Snap Sessions! Podcast
59 episodes - English - Latest episode: 13 days ago - ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsWelcome to Snap Sessions!, a podcast that looks at artists and their creative pursuits from Northern California to Europe and beyond, as well as investigating provocative articles and broadcasts across the political spectrum. On a daily basis we are overwhelmed by a variety of writings and programs in a dizzying array of venues. And scores of creative people respond in a multiplicity of imaginative genres. Snap Sessions! talks to contemporary artists about their creative ventures, and digests political articles that we miss.
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Episodes
Evan Mills and Shakespeare Unscripted
April 15, 2024 13:54 - 1 hour - 196 MBSnapSessions! presents Episode 57 featuring a muckraking exposé of the indoor marijuana 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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Dar-Lon Chang
February 09, 2024 17:06 - 1 hour - 161 MBSnapSessions! 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 occurred in Montana and across the nation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Martin Siemann
December 02, 2023 17:36 - 45 minutes - 104 MBAfter 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-wid...
Teresa Sholars
August 27, 2023 18:26 - 1 hour - 177 MBSnapSessions! 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 they may soon be moving to Las Vegas. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Aaron Haye
July 12, 2023 22:04 - 1 hour - 184 MBSnapSessions! 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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
John Hegley
May 16, 2023 01:37 - 1 hour - 159 MBSnapSessions! 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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
The History of Hit & Run Theater: Part 2
March 05, 2023 19:10 - 1 hour - 222 MBMendocino’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 epic comedy revues of the 1980s, Episode 51 (Part II) catalogues the group’s work as an improvisational theater team. We start with the ensemble’s first improv work in the 80s and follow up over the past de...
The History of Hit & Run Theater: Part 1
January 29, 2023 17:35 - 2 hours - 341 MBMendocino’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 prese...
Holiday Special! The Nutclucker
December 19, 2022 00:54 - 35 minutes - 80.4 MBSnapSessions! podcast for December 2022 presents an encore of a holiday treasure: “Tchickclucksky’s The Nutclucker & Other Chicken Holiday Treats”, a production of Rothman’s HenHouse in association with Large Child Productions. The Nutclucker was the inspiration of Harry “Henny Bockman” Rothman, a player and director of Mendocino’s Hit & Run Theater. Harry was an accomplished chicken imitator and starred in many of Hit & Run’s skits over time, especially any of them involving poultry. In 1995...
Mischa Hedges
November 14, 2022 14:58 - 1 hour - 196 MBFor November, SnapSessions! podcast Episode 49 features an interview with filmmaker and environmental activist Mischa Hedges and Abort the Court, an exploration of the history of abortion since ancient times. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Gwyneth Moreland
October 04, 2022 03:50 - 1 hour - 181 MBSnapSessions! presents Episode 48, featuring an interview with Mendocino singer/songwriter Gwyneth Moreland, and Doug Nunn’s Avenue of the Stars, a memoir of his time working on The Simpsons Movie as an animator. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Gene Parsons
September 05, 2022 18:44 - 1 hour - 197 MBSnapSessions! 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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Sax Eno
August 08, 2022 01:42 - 1 hour - 174 MBSnapSessions! presents Episode 46, featuring an interview with video editor and Reality TV Producer Sax Eno. We also present an analysis and appreciation of Nicole Hannah Jones 1619 Project and take a look at the reactionary response to her book as well as “Critical Race Theory”. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Triangle Tattoo & Museum
July 02, 2022 16:38 - 1 hour - 219 MBHosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Otiz Cannelloni
May 08, 2022 21:22 - 1 hour - 99.1 MBOtiz Cannelloni, as well as “SCOTUS vs. Mother Earth”, a look at a US Supreme Court case which threatens to upend all Climate legislation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Dave Cohen
April 03, 2022 17:29 - 1 hour - 174 MBSnapSessions! 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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Brian Lohmann
