Let's Face The Facts Podcast

26/07/2024

Oh My! Friend of the podcast Paul Vogt is BACK AT IT! 🤣😂🤣
(subscribe to his YouTube channel, because there are multiple episodes)

She's back to give you S£X advice - and relationship advice - and maybe she'll act on her deepest attraction to JOSH her day nurse... you never know WHAT cra...

26/07/2024

https://youtu.be/uCjVxUBK-Rs?si=2ka7fB-ZWs2Z0qVD

Mindy Cohn tells Jeff about the beginning stages of a “Facts of Life” reboot and how one of her castmate’s betrayal caused the project to fall apart.Hear mor...

24/07/2024

Noooo! 😭😭😭

https://tvline.com/news/the-facts-of-life-revival-cancelled-cast-member-betrayal-1235285476/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR1a3t8EZgxAvQ8rfyRbqKc0lqMXLQ8aq5Ou5Uhi-Q4j8s77X3laUMlCPMs_aem_T0LkZaU2DsDXZRIAWUT3Bg

Mindy Cohn explains how a potential 'Facts of Life' was derailed by a 'greedy b---h' co-star.

20/07/2024

Awwwww!

02/06/2024

Charlotte sings with Nell Carter, Bea Arthur, and many others!

This is a clip from "NBC's 60th Anniversary Celebration", celebrating the network's sixtieth anniversary in television and radio. This is also the show wher...

06/02/2024

Do you see Mindy? SO EXCITED!!

PALM ROYALE Trailer (2024) Kristen Wiig, Ricky Martin, Laura Dern, Kaia Gerber© 2024 - Apple TV+

19/01/2024

Thanks to Anthony Anderson, the Facts Of Life LIVES ON in this year’s opening monologue/medley from the 75th Emmy Awards. ❤️

The opening to 75th Emmy Awards

10/12/2023

From July 2013: A great article about Mindy Cohn and how she became a part of TFOL. (Thank to listener Joe C for sending it to me!)

While nothing I have done has reached the popularity of The Facts of Life, I have continued to work with some of the most talented people ... And while I won't "tell all" ever, I am going to tell you a bit of my real facts of my life.

07/12/2023

😢

It is with profound sadness and love that we announce the passing of Norman Lear, our beloved husband, father, and grandfather. Norman passed away peacefully on December 5, 2023, surrounded by his family as we told stories and sang songs until the very end.

Norman lived a life in awe of the world around him. He marveled at his cup of coffee every morning, the shape of the tree outside his window, and the sounds of beautiful music. But it was people—those he just met and those he knew for decades—who kept his mind and heart forever young.

As we celebrate his legacy and reflect on the next chapter of life without him, we would like to thank everyone for all the love and support.

31/10/2023

Complete Randomness: "Live In Front Of A Studio Audience: The Facts Of Life and Diff'rent Strokes" is no longer on Hulu... but it IS available streaming on Disney+! I'm having another watch because I enjoyed it so much. :D
Oh, and HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!

26/09/2023

Congratulations to our close personal friend Ken Reid for reaching the incredible milestone of SIX HUNDRED EPISODES of TV Guidance Counselor podcast! Here's to another 10 years and another 600 shows!! :D

02/09/2023

Anybody have a lead on an original TFOL pendant? You'll be BFFs with Lisa Whelchel for life!

Plus, check out exclusive clip from upcoming episode centering on Cher superfan collector.

02/09/2023

Had a blast meeting Mindy Cohn and hanging out with Matthew & Erin at Fanboy Expo Orlando! (& we were recognized by our devoted fan Val who was wearing a full Eastland uniform PLUS the Natalie Exam Hat with full-on Brain Wave Conductors)

24/08/2023

44 years ago today, “The Facts Of Life” premiered on NBC! 8/24/79 😁❤️

21/08/2023

Look at this! A doc about the casting of "The Outsiders" where TFOL's own Julie Pie is among those reading! Thanks to devoted listener James G for sending this! :D

The Special Features from The Outsiders.*I do not own these clips/

09/08/2023

I feel attacked (Matthew sent me this, of course LOL)

27/06/2023

😢 R.I.P. David Warner

Soap vet Nicolas Coster, best known for his role as Lionel Lockridge on the late NBC soap Santa Barbara, died late Monday. He was 89. “There is great sadness in my heart this evening, my fath…

12/05/2023

Happiest of Birthdays to Kim Fields, Mackenzie Astin, and MOST IMPORTANTLY our close personal friend-of-the-podcast, Diana Eden!

04/05/2023

Thanks again to Michael for sending this my way! I completely missed that this Sunday 5/7 is the 35th anniversary of the final episode of the series.

