Your favorite guilty pleasure! A biweekly podcast featuring penetrating investigations into anything socially deviate, scientifically unexplainable, celebrity gossip, horrifically sinister – and - if we get lucky, criminal. Your hosts are a Millennial woman, a Gen X man, and a wise-cracking AI engine. Amazingly informative and funny!
Episodes
Monday Mar 27, 2023
Monday Mar 27, 2023
As a warm-up to Major League Baseball’s OPENING DAY we wanted to re-share his extremely popular 2 part cold open from last year. Remember last year (2022) at this time? The baseball owners had “locked out” the players from all parks and negotiations on a new labor contract had reached a standstill. Our frequent guests, the beloved New York City trio – the METS MOB – were forced to take matters into their own hands by KIDNAPPING the Commissioner of MLB Baseball. As a result, the owners finally caved, a good contract was signed, and a general strike was averted. Thanks MOB! Relive the thrilling days of yesteryear and get psyched for a new baseball season!
A BRAND NEW MLB 2023 PREVIEW EPISODE featuring THE MOB is coming up in just a few days. Even if you don’t love baseball - you won’t want to miss this one.
If you wish to reach Mets Mob member (and multi-year NYC Super Lawyer), David Grover, for personal injury, including auto accidents and slip and fall free consultations.: 212-527-7575, DGrover@GroverFen.com.
Founding Mobs leader, Leonardo from Manhattan, has a very popular podcast on motorcycle safety called “Arrive Alive”. Available at: www.arrivealivepodcast.com (and all your favorite listening platforms).
Handsome Rob, the third of the trio, is just … “too sexy” for this podcast. Somehow, we got him to participate anyway. He plays James Bond here.
Our co-host, Ellie, plays Commissioner, Rob Manfred, in drag. (Don’t ask. Just go with it …)
The amazingly versatile pod actresses, Jill Grover and Lisa Hauptman, play multiple roles. My “Scandel Sheet” co-founder, Kassia Oset, has a notable cameo as the famous Bond character, “M”. Her new podcast, which she does with Dylan Cuellar, is taking over the podverse. Check it out at: www.unburied-books.castos.com (or any of your fav pod platforms).
Our music is composed, preformed, and produced by John Hoekstra. youtube.com/channel/UC2Gon6qb9ar07BP0hsNPXdA. On SoundCloud: @user-363005792
Please reach out to us at contact@scandalsheetpod.com, find us on Facebook as 'Scandal Sheet' or on Twitter @scandal_sheet.
Saturday Mar 11, 2023
Saturday Mar 11, 2023
It’s Girl Scout Cookie Season. And your friends at “Scandal Sheet” are shining their investigative flashlight on America’s most beloved “non-profit” sales event. Our co-host ELLIE, a Girl Scout from Kindergarten to High School senior, rose to the highest rank in the GSA organization. Now a millennial young woman, Ellie looks back at her decade+ experiences and shares a CANDID insider view on the 3 mo/year $800 million dollar cookie industrial complex. Are we a nation of health hypocrites? BTW, WE LOVE AND SUPPORT THE GIRLS! … it’s just some of the adults in the mix whose motives may not be entirely spotless.
WE WANT TO HEAR YOUR OWN STORIES. Please share your own stories. Reach out to us at contact@scandalsheetpod.com, find us on Facebook as 'Scandal Sheet' or on Twitter @scandal_sheet.
Monday Mar 06, 2023
Monday Mar 06, 2023
You know what I’m talking about. It’s Girl Scout Cookie Season. And your friends at “Scandal Sheet” can’t avoid shining their investigative flashlight on America’s most beloved sales/marketing institution. Here is a quick “taste” of the episode to come as we share our cold open. Stay tuned for the full episode coming soon!
Please reach out to us at contact@scandalsheetpod.com, find us on Facebook as 'Scandal Sheet' or on Twitter @scandal_sheet.
Sunday Feb 12, 2023
Sunday Feb 12, 2023
A deliciously sappy and romantic movie from 1943? It unexpectedly, became very popular, made boatloads of money, and won multiple Academy Awards. One of the hundreds of undistinguished movies the Hollywood factories churned out each year -- so why do we still remember this one? Clever pro-war propaganda in an isolationist US? Celebration of female prostitution? Civil rights ground-breaker? Ironic, deadpan comedy? All of the above?
Then in 1947, with the Cold War in full swing, everyone involved – including the top stars and studio executives - are suspected of Communist sympathies and are forced to recant. Not a single scandal here - but many. Learn the truth about, arguably, America's favorite film.
Our music is composed, preformed, and produced by John Hoekstra. youtube.com/channel/UC2Gon6qb9ar07BP0hsNPXdA. On SoundCloud: @user-363005792
Please reach out to us at contact@scandalsheetpod.com, find us on Facebook as 'Scandal Sheet' or on Twitter @scandal_sheet.
Sunday Jan 22, 2023
Sunday Jan 22, 2023
Most of what you heard from the mainstream media on the very recent airline meltdown is total BS! Our co-host, Ellie, a pilot for a major commercial airline, shares the REAL STORY behind what actually happened. First, with the massive winter storm over Christmas week, and second, when the FAA computers shut down all traffic.
Our music is composed, preformed, and produced by John Hoekstra. youtube.com/channel/UC2Gon6qb9ar07BP0hsNPXdA. On SoundCloud: @user-363005792
Please reach out to us at contact@scandalsheetpod.com, find us on Facebook as 'Scandal Sheet' or on Twitter @scandal_sheet.
