SnapSessions

17/04/2024

SnapSessions! presents Episode 57 featuring a muckraking exposé of Oakland's indoor ma*****na growing industry with environmental scientist, Evan Mills, as well as a look at the origins of Shakespeare Unscripted, a long form improvised play developed by Dan O’Connor and Brian Lohmann in Hollywood back in 1999.

Evan Mills is an environmentalist who worked for many years for Lawrence Labs at the University of California at Berkeley. During his tenure he participated in the IPCC, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, co-winners of the Nobel Peace Prize along with former Vice President Al Gore in 2007 for their work pointing out the danger of Climate Change. SnapSessions! interviewed Evan three years ago to explore his work as an Environmental Scientist. Now Evan is back, investigating a supposedly green industry, indoor ma*****na farming, in his new guise as a muckraking journalist. Last year Evan wrote an article for Slate called “Environmental Justice--Up in Smoke” detailing a series of flagrant abuses of w**d industry workers, of profligate energy wastage, and of zoning violations in the ma*****na growing industry in Oakland, California. SnapSessions now presents a return interview with environmental activist Evan Mills!

SnapSessions! Episode 57 also presents interviews with two other SnapSessions! alumni, actor/directors Dan O’Connor and Brian Lohmann, who talk about the development of the long form improv Shakespeare Unscripted shows at Los Angeles’ Globe Theater back in 1999. Dan and Brian have spent years working in long-form improv with Impro Theatre of Los Angeles and talk with SnapSessions about how they decided to take on improvised Shakespeare 25 years ago. As SnapSessions! own Doug Nunn was present at the creation as producer, we reminisce about an important milestone in improvising full length plays in the style of the greatest playwright in English history.

Episode 57 is 1 Hour 25 minutes long and includes an intro, our talk with Dan & Brian on Shakespeare Unscripted (starts at 1:16), and our interview with investigative Environmental scientist, Evan Mills (starts at 45:06).

SnapSessions! includes original music by Marshall Brown, production by Marshall Brown, Max Oatney, and Frej Barty. Voiceovers by Doug Nunn and Marshall Brown, and articles and interviews by Doug Nunn. Our SnapSessions! artist and logo maker is caricaturist, Daniel Stieglitz.

Head to our website thesnapsessions.com to find us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Soundcloud.

Enjoy what you hear? Consider supporting our program by contributing to our Patreon

15/04/2024

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SnapSessions! presents Episode 57 featuring a muckraking exposé of the indoor ma*****na growing industry with environmental scientist, Evan Mills, as well as a look at the origins of Shakespeare Unscripted, a long form improvised play developed by Dan O’Connor and Brian Lohmann in Hollywood back ...

30/03/2024

Long-time SnapSessions! Euro Bros Daniel Stieglitz ART and his family(wife Inga, and daughters, Lotta and Frida) are visiting in Albion and last night we had a fab meal and Dan did a variety of his superb caricatures. Good food, lots of laughs, and some great pictures. Here below the whole team, Daniel, Marshall and me(the SnapSessions Bros), and caricatures of Julie Hillebrand, Marshall and Emily, and Sos and Erica Zissa. Daniel Stieglitz is a marvel with a pen and sketch pad.

Langjährige SnapSessions! Euro Bruder Daniel Stieglitz und seine Familie (Frau Inga und Töchter Lotta und Frida) sind zum Besuch in Albion. Gestern Abend hatten wir ein fantastisches Essen und Dan hat eine Auswahl seiner großartigen Karikaturen gemacht. Gutes Essen, viel Lachen und tolle Bilder. Hier unten das gesamte Team, Daniel, Marshall und ich (die SnapSessions Brüder) sowie Karikaturen von Julie Hillebrand, Marshall und Emily, und Sos und Erica Zissa. Daniel Stieglitz ist ein Wunderwerk mit Stift und Skizzenblock.

09/02/2024

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SnapSessions! presents Episode 56, featuring an interview with Environmental activist and futurist, Dar-Lon Chang, President of Geo-Solar Technologies. In addition, we talk to a group of young Climate activists from Mendocino High School regarding their thoughts on recent Climate trials that have oc...

03/12/2023

SnapSessions! is back! After a short hiatus where SnapSessions!’ Techmeister Marshall Brown first got married and then went down with Covid, SnapSessions is back with Episode 55 featuring “Deutsche Brotbacken” including an interview with German master bread baker, Martin Siemann and a look at the bakeries of Central Europe. Also featured this month is another of our environmental reports—“The Hottest Summer on Record” where we investigate our ongoing Climate Crisis, COP 28, and our past horrific summer of world-wide fires.

