Snap Sessions! Podcast

SnapSessions! presents Episode 39, featuring a holiday interview with our artist of the show—Red Barn Productions event producer and one of the originators of the Great Dickens Christmas Faire, Kevin Patterson. In addition to our interview, SnapSessions! also presents the commentary “The Story of Human Population in My Lifetime—a Rollercoaster Ride for our Species!” Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/...

SnapSessions! presents Episode 38, featuring an interview with our artist of the show-- electronics whiz, musician, linguist and fix it man extraordinaire—Francis Rutherford.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

SnapSessions! presents Episode 37, featuring an interview with our artist of the show--chef, culinary director author, and entrepreneur, Margaret Fox, as well as an article called “The Worst Day in America” comparing a negative day in this country with other possible days in other countries on our planet. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

SnapSessions! presents Episode 36, a special tribute to legendary Mendocino artist and musician John Chamberlin, who would have turned 80 in September 2021. John Chamberlin was a unique character, from his arrival in Mendocino in the late 1960s until his passing in 2013. His posters, signs, and musical contributions to numerous bands were a huge influence on North Coast culture. Hosted on Acast. S...

SnapSessions! presents Episode 35, featuring an interview with our artist/activist of the show, Vice Media Group investigative journalist Gabriel Geiger, as well as another SnapSessions! look at American voter suppression, this time in comparison to other democracies. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

SnapSessions! presents Episode 34, featuring an interview with our artist of the show, folk singer/songwriter Emily Jane White, as well as a salute to the storied 1980s Canadian comedy troupe SCTV--”The Power of Silly, a Tribute to SCTV”. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

SnapSessions! presents Episode 33, featuring an interview with our artist of the show, actor/writer/director Dan O’Connor of Impro Theatre of LA, as well as an audio exposé--“The Strange History of Vaccination--from Medieval India to QAnon Misinformation”. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

SnapSessions! presents Episode 32, featuring an interview with our artist of the show, actor/singer/director Velina Brown of the San Francisco Mime Troupe, as well as a sardonic look at the history of the senate filibuster--”Filibusters, Budget Reconciliations and Gasbags”. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

SnapSessions! presents Episode 31, featuring an interview with our artist of the show, writer/actor/director Michael Gene Sullivan of the San Francisco Mime Troupe, as well as a satirical analysis of the Texas energy crisis featuring Tex Shitter, the Texan from Exxon, and an article “Jamie Raskin and the House Impeachment Managers Present Their Case”.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for mo...

SnapSessions! presents Episode 30, featuring an interview with actress/writer/improviser, Edi Patterson as well as Doug Nunn’s Road to Publication (the story of his journey to publish his book--Jolly Old Elf--the Art of Santa H. Claus), and a salute to the classic science fiction film--The Day the Earth Stood Still. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

SnapSessions! presents Episode 29, featuring an interview with artist/writer/teacher Caitlin Berrigan, a look at the fabulous life of scientist/explorer Alexander von Humboldt, and a tribute to 1930s cartoon starlet, Betty Boop! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

SnapSessions! presents Episode 28, featuring an interview with environmental scientist and member of the Nobel Prize winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Evan Mills, as well as a salute to Daniel Ellsberg of Pentagon Papers fame, just maybe the greatest Whistleblower of all time! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

SnapSessions! presents Episode 27, a special episode, where SnapSessions shares a recent discovery, a vanished piece of folk music history, a newly unearthed documentary featuring folk music historian, Cairn Krust and his late 1980s uncovering of a lost Irish traditional and very political band—The Irish Persons. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

SnapSessions! presents Episode 26—Election 2020, Voices of Mendocino, a special installment of our podcast, featuring interviews with ten politically engaged people in California’s Mendocino County. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Episode 25 is 85 minutes long and includes an intro, the “Tribute to Weird Al Yankovic” (starts at 1:15), the article “Recycling Recycled” (starts at 19:00), as well as our interview with landscape architect, Steve Jowers (starts at 30:36). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

SnapSessions! presents Episode 24, featuring an interview with British journalist and writer, Peter Chapman as well as “A Tribute to British character comic, Felix Dexter, and an article “Armchair Environmentalist” on the Climatic observations of SnapSessions! own Doug Nunn. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

SnapSessions! presents Episode 23, featuring an interview with artist Bill Stoneham, as well as articles “The Doomsday Machine” and “A Tribute to Satirist Stan Freberg”. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

SnapSessions! presents Episode 22, featuring an interview with caricaturist (Schnellzeichner)/Improviser/Filmmaker Daniel Stieglitz, as well as articles “An Ode to Python’s The Life of Brian” and “Voter Suppression in the USA”. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

SnapSessions! presents Episode 21, devoting a full chapter to the Mendocino Film Festival of 2019! This year’s 2020 festival has been cancelled due to the Corona Crisis so we bring out our tribute, a full length look at last year’s festival, to the filmmakers, the administrators, the workers, and the fans that have made 14 years of the Mendocino Film Festival one of the premier little film shows a...

SnapSessions! presents Episode 20, featuring an interview with organic farmers and land pioneers, Peter & Sheila Jowers, as well as articles “Corona and the Black Plague” and  “A Tribute to John Prine”. Corona and the Black Plague: 1:00 A Tribute to John Prine: 16:30 Peter and Shelia Jowers Interview: 27:47 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

SnapSessions presents a special Covid-19 episode, highlighting scary plague, disease, and related Zombie movies to watch during this period of “sheltering in place”. We know you, like the SnapSessions’ Bros., are looking for things to read, watch, and listen to. We hope to add our collection of scary movies to your list of things to watch on Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime, or wherever you go to be sp...

SnapSessions! presents Episode 19, featuring an interview with maestro drummer/music teacher Ralph Humphrey as well as articles “Sometimes a Protester” and “Tom Lehrer, Satirist Extraordinaire”.  Humphrey talks about his long and storied musical career, starting as a clarinetist in a Dixieland Band called “The Derbies”, when he was still in high school and then his transition to percussion with a...

SnapSessions! presents Episode 18, featuring an interview with the founders of Mendocino’s popular new vegetarian restaurant, The Fog Eater Café--Haley Samas Berry, Erica Schneider and Nathan Maxwell Cann, as well as a feature on mythical Baby Standup comic--”Schecky Infante”, and an article on “Drawdown” technologies to eliminate carbon and fossil fuels from our future. Hosted on Acast. See acast...

SnapSessions! presents Episode 17, a special installment devoted entirely to an interview and selected comedy riffs from British comic and political activist, Mark Thomas. Thomas has been active as a comedian, satirist, and muck-raking journalist since the mid-1980s in the UK and beyond. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

SnapSessions! presents Episode 16 featuring a holiday reboot of “Tchickclucksky’s The Nutclucker & Other Chicken Holiday Treats”, a 1995 production of Rothman’s HenHouse in association with Large Child Productions.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.