Guilty Pleasure

Have you ever loved a musician or band so much that you created a medley of their favorite songs? Have you ever crossed state lines and threw down serious money to see them in concert? Does your love of this artist not only permeate your closest friendship, but also your first and greatest friendship of all time (your mom)? Then you may have one or two things in common with this week’s guests Carlie and Doni and their guilty pleasure, Celine Dion!

Ever wonder what kind of jokes people told in the 1700s? Have you ever lost hours while paging through your parent’s old yearbooks, fascinated by the old trends and hairstyles? Perhaps you stumbled across your mother’s copy of “Happy Living! A Guide for Brides” and nearly threw up because the fact that something so incredibly sexist was published just a few decades ago makes you sick? If you answered yes to any of the questions above then this week’s episode is for you!

You unlock this door with the key of imagination, beyond it is another dimension, a dimension of sound, a dimension of sight, a dimension of mind...today’s guest is the delightfully entertaining Dani Fernandez and her guilty pleasure is ‘The Twilight Zone’!

Do you like to start your week by smashing the patriarchy? Then this week’s episode is for you! Today’s guest, LA-based improviser Andy Apuy's guilty pleasure is the O.G., Y.A. feminist novel, Anne of Green Gables!

Do you think you know everything there is to know about Star Wars? Think again! Today’s guest, LA-based comic and improviser Zak Roland, is a friggin Star Wars scholar and he’s here to throw some serious knowledge your way! Zak took hosts Amanda Salvatore and Jackie Rae Aubel went deep into Star Wars and the extended universe. For example, did you know there were Star Wars books!? We didn’t!

Today’s guest was one of Amanda and Jackie’s favorite people, Adam Lustick! Adam’s guilty pleasure is his passionate, fiery fandom of NBA All-Star Allen Iverson who, in Adam’s words, is “epic as hell.” We covered a lot of topics in this episode, including big data, gefilte fish, NBA culture, Steph Curry and basketball hacking.

If you grew up in the 90s, chances are you grew up watching Nelinda Palomino’s guilty pleasure on TV. From ‘Kids Incorporated ‘to ‘Party of Five’ to ‘I Know What You Did Last Summer’, this week we talked about the iconic, choker-wearing Jennifer Love Hewitt!

If you’re a fan of MTV’s reality programming, then this episode is for you. Today’s guest is LA-based performer Rebecca Edwards and her guilty pleasure is the groundbreaking television show, Catfish! On today’s episode, hosts Amanda Salvatore and Jackie Rae Aubel talk with Rebecca about what it means to catfish, whether or not we’ve catfished, and how it relates to noodling.

Do you procrastinate by doing household chores? Do you relish in the sweet, sweet triumph of a successfully completed mundane task? Can you get lost in giant stores like Ikea and Home Depot FOR HOURS? If you answered ‘yes’ to any of these questions, you’ll love today’s guest, Derek Carley! Hosts Amanda Salvatore and Jackie Rae Aubel talk with Derek about life’s simple pleasures.

Are you interested in going to wizard school for a weekend? Or perhaps you’d like to explore a new planet as a bounty hunter? Today’s guest, Andy Erikson has done both! On today’s episode Andy introduces hosts Amanda Salvatore and Jackie Rae Aubel to the wonderful world of live action role playing aka LARPing!

Today’s guest was the wonderfully moustached, Alex Shifman! Alex actually shares a guilty pleasure with co-host Jackie Rae Aubel, and that guilty pleasure is Burning Man! Man oh man guys, we dug into it this week. Both Alex and Jackie had A LOT to say about Burning Man and the other half of this podcast, Amanda Salvatore, had A LOT of questions.

Today’s guest was the endearingly awkward, Marco Beltran! Marco’s guilty pleasure is pro wrestling and no, he’s not a fifth grader from 1997. We talked about the very emotional connection Marco has to wrestling, which wrestlers are sexy (surprise surprise, Amanda and Jackie have the same taste in wrestlers) and which wrestlers are dead. Want to play a fun drinking game during this episode? Take a shot every time Amanda recits Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson’s infamous catch phrase.

Today’s guest was the incredibly funny Santosh Reddy! Santosh’s guilty pleasure is HBO’s Entourage! We talked about the best (and worst) things about Entourage, the base level hotness of all actors, and how much Santosh loves season one of the OC. Hosts Amanda Salvatore and Jackie Rae Aubel talk about their first impressions of Entourage and about whether or not they found Vincent Chase attractive. Spoiler: they don’t.

Today’s guest was New York expat and now, LA-based comedian and improviser Cory Willis! Cory’s guilty pleasure is... organizing music files! Seriously, it’s actually pretty fascinating. Cory has well over 10,000 music files and he’s always organizing the hell out of them. Cory’s philosophy is to embrace the lowercase and always, always use underscores.

Today’s guest was LA-based comedian Tim Noonan! Tim’s guilty pleasure is Assassin’s Creed! Hosts Amanda Salvatore and Jackie Rae Aubel talked with Tim at about the Assassin’s Creed video game series and how Tim uses them as a way to wind down and escape from reality. We also talked about Tim’s love of candles, defined the term “balmer of ale”, and gave Blue Apron a completely free and enthusiastic endorsement!

The Guilty Pleasure podcast is the show that celebrates, and elaborate on, people's odd and embarrassing interests! Today's guest was Jordan Pridgen and his guilty pleasure is DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS! If you've ever wondered how D&D and other RPGs work, this is the episode for you. In addition to explaining D&D to Amanda and Jackie (who are total noobs), Jordan talked at length about the clandestine D&D sessions him and his friends were forced to partake in during high school.

The Guilty Pleasure podcast is the show that celebrates, and elaborate on, people's odd and embarrassing interests! Today's guest was Ryan Pigg! Hosts Amanda Salvatore and Jackie Rae Aubel talked with Ryan about their mutual love of the best sitcom of all time, 'Boy Meets World'! Seriously, we just geeked out about Boy Meets World, so if you loved Cory Matthews and Shawn Hunter, you'll love this episode. If you loved 'Friends' on the other hand, maybe not so much

Today's guest was Nathaniel Boggess. Hosts Amanda Salvatore and Jackie Rae Aubel talked with Nathaniel about his love of Willard Carroll Smith Jr. (also know as, Will Smith). We also talked about Bad Boys 2, how to adapt Footloose into a non-musical play and Amanda and Jackie's mutual love of Jeff Bridges.