This past May SnapSessions had a chance to visit German Master Baker, Martin Siemann at his bakery in Heidelberg, Germany. Our interview and article “Deutsche Brotbacken” introduces our listeners to many of the highlights of German bread baking as well as talking with Martin Siemann about his career as a baker and his family legacy. “Deutsche Brotbacken” looks at the long-time baking traditions of Central Europe—Germany, Austria, and Switzerland—and how they are valued. In addition SnapSessions was given a tour of Martin’s bakery—Mahlzahn Bäckerei in Heidelberg in May, where we saw everything from how various grains are milled, how basic wheat, rye, millet, and spelt flours are combined, and how they are turned into loaves, rolls (Brötchen) and baguettes. Martin also talks about his family’s history as bakers over seven generations, starting near Hannover at the beginning of the 19th century. If there was ever a SnapSessions episode that should have had “Smellarama” or “Tastearama”, it would be Episode 55.

We also post “The Hottest Summer on Record”, an in depth look at the fires of this past summer around the world from Quebec, to Maui, to Greece and southern Europe. SnapSessions! ongoing environmental reporting hones in on Earth’s precarious Climate tipping points from melting glaciers in Greenland and Antarctica to changes in the flow of the Gulf Stream. A recent speech by Al Gore is featured as is an ending warning from comedy great, George Carlin.

Episode 55 is 45 minutes long and includes an intro, the article “The Hottest Summer on Record” (starts at 1:17), and ends with our interview with Martin Siemann in “Deutsche Brotbacken” (starts at 18:14).

SnapSessions! includes original music by Marshall Brown, production by Marshall Brown and interns Max Oatney & Frej Barty, voiceovers by Doug Nunn and Marshall Brown, and articles and interviews by Doug Nunn. Our SnapSessions! artist and logo maker is caricaturist, Daniel Stieglitz.

Head to our website thesnapsessions.com to find us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Soundcloud.

Enjoy what you hear? Consider supporting our program by contributing to our Patreon

02/12/2023

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After a short hiatus where SnapSessions!’ Techmeister Marshall Brown first got married and then went down with Covid, SnapSessions is back with Episode 55 featuring “Deutsche Brotbacken” including an interview with German master bread baker, Martin Siemann and a look at the bakeries of Central...

27/08/2023

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SnapSessions! is back with Episode 54 featuring an interview with Ecologist, Botanist, and Environmental Science teacher Teresa Sholars. Also featured this month is an article—“The Saga of the Oakland As”, the story of the past 55 years of Oakland As’ baseball and the sad likelihood that the...

12/07/2023

SnapSessions! returns with Episode 53 featuring an interview with long-time Hollywood Art & Production Designer, Aaron Haye, as well as an article, “SnapSessions! Looks at the Future of Space Flight”, where our podcast wonders where Earthlings might be headed in the next years.

Long-time Hollywood artist, Aaron Haye, grew up on the Mendocino Coast with aspirations to be the next Indiana Jones. He was influenced both by his artist Dad and his outdoorsy Mom. Following up on his early interest in photography and the life sciences, Aaron went on to study Marine Biology at UC Santa Cruz with an emphasis in field studies. He ended up working as a seal researcher on Lowry Island off the coast of Alaska, while spending his summers following in his Dad’s footsteps at Industrial Light and Magic, George Lucas’ house of special effects in Marin. This led to early work as a model maker in such films as StarTrek First Contact, Mars Attacks, Starship Troopers, and Terminator III, then as an Art Designer on Terminator Genisys, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, and 42(the Jackie Robinson biopic), leading to a job as Production Designer on Bohemian Rhapsody in 2018. Aaron continues to work regularly as a Production Designer in Hollywood and around the world.

In our newest article “SnapSessions! Looks at the Future of Space Flight” we cogitate on our own dreams of spaceflight as kids growing up on SciFi films and then speculate on where we seem to be headed in this era of billionaires in space. We look at the physical realities of humans surviving in space, as well as the chaotic nature of the present space race, wondering in the end if it may not be better to reevaluate our future as astronauts, cosmonauts, or taikonauts, and acknowledging that we should start by cleaning up our atmosphere.

