Ep 65: The Little Gate-Crasher Book by Gabrielle Kaplan-Mayer (About Mace Bugen)

The Lit­tle Gate-Crasher by Gabrielle Kaplan-May­er

You’ve nev­er met any­one like Mace Bugen — he was 43 inch­es of unstop­pable spir­it and ener­gy! Mace was a first-gen­er­a­tion Jew­ish-Amer­i­can born in 1915 — when soci­ety had low expec­ta­tions for chil­dren born with dif­fer­ences. But Mace was smarter than most; over the years he learned to effec­tive­ly turn what soci­ety in those days called a “hand­i­cap” into a pow­er­ful tool he could use to his advan­tage. Over a peri­od of three decades, using his unique com­bi­na­tion of guile, cun­ning, hand­i­cap, and sense of enti­tle­ment, Mace engi­neered pho­tos of him­self with some of the biggest celebri­ties of his day — among them Muham­mad Ali, Jonas Salk, Jane Rus­sell, Sam­my Davis, Jr., Joe DiMag­gio, and Richard Nixon — all fea­tured in the book. The Lit­tle Gate-Crash­er tells the sto­ry of how Mace became a self-made mil­lion­aire and a pil­lar in his Jew­ish com­mu­ni­ty, and how his pro­gres­sive-mind­ed fam­i­ly gave him the con­fi­dence to lead a charmed life.

https://gabriellekaplanmayer.com/

Credits 

Edited by Otter Castro   

Research and Interview by Rich Wexler  

Music  

Richie by B.J Snowden

https://bjsnowdenmusic.com/ 

There Was a light Instrumental  

https://www.stephenbluhm.fun/ 

Website

https://www.vintageannalsarchive.com/

Ep. 64: John Kilduff (Let's Paint TV)

John Kilduff is an artist living and working in Los Angeles. In 1987, he received his BFA in Fine Art (Painting) from Otis/Parsons School of Art and Design in Los Angeles and in 2008, he received his MFA in Fine Art (Painting) from UCLA.

Let's Paint TV is an American television show hosted by artist John Kilduff.

The show is best noted for its live episodes, which consist of the host painting while he runs on a treadmill; in addition, he sometimes takes calls from viewers, cooks food, plays ping pong, or makes blended drinks.The show's episode titles typically reflect whatever tasks are being undertaken, for example, Let's Paint, Exercise, and mix drinks  

https://john-kilduff.pixels.com/

https://www.instagram.com/letspainttv/

Credits 

Edited by Otter Castro   

Research and Interview by Rich Wexler  

Music  

Richie by B.J Snowden

https://bjsnowdenmusic.com/ 

I Never Feel Alone Instrumental by Stephen Bluhm 

https://www.stephenbluhm.fun/ 

Website

https://www.vintageannalsarchive.com/

Ep. 63: Isis Aquarian (The Source Family)

Biography

-Author Isis Aquarian (Charlene Peters) was the Source Family’s designated documentarian. As one of Father Yod’s 14 wives, she photographed and filmed Father and the Source Family, recorded audio, maintained scrapbooks, and helped manage the Family business. Since the release of The Source Family documentary and her award-winning memoir, The Source: The Untold Story of Father Yod, Ya Ho Wa 13, and The Source Family, she has produced a record “Isis: The Crone” (distributed through Drag City), supervised the release of other Source Family music through Drag City, created a Source Family comic book and her own tee shirt line. She has written for and appeared in Flaunt Magazine. She is co-founder and Vice-President of the Source Foundation, and was the associate producer of The Source Family documentary. She has spoken at the International Intentional Communal Conference Association. Isis currently resides in Kailua, Hawaii and is 80 years old. She has a daughter, Saturna, and a granddaughter.

https://fatheryod.org/

She has a few ongoing projects

1. A TV series in the works  

2. A documentary about her and her life.

3. Reprinting and publishing her first two books on Father Yod, Ya Ho Wa 13, and the Source Family which are "The Legend of Father and the Source Family", and "The Source The untold story of Father Yoad, Ya Ho Wa 13, and the Source Family".