March 06, 2022 17:46 - 1 hour - 107 MBHosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Ben Slay
February 06, 2022 16:05 - 1 hour - 124 MBHosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Claudia Paige
January 02, 2022 17:46 - 1 hour - 100 MBSnapSessions! presents Episode 40, featuring an interview with our artist of the show–drummer, percussion teacher, and activist Claudia Paige, as well as a “Tribute to The Twilight Zone”, the extraordinary boundary breaking science fiction TV show of the late 1950s and 1960s. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Kevin Patterson
December 05, 2021 22:15 - 1 hour - 143 MBSnapSessions! presents Episode 39, featuring a holiday interview with our artist of the show—Red Barn Productions event producer and one of the originators of the Great Dickens Christmas Faire, Kevin Patterson. In addition to our interview, SnapSessions! also presents the commentary “The Story of Human Population in My Lifetime—a Rollercoaster Ride for our Species!” Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Francis Rutherford
November 07, 2021 13:28 - 1 hour - 124 MBSnapSessions! presents Episode 38, featuring an interview with our artist of the show-- electronics whiz, musician, linguist and fix it man extraordinaire—Francis Rutherford. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Margaret Fox
October 05, 2021 03:47 - 58 minutes - 133 MBSnapSessions! presents Episode 37, featuring an interview with our artist of the show--chef, culinary director author, and entrepreneur, Margaret Fox, as well as an article called “The Worst Day in America” comparing a negative day in this country with other possible days in other countries on our planet. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
John Chamberlin
September 05, 2021 14:35 - 1 hour - 177 MBSnapSessions! presents Episode 36, a special tribute to legendary Mendocino artist and musician John Chamberlin, who would have turned 80 in September 2021. John Chamberlin was a unique character, from his arrival in Mendocino in the late 1960s until his passing in 2013. His posters, signs, and musical contributions to numerous bands were a huge influence on North Coast culture. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Gabriel Geiger
August 08, 2021 16:44 - 1 hour - 150 MBSnapSessions! presents Episode 35, featuring an interview with our artist/activist of the show, Vice Media Group investigative journalist Gabriel Geiger, as well as another SnapSessions! look at American voter suppression, this time in comparison to other democracies. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Emily Jane White
July 06, 2021 18:00 - 1 hour - 170 MBSnapSessions! presents Episode 34, featuring an interview with our artist of the show, folk singer/songwriter Emily Jane White, as well as a salute to the storied 1980s Canadian comedy troupe SCTV--”The Power of Silly, a Tribute to SCTV”. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Dan O’Connor
June 06, 2021 19:32 - 1 hour - 190 MBSnapSessions! presents Episode 33, featuring an interview with our artist of the show, actor/writer/director Dan O’Connor of Impro Theatre of LA, as well as an audio exposé--“The Strange History of Vaccination--from Medieval India to QAnon Misinformation”. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Velina Brown
May 09, 2021 19:35 - 1 hour - 181 MBSnapSessions! presents Episode 32, featuring an interview with our artist of the show, actor/singer/director Velina Brown of the San Francisco Mime Troupe, as well as a sardonic look at the history of the senate filibuster--”Filibusters, Budget Reconciliations and Gasbags”. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Michael Gene Sullivan
April 04, 2021 17:07 - 1 hour - 203 MBSnapSessions! presents Episode 31, featuring an interview with our artist of the show, writer/actor/director Michael Gene Sullivan of the San Francisco Mime Troupe, as well as a satirical analysis of the Texas energy crisis featuring Tex Shitter, the Texan from Exxon, and an article “Jamie Raskin and the House Impeachment Managers Present Their Case”. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Edi Patterson
March 07, 2021 16:57 - 1 hour - 160 MBSnapSessions! presents Episode 30, featuring an interview with actress/writer/improviser, Edi Patterson as well as Doug Nunn’s Road to Publication (the story of his journey to publish his book--Jolly Old Elf--the Art of Santa H. Claus), and a salute to the classic science fiction film--The Day the Earth Stood Still. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Caitlin Berrigan
