Scandal Sheet

TEASER: Cookie Madness !!!

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!

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“Casablanca” Turns 80 – The Movie You Thought It Was?

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.

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US Airlines Meltdown In Winter

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

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BONUS Podcast – “UNBURIED BOOKS”

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

Best of ”Scandal Sheet” 2022

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.

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The 12 Scandals of Christmas

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.)

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The Short Happy Life of Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway, many scholars say, was the greatest American author of the 20^th 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

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Thanksgiving Quiz Show

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!

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First published November 2020.

Food Expert, Susan Greeley. Plant-Based Foods – Part 2

Doctors are telling everyone to reduce their animal product intake. But can any omnivore resist a juicy burger? Big Science has given us a solution. Plant-based facsimiles of beef, pork and chicken have become a multi-billion dollar industry. Legit?

Your hosts drill deep with food expert, author, and television personality, SUSAN GREELEY. Both informative and entertaining – you’ll fall in love with this guest.

Connect with Susan at susangreeley.com. Buy her book on amazon: https://bit.ly/3EmglJX

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The Salem Witches – The TRUE Untold Story

Our HALLOWEEN SPECIAL! Everyone has marginally heard of these witch trials. But do you REALLY know what went on in this tiny New England town?? YOU DON’T! We bring you documented evidence that you have probably never heard before. Were the witches tripping on a hallucinogenic substance, unbeknownst to themselves? You’ll find out about that fact and many more in this spooky and entertaining call back to 1692 -- which resonates, in surprising ways, to our present day social and political circumstances.

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

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