Episode 53 is 1 hour and 20 minutes long and includes an intro, the article “SnapSessions! Looks at the Future of Space Flight” (starts at 1:16), and our interview with Hollywood Production and Art Designer, Aaron Haye (starts at 13:37).

SnapSessions! includes original music by Marshall Brown, production by Marshall Brown and interns Max Oatney & Frej Barty, voiceovers by Doug Nunn and Marshall Brown, and articles and interviews by Doug Nunn. Our SnapSessions! artist and logo maker is caricaturist, Daniel Stieglitz.

Head to our website thesnapsessions.com to find us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Soundcloud.

Enjoy what you hear? Consider supporting our program by contributing to our Patreon

12/07/2023

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SnapSessions! returns with Episode 53 featuring an interview with long-time Hollywood Art & Production Designer, Aaron Haye, as well as an article, “SnapSessions! Looks at the Future of Space Flight”, where our podcast wonders where Earthlings might be headed in the next years.   Long-time Holl...

16/05/2023

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SnapSessions! reboots with Episode 52 featuring an interview with British Comic/Poet/Musician, John Hegley and an article, Coopting Cop 27, a report on the disappointing United Nations annual Conference of the Parties on Climate Change this past fall. John Hegley has been one of Britain’s great co...

05/03/2023

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Mendocino’s SnapSessions! podcast presents Episode 51, Part II of their “The History of Hit & Run Theater”, premiering Sunday, March 5 on their podcast website—thesnapsessions.com. Part I debuted on January 29. Whereas SnapSessions! Episode 50 (Part I) focused mostly on Hit & Run Theater’s...

30/01/2023

Hit & Run Theater is especially proud that Mendocino’s SnapSessions! podcast presents Part I of the two-episode documentary podcast “The History of Hit & Run Theater”.

Encompassing the first chapter of SnapSessions! two-part historical documentary of comedy/improv group Hit & Run Theater, Episode 50 features over two hours of interviews, old skits and songs, and a variety of surprises from Hit & Run Theater’s beginnings as a skit writing group in the late 1970s through the 1980s. Long time Hit & Runner Doug Nunn interviewed 18 present and former members of the local troupe and watched over 60 hours of old shows from 1981’s Improviganza through various comedy revues like Oh Velveeta, National Velveeta (both 1982), Democracy in Traction (1984), and Fiat Yux (1986), including the epic Arnold Vicious Punk Opera (1983) and its sequel, Rockalypse in 1984.

Working with SnapSessions!’ techmeisters Marshall Brown and Ken Krauss, Nunn initially handed over hours of VHS tapes to Brown, who digitized the old material. Doug put the shows in historical context, made voluminous notes, and then contacted various members of the troupe for lengthy chats. Ellen Callas, Kathy O’Grady and Pamela Stoneham gave context and historical background to the early days of the group (before it was even called Hit & Run Theater) for the shows 200 Years of Madness and Happy Birthday Mendocino. Harry Rothman, Tracy Burns, Steve Weingarten, and Richard Fienbop added many more details on Oh Velveeta, National Velveeta, The Arnold Vicious Punk Opera, The LaffFest Series, Democracy in Traction, and Fiat Yux among others.

The two-part History of Hit & Run includes numerous skits from both eras. Like SnapSesssions! Episode 36—”A Tribute to Artist/Musician John Chamberlin” (which appeared in September 2021), these episodes are an oral history of Mendocino from the 1980s to the present. As the group did political commentary on everything from Ronald Reagan’s Star Wars to environmental and immigration policies, it is also an historical document. In addition, much of Hit & Run’s output was cultural commentary so “hippie life” in the 1970s and 80s is part of the background. The final product is engineered by Marshall Brown and Ken Krauss and stands as an epic oral history of the past forty plus years of local culture.

SnapSessions! includes original music by Marshall Brown, production by Marshall Brown and Ken Krauss, voiceovers by Ken Krauss and Doug Nunn, and articles and interviews by Doug Nunn. Our SnapSessions! artist and logo maker is caricaturist, Daniel Stieglitz.

Head to our website thesnapsessions.com to find us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Soundcloud.

Enjoy what you hear? Consider supporting our program by contributing to our Patreon

29/01/2023

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Mendocino’s SnapSessions! podcast presents Part I of the two-episode documentary podcast “The History of Hit & Run Theater”. Encompassing the first chapter of SnapSessions! two-part historical documentary of comedy/improv group Hit & Run Theater, Episode 50 features over two hours of interview...