February 07, 2021 19:20 - 1 hour - 203 MBSnapSessions! presents Episode 29, featuring an interview with artist/writer/teacher Caitlin Berrigan, a look at the fabulous life of scientist/explorer Alexander von Humboldt, and a tribute to 1930s cartoon starlet, Betty Boop! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Evan Mills
January 03, 2021 16:57 - 1 hour - 175 MBSnapSessions! presents Episode 28, featuring an interview with environmental scientist and member of the Nobel Prize winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Evan Mills, as well as a salute to Daniel Ellsberg of Pentagon Papers fame, just maybe the greatest Whistleblower of all time! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
The Irish Persons
November 29, 2020 18:08 - 46 minutes - 84.2 MBSnapSessions! presents Episode 27, a special episode, where SnapSessions shares a recent discovery, a vanished piece of folk music history, a newly unearthed documentary featuring folk music historian, Cairn Krust and his late 1980s uncovering of a lost Irish traditional and very political band—The Irish Persons. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Election 2020 - Voices of Mendocino
November 01, 2020 03:14 - 1 hour - 145 MBSnapSessions! presents Episode 26—Election 2020, Voices of Mendocino, a special installment of our podcast, featuring interviews with ten politically engaged people in California’s Mendocino County. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Steve Jowers
October 04, 2020 04:32 - 1 hour - 155 MBEpisode 25 is 85 minutes long and includes an intro, the “Tribute to Weird Al Yankovic” (starts at 1:15), the article “Recycling Recycled” (starts at 19:00), as well as our interview with landscape architect, Steve Jowers (starts at 30:36). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Peter Chapman
September 06, 2020 18:28 - 1 hour - 166 MBSnapSessions! presents Episode 24, featuring an interview with British journalist and writer, Peter Chapman as well as “A Tribute to British character comic, Felix Dexter, and an article “Armchair Environmentalist” on the Climatic observations of SnapSessions! own Doug Nunn. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Bill Stoneham
August 02, 2020 16:41 - 1 hour - 157 MBSnapSessions! presents Episode 23, featuring an interview with artist Bill Stoneham, as well as articles “The Doomsday Machine” and “A Tribute to Satirist Stan Freberg”. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Daniel Stieglitz
July 05, 2020 17:45 - 1 hour - 176 MBSnapSessions! presents Episode 22, featuring an interview with caricaturist (Schnellzeichner)/Improviser/Filmmaker Daniel Stieglitz, as well as articles “An Ode to Python’s The Life of Brian” and “Voter Suppression in the USA”. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mendocino Film Festival
May 28, 2020 05:26 - 1 hour - 134 MBSnapSessions! presents Episode 21, devoting a full chapter to the Mendocino Film Festival of 2019! This year’s 2020 festival has been cancelled due to the Corona Crisis so we bring out our tribute, a full length look at last year’s festival, to the filmmakers, the administrators, the workers, and the fans that have made 14 years of the Mendocino Film Festival one of the premier little film shows around. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Peter and Sheila Jowers
May 03, 2020 16:37 - 1 hour - 171 MBSnapSessions! presents Episode 20, featuring an interview with organic farmers and land pioneers, Peter & Sheila Jowers, as well as articles “Corona and the Black Plague” and “A Tribute to John Prine”. Corona and the Black Plague: 1:00 A Tribute to John Prine: 16:30 Peter and Shelia Jowers Interview: 27:47 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
COVID-19 Special Episode
April 05, 2020 03:38 - 11 minutes - 21.9 MBSnapSessions presents a special Covid-19 episode, highlighting scary plague, disease, and related Zombie movies to watch during this period of “sheltering in place”. We know you, like the SnapSessions’ Bros., are looking for things to read, watch, and listen to. We hope to add our collection of scary movies to your list of things to watch on Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime, or wherever you go to be spooked. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Ralph Humphrey
March 02, 2020 05:12 - 1 hour - 161 MBSnapSessions! presents Episode 19, featuring an interview with maestro drummer/music teacher Ralph Humphrey as well as articles “Sometimes a Protester” and “Tom Lehrer, Satirist Extraordinaire”. Humphrey talks about his long and storied musical career, starting as a clarinetist in a Dixieland Band called “The Derbies”, when he was still in high school and then his transition to percussion with a variety of jazz bands. Humphreys talks about his exposure to Indian rhythms and odd meters with ...
