Katie Chonacas has carved out quite a career for herself in show business.  The author, actress,  musician and social media influencer has crossed professional paths with Al Pacino,  Robert Deniro, Charlie Day, Ice T and Gary Senise along the yellow brick road, checking off a number of names on my drinking buddy bucket list. You will find as you listen to the following session that Katie has an ethos that Walter Sobchak could appreciate.  Katie and my better half seemed to bond over topics like Misophonia and mental health,  while I kept guiding the discussion back to the amazing lineup of stars Katie has broken bread with over her years as an active member of the Screen Actors Guild. It has been a while since we recorded this discussion,  and in that time Katie has released a new video for Saint Kyriaki (pronounced Key-de-ah-key),  which we also discuss in this episode. I noticed a lot of great stuff while editing this one.  

Saint Kyriaki - Dremaland 1111

https://youtu.be/9IjNGcgVCmI

"A Lover's Fairy Tale", available on Amazon

https://www.amazon.ca/LOVERS-FAIRYTALE-WRITTEN-KYRIAKI-CHONACAS/dp/B08XL9QLBN

"She's All over the Place" Podcast with Katie Chonacas on Spotify

https://open.spotify.com/show/4Tw2BRhkBKX16tjzqDllMB?si=6152634519c64ba9

Mysophonia - Tom Dozier - A condition of an oversensitivity to sounds

https://misophoniainstitute.org

Link to Katie's Interview with Shane Salk on her Podcast, "She's All Over The Place"

https://youtu.be/BEkn9g4RfHE

28:42 ' Katie Chonacas on "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia"

https://youtu.be/wHJfbf1vZFw

31:18 - Katie Chonacas in "The Bad Lieutenant Port of Call" with Nicholas Cage

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"Otherside: Serenity" is a story that has been evolving in the mind of author HJ VandeRiet since she was 15 years old.  Alanis Laundale is a bright,  talented high schooler with a supportive circle of friends when tragedy strikes.  From the vantage of another level,  Alanis watches her family and friends cope with losing her.  Through the guidance of her guardians Archie and Trinity in the Inner Circle,  Alanis learns that her role and responsibilities do necessarily end in the afterlife,  and she is soon faced with a dimlemna involving her bandmate (and boyfriend) Josh that she must help resolve in order for her soul to have serenity.  With great pop culture and music references that will resonate with readers of all ages,  HJ has shared a poignant coming of age story for the world to enjoy.

Buy "Otherside: Serenity" at Amazon

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Music Used in this Episode

"Crawling Back to You" By Tom Petty ("Wildflowers")

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The answsers are Elton John, Adele, Ed Sheeran... Hannyta!  The question?  Which artists were in the top 5 South African Itunes pop downloads for the week of November 10, 2021?  Hannyta's publicists reached out to us with a pointer to her smash hit "Wildflower" a couple of weeks ago,  and when we heard it we just had to have her on Yeah Uh Huh.  Having just returned from our vacation to the American west,  we were mesmerized by the song's homage to Navajo culture and nod to those American heroes of World War 2 who converted a native American language into a weapon against the tyrrany of Asxis forces.  Heady stuff for a young lady who had just passed her Scottish "highers" with alacrity.  In our brief discussion with this rising star,  we learned of Hannyta's love of American culture,  her amazing collaboration with her proud father and some of the artists that have inspired her along the way.  Towards the end,  Hannyta disclosed that this was her very first interview,  so we plan to take that to the bank when she is dominating the AMA's in the not too distant future.  What a great surprise when she agreed agreed to chat with us from her home in the Scottish Highlands.

Release from MTS Management Group about "Wildflower"

https://www.pr.com/press-release/848564

Article on Broadway World about Hannyta's "Wildflower"

https://www.broadwayworld.com/bwwmusic/article/Hannyta-Hits-iTunes-Top-5-With-Debut-Original-Single-Wildflower-20211108

Hannyta's Official Website

https://hannyta.com/

Hannyta's Official Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/hannyta.music

"Wildflower" on Youtube

https://youtu.be/C1l_rXcM1jk

Credits for this Episode

"Wildflower" on Youtube

https://youtu.be/C1l_rXcM1jk

Hannyta's cover of "Into the Unknown" from Frozen

https://youtu.be/ROh5_TSG15I

Hannyta's cover of Christina Perry's "Jar of Hearts" by Hannyta

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We close out our series on JFK with another take on the assassination.  Wtih Katanna Zachry and Sarah Peterson,  we examined many different conspiracy theories.  In episode 34,  our favorite armchair detective JT Townsend (writer of "Summer's Almost Gone" about the Bricca murders) presents the least popular theory of all... the Oswald as lone gunman concept.  For those that have been following along,  Lisa,  Aaron and I have refrained from offering our own thoughts on the most infamous murder in American history.  We are not here to persuade you or change your minds,  but to look at the life and death of the 35th president from as many angles as possible and let you draw your own conclusions.  As we approach November 22, 2021,  some 58 years since Deeley Plaza turned into the symbol for a more jaded and mature America, it is easy to see why this crime has refused to fade away.