The actress who played Blair Warner in the long-running sitcom — and now hosts MeTV's "Collector's Call" — takes us back to the 1988 finale of the classic sitcom.

30/04/2023

😳😳😳 (Thanks for finding this, Michael A!)

https://fb.watch/ke5hDII8FS/?mibextid=YCRy0i

05/04/2023

So, one of the reasons I am only aware of my "Tens Of Listeners" is because I just can't figure out the analytics from Apple Podcasts ... and the analytics of Facebook are even more puzzling. Take, for example, two recent posts. Now the "post reach" is typically somewhere in the low 100s, as you can see. Yet our discussion of S9 E24 with James Brendlinger had a "reach" of nearly 5,700!?! And then part 1 of the reunion movie registered a run-of-the-mill 200, but the second part (both parts featured Paul Padilla) "reached" over 4,000 people!? I know these are not people who have listened to the show, but why would THAT many people have had these random posts pop up in their feed? Or am I missing what these numbers mean?
If any of you are or know a young Millennial or an old GenZ who could explain this stuff to rapidly aging GenX-er, I'd happily pay them for their time.
In the meantime... MAYBE 5700 PEOPLE KNOW ABOUT THE SHOW!!! Maybe... (?) 🤔

01/04/2023

Finally!! ALL NINE SEASONS AVAILABLE TO STREAM!!

Four girls, each with their own divergent backgrounds and personalities, become inseparable friends when they are brought together at the prestigious Eastland School for Girls.

29/03/2023

REUNION!

21/03/2023

A cool interview with Ryan C, brought to my attention by Tootie Fruity Ryan C!

Ryan Cassidy on his childhood as the youngest son of Shirley Jones and Jack Cassidy. He reveals the music legend who gave him his big break and how his broth...

17/03/2023

https://youtu.be/kD_sZw0gyeA

From Tootie's iconic pigtails to Regine’s jaw-dropping do's, Kim Fields is looking back at all her amazing hairstyles from 80's to now.Cocoa ButterYour desti...

12/03/2023

Perfect timing! While you wait for Episode 1 of TV Talkaholics, enjoy David & Matthew on "Lions Towers & Shields" discussing the 1953 Ethel Merman-Marilyn Monroe musical "There's No Business Like Show Business." Wonderfully hosted by the amazing Shelly Brisbin! It was a thrill to be her guests!

Ethel Merman in her heyday. What more do you need to know? Merman didn’t make a lot of movies, so here’s a glimpse at what theatre audiences saw during her long Broadway career. Also along for the Irving Berlin musical are Donald O’Connor, Dan Dailey, Johnnie Ray and Mitzi Gaynor. And, um, who...

08/03/2023

Watching Mel Brooks’ “History Of The World Part 2” — 1 episode in, and it is surprisingly good! And what a treat to see Pamela Adlon (Segall) as the wife of poor mud-pie maker Nick Kroll living in a Jewish shtetl during the Russian Revolution.

08/03/2023

And that’s a wrap! “Let’s Face The Facts” has officially come to a close. 201 episodes + 3 TV movies + some extra stuff = 229 episodes of a podcast of which I am deeply proud. New content dropped each and every week for over 4 years, and nobody is more shocked than I am that I saw this through to completion.

Thanks to Matthew Arter for being my willing partner in this exercise in nostalgia, over-analysis, and obsession-bordering-on-mental-illness. There is nobody funnier or funner than Matthew. I will fight you. I am so glad I finally woke up part-way through and made him a permanent fixture on the show.

Thanks to the many, many guests who were kind enough to give their time and jump onto this crazy train. Apologies to those who expressed interest and whom I didn’t get a chance to have on the show. And the biggest apologies to those who wanted nothing to do with it and were tired of me going on and on about it.

Matthew and I are now moving into a new venture called “TV Talkaholics,” which we originally started as an ‘extra’ for our Patreon supporters. The back content will be released weekly (on a new separate podcast feed) through the end of the year. Then next year it will become a monthly show. Give it a listen, why don’tchya? (Rated E for explicit language and subject matter.)

Read some more interesting behind-the-scenes info at our friend Aaron Barta ’s web site ! (THANK YOU AARON!)

01/03/2023

228. TV Movie "The Facts Of Life Reunion" (Part 1) with Paul Padilla

Tootie Fruity Cody Found The Quote! My question about where the f**k did Wikipedia get that quote about none of the original writers giving a s**t (I’m paraphrasing, LOL) … Cody sent me the source! In the link below, Variety published a piece about its impending production: ““We chose to do ...

26/02/2023

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