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Fine Beats & Cheeses with Leslie & Lynne celebrates cheesy pop culture.

Fine Beats & Cheeses Leslie Gray Streeter & Lynne Streeter Childress

    • TV & Film
    • 5.0 • 4 Ratings

Fine Beats & Cheeses with Leslie & Lynne celebrates cheesy pop culture.

    Bye Bye Birdie (1963) with Olivia Howell and Genevieve Dreizen

    Bye Bye Birdie (1963) with Olivia Howell and Genevieve Dreizen

    We've got a lot of living to do as we talk "Bye Bye Birdie", the 1963 film adaptation of the hit Broadway musical. Our guests are real life sisters Genevieve Dreizen and Olivia Howell, co-founders of Fresh Starts Registry, a registry for people who are making big changes in their lives to get the things that they need to start again. You might recognize Olivia from our recent Hallmark Christmas Movie episode! This was a sister-riffic episode, and we reminisced about a movie that all 4 of us were obsessed with, the eternal hotness of Ann-Margaret, and how everyone SHOULD love Dick Van Dyke. Get on your dancing shoes and join us!
    In 2020, after her divorce, Olivia wanted to create a system of support for the moments in life when we start over. Alongside her sister, Jenny Dreizen, Olivia founded Fresh Starts Registry, and since then, it has been named the “the first divorce registry of its kind” by Forbes. It has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, New York Magazine, Forbes, The Cut, The New York Post, and more. 
    Fresh Starts Registry is the first registry and online platform for everything a person needs to begin their life again after a major life change, such as divorce, job changes, moving, or coming out. They provide a free registry builder and bundles of products based on rooms of the house and budget to eliminate the overwhelm of creating a registry for restarting their life. The platform features 100+ vetted Experts in all categories to support people in all processes of their life changes. It is always free to build a registry and access the experts. Fresh Starts aims to eliminate the overwhelming feeling of starting your life over again with all the home items and Experts you need to empower you on your journey forward.
    https://www.freshstartsregistry.com/
    Olivia- @thedigitalyenta on Instagram and Twitter; Genevieve-@thegenevieved on Twitter and @genevievedreisen on Instagram.

    • 53 min
    Finely Aged Cheese Rewind Episode: Clowns and Their History and Value with Producer Sam!!

    Finely Aged Cheese Rewind Episode: Clowns and Their History and Value with Producer Sam!!

    Get out your rainbow wig and travel back to April 2024 for this was fantastic conversation with Producer Sam!! Sam Lewis, who is an amazing artist, photographer, culture commentator, and of course, producer of Fine Beats and Cheeses (and kind of our brother-in-law, as he is married to our longtime bestie who we've known since birth). Today, we talk about clowns, as a concept, and their history. Leslie is actually afraid of clowns and doesn't get them, and Sam gives us his know-how of clowns and such, and their cultural significance. We learned a lot, and we loved this talk. Also, Lynne talks about her questionable encounter with a burger joint clown mascot.
    Sam Lewis is an Austin, TX-based artist and photographer who's visual project, "The Fool's World", features neo-Victorian clowns as a commentary on current culture. You can find him at http://thefoolsworld.com/

    • 54 min
    The British Royal Family with Laurie Kilmartin

    The British Royal Family with Laurie Kilmartin

    Top of the morning, Guv'nor! Gaze across the pond with us and guest Laurie Kilmartin as we discuss the American fascination with the British royal family (we are team Harry and Meghan), including some recent developments (We recorded this on February 23)! (AND for more talk of the MOST recent stuff, check out our Extra Cheese Bonus Episode. recorded on 3/17, for our Patreon subscribers. Not a Patreon supporter yet? Go to https://www.patreon.com/FineBeatsandCheeses and support us and get all of the extra stuff!
    Laurie Kilmartin is a comedian and an Emmy-nominated/WGA Award-winning writer for CONAN. She has also written for the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, The Late Late Show, and Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn. She has performed standup on CONAN, The Late Late Show with James Corden, Jimmy Kimmel Live, Comedy Central and Showtime.
    Laurie has written two books, Dead People Suck and the New York Times bestseller Shitty Mom. She and fellow comic Jackie Kashian host a popular podcast about standup comedy called The Jackie and Laurie Show. Her new album, Corset, was released at #1 on the iTunes charts. Laurie was recently seen on Apple TV’s Gutsy Women series, being interviewed by Hillary and Chelsea Clinton. Her new comedy special Cis Woke Grief Slut drops January 30, 2024.
    You can find Laurie on Twitter and Instagram @anylaurie16, or at lauriekilmartin.com

    • 1 hr 1 min
    Finely Aged Cheese Rewind: The Resident with Leslie and Lynne PLUS a Bonus Twin Argument

    Finely Aged Cheese Rewind: The Resident with Leslie and Lynne PLUS a Bonus Twin Argument

    Walk with us back to March 2023, when we were our own guests in discussing our beloved show, "The Resident" on Fox, which then got cancelled. Good talk, and then the two of us argue at one moment, and Producer Sam made us keep it because he said we modeled good conflict resolution. And Lynne clears her throat a lot because we recorded this at like 7 AM! Enjoy! It's a fun one.

    • 1 hr 4 min
    WKRP In Cincinnati with Niko Stratis

    WKRP In Cincinnati with Niko Stratis

    Put on your best DJ voice and your finest 70s fashions as we talk with special guest Niko Stratis about the classic TV comedy, "WKRP In Cincinnati"! We know you are singing the theme song in your head right now. It's a wonderful conversation about nostalgia, themes that are still timely, and of course, whether turkeys can fly. Enjoy!!
    Niko Stratis is a culture writer based in Toronto, Ontario by way of the Yukon where she spent close to two decades working as a journeyman glazier before coming out as a trans woman in her late 30s and being forced to abandon her previous line of work.
    As a trans woman now in her 40s, Niko provides a unique voice in cultural spaces seeking to work through lifelong traumas and emotional highs and lows through her work.
    She has twice been nominated for a digital publishing award for her personal essay work, is a team writer for queer outlet Autostraddle, and her work regularly appears in outlets like Spin magazine, Xtra and more. Her column in Catapult, Everyone Is Gay, was a widely read series that explored gender and sexuality in 90s music and music criticism and its impact on her as a closeted queer and trans woman in her teen years. Her newsletter, Anxiety Shark, is a self-published weekly essay collection using music to explore her relationship to themes like gender and sobriety.
    Niko is working on her debut novel, GIRLS OF SUMMER, a punk rock novel about three friends spending a life-altering weekend at the Vans Warped Tour at a dusty Calgary speedway in 2002. The novel examines growing up isolated, lonely and desperate for a connective link to a perfect unknowable place that might tell you exactly who you were meant to be; about understanding your own transness through exposure to something so pure and perfect; queer love, desire and loss.
    She lives in Toronto with her fiancé, their dog Bowie and two cats Winona and Ramona. She is a former smoker and a cancer.

    • 1 hr 9 min
    Finely Aged Cheese Rewind Episode: Reality TV and Race with Meredith Davis

    Finely Aged Cheese Rewind Episode: Reality TV and Race with Meredith Davis

    Travel back to March 2023 with us for this funny and informative discussion with Meredith Davis, Ph. D., about the intersection of race and reality TV. We talk Flava Flav and Bachelorettes and The Real World and such!
    Meredith Davis is a solution focused leader that possesses three decades of experience in non-profit, higher education administration and teaching. Davis' focus areas are equity, access, diversity, inclusion, crisis management, leadership development, training and strategic planning. Her educational and pastime expertise is Blackness and the intersections of historical and popular culture. With a degree in sociology, she is obsessed with culture. Her favorite saying is, "If you are willing to do it, I am willing to watch."

    • 53 min

Customer Reviews

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Leslie and Lynne are funny, not cheesy at all. They are very knowledgeable about the entertainment industry past and present. Their guests are equally knowledgeable. You feel like you are sitting down drinking wine and cheese with a few of your friends for an hour or so. If you never watched the show they are talking about, you feel like you have by the end of the podcast. Yes, they give spoilers, but their love of the shows, makes you want to go check them out yourself. Tune in and check out this podcast and I guarantee you will make it your favorite!

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