JT Townsend's article on the Kennedy Assassination

https://jttownsend.com/the-jfk-assassination-case-still-closed/

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Credits for this episode

Clip #1 - Walter Cronkite Warren Commission report - US National Archives

https://youtu.be/lfgHXydbTsM

Clip #2, #3, #5, #6  (8:54, 12:16, 38:47, 41:09 ) - Firing Line with William F. Buckley - Mark Lane 

https://youtu.be/-fPiKZBgXGg

Clip #4 (21:30) - Oswalt Interview with WDSU-TV in New Orleans

https://youtu.be/JP4qwrniKt0

Clip #7 (56:39) - Gerald Ford Interview about Waren Report on WOODTV - 8

https://youtu.be/u0Kks5qtlOs

Clip #8 (58:29) - Seinfeld Episode 16 Season 3 - The Magic Loogie

https://youtu.be/tBz3PqA2Fmc

Clip #9 (108:40) - NO Prosecutor Jim Garrison files charges against Clay Shaw

https://youtu.be/9Xlb7FmsMs0

Clip #10 (1:11:22) - Vincent Bugliosi at Commonwelth Club of CA - May 29,2007

https://youtu.be/JktLkQbtVbE

Clip #11 (1:17:47) - Top 10 Speaches of JFK Compilation

https://youtu.be/6DbhTwahqPg

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Will Cooper returns to the show to help us with our Kennedy trilogy of podcasts.  Two of three of these shows are devoted to the devastating loss to our country on Nov. 22, 1963.  But we thought it very important to cover what the 35th president of our country actually achieved during his remarkable, televised administration. We talk about the culturally significant 1960 debate with Richard Nixon,  the Bay of Pigs Invasion and the terrifying Cuban Missile Crisis,  during which the World War 2 hero stared down the threat of thermonuclear war with the Soviet Union and ensure peace at a time when noone took it for granted.  Together with our co-host from California,  Aaron,  we put partisan politics aside to show that history will remember JFK as much than a victim of a heinous murder,  but a flawed man of great courage and audacity whose courage and influence informs us as we confront the problems of our own time.

Audio Credits from Episode:

Audio Clip #1

Joe Kennedy Endorses FDR for President

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEqEY4Q9LGQ

Audio Clip #2

David Nasaw,  author of "Patriarch" - Joe Kennedy was not a bootlegger

Audio Clip #3

Eisenhower cannot remember a reason to endorse Nixon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPA5AaYx0EU

Audio Clip #4 

PT109

Audio Clip #5

JFK talks to Eisenhower during Cuban Missile Crisis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyArUh8eqJ0

Audio Clip #6

John F. Kennedy: "We Choose to go to the Moon" Speech

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwFvJog2dMw&t=63s

Audio Clip #7

You are no Jack Kennedy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Krj2rX7-M7E&t=33s

Audio Clip #8

Trump encourages attack on the Capitol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fiT6c0MQ58

Audio Clip #9

The Ignorance of One Voter in a Democracy Impairs the Security of all

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FW9FMcQ_AU

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Conspiracy fatigue has settled over the assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy on November 22nd 1963.  Yet it remains difficult for some to get their head around the thought of a ne'er do well barely holding down a minimum wage job in a school book wharehouse toppling one of the most admired presidents of the 20th century.  Our guests Sara Peterson and Katanna Zachry are instructors in the MC Language Hub at Midland College.  As scholars, they interviewed roughly 140 individuals who had been close to the crime or the individuals who possibly participated in the murder of the president on that fateful Dallas afternoon.  And while they are no fans of the Warren commission report,  they do not take a position on who may have been responsible.  Instead,  their fascinating book presents the events from the eyes and words of the historical figures who lived it and allows the reader to draw their own conclusions.  

This is the first of three episodes we will be releasing about JFK this month!

The Lone Star Speaks by Peterson and Zachry on Amazon

https://www.amazon.com/Lone-Star-Speaks-Stories-Assassination/dp/1610881923

News Report featuring Sarah Peterson and Katanna Zachry

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/the-assassination-of-president-john-f-kennedy-texas-authors-take-a-fresh-look/ar-BB1bg04V

Were there THREE Oswalds?

https://afvnews.ca/2021/03/05/there-were-three-or-more-lee-harvey-oswalds/

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Mary Twiss Connolly is a great friend.  Mary is Lakota Indian,  and on a recent trip to San Francisco she was pleasantly surprised to find that her great aunt Stella Runnels Leach,  who she had fond memories of as a child, was a central figure in one of the most courageous and progressive examples of activism by indigenous citizens of the 1970's... the Indians Of All Tribes' (IOAT) occupation of Alcatraz Island.  As the resident medic, Stella was responsible for ensuring the health and well being of every man,  woman and child during the 19 months of the occupation,  navigating difficult obstacles imposed by Richard Nixon's hostile administration in addition to natural threats posed by a facility that had been left abandoned since it had last been used as a state prison six years before.  Stella worked closely with organizers Richard Oakes,  Lanada Means and John Trudell to try and reclaim a parcel of land that conditions of the Treaty of Laramie entitled them to.  The occupation ended peacefully,  just as the purchase of Manhattan Island for pennies on the dollar had some 200 years before.  But the actions of these courageous Americans will have a place in our hearts at Yeah Uh Huh for every Thanksgiving moving forward.

