Two Guys From Hollywood

Join Alan and Joey this week as they discuss the balancing act of feeding your soul in LA, starting with advice on how to get an agent and stay on top of your game. Sometimes you need to look back to where the industry has grown from in order to be a part of what it’s growing into! Joining the conversation is Niki Shadrow Snyder and John Snyder, a couple who might go down in history as having the most productive first date of all time: Find a life partner? Check. Conceptualize a foundation that will eventually feed hundreds of thousands of people? Double check. Niki and John are the founders of Project PopDrop, an organization that has a huge impact on communities nationwide. Using their network, they facilitate the deliveries of over 90,000 meals each month, along with bringing food, clothes, medical supplies and more to those who need it most. And they are just getting started! They have created The Givefluencer Network and are starting a movement with one key message: giving is the best way to influence others and live a fulfilled life. This episode provides a thought provoking conversation about how we can all activate the law of attraction...Hint: it’s GIVING. You’ll also hear a fantastic story about how Niki met the one and only Janice Dickinson years ago when she was a celebrity stylist. Follow them on social media to keep up with all the projects they have coming up including a TV collaboration with the OWN network. As always, we have a guest-inspired cocktail of the week! This week enjoy THE POPDROP PUNCH. Find the full recipe and more on @twoguysfromhollywood on Instagram, and @TGFHPodcast on Twitter and Facebook. Cheers!

Want to follow Niki and John and join The Givefluencer Network?

Learn all about them here: https://thegivefluencernetwork.onlinepresskit247.com/

Hollywood Weekly Impact Issue: https://issuu.com/hollywood/docs/the_impact_issue

INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/projectpopdrop/

FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/PlatinumInt?fref=ts

TWITTER: https://twitter.com/popdropplatinum?lang=en

Or visit their website: http://www.projectpopdrop.org/

On this week’s episode, we’re talking all things COFFEE. Joining the conversation is the head of a major coffee empire, Lisette Gavina. She is the Executive Marketing Director of F. Gaviña & Sons, the nation’s largest minority owned family coffee roaster and a leading producer of quality coffee! You might recognize their brands such as Don Francisco’s Coffee, Café La Llave Espresso, Gaviña Gourmet Coffee and Jose’s Gourmet Coffee. We get into the DNA of Success, our theme for this episode, and what it means to be born into not just a family business, but a family passion. Lisette has the inside knowledge on all uses for coffee (internal and external) and breaks down the process from cherry seed (yep!) to the glorious coffee in your cup every morning. Coffee is more than a career for Lisette and her family, it’s in their Cuban blood. Tune in for great ideas on how to experience your coffee, and ways in which you can contribute to the recycling movement through her company’s partnership with Terracycle. As always, we have a guest-inspired cocktail of the week! This week enjoy a collaboration with Don Francisco’s Coffee, THE MALECON. Find the full recipe and more on @twoguysfromhollywood on Instagram, and @TGFHPodcast on Twitter and Facebook. Cheers!

***THIS WEEK WE ARE HOSTING A GIVEAWAY FOR A DELICIOUS DON FRANCISCO’S COFFEE BASKET*** Visit our social media to learn how to enter to win. Winner will be announced on Wednesday April 7th! 

THERE IS ALSO A PROMO CODE FOR OUR LISTENERS! Enter the code TWOGUYS at checkout from www.donfranciscos.com for FREE SHIPPING now through APRIL 6th! 

Shop now on their website, and follow Don Francisco’s on social media for great ideas, recipes and fun facts about our favorite drink! @donfranciscos

Join Alan and Joey this week as they talk Allen v Farrow, Harry and Megan, Ryan Murphy, and discuss some of the closeted and not-so-closeted actors and actresses from the golden age of Hollywood; all tying into our theme this week - The Gay Literary Landscape. Hollywood historian Phillip Smith is back and joins Catch Me Up Cocktail Hour this week, and together they revisit recent TV events that have everyone talking. Did Harry and Megan *really* do the Oprah interview for free? We’ve got the inside scoop. And later joining the conversation is renowned author Steven Rowley. Steven has written two best-selling books LILY AND THE OCTOPUS and THE EDITOR. Together they discuss his early days as Alan’s assistant (spoiler: filing wasn’t his strong suit), his transition from screenwriting to manuscripts, and the exciting process of watching his books get adapted for the big screen. As always, we have a guest-inspired cocktail of the week! This week enjoy THE HEMINGWAY.. Find the full recipe and more on @twoguysfromhollywood on Instagram, and @TGFHPodcast on Twitter and Facebook. Cheers!

