KUCI: Get the Funk Out!

Coming in May 4th at 9:15am pst! Talia Pollock joins Janeane to talk about her book, Party in Your Plants: 100+ Plant-Based Recipes and Problem-Solvin...

From the hilarious writer and plant-based chef behind Party in My Plants, learn to take the hell out of healthy eating.
You’ve bookmarked more recipes than you could make in a lifetime. Your shelves are overflowing with cookbooks. Your pantry has some superfoods, but they’ve become super stale and super dusty. In short, you still can't get yourself to eat right on a regular basis. And you’re wondering, “What am I doing wrong?”
Health and empowerment coach Talia Pollock is here to share some good news: nothing is wrong with you. You don't have a willpower deficiency. You won't benefit from another minute on Pinterest. And you don’t really need a new blender. Healthy eating doesn’t require suffering. Or a meal plan. Or ashwaganda (unless you’re into that).

May 4, 2020 at 9am pst - Sarah Urist Green joins Janeane to talk about her inspiring book, YOU ARE AN ARTIST: Assignments to Spark Creation

Green is a former museum curator and host of the PBS Digital series, The Art Assignment. Her new book, YOU ARE AN ARTIST, is particularly useful right now – it’s all about making the most of what you have and being creative with materials that can be found anywhere. With 50+ art assignments drawn from contemporary artists working today, it’s a great resource for parents who are now at home with their children, and trying to keep them entertained, educated, and busy. But it’s really a wonderful tool for anyone who is looking for ways to connect to the outside world, find inspiration, make something, engage with social and political issues, and more. It’s chock full of ideas for how to stretch your mind—and your perspective—even if you can’t stretch your legs.

Coming up in May on KUCI 88.9fm - Michael D. Cohen, actor, writer, teacher and coach joins host Janeane

Michael D. Cohen is a GEMINI (Canadian Emmy) and ACTRA-nominated actor and writer with an extensive list of credits in film and television. A native of Canada, he grew up in Winnipeg and eventually moved to Vancouver with his family where he spent his formative years. He is currently a series regular on Nickelodeon’s hit sitcom, Henry Danger playing “Schwoz,” a genius of indiscernible foreign nationality. The series won the Kids’ Choice Award for best show in 2017 and was nominated again in 2018 and 2019. Other television credits include the ABC hit series, Modern Family and The Real O’Neals, CBS’ 2 Broke Girls, FOX’s The Mindy Project, TBS’ Angie Tribeca, NBC’s Powerless, Disney Channel’s Austin & Ally and The Wizards of Waverly Place and many others.

Melissa Disney joins Janeane to talk about her latest project - The Quarantine Bunch by Ryan Paul James!

A group of former child stars continue their weekly support group, via Zoom, during the Corona Virus quarantine. The former child actors use Zoom for various situations - from a funeral to a man viral show. They also have a guest come on to tell them the appropriate way to handle the Corona virus. They're also visited by their former on-set acting coach to work their acting muscles.
—Ryan Paul James
Throw in a global pandemic and quarantine and there’s not enough Paxil to help mellow out these actors. Relief from the madness is found in their Former Child Star Support Group.
They used to meet in person, but the coronavirus has forced them online to Zoom support for each other. What was once shared privately is now on full display. The insanity of being a former child star is now streaming on the web series, The Quarantine Bunch.
Bursting with 70s-80s gold, the cast of The Quarantine Bunch features some of Hollywood’s hottest former child actors.
Keith Coogan: Adventures in Babysitting, Don’t Tell Mom The Babysitter’s Dead, Toy Soldiers
Jeremy Miller: Growing Pains (‘Ben Seaver’)
Danny Pintauro: Who’s The Boss? (‘Jonathan Bower’), Cujo
Scotty Schwartz: The Toy (‘Eric Bates’), Christmas Story
Judy Norton: The Waltons (‘Mary Ellen’)
Dean McDermott: Due South, Married to Tori Spelling
First Class Cameos! You never know who will be popping in.
The actors navigate issues of life, love and finding work and TP in a COVID-19 world. Life’s never been normal for this bunch, now it’s off-the-hook crazy!
Being a former child star...
The Quarantine Bunch is created and produced by Ryan Paul James and Jeff MacIntyre (Content Media Group). The episodes are 5-7 minutes each and are released weekly. The series may have been ‘shot’ online to uphold safe distancing for it’s cast, but the drama is very up-close and personal!
ABOUT: Content Media Group is a Los Angeles-based production company that produces broadcast, news, documentary and new media content. They’ve earned 17 Emmy Awards.
For information & interview booking, contact: Jeff MacIntyre (310) 383-7950 | jeff@cmgtv.com
is tough enough!

Evelyne Tollman Werzowa joins Janeane to talk about her film The Stand Up Doll - now available on-line!

How do you get up when life knocks you down?
Let a 100 year old woman share the secrets to life! A meditation on life, ageing, love and loss. Attitude is everything.
The Stand Up Doll. A meditation on love, life, sex and death. And finding joy and humour along the way!
Trailer:
The Stand Up Doll
https://youtu.be/Mg1j9ZqIyqg
https://www.amazon.com/Stand-Up-Doll-Risa-Ingelfeld/dp/B084CVC64N

4-27-20 on KUCI 88.9fm - Matthew Sorum, an accomplished drummer, and percussionist, best known as both a former member of the hard rock band Guns N’ R...

