Eat Something Sexy was created by aphrodisiac foods authority Amy Reiley, who has her Master’s degree in Gastronomy from Le Cordon Bleu and the University of Adelaide. Amy has been featured as an expert on aphrodisiacs in publications and websites including The New York Times, Marie Claire, National Geographic, Epicurious, Sydney Herald and Playboy as well as on radio and television from the BBC to The Today Show.

Amy is also the innovator behind Amy Reiley’s Pocket Vineyard and Amy Reiley’s Pocket Gourmet, the first comprehensive food and wine apps. Amy was the second American to earn a Master’s from Le Cordon Bleu and in 2005 she was one of 5 wine professionals chosen as a finalist in the international Wine Women Awards.

Leonard Buschel is a Philadelphia native, and a very happy Los Angeles transplant. He is California Certified Substance Abuse Counselor with years of experience working with people struggling with addiction. He attended Naropa University in Boulder, CO. Mr. Buschel is the founder of Writers In Treatment whose primary purpose is to promote ‘treatment’ as the best first step solution for addiction, alcoholism and other self-destructive behaviors. Leonard is the director of the 13 year old REEL Recovery Film Festival & Symposium®, and for six years has been the editor/publisher of the weekly Addiction/Recovery eBulletin®. He also directs and produces the annual Experience, Strength and Hope Awards® in Los Angeles.

Recipients include, Christopher Kennedy Lawford, Academy Award winning Lou Gossett, Jr., Astronaut, Buzz Aldrin, Duran Duran founding band member, John Taylor, Emmy Award winner, Joe Pantoliano, Carrie White, Mackenzie Phillips, CNN’s Jane Velez-Mitchell, legendary TV Host Pat O’Brien, American TV star Jodie Sweetin.

Celebrity guests appearing on stage have included: Actors Robert Downey, Jr.(Iron Man, Air America); Ed Bagley, Jr.(Saint Elsewhere, Arrested Development); Tony Denison (The Closer); Joanna Cassidy (Body of Proof, Blade Runner, Boston Legal); Jack McGee (The Fighter); Ione Skye (Say Anything); Danny Trejo (Machete); Joe Walsh (The Eagles); broadcaster Pat O’Brien ( ABC Sports, Access Hollywood), plus comedians Bobcat Goldthwait and Alonzo Bodden. He just celebrated 27 years clean and sober.

Tommy returns for more conversation about cannabis, politics, music and more. We talk about the DEA, his bust and prison time more than anything.

Career

Music

By the early 1960s, Chong was playing guitar for a Calgary soul group called the Shades. The Shades moved to Vancouver, British Columbia, where the band's name changed to "Little Daddy & the Bachelors". They recorded a single, "Too Much Monkey Business" / "Junior's Jerk". Together with bandmember Bobby Taylor, Chong opened a Vancouver nightclub in 1963. Formerly the Alma Theatre, they called it "Blue Balls". They brought in the Ike & Tina Turner Revue, which had never been to Vancouver before. Although Little Daddy & the Bachelors built up a small following, things soured when they went with Chong's suggestion and had themselves billed as "Four Niggers and a Chink"[8] (or, bowing to pressure, "Four N's and a C") before taking on the moniker Bobby Taylor & the Vancouvers.

In 1965, the Vancouvers signed with Gordy Records (a subsidiary of Detroit's Motown Records). They recorded their debut album, an eponymous release, and their debut single, the Tommy Chong co-composition, "Does Your Mama Know About Me," which peaked at number 29 on the Billboard Hot 100.[8] While on tour in Chicago for a short time, the band followed opening act the Jackson 5. Chong later referred to the young Michael Jackson as a "cute little guy". After the band released two additional singles, Chong and bandmate Wes Henderson missed a Friday night performance to apply for green cards so they could become American citizens. Chong was fired by Chris Clark and Motown producer Johnny Bristol for arriving late to the gig. Later, when Berry Gordy told Chong that he wasn't fired after all, that it had been a mistake, Chong said he wanted to stay fired. "I said I want to become a Berry Gordy, I don't want to just work for a Berry Gordy. And he says I can, I can dig that. So he was nice. He gave me $5,000 as the severance and to me that was a fortune."[10] The group broke up shortly afterwards, when Chong tried to reduce the number of players covered by the Vancouvers' contract. He intended that he, Taylor, and Henderson would constitute the group, while other members would be classified as sidemen and session artists.

Cheech & Chong

Main article: Cheech & Chong

Chong co-wrote and performed on many Cheech & Chong comedy albums, four of which were nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album. He and Cheech Marin shared the 1973 award in this category for Los Cochinos.

He also directed four of the duo's films, while co-writing and starring in all seven with Cheech.

After Cheech & Chong

Chong speaking in San Francisco in 2008

Cheech & Chong, while a very successful comedy act, split in 1985 due to creative differences and Marin's desire to focus on a mainstream acting career. This began a difficult time for Chong. He developed an unsold pilot for CBS called The Martinez Family, which was redeveloped as the 1988 sitcom Trial and Error. In 1990, he directed, wrote and starred in the movie Far Out Man. He did not act regularly until filling the recurring role (later a regular role) as the fun-loving, aging hippie "Leo" (similar to his Chong character) on That '70s Show. Chong was absent during the fifth and sixth seasons of the show as he was serving a brief jail sentence; upon his release, he returned to the series for its final two seasons. He also played a role as a hippie in Dharma and Greg.

Sunshine, and his film work to include his work on a new film with the working title "Keep Smoking."