Fog Eater Cafe
February 03, 2020 01:48 - 1 hour - 129 MBSnapSessions! presents Episode 18, featuring an interview with the founders of Mendocino’s popular new vegetarian restaurant, The Fog Eater Café--Haley Samas Berry, Erica Schneider and Nathan Maxwell Cann, as well as a feature on mythical Baby Standup comic--”Schecky Infante”, and an article on “Drawdown” technologies to eliminate carbon and fossil fuels from our future. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mark Thomas
January 06, 2020 01:36 - 1 hour - 122 MBSnapSessions! presents Episode 17, a special installment devoted entirely to an interview and selected comedy riffs from British comic and political activist, Mark Thomas. Thomas has been active as a comedian, satirist, and muck-raking journalist since the mid-1980s in the UK and beyond. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
The Nutclucker
December 19, 2019 05:20 - 30 minutes - 55.1 MBSnapSessions! presents Episode 16 featuring a holiday reboot of “Tchickclucksky’s The Nutclucker & Other Chicken Holiday Treats”, a 1995 production of Rothman’s HenHouse in association with Large Child Productions. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jessica Morsel-Haye
October 19, 2019 20:06 - 1 hour - 150 MBSnapSessions! presents Episode 15, featuring an interview with textile & pattern designer/Fort Bragg City Councilwoman, Jessica Morsell-Haye, as well as the premiere of our audio play--”7 Days in the Mesozoic”, a dramatic representation of the last week of the Dinosaur imperium. 7 Days in the Mesozoic Segment: 1:00 Jessica Morsell-Haye Interview: 29:40 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Carol Bensimon
September 08, 2019 16:31 - 1 hour - 132 MBSnapSessions! presents Episode 14, featuring an interview with Brazilian novelist and short story writer, Carol Bensimon, as well as articles “Guns in the USA” and “Boyan Slat, Eco Warrior”. Guns in the USA Segment: 1:00 Boyan Slat, Eco Warrior Segment: 11:15 Carol Bensimon Interview: 21:43 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
James Maxwell
August 13, 2019 01:02 - 1 hour - 129 MBSnapSessions! presents Episode 13, featuring an interview with multi-talented visual artist, James Maxwell, as well as an epic story—In the Shadow of the Mountain, chronicling a long drive from Cologne, Germany to Teheran, Iran in August 1974. Roger Miller Segment - :57 Isolde Fischer Segment - 15:00 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Isolde Fischer
July 12, 2019 17:07 - 1 hour - 83.2 MBSnapSessions! presents Episode 12 featuring an interview with German actress/improviser Isolde Fischer, as well as an ode to 1960s’ country music star, Roger Miller and an article on French Enlightenment writer, Denis Diderot. Roger Miller Segment - 1:00 Denis Diderot Segment - 9:55 Isolde Fischer Segment - 24:10 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Stefan Hillebrand
May 30, 2019 05:29 - 1 hour - 87.6 MBWritten and Directed by: Doug Nunn Voice overs by: Doug Nunn, Ken Krauss. Executive Producer: Marshall Brown Original Music by: Marshall Brown iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/album/sit-and…onder/1454146529 Spotify: open.spotify.com/album/1JGr2MJW4s…blQJiRSknRIuB1RA -------------------------------------- SnapSessions! presents Episode 11 featuring an interview with German filmmaker/improviser Stefan Hillebrand, a director and innovator in film improvisation, as well as segments on Climate ...
Will Durst
April 13, 2019 17:08 - 1 hour - 103 MBSnapSessions! presents Episode 10 featuring an interview and concert highlights with famed comedian, political analyst, writer and baseball fan, Will Durst! Durst talks about growing up in Milwaukee, his early days in comedy, his move to San Francisco in the late 1970s, and the development of his career throughout the 1980s to the present. Highlights include the booming comedy scene in SF in the 1980s, Durst’s performing before “3 elected presidents”, and his work with a wide range of politi...