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Delishees, Jon is feasting on food, pop culture, and lifestyle with Irish musician/tour guide/arts manager/best selling author/ host of the ‘In Tune With Tradition’ podcast: Tara Connaghan!!

Tara discusses why she changed from rock guitarist to fiddler, how transformative music festivals were in her youth, the TONS of animals she has on her farm, Ireland having the LONGEST summer daylight ever, a NSFW fact about pigs, we get the bonus of hearing Tara’s fabulous fiddling, & more!

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Delishees, Jon is feasting on food, pop culture, and lifestyle with global independent recording artist Kneet!

Kneet opens up about reclaiming her voice after an abusive relationship, her Indian and Thai background, managing her son’s trauma, green curry, the ‘Toy Story’ movie franchise, reuniting with her mother at a graduation ceremony, we hear the full 'Rise' song, and more!

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ABOUT "THE DELICIOUS CULTURE"- Your life’s passion, what you like to eat, your pop culture obsession, & significant life events are all delicious! Email Jon Francois at [email protected] if you’d like to be a guest!

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Delishees, Jon is feasting on food, pop culture, and lifestyle with Emmy & Grammy nominated writer & producer & the author of ‘SASQ’ET’, Maxim Langstaff!

Jon and Maxim discuss arts education in Vermont, wildlife conservation, Bigfoot, the ethics of hunting, writing non-fiction vs. fiction, the Second Amendent, truth in storytelling, the pressure of perfectionism, & more!

‘SASQ’ET’ IS ON SALE NOW: www.sasqetthebook.com

FOLLOW MAXIM LANGSTAFF: https://maximlangstaff.com/

FACEBOOK: facebook.com/sasqetthebook

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Delishees, if you want to get paid as a podcaster, this is the episode for you! Jon feasts on food, pop culture, and lifestyle with podcaster and monetization coach Rory Paquette!

Jon and Rory also get into the random things they have in common, the YMCA, embracing failure, Rory’s near-death experience, his perfect recipe, the ‘Rocky’ movies, becoming a grandparent, & more!

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ABOUT "THE DELICIOUS CULTURE"- What'a delicious meal you've had? What's a delicious piece of pop culture you've consumed? What's a delicious thing that's happened in your life? Jon Francois wants to know! Email [email protected] if you'd like to be a guest!

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Delishees! Jon is feasting on food, pop culture, and lifestyle with the host of the 'Come Together with Ephraim Herschmann' podcast....Ephraim Herschmann!!

They discuss gambling addiction, marijuana and coffee vices, 'The Big Lebowski', craft beer & apple cider floats, Gen Z & Gen Alpha bringing back social gatherings and retro fashion trends, the crazy "Florida Man" stereotype, sourdough, 'Disclosure Day', work/life balance, & more!

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https://www.cometogether-podcast.com/

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ABOUT "THE DELICIOUS CULTURE"- What'a delicious meal you've had? What's a delicious piece of pop culture you've consumed? What's a delicious thing that's happened in your life? Jon Francois wants to know! Email [email protected] if you'd like to be a guest!

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Delishees, Jon is feasting on food, pop culture & lifestyle with children's media producer/actor/musical theatre sensation/Broadway performer Khadijah Rolle!

Jon & Khadijah discuss their acting and musical theater experiences at the University Of The Arts in Philadelphia, Khadijah performing in 'What A Wonderful World: The Louis Armstrong Musical' on Broadway, her children's television series 'Eden's Garden', coffee bathroom runs, black eyed peas, Zendaya vs. Sydney Sweeney, & more!

FOLLOW KHADIJAH ROLLE & 'EDEN'S GARDEN' : @_iamkhadijahrolle, @edensgardentvshow

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ABOUT "THE DELICIOUS CULTURE"- What'a delicious meal you've had? What's a delicious piece of pop culture you've consumed? What's a delicious thing that's happened in your life? Jon Francois wants to know! Email [email protected] if you'd like to be a guest!

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Delishees! Just ahead of her solo album debut release on Sept 4th, Jon has the former boss reunion he's been waiting for as he feasts on food, pop culture, and lifestyle with blues musician Jeni Grouws!!!

They discuss how Jeni convinced Jon to move from Connecticut to Iowa for his first full time radio job with KDEC FM in Decorah IA, Jeni wonders if she was a bad boss, we get into how her parents Bob and Colleen Holtan decided to sell the station, how Jeni switched from aspiring professor to musician, working as a film story editor in Los Angeles, why she switched from Diet Coke to Diet Pepsi, why McDonald's Diet Coke can't be beat, how badly she hates coffee, & the TikTok trends that only Jon's wife Toni would know!

