The boys are cookin’ and steamin’ this morning! They first jump into their love for Preservation Hall in New Orleans, which leads into a very spirited discussion of their love of all things Jazz. They chat about their favorite jazz musicians, jazz albums, and even give off-the-cuff 5 jazz picks for anyone wanting to get into the genre. Dion […]
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New Podcast: All (About) That JAZZ
Posted: 29th November 2014 by Podwits Administrator in Art, Audio Review, Celebrities, Electronics, History, Literature, Music, Music Review, Notes & Chords, Technology, Up on The Soap BoxTags: Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, Art Tatum, Bud Powell, Caravan, Charlie Parker, Chet Baker, Dave Brubeck, Dexter Gordon, Dizzy Gillespie, Elvis Presley, Foo Fighters, Frank Sinatra, Howlin' Wolf, Jackie Gleason, Jimmy Smith, Joey Defrancesco, John Coltrane, Jon Faddis, Louis Armstrong, Louis Prima, Miles Davis, Muddy Waters, New Orleans, No Chaser, Oscar Peterson, Preservation Hall, Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Ray Charles, Red Garland, Robert Johnson, Sonic Highways, Sonny Rollins, Straight, The Meters, The Village Vanguard, Thelonious Monk, Tom Waits, Tommy Dorsey, Wes Montgomery, Willie Dixon
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“Drama is Universal, Comedy is Personal”
Posted: 29th March 2014 by Podwits Administrator in Art, Celebrities, Film, Film Review, History, Literature, News, Podcast, TelevisionTags: A Fish Called Wanda, A Philadelphia Story, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Arsenic and Old Lace, Black Dynamite, Burt Reynolds, Caddyshack, Cary Grant, Comicbooks, Dr. Strangelove, Four-Color Fanboys, Galaxy Quest, Ghostbusters, Hercules in New York, His Girl Friday, Humphrey Bogart, Ireland, Ivan Reitman, Jack Benny, Jackie Gleason, Little Feat, Max Headroom, Mr. Moto, Mr. Moto takes a Vacation, My Cousin Vinny, Napoleon Dynamite, Noah, Peter Lorre, Ralph Bellamy, Roddy Doyle, Sabotage, Smokey and the Bandit, Stanley Kubrick, Stanley Kurbrick, Stephen D Youngkin, Stripes, Terminator, Terminator: Genesis, The Big Lebowski, The Blues Brothers, The Commitments, The Greatest Story Ever Told, The Lego Movie, The Long Goodbye, The Lost One, The Muppet Movie, The Passion of the Christ, The Robe, The Sandlot, Vincent Price
…His name was Laszlo Lowenstein… In this brand-spankin’ new edition of The Podwits Podcast, the boys are talking movies, and more specifically, their favorite comedies. What do they find funny? What do they think (in their HUMBLE opinion) was a miss? And what the heck is up with Arnold Schwarzenegger giving away spoilers for all his […]
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Posted: 12th October 2013 by Podwits Administrator in Doctor Who, PodcastTags: Alexander Courage, Amazon.com, Archery, Daleks, Doctor Who, Emma Peel, Gene Roddenberry, Jackie Gleason, Milton Berle, Patrick Troughton, Star Trek, Terry Nation, The Avengers (TV Series), the Honeymooners, William Hartnell
On this week’s Podwits Podcast, Dion dips his toes into the heady waters that surround the history of Doctor Who! Can he make it out with his (pod)wits intact? Brian takes aim at archery and barely makes it back alive! And J’s still just clinging to that last bit of sanity (thanks, in no small part, to […]
An UnExpected Treat For Christmas
Posted: 20th December 2012 by Dion in ChristmasTags: Art Carney, Audrey Meadows, Christmas, Eddie Hodges, Frances Langford, Jackie Gleason, Joyce Randolph, The Great One, the Honeymooners
For those of you out there in Podwit land who don’t already know, I am a huge Honeymooners fan. TV Guide called it the best sitcom of all time, and I completely agree. Without Jackie Gleason and his quintessential show, we wouldn’t have the modern sitcom; and people who purport that Seinfeld is the best TV show of all […]
Podwit Profile: Jackie Gleason
Posted: 18th May 2012 by Dion in Celebrities, Music, Podwit ProfileTags: Bobby Hatchett, Frank Sinatra, Jackie Gleason
Here at the Podwits, we try our best to bring our interests to you, the reader (and listener), while trying to then attach our spin on the subject, and perhaps shed light on something our audience might not have been aware of. Today’s subject is a profile on a man who, unless you’ve lived under a […]
RIP “Honeymooners” on Television
Posted: 5th December 2011 by Dion in News, Obituaries, Up on The Soap BoxTags: American Dad, Everybody Loves Raymond, Family Guy, Friends, Jackie Gleason, King of Queens, Last Shot with Judge Gunn, Obituaries, PIXs 11, Scrubs, Seinfeld, Star Trek: The Next Generation, The George Lopez Show, The Great One, the Honeymooners, The Jeffersons, The Odd Couple, Two and a Half Men, WPIX
It is indeed a very sad day. The Honeymooners, one of the only shows that has aired almost entirely uninterrupted since it ended in the late 1950′s has finally been taken off the air, to free up the space for bigger and “better” shows. WPIX-11, the local New York station that people in the […]