Wow Connecticut is so beautiful, I wish it were real. Welcome to beautiful Stars Hollow, where we have another cardigan-clad, cappuccino slugging, friend of the pod joining, the wonderful Rosey Blair!

You may remember Rosey from our NYC girlie pop episodes, ‘Girls’ and ‘Sex & The City.’ Check those out on your page if you’re like us and cannot get enough of her. Rosey is back for another north easter US classic but now, we’re in the burbs. We’re demure, we’re mindful, we’re covered in leaves.

This of course is in the introduction to Lorelai and Rory Gilmore, expertly crafted by Lauren Graham and Alexis Bledel. With an unforgettable fast-talking cast that will leave you dying for more Michel, more Sookie St. James and more Luke Danes! So come join this heavy hitting cast in the beautiful Connecticut suburbs, you’re going to want Gil-more of it.

The gang makes a podcast!

Come take a lovely journey to our friends at Paddy’s Pub, you know, the hottest gay bar in town! We take you back to the long forgotten time of 2005. A young Rob McElhenney, started shooting a low budget pilot with actor friends Glenn Howerton, Charlie Day, and Kaitlin Olson. The group we’ve come to know and love all these years was born. All the milksteaks, the green men, the Chase Utleys merely a glimmer in their eyes.

Come join us on this trip down memory lane and see how a comedy Juggernaut came to be.

Boys are out tonight

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Geoff Kerbis

Max Singer

Rich Inman

We have a saying here on the island: “leave us a 5-star review!”

Aloha friends! This week we’re taking you to the island of O’ahu for some prime-time soap TV to compliment the Fox smash hit The OC. Does it work? Well… try finding the pilot anywhere other than YouTube and let us know what you think.

Jason Matthews (Kristoffer Polaha) runs the Grand Waimea Hotel and Resort in this prime-time soap. Arriving to shake things up is his ex, Nicole Booth (Brooke Burns), who takes a job as the resort's director of guest relations. Resort owner Vincent Colville (James Remar) keeps an eye on his employees (Jason Momoa and Amanda Righetti) to make sure their past history doesn't affect their work.

We have another saying here on the island… listen to our podcast!

Guests:

Geoff Kerbis

Max Singer

Rich Inman

Okay… did we know this show had a great reputation? Sure. Did we know that this show was originally created by Gerard Way of My Chemical Romance? Definitely. Did we forget to tell Max that there was a talking monkey in it? I’m afraid so.

Obviously we’re talking about the Netflix Original series The Umbrella Academy!

Starring Elliot Page, Tom Hopper, David Castaneda, Emmy Raver-Lampman, Robert Sheehan, and Aidan Gallagher as kids born under extremely mysterious circumstances who developed super powers as they aged. Upon the death of their eccentric billionaire adopted father, they now must return to the house that raised them and get along without killing each other.

Join us as The Umbrella Academy saves the world.

Hosts

Geoff Kerbis

Max Singer

Rich Inman

IT’S OLYMPIC (errr) BIG GAME FEVER Y’ALL! While you watch our ladies and gents pommel some horses and uneven some bars, let’s half tuck in to the ABC family show Make It Or Break It!

Inspired by the 2006 movie Stick It, MIOBI is the brainchild of showrunner Holly Sorensen who wanted to make a drama centering around “The Rock” training center in Colorado. The show features actors Josie Loren, Ayla Kell, and Cassie Scerbo as the big three gymnasts setting their sights on the gold medal, while newcomer Emily Kmetko represents an unforeseen threat to those dreams. Can they gel as a team or will it tear them apart?

We also get a television return of former TVPL champion Peri Gilpin (Frasier). Now that you’ve seen the pilot, will this show make it or break it?

Hosts:

Geoff Kerbis

Max Singer

Rich Inman

Where on earth can you get Shaquille O’Neal, Jim Palmer, Danny Tartabull, Bob Costas, Deion Sanders, Gary Payton, Barry Bonds, Mike Piazza, Tommy Lasorda, Don Mattingly, Scottie Pippen, Dan Marino, Barry Larkin, and the 1996 Miami Dolphins in the same room? An Arliss table read of course!

