The Outhouse Lounge

The Prisoner is considered by many one of the most insightful and profound television series in entertainment history. Led by the writing, direction and acting of Patrick McGoohan, #ThePrisoner deeply and allegorically explored several themes including #individuality, government control, #surveillance, manipulation, rebellion, conformity, sense of self and personal resilience. The shows were intri...

Remembering a 2016 song from Book of Love titled "All Girl Band," We at the Outhouse Lounge invited some of the great female rockers who influenced rock, punk and new wave artists of the future while they performed at a time those genres were men's clubs. Host Chris Cordani talks with a panel of ultra-cool and influential women from the music industry in the Lounge: Nancy Quatro Glass: Lead Singer...

We kick off Season 2 of The Outhouse Lounge with the first in a series of Relaxing Roundtable Discussions: In light of the relatively recent allegations from a Pentagon whistleblower revealing a secret long-time-spanning reverse engineering program of recovered #alien vessels as well as the collection of biological material, we at the Lounge invited a panel to hash out what governments are hiding...

Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays and Joyous Everything to all of you. Welcome to the Outhouse Lounge #Christmas special. Joining me in the Lounge to talk about cool #holiday #music with: Dawn Parry: Creator of the Legacy Chart; Presenter at 3-6-5 Radio LTC Tony Shaffer: Host, The Hard Truth, President of Project Sentinel, Retired Special Ops, Newsmax Contributor Nancy Quatro Glass: Former Lead Sing...

Jennie Matthias (The Belle Stars) and Mat Sargent (Chelsea, Sham 69) teamed up to form Sargent Bellestar. Jennie and Mat join Chris Cordani in the Outhouse Lounge to talk about their first album: Nothing Stays the Same, for which they have released two videos so far ("Help Me" and "Non-Believer). While Jennie and Mat have worked together over several years, the lockdowns spawned the idea to put to...

Actress Mariann Aalda joins Chris Cordani in the Outhouse Lounge Mariann, who has appeared in several movies and programs, is perhaps best known for playing Elizabeth, Red Foxx's Daughter on The Royal Family and DiDi Bannister-Stoner on The Edge of Night. We talk about her career and re-invention, "Didi's" place in TV history, a cool Redd Foxx story, ageism in Hollywood, how she helps others becom...

Sarah Jane Morris joins the Outhouse Lounge to talk about her new album, Sisterhood, which features 10 biographical songs about female performers who influenced her own career. Sarah and host Chris Cordani talk about the album and some of these artists: Kate Bush Bessie Smith Janis Joplin Miriam Makeba Billie Holliday and more We also talk about Sarah's eclectic career from being discovered by Dav...

Peter "Sneaky Pete" Flierl of the internationally-acclaimed Rock-n-Soul band Plan B Australia joins host Chris Cordani in The Outhouse Lounge. ] Plan B, named after the classic Dexy's Midnight Runners song, has a new album which quite defines the band's nature: "HELLO, DEAR STRANGER" Peter talks about the album, the band's origin and its travels around the world -- even into far-reaching areas of...

Nancy Quatro Glass joins host Chris Cordani on the Outhouse Lounge. Nancy, from the extremely talented Quatro music family, was the lead singer for Cradle, the sisters' newer incarnation of The Pleasure Seekers, with which Nancy played and sang a bit before the switch. We discuss Nancy's time with the band, the people she shared the stage with -- and the iconic rockers who jammed in their Detroit...

Josie Cotton joins Chris in the Outhouse Lounge as we talk about her new album, Day of the Gun right after shooting the video for the title track. We also dive into the record company she started, Kitten Robot Records and its stellar talent. Josie and host Chris Cordani also get into the singer/songwriter/producer/entrepreneur's musical stylings, lyrical inspirations, what the music industry needs...

Summer is coming and it's time to break out the hot summer jams, so I invited some friends to talk about them: Taco - Singer and Entertainer extraordinaire who released the track "Hot Summer Jams" in 2022. James Arena - Writer of several books on dance music - including HOT SUMMER JAMS (He also contributed to Taco's song) LTC Tony Shaffer - Host of The Hard Truth, News Commentator, President of Pr...

At times, many of us enjoy partaking in classic television from the earliest days to the turn of the century. It is, however, quite obvious many of the classic programs - had their premises been pitched today - would either never have been greenlit of would have been severely watered down to meet today's rather bland and easily-offended tastes. Television programming is an in-your-face example of...

