Snap Sessions! Podcast

SnapSessions! 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.

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 occurred in Montana and across the nation. 

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 they may soon be moving to Las Vegas.

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.

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.

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 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 decade of improv comedy shows. Episode 51 will showcase more interviews of group members, producers, light techies, as well as musical improviser, Joshua Raoul Brody. It will also feature highlights from the group’s improvisational work from the past few years.

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 1984See a more detailed summary over at https://www.thesnapsessions.com/

SnapSessions! 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 he approached Doug Nunn to help him produce a chicken-cluckin’ version of Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker Suite and to combine that with chicken-cluckin’ versions of various Christmas carols. Thus was spawned “The Nutclucker”, which included singers Marilou “Bockbird Broiler”, Jim “Hard Broiler” Brewer, Sandy “Cluckfeld” Glickfeld, Ana “Henna” Lucas, Harry “Poutriotti” Rothman, and Doug “Cluck” Nunn, was engineered by Jim Rote-Tisserie.