Visit Steven's website or on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. And of course, please read his phenomenal books!

Lily and the Octopus

The Editor

The Dogs of Venice

The Guncle

This week we’re dancin’ and groovin’ to some of the BEST disco tracks to hit the scene: Runaway Love, If My Friends Could See Me Now and Red Light just to name a few! And joining the conversation is the one and only Linda Clifford, a true disco diva. Her recordings have spent a total of 60 weeks at number 1 on Billboard’s dance charts, and we’re talking about the music scene of the disco era, and how the music industry has evolved over the last few decades. Take a trip with us down memory lane with stories about some of the best of the best nightclubs in NY and LA in the 70s and 80s from two different points of view: on stage and from the dance floor. We’re still not sure how we survived those long nights and early mornings into brunch... As always, we have a guest-inspired cocktail of the week! This week enjoy the SHOOT YOUR BEST SHOT. Find the full recipe and more on @twoguysfromhollywood on Instagram, and @TGFHPodcast on Twitter and Facebook. Cheers!

On this week’s episode, we’re talking about one of the most sought after titles in the entertainment industry: THE TRIPLE THREAT. Whether it’s singing/dancing/acting, or producing/writing/directing, being a triple threat is something our guest this week knows everything about: Suzanne de Passe. Suzanne is an award winning producer, writer, and a pioneer in the music business. Suzanne speaks with us about her early days with Motown, working with Diana Ross and The Supremes, discovering The Jackson 5, and her transition into producing award winning television and films as a black woman. We talk about everything from: how the industry has changed, the new Woody Allen docu-series, that one time buying a limo she couldn’t afford changed the course of her life, impulse COVID purchases that don’t always work out, and much, much more. Join us for a fascinating look into decades of the best music, movies and TV ever created - and hot takes from the woman responsible for a lot of it. And if you’ve ever wondered what someone who knew Michael Jackson for decades thinks of the docu-series “Leaving Neverland”...you’ll find out here. As always, we have a guest-inspired cocktail of the week! This week enjoy THE TRIPLE THREAT. Find the full recipe and more on @twoguysfromhollywood on Instagram, and @TGFHPodcast on Twitter and Facebook. Cheers!

Join Alan and Joey this week as they discuss their weeks, answer a listener question about crazy client stories, gush over the Perseverance Mars Rover landing, and what brings them inspiration. Later in the conversation they are joined by Janine Shepherd, a brilliant woman with a story that embodies the theme of inspiration and resilience. Her story is remarkable and filled with challenges and victories that made her who she is today. You’ll learn about her deadly (yes, she died!) accident, her journey to healing via flying planes upside down, her TEDTalk, her book, and most recently, adapting her School of Resilience into a PHD program. And, it’s likely you’ll see her story on the big screen sometime soon! As always, we have a guest-inspired cocktail of the week! This week enjoy THE ASPEN. Find the full recipe and more on @twoguysfromhollywood on Instagram, and @TGFHPodcast on Twitter and Facebook. Cheers!

Find more info on Janine here: 

Janine’s TED Talk: https://www.ted.com/talks/janine_shepherd_a_broken_body_isn_t_a_broken_person?language=en

Janine’s Book, DEFIANT: 

https://www.amazon.com/Defiant-Broken-Body-Not-Person/dp/1622037103/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Janine+Shepherd+Defiant&qid=1614702440&s=books&sr=1-1

Janine’s Website: 

https://janineshepherd.com/

This week Alan and Joey are diving into guilty pleasures and the world of reality TV - from wild stories to 90-day Fiancé. Is it true that Alan was banned from flying Air Canada with one of his reality TV clients? You’ll find out here. Joining the conversation is TV insider and host of the popular podcast BEHIND THE VELVET ROPE, David Yontef. David’s journey to building his podcast followed a career as a lawyer, creating a successful Recruiting Staffing agency, and eventually running HR for Martha Stewart's company. He turned his passion for reality TV into building friendships with cast members and creating a platform for fans of the genre to step “Behind the Velvet Rope” and get insider access to the real people behind their on-camera personas. Joey, Alan and David reveal their guilty pleasure TV shows and we’re sure some of you will feel the same! As always, we have a guest-inspired Cocktail of the Week! This week enjoy THE PERFECT PEAR. Find the full recipe and more on @twoguysfromhollywood on Instagram, and @TGFHPodcast on Twitter and Facebook. Cheers!

