Snap Sessions! Podcast

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.

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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”.

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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”.

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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 around. 

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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

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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 spooked.

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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 variety of jazz bands. Humphreys talks about his exposure to Indian rhythms and odd meters with Don Ellis and Cuban percussionist Chino Valdez, before he became a member of Frank Zappa’s Mothers of Invention in the early 1970s. We learn about his career with Zappa and as a sessions musician in LA including working on cartoon shows like the Simpsons, The Animaniacs, and King of the Hill, and his days on “Dancing with the Stars” and “American Idol”. Finally Ralph tells us about his move into music education with the Los Angeles Music Academy and other schools where Ralph learned and then revamped the percussion curriculum. Episode 19 is 88 minutes long and includes an intro, Doug Nunn’s personal narrative in “My Life as a Protestor” (starts at 58 seconds), the tribute “Tom Lehrer, Satirist Extraordinaire”(starts at 16:45), as well as the interview with percussion star, Ralph Humphrey (starts at 29:37).  SnapSessions! includes original music by Marshall Brown, production by Marshall Brown and Ken Krauss, voiceovers by Ken Krauss and Doug Nunn, and articles and interviews by Doug Nunn. Our SnapSessions! artist and logo maker is caricaturist, Daniel Stieglitz. Head to our website thesnapsessions.com to find us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Soundcloud.  Enjoy what you hear? Consider supporting our program by contributing to our Patreon

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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.

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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.

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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. 

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