Matt Sorum speaks through the drums.
Each hit or kick that Sorum has committed to tape or knocked out on stage can be felt by anyone within earshot. Whether it’s the epic percussive backdrop behind Guns N’ Roses’ “Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door” or the propulsive punked-out beat fueling Velvet Revolver’s “Dirty Little Thing,” Sorum’s playing remains unique, undeniable and unforgettable. Sorum’s presence extends far beyond the kit though. Currently, he’s producing Ace is High’s forthcoming debut and spearheading his unique Kings of Chaos project. He never lets up…
Sorum was born in Long Beach, California in the rock ‘n’ roll heyday of the ’60s. There couldn’t be a more appropriate place for a future rocker to hail from. About 20 miles away from the cultural and musical explosion taking place in Los Angeles, he had no choice but to blaze a rock ‘n’ roll trail. After watching Ringo Starr of The Beatles on Ed Sullivan, Sorum became entranced by the drums and had to pick them up. The Beatles opened the door to Jimi Hendrix, Cream and The Doors and inspiration had completely taken hold of him.
At 14-years-old, Sorum was wailing with his band The Prophecy alongside the likes of Van Halen and Devo at The Whisky-A-Go-Go and Crazy Horse West. Rock ‘n’ roll had always called to him, but he embraced it with an unshakable grip. Over the next few years, Sorum honed his chops in numerous session gigs with artists such as Shaun Cassidy, Belinda Carlisle and King Solomon Burke, solidifying his reputation as a go-to studio drummer. In the midst of balancing 40 gigs at a time, Sorum crossed paths with Tori Amos while she was playing in a hotel piano bar. Immediately, they connected, forming Y Kant Tori Read. After rocking clubs for two years, Atlantic signed the band. Amos went solo shortly after, but opportunity came to Sorum. He joined The Jeff Paris band, recording for Polygram in 1987.
The next step skyrocketed him into the consciousness of music fans worldwide though. Hearing about auditions for The Cult, he tried out. Bashing out each track with unshakable conviction, he got the job. For two years, Sorum rocked all over the world in The Cult on tours with Metallica and Aerosmith. The jaunt brought Sorum back home in the summer of 1990. Duff McKagan and Slash of Guns N’ Roses caught that particular tour-ending gig and were blown away by Sorum, quickly asking him to join GN’R.

Monday 4/27/20 at 9:00am pst - Cherie Currie is back with a new solo album produced by Matt Sorum (Guns N’ Roses, Velvet Revolver). Blvds of Splendor ...

Blvds of Splendor features guest collaborations with Billy Corgan of Smashing Pumpkins, Slash and Duff from Guns N’ Roses, as well as Juliette Lewis, Brody Dalle, The Veronicas and drummer Matt Sorum, Consequence of Sound

April 20.2020 at 9:45am pst - Myra Goodman joins Janeane to talk about her book Quest for Eternal Sunshine: A Holocaust Survivor’s Journey from Darkne...

QUEST FOR ETERNAL SUNSHINE: A Holocaust Survivor’s Journey from Darkness to Light (on sale 4/14, She Writes Press) by Mendek Rubin and Myra Goodman. After her father’s passing in 2012, Goodman rediscovered and completed Rubin’s unpublished manuscript, an honest and intimate expression of his spiritual awakening following unimaginable loss. Would love for you to consider an interview with Myra Goodman this Spring.

Coming up April 20, 2020 - TUNE in at 9:29am pst - Janeane chats with internationally famous fashion designer and style icon, BETSEY JOHNSON! Betsey s...

BETSEY JOHNSON
The internationally famous
fashion designer and style icon shares her first memoir
Mention the name Betsey Johnson and almost every woman from the age of 15 to 75 can rapturously recall a favorite dress or outfit of hers, whether worn for a prom, a wedding, or just to stand out from the crowd in a colorful style unlike anyone else’s. Some may remember Betsey best as a renegade single mother who palled around with Edie Sedgwick, Twiggy, and The Velvet Underground. They may also know her as a woman who built an empire from scratch, or even as a celebrity contestant on Dancing with the Stars. Others are familiar with her as the designer who brought stretch clothing to the masses in the 80s and 90s. She is also famous for her iconic pink stores (in 2011 she had 65 shops across the U.S.) and for her habit of closing out her runway shows with a signature split or cartwheel. Throughout her decades-long career, she’s taken pride in producing exciting but rule-breaking clothing at an accessible price—all while running her own company.
Betsey Johnson will talk about:
· What it took to go from a white picket fence childhood in Connecticut to an internationally known force in the fashion world.
· Candid memories of the fashion and downtown scene in the 1960s and how she started her own business from the ground up after designing successfully for multiple other houses.
· The ups and downs and reinventions of her business (including bankruptcy)
· Her thoughts on love, divorce, men, and motherhood…as well as her bout with breast cancer.
Betsey’s enduringly witty and exuberant voice charms and delight readers—just as Betsey’s unique, effervescent style has done for decades.

April 20, 2020 at 9:15am pst - Brad Montague, founder of Kid President, shares how we can all become “better grownups”

When you were eight, what did you think being a “grown up” was? Ice cream for breakfast (obviously). Freedom, choice, bean bags for couches. Brad Montague, founder of Kid President and author of Becoming Better Grownups: Rediscovering What Matters and Remembering to Fly, once said, if we all became the grown-ups we wanted to be, the world would be full of astronauts and ballerinas. Instead, it is full of overworked, unhappy grownups. Somehow we lost that thrill of possibility. By becoming grownups, we lost everything we thought becoming a grownup meant.
Brad is the genius director and producer behind the Kid President series. He is an artist, speaker, creator, man of wonder (check out his IG page). In his new book, he explores what it means to be an adult: not the tired, distracted, cynical adult who is worrying about the food pyramid or getting the inbox cleaned out before the close of the business day…but the adult we wanted to be when we were kids. He thinks we’ve lost our child-like wonder. We no longer see mistakes as opportunities to improve; we get discouraged when we fail rather than laugh and try again. We have let anxiety get in the way of possibility. We look at our phones rather than the people and the world around us. We aren’t playful enough or kind enough.