19/12/2022

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SnapSessions! includes original music by Marshall Brown, production by Marshall Brown and Ken Krauss, voiceovers by Ken Krauss and Doug Nunn, and articles and interviews by Doug Nunn. Our SnapSessions! artist and logo maker is caricaturist, Daniel Stieglitz.

14/11/2022

Our SnapSessions! podcast presents Episode 49 featuring an interview with filmmaker and environmental activist Mischa Hedges and "Abort the Court", an exploration of the history of abortion since ancient times.
The episode opens with "Abort the Court", an overview of abortion with an analysis of what the Bible doesn’t say about the topic and what our colonial forefathers did say. Ithas commentaries from Samantha Bee, John Oliver, and George Carlin, as well as leading scholars, refuting the Supreme Court’s recent Dobbs vs. Jackson’s Women’s Health decision.
This is followed by a chat with independent filmmaker and long-time environmental activist, Mischa Hedges. Mischa talks about his upbringing in Mendocino, where his father was musician/songwriter Michael Hedges and his mother was flutist and harpist Mindy Rosenfeld. Mischa produced videos in high school and then went on to Chapman University, working as an editor and production assistant soon thereafter. He put out his first film, Sustainable Table, right out of film school. Mischa leads us through his body of work—Of the Sea, Seeker of Truth, and Women’s March, and his upcoming films—Ellavut Cimirtuq and Oracle, the Life and Times of Michael Hedges.
In December the SnapSessions! Christmas episode featuring The Nutclucker, with the chickens of Rothman’s Henhouse singing Christmas carols, will be replayed, and January will see the premiere of the first part of a two-part history of local comedy improv group Hit and Run Theater.
Episode 49 is 85 minutes long and includes an intro, Abort the Court, our history of abortion (starts at 1:53 seconds), and our interview with filmmaker/environmentalist, Mischa Hedges (starts at 33:42).
SnapSessions! includes original music by Marshall Brown, production by Marshall Brown and Ken Krauss, voiceovers by Ken Krauss and Doug Nunn, and articles and interviews by Doug Nunn. Our SnapSessions! artist and logo maker is caricaturist, Daniel Stieglitz.
Head to our website thesnapsessions.com to find us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Soundcloud.
Enjoy what you hear? Consider supporting our program by contributing to our Patreon

14/11/2022

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04/10/2022

Our SnapSessions! podcast presents Episode 48, featuring an interview with Mendocino singer/songwriter Gwyneth Moreland, and my "Avenue of the Stars", a memoir of my time working on The Simpsons Movie as an animator.
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We open with Avenue of the Stars, in which Doug Nunn recalls learning the Adobe Photoshop and After Effects programs in the SF State Digital Intensive program and creating his own homemade cartoons. Then in March 2007 he received a phone call from old friend and producer of The Simpsons Movie Richard Sakai, which led to him working on that production as an After Effects animator. His three-month sojourn in Hollywood gave him an unforgettable adventure in animation and the movie industry.
The episode also features an interview with singer/songwriter Gwyneth Moreland. Gwyneth talks about growing up in Mendocino, her teenage exploration of music, her first gigs at Lipinski’s Juice Joint as part of the band Foxglove, and her education as a Veterinary Technician in Colorado. She recounts returning to the Northern California, her immersion in songwriting and touring with Michael Monko, and her albums—Wishbone; Ceilings, Floors & Open Doors; Cider; and Country Nocturne. Gwyneth then chats about some of her favorite songs and her musical life with her partner, Skyler Hinkle, and their kids.
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Episode 48 is 79 minutes long and includes an intro, Doug Nunn’s Avenue of the Stars, reminiscing about working on The Simpson’s Movie (starts at 1:54), and our interview with singer/songwriter Gwyneth Moreland (starts at 22:17).
SnapSessions! includes original music by Marshall Brown, production by Marshall Brown and Ken Krauss, voiceovers by Ken Krauss and Doug Nunn, and articles and interviews by Doug Nunn. Our SnapSessions! artist and logo maker is caricaturist, Daniel Stieglitz.
Head to our website thesnapsessions.com to find us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Soundcloud.
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06/09/2022

