Unofficial

Are you Different? Odd? Unique? Well welcome to the club, weirdo. Unfortunately sometimes that off-the-beaten-path personality isn’t embraced by the people around you, even by those closest to you...like your very own parents. The people who love you the most often make the poorest choices for your health as a person and it’s your job to figure that out as soon as possible and spend the rest of your life correcting the situation. The good news is, the more fucked up you are the more opportunity there is for that massive overhaul you call the journey of life.

This week Coop&Myan host perhaps their most introspective friend. A woman who has overcome parental and societal corral, spanning decades and the globe. Danvy Pham is an artist, a painter, a mother, a woman who says yes to life and lives in the NOW on such a constant basis, she resonates joy and light. If you thought getting out of your parents basement was an undertaking than imagine trying to escape that basement if it were inside your mind. Moving from a life of mandatory scholastic perfection and a career in pharmaceutical sales to Kundalini yoga and an emotional, sexual existence most of us can’t even comprehend, Danvy’s life, even at its very inception, is a storybook saga of Shakespearean heart and form.

Unofficial is committed to consistent, original content and a level of expressive freedom bordering on anarchy. For decades Coop&Myan effortlessly unloaded thousands of hours of ideas and creativity onto their family and friends and now they’re offering it to you. Free of charge. As an additional complementary gift, the boys are also offering 15 minutes of fame. And if you sign up right now they’ll quadruple the offer. Send requests to [email protected] and tell us what makes you amazing. See you in the studio...weirdo.

"I LOVE THE 405!" Said absolutely no one, ever. Seeing as its America's busiest freeway you'd think tens of thousands of motorists would praise it's construction and arterial access to so many areas of souther California. But since it's also the most congested freeway in the United States, the consensus shall likely remain...nope, it sucks, hate it, thank you very much. Such is human nature, we adapt to anything, so much so that we often take great achievements of modern convenience for granted on a collective scale.

Apparently America doesn't take Marvel for granted as Avengers: Endgame opening weekend topped the box office with $1.2 billion in ticket sales. Two weeks later that total has almost doubled. Good thing too since it's budget was $356 million. The third highest of all time. I wonder what percentage of the average Hollywood budget goes to charity?

Coop and Myan are back at it, taking down inconsiderate parkers, questioning the inaccurate nomenclature of ice balls, prioritizing the appreciation for 90's ensemble comedy and recognizing the badassery of the legend, Josh Brolin. Coop misses a decimal point in LA's growth rate as California's total population inches toward 40 million and Myan learns that black people really did feel a sense of pride and cultural representation from Black Panther. What, no love for Luke Cage?

Every week Unofficial brings you 90 minutes of original ridiculousness, Mondays with Coop and Myan and Thursdays with a talented, unknown artist or professional, grinding it out in LA. A cultural, artistic, entertainment void that is finally being filled...you're welcome.

Email us at [email protected] with questions, comments or submission to actually be our Thursday guest on the show. Don't worry if you're a nobody because there's no such thing. Your taste of fame awaits.

When was the last time you walked into your bosses office and said, "I can't stand it anymore, I QUIT!! ...for 3 months." Did you know you could do that? If your boss is cool, he/she may actually be OK with it.

We all have that one friend who fills every allotted second on our voicemail. Sometimes it's annoying or weirdly narcissistic but once in a while it's an interesting, creative, brilliant friend and those long messages are a greatly anticipated, euphonious joy. Our guest this week, Sabrina used to leave those messages until one day she used a memo app to leave even longer ones. With her family and friends clamoring for more memo-chronicles of her journey's around the world and the sounds that surround her, she realized her new passion was actually her very own exclusive podcast. Now it's time to share Sabrina with the world she explores.

Unofficial keeps coming across fascinating people and lucky us, they keep coming on the show. If the prison aspects of your daily grind are eating away at your feeling of purpose, you definitely want to tune in this week to hear Sabrina expound on her 3 month sabbatical from her office job in Florence, Italy, as she ventures to America to find undiscovered pieces of herself. Florence might be a tourist destination for the world but for some it's a hometown like any other. Hey, even people in London and Paris need a vacation.

Coop and Myan keep pumping them out, 2 shows a week, Monday and Thursday at 6AM, just in time for your morning commute. So tune in, turn it up and take a toke with Unofficial. You can even contact us ([email protected]) with questions, comments and even submissions to be on the show. Come get your taste of fame.

It's amazing the things we tolerate as Americans. Fake cheese, fake boobs, fake news. China however, takes it to a whole different level. Knockoff Teslas, plastic rice, even fake eggs. Really?? Talk about your Faberge' albumen. Alright that one's probably not gonna land.

