CUZ I HAVE TO PODCAST...when living your dreams is the only option...This week Hosts Julie Slater and Jason Friday chat with the podcast queen Gillian Pensavalle. She is the creator/host of the Hamilcast podcast (all about the Broadway show Hamilton), co-host of True Crime Obsessed (with Patrick Hinds), and other pods My So Called Podcast, and Let the Women Do The Work. She also works with her husband Michael Paul Smith on the podcast Ted and Michael Read Sketches Into Microphones and is in the web series The Residuals - a comedic series about actors who do commercials. 

In Part One of Two, we chat about Gillian and Julie's connection back in the day, both worked at 92.3 K-Rock NYC (the Howard Stern flagship station)...how Julie was "nice"...Gillian's work on the Residuals...Gillian's choice to leave acting for podcasting...how her mind made it harder than it needed to be...hearing the music of Hamilton for the first time and being blown away, deciding to do a podcast on Hamilton even though she hadn't seen the musical yet...knowing if she didn't do it, someone else would...the moment she knew Hamilcast took off worldwide...Lin Manual Miranda COMING OVER and BEING ON THE POD....Gillian manifesting Lin on the pod...going solo with Hamilcast as the show starting evolving....her desire to make Broadway more accessible...how she got into true crime...meeting her future cohost Patrick Hinds...the first True Crime Obsessed demo...wanting to solve the Zodiac killings...their decision to add comedy to a true crime pod....how you either LOOOVE the podcast or you HAAAATE it...being annoyed with documentaries that don't say the victim's name (giving them a voice)...how murder documentaries become about the murderer and sensationalized....Gillian's feelings on the Jeffrey Dahmer series...and Gillian's friendship with Damien Echols and the Memphis 3...

Stay tuned for Part Two next week!

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