amy poehler was in that role i think it would have been solid but i don't think they would have had necessarily the same exact reaction as likerachel dratch because she was she she could contort her face and she's very expressive and that was one of her big qualities as a cast member 100 and i think to your point too with thatwith that um character i think it would be really easy for someone to maybe ham it up more and the negativity and be you know but i think the fact that rachel tried to play it so so straightand And so like really trying to just like, you know, bring that energy down in the room when she's doing it with other people who notoriously don't break a lot.[24:29] And they're like, they can't hold it together. And they're trying to keep it going.And she's still committed because, as you know, they know she has another close-up coming. She has another line coming.She has, you know, increasingly more dark and dark news to deliver.And she's still kind of just in the mix trying to keep the sketch going.And so, yeah, her expressions, the line delivery, the way she played it, it's just absolutely perfect and, like, a great use of her talents.And, you know, it is a formulaic recurring character. and you know that's a lot of ways a lot of our you know hall of fame candidates have a recurring character recurring impression and isay uh for her with this one definitely one that's gotten the most circulation i think for for non-snl fans that have seen this one and seen uh the iterations of debbie downer yeah to yourpoint about like them waiting because they because the cat her castmates know what she's about to say that the most famous part to me my favorite part part of the original Debbie Downerwas when she kind of pauses because they all know that she's going to say that line. By the way, by the way, it's official.Kidnapped children.[25:56] And that that line i could i could watch the debbie downer sketch 100 times and that line cracks me up like i laugh out loud big time every time she says that it gets me every timei'm with you just because it like you said it's it's it's just this increasingly darker news it's such a dark thing to say right like it's not funny that somebody can't have children you wouldn'tthink but just in that context that was the funniest thing imaginable yes yes and like i said she she delivers it i mean she they're breaking obviously but having so much fun with it beingable to do it in a fun way and like you know like i said that's one that the whole cast was enjoying the sketch and with rachel too like a lot of times we'll talk about she's such a good scenepartner with people and so seeing her centered in a sketch and still being able to do a really good job with it and making it fun and making it funny i'm just saying it speaks to her hertalents and things she was able to bring to the show yeah i'm wondering about debbie downer specifically but just in a general sense so on one hand for me i wish they would have keptthis to maybe one installment or maybe tried it again they did it seven times and then on the other hand i don't blame them for trying it more and more because the first one caught on sowell like where do you stand on that like the the balance between not running something into the ground trying to recapture that magic i I think we saw that fairly recently with Lisa fromTemecula.I go, I love that first sketch, but then I don't think they quite could capture the same magic. So where do you stand on just like that general idea?[27:25] Yeah, so I'm with you in that. I was going to say that the Lisa from Temecula sketch was, I think, a perfect recent example of them using that.And I think with a lot of sketches, I'm kind of of the opinion that if the reason it's going viral is mainly because of the breaking, even if the premise is really funny and the delivery isreally funny, I'm usually a fan of one and done.Because i do think that sometimes the pressure is on the cast to break again in subsequent you know uh iterations of it because that's kind of what made it the first time and i think ithonestly makes it more special like if we saw lisa and temecula one time and didn't see it again i think that it you know it makes that sketch even more special because it was like that wasdelivered so well in that live format that one time that like people couldn't bring it together and then you you don't see it again with Debbie Downer.I think that it did work as a format to repeat because that is kind of a universal trope of the Debbie Downer. Right.[28:25] But I do agree that like two to three times maybe, but I think seven is probably probably got to be too much.And that's really no fault of, of Rachel's because of, you know, she obviously was a capable performer. You're really great.[28:36] But I think that I'm personally on the side of if the breaking is the main reason why it's getting traction, I'm more a fan of us to do it one time.That was fun for what it was and then we just let it go yeah exactly that those jeffries sketches with jimmy fallon and will ferrell in the early 2000s another example for me is like that theythose kind of work because they couldn't keep it together can imagine that jimmy fallon couldn't keep it together during the sketch breaking news i don't blame him for the debbie downerwhen actually fred armisen did a really good job of not breaking he's the only one because he had had Horatio Sanz wiping his tears with the waffle Lindsay Lohan couldn't evenremember when she had to say her like Fred had to kind of look at her and be like okay it's your line to like Lindsay so it's just kind of funny watching all the different performers andAmy Poehler was in that just how they all reacted to that and Debbie Downer in general like I don't mind it as a premise at all as you as you said it's universal Rachel's a capable performerI think it could have worked as a premise if the breaking in the first installment didn't overshadow the premise necessarily so that's what debbie downer became it became a sketch wherethey broke instead of like a sketch where the premise is the star so maybe that was like it was just like the fans the fans decided here's what your sketch is about now yeah exactly bring itback yeah yeah exactly So that was in she debuted Debbie Downer season 29.[30:05] A little toward the end. She she was a cast member until season 31.So her last three seasons we saw Debbie Downer. I wanted to go back to her first season, actually her third episode.[30:18] Where she and Jimmy Fallon debuted their Boston teens.Oh my God, Sally, I scoped it out. Apparently your $35 gets you chips, pretzels, and English muffin pizzas.Four-star cuisine? I beg to differ.Luckily, Denise and I bring a party with us wherever we go. Oh yeah, these are my own creation.Zazu's famous shots in a blanket.[30:44] Simply soak an everyday hot dog bun in vodka and enjoy.To pass us by, you appear to be simply eating a bag of hot dog buns. Yes.This near-perfect food coats your stomach as it inebriates. My girl is a genius.She played Denise or Zazu.Zazu. Zazu. So, yeah, those Boston teens. Another Rachel one that people remember fondly, right, Will?Yes. No, 100%. And that's funny. That was next to my list. I thought so.Yeah. I want to talk about that to talk that we know who we know that we know about it. But yeah, Boston is one of my favorites.[31:22] Same thing, like a very obviously very formulating sketch.Sketch but like the energy that her and jimmy bring to it in terms of having you know tommy recording um them being able to um kind of talk as as boston teens and really lean into a lotof the you know the boston accent and you know just make it very boston specific um always ending with some kind of sexual innuendo and you know fialan saying hey tommy tell meyou got that um they were super you know they're obviously like they've done they did a lot of iterations of the sketch but all like probably one probably one of them my favorite uh we'llget to my favorite but this one my favorite uh dratch character especially with jimmy like they play so well off of each other as the boston teens um there's a lot of different iterations onethat my favorites is one obviously not with uh ben affleck um there's one that they did with a birthday dinner with justin timberlake but the um the the them leaning into like i said a lot ofthe uh i said i guess just boston stereotypes and being kind of troublemaking kids and that are just always trying to get in trouble and and you know making out constantly and you are idon't know how i probably yelled at someone you are over the course of my life and making out so uh but just that there's There's so many good, it's so quotable.Poor Nomar Garcia-Pera, by the way. Like Nomar, like that's what, that's kind of almost what he's known for in a way.Right, people just yelling Nomar at him, I'm sure, everywhere he goes.[32:52] And so, yeah, there's so many good quotes in that and so many good, like even that's the one we talked about.[32:59] Having a great idea great characters that don't necessarily rely on the breaking like that one brought back and you knew what was going to happen you knew what was coming butthe amount of joy and fun that rachel and jimmy had with that sketch was just made it and i was always i mean they've come back and done it when jimmy's come back to host and stuffand and whenever rachel pops up as that like always fun to see that is one of my favorites for sure but i wanted to get your thoughts too on i mean the first appearance and then also withother with their other boston teen sketches yeah for some reason the one i always remembered uh probably because of my age when i watched it was the britney spears one but yeah butyeah so that that's that's one that always uh that always thought was funny that kind of stood out to me i liked when they were because a lot of times they were at like a party likesomebody's house or something but when they were actually doing something in public in front of other people so with that one they were at this amish.[33:49] Uh cosplay kind of place and like britney spears was asked jimmy fallon to come up and like show had a churn butter and it got flirty and then and then uh rachel as zazu gotjealous a little bit and then it holds you as you mentioned the beats like it had all those classic beats of them calling each other names and then of course making out and and and theinnuendo at the end and all of that so i always i always liked that britney spears one uh they did they did it 12 times times they did this uh the boston teens so there was a lot of meat onthat bone and i don't think like for for them to have having done it 12 times it didn't get all that stale to me honestly it was always very fun to watch and like you said jimmy and rachel hadgood chemistry together what i like about that that too when you talk about sketches of characters and how timely they are and how well they they go over watched obviously i watchedsome when rachel's in the cast did one one with uh it was like they're at a um they're going out to a birthday dinner with uh just to relax playing uh jimmy cotton's little brother and hekeeps setting things on fire at uh at the dinner and they do another one where i think it was jimmy came back to host and um they are like now kind of adults essentially and kate mckinnonis their daughter and they're touring harvard and you know they're and they're and they're having these you know they kind of updated like instead of a reporter they're you know tommy isrecording on a on a camera phone on a countess camera phone and.[35:18] Uh, you know, their daughter's really smart going to Harvard and they're still kind of in that, that same kind of mindset they were as teens, but they're like parents now.And why is Tommy there with them on the tour?Who is Tommy? Why is he? Why is Uncle Tommy here? Yeah.And so it's like, it, to me, that speaks to like, it speaks to the fact that she had these characters and had these, um, moments on the show that still, um, hit and resonate with latergenerations and later fans of the show like you can start a show with a cold open with the boston teens and the fans of the show we're like oh my gosh yes we're gonna get a chance to seerachel and jimmy be the boston teens and to your point thomas it never felt like it got beaten to the ground like they could show up they could show up in you know they could show up onthe next episode of snl whenever that airs right like and people would say be excited to see those characters so um it's it's a really it's a tough balance i'm sure to have recurring charactersthat people really enjoy that doesn't that doesn't get run into the ground and people are excited to see return so you know that kind of speaks again to rachel's ability to be a really likablecast member have likable characters regardless of the iteration whether they're super super sad at a dinner table or i don't you know a crazy boston teen so yeah another uh another featherin rachel's cap there with uh the boston teens and debbie downer too two really memorable.[36:37] Characters and sketches from that era.Will, where do you want to go from here with Rachel Dratch?Yeah. So I think next I'd like to go to the professors, Clive and the lovers, better known as the lovers.I think first appearance was during, and for those not familiar with the sketch, two professors that are very big on PDA and talking about their lovemaking in front of people to make themuncomfortable their first appearance was um at the katie holmes hosted episode with uh and it's rachel as virginia clarvin and uh will ferrell her husband professor clarvin um and they areconstantly talking to um they're at the time they're talking jimmy fallon and katie holmes about their relationship and the importance their their love making traditions and as the charactersgo they're essentially you know just talking about that and uh whatever whatever smoked meats that they like smoked meats yes and so they uh they bring these characters back uh i'mgonna say maybe five times you can correct it i think i have seven times oh seven they're on my on my list yeah gotcha so seven times and um each time same kind of same kind of thingwhere there's a lot of pda a lot of groping a lot of kissing i think one of my favorite um versions of that one i'm sure many people have seen is the one with uh drew Drew Barrymore,where they are at the Wellesley Arms Hotel that they talk about.[38:03] It's with Rachel Dratchwell Farrell, Jimmy Fallon is there, and then Drew Barrymore shows up.[38:09] Does anyone care for spiced lamb shakes? What is that? Well, at this point during the soak, my lover and I usually crave spiced meat.[38:24] We all do.We always order them up special from the Welsh.And keep them here in this igloo cooler. The wealthy arms. They are talking about Jimmy Fallon, who's there alone.Who's breaking a lot. Yeah, who's breaking a lot. I know what you're saying.You got the tallies going for Jimmy. But there's a lot of, you know, the way that they say everything, their pronunciations, it's called the lavas, and there's Barbara Hernandez.[38:58] And, you know, they feed each other smoked meats and lamb shanks in this hot tub.And they're calling it the hot tub and like all these different little iterations they have and the way they talk about things the chemistry between obviously drash and feral is great they havea really fun time like interacting with each other but then also making jimmy uncomfortable i think you can tell that like feral's definitely like rubbing found on the leg oh yeah he's a lot ofdeep eye contact that's what i heard he's kind of playing footsie with fallon in that hot tub trying.[39:28] To get him to break it's yes and and it's the way that they like they do in that and in that that sketch like obviously the the the professors clarvin are centered and they are the maindrivers of the comedy and the ridiculousness and everyone there is a is reacting around them but similar to the boston teens like rachel brings that same kind of fun scene partner energy ina totally different way she's not uh you know a troublemaking teen from boston he is a college professor who just likes to talk a little bit too much about her you know public displays ofaffection and lovemaking and it's still a really fun sketch and a fun character and while there's some crossover there like with the you know with the characters it's totally different it's atotally different energy in a totally different way that she that she brings it to life and so um that's as i said another one that's really fun for me and there's a lot of breaking and stuff but ithink it just goes to how much fun everyone's having listening to them uh you know going back and forth and and making everyone uncomfortable yeah that drew barrymore one's theprobably my favorite one to the one that I remember most.[40:31] Rachel and Will Ferrell in these lover sketches, they inhabit a very specific type of person who I've encountered quite a bit.I don't know if you have, Will. I grew up about an hour from Santa Fe, New Mexico.[40:46] And there's so many people like this around Santa Fe, like the hippie, yuppie, I guess yippie kind of types of people.You could tell they have money, but they're still kind of earthy in a way.They're probably like very liberal minded people, maybe misguided at times in some ways.They probably donate to a lot of causes.Oftentimes college professors and artists and stuff so i think rachel and will ferrell inhabited the specific type of person really really well in my mind these characters live in santa fe newmexico because that's the exact yes i've i have countered or taos or somewhere in the mountains There's some trendy mountain village spot. Yes. Yes.[41:40] No, no. I definitely know the archetype type of person that you're referring to.And I think in my time in school in California, I think I ran into some professors like that as well.Well, where, you know, generally speaking, like whether it's professors or, you know, the very like, you know, seemingly high minded people, just that feeling people have had whereyou're with a couple that wants to let you know how much they enjoy each other's company when you're not there.I think that general feeling of just being uncomfortable and kind of being kind of stuck in a spot where you're like, I don't really want to, I can't only want to engage this conversationnecessarily.We're all just kind of watching the two of you be very affectionate with each other and then trying to make it okay for everyone to be that same way it was it's a very um i think relatable toyour point relatable uh level of uncomfortable uh that everyone has been at some point in time so the way they do that and make it so hilarious that everyone you know whether it's youknow katie helman or drew barrymore jimmy fallon like on you know unable to keep it together I think makes the sketch and is another fun feather in the cap for Rachel as well.Yeah, a good teammate with Will. She could partake in Will Ferrell's off-the-wall goofiness easily.She's a good companion with Will Ferrell in that type of humor.[43:00] I think she does such a good job. Another recurring character I want to talk about, Will, is another season 29 one.I want to talk about this because we had alluded to it earlier in the podcast.[43:13] She played an old Hollywood producer named Abe Scheinwald.[43:18] That's an example, probably the example for me about how good she was at playing a wacky older person.Pops, I thought Shine World Studio was, you know, moving towards more award-winning fare and a gay, you know, way from, you know, bumping ta-tas.Since when do you decide what interests us? This one wanted me to make a movie about a kid at school who had magical powers.I said I liked it better the first time when it was called Teen Wolf.It was Harry Potter. We passed on Harry Potter.[43:48] Now who do you see in the role of potty hoe number two well there's only two choices abe scheinwald one of my favorite rachel characters it is i don't know if it's one of theviewers have seen obviously just tell us like the first time to see i think that started as a weekend update feature uh i want to say yes um and uh with seth and then was later turned into asketch and essentially the idea is that it's this old uh old man who's a movie producer and he he makes he makes motion motion pictures and he's like and he set this his grandson who istrying to move their movie studio into like a much more intellectual you know way and direction whereas he is very much into uh you know very sexual themed or sexual in a windowthemed movies with like russ meyer films i don't know if you're familiar with old like 60s russ meyer films but no no but yeah so i think that's what they were going for russ meyer madelike these b movies we'll call them that had a lot of sexual stuff a lot of you know they weren't it was almost like if they at the time it would have been like straight to video so yeah so it'skind of like that yeah and he you know a lot of the titles i mean nit nipple institute of technology you know a lot those are kind of the the vein of titles that we're talking about and like umit's one of my favorite characters once again there's a lot of like recurring themes.[45:16] And sketches but the way that one let's focus on rachel the way that she plays.[45:20] This old man who is always eating potato salad out of a container it's a great.[45:26] Choice for a character you're right and like like really loud and really just kind of, and is the energy she plays off of Seth as well.[45:34] Where Seth is very like the straight person and is like clearly annoyed with his grandfather who is like very, you know, has an outdated way of thinking.And Rachel has just kind of been this, like, I'm the expert.Like we make pictures and, you know, we need to do all these things to like drive money and do all these things.And she's just so over the top and so silly, but it's so hilarious seeing her inhabit this and have this character. and.[45:59] One of the ongoing things, and this is just a little peek into my life, there's a lot of things that she says where they're constantly talking about a movie and they'll say, you know, Ihad a movie, you know, there was a movie that we wanted to do and it was about, let's make one up, like, oh, a guy who ran across the country, but we passed on it. And Seth is like, it wasForrest Gump.We passed on Forrest Gump, you know? And so it's like, it's that constant, like, you know, same thing.And I, and I, you know, it's like, I, you know, these movies, oh, I have a movie about this.I liked it better the first time when it was this, you know, and I will say when I go to movie theaters, I am sure my fiance is tired of hearing it.Every movie preview, I find myself saying, I liked it better the first time when it was and saying a movie title. For me, it's such a quotable sketch, and I love repeating a lot of the thingsthat Rachel says in it.She plays that old man, Abe Sheinwald, so well.I think your point, the first one, I think, maybe was with Alec Baldwin, where it's the three of them, the father, grandfather, and Seth.[47:03] You can tell that they're trying to keep it together with just the energy that Rachel is bringing to it as Abe Sheinwald.Yeah this is an example too of Rachel I try not to do this like I guess I don't know I can sometimes I compare cast members to other cast members but Rachel inhabits a lot of the thingsthat I love about certain cast members past and present so with this one it's like a lot of what I love about Martin short I think Rachel Dratch inhabits in a character like this yes there aresome Jimmy Glick.[47:38] Energy kind of jiminy glick you know i had like another like a hollywood producer kind of character uh too but just in how like she i don't know just how she presented herself andher mannerisms and her commitment her and that's a big thing like rachel we haven't said it this episode but i think just her commitment is admirable in a sketch honestly and that'ssomething that's like even cast members come through here and there over the years and i could tell like this person's like not fully in the sketch i wish they would commit more never hadthat problem with rachel oh 100 and i think one of the things we were talking about before too as she's committing when she's committing in sketches no matter what she's playing we wetalked about this a little bit earlier in her ability to play men you know there's a lot of things that she does and has fun with um as she's committing to playing an old man as a woman andthis basically like a sexist old man right and the line delivery she has and things she says and i mean even when she's uh.[48:39] Talking about i think one point they said i think in every sketch where you know she's talking about having you know women in in bikinis and like to make the movie make moremoney and you know pull out a dollar out of her pocket and is like double d's double d's and like pulling you know a dollar and it's like it's such a ridiculous thing to say and trying tomake seth say it as well but like Like she has this commitment.Like I'm going to be fully like inhabit this type of person who would one say this, who would believe this, um, be over the top with it and bring that kind of energy.Like it's one of my, that character is just one of my favorites of Rachel. And I don't know if it's.[49:14] Something that the average fan obviously has heard of or would see or like people would recognize it but you just popped up obviously like in another sketch but um to your point areally great a really uh great example of her ability to commit to a character play other people um and then also be able to just have great line delivery and be centered in the sketch in away that um you know she was always willing to be a partner but to be a to be front and center the energy i think was was great yeah exactly so she uh she played abe shinewald fourtimes We urge everybody to go seek those out and watch Rachel Dratch shine as a kooky old man.She did that so well.Any other gems, characters, sketches, Will, that pop to mind with Rachel Dratch?[49:59] You know, those are like from a character standpoint, those were some of the main characters that I kind of want to talk about for Rachel.But if you had any others, I was going to talk about a couple of sketches.But like if you have any other, I mean, there's a few more.Yeah give us a sketch that stands out if you got one okay so they're uh one of them i think that it's kind of on the same the same lines as we're talking about her playing a guy but there's asketch called um it's basically it's a harry potter themed sketch and it's about uh it's with lindsey lowen on the sketch in the sketch and she is um playing hermione and coming back from asummer vacation and lindsey low hands playing lindsey low hands yeah sorry lindsey Lindsay Lohan's playing Hermione, and Rachel is playing Harry Potter, and they're coming backfrom summer break, and Hermione, as Lindsay Lohan says, developed, we'll say, over the summer.And all of the guys that are in the sketch are very much distracted by Hermione.I got here hours ago. I've been in the library researching cloaking spells.[51:03] Hermione, um... Hello?Boring nothing.[51:19] Seems like a lot happened i don't know what you're talking about there's a lot of to your point before in that sketch um as they do a lot of visual gags and they have a lot of peoplecoming in out of the sketch there's rachel's very expressive and like a lot of it's like her facial expressions as she's playing harry potter and being very much like trying to not bring bringattention to um you know uh hermione and her kind of like low-cut shirt yeah um and trying to kind of be the mix and it's just like one of those funny ones once again we talk about rachelplaying all these different you know different types of characters she played harry potter another time during a weekend update sketch or feature as well which is also great um but like herability to kind of fully be in those characters and um it's a very silly sketch obviously just with the idea of that happening in the harry potter the harry potter universe right but um She justdoes a really good job of facial expressions, trying to be kind of a straight person in the sketch, but also not bring too much attention to it, which I feel like is another good example of justhow silly she was as a cast member.That's just one. Yeah, she knows how to deliver.[52:25] She knows the beats to play any given character. And with this Harry Potter, it was almost like that.Oh, I'm noticing this, but I can't say it.And I need to contain my obvious enjoyment enjoyment of these new developments with, with Hermione and all this.So like, yeah, yeah. So Rachel knew how to like, she knew the beats of, of, of how to play that scene perfectly. That's a really nice pull.Yeah, I got one. I'll throw one out there. And then I want to hear from you too.Like, this is the one is the Rachel it's it's it's the fun friends club.Yeah. And this is one. Yeah.[53:06] So like, kind of around the opposite of that. Rachel is basically playing a 12-year-old girl who is a part of a kid's show, but is much more developed than the other kids that are onthe show to the point that it's distracting for the main actor, the guy playing the dinosaur. I think it's Ray Liotta. Ray Liotta.Yeah, Ray Liotta is playing the kid's dinosaur character who's very upset with this process. And they're having her do a lot of things that are totally fine for a 12-year-old to do, but becauseshe is more developed, this is distracting, and they really aren't comfortable with her doing some of these things.And Rachel does such a good job in the sketch of playing this very innocent kid who doesn't understand what – she doesn't get the joke.And so many times, she's centered on the joke. She is the main delivery vehicle for the joke.But in this one, she does such a great job of being like, I don't understand what's going on.And the audience is losing it uh ray leota is getting visibly more angry like i'm uncomfortable with this i don't want this kid on the show anymore and jimmy fallon's being the producerkind of like trying to talk to him like i got i'll try to talk it through i'll try to figure it out trying to find workarounds and whatnot yeah um and to his credit by the way i don't think jimmyfallon breaks in this sketch so i want to call that out where it's due there we go.[54:21] 

Entrevistamos a Álex Izquierdo, entrenador de la Arandina y a 'Zazu' capitán del conjunto burgalés en la previa del encuentro ante el Real Madrid de la Copa del Rey. Además, también analizamos el encuentro del Lugo ante el Atlético de Madrid con la entrevista del ariete local Willy Ledesma. Adrià Albets comenta la presentación de Vitor Roque y Calderón analiza el adiós de Ricky Rubio a la NBA tras 12 temporadas. 

Previously on Dracul: As we once again viewed the world in Catherine's perspective, we come to see that she was entirely too close to unearthing the truth about her being related to Philippe Deiana. Shortly after, she was visited by a changed Funani, who could only warn her of Sartrum before uncontrollably turning into his lycanthrope state, initially unable to recognize Catherine before regaining some control and leaving in a hurry. Seeking Dracul's help, Catherine then discovers his once hidden resting room, which strangely prevented Zazu's magical self from entering, only to discover an apparition that resembled Veronica before finally resting her eyes on a paralyzed Dracul. Hello and Happy New Year, everyone! I hope you are staying safe, healthy, and happy during this trying times. It seems as though the world still has yet to learn of love and its incredible power. Perhaps someday sooner rather than later these terrible atrocities will end and we will walk together as a single race: the human race. Please sign any petitions you can to cease any war / conflict happening in the world whether it directly effects you or not. If times get too difficult and you need an escape, Dracul will always be here! I will see you all in the next episode, Draculants! Thank you for a wonderful 2023- here's to an even better 2024!

Today's guest is Perseus Mlambo, Co-founder and CEO of Union54, the developers of the social commerce app ChitChat. The company started as Zazu, an agtech startup, which pivoted to Zazu the neobank. After issuing virtual cards for their users and seeing the demand other fintechs had for virtual cards, they pivoted to Union54 the card issuing API, which after massive traction in the fintech ecosystem and subsequent issues with fraud, has pivoted once more to ChitChat.With many pivots come many lessons, and in this episode, Perseus shares his lessons and much more. 00:00 - Intro03:01 - Perseus' Pivots05:14 - Union54 and chargeback fraud09:37 - Are Union54's problems solvable?12:30 - Stakeholder management19:03 - Alternative options for the company22:27 - Perseus' conviction in the team & the opportunity27:00 - Union54's newest product, ChitChat30:18 - ChitChat's unique cap table structure34:37 - What's the vibe in the ecosystem?38:05 - The vision for the companyEpisode Links -Perseus' interview with TechCrunchFollow Perseus on TwitterOur Links -

Bill had parent-teacher conferences last night and was told that he needed to look presentable, so he took matters into his own hands and it might have been drastic. Morgan is either getting sick again or struggling with the aftermath of Daylight Savings Time. Do you judge people for the accessories on their car? After the conversation, Morgan thought Bill was throwing her some shade so we got into that as well. Plus, Hollywood Dirt, Battle of the Burbs, "Name That 90's Sound" and MORE!! 

Bill had parent-teacher conferences last night and was told that he needed to look presentable, so he took matters into his own hands and it might have been drastic. Morgan is either getting sick again or struggling with the aftermath of Daylight Savings Time. Do you judge people for the accessories on their car? After the conversation, Morgan thought Bill was throwing her some shade so we got into that as well. Plus, Hollywood Dirt, Battle of the Burbs, "Name That 90's Sound" and MORE!! 

Hello and welcome to The Mouse and Me!   In last week's episode, Robert and Scott talked about so many different things including what it's like for Robert to be a co-author and star of his own show, Cagney, how he enjoyed playing such iconic Disney characters like Timon, Pumba, Zazu, Chef Louis, Scuttle, and the Duke of Weselton on Broadway, on tour, in Toronto, and in Los Angeles, and his involvement in the Newsies and Aladdin workshops. In today's episode, Robert and Scott continue their chat about what Robert loves at each theme park at WDW, who his Disney sidekick would be, which country he'd like to see added to Epcot's World Showcase, what show he'd create for a Disney park, his favorite restaurant in Epcot, and so much more! So without any further ado, we give you Part 2 of Scott's conversation with the incredible Robert Creighton! Email: TheMouseAndMePodcast@gmail.com Support: www.patreon.com/themouseandme FB & Instagram: The Mouse and Me TikTok: @TheMouseAndMePodcast Twitter: @MouseMePodcast Music by Kevin MacLeod from https://incompetech.filmmusic.io --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/themouseandme/support

Maria Valetta, wine educator and certified sommelier, and Robert Tas join forces for a fun review of the wine list at Bar Zazu where they offer wines from around the globe with a special focus on Spain. If you wonder just what to pair with the charred spanish octopus with chorizo, gremolata, almond, romesco or the seafood paella, Maria has the wine for you. In addition to wines that make your meal just too delicious for mere words, Maria offers a little wine education on lesser-known varietals such as the Tintilla, the Callet, and the Tannat.  Wines reviewed include: 2018 Samuel Tinon “Birtok”, Tokaj, Hungary  2017 Anima Negra “An” 2017, Mallorca 2016 Garzon Single Vineyard Tannat, Uruguay  For more information on today's episode, and the wines you love to love, visit www.corkrules.com.

THE LION KING  Music & Lyrics by Elton John & Tim Rice | Additional Music & Lyrics by Lebo M., Mark Mancina, Jay Rifkin, Julie Taymor, & Hans Zimmer | Book by Roger Allers & Irene Mecchi  |  Adapted from the Screenplay by Irene Mecchi, Jonathan Roberts, & Linda WoolvertonWorks Consulted & Reference :The Lion King (Original Production Directed by Julie Taymor)The Lion King (Original Film Directed by Roger Allers & Rob Minkoff)The Lion King: Pride Rock on Broadway by Julie TaymorThe Lion King - The Full Film Script by Bill Scollon & Marbara MontiniDisney Theatrical Productions: Producing Broadway Musicals the Disney Way by Amy S. OsatinskiThe Disney Musical on Stage and Screen: Critical Approaches from 'Snow White' to 'Frozen' Edited by George RodosthenousThe Lion King: A 'Blockbuster Feline' on Broadway and Beyond by Barbara Wallace GrossmanMusic Credits:"Overture" from Dear World (Original Broadway Cast Recording)  | Music by Jerry Herman | Performed by Dear World Orchestra & Donald Pippin"The Speed Test" from Thoroughly Modern Millie  (Original Broadway Cast Recording) | Music by Jeanine Tesori, Lyrics by Dick Scanlan | Performed by Marc Kudisch, Sutton Foster, Anne L. Nathan & Ensemble"Why God Why" from Miss Saigon: The Definitive Live Recording  (Original Cast Recording  / Deluxe)  | Music by Claude-Michel Schönberg, Lyrics by Alain Boublil & Richard Maltby Jr.  | Performed by Alistair Brammer"Back to Before" from Ragtime: The Musical (Original Broadway Cast Recording)  | Music by Stephen Flaherty, Lyrics by Lynn Ahrens | Performed by Marin Mazzie"Chromolume #7 / Putting It Together" from Sunday in the Park with George (Original Broadway Cast Recording)  | Music & Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim | Performed by Mandy Patinkin, Bernadette Peters, Judith Moore, Cris Groenendaal, Charles Kimbrough, William Parry, Nancy Opel, Robert Westenberg, Dana Ivey, Kurt Knudson, Barbara Bryne"What's Inside" from Waitress (Original Broadway Cast Recording)  | Music & Lyrics by Sara Bareilles | Performed by Jessie Mueller & Ensemble"They Live in You" from The Lion King (Original Broadway Cast Recording)  | Music & Lyrics by Lebo M., Mark Mancina, & Jay Rifkin | Performed by  Samuel E. Wright & Ensemble - The Lion King"Maria" from The Sound of Music (Original Soundtrack Recording)  | Music by Richard Rodgers, Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II | Performed by Evadne Baker, Anna Lee, Portia Nelson, Marni Nixon"My Favorite Things" from The Sound of Music (Original Soundtrack Recording) | Music by Richard Rodgers, Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II | Performed by Julie Andrews"Corner of the Sky" from Pippin (New Broadway Cast Recording) | Music & Lyrics by Stephen Schwartz | Performed by Matthew James Thomas“What Comes Next?” from Hamilton (Original Broadway Cast Recording) | Music & Lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda | Performed by Jonathan Groff

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Zazu interrupts Simba's playtime with a day full of training. Simba even discovers some lessons for himself along the way! If you would like to hear more magical Disney stories, you can visit us at abc11.com/magic-of-storytelling.

Move over Mando, "American Born Chinese" looks to become the next must-watch show on Disney+. The new series based on the graphic novel comes to the streaming platform on May 24 and includes "Everything Everywhere All at Once" Michelle Yeoh and Ke Huy Quan. We have an interview with the show's stars Ben Wang and Sydney Taylor, who talk about winning with the Oscar-winning actors. And speaking of "Everything Everywhere," Oscar-nominated actor Stephanie Hsu will be starring in this summer's "Joy Ride" film starring Ashley Park, Sherry Cola and Sabrina Wu. The film also is the directorial debut for Adele Lim, who is best know for writing "Crazy Rich Asians" and "Raya and the Last Dragon."  Finally, Bruce talks about the new four-part documentary "The Secrets of Hillsong" on FX and Hulu. Where to watch "American Born Chinese" on Disney+ "Joy Ride" in theaters on July 7 "The Secrets of Hillsong" on FX About the show Streamed & Screened is a podcast about movies and TV hosted by Bruce Miller, a longtime entertainment reporter who is now the editor of the Sioux City Journal in Iowa and Terry Lipshetz, a senior producer for Lee Enterprises based in Madison, Wisconsin. Episode transcript Note: The following transcript was created by Adobe Premiere and may contain misspellings and other inaccuracies as it was generated automatically: Welcome everyone to another episode of streamed and screened and entertainment podcasts about movies and TV from Lee Enterprises. I'm Terry Lipshetz is senior producer at Lee and co-host of the program with someone who will be starring on Broadway very soon. Bruce Miller, editor of the Sioux City Journal, longtime entertainment reporter. Bruce, you're hitting the big city soon on the streets of Broadway. I will not be on Broadway. I'll be in front of the theater. Is looking at shows. Yeah, my sister and I usually spend Memorial Day weekend. This is. I'm giving this to you as a potential thing you could do. We go to New York because nobody seems to be in New York over Memorial Day weekend. They all go somewhere else. The Hamptons, the, you know, the shore, whatever it would be, the Jersey Shore. But people aren't normally in the city. And so it's a very good time to go to things like plays, like shopping, like eating, because the normal crowd isn't there. So we've done this for at least 30 years. Colbert threw us off because we didn't do it during those years. Yeah, it's fun. It's fun. It's a chance to get to see what we might be seeing in other venues in years to come. It might be a streaming film, it might be a touring production that comes to your community. There's still there's a lot of stuff there to see. Fun stuff. I'm going to Sweeney Todd attend The Tale of Sweeney Todd. I'll be there. That sounds fun. I just hit a little Broadway myself this past weekend in traveling Circa, we saw The Lion King came to Madison. Yeah. Second time seeing that. Yeah. It's great show. My wife and I saw it probably around 2008 or nine. We were just married and just kids. Do they go to play? Yeah, exactly. So we used to go to the theater a lot when we were, you know, before kids. And then we had kids and we stopped going. Of course, But we've gone now. We took the kids to see Hamilton last year, and now we took them to go see Lion King, which is fun. There's an interesting scene. I'm not going to say spoiler alert, because that show has been out on the road for 25 years now. But there is an interesting scene and I said to my wife, like, they've obviously changed this, but I don't know what it was beforehand. There's this scene where Zazu is being held captive by Scar. The lion and scar is like Entertain me and Zazu starts singing and he starts belting out lines from Let It Go from Frozen. Any scar is like, stop torturing me with that. But you know, anything but that song. But I'm thinking to myself, Well, what was the other song? Because this show has been out on the road forever. What did that like? They obviously added that in recently, since, Yeah, know, it was probably another show that, you know, I wish I could tell you. Yeah. But there probably was another show they referenced just to be able to see under. Yeah, it could be, it could be something like that. But what I want to know is did you get out of the this show without buying anything. Yes. Yes. That, that is like merchandise heaven. Yeah. I saw a lot of the parents there with the kids that are of the age where you need to buy something. My kids are not that age anymore. They're 12. We walk in, we take our seats, we watch the show. We walk out in and out without. Yup, everyone is fine with that. So we've trained them well. We didn't you know, we took them to things like Disney on Ice when they were four or five. We would say to them like, Hey, kids, see, you know, you're going to see a lot of kids with all these toys and stuff that their parents buy them at the show. They're really, really expensive. And do you really need that? Will you be honest with them? And they be like, no, we're fine. It's it was yeah, we know those are the limits. Those kids are troubled. They're not happy. So giving those toys, that's just trying to solve something that isn't there. And so we don't need that, do we? Nope. Now, of course, I would be the kind yelling for everything if I don't get it all. I. I'm not. And that's me now. Yeah, now I if I don't come now, When? This next weekend. I'm going to six shows right. If I don't come back with six T-shirts, it's been a wasted trip. I at least have to have the t shirt, get shirts. Yeah. Hit a bodega, get a buttered roll. Okay. That's a very New York thing to do. Just get a budget roll. It's just a big roll hardball with like a pound of butter on it. And then you have to decide how much of that butter you actually want to eat and then you don't need to eat. So the money that I spent a year would have been money I would have spent out of food. Yep. The New York Times actually did an article one time called The Ode to the Butter Roll on how like utilitarian it is and how New York it is. So check that out. It's actual reading before you go to New York City. I will do that. Yeah. Yeah. So have fun with your trip. And when I'm wearing T-shirts, just know that you have to be jealous. I will be okay. I'm just jealous. You're going back to my. My hometown. I was born in New York City, so let's start spreading the news. I know, I know. So kind of getting back to movies and entertainment and that kind of thing. We thought we were done talking about Everything Everywhere all at Once because we're past Oscar season and that kind of did its thing. And but it's sort of back in the news. Can you talk a little bit about that? Yeah, because many of the people who were involved in that film are also part of a new series on Disney+ called American Born Chinese. And this is based on a graphic novel that won a bunch of awards. And what it is, is it's taking the story of a boy in high school who is Asian-American, who really doesn't feel like he fits in. He feels like, you know, I am the only one, it seems. And the teachers bring to him the new Asian kid years, a new Asian kid. And you're going to of course, you'll be the one to show them the ropes, right? Well, and what he realized is, is is this other kid is from a different world. He's from a much higher realm. And he has all these skills and he's able to do all this kind of stuff. And his aunt is actually the goddess of mercy, played by Michelle Yeoh. So there are there's this kind of otherworldly element to this typical high school kind of growing up a story. And you see how he learns about other things that are around him, how the bullies, how do you deal with the bullies? Will you see that reflected in the the situations that the gods and goddesses have to deal with on a higher level? So and it's very fun. If you've not seen the graphic novel, please read it. It is so fun. The panels are very snarky and they're really very cool. And these are these characters are ones that are just made whole cloth. They're talked about in Chinese culture quite a bit. So they are gods and goddesses who actually are part of their their lore, their history. And so it's not like something that was just made up. It's like, what happens if these people come to visit? And I got a chance to talk to two of the stars of the film. And I was really curious because when this was being filmed, it was kind of the the start of everything everywhere, eating up. It became something while they were there and what it was like to be with these people to see through their eyes what is their that whole experience like. And I, they were very forthcoming. Ben Wong, who is the lead in this show he plays Jin Wong, is a young actor from Minnesota, oddly enough, who just kind of made a decision that he was going to go to musical theater school and that Sidney Taylor, who is his costar in this, plays The Lust Object, who he really loves in this school, but doesn't know that the relationship will ever amount to anything. And they were the two I talked to in conjunction with American born Chinese. All right. So let's go ahead and listen to that interview and we'll come back and talk a little bit about that show, the two of you, when you were making this, I would assume it was the same time that everything everywhere was just blowing up. Was that true? And it came out while we were filming? Yes. What did you learn from Key and from Michelle about dealing with all of that? Because that was just huge. Well, I don't know. They were every time we so like, we shot the show, that movie came out and then, you know, we all went our ways and we get back together once in a while for pro for promotional stuff. Right. And I'd see them every month or two. And I feel like every time I see them, they're they're like pedigree just get bigger and bigger and bigger. So but at the same time, they always remain the same people that we've met On day one before that movie had come out, you know, just humbled. No down to earth and kind and generous people. And so that's what they did. You ask them for acting advice or anything about the business Now? I didn't dare. I was like, if they have, we didn't want to be a**holes. Terry's act. But just like, well, been growing up in Minnesota, how did you even think the idea was going to happen? That you would be in the business? Oh, I didn't either. But I didn't know about the business. I didn't know what the business meant or was or could be. And I definitely didn't see a place for myself in it. But I kind of took a leap of faith. At the end of high school, I decided I was going to go to New York and and and train and in musical theater at NYU. And it was sort of a decision that I made kind of on my own. And yeah, it was really only after I came out to New York and started really understanding what the business was. But now growing up, I was like, This is fun, this is cool. And that's all it will probably ever be. But I'm glad I was wrong. Yeah, always. It's good to be wrong, right? Had you to read the book before this all started to happen? Were you familiar with it or not? No, I wasn't familiar with it at all. I hadn't heard of it, but I read it before our chemistry read. We had one chemistry before the audition process was over and I read the whole thing and in probably under an hour and couldn't put it down myself. Yeah, same I had. And I didn't have it growing up in Minnesota. It wasn't in our public library, unfortunately. But yeah, I read it for the first time right after I got the audition size, which is the couple of scenes they show you. I was like, I need to find out more about this project because this just just the few scenes they gave me to audition with were incredible, I thought. And yeah, I ran to the library. I was in Connecticut. I ran. Yes, ran. Not walked, ran, not walked to the to the Stamford, Connecticut public. That's where I was at the time. And I found it and I read it and I was crying and crying on the carpet. And the night guy like the janitor was telling me that we were closing in 6 minutes, You have to leave. And I was like, Please, I need this to 20 or I need the book, right? Yeah. You're just like, Yeah, well, you know, had you found anything like that before where you said, you know, this I can relate to at all? Never, Never. And that was what was so incredible. It made me realize that it's doing media is not always just sort of an empathetic act, right? Where you're learning about some something else and relating to something that's not quite like what your experiences are. For the first time, I was like, Oh, you can read something and feel like it's about you. And that was really powerful and it made me, you know, really want to get to work on the show because I know this show is going to be that for you. Now, during this time, what is that like, that anticipation that this could really be something huge? Yeah, it's we've been sitting on it for a year and I just want people to see it. But I also I don't want like my life to change or I just want people to see it. Exactly. I want people to see it and enjoy it. Yeah. And doing that kind of there are a lot of special effects in this. I was surprised at how many there actually are. Is that difficult to do? I mean, if you go to acting school, I'm assuming that you go, Well, they didn't talk about this. They didn't tell you about the iron diaper in an acting lifting. That's a that's a that's something you used to fly. Oh, I let you elaborate. Let me elaborate more. They put on you this, like Kevlar iron, the thing that looks like a giant diaper that they attach wires, suicide. And there's two guys standing on ladders and pulleys. You know, you growing up watching these movies, you think, oh, it's all must be robots and like, high technology. But no, it's just too big. Do you do on ladders? And then the stunt coordinator goes, okay, action. And they jump off their ladders and you go this way. So it was it was an adventure. It was an adventure. And it was fun, but also kind of terrifying. And Sydney, how did you know that you two were were a real good team together? I we both knew that from like the first day we actually met. We met for the first time in person during the cast dinner and the whole time we were essentially just talking to each other was like this long table with like desks and Cretton and Kelvin. You had Michelle Yeoh and Qi and, and all of these wonderful, wonderful people and me and better at least a small team of people that, you know, bring everyone. And I felt bad, but like we really did just like have a really good connection from the start. I think we bonded over a lot of things that our childhood and shared childhood challenges. But yeah, bring us together. Bonded over it. It's fine. Thank you guys so much. I'm dying for the series to be really a huge hit. So thank you. Thank you. Thank you. All right, Bruce, thanks for that interview. Sounds interesting. What's the target audience on this? Have you seen. Yeah, really? They're trying to hit the high school audience and they want to they want to age up a bit so that all Disney shows aren't seen as, oh, they're for kids. They're not Adults can watch it. It's it has a very Mandalorian kind of vibe to it, if you will, where you can put the whole family in it and they're still going to find something and they're looking to a second season. So it isn't like one and done. I think what it does, though, is it opens us up to a bunch of Asian stories that we've never heard before. And I think by doing that, we're going to see much richer stories. There's going to be more storytelling that isn't repetitive. And I think there, you know, even now, when you look at some of the summer movies, there are influences that we're seeing that are already starting to appear. Yeah. So there's also that connection too, with everything everywhere now, Michelle Yeoh is in this and she was obviously in everything everywhere you played. Kwan Yeah, you get it. And then the director of the Shang, she is also involved in this and you'll see a lot of those kind of it's a small community, a lot of those connections, six degrees of separation that come into play in this in this series. And that's kind of fun to see that they got together and they said, you know what? We should be working on these things together and I think what we'll see is they'll it'll be their own little kind of Marvel Universe where they will create more content that will see their world spread out in other ways. And everything everywhere kind of did the same thing. This this series does is it combines two worlds, an otherworldly kind of thing. And then the kind of mundane world of a laundromat owner. And you see how those two can swirl around. Just like this boy in high school and his new friend who has this great extensive relative chain, if you will. I think that's I think we're going to see more of that. I think that's this is the sign of things to come. And why not? You know, if you look back, name Asian age, Asian movies that you really warm to. Are you remember Asian series Fresh Off the Boat was like the last thing I can remember that had any kind of theming like this. Let's see these stories because they're interesting stories. They're fascinating stories. And I think it's it's a brand new world for everybody. So looking a little bit further now out into the summer, there's another story which also has a little bit of a connection to everything everywhere. Stephanie Hsu, who we saw on Oscar, right? She is an Oscar nominee for that movie. She's going to be in a movie this summer. That was directorial debut by Adele Lim, who co-wrote Crazy Rich Asians. Joy RIde Yeah, And Joy Ride is like a lot of those girls Trip hang over any of those ones. They were kind of a group of people getting together and getting in trouble. And now we're seeing it in theaters with older actresses. Look at the book club, the next Chapter 84. Brady All these are kind of really takes on Golden Girls. You look at the Golden Girls, you see they put four people together there. Each one represents a different kind of aspect of a community. And then how do they cope when they get into trouble? And that's joy, right? Right there. Yeah. And it's also, I guess, an opportunity to to kind of break out because it's one of those buddy movies to an extent, but it gets away from the traditional body of just, you know, three or four dudes kind of hanging out together. It's it's yeah, it's an extension of yet more opportunity to find somebody you like. You know there's a character you can relate to and you always think, which one would I be? I would be the whatever what. So yeah, I think it's going to be big. I think this will be a big film. And I do think that the momentum that we've been seeing with shows like Everything Everywhere and also with now American born Chinese, and I'm not I'm not trying to shine you on with this, but I do think it's going to be huge this summer. I think it's going to be one of those TV shows that you're going to say, I must watch it. I must see this, because it's fascinating, fascinating to watch. It does look pretty good. I know when you forwarded me the the audio, there was some press materials included. I may have you might have copy. I might have snooped a little bit, looked at a clip here or there. It looks really good. I'm kind of excited for this. And I, I think as a family, somebody who's looking for family entertainment because it's really getting hard sometimes to find. And my kids are at that age where they're too old for the little kids stuff. But some of the other shows that are out there are just a little too mature for them still. And it looks like that type of show where as a tween even, they'll be able to kind of get into it. So I'm kind of looking forward to it. With the writers strike going on, I think you need to embrace these things that are written because we are going to have a long stretch of reality shows, game shows, sporting events that will make you glad that you saw something that was scripted. They've already announced the fall schedules for the networks and they're just packed with game shows. And I don't know, even if it's Jeopardy, I don't know how often I can watch it. I can't take any more of that. I just I have to hope and pray that my New York Mets are going very deep into the playoffs because there you go. Yeah. Yeah. That's what looks like we're going to be basing. But can I tell you another one that I have been watching and it's coming out this next week. It's called Secrets of Hillsong and I don't know about the Hillsong Church, but the Hillsong Church was the one that Justin Bieber started attending. It's kind of a hip megachurch and the the preacher, there was somebody that, you know, I mean, come on, you think he's hip, he's cool. This guy, Carl Lentz, is his name. He is just the man. And you can see why celebrities were attracted to him. A lot of basketball players were members of the church. And then he had a fall and he was apparently seeing more of the babysitter then or the nanny then the kids were. And so then he resigned and is no longer at the church. But he participated in this documentary that talks about Hillsong. And Hillsong is a huge force in the Christian music business because they do a lot of Christian albums. They've won Grammys. I mean, it's they're they're the big deal. But it started in Australia and it goes back and it kind of shows us how this church got going. What spurred the church and what keeps it going. Now they don't talk to the guy who founded the church and it says at the end of every episode we tried to reach him. He would not return our calls. He is not. So this is not a complete documentary where you go, Oh my God, this is what really is going on because it's still successful. Hillsong is still going. There are still many ministers who are, you know, doing their thing and bringing in that hipper, younger audience. But that's something that you hear at churches all the time. How do we get the young people? How do we get the young people? Well, here they show you in this documentary how they got the young people to come to their church and what that meant. And then those young people talk about what the church either did or didn't do for them. But it's a fascinating documentary. And yes, Carl Lentz does talk in this and he talks about his experience and the things that he did wrong. That's on Epix and also Hulu. And you'll see that coming out this next week. All right. So that's another one. Check out last week's episode that we did. We looked at six movies to watch the summer episodes done very well so far, but we only touched on six movies. So next week, seven, we're going to kind of yeah, we're going to do the top 100 movies that you may now want to watch. Yeah, no, we're we're going to look at there's kind of like, I guess to some degree it's the best of the rest movies that are coming out this summer, but also an opportunity for us to maybe pick out some that we think might just like crash and burn horribly. It should be fun. So come back next week and we will extend our summer blockbuster preview. And until then, thank you for listening to streamed and screened.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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The Lion King is at the Civic Center, and Nick Lamedica, who plays Zazu, joins Ken, Kurt & Tawinee!

Nick LaMedica takes a quick break from the pride lands and joins Scott for an enlightening chat about what life is like playing Zazu in "The Lion King." They also talk about Nick's career and his work as an actor and puppeteer for Broadway tours including "War Horse." At the end of the interview, Scott shares fun facts about 'The Lion King," which were provided by Disney Theatrical Productions. Nick received his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Acting from Marymount Manhattan College and did not let the grass grow under his feet. He's since performed in over 75 cities throughout the United States, in Canada, and his work has taken him to Tokyo. As an on-camera actor, he can be seen in commercials for HASBRO and Microsoft, on Discovery ID, and Chicago Fire. For 2 years, he performed with the First National Broadway Tour of "War Horse," where he was hand-trained by the founders of Handspring Puppet Company of South Africa. He's also worked as an actor and puppeteer in New York City and various regional theaters throughout the United States including Denver Center, Syracuse Stage, and the American Globe Theatre. This past October, he made his Disney stage debut in the national tour of "The Lion King" where he's playing the role of Zazu. Email: TheMouseAndMePodcast@gmail.com Support: www.patreon.com/themouseandme FB & Instagram: The Mouse and Me TikTok: @TheMouseAndMePodcast Twitter: @MouseMePodcast Music by Kevin MacLeod from https://incompetech.filmmusic.io --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/themouseandme/support

Previously on Dracul: Catherine saved Dracul from boiling to death underneath the sun. Thinking he was dead, Dracul felt relieved, but upon realizing he was alive, and in Catherine's company, he grew melancholic. Knowing that Catherine wished she hadn't seen his ultimate state, he tried to enchant her in hopes that she would forget, but she wouldn't allow it. Dracul admitted to her that he would protect her at all costs, calming her down which led to Catherine becoming very sleepy as she rested against Dracul before throwing him out of her room in an embarrassed state of mind. After clearing her head, Catherine decided to go check up on Dracul. Hello there, my dear Draculants! We are nearing a whole new year already and yet it seems like I just uploaded my first episode a few days ago. I apologize for the lack of episodes lately: not only was I under a dry spell of writer's block, but I was also preoccupied with school. However, I hope that as I am nearing the end of my undergrad, I will have more time to entertain you all, my dear listeners, with more episodes! The minute my schedule was cleared up, I got straight into writing, recording, editing, and revising this episode and future episodes! Thank you all for being with me for this long, for being with Catherine as she battles with Dracul and Sartrum, and she befriends Funani and Zazu. As a gift for you all, the following episode will be much longer AND very juicy!! I'm talking like GASP type of juicy, so keep you're eyes peeled like a lemon as you delve further into the World of Dracul! I shall see you in the next episode, stay safe and healthy! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/priscilla-ibarra/support

GVOZD vibez: 01. Wilkinson - If You Want It (Extended Mix) 02. Grafix feat. Reiki Ruawei - Somewhere (Extended Edit) 03. Dossa & Locuzzed, Nct, T & Sugah, Vovking, Mountain, Blooom, Kasger, Phonetic, Rex Hooligan, Jake Robertz, Quoone, Subsequent, Zazu & Anna Simone - You Make Me Feel 04. Andromedik & Imallryt - Running 05. Culture Shock - Rise 06. Pendulum - Nothing For Free (Kove Remix) 07. Aktive - Tell Me (Extended Mix) 08. Sili - Tronce 09. Vypes - Brand New 10. Junk Mail - Send It 11. Perplex - Move Like This 12. Muzz - Children Of Hell 13. Reflekt, Delline Bass - Need To Feel Loved (Matrix Remix) 14. The Prototypes - Passion (Tantrum Desire Remix) 15. S9 - Turn It Up 16. Kanine - Ultralight 17. Phonetic - Falling 18. Sachi-Take Me Back (Kanine Remix) 19. Manta feat. Frida Vamos - Out Of My Mind 20. Polygon & Bvd Kult - I Got You 21. Lateral - Take Me Away 22. Maztra - Enough 23. Killer Hertz - Orbit 24. Ozma - Lips 25. Disrupta - Like U 26. Rameses B - When You Dream 27. Luude & Mattafix - Big City Life 28. Tisoki & Fabian Mazur - Cant Have U 29. Jon Void, Voicians - Memories 30. Mage - Supposed To Be 31. Halogenix & Chimpo - Techy 32. Hybert Phillips - Ghost Rider 33. Minor Rain - Bouncing Doll 34. Gydra - Yoke 35. Volatile Cycle & Shadow Sect - Desire 36. Current Value - Insistence 37. Black Caviar, Euri - Hispanoamericano (Blossom Remix) 38. Mat Zo feat. Olan - Reflections 39. Mefjus, Camo & Krooked - Sientelo 40. Grinder & Mntl - Invocation 41. Bare Up - Turn Up The Dimensions 42. Transforma-Plagues (Kodin Remix) 43. Teddy Killerz - Critical Damage 44. State Of Mind & Smooth - Runaway Train 45. Tntklz - Let It Burn 46. Sovryn - Valhalla 47. Kaizah And Sebotage - Seppuku 48. Brain - Got It 49. Mandidextrous And Bish - Techno On My Mind 50. Mage - Lifetime [Tokkobana Remix] 51. Upgrade - Visuals 52. Nami Ongaku & Hijak Mc - Creepin 53. Sitri - Picatrix 54. Saint Robbers - Notaric 55. Nuvertal - Take Em 56. L33 - Hero 57. Zombie Cats - Champion 58. Redpill - Dreams & Circuits (Jahe Remix) 59. Onex - Under Attack 60. Nerve - Control Shot 61. Phace - Lewk 62. Neonlight - Self-Exposer 63. Mr Be - Cancel (Vip)

01. Wilkinson - If You Want It (Extended Mix) 02. Grafix feat. Reiki Ruawei - Somewhere (Extended Edit) 03. Dossa & Locuzzed, Nct, T & Sugah, Vovking, Mountain, Blooom, Kasger, Phonetic, Rex Hooligan, Jake Robertz, Quoone, Subsequent, Zazu & Anna Simone - You Make Me Feel 04. Andromedik & Imallryt - Running 05. Culture Shock - Rise 06. Pendulum - Nothing For Free (Kove Remix) 07. Aktive - Tell Me (Extended Mix) 08. Sili - Tronce 09. Vypes - Brand New 10. Junk Mail - Send It 11. Perplex - Move Like This 12. Muzz - Children Of Hell 13. Reflekt, Delline Bass - Need To Feel Loved (Matrix Remix) 14. The Prototypes - Passion (Tantrum Desire Remix) 15. S9 - Turn It Up 16. Kanine - Ultralight 17. Phonetic - Falling 18. Sachi-Take Me Back (Kanine Remix) 19. Manta feat. Frida Vamos - Out Of My Mind 20. Polygon & Bvd Kult - I Got You 21. Lateral - Take Me Away 22. Maztra - Enough 23. Killer Hertz - Orbit 24. Ozma - Lips 25. Disrupta - Like U 26. Rameses B - When You Dream 27. Luude & Mattafix - Big City Life 28. Tisoki & Fabian Mazur - Cant Have U 29. Jon Void, Voicians - Memories 30. Mage - Supposed To Be 31. Halogenix & Chimpo - Techy 32. Hybert Phillips - Ghost Rider 33. Minor Rain - Bouncing Doll 34. Gydra - Yoke 35. Volatile Cycle & Shadow Sect - Desire 36. Current Value - Insistence 37. Black Caviar, Euri - Hispanoamericano (Blossom Remix) 38. Mat Zo feat. Olan - Reflections 39. Mefjus, Camo & Krooked - Sientelo 40. Grinder & Mntl - Invocation 41. Bare Up - Turn Up The Dimensions 42. Transforma-Plagues (Kodin Remix) 43. Teddy Killerz - Critical Damage 44. State Of Mind & Smooth - Runaway Train 45. Tntklz - Let It Burn 46. Sovryn - Valhalla 47. Kaizah And Sebotage - Seppuku 48. Brain - Got It 49. Mandidextrous And Bish - Techno On My Mind 50. Mage - Lifetime [Tokkobana Remix] 51. Upgrade - Visuals 52. Nami Ongaku & Hijak Mc - Creepin 53. Sitri - Picatrix 54. Saint Robbers - Notaric 55. Nuvertal - Take Em 56. L33 - Hero 57. Zombie Cats - Champion 58. Redpill - Dreams & Circuits (Jahe Remix) 59. Onex - Under Attack 60. Nerve - Control Shot 61. Phace - Lewk 62. Neonlight - Self-Exposer 63. Mr Be - Cancel (Vip)

01. Wilkinson - If You Want It (Extended Mix) 02. Grafix feat. Reiki Ruawei - Somewhere (Extended Edit) 03. Dossa & Locuzzed, Nct, T & Sugah, Vovking, Mountain, Blooom, Kasger, Phonetic, Rex Hooligan, Jake Robertz, Quoone, Subsequent, Zazu & Anna Simone - You Make Me Feel 04. Andromedik & Imallryt - Running 05. Culture Shock - Rise 06. Pendulum - Nothing For Free (Kove Remix) 07. Aktive - Tell Me (Extended Mix) 08. Sili - Tronce 09. Vypes - Brand New 10. Junk Mail - Send It 11. Perplex - Move Like This 12. Muzz - Children Of Hell 13. Reflekt, Delline Bass - Need To Feel Loved (Matrix Remix) 14. The Prototypes - Passion (Tantrum Desire Remix) 15. S9 - Turn It Up 16. Kanine - Ultralight 17. Phonetic - Falling 18. Sachi-Take Me Back (Kanine Remix) 19. Manta feat. Frida Vamos - Out Of My Mind 20. Polygon & Bvd Kult - I Got You 21. Lateral - Take Me Away 22. Maztra - Enough 23. Killer Hertz - Orbit 24. Ozma - Lips 25. Disrupta - Like U 26. Rameses B - When You Dream 27. Luude & Mattafix - Big City Life 28. Tisoki & Fabian Mazur - Cant Have U 29. Jon Void, Voicians - Memories 30. Mage - Supposed To Be 31. Halogenix & Chimpo - Techy 32. Hybert Phillips - Ghost Rider 33. Minor Rain - Bouncing Doll 34. Gydra - Yoke 35. Volatile Cycle & Shadow Sect - Desire 36. Current Value - Insistence 37. Black Caviar, Euri - Hispanoamericano (Blossom Remix) 38. Mat Zo feat. Olan - Reflections 39. Mefjus, Camo & Krooked - Sientelo 40. Grinder & Mntl - Invocation 41. Bare Up - Turn Up The Dimensions 42. Transforma-Plagues (Kodin Remix) 43. Teddy Killerz - Critical Damage 44. State Of Mind & Smooth - Runaway Train 45. Tntklz - Let It Burn 46. Sovryn - Valhalla 47. Kaizah And Sebotage - Seppuku 48. Brain - Got It 49. Mandidextrous And Bish - Techno On My Mind 50. Mage - Lifetime [Tokkobana Remix] 51. Upgrade - Visuals 52. Nami Ongaku & Hijak Mc - Creepin 53. Sitri - Picatrix 54. Saint Robbers - Notaric 55. Nuvertal - Take Em 56. L33 - Hero 57. Zombie Cats - Champion 58. Redpill - Dreams & Circuits (Jahe Remix) 59. Onex - Under Attack 60. Nerve - Control Shot 61. Phace - Lewk 62. Neonlight - Self-Exposer 63. Mr Be - Cancel (Vip)

Previously on Dracul: Catherine had received another letter from Wooman Lousty and Laidee Alwoof, telling her where to meet them tomorrow in preparation for the ball. Though delighted, Catherine became heavy-hearted when reminiscing on times when she would go with Dracul. Later on in the day, a disheveled Sartrum had made his way over the Mansion Castle place of residence and tried to force himself on Catherine, casting his magic over Catherine's bedroom door so that Zazu could not come to her aid. Dracul came from underground and scared away Sartrum with a truly unholy sight, collapsing on the ground after Sartrum left as the sun began to kill him. TW: This episode contains references of violent content that may be disturbing to some listeners. I acknowledge that this content may be difficult and encourage you to do what is best for you. Hello there, my friends! This is the very first episode where we follow Sartrum's perspective to see why he showed up so disheveled and desperate to get Catherine back. I experimented a bit in this episode to make it seem more "horrific" than others due to the estranged nature of Sartrum's past, which he is reliving. Sounds like a lot of trauma is going on (hint: because there is!) I hope that everyone is staying as safe and healthy as they can in these trying times. We must remember that we are stronger together and weaker divided. I hope you thoroughly enjoy this episode, as there are more to come! If you like following Sartrum's perspective and would like to hear more episodes similar to this in the future, be sure to follow the official Dracul Instagram page @dracul.podcast ! See you in the next episode. :) --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/priscilla-ibarra/support

Previously on Dracul: Catherine had painted a very unsettling image that chilled even Zazu to the core whilst Dracul found it comforting. Funani thanked Catherine for her hospitality and was able to walk around and feel better due to his love's medicines that he carried with himself, then took it upon himself to leave the “enemy's” domain. Catherine's mind was filled with Funani, causing jealousy to rise within Dracul as he confessed his “feelings” once more for Catherine. He told her of how Veronica would have been jealous of her for she, Catherine, was his true partner and only one for him. The two then ended the night in a fit of passion and longing for one another. Good morning / afternoon / evening to you! I've been taking a long time to review the scripts of future episodes for this podcast in order to really think about what I want my next step to be. I want to make Dracul as entertaining to you as it is to me, which is why I've been lacking in putting out new episodes lately. I promise I have not forgotten about any of you! I can see that this podcast is growing both in my country and in others, such as Germany, and I am so grateful for each and every one of you! I hope you are all staying safe in these historic times. Dracul is here for you when you need to take a break. :) See you in the next episode! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/priscilla-ibarra/support

The Lion King is part of The Altria Theater's Broadway In Richmond show series this year and Jeff got the chance to speak with Jürgen Hooper who plays the role of Zazu in the production!

Hailed by critics as the most accomplished and renowned mime of his generation, Bill Bowers currently performs and teaches the art of physical storytelling throughout the world. His methods and exploration of universal truths transcend the spoken word to educate and touch audiences in countries as varied as Poland, The Netherlands, Scotland, Japan, Macedonia, Romania, Italy, Germany, Norway, Germany and Austria. An award-winning actor, Bowers has also performed in all 50 United States and Puerto Rico appearing on the stages of Broadway, The Kennedy Center, The White House, Steppenwolf, LaMaMa, Theatre for a New Audience, St. Anne's Warehouse, Urban Stages, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, Ensemble Studio Theater, Radio City Music Hall, HERE, and the New York International Fringe Festival. His Broadway credits include Zazu in The Lion King and Leggett in The Scarlet Pimpernel. He has also portrayed the great silent clowns: Charlie Chaplin in the world premiere of Little Tramp, Pierrot in the world premiere of Beethoven N Pierrot, and Petruchka with The Colorado Symphony. A passionate student and educator, Bowers studied with the legendary Marcel Marceau and currently serves on the faculties of New York University, Stella Adler Conservatory, and William Esper Studios. He is also presently a Visiting Professor at Williams College. He holds an MFA from Rutgers University's Mason Gross School of the Arts, and an Honorary PhD from Rocky Mountain College. www.bill-bowers.com 

This is a very special episode. Not only is it the last episode of 2021, but it is also the 50th episode of the Wire 2 Wire Podcast! To celebrate this milestone, Yusuf is joined by Jordan and Zazu as they discuss their thoughts on the past year, as well as share their outlook and goals for 2022. We'd like to extend a special thank you to our listeners for the continued support! 50 episodes down, and many more to come! We'd also like to sincerely wish you all a Happy New Year! Be sure to listen, share and subscribe! *********************************** Yusuf's Books - www.vaultpublications.com/books Instagram: @Yusuf_AOfficial https://anchor.fm/vault-media-publications/support *********************************** Instagram: @Jay_Lynch11 Instagram: @Alwaysonepodcast *********************************** Instagram: @ZazuOke --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/vault-media-publications/support

First up, we address how funny old people can be (sorry, mom and dad!). After that, Loren admits to a problem she's having with her nightly dreams, and then we do Shout Outs. Afterwards, we discuss the childhood holiday traditions we are continuing today and round it out with Weirdness of the Week (which involves B Mo's adorable doggy, Zazu). PODCAST EPISODE SUMMARY-Old people are funny-Loren's dreams are bonkers-Shout Outs-Childhood holiday traditions-Weirdness of the Week Your hosts: The Millennial Prince (B Mo the Prince of TikTok fame) and The Badass Chick (radio's Loren Raye) chat about life, liberty and the pursuit of the 90s. Follow us on social! @bmotheprince + @lorenraye This episode is sponsored by Coast, the next-level wellness shot built for modern life, created by a cancer researcher. Visit www.coastdrink.com and use code “nonsense” to get 20% off. RECOMMENDED RESOURCESwww.bmotheprince.com@bmotheprince www.lorenraye.com@lorenraye www.coastdrink.com@coast_health

Welcome back to another episode of the Wire 2 Wire Podcast! In this episode, Yusuf is joined by his regular guests Jordan and Zazu. In the first segment, Yusuf and Jordan discuss NBA Free Agency, the Lox versus Dipset, Kanye's rollout for Donda and The Weeknd's latest single. During the second segment, Yusuf and Zazu discuss Kyle Lowry leaving the Raptors, the Lakers offseason moves, and Zazu then shares his passion for acting and Tamil Cinema. They also discuss the importance of consistency and patience. Thank you for listening! Be sure to listen, share and subscribe! *********************************** Yusuf's Books - www.vaultpublications.com/books Instagram: @Yusuf_AOfficial https://anchor.fm/vault-media-publications/support *********************************** Instagram: @Jay_Lynch11 Instagram: @Alwaysonepodcast *********************************** Instagram: @ZazuOke --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/vault-media-publications/support

On this episode, Alex & Anna interview Boston-based artist Anjimile! We discuss dancing through moments of beauty and pain, and attempt to define both religion and Zazu from the Lion King all in one sitting. On top of it all, Anjimile talks to us about his intention of being the example he never saw growing up: “a queer black guitar-toting singer who's chillin in the indie sphere” while making people feel seen and accepted. You can find him everywhere @anjimile

In this episode of Parallel Fiction, Heather and Jeff breathe life into Childhood Favorites from their own youth.  The stories covered today were very impactful on the duo, and stay with them to this day in their own special way.  Listen as Jeff and Heather discuss how two seemingly different pieces of work fit together through the scope of a pair of maturing adults, and how holding on to some things from their childhoods help them grow into the people they are today. Jeff starts off the outline portion of the show by presenting the Squaresoft (now Square Enix) mega hit Final Fantasy VII, which was released in the US in 1997.  Jeff compresses a 40+ hour experience into an easily digestible summary, taking us through protagonist Cloud's struggle to find his place in a work being slowly destroyed by big corporations and genetic anomalies.  Jeff explains how he used to stay up late at night and play through this game, often losing track of time at the sheer mass of this world.  A completely immersive experience, Final Fantasy VII was a powerhouse of a video game in the 90's and one that Jeff will always remember fondly, especially for a genre defining masterpiece scene. Did you know?  FFVII was originally developed for the N64, but file storage restrictions made the game impossible to squeeze onto 1 cartridge, hence why the 3 CD game was released for Playstation 1. Heather picks up part two of the presentation portion with her movie pick of the week, Disney's 1994 masterpiece The Lion King.  Heather explains that even from an early age, she was obsessed with this film in a way that most people can relate to.  Heather's enthusiasm for this movie shines through her outline, with storybook retellings of key scenes (complete with some fine acting skills).  Heather tries to explain just how much The Lion King means to her, but it is so massively influential that it's hard to even put into words.  She really does speak of this film with the wonder of a child. Freaky Fact! Some reddit users have theorized that the skull that Scar is playing with while Zazu is singing to him towards the end of the film is actually Mufasa's skull!  Gross. Following these reviews, Heather and Jeff dive into commonalities between the two works such as then vs now, obsession, comfort, sound/visuals, and lasting impact. Listen in to hear Jeff and Heather's candid thoughts on the masterpiece scenes of each story, how The Lion King and Final Fantasy VII compare, and how Jeff and Heather relate the two. Share this episode with anyone who loves 90's nostalgia and childhood memories as much as we do! Heather's rating for The Lion King: Super Amazing Nice – A new rating above all else.  The Lion King is a sewn into the fabric of society and a can't miss animated movie for all ages, that will likely live on forever. Jeff's rating for Final Fantasy Vii: Very Nice – While the visuals don't hold up today, there is still a special charm about this game.  The music is 10/10 and the story was so impactful that it is the measuring stick of the franchise, and has built a community that will live as long as video games do. Watch The Lion King here: www.disneyplus.com Play Final Fantasy VII here for Apple: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/final-fantasy-vii/id1021566244And here for Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.square_enix.android_googleplay.FFVII&hl=en_US&gl=US About Parallel Fiction:Parallel Fiction is the perfect supplemental companion to all of the stories you consume. We will be covering movies, television, books, graphic novels, video games, and music whenever it applies. Learn more about things you love, and get to know us a little bit better as we give you a peak into our lives and opinions. Connect with us:Email Jeff & Heather: Parallelfictionpod@gmail.comFollow us on Instagram: www.instagram.com/ParallelfictionFollow us on Twitter: www.twitter.com/ParallelfictionConnect with us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/Parallelfictionpod

Welcome to our final episode of 2020! In this wrap-up special, Yusuf is joined by Jordan and Zazu, and they discuss some of the highs and (many) lows of 2020, the life lessons they learned this year, and their mindset as they approach 2021. They also discuss adapting to the many changes taking place and get introspective. If you're looking for something deep and reflective, but with a lot of humour, then this episode is a must listen! Thank you for tuning in! Be sure to listen, share and subscribe. Instagram & Twitter: @Yusuf_AOfficial Instagram & Twitter: @ZazuOke Instagram: @Jay_Lynch11 www.vaultpublications.com/books --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/vault-media-publications/support

Welcome back to another episode of the Wire 2 Wire Podcast! Yusuf is joined by his regular guest, actor and entertainer Zazu! They discuss the Clippers getting eliminated from the playoffs, and Yusuf finally reveals the reason for his long-standing feud with Kawhi Leonard. They also give their predictions on the remaining playoff series. Thank you for listening. Be sure to share and subscribe! www.vaultpublications.com Instagram/Twitter: @Yusuf_AOfficial Instagram/Twitter: @ZazuOke --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/vault-media-publications/support

Welcome back to the Wire 2 Wire Podcast! In this episode Yusuf & Zazu discuss the shooting of Jacob Blake. They also give their opinions on NBA players potentially boycotting the rest of the playoffs. Thank you for listening! Be sure to share and subscribe! Follow us on social media! Instagram & Twitter: @Yusuf_AOfficial Instagram & Twitter: @ZazuOke www.vaultpublications.com --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/vault-media-publications/support