As an addendum to this episode,  Mary gave us a list of important IOAT members whose influence continues to affect positive change for indigenous people today

Vine Delouria Jr.

John Trudell ("All There Is To It" from Farm Aid 1993 plays at the end of the episode)

Richard Twiss

Russell Means

Dennis Banks

Stella Runnels Leach's Wikipedia Page

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stella_Leach

Great Film on the Occupation of Alcatraz

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbWxeQNYPVg&t=443s

Richard Oakes and the Occupation of Alcatraz

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9fw4KRRafg

The Education Archive - Occupation of Alcatraz

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When Eric Paul Erickson visited the chatlab he had yet to launch his "Open Highway" podcast.  So we mostly spent that Saturday morning talking about his career as an actor and writer,  his Viking Dog Entertainment production company,  and even covered some stories from his career as a teacher.  We screened his psychological feature film thriller "Truth",  co-starring the amazing Rachel Alig,  and moved on to a topic that is very important to him,  Wolf Rescue!  There were lots of laughs in between.  Since then,  Eric has ushered a series of amazing guests on to his new pod,  and we urge you to check out "Open Highway with Eric Erickson" just as soon as you have finished listening to this week's episode of "Yeah Uh Huh" :).  

The Open Highway Podcast

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Trailer for Eric's movie,  "Truth"

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Our co-host Aaron and I go back to 7th grade middle school.  We met in the infamous Mr. Meoski's science class,  but it was a year or so before we started hanging out and listening to tunes together.  He carried a boom box that that only seemed to play "Blizzard of Oz" and Billy Squier when we decided to wind on down the road of the complete Led Zeppelin catalog.  Of course,  we already knew "Stairway to Heaven",  "Black Dog",  "Whole Lotta Love" and all the epic rock jams in regular rotation on WEBN at the time.  But it was not until we started meticulously collecting all the cassettes of the studio recordings that we developed a true appreciation for the breadth and majesty of Zeppelin, the overlooked gems like "Out on the Tiles" and "Tea for One".  Soon,  we found ourselves making weekend pilgrimages to Everybody's Records,  a fine shop on Ridge Road that is better than ever today,  gathering every bootleg we could find.  "Copenhagen Warmups", "Earl's Court",  just anything.  There was even one from their 1977 Riverfront Coliseum show in Cincinnati.  Some of it was incredibly poor audio quality,  but we wore them out anyway.  By now,  we were known to partake of some recreational smokes on occasion,  and studious as we were at the time we spent the better part of a week listening to the entire Zeppelin discography together, pondering it almost metaphysically and recording our tangential thoughts on each song, as if anybody cared.  Pretentious as the exercise was,  it was just a blast to binge the music that way, completely unencumbered by the copyright concerns and riff stealing that would eventually haunt the band.  I searched for those notes and I am still convinced they exist somewhere in my garage or basement,  but this special episode of YUH is our attempt to recapture some of that magic of when Zeppelin was new to us,  and unlike anything we had ever seen or heard.  Every Wednesday since one random Wednesday in 1983 or 84 has been Zeppelin Day, and always will be!

Led Zeppelin Official

https://merch.ledzeppelin.com

"Becoming Led Zeppelin" Documentary Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=18&v=kCCvmdKs7Vo&feature=emb_logo

Led Zeppelin Discography

Led Zeppelin 1 - 1969

Led Zeppelin 2 - 1969

Led Zeppelin 3 - 1970

Led Zeppelin 4 - 1971

Houses of the Holy - 1973

Physical Graffiti - 1975

Presence - 1976

The Song Remains the Same - 1976

In Through the Out Door - 1979

Coda - 1982

The Led Zeppelin Boxed Set - 1990

Remasters - 1990

The Complete Studio Recordings - 1993

BBC Sessions - 1997

How The West Was Won - 2003

Mothership - 2007

Celebration Day - 2012

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"Dazed and Confused" from Deus Ex Machina Sound Board Bootleg

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"Bonzo's Montreaux" from 1977 Seattle Bootleg

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Shane Salk is the grandson of Dr. Jonas Salk,  the world famous Dr. responsible for the Polio vaccine.  But to Shane,  he was just grandpa.  Shane and his partner Bill Holmes are the masterminds behind the magical world of Carcerem,  a voice only fantasy podcast that recalls the radio dramas of yesteryear and brings such big screen luminaries as Jane Lynch (Glee and Hollywood Game Night),  Neil Flynn (The Middle), Piper Laurie (Carrie) and Grey Griffin (The Simpsons),  among many others,  to the magical world of Aaru.  Lisa devoured the entire first season of Carcerem in 36 hours and was ready to rock when Shane visited the chat lab early last month. He is about to launch his own podcast called "Mostly Just Stories" with Shane Salk,  which can be found in the show notes below.  But we asked the questions on that day.

Carcerem on Spotify

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"Mostly Just Stories" by Shane Salk

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