If discomfort from synthetic food wasn't bad enough, this week on Unofficial, Coop and Myan bring up the universally recognized cringe-factor in The Office episode: Scott's Tot's, the awkward pity of Buster Scruggs', "Meal Ticket" (the Boy with no limbs) and the unwatchable nature of that one scene in the classic, American History X. Why doesn't Tarantino just do one romantic comedy? I guess True Romance kinda counts.

Episode 40 is a milestone for the boys as they inch closer and closer to the top. Having a talkshow at your fingertips every week makes the world we explore one big casting call. The Internet now has a place where anyone can be famous for an hour. Famous for just being you. Have you ever wanted to be a guest on a podcast? If you're in LA, hit-up Coop and Myan at [email protected] and come showcase what makes you amazing.

In the meantime, check out Unofficial's newest discovery, "Sabrina", this Thursday, as she takes a leave of absence from beautiful, Florence, Italy and searches for herself in America. With plans to tackle her own podcast, she travels the globe, capturing the sounds of the world. Her voice alone lets you know she may just be on to something.

Have you ever wondered how someone "makes it" in Hollywood? Michal Gruszczynski, a Polish cinematographer puts his life on hold in Poland and starts from scratch in Los Angeles. With no job, no wheels and no place to live, Michal gives himself 15 days to find a car, an apartment and a film project. After 6 months in America and a handful of new credits he heads back to Poland with new representation, at a new level in his career and with a deeper emotional understanding of his professional self.

Coop and Myan get really lucky snagging Michal 16 hours before his flight back to Warsaw, Poland. Getting someone with a perspective from behind the camera is a great change of pace. A hands-on reminder of all the different artistic departments that make a project possible. Michal had previously been traveling the world, Guatemala, Indonesia, Bankok, working on various projects, from a reality show featuring Polish fighter Joanna Jedrzejczyk, the former UFC women's strawweight champion, to a simple self-tape for his friend, Rafal Zawierucha, a Polish actor who landed a role in Quentin Tarantino's newest film, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.

Receiving support from the Polish Film Institute, collaborating with the American Society of Cinematographers and even shooting a music video with Unofficial's very own Coop and Myan, its clear Michal Gruszczynski is a talented, consummate addition to any production in which he gets involved. We really can't wait to see what's next for Poland's newest DP Wonderboy.

Unofficial has been climbing the podcasting charts and bringing you clockwork creative content twice a week, Mondays and Thursdays for 90 minutes of unscripted laughs, interviews and insight and Coop and Myan are only getting more excited for what's next. More guests, a new studio and a Youtube channel so we can start bringing you faces to put with these beautiful voices. If you haven't already subscribed then please do so now. Its just a click but it does so much for us. If you've already subscribed and enjoy what we do, then please double down and tell a friend.

Is Myan Finally getting a Tesla?? NO! Well yes but not right now. Elon emailed last week and said he could lease one for cheap so it's basically T-minus for launch. Yeah Tesla Stock has taken a hit recently but disrupting a 100 year old industry of human transportation for a global population, literally fueled by the lifeblood of the corrupted world economy (after war of course) is not the simplest task. Luckily the profits made on a little Tesla stock will eventually pay for the downpayment on the lease making every aspect of modern, electric car-buying an overwhelmingly sustainable endeavor. So you basically hate the planet if you don't lease a Tesla. That could be an effective ad campaign. Tesla: Stop hating Earth!

Coop and Myan are creeping up on 40 here next week...episodes, that is and the topics of discussion have begun to really elevate to some serious stuff. It turns out that Cooper doesn't really like DVD commentary and Myan solves an issue of traffic etiquette with donuts. Throw in a classic Boy Scout Old Lady-badge and two Polish dudes named Michael and you've got yourself an episode guaranteed to be nominated for a Poddy. I don't know if podcast awards exist but they absolutely will at some point and someone is gonna call one a "Poddy."

Unofficial brings you only the finest, handcrafted, impromptu, artisanal audio-gold and Thursdays we drag some innocent soul down with us and it's goddamn, unadulterated country gravy. This Thursday it's Coop's friend Michal, a cinematographer from Poland, visiting America to find his own path to success and maybe some genuine human connections if time permits. So strap on your listenin' caps, pray to whatever phony, flying bearded unicorn you think brings the rain and thank your mom for pushing her own happiness aside to give you a chance to play Angry Birds and watch a couple of seasons of Whitney. If time permits.