Our SnapSessions! podcast presents Episode 47, featuring an interview with musician and inventor Gene Parsons. We also include the premiere of Copzilla, a SnapSessions! audio comedy about a giant policeman who attacks idyllic Donut Town.
The podcast opens with Copzilla, a comedy epic about a huge policeman’s assault on the peaceful pastries of Donut Town. Copzilla is told by reporter for The Daily Deep Fry Gil Glazey, as he chronicles the battle for the doughy metropolis, and features the voices of Dan Sullivan, Christine Samas, Ken Krauss and Doug Nunn.
This episode also features a chat with musician/inventor Gene Parsons, reminiscing about his days in bands such as The Byrds and The Flying Burrito Brothers, and his time playing on the Mendocino Coast with The Mendocino Quartet and other local musicians. He regales us with stories of the ups and downs of life on the road and as a studio session player. He also talks about the string-bender, his invention that allows a guitarist to emulate the sound of a pedal steel guitar. Gene remembers a variety of musical characters that he has worked with over more than fifty years, giving an intimate look at a brilliant career.
Episode 47 is 86 minutes long and includes an intro, our premiere of the radio play Copzilla (starts at 3 minutes, 43 seconds), and our interview with musician/inventor Gene Parsons (starts at 35 minutes).
SnapSessions! includes original music by Marshall Brown, production by Marshall Brown and Ken Krauss, voiceovers by Ken Krauss and Doug Nunn, and articles and interviews by Doug Nunn. Our SnapSessions! artist and logo maker is caricaturist, Daniel Stieglitz.
Head to our website thesnapsessions.com to find us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Soundcloud.
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05/09/2022

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The podcast opens with Copzilla, a comedy epic about a huge policeman’s assault on the peaceful pastries of Donut Town. Copzilla is told by reporter for The Daily Deep Fry Gil Glazey, as he chronicles the battle for the doughy metropolis, and features the voices of Dan Sullivan, Christine ...

08/08/2022

Our SnapSessions! podcast presents Episode 46, featuring an interview with video editor and Reality TV Producer Sax Eno and an in-depth look at Nicole Hannah Jones' 1619 Project.

The episode opens with an analysis of the book The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story, by Pulitzer Prize winning author Nicole Hannah Jones, and looks at the intellectual and social movement of “Critical Race Theory”. We explore this progressive book of essays and poems on slavery, Jim Crow, and the hypocrisy of the Founding Fathers, giving us the point of view of the disenfranchised and voiceless. We also explore the negative responses to the book by the conservative community.

This is followed by an interview with Reality TV editor Sax Eno, who grew up in Mendocino and then left for an education in Film Studies at Chapman University in Orange County. He got his start as a junior editor on MTV’s The Real World, and worked on shows such as Project Runway, Joe Millionaire, Keeping Up with the Kardasians, and The Real Housewives of Orange County. An amazing story from a kid who grew up in a water tower in Mendocino.

SnapSessions! includes original music by Marshall Brown, production by Marshall Brown and Ken Krauss, voiceovers by Ken Krauss and Doug Nunn, and articles and interviews by Doug Nunn. Our SnapSessions! artist and logo maker is caricaturist Daniel Stieglitz.

Head to our website thesnapsessions.com to find us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Soundcloud.
Enjoy what you hear? Consider supporting SnapSessions! by contributing at www.patreon/snapsessions.

08/08/2022

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The episode opens with an analysis of the book The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story, by Pulitzer Prize winning author Nicole Hannah Jones, and looks at the intellectual and social movement of “Critical Race Theory”. We explore this progressive book of essays and poems on slavery, Jim Crow, a...

03/07/2022

Our SnapSessions! podcast presents Episode 45, featuring an interview with the tattoo artists of the Triangle Tattoo & Museum in Fort Bragg, CA. We also offer a SnapSessions! homage to the classic 1950s variety show Your Show of Shows, featuring the hilarious Sid Caesar and an incredible cast of characters.

Episode 45 opens with the tribute to Your Show of Shows, starring Sid Caesar, Imogene Coca, Carl Reiner, and Howard Morris. This program, and the later Sid Caesar Comedy Hour, had one of the greatest writing teams in show biz history, including Mel Brooks, Neil Simon, Carl Reiner, and Woody Allen. We include highlights from some of its greatest skits, and anecdotes about the show’s cast and writing team.