Sunday Jan 15, 2023
Sunday Jan 15, 2023
Your favorite founding co-host for both the “From The Cheap Seats” and “Scandal Sheet”podcasts – KASSIA - has started a new podcast called “Unburied Books”. We are sharing one episode with you here. Kassia and her co-host Dylan were featured on an episode about author Kurt Vonnegut on Scandal Sheet we did last year. That turned out to be one of our most popular episodes in 2022.
Kassia and Dylan’s new podcast will cover every book in the NYRB Classics, a series of underrated but exemplary fiction and nonfiction works. NYRB Classics is a division of the New York Review of Books, a magazine which has been in publication since 1963. “Unburied Books” features experts, acclaimed authors and passionate readers discussing the books they love with both insight and irreverence. Find the entire series on Apple: https://apple.co/3QnwJ0T or Spotify: http://bit.ly/3XeTAyw
“Scandal Sheet” Vonnegut Episode: http://bit.ly/3iEVHwm
Thursday Jan 05, 2023
Thursday Jan 05, 2023
Our listeners’ favorite clips from the year that was! Catch up on topics you may have missed and go back and listen to the full episode.
Entire plant-based food episode with food expert, Susan Greeley: https://spoti.fi/3in0pPo
Scandal Sheet’s co-founder, Kassia Oset, is featured and has a new podcast, “Unburied Books”, which she hosts with Dylan Cuellar. Find it on Apple: https://apple.co/3QnwJ0T or wherever you listen to your pods. Great listen for literary fans! Kassia and Dylan were also guests on our Scandal Sheet episode about author, Kurt Vonnegut: https://apple.co/3QGZghY No Vonnegut fan will want to miss their amazing analysis.
If you wish to reach David Grover, for legal assistance: 212-527-7575, DGrover@GroverFen.com.
Our music is composed, preformed, and produced by John Hoekstra.
youtube.com/channel/UC2Gon6qb9ar07BP0hsNPXdA. On SoundCloud: @user-363005792
Please reach out to us at contact@scandalsheetpod.com, find us on Facebook as 'Scandal Sheet' or on Twitter @scandal_sheet.
Saturday Dec 17, 2022
Saturday Dec 17, 2022
Already worn down by the baking, decorating, shopping, present-wrapping…and your barely sustained grimace of around-the-clock merriment? Well, your friends from the SCANDAL SHEET podcast are here to help. Listen my children and you will hear of the 12 best scandals of 2022! Believe it or not, a celebrity is not immune from misery. Their troubles are likely far worse than yours (and more $$$). And hearing about their well-earned woes just might restore that hint of a genuine smile to your holiday-weary face. You’ve worked so hard this year and you’re entitled to a little bit of schadenfreude – at the same time - most celebs deserve more than a little comeuppance. Yes? To accomplish this goal, we assemble an A Team of TOP analysts. In addition to our millennial co-host, Ellie, a culture/media expert, we also welcome a Gen Z guest, Chessa, a Bay Area tech worker, on her first-time appearance on the show. Series regular, John Hoekstra rounds out this societal tiger team. BITE IT TMZ. HAPPY HOLDIAYS!
(Contains brief explicit language in a clip at 1:10 min.)
Our music is composed, preformed, and produced by the genius John Hoekstra. You Tube youtube.com/channel/UC2Gon6qb9ar07BP0hsNPXdA SoundCloud @user-363005792
Please reach out to us at contact@scandalsheetpod.com, find us on Facebook as 'Scandal Sheet' or on Twitter @scandal_sheet.
Friday Dec 02, 2022
Friday Dec 02, 2022
Ernest Hemingway, many scholars say, was the greatest American author of the 20th century. Were you forced to read this author in high school? Did you love or hate that assignment? (BTW- I hated him at age 17). But who was this guy actually? He was awarded both the Pulitzer and Nobel prizes, a very rare two-fer for any author. In both his books and personal life, he often appeared to cultivate a highly publicized, ultra-masculine image. But is that his real story? His classic works often reveal a main character (much like himself) tortured by insecurity, self-loathing, and guilt. In a rare appearance, we welcome back series co-founder, Kassia, to help dissect Hem’s bizarre personal and literary career…which ended tragically by suicide at the tender age of only 61. In our super-narcissistic, celebrity world of today, Hemingway’s amazing stories continue to resonate in our time. He often asks us to look in the mirror…but do we really want to?
I know a lot of our listeners appreciate our scripted, SNL-style comedy skits - because I read your emails. We give you a holiday feast here. You get TWO skits today – in other words, both turkey and prime rib for your Scandal Sheet holiday – both featuring my regular co-host Ellie and our versatile composer, John Hoekstra who moonlights as a Dustin Hoffman-esque character actor by night (he can do anything).
Our music is composed, preformed, and produced by the genius John Hoekstra. You Tube https://youtube.com/channel/UC2Gon6qb9ar07BP0hsNPXdA SoundCloud https://soundcloud.com/user-363005792
Please reach out to us at contact@scandalsheetpod.com, find us on Facebook as 'Scandal Sheet' or on Twitter @scandal_sheet.
Tuesday Nov 22, 2022
Tuesday Nov 22, 2022
Join several of our regular guests and contributors for this Thanksgiving Day quiz show. It’s both fun AND educational. We cover the Mayflower voyage, the Pilgrims at Plymouth, their indigenous neighbors, the first Thanksgiving harvest celebration (which - spoiler - participants at the time didn’t believe was that big a deal), the Macy’s Day Parade, and the current American holiday menu. Try to guess the questions yourself!
Please reach out to us at contact@scandalsheetpod.com, find us on Facebook as 'Scandal Sheet' or on Twitter @scandal_sheet.
First published November 2020.