In this week’s quilt episode, Karen and Georgia cover The Beast of Birkenshaw and the mysterious legend of D.B. Cooper.

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This week’s hometowns include a mace story and a pen-based murder.

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On this week’s episode, Karen and Georgia cover Sophie Scholl & the White Rose youth resistance, and the survival story of Ada Blackjack.

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This week’s hometowns include a John Wayne Gacy connection and an exploding film story.

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Like her latest solo theater piece Delejos (from afar), my conversation this week with Julie Piñero explores themes of grief, distance, Latinx identity, virtual reality, and music in a strikingly intimate way. Our conversation here dives deep into the loss that ultimately gave birth to this, her first solo show, but also into the seemingly disparate emotions of grief and gratitude that share space in her psyche as of late. I’m excited to get this episode to your ears, and can’t wait for you to hear!

Jule Piñero is a performer and multimedia producer known best for producing podcasts like Common’s “Mind Power Mixtape” at Audible, documentary series “Crash the Party” at HuffPost and for performing standup and live music around Brooklyn. She was an on-camera correspondent for HuffPost, interviewing newsmakers like Lorena Bobbitt and Ilana Glazer. She was nominated for two Webby awards for producing the food travel series “Food/Groups” with James Beard Award winning host Dave Infante and “Really, Dough?!” with Lucali chef Marc Iocono, now streaming on Amazon Prime. She produced memoir-style podcasts for comedians Kate Willett (“Dirtbag Anthropology”) and Mo Welch (“Come Out, Come Out”): a project spotlighted at the iHeartRadio Awards. She’s a co-host of Stoked Comedy (with Kelly Bachman, Amber Rollo and Davidson Boswell) in Brooklyn and performed sketch comedy with Sofa Kingdom. 

Get tickets for Delejos (from afar) here. This Thursday April 22 is the last performance! I’ll be there… will you?

Follow Julie Piñero on Twitter, and Instagram.

Photo of Julie Piñero by Damon Scheleur.

This podcast is powered by my subscribers on Patreon who, in addition to the warm feeling they get from co-creating with me, get lots of sweet perks including bonus podcast episodes, free downloads, zines, and more! This week’s bonus podcast will be an extended conversation with Julie Piñero!  Learn more right here!

If you’d like to check out my other work, order The Animal Book directly from me here and get a free download of the album!
Here are some other places you can find the book.
Find The Animal Album streaming and downloadable here.
Here’s some more merch and music.

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On this week’s quilt episode, Karen and Georgia cover the Brides in the Bath Murders and the case of Pam Hupp.

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I had a fantastic chat with Sheila Carrasco this week about her new solo show,  Anyone But Me, (currently in its final week – Get tickets here!) The show dissects the psyches of women who struggle with self-identity, and our conversation explores the ways that creating and performing the show has transformed Ms. Carrasco’s own perception of self. I had such a blast with this conversation and I know you will love it too!

Half Chilean/Mapuche, Sheila Carrasco is originally from the South Side of Chicago and an alumna of NYU and Harvard. Her most recent credits include IAMA’s Found: A New Musical (“Carrasco stand[s] out especially” — Stage  Raw) and the CBS pilot Ghosts, as Flower, a hippy ghost from the ’60s. On TV, she’s been seen in I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson, The Good Place, Jane the Virgin, Outmatched, The Odd Couple, Life in Pieces, American Housewife and #VanLife for NBC/Universal. She was selected to perform as one of the JFL New Faces of Comedy, CBS Showcase (as both a performer and head writer), the  Groundlings, UCB, American Repertory Theatre, Moscow Art Theatre, Steppenwolf Garage and Chicago’s Court Theatre. Half Chilean/Mapuche, Carrasco is a creator for Más Mejor, Broadway Video’s premium comedy studio for Latinx voices. This is Sheila Carrasco’s first solo theater show and her first time doing one sans wigs and costumes… so basically naked.  

Music:Take Me Out – BasesuiteThrough The Screen – Christian Douglas

Get tickets for Anyone But Me here.

Follow Sheila Carrasco on Instagram.Follow IAMA Theater Company on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.

Please check out next week’s guest, Julie Piñero and her show, Delejos (from afar). There’s not much time left to check out her show!

Another show to check out: Peter Michael Marino’s Planet of the Grapes, which opens this week and features and original score by me. Y’all got your entertainment lined up for you this week!

This podcast is powered by my subscribers on Patreon who, in addition to the warm feeling they get from co-creating with me, get lots of sweet perks including bonus podcast episodes, free downloads, zines, and more! This week’s bonus podcast will be an extended conversation with Sheila Carrasco!  Learn more right here!

If you’d like to check out my other work, order The Animal Book directly from me here and get a free download of the album!Here are some other places you can find the book.Find The Animal Album streaming and downloadable here.Here’s some more merch and music.

Thinking of starting your own podcast? Do it! I’m a big fan of Blubrry for podcast distribution and you can get a month free by signing up for Blubrry Podcast Hosting&n…

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