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The Twist Podcast #141: Last Show Before the Trumpocalypse, The Great American Angst, and Remembering Leanza Cornett
Join co-hosts Mark McNease and Rick Rose for this week’s podcast, the last before the 2020 election. We talk about our hopes and concerns for the future, food trends, the Great American Angst, headlines, and a remembrance of former Miss America Leanza Cornett.
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The Twist Podcast 5 Year Anniversary Giveaway!
Mark and Rick have been Twisting for five years this month! You heard that right. And to celebrate all those opinions, trends, news takes, and cultural observations – as well as to high-five our rapidly growing audience – we’re giving away three each of Twist coffee cups and sturdy Twist T-shirts. Just enter above or HERE and listen for an announcement on the first show in December. Six winners will be randomly selected from entrants on November 30 and contacted by email: you choose a T-shirt or cup).
We’ve had eye-popping growth in 2020 and we hope you’ll spread the word. Here’s to another five great years!
Mark and Rick
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The Twist Podcast #140: Victory in November, Trumpworld Laughs at Addicts, and the Week in Headlines
Join co-hosts Mark McNease and Rick Rose for this week’s podcast as we talk about our hopes for the election, Trumpworld’s mockery of Hunter Biden’s addiction, food trends, and the week in headlines.Enjoy The Twist on Libsyn, iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, iHeart Radio, and TheTwistPodcast.com.
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The Twist Podcast #139: Predictions for 2021, Death to Doom and Gloom, Say It Ain’t So Subway, and This Week’s Headlines
Join co-hosts Mark McNease and Rick Rose for this week’s podcast as we talk about our hopes for 2021, an and to the doomsayers, Subway’s bread heartbreak, and the week in headlines.
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Author Garrett Hutson Talks Historical Fiction and His New Novel ‘Gray Paree’
Join me today as I chat with fellow Hoosier and author Garrett Hutson. Garrett joins the podcast from his home near Indianapolis where he lives with his veterinarian husband David and a menagerie of pets. We talk about a passion for writing he’s had since childhood, fiction choices, and his love for historical detail that infuses his novels. His newest, Gray Paree, releases October 25.
American Oliver Carmichael loves his life in Paris, playing in a night club jazz band, and enjoying the freedom and intellectual stimulation of his bohemian set of friends. His happiness is tempered by unresolved feelings for his ex-fiancée, Lisette, especially after he sees her with another man in his club-but he tends those wounds with an affair with an older woman…and also with the boy next door.
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Matt Lubbers-Moore Talks ReQueered Tales and the Reissue of Grant Michaels’s Stan Kraychik Series
My return guest on the podcast is Matt Lubbers-Moore, one of the founders of ReQueered Tales. Listen as we talk about their reissue of the late Grant Michaels’s Stan Kraychick mystery series. ReQueered Tales has a mission to bring select queer fiction back into circulation, with an emphasis on gay mysteries, that flourished in the 1960s through the early 2000s. I had the privilege of writing the foreword for the just-released Time to Check Out, the 5th book in the series.
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Author Fay Jacobs Talks Humor, Writing, and ‘Sit-Down Comedy’
Fasten your headphones for a conversation with author, humorist, activist, and sit-down comedian Fay Jacobs. We talk about her life and career, her writing, and what’s in store for the tireless writer.
Fay, a native New Yorker, has had a 35-year career in journalism, public relations & theater. As an author, Fay has five published books of humorous and activist essays. All were originally published by A&M Books, a successor to Naiad Press and are now published by Bywater Books. Fay’s first book, As I Lay Frying is in its 4th printing. A second, Fried & True won the 2008 National Federation of Press Women Book of the Year for humor.
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The Twist Podcast #138: Supreme Injustice, All the President’s Taxes, and the Week in Headlines
Join co-hosts Mark McNease and Rick Rose for this week’s podcast as we talk about another Supreme Court heist, Trump’s tax dodges, National Coffee Week, and the week in headlines.
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The Twist Podcast #137: RIP RBG, Selfie Madness, COVID Deniers, and the Week in Headlines (YouTube Edition Included)
Join co-hosts Mark McNease and Rick Rose for this week’s podcast as we talk about the loss and legacy of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, COVID deniers, selfie madness, and the week in headlines.
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Author John Morgan Wilson Talks Writing and the 25th Anniversary Reissue of His Mystery ‘Simple Justice’
An early standout in the gay mystery genre, author John Morgan Wilson is about to enjoy a resurgence in popularity with the 25th anniversary reissue of his first book in the Benjamin Justice series. Releasing today (September 15, 2020), the Edgar Award winning Simple Justice introduces us to Wilson’s protagonist, Benjamin Justice, a reporter for the Los Angeles Times who’s seen his career and his life crash following a scandal involving the Pulitzer Prize. I spoke with John about his career, his life in West Hollywood, and his partnership with ReQueered Tales to issue revised editions of all eight books in the Benjamin Justice series. Fasten your headphones and join us for a lively conversation.
John Morgan Wilson is an American journalist and author of crime fiction, notably the Benjamin Justice mystery novels. The books feature a reclusive ex-reporter, ruined by a Pulitzer scandal and haunted by personal loss, who operates out of West Hollywood, becoming enmeshed in murder investigations in and around Los Angeles.
Simple Justice led the series in 1996, winning the Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award for Best First Novel. Six of the eight Justice mysteries, including Simple Justice, were nominated for Lambda Literary Awards for Best Gay Men’s Mystery, three of them winning in that category. (Wikipedia)
“It’s 1994, an election year when violent crime is rampant, voters want action, and politicians smell blood. When a Latino teenager confesses to the murder of a pretty-boy cokehead outside a gay bar in L.A., the cops consider the case closed. But Benjamin Justice, a disgraced former reporter for the Los Angeles Times, sees something in the jailed boy others don’t. His former editor, Harry Brofsky, now toiling at the rival Los Angeles Sun, pries Justice from his alcoholic seclusion to help neophyte reporter Alexandra Templeton dig deeper into the story. But why would a seemingly decent kid confess to a brutal gang initiation killing if he wasn’t guilty? And how can Benjamin Justice possibly be trusted, given his central role in the Pulitzer scandal that destroyed his career? Snaking his way through shadowy neighborhoods and dubious suspects, he’s increasingly haunted by memories of his lover Jacques, whose death from AIDS six years earlier precipitated his fall from grace. As he unravels emotionally, Templeton attempts to solve the riddle of his dark past and ward off another meltdown as they race against a critical deadline to uncover and publish the truth.”
Coming up on the One Thing or Another Podcast
Book reviewer Terri Schlicenmeyer talks books for fall.
Humorist and author Fay Jacobs talks life in the funny (and not so funny) lane.
Matt Lubbers-Moore talks ReQueered Tales and the reissue of Grant Michaels’s ‘Time to Check Out’ (foreword by yours truly!)Enjoy the One Thing or Another Podcast on Libsyn, iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, iHeart Radio, and at OneThingOrAnotherPodast.com
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The Twist Podcast #136: Plastic Planet, Sergeant Loser, State of the States, and This Week’s Headlines
Mark (L) and Rick (R)
Join co-hosts Mark McNease and Rick Rose as we take a look at our planet’s plastic peril, losers and suckers in the armed forces, another state or two, and the week in headlines. Can’t find us? Just ask Alexa … And enjoy our YouTube edition for those who like to watch.
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The Twist Podcast #135: Passion Politics, Gaga Goes There, Rick Calls the Election, and This Week’s Headlines
Join co-hosts Mark McNease and Rick Rose as we talk politics and passion, Gaga’s masked-up marvel, trends, headlines, and an election prediction from Rick. Can’t find us? Just ask Alexa … And enjoy our special video edition this week.
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The Twist Podcast #134: Rick at the DNC, QAnon Crazy, Going Postal, and the Week in Headlines
Join co-hosts Mark McNease and Rick Rose as we take an inside look at the DNC, QAnon crazy, the attack on the Postal Service, and the week in headlines.
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