Dennis brings 2014 to a close with a round-up of check-ins with past podcast guests Jackie Clarke, Patrick Tobin, Jack Kenny, Miss Coco Peru, Jack Plotnick, Glenn Gaylord and Danny Casillas.  Also included is a Dickie Goodman-style flashback from Dennis's childhood having to do with Star Wars and Farrah Fawcett...and Dennis's cover of the Sam Harris song "The Rescue," discussed in the Sam Harris podcast in August, which was recorded in a cabin on a cruise ship. There's some Manilow in there, too.  Happy New Year and thanks your all your support throughout 2014.

Name a kick-ass, quality TV show and Jeremy Podeswa's probably directed at least one episode: Game of Thrones, Boardwalk Empire, Walking Dead, The Newsroom, American Horror Story, True Blood, The L Word, Queer as Folk...and the list goes on and on.  He's also made his own films: Fugitive Pieces, Eclipse and The Five Senses, which won the Genie Award in his native Canada.  Jeremy recalls the show that changed it all for him, Six Feet Under, shooting Rome at Cinecetta studios in Rome and how working in a shoe store taught him that women lie about their shoe size.  He also talks about how the zombies on Walking Dead go to zombie boot camp, working with severed limbs on American Horror Story and the sexiest scene he ever shot...in the pool at L.A.'s Chateau Marmont, no less.

After seeing a screening of the new Jennifer Aniston movie "Cake," Dennis tracks down its screenwriter Patrick Tobin to talk about the film and his whirlwind journey from unknown, unrepresented screenwriting contest enterer to produced screenwriter with a movie in the Oscar race.  It all turns into a bit of a therapy session for Dennis and is sure to inspire the writers out there tapping away in coffeeshops.  Patrick also talks about the day he quit is day job, his fashion faux pas at the Toronto International Film Festival, what surprised him about Jennifer Aniston and his obsession with Tracy Partridge from The Partridge Family.  Read more of his work at www.patricktobin.net

Dennis visits the one and only Miss Coco Peru in her lovely San Fernando Valley home for an emotional rollercoaster of an interview.  Dennis shares the touching coincidence he experienced at Coco's February show "She's Got Balls."  He then pulls himself together to discuss other topics like Coco's origin story, her Terms of Endearment catharsis and the power of vulnerability. Her hilarious "Grand Theft Auto" YouTube video is also broken down as her memories of making out with Modern Family's Eric Stonestreet in Girls Will Be Girls.  Also on the docket: Coco's yearly visits to her husband Rafael's home country of Spain, the nudist resort gig that turned out to be awful, Coco's encounters with stars like Allison Janney, Taylor Dayne, Bea Arthur, Anna Nicole Smith, Jeffrey Tambor and Ben Vereen and the poop sketch that Dennis collaborated on with Coco and Jack Plotnick as Evie Harris that scandalzed the LA charity world. Learn more at www.MissCocoPeru.com

This week, Dennis welcomes film critic Alonso Duralde to the booth o' truth to discuss Alonso's oh-so-timely book "Have Yourself a Movie Little Christmas," a book all about Christmas movies; some great, some awful, classics and some you've probably never heard of.  Alonso talks about reviewing movies for The Wrap and What the Flick?, what it's like to co-host a movie review podcast with your husband (check out Alonso and Dave White's "Linoleum Knife" podcast), teaches college students about film and the moment at Sundance he almost said "Screw movies" and explored another line of work.  Also on the agenda: when, how and why Alonso fell in love with movies, the classic he doesn't care for, the movie he wishes he could add to his 2005 book "101 Must-See Movies for Gay Men" and how "Defending Your Life" and "Groundhog Day" totally changed his life.

Dennis visits Emmy-winning actor Leslie Jordan in his L.A. apartment on the eve of his one-man show "Fruit Fly" returning to the L.A. Gay and Lesbian Center's Renberg Theater from December 4th to the 21st.  The show's origins and the theme of a gay man and his mother are but one of the many topics on the agenda.  Leslie also tells wonderful and outrageous stories about his Emmy night nightmare, how his Emmy for "Will and Grace" got damaged, the "Dancing with the Stars" outing he'd like to forget, the "Sordid Lives" phenomenon, Jessica Lange, Lily Tomlin, pubic hair, being on UK Big Brother, having his first boyfriend after 50, the biggest diva fit he ever threw and much, much more.  Leslie's an amazing storyteller, on stage and off, and this is one episode of Dennis Anyone? you'll want to play over and over again.

Dennis welcomes singer-songwriter and YouTube sensation Tom Goss to the breakfast nook just two weeks into Tom's relocation to L.A. from Washington D.C.  They discuss what it's like to be an independent musician in today's music business; what the day-to-day is like, what's great about it, what sucks and how you make money at it.  Tom shares inside scoop about his viral music video "Bears," his Twitter interactions with Taylor Swift and Iggy Azalea and the guy who offered to give him $10,000 to make a music video....but it had to be about a very specific subject.  Also on the agenda: Tom's stint as a Starbucks barrista, how he got good at rapping, what it's like to lay naked in front of a camera for 80 minutes without moving while lipsyncing and getting your body painted.  Learn more at www.tomgossmusic.com

Dennis joins actress-singer Kate Flannery in her gorgeous L.A. apartment that's straight out of a Barbara Stanwyck movie to discuss her lounge-singing alter ego Cassie Chew from the duo The Lampshades, who are currently gigging in LA.  Kate also talks about waiting tables at Kate Mantalini until getting her big break playing the boozy and floosy Meredith on the hit sitcom "The Office."  Other topics include: the most unprofessional behavior she ever witnessed, the secret of playing boozy, her stage stint as Neely in "Valley of the Dolls" and what it's like to play a gig at the opening of a new section of the LA subway.  

Dennis visits the Runyon Canyon home and office of filmmaker Randal Kleiser on the eve of his stage directing debut with The Penis Chronicles at the Coast Playhouse in LA.  Also on hand is the show's producer Greg O'Connor. Topics include the difference between directing for stage vs. film, finding the right group of Penis people, and whether or not the title character will actually appear in the show.  Randal also shares memories from making films like It's My Party, the Blue Lagoon, and the monster-hit Grease.  Some Observation Deck questions are also tackled including, "What rookie mistakes did you make on your first job?" Randal's answer to that question is guaranteed to have you in stitches.

For this pre-Halloween epsiode, Dennis heads to the Dunny-filled West Hollywood apartment of actor Danny Casillas to talk with Danny and his cohort in comedy Oscar Quintero about their show "Sketchy Queens 3-D", which opens Wednesday, October 29th at the Cavern Club Theater in Silver Lake.  They share the origin stories of their drag alter egos, Reba Areba (Danny) and Kay Sedia (Oscar) and discuss their 11 year-old cult hit "Chico's Angels," the Latina drag parody of "Charlie's Angels" that they perform regularly with Ray Garcia as Angel #3.  Also on the agenda: how doing drag affects dating, the terror of having to pump your own gas in full drag and the deliriously entertaining Carol Burnett Show-esque cracking up that often happens when they're performing together.  The pair's respective passions are also dissected; for Danny, it's Broadway Broadway Broadway.  For Oscar, it's beauty pageants and he has some incredible anecdotes about the quests for the crown he's been witness to.