Yeah-Uh-Huh

It's Super Bowl week, and to celebrate we release the first of two football-themed episodes of Yeah Uh Huh.  In his career, Dean Simone has game planned against Burt Reyndolds's and Huggy Bear's sons and Giancarlo Stanton as a California high school football coach.  He has rocked venues as far away as Tokyo Japan with his band "The Smokin' Cobras",  and has thrown down in an old sch...

Jeff Demaree checks back in to talk about the James Webb Space Telescope, Thich Nhat Hanh, the super bowl bound superspreading Bengals, Meatloaf, Kids for Peace and more.  I kick it off with a gross Covid test that you can watch on our Spotify feed.  Fun was had by all.   YUH Theme by David T and Mojo 3 https://www.amazon.com/Insanity-Sobriety-Blues-David-Mojo3/dp/B091N8BJNB Kids fo...

In October of last year we went on vacation to Las Vegas and Los Angeles.  Our co-host Aaron really took care of us by picking us up in Vegas and driving us back to Thousand Oaks,  stopping at several points of interest and indulging us with hours of live Phish music.  Along the way we got to see Fremont Street,  Calico, Spahn Ranch and the aliens of Baker, CA and the largest t...

The Mercury Theatre Podcast brings back the days of yesteryeear with a large cast of talented voice actors recruited from around the web to deliver weekly anthlogy plays.  The mastermind behind this creative venture is John Badger, a latter day Orson Welles who writes most of the scripts and pre and post production tasks.  Lisa,  Aaron and I listened to quite a few from the antholog...

We spent last Saturday with Rett talking about Frank and Dweezil Zappa,  MTS Management, Weird Al and north Florida legends Lyndard Skynard and Tom Petty.  His upcoming album is "Around The Bend", quite literally,  and we took a pretty deep dive behind the whiskey-soaked concepts driving songs like "New Year's Day", "Sleep it Off" and "Dead and Buried".  The album drops this sp...

After a career as an executive in the successful "Everything's A Dollar" retail chain,  Gramps Jeffrey was inspired to take a turn at writing a children's book due to his experiences with his own 6 grandchildren.  Written during the quiet solitude of the pandemic,  "I Don't Want to Turn 3" is based in a true story.  Names have been changed to protect the precocious,  but i...

Fifty two years ago Michael Lindsay-Hogg produced the largely reviled documentary "Let It Be".  The film became known for it's apparent depiction of the sad,  acrimonious end of the greatest rock and roll band of all time,  The Beatles.  So much was made of that portrayal that it has helped to shape rock and roll folklore and perpetuate falsehoods about the band's break up that...

On Dec. 10, 2021 the Frank Capra holiday classic "It's A Wonderful Life" celebrated it's 75th anniversary.  Like so many, Lisa and I have seen the movie multiple times,  including a nostalgic visit to the theatre a couple years ago to see it how it was meant to be seen (on the big screen).  The movie has fans around the world.  Our guests this week were inspired by this 1946 Ji...

Terry Shepherd is the host of his own Podcast,  Authors on the Air.  His love of writing has culminated in a series of books surrounding a tough female detective,  Jessica Ramirez,  a character based on an admired friend and cretive advisor in life.  We found Terry to be a very easy going, fun guy.  Frequent flier Aaron joined us in this discussion about Terry's books...

Note:  This is our first video episode on Spotify!  Make sure to check that out. John Wayne S. III Londyn founded Town Pictures in 1993,  and has produced a number of documentaries,  television series and movies over the last 28 years.  His latest production is a slice of Houston, Texas life called "Ebony Hustle", starring the beautiful Michelle Lamb in the title role of E...

Katie Chonacas has carved out quite a career for herself in show business.  The author, actress,  musician and social media influencer has crossed professional paths with Al Pacino,  Robert Deniro, Charlie Day, Ice T and Gary Senise along the yellow brick road, checking off a number of names on my drinking buddy bucket list. You will find as you listen to the following session that...

"Otherside: Serenity" is a story that has been evolving in the mind of author HJ VandeRiet since she was 15 years old.  Alanis Laundale is a bright,  talented high schooler with a supportive circle of friends when tragedy strikes.  From the vantage of another level,  Alanis watches her family and friends cope with losing her.  Through the guidance of her guardians Archie a...