This long-lasting cameo-loaded HBO original series is the brainchild of star Robert Wuhl who you’ll recognize from Tim Burton’s Batman and Bull Durham. After a horrendous and “total bullshit” book he read by a future president he was inspired to write a series using the made up stories but swapping in the world of sports management.

Come join us in our quest to name every sports star of the 90s and pick apart a fascinating 1996 time capsule.

Hosts:

Geoff Kerbis

Max Singer

Rich Inman

Ring the Jimmy Burrows Alarm™️! We’re back with the smash hit Will & Grace! The show that brought gay comedy to the mainstream after the despicable shunning of the Ellen Degeneres show. Join us as we learn how it came to be, the legacy it leaves, and some fascinating tidbits about pilot and character development straight from the Jimmy Burrows memoir ‘Directed by James Burrows’

Come catch all your favorites Eric McCormack, Debra Messing, Sean Hayes and Megan Mullaley and stick around for an exhilarating round of “Guess That Guest Star!”

Hosts

Geoff Kerbis

Max Singer

Rich Inman

Do you have what it takes to be a sister at Kappa Kappa Tau? Tasteful fashion, a legacy mom, an unquenchable thirst for blood?

Welcome to our own syllabus week for Scream Queens! Another Ryan Murphy staple taking the insanity and campiness of the Scream franchise and putting making it a star studded tv series! Hot off his last success with Glee, here comes Jamie Lee Curtis, Emma Roberts, Ariana Grande, Lea Michele, Abigail Breslin, Nasim Pedrad,Glen Powell, Nick Jonas and freaking Keke Palmer!

This show really brings home the over-the-top horror that has now become a genre of its own.

Hosts

Geoff Kerbis
Max Singer

Rich Inman

Hey! It’s the Bowery Boys! Today we welcome a podcasting Hall of Famer, 2024 Webby Award Honoree, a history buff to challenge all history buffs, our esteemed ambassador from New York Greg Young! With his co-host Tom Meyers, his podcast The Bowery Boys is now on their 17th year telling the story of New York from Pre-colonization to modern day.

We’re lucky enough to have Greg spotlight Mad Men with us and also give us his take on the portrayal of New York City, the city in other media, and how he brought his fascination of the Big Apple to life on his podcast. Tune in for our chat with Greg in the first 39:09.

What can we say about Mad Men that you don’t already know? The dozens of awards, the 8 years of critical acclaim, it’s appointment viewing TV status that reigned almost since episode one. Matthew Weiner took a group of purposely non-famous actors and turned the entire bunch into A-listers. Jon Hamm, John Slattery, Elisabeth Moss, January Jones, Christian Hendricks, Vincent Kartheiser, and Kiernan Shipka to name a few. Join our deep dive on the birth of this show, the emergence of cocktail culture, and so much more.

Check and subscribe to the Bowery Boys anywhere you listen to podcast. While you are at it check out some episode picks from Greg himself, their recent Park Avenue show (https://www.boweryboyshistory.com/2024/04/up-and-down-park-avenue-new-york-city-history-with-a-penthouse-view.html) which goes into a few landmarks that have been in Mad Men, or the Miss Subways show  (https://www.boweryboyshistory.com/2023/06/the-story-of-miss-subways-queens-of-the-new-york-commute.html)

which is about a 1940s ad campaign that could have been dreamed up by Don Draper. 

Hosts

Greg Young (Co-Pilot)

Geoff Kerbis

Max Singer

Rich Inman

Nathan For Me? Why you shouldn’t have. That’s right, this week we are taking you to the beautiful fictional town of “Los Angeles” where our hero Nathan Fielder (played by the incomparable Nathan Fielder) will take his expert business knowledge from “Canada” and turn these local entrepreneurs to nationwide success.

We see the humble beginnings of Fielder’s explosion into the comedy conversation. Of course becoming the creator of HBO’s The Rehearsal and The Curse (with Emma Stone and Benny Safdie). Starting from a short series on the CBC, Nathan For You became a viral hit on Comedy Central with stunts like Dumb Starbucks and Poop flavored Yogurt.

Join us this week for goofs AND sound business ideas.

Hosts

Geoff Kerbis

Max Singer

Rich Inman