On this week’s episode, join Alan and Joey as they discuss their weeks, how to cook the perfect steak, and that one time that Janice Dickinson made Alan….well, you’ll just have to listen to hear the end of that one. Janice Dickinson, the first Supermodel, is joining the conversation this week! Having been friends for over 20 years, they have a lot to talk about. Janice discusses her path to modeling, and what keeps her life balanced - not just during the pandemic but throughout her entire career. We’re going back to wild nights in the 80s and 90s, on the sets of photoshoots around the world, to vacations in Italy, and discussing what it really takes to be a “supermodel” - a term you may not know the real origins of. You’ll learn a lot about this incredible woman who has worked harder in this industry than most, and if there’s one word Joey & Alan would use to describe her? LOYAL. Tune in for a great show full of insight, advice, and a story about that one time that Janice slept with…..! As Janice is sober, TGFH did not prepare a cocktail for the episode out of solidarity, however for all the listeners out there, Joey has prepared a special cocktail that is easily a “mock-tail” in honor of Janice’s fiery spirit: THE MOLOTOV. Find the full recipe and more on @twoguysfromhollywood on Instagram, and @TGFHPodcast on Twitter and Facebook. Cheers!

Bruce Hulse's Book: Sex, Love & Fashion

Join Alan and Joey as they discuss their weeks, the vaccine, DiGiorno pizza and everything in between. Joining their conversation this week is a highly decorated and retired DEA Agent - Hector Berrellez. You may not know him by name, but we’re sure you’ve heard of the hit Netflix series NARCOS:MEXICO! The series follows DEA Agent Kiki Camarena as he goes undercover and eventually wipes out one of the largest marijuana plantations in history...or so we have been led to believe. Hector Berrellez knows more than anyone about Kiki’s kidnapping, torture and murder...and he’s sharing his side of the story. In this episode, he reveals all the ways in which Netflix got it wrong, despite his consultation meetings with the studio, and how both Mexico and the US have been perpetuating a lie for decades. His story was featured in the hit Amazon docu-series THE LAST NARC, and his new memoir THE LAST NARC: A MEMOIR BY THE DEA’S MOST NOTORIOUS AGENT is a riveting tale of his life and how he took over “Operation Leyenda” - the mission to solve the murder of Kiki Camarena, and bring his killers to justice. Hector is a fascinating man who has seen more than the average person could ever imagine - and he’s here to tell us about it. As always, we have a cocktail of the week! This week, enjoy the EL FUEGO EN MI SANGRE, a hangover cure that is also a delectable meal...you have to see it to believe it. Find the full recipe and more on @twoguysfromhollywood on Instagram, and @TGFHPodcast on Twitter and Facebook. Cheers!

This week, join Alan and Joey as they discuss memoirs, biographies and the journey from concept to publication. Portraying immensely important historical figures accurately and fairly is a challenge for any writer, and no one knows more about this than the first guest joining the conversation - James McGrath Morris! James is an award-winning author who wrote the critically acclaimed book Eye on the Struggle: Ethel Payne, the First Lady of the Black Press. Haven’t heard of her? You’re not alone, and this episode is going to change that! Later in the conversation they are joined by Phillip Smith, Joey’s childhood and lifelong best-friend. Phillip is a walking encyclopedia, and in this episode he shares his perspectives on not only Ethel Payne and the important work she did, but other historical figures that the general public doesn’t know about, and should! He also has some hot takes on the latest TV shows *ahem, Bridgerton* that you won’t want to miss. As always, we have a cocktail of the week! This week, enjoy THE MONA LISA, a delicious Italian twist on the margarita. Find the full recipe and more on @twoguysfromhollywood on Instagram, and @TGFHPodcast on Twitter and Facebook. Cheers!