The answsers are Elton John, Adele, Ed Sheeran... Hannyta!  The question?  Which artists were in the top 5 South African Itunes pop downloads for the week of November 10, 2021?  Hannyta's publicists reached out to us with a pointer to her smash hit "Wildflower" a couple of weeks ago,  and when we heard it we just had to have her on Yeah Uh Huh.  Having just returned from o...

We close out our series on JFK with another take on the assassination.  Wtih Katanna Zachry and Sarah Peterson,  we examined many different conspiracy theories.  In episode 34,  our favorite armchair detective JT Townsend (writer of "Summer's Almost Gone" about the Bricca murders) presents the least popular theory of all... the Oswald as lone gunman concept.  For those tha...

Will Cooper returns to the show to help us with our Kennedy trilogy of podcasts.  Two of three of these shows are devoted to the devastating loss to our country on Nov. 22, 1963.  But we thought it very important to cover what the 35th president of our country actually achieved during his remarkable, televised administration. We talk about the culturally significant 1960 debate with Rich...

Conspiracy fatigue has settled over the assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy on November 22nd 1963.  Yet it remains difficult for some to get their head around the thought of a ne'er do well barely holding down a minimum wage job in a school book wharehouse toppling one of the most admired presidents of the 20th century.  Our guests Sara Peterson and Katanna Zachry are instructors in...

Mary Twiss Connolly is a great friend.  Mary is Lakota Indian,  and on a recent trip to San Francisco she was pleasantly surprised to find that her great aunt Stella Runnels Leach,  who she had fond memories of as a child, was a central figure in one of the most courageous and progressive examples of activism by indigenous citizens of the 1970's... the Indians Of All Tribes' (IOAT)...

When Eric Paul Erickson visited the chatlab he had yet to launch his "Open Highway" podcast.  So we mostly spent that Saturday morning talking about his career as an actor and writer,  his Viking Dog Entertainment production company,  and even covered some stories from his career as a teacher.  We screened his psychological feature film thriller "Truth",  co-starring the a...

Our co-host Aaron and I go back to 7th grade middle school.  We met in the infamous Mr. Meoski's science class,  but it was a year or so before we started hanging out and listening to tunes together.  He carried a boom box that that only seemed to play "Blizzard of Oz" and Billy Squier when we decided to wind on down the road of the complete Led Zeppelin catalog.  Of course, &n...

Shane Salk is the grandson of Dr. Jonas Salk,  the world famous Dr. responsible for the Polio vaccine.  But to Shane,  he was just grandpa.  Shane and his partner Bill Holmes are the masterminds behind the magical world of Carcerem,  a voice only fantasy podcast that recalls the radio dramas of yesteryear and brings such big screen luminaries as Jane Lynch (Glee and Hollyw...

Ayanna Davis is a remarkable young woman who has lived the majority of her life not knowing that she lived on the Autism spectrum (ASD).  Once diagnosed,  she has devoted her efforts to understanding her condition and utilizing her natural creativity to demonstrate how phenomenal she can be.  Her illustrations have been published 27 children's books,  including "My Melanin" by...

Suzanne Munson's first two books, "Jefferson's Godfather: The Man Behnd the Man" and "The Metaphysical Jefferson" tell the stories of one of the most important figures in American history,  his mentor and the critical events leading up the the American Revolution.  Suzanne leaves no stone unturned in her body of work.  The second law professor in the history of the United States, &n...

The 55th anniversary of the Bricca murders just passed last week,  and we thought it was an appropriate time to bring back local author ("Summer's Almost Gone") JT Townsend for a comprehensive discussion of another case.  Technically,  the kidnapping and murder of Charles Lindbergh Jr. in March of 1932 is not cold at all.  Bruno Hauptman paid for the crime with his life.  ...

We had a great time with my nephew,  Chef Troy Tucker.  Among other things,  we discuss his residency as head chef at a hotel in Debuque, Iowa that once served as a remote getaway for Al Capone,  The Field of Dreams,  the sitting president stumbling into the women's room, "Tiger Blood", Anthony Bordain vs. Gordon Ramsey,  family and the time we shared a "Big Poop" tog...

Rather than our standard write up,  I thought it might be interesting to just post our pre-show notes from this mid-week episode of Yeah Uh Huh. We are really excited about the topic and hope it inspires you consume this amazing film! Summer of Soul … (or when the Revolution could not be televised) in theatres and on Hulu now! - The Harlem Cultural Festival in Mt. Morris Park. - Festival lasted 6...