Happy Pride!
This week's show is a HIDDEN GEMS medley of delights, featuring never-before-heard tidbit/morsels of chats with MERRILL MARKOE, ANDY KINDLER and BRIAN STACK!
Enjoy those gems, pals! And also, relish some brand new observations about why leather harnesses are the best possible things for society, the luxury of being an aging person over irony who just wants to listen to terrible music, a story about a wonderful insane older gal who screamed things about Bush and Cheney at my show, Billy Bob Thornton and Angelina Jolie's insane sex, and why David Bryne's hair just screams to have red wine spilled on it.
Enjoy everything!
This week's episode of HWYW delves deep into the science of animal behavior, and it should awe and inspire. DR. IRENE PEPPERBERG, author of Alex & Me and the subject of EMILY WICK's new documentary, Life With Alex, joins us to chat about her late, great colleague, Alex the African Grey Parrot. Dr. Pepperberg has more wisdom to impart about animal intelligence than any past guest (SORRY ANDY KINDLER!) and we were thrilled to talk to her about the obstacles she faced starting out as a female scientist in the late 1960s, how Alex the Parrot would be a dick when Dr. Pepperberg went away on vacation, and how the parrot's language center in its brain rivals that of the chimpanzee's.
Plus: a plea to update HowWasYourWiki.com so it sets apart Chris Spooner from Dee Dee Ramone, some ideas about Melissa Leo's unique Emmy outfit, how a perm can change a life, and what specific incarnation of Jesus Christ Jimmy Jazz the cat would be, if he were that particular messiah.
Oh, Heavenly Dog! This week's episode features two terrific comics and is otherwise delightful and fantastic. First of all, the hilarious ANDY KINDLER is here to make Julie cry off her eye makeup with laughter. Learn what Andy's mom said about Joe Paterno, what Andy said in Montreal this year that ruffled comedy feathers, and how Todd Solondz's last name is pronounced.
Then, ADIRA AMRAM, curly-tressed musical comedic dyamo is here to tell us what it was like growing up on a farm, selling cheese, gravitating toward leotards, and naming a cat something very special.
Also, Billy Bush's stupid vacation story, the dumb lady who brought her kid to yoga, a spooky story about a haunted hotel, and Allison Pill's herky jerky acting choices on THE NEWSROOM.
Plus--Hitler! Sausalito! The Jets! Scientology! And the pros of being A Plain Girl. What a wonderful show for you and me...and baby makes three!