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Conan O'brien, Sebastian Maniscalco's comedy and other smaller actors and celebrities were some of the stand out podcast standouts from last year and this year I have to say I barely recognize any of this years nominations. Bill Burrs podcast didn't even get nominated these past two years...I did recognize The Breakfast Club from just rides to work on the radio. Iheart Media just put out their list of nominations for 2021's awards.  I hate to say this but I'll be honest, I was hoping some of the Tik Tok podcast and more of the Barstool Sports podcasts would be nominated this year. Also a million of hilarious standup comedians have out podcasts as well.  They just barely put in Pardon My Take this year but what about Call Her Daddy? I thought it would have been obvious if they left out those two powerhouse names. Even Alex Cooper's Rival Sophia with an F did not have a nomination.  (Call Her Daddy was nominated also for last year and not this year even thought it...

  ****There are many many many more necessary songs that should be on this list too but the list would be a million songs haha.  ~~~~~ edit:this is such a collection of the classics and the nostalgia,  1. All I want for Christmas is You: Mariah Carey 2. It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas: Bing Crosby 3. Merry Christmas: NSYNC 4. Last Christmas: WHAM! 5. The Christmas Song: Nat King Cole 6. Sleigh Ride: The Ronettes 7. Jingle bell rock : Daryl Hall and Bobby Helmes one too  8. Santa Claus is Coming to Town: The Jackson 5 9. Step into Christmas: Elton John 10. Let it Snow, Let it Snow, Let it Snow: Dean Martin 11. Do They Know it's Christmas?: Band Aid 12. Mistletoe: Justin Bieber 13. Feliz Navidad: Jose Feliciano 14. Holly Jolly Christmas: Burl Ives 15. Here Comes Santa Claus: Gene Autry 16. Christmas (Baby Please Come Home): Darlene Love 17. Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree: Brenda Lee 18. Its the Most Wonderful Time of the Year: Andy Williams 19. Carol of ...

1. Setting up the Christmas Tree and House lights Not that we haven't been spending enough time in the house but this all definitely gets things in the holiday spirit. Set up the tree make a hot coco and light the fire place and watch Elf.  A few minutes away from me, they are doing a drive-in movies and it's different holiday movies every week. It's perfect. 2. Drive around and look at Christmas lights No contact involved, even in those professionally lit houses and areas, just in your car, stop by a Dunkin or a Starbucks for a hot drink and make a day of it.  3. Small Town Light Parade Now normally these are perfect, small towns in the suburbs put on these parades and make these huge floats and its perfect to get in the holidays, this year for sure it's different.  The town near me are sort of doing a reverse parade almost, the cars are going to drive by the floats and such instead of it all going by on mainstreet.  4. Black Friday and Holiday Shopping This year ac...

    Youtubers back when I was in high school really started listening to podcasts. I think already I was interested in watching types of perspectives of youtubers being trying to be relatable, talking about news, and just simple gossip.  I loved listening to Phil Defranco, Jenna Marbles and such. I really haven't watched youtubers since then, I remember watching daily vlogs for a bit and those random british daily vloggers for a bit.  Now this whole year has introduced me or reintroduced me to podcasts. They really are so different I believe from each other and thats what I love, a little bit of drama, a little bit of comedy and other stuff.  1. Joe Rogan The year 2020 hopefully will be a hazy memory in the next few years, I hope we all learn through every thing and such. Joe Rogan for asking hard questions and being controversial and such.  Conspiracy theories and topics are the norm bringing in people from Macauley Caulkin to Dave Chapelle to Elon Musk. A...

Just like any other Connecticut stereotype, you can take the family out of fairfield county, but you can't take the fairfield county out of the family...I probably have written about these girls seemingly a million times but at this point they are a big enough figure that they aren't just another family from Connecticut anymore. Long story short, Charli and Dixie D'Amelio act up at a family diner recorded on their family Youtube channel  while eating food made by their personal chef with guest star James Charles. Amassing 8 million plus views and currently #15 on trending, the video is being talked about.  Charli, the youngest in the family is currently holds the highest amount of followers on the social media app with 99 million followers and 30+ million on Instagram, not even counting the amount on others social media sights and brand deals.  No doubt the D'Amelios will probably continue to grow as social media personalities but I guess their 'shiny new thing...