Jackie "The Joke Man" Martling stops by to talk about his life in comedy, his book , his new podcast with Peter Bales called Standup Memories. Howard Stern was talked about but only as it relates to Jackie's story. This was not a Stuttering John bash Howard session.

Standup MemoriesPremieres Groundhog Day Feb 2nd 2022

Naomi Grossman was a 2018 Primetime Emmy nominee for “Outstanding Actress in a Short Form Comedy or Drama” for her role in Ctrl Alt Delete. Best known as the first crossover character, the fan-favorite “Pepper” on FX’s hit anthology series, American Horror Story:

Asylum & Freak Show, Naomi also appeared as a new character, the Satanist “Samantha Crowe” in the eighth season, Apocalypse, as well as “Rabid Ruth” in the spin-off series, American Horror Stories. Naomi made #5 of IMDb’s “Top 10 Breakout Stars” after her STARmeter skyrocketed to #1, making her the most searched in its entire 8 million person database. Huffington Post, The Wrap, Screen Rant, and Syfy all ranked Pepper among “The Best AHS Characters Ever;” MTV named her their “#1 Good Guy;” Uproxx, their “#1 Most Tragic;” Geek Insider, a “Top 5 Most Underrated AHS Performer;” and Entertainment Weekly called her being cast in the role “The Best of 2012.” Fans may also recognize her from cameos in the following feature films: Table for Three, The Chair, 1BR, Sky Sharks, Bite Me, Painkillers, The Lurker, Murder RX, The Portal, Preacher Six, An Accidental Zombie (Named Ted), and Fear, Inc.

Naomi prides herself on having paved her own, albeit unorthodox path to mainstream success by writing, producing and starring in several autobiographical solo shows. Her latest, Carnival Knowledge: Love, Lust, and other Human Oddities, enjoyed a twice-extended, sold-out run and rave reviews (“Recommended” by LA Weekly). It was then reprised at the world-famous fringe theatre festival in Edinburgh, Scotland, where it received more critical praise (4 stars: The Scotsman, Broadway Baby, Fringe Review) and a transfer to London’s West End (Leicester Square Theatre). It later went on to have a successful run Off-Off Broadway. Naomi’s first solo endeavor, Girl in Argentine Landscape, also received critical acclaim (LA Weekly, “Pick of the Week”) and earned her an LA Weekly Theatre Award nomination for best solo performance. Naomi toured with Girl… to Chicago’s Single File Festival, the Los Angeles Women’s Theatre Festival, the New York International Fringe Festival, and screened a subtitled video-version on the big screen in Argentina.

Her numerous self-penned/produced, comedic shorts have screened at nationwide film festivals and are available for view on comedy sites like FunnyOrDie. Naomi is a theatre graduate of Northwestern University, and a veteran of the legendary Groundlings Sunday Company.

Dr. Edward Tick is a psychotherapist, international activist, and award-winning writer.

For the past 40 years, he has dedicated his life to helping veterans heal from their experiences at war. He is an expert on Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and Moral Injury. He is best known for his various nonfiction titles including the groundbreaking work War and the Soul.

Just last month, his first major poetry collection, Coming Home in Viet Nam was released. Having led groups of veterans on healing journeys to Vietnam for 20 years, and witnessing veterans heal, reconcile, and create powerful bonds through writing and sharing poetry, Dr. Tick was inspired to publish this compelling body of work.

Dr. Tick has been conducting a number of virtual events across the country to discuss veterans’ issues, and promote his message of healing through creativity and poetry.

Bio

JENNA ASHLYN is a volunteer for Southern Ohio’s Survivor Advocacy Outreach Program, providing support and services to victims of abuse. She's a lover of animals of most types and spends her extra time being a mom and cuddling with her cocker spaniel. She studied creative writing at two universities and worked for a campus literary magazine. Jenna’s writing has appeared in numerous literary magazines, including Night Roses, The Atwood Review, and Poet’s Choice. In 2015, she won the overall writing award in the StarJewel Nationals and Talent Showcase arts contest, and in 2019, she was nominated for a Maier Award, which celebrates the best writing of University students. In 2020, Jenna released her debut novel, Within the Gray. Her second novel, Sheila's Men is set to be released early January 2022.

Anastasia McIntosh is a driven and motivated young individual who has been inspired by many people. Her inspiration started in 2012, as did many things, and hasn't shut off since.

Anastasia is involved in physical extra-curricular activities such as volleyball, badminton and snowboarding. She also loves to read and write. Moreover, Anastasia has volunteered with community public libraries to teach children how to read.

Anastasia holds a Diploma in Police Foundations and a Bachelor of Community and Criminal Justice with Distinction.

Anastasia hopes to engage, motivate, inspire and teach her readers as they read through her first ‘mature audience' book.

Jan Edwards is the President of Paving the Way Foundation, an organization that empowering communities to disrupt in the cycle of child trafficking through educational and training programs. Ms. Edwards has been featured on TV and radio shows as an influencer and is the writer/director of the award-winning film, Trapped in the Trade, featured on CNN.

According to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, there was a 98% rise of online child enticement from 2019 to 2020. * Internationally, according to the ILO, of the 40 million people enslaved around the world, 25% of them are children. As overwhelming as that may seem, there is something we can do about this. Get educated and share that information with your friends and family.

Paving The Way Foundation was created to provide answers to those questions. We've educated over 16,000 youth, parents, teachers, and community leaders about child trafficking and online exploitation, sharing with them the impact it has on our children and the actions to take to prevent it.

Samuel Nkwume is an award winning Producer in Film, TV and commercials. He started off his career as a qualified accountant before transitioning into producing. He has won several awards in the festival circuit .