*She also made this amazing book with Jodi Wille

FAMILY: THE SOURCE FAMILY SCRAPBOOK provides an immersive view into the public and private world of the Southern California occult commune The Brotherhood of the Source. Edited by Isis Aquarian, Charlie Kitchings, and Jodi Wille, this lavishly illustrated book reproduces 200 original scrapbook pages assembled by family historian Isis Aquarian from 1972-1977, documenting the group’s dramatic rise and fall, from their time living together in the Hollywood Hills operating their wildly popular Source vegetarian restaurant on the Sunset Strip to their exodus to Hawaii and San Francisco as the group began to unravel.

Copious unpublished photographs, newspaper clippings, letters, manifestos, album art and flyers, augmented by descriptive captions, reveal the Source Family’s astonishing trajectory, from controversial leader Father Yod’s spiritual awakening to the group’s wild musical and social experimentations, to the provocations that led to the group’s paradise lost. These pages provide a revelatory, firsthand view into the widely misunderstood phenomenon of new religious movements and cults of the 1960s and 70s.

This book is a beautiful 200pg full color, cloth bound, and embossed 11"x12" hardcover coffee table book.
⁠https://www.sacredbonesrecords.com/products/sbb014-the-source-family-scrapbook⁠

Ep. 62: Patrick D. Pagnano Legacy (Photographer) w/ Brian Greenenwald (Pat's nephew)

We talk to Pat's nephew Brian Greenenwald about his Uncle Pat's work, about Pat's life, and the process of him taking on being the keeper of Pat's work and legacy.

PATRICK D. PAGNANO

Patrick D. Pagnano was born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1947. As a second generation Italian-American grounded in a devotion to family, honor, and personal responsibility imparted by the Catholic Church and his working class parents, Pagnano maintained a lifelong allegiance with underprivileged communities, recognizing that despite their differences and ethnic backgrounds, they shared a common struggle. Pagnano graduated with honors from Columbia College Chicago in 1972, where he majored in photography. After a brief visit to New York with a fellow Columbia classmate, he fell in love with the city’s chaotic, freewheeling energy and knew this was where he had to be in order to pursue his dream of becoming a professional photojournalist. He and his wife Kari moved to NYC in 1974. Over his five-decade career, Pagnano achieved success as a photojournalist and commercial photographer, securing freelance assignments from clients such as Forbes, Fortune, The New York Times, and Business Week. Pagnano also had a 20-year relationship with CBS and worked on programs including 60 Minutes, CBS Evening News, Late Night with David Letterman, Kennedy Center Honors, Country Music Awards and the Grammys. His most treasured journalistic coverage was of Fidel Castro in 1996, traveling to Cuba with Dan Rather for 48 Hours.

Armed with his ever-present Leica, freelancing provided Pagnano with the time and flexibility to pursue his own passion – the art of street photography. Recognizing the ways in which streets are among the most egalitarian spaces in public life, Pagnano was drawn to scenes that revealed the way environment played a profound role in shaping people’s behavior. Here, people of all

backgrounds converge, creating extraordinary moments of random chaos. In 2002 Pagnano self-published Shot on the Street, a culmination of his color street photography that captures the tension and fleeting juxtapositions of the urban landscape. The title refers to both the act of street photography and the

psychological effects of the street. “It can excite, anger, defeat and inspire. The street’s influence and energy never ceases,” Pagnano observed. Pagnano’s second book, Empire Roller Disco (Anthology, 2022), captures one special night in 1980 at Brooklyn’s legendary roller rink, when the photographer and skaters were perfectly in sync. “I’ve never really thought of myself as an artist,” Patrick wrote in his notebooks. “I feel like I’m just a citizen of the world and should conduct myself responsibly and not isolate myself from reality— photography is just what I do.”

Pagnano’s photographs are in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn Public Library, New York Public Library, Art Institute of Chicago, and Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago.

He died in New York City in 2018. Patrick D. Pagnano was a man of intuition, feeling, and generosity, someone the world cannot easily replace.