So as I’ve stated before I’ve barely been watching The Bachelorette, but Clare just sent someone home because he didn’t know anything about her the very first day. What, are they supposed to google her? Sure, they had the time with corona but what about the romance? He said she was beautiful and wanted to get to know her better and she took that as the worst insult ever. She was upset he wasn't fawning over her. That’s like googling a blind date before meeting them.  It definitely could work out, but relationships form with chemistry and time. Why would you want someone who just cyber stalked you and all of a sudden know your sisters 3rd grade dog? That would look crazy and psychotic....Like why are you so obsessed with me? But in the bachelor world, I guess everyone should be madly in love with everyone.  This is just very much inline with what others have said about being the lead bachelor or bachelorette, where they at the same time, want this huge serendipitous experienc...

So right now I sit on the couch watching The bachelorette and it just got me thinking about everyone’s ages and reality stars/social media influencers. Like comparing them to the Pinterest influencers, Tik Tokers, and reality people. There are people famous on all these random social media platforms trying to become the best of the best.  So here at The Bachelorette Clare Crowley is 39 and is a veteran to The Bachelor franchise, she has gone on The Bachelor, two seasons of Bachelor in Paradise and The Bachelor: Winter Games....and now as The Bachelorette. Hopefully fifth times the charm.  I know the reasons why I would want to go on a show like The Bachelor (mainly selfish, popularity and social media type influencers things) so I’m always curious if others are the same? Now of course productions it almost seems to go out of their way to to find these influencers now a days with finding girls with huge social media followings and even now finding already seasoned influencers s...

  Starting this year off with Barstool's Call Her Daddy and even Joe Rogans $100 Million Spotify deal leading to Howard Sterns Sirius XM's $120 Million a year deal, even leading to the new Sofia with and F podcast and other up and coming Tik Tok podcasts, it seems to be podcasts are the nest best thing.  Powerhouse deals with host icons like shock jock Howard Stern, and the controversial Joe Rogan definitely are spearheading this new mainstream content platform. For the past 10 years there was a surge in Youtubers and still are with daily vlogs, beauty gurus and lifestyle brands but podcasts have been the up and comers with their genre diversity from NPR to comedians Bill Burr and Theo Von, even mainstream host Conan O'Brien.  Iheart Radio hosted the second podcast award this past January even with shows likes Iheart's Ron Burgundy Show, EarWolf and Team Coco's Conan O'Brien, Needs a Friend, Barstool's Pardon My Take and Armchair Umbrella's Armchair Expe...

 It was everywhere a couple months ago in news of the podcast featuring Alex Cooper and Sofie Franklyn took the media by storm with their publicized Barstool Sports contract negotiations for the very popular cohosted show Call Her Daddy.  Contract negotiations involved IP's, salary, and  incentive based contracts with Barstools President David Portnoy and CEO Erika Nardini.  Both Alex with her new solo hosted Call Her Daddy and now Sofia with her new podcast Sofia with an F have stated their side of the story, adding a whole new prospective in this whole story.  Now, with all the business and lawyer talk stated before, both Alex and Sofia's side definitely have two distinct point of views:  one focusing more on the contract with Barstool and the IP with the increased pay and the other side focusing more on the backstabbing friendships and females in business.  According to Sofia, things had changed with their business partnership when the new contrac...

Now it would entirely be easy to divide the response behind SNL dropping country artist Morgan Wallen but honestly what seems to be the reasoning behind it all is that he just is not NBC's cup of tea.  Now he isn't exactly a house hold name besides the modern country fan but even I have heard of songs Whiskey Glasses and Heartless with Diplo just by looking him up on Spotify. He's a good singer just not famous enough to skate by with this news for NBC.  Ultimately I'm sure companies don't want the bad press and PR from hiring an almost 30 year old country singer parading around with the every sorority girl from University of Alabama during these sensitive times. Now even take corona out of the picture, and still this isn't exactly a setting that SNL wants to give their ringing endorsement. He did state that he had tested negative but it seems that is beyond the point now.  I'm sure every guy under the sun are queuing up to writing under the comments of this ...

 So Saturday Night Live was brought back for their first episode of season 46 hosted by Chris Rock. Now I definitely have been late on the SNL train but I was interested in how the production would change due to corona restrictions and policies.  There was a noticeable difference and the new rules and current climate were hard to ignore with references throughout the show.  Politics of course was the main focal point, with the presidential election only weeks away, as it should be. Elections aside, politics for the past 6 odd months have been hot button topics of course, with coronas threat to public health, governmental restrictions put in place, as well as the affects on the American people.  As much material that has been circulating around the media the episode had more of a safe and cautious feel, definitely toeing the line. The opening episode started off with a parody of the presidential debate that had just happened portrayed by Jim Carrey for Joe Biden and...

 I want to say I am only writing this because I just want to see where these kids will be in 15 years but honestly, I think I am genuinely interested  in them. Young