Also, Jon and Jeni discuss how her parents convinced her to move back to the Midwest for the family radio business, what makes Decorah, IA so special and the meaning behind its legendary "vortex" effect, how Jeni built a career as a live musician through the Avey Grouws Band & Absolute Hoot, how she decided to leave the radio industry in 2019, how the Avey Grouws Band had to pivot their album release party during Covid, & we get the delicious story behind their hit single "Dirty Little Secret"!

Jeni also confirms how Little Debbie Swiss Rolls are different from Hostess Ho Ho's, how she dealt with empty nesting & the end of both the Avey Grouws Band & her marriage, her residency at the Music House in Omaha NE, performing in Vegas with Bonnie Raitt, the "bastardized" Asian meal she loves to cook, being a fan of Irish singer-songwriter CMAT, why she tears up toward the end of the episode, why she kept her married name, AND we wrap up by playing the one and only "Dirty Little Secret"!

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Delishees, Jon is feasting on food, pop culture, and lifestyle with his cousin Sarah Moise! 

They discuss Sarah being licensed to practice law in three US states, the challenging home buying process with her fiancee Quest, pollen storms, urban/suburban hybrid vs. rural lifestyles, unnecessary rainy weekends, luck with the Hinge dating app, the worst pandemic virtual date, & unhealthy romantic infatuation! 

Sarah also dives into to her simultaneous wedding and baby arrival planning, Quest’s mom’s potato salad and beef ribs, her own mother’s macaroni and cheese, Jon advises Sarah on how to manage a wedding guest list, and they’re obsessed with the ‘Love Trapped’ podcast about Former ‘Bachelor’ Clayton Echard’s paternity scandal with Laura Owens. 

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Delishees, Jon is feasting on food, pop culture, and lifestyle with retired Baptist Minister and FBI Agent Eric Robinson! 

Eric discusses his Muslim missionary days at Miami University, a frozen yogurt marriage proposal, the “sneaky” gospel pitch, struggling with empathy fatigue as a minister, how the church judges the queer community & having children out of wedlock & even playing Uno. He also opens up about accepting his transgender child. 

Jon & Eric also get into how one with zero law enforcement experience signs up to be an FBI agent, how Eric applied his Muslim experience in an Islamophobic 9/11 America, how an informant helped him bust a Mexican cartel dealer, saving victims of teen prostitution, Mark Wittenmeyer’s investor & bond scams, Chicago police commander John Burge’s racist torture tactics, and why he never got shot as a SWAT operator! 

On the lighter side, Eric is in love with cauliflower and cheese as part of his keto diet, rewatching HBO’s “Game Of Thrones” and “The Wire” with his wife, & writing his upcoming book “Irreverent: From Saving Souls To Chasing Sinners In The FBI”

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ABOUT "THE DELICIOUS CULTURE"- What'a delicious meal you've had? What's a delicious piece of pop culture you've consumed? What's a delicious thing that's happened in your life? Jon Francois wants to know! Email [email protected] if you'd like to be a guest! 

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Delishees, we have Hogwood from the Academy Award winning horror hit “Sinners”!! Feast on food, pop culture, and lifestyle with Jon & actor Dave Maldonado!

We start off with Dave’s theatre and indie film era in his native Louisiana, what it means to have a spouse who’s NOT in show business, filming “run, hide, fight” training videos in Houston TX, and if Dave subscribes to the Marlon Brando/Daniel Day Lewis/Heath Ledger acting method. 

Of course, Jon and Dave deep dive into his “Sinners” experience: what’s arguably Hogwood’s most memorable scene, getting shot by Smoke at the end, filming in the brutal Louisiana summer heat, how Dave felt hearing people in the movie theater root against his character, auditioning for director Ryan Coogler, the iconic song in the movie that he ALMOST sang, the record Oscar noms and wins for Coogler and Michael B. Jordan, Hogwood’s improvised moment that made the final cut, the “hurry up and wait” pace of a film set, overthinking audition results, why Dave was almost thrown out by security at the NYC premiere, his daughter’s reaction to Dave not knowing Letterboxd & making room for Chris Rock at the premiere!

Jon also asks Dave about working with established actors Bryan Cranston, Stephen Graham, JK Simmons, Tom Hanks, Chris Pratt, Michael Stuhlbarg, and Kurt Russell on TV & film projects like “Your Honor”, “Trumbo”, “National Champions”, “Tomorrow War”, & “Greyhound”. They get into not judging unlikeable characters and the advice Dave gave to David Koechner from “Anchorman”. 

Dave shares his love of his wife’s chicken and sausage spaghetti, playing the “Movie Grid” game with his daughter, his reaction to Kane Parsons’ Gen Z horror hit “Backrooms”, how he was spared from watching “Evil Dead Burn”, if Stephen Spielberg’s “Disclosure Day” lives up to the hype, how anxiety and substance use and imposter syndrome has impacted his mental health, the smallest residual check he’s received for his acting work, and Dave celebrates a sobriety milestone!  ____________________________________________________________

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