-Miss Rosen

About Patrick

https://patrickdpagnano.com/

https://www.instagram.com/patrick_d_pagnano_photograPHY/

Credits 

Produced and Edited by Otter Castro   

Research and Interview by Rich Wexler  

Music  

Richie by B.J Snowden

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There Was a light Instrumental  

I Never Feel Alone Instrumental by Stephen Bluhm 

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Website

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Ep. 61: Dan Low of Long Lost Personals Instagram

Dan lives in Chicago, collects weird stuff including vintage personal ads and can be found rummaging through estate sales on the weekends, or sipping prohibition era whiskey.

Follow his amazing page here

https://www.instagram.com/longlostpersonals/

Credits 

Produced and Edited by Otter Castro   

Research and Interview by Rich Wexler  

Music  

Richie by B.J Snowden

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://bjsnowdenmusic.com/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ 

There Was a light Instrumental  

I Never Feel Alone Instrumental by Stephen Bluhm 

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.stephenbluhm.fun/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ 

Website

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Ep. 60:

The Black Version featuring Jordan Black (Creator) and Karen Maruyama (Director)

The Black Version is a completely improvised show that started at the Groundings Theatre in Los Angeles in 2010 to sold out crowds and great reviews. Rolling Stone magazine calls the show “Hot” and the cast a “Comedic A-Team”. LA Weekly says the show is “Red Hot” and “Scores more than its share of belly laughs” while the LA Times calls the show “A Winner”.

The all African American cast of regulars includes show creator Jordan Black along with other comedy veterans Cedric Yarbrough, Gary Anthony Williams, Daniele Gaither, Phil Lamar, and Nyima Funk all under the direction of Karen Maruyama. Special guest performers include Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele of Key & Peele (former original cast members), Wayne Brady, Maya Rudolph, Tiffany Hadish, Niecey Nash, Jerry Minor, Angela V. Shelton, Misty Monroe, and others who come and perform in the show from time to time.

This talented cast has vast film and television credits ranging from Mad TV and Saturday Night Live, to The Boondocks and Reno 911. The show begins when the director asks the audience to suggest a popular film title and then the cast, right there on the copy, improvise the “Black Version” of that film. The show regularly performs at the Groundlings Theater and the Largo at the Coronet.

https://www.theblackversion.com/

Jordan Black

Jordan Black is a former writer for “Saturday Night Live,” “The Last OG,” and a former writer/producer for “Last Man Standing” and the reboot of “Punky Brewster”. He’s currently a writer/producer on the reboot of “The Wonder Years” on ABC. As an actor he has appeared in such shows as “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” “The Mindy Project,” “2 Broke Girls,” and “Key and Peele” among several others including a recurring role on “Community” as “Dean Spreck.” As a voice actor he’s worked on many shows including “South Park,” “The Cleveland Show,” and “American Dad”. Black is an alum of The Groundlings, the Los Angeles-based improvisational and sketch comedy theater and where he created the all black improv group The Black Version.

Karen Maruyama

Karen not only enjoys acting and improvising but also teaches all class levels as well as having the privilege of directing Main shows, Sunday shows, Gas Shows, and the Black Version at the Groundlings. She is also currently part of the directing faculty at the American Film Institute. Some of her recent television credits include playing a forensics tech on Bosch, a gynecologist on Shameless, and a body waxing mother/grandmother on Tacoma FD.

Credits 

Produced and Edited by Otter Castro   

Research and Interview by Rich Wexler  

Music  

Richie by B.J Snowden

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://bjsnowdenmusic.com/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ 

There Was a light Instrumental  

I Never Feel Alone Instrumental by Stephen Bluhm 

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.stephenbluhm.fun/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ 

Website

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Ep. 59: "And The Category Is... Inside New York's Vogue, House, and Ballroom Culture" w/ Author Ricky Tucker in Conversation with Icon Ebony Fierce

And the Category Is.: Inside New York's Vogue, House, and Ballroom Community Hardcover

A love letter to the legendary Black and Latinx LGBTQ underground subculture, uncovering its abundant legacy and influence in popular culture.

What is Ballroom? Not a song, a documentary, a catchphrase, a TV show, or an individual pop star. It is an underground subculture founded over a century ago by LGBTQ African American and Latino men and women of Harlem. Arts-based and intersectional, it transcends identity, acting as a fearless response to the sis-tem-ic marginalization of minority populations.