If they made Punky Brewster into a feature length film and they were casting for a 28 year old Punky, I'm pretty sure this week's guest would land the gig. Kelsey, a friend of the show and gift to the world is the kind of girl-next-door you want in your corner if life gets even remotely somber. She is ageless and has a zeal for living that rivals that of the little girl who stood on the bathroom sink and purposely declared to the world that she liked absolutely everything. After months of pleading Kelsey finally worked an Unofficial visit into her busy schedule and Coop and Myan are so excited they can barely even let her talk. Take a breath, fellas.

Unofficial fills this week's Thursday guest show with an hour of all your favorites: racism, meditation, wordless auditions for sexual lubricants. The boys find a way to compare police officers to pit bulls, care about the number of wheels on a dump truck and even name a future band after Kelsey's lip sweat. LIP SWEAT!!! Coop teaches us that turbulence is all bark, that being early is only for the cool kids and that we finally have a photo of a real black hole. Myan sits on an astrological fence, waxes on about the Ultra Deep Field and the vast unknowingness of our immesurable Universe and argues against anyone giving a shit about his birthday. Honestly, he's not going to remember yours so what's the point?

So make a bit of time to sit with your Unofficial friends, take in a little pointless prattle and ask yourself where your mind's creativity and body's ability to manifest converge and what your talent and art really mean to you and what you're going to do about it. As Kelsey noted, in many ways we are "taught to be small," perhaps not encouraged to even be ourselves. But it's our choice to rise beyond the boxes, to be present, to constantly carbonate the space around us and those with whom we share it. To truly...live in a question mark.

This week starts off with a hiccup. More like a hotcup actually. Coop's cup of coffee gives us a hurdle one minute into our grueling workweek. Luckily for us great art comes from real struggle so we quickly turned it around and churned out another epic half hour Monday. This one is filled with tales of mediocre adolescent-athleticism, under-appreciated frontier vignettes and the boy's passion for Kevin Hart's dirigible soul. You can tell that guy's a good dude.

There's something about our Monday morning romp that we really like keeping simple, get the week started with some comfortable shenanigans and then hit Thursday hard with an in-depth plunge into the mind of a talented artist. Thursday our friend Kelsey pops in to tell us what its like working in LA theatre and now commercials. Kelsey is literally one of the sweetest human beings the universe has ever spat out and it truly was a delight to have her on the show. That episode should definitely we accompanied by a warm cup of tea and some essential oils.

Justine Monsul, creator of monfefo cold-press juice company drops a case of her Turmeric shots on the boys at J30 Studio. And they won’t shut up about it. They can’t stop saying how delicious it is, how much organic energy it gives them and what a “simple-ingredient-genius” Justine happens to be. It’s getting kind of annoying actually..give it a rest, guys.

Ok I just tried one of the Turmeric shots, with orange, lemon, agave and black pepper and I would just like to issue a formal correction on a mistake I made in the previous paragraph. As it turns out, monfefo’s Justine Monsul is a flavor-astronaut who only knows one gear...deliciosity. Ok, second gear is probably quality and nutrients idk.

Coop and Myan look forward to Thursday’s guest show so much. This week Justine teaches them that if they want to swim with the other kids that you just need to jump in the water. That Turmeric and Ginger are the Power Shots but that Love and Beauty are just around the corner. So scrape off your makeup, kick that Coke addiction and don’t burn the fuckin’ rice. Unless that’s the way you like it.

Share it. Heal it. Feel it. monfefo.com

What do parents, mom-game, kids, babies, twins, triplets, best friends, couples, spouses, raising a family in LA, neighbors and little dogs all have in common? They’re all in this show. Wow this is really a family oriented episode. Feels almost TOO wholesome. Would it help to even things out if I told you the neighbor anecdotes are not exactly flattering? OK good. Yeah the neighbor stuff is not great. Some people are truly unhappy. So let’s make fun of them!

This week Unofficial really finds it’s stride. Coop and Myan are building the kind of momentum most often reserved for super athletes and wealthy scientists. We are widening our net and catching marlins made of gold and selling by the lb. at a rate the market can absolutely not sustain. ...cause they’re made of gold. Marlins are huge. They sell gold by the ounce, a one lb. marlin steak would be incredibly expensive.

So stop playing dumb, pay your Bluetooth subscription in full and don’t miss our Thursday show with our most special guest, Justine Monsul at monfefo, cold press juice company of Brooklyn. She’s got a Turmeric shot with orange, lemon, agave and black pepper that once you taste, your body will crave. She’s also a super awesome chick and crazy beautiful if you wanna know the truth.

We really need to invest in some cameras.