We’re Almost There with Wendy and Marty

A friendly reminder, we’re rated R. Just sayin. We found a gem and some classical music on the Upper East Side, go check out the 92nd St Y. The knitters of NYC (and all over) represented at the Yarn Harlot Represent Event at FIT for the book launch of the amazing Stephanie Pearl-McPhee and we were there on the scene. Very good times. The refreshingly honest Gene Wilder spoke at the 92nd St Y and gave the scoop about his memoir Kiss Me Like A Stranger and his new novel, My French Whore. What movie is he most proud of? Young Frankenstein of course!

It’s Almost News with Wendy Dorrel, Martin Winslow, and special guest corespondent Chris Fowler tackle current issues.

Toby, the wonder dog, performs the Heimlich and saves a life! We discuss.

If you’re paying alimony to your ex-wife and she gets a penis should you still have to pay him?

Movies are going 3D and we thinks that’s crap. Nothing will ever be better than Captain EO. Nothing!
Are you smarter than a fifth grader? Wendy gets quizzed.

iTunes gives a little back, to make more money.

The Senate oks War bill and effectively does absolutely nothing productive in the process. We’re thinking of moving to Canada. Seriously.

Porn on the internet. Sites may soon have the option of having a .xxx instead of a .com Why? There’s really no reason.

Featured Music is found on:

The Podsafe Music Network:

• Earn Hollywood Earn by Possible Oscar off of the album: The Wrath of Con

• Sweet Blossom by Robin Stine off of the album: Daydream

Make sure to check out our musician’s websites and show them some love.

Episode 16: We Talk, You Listen

It’s on people. We’re back with a vengeance and in this power-packed episode we were so eager to be back that it was hard to stop. This week we discuss the Academy Awards, how Ellen did as host (rocked it), and the ridiculously long pre shows. Marty shares how he is going to handle being on the red carpet someday and his ideas on fashion.

Then we delve into the unfairness of comedians and their complete lack of awards or even nominations - Eddie Murphy was robbed!! And Jim Carrey where ever you are, The Truman Show and Eternal Sunshine were amazing and you deserved a lot more credit than was received.

Dreamgirls is discussed, Bill Cosby and his impeccable storytelling, and our wish to see Eddie Murphy back on the stand-up stage.

Richard Jeni, the tragedy, how much joy he brought to people, and how he will be missed. Truly sad.

Celebrity sitings we’ve had living in NYC:

The Starbucks caffeine crew Marty served: RuPaul, Olsen Twins, the shy Mike Myers (leave him alone people!), Ron Howard, and Philip Seymour Hoffman (I hope I spelled that right).

Marty has served as a waiter: Jon Bon Jovi, Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Hugh Grant, Bruce Willis, Sidney Poitier, John Cleese, William Goldman, and most recently Gwynenth Paltrow and Chris Martin (who we will now and forever refer to as Chris Coldplay).

Wendy saw each day at work: Claire Danes and her adorable dog.

Ok people, rule number 1 is: DON’T BE A STAR FUCKER. It’s just tacky and sad. We discuss the unruly fans Marty has had to deal with and the ninja who sneaked past him to harass Chris Coldplay. Here’s your sign dude.

Did you know that Tom Cruise pays his personal trianer a million dollars a year?! Crazy.

Wendy’s Shape magazine mystery. Ok, someone fess up already!! Marty gets some fitness advice from good friend Nicoye Banks and gets his ass kicked.

Featured Music is found on:

• Sweet Blossom by Robin Stine off of the album: Daydream

Robin’s song is so great it will be our closer for each episode. Go give her some love and let her know where you heard it.

Episode 15: Been Missing You

Today I received an email with that in the subject line. I opened it to read:

Wendy, I can’t believe Julia Sweeney was in your house! The podcast was great, she’s so funny and I can’t wait to listen to the next one with Nicoye Banks. How long have the two of you been doing your show? You both sound like people I would like to be friends with.

Write back soon,

(edited out person’s name)

Ok a couple things. It’s awesome to have a fan. Marty and I appreciate receiving emails and support from our listeners always. It’s the only perk we really get. This one threw me a little because of a few things and I hope I don’t come across as ungrateful or a complete bitch.

1) The mail address it was sent from is suspicious so I’ve decided not to respond through email but instead here.

2) While, yes, I did speak with Julia about using her show, Letting Go of God as a topic on our show and received her approval she wasn’t in the actual show. I mean that would have been kick-ass but it didn’t happen. It just made me wonder if the person who emailed really listened to the show or if by some very strange twist there’s another show with Wendy and Marty that interviewed Julia and our show was mistaken for it. Seems unlikely right? Or maybe the listener thought I was Julia? I’m really at loss.

3) We’ve been doing our show since October 28th, 2006. That was easy to answer.

4) I wasn’t sure how to respond to the friend thing. I’m sure the sentiment was meant in the most innocent, friendly way but it just seemed weird, no? Maybe the person is just really young, it sounded young, or it sounded creepy. And I get that whole wanting to be friends with people that you come to know through whatever their art is but to have it actually happen to me is a very strange thing to experience. Because no matter how much Marty and I disclose on the show there’s no way to really “know” us really well.

If you’re the sender, thanks for the support and I hope you enjoy our episode with Nicoye. He was in our house.

And we’re back! Huge apologies and kisses for the wait. I was able to recover most of the file but still lost a good 20 minutes so this one is a quickie.

We discuss our first interview with Nicoye Banks, breakups, and:

The play: Avenue Q, “this is like Muppet porn!” Watch what you say outside a theatre, we may be there to make fun of you on our show.

Marty doesn’t ever want to have children and doesn’t believe in marriage Wendy wants to be a mommy someday and would like to eventually get married. The conflict of these things and what it means to the relationship.

Also Wendy has a serious case of the giggles.

Featured Music is found on:

• One More Day by Derek James off of the album: Stray

• Sweet Blossom by Robin Stine off of the album: Daydream

Episode 14: No content

I’m having some difficulties with the podcast we recorded this week. Most specifically the file won’t open. Soooo I’m working on it but the show may not be up today as promised. I’m also feeling a touch under the weather and we may have to re-record tonight so it may be another day or so.

Sorry all!

-Wendy

This week we interview the talented actor Nicoye Banks. We talk about everything from the amazing food in New Orleans (Did you know that the original Popeyes was in New Orleans?)to his role in the movie Invincible, appearing on the show Law and Order (which, if you remember from our first episode: The Dun Dun Sound we’re big fans of), being on the set of the soap One Life To Live, and how he prepares for upcoming auditions. We see great things in store for this guy. Keep on the look out!
Thanks Nicoye, for joining our little show!

Don’t miss Nicoye’s upcoming movies:

Pride and Glory