The Delicious Culture with Jon Francois

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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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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!

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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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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 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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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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Delishees, Jon is feasting on food, pop culture, and lifestyle with actress Safiya Jamali! They discuss Safiya’s iconic Housewife scream from the Vermont Stage production of Eugene Ionesco’s “Rhinoceros”, the sweaty reason she almost didn’t make it to this episode, balancing stage managing and acting, growing up in Bahrain with journalist parents, her father deciding to move the family away from Bahrain because of how the government reacted to Arab Spring news coverage, learning musical theater and dance in Cyprus & London, plus Jon & Safiya share their POC experiences in Vermont!

Safiya is also in love with chili momos, the Hades 2 video game from Supergiant Games, she reveals the violent greek mythology left out of Disney’s “Hercules”, why the Percy Jackson movies aren’t worth watching, and the “Rhinoceros” green room crochet club with castmate/recent Delicious Culture guest Ian Walls & assistant stage manager Max! ____________________________________________________________

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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 music artist & actor Patrick ‘Klokwize’ O’Sullivan!

Jon and Patrick go back twenty years to their days as theatre classmates at Hall High School in West Hartford, CT. They discuss performing together in a theatre production of the Helen Keller biopic “The Miracle Worker”, Patrick returning to college at the age of 30 to study filmmaking for his upcoming project “Permanent Records”, how his Klokwize hip hop alter ego is indie/alternative with Anderson Paak & Mac Miller vibes, Patrick’s appearances on Jon’s public access television show to promote his hit album “Hood Hippie”, how the modern analysis of white rappers like Macklemore has affected Patrick’s music career, Joaquin Phoenix’s hip hop phase, Patrick producing his “Permission To Land” album with Dr. Dre & 50 Cent producer DJ Quik, the infectiousness of “Gilmore Girls” & “Back To The Future” towns, no longer tying artist success to New York & LA, & Spotify and TikTok’s effect on the music industry.

Patrick also discusses his love for UK’s very own fish and chips and Irish breakfast, how he paid tribute to his late aunt in Ireland, French people being perceived as rude, lacking authenticity on Eminem’s SiriusXM radio channel, being inspired by the resilient underdog theme in Lisa Kudrow’s HBO comedy “The Comeback”, Wayne Brady celebrating his “Whose Line Is It Anyway?” Emmy on Ego Nwodim’s podcast, Jon & Patrick meeting “Family Matters” stars Jaleel White & Darius McCrary, & Patrick appreciating telehealth therapy with his cat and blanket!

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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 therapist/performer/creativity & innovation coach & host of the “Sustaining Creativity Podcast”, Mari Reisberg!

Mari discusses the rollercoaster that was her BFA Acting experience at University of Hartford’s Hartt School: cold rehearsal spaces, performing an “anger & tears” monologue, writing a 30 page autobiography, not to mention the trauma of being emotionally vulnerable at a young age when you’re trying to figure out who you are WHILE pretending to be someone else! Jon & Mari discover through their shared theatrical background that they’ve both performed in a production of “Bang, Bang, You’re Dead”, Mari shares why she loves Shakespeare, and Jon & Mari look into the very first actress ever to perform in a stage production!

Mari gets into creativity and innovation coaching, dance movement therapy, somatic/body-based psychology, her love of egg drop soup & shrimp tacos, Jon has a certain tolerance for avocados, soup & hot coffee during a heat wave is debated, Mari is loving Steve Carell’s HBO Max series “Rooster”, we get into the infidelity that professors and actors have in common, & Mari recommends where you can see the world’s tallest trees that you might’ve caught in “Jurassic Park” & “Return Of The Jedi”!

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Delishees, Jon is feasting on food, pop culture, and lifestyle with dyslexia researcher Russell Van Brocklen!

Russell discusses why he always wears a fedora on podcasts, helps Jon understand dyslexia through the “Sarah likes/dislikes swimming” exercise, & explains how he used his dyslexia to help others.

Also, Russell breaks down the pork chop/salad/french bread meal he gets from the grocery store & how it’s more cost effective than a Wendy’s baconator, hosting a Boston Market Thanksgiving dinner, why he disgusted by Prince Charles in Netflix’s “The Crown”, Prince Harry & Meghan Markle’s tabloid-prone marriage, & how proud he is of helping a severe dyslexic pass his exams!

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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!