Ricky Tucker pulls from his years as a close friend of the community to reveal the complex cultural makeup and ongoing relevance of house and Ballroom, a space where trans lives are respected and applauded, and queer youth are able to find family and acceptance. With each chapter framed as a “category” (Vogue, Realness, Body, et al.), And the Category Is . . . offers an impressionistic point of entry into this subculture, its deeply integrated history, and how it’s been appropriated for mainstream audiences.

Ricky Tucker is a writer, an educator, and a culture critic based in NYC. His work explores the imprints of art and memory on narrative, and the absurdity of most fleeting moments. He has written for the Paris Review, Tenth Magazine, Literary Hub, and Public Seminar, among others, and has performed for reading series including the Moth Grand SLAM, Sister Spit, Born: Free, and Spark London.

https://www.instagram.com/rictorscale

Icon Ebony Fierce is a Philadelphia born and based performance artist that has one mission: to change people's perception of artistic expression one subculture at a time. Icon has a background in theatre, dance, and spoken word performance since 2003. Icon also specializes in hosting/emceeing, burlesque, performance art, and drag since 2012. Their content includes sexuality, body positivity, political/social issues, gender equality, etc. They’re also a curator for festivals like Phreak N Queer, Hot Bits Film Festival and more. They are also community based as well with creating a supply hub for protestors and activists at Sankofa house, co-organized the very first Black Philly Queer Town hall to address racial inequality in the drag and burlesque scenes, and is also currently a board member of the William Way Community Center. Professionally, they work as the event and casting manager for Burd Events which is a client of Tabu Lounge and Sports Bar, Drag Diva Brunch and beyond. Always centering QTPOC and making sure there is continuous visibility in the community. 

twitch.tv/iconebonyfierce

https://www.instagram.com/iconebonyfierce_

Credits 

Produced and Edited by Otter Castro   

Research and Interview by Rich Wexler  

Music  

Richie by B.J Snowden

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://bjsnowdenmusic.com/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ 

There Was a light Instrumental  

I Never Feel Alone Instrumental by Stephen Bluhm 

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.stephenbluhm.fun/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ 

Website

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.vintageannalsarchive.com/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Ep. 58: Dan Fishback

* This was recorded many months before the Oct/ 7th Attacks

(Singer-Songwriter/Playwright/Activist)

DAN FISHBACK is a playwright, songwriter, performer in the band Cheese On Bread, and host of the podcast Sick Day with Dan Fishback. He founded The Helix Queer Performance Network in 2013, and directed its programming through 2020. Fishback’s musical The Material World was called one of the Top Ten Plays of 2012 by Time Out New York. His play You Will Experience Silence was called “sassier and more fun than Angels in America” by the Village Voice. Also a performing songwriter, Fishback has released several albums, both solo and with his band Cheese On Bread, which dropped "The One Who Wanted More" in 2018, along with a video for their song Bad Friend, directed by Stephen Winter and featuring Justin Vivian Bond. With the Helix Queer Performance Network, Fishback created La MaMa Experimental Theater's annual series La MaMa's Squirts: Generations of Queer Performance. He is developing a new musical, Rubble Rubble, which was the focus of public controversy in 2017, when a Zionist institution canceled the play’s first reading in response to Fishback’s support for Palestinian human rights.

Fishback has had Chronic Fatigue Syndrome for over a decade, and partially supports himself through his Patreon.

Credits 

Produced and Edited by Otter Castro   

Research and Interview by Rich Wexler  

Music  

Richie by B.J Snowden

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://bjsnowdenmusic.com/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ 

There Was a light Instrumental  

I Never Feel Alone Instrumental by Stephen Bluhm 

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.stephenbluhm.fun/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ 

Website

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.vintageannalsarchive.com/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Ep. 57: Samm Levine (Freaks and Geeks/Inglourious Basterds/ Minx)

I had the honor of speaking with Samm about his role as Franco in Minx Season 1, his love of SCTV, and what it was like to work with Tarantino. I have been a big fan of Samm since "Freaks and Geeks" and am very impressed by his humor, acting, and knowledge of film. Just a generally nice guy. I want to thank Eric Edelstein ( another great dude) for connecting with me Samm.