Our interview features a history of Triangle Tattoo and Museum related by Mr. G, its co-founder with Chinchilla. Mr. G talks about his childhood in Indiana, his time at college in North Carolina in the late 1960s and early 1970s, his spiritual explorations in New York City, his activity as a Vietnam War resistor, his work in construction and sign painting, and his introduction to tattooing in Seattle in the late 1970s where he met Chinchilla. He relates his adventures in the ma*****na trade and apprenticeship with Tattoo teacher, Burt Rodriguez, and how he and Chinchilla established Triangle Tattoo, built its tattoo museum, and wrote books on the history and culture of tattooing. Then we spend time with working artists Nikki Needles and Nicola Beatts, providing commentary as they create tattoos in the studio.

Episode 45 is 1 Hour and 35 minutes long and includes an intro, the tribute to Your Show of Shows (starts at 3:45), and our interview with Mr. G and the artists of The Triangle Tattoo and Museum (starts at 21:13)

SnapSessions! includes original music by Marshall Brown, production by Marshall Brown and Ken Krauss, voiceovers by Ken Krauss and Doug Nunn, and articles and interviews by Doug Nunn. Our SnapSessions! artist and logo maker is caricaturist, Daniel Stieglitz.

Head to our website thesnapsessions.com to find us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Soundcloud.

Enjoy what you hear? Consider supporting our program by contributing to our Patreon

02/07/2022

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SnapSessions! presents Episode 45, featuring an interview with the tattoo artists of the Triangle Tattoo & Museum in Fort Bragg, CA. We also offer a SnapSessions! homage to the classic 1950s variety show Your Show of Shows, featuring the hilarious Sid Caesar and an incredible cast of characters. E...

09/05/2022

Our SnapSessions! podcast presents Episode 44, featuring an interview with British comedian, magician, and painter, Otiz Cannelloni, as well as “SCOTUS vs. Mother Earth”, a look at a US Supreme Court case which threatens to upend all Climate legislation.

Cannelloni talks about his youth in Crystal Palace in South London, and shares stories of his time as a drama teacher in London schools. He reminisces about beginning writing and performing comedy at the various London venues, and combining magic, mime, and juggling with jokes. When comedy clubs around London closed due to the pandemic, Otiz responded by producing a series of paintings of great comedians, leading to ”A Comedian’s Comedians”, his new art show at The Lauderdale House in London. A fascinating and creative career celebrating laughter and joy.

“SCOTUS vs. Mother Earth” is an in-depth look an upcoming Supreme Court case where the court will attempt to greatly limit the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to regulate polluting industries. Using the arcane “major questions doctrine”, the current right-wing court threatens to crush the US government’s ability to battle Climate Change.

SnapSessions! includes original music by Marshall Brown, production by Marshall Brown and Ken Krauss, voiceovers by Ken Krauss and Doug Nunn, and articles and interviews by Doug Nunn. Our SnapSessions! artist and logo maker is caricaturist, Daniel Stieglitz.

Head to our website thesnapsessions.com to find us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Soundcloud.

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08/05/2022

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SnapSessions! Presents Episode 44, featuring an interview with British comedian, magician, and painter, Otiz Cannelloni, as well as “SCOTUS vs. Mother Earth”, a look at a US Supreme Court case which threatens to upend all Climate legislation. 

04/04/2022

SnapSessions! presents Episode 43, with our artist of the show—comedian and comedy/song writer, Dave Cohen, as well as a consideration of Kim Stanley Robinson’s science fiction novel The Ministry of the Future, speculating on where our planet might be headed in the years to come.

Cohen discusses his early days in England, playing in punk bands around Bristol and London, and his work as a comic on London’s Alternative Cabaret circuit in the 1980s. He tells how he helped found one of Britain’s most revered Improv groups The Comedy Store Players, relates his time as a songwriter for the satirical band Guns N Moses, and reminisces about his long career as a comedy writer and parody song composer for a variety of TV shows in Britain.

Our segment The Ministry of the Future reviews Kim Stanley Robinson’s influential “Cli Fi” novel of the same name. Then we look back at projections from our past, shaped by Star Trek, The Jetsons, and Disneyland’s Tomorrowland. This leads to an exploration of possibilities for our current challenges, presenting some ideas for the future to deal with Climate Change.

SnapSessions! includes original music by Marshall Brown, production by Marshall Brown and Ken Krauss, voiceovers by Ken Krauss and Doug Nunn, and articles and interviews by Doug Nunn. Our SnapSessions! artist and logo maker is caricaturist, Daniel Stieglitz.

Head to our website thesnapsessions.com to find us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Soundcloud.

Enjoy what you hear? Consider supporting our program by contributing to our Patreon