Digeridoo Player and Creator Pitz Quattrone joins Chris Cordani in The Outhouse Lounge Pitz has been an entertainer, musician, sportscaster and an all-around renaissance man throughout his career. One day, during a very rough period in his life, he discovered his fascination for the ancient Aboriginal instrument, the digeridoo. From then on, he learned to play, learned to make them and took his ne...

Larry Hankin, has over 150 movies and television shows to his credit. Perhaps you know him as "Mr. Heckles" from Friends, "Charley Butts" from Escape From Alcatraz, "Kokolovitch" from Armed and Dangerous, "Kramer" from the Seinfeld pilot-within-a-show "Jerry" or any of his other many roles. Larry Hankin talks about his life and career in his new book, That Guy: A Cautionary Tale." Larry stops into...

He was a professional wrestler, a preacher and a nighttime real-life superhero: Rev. Chris Whaley joins Chris Cordani in the Outhouse Lounge In the ring, Whaley was known as "The Masked Saint," also the title of his book and a movie based on his story -- trained by The Undertaker -- before receiving the calling to become a gentleman minister. The crime in his church's town was pretty high and the...

While there were a few journalists who were able to speak with Bernie Madoff while the financial shyster was in prison, one man - radio host Jim Campbell - was privy to more personal information including the convicted financial felon's private journals while going in-depth with Madoff during several phone conversations. Jim Campbell - who wrote a book about Madoff, his personal writings and their...

On a special edition of The Outhouse Lounge, comic actor and voiceover legend Eddie Deezen talks with host Chris Cordani. While Deezen tells us stories from throughout his career, Eddie also let's us know how he is doing after a couple of years off the proverbial grid. Eddie also talks about: Who was the best comic talent Eddie ever worked with? How he developed some of his most interesting charac...

Marilyn Monroe's death was ruled a suicide, but many close to her say she was murdered. She knew quite a lot about very powerful people and was said to have been ready to blow the whistle on many of them shortly before her untimely death. Joining this in The Outhouse Lounge this week is biographer and NY Times Best Selling Author Jay Margolis, whose new book, "My Maril," with a very close friend o...

It has often been called the "Cousin Oliver Syndrome" -- television shows about families where producers and writers felt the overwhelming need to add another little kid to the family after the original youngest became, well, too old. While I kind of liked Cousin Oliver, he wasn't the first: remember the neighbor kid on the Partridge Family? Dodie on My Three Sons (and, technically, Ernie)? Soon,...

Jennie Matthias joins Chris on this edition of The Outhouse Lounge. The former Belle Stars frontwoman discusses her newest solo music, how many songs about important topics can remain relevant for decades - as does/will her hit "Peeping Tom," how Jennie was inspired her to give back to others through charity efforts she created and her very important work as the first-ever Ambassador for the PRS M...

David D'Orazi joins Chris on the next Outhouse Lounge, as he talks about his new book, Is Everybody Happy?, centering around her sister, actress Kathy O'Date (Mary Lou Milligan on the first Happy Days Ep) and her struggles with mental illness throughout her life and career -- one which was highlighted by being on the cover of TV Guide at age 16. David, Kathy's brother, tells her story, discussing:...

Joining Chris in the Outhouse Lounge is Dawn Parry, Radio Host and Founder of the Legacy Chart, where you will find the top new music from artists of the 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s. Dawn and Chris talk about the great music of the 70s and 80s, yet while the artists of the era are releasing excellent music, they do not get much - if any - airplay as the homogenized radio industry does not fall from safe...

On this episode of The Outhouse Lounge, Chris talks action movies with two men who have served our country: Project Sentinel President/ #Whistleblower /Author of Operation Dark Heart LTC (Ret) Tony Shaffer and Project Sentinel Chairman #Navy Capt (Ret) Pete O'Brien. We discuss: Why are action #movies so popular in America? The most intriguing action heroes? What makes a great #actionmovie ? In wha...

Our first episode is slated for February 7th - premiering at 12pm eastern time. For the kickoff show we are honored to have Cherie Currie as our guest. Our conversation will not only span Cherie's many talents, but we will discuss how up-and-coming talented musicians are being ripped off by unscrupulous types in the entertainment business and how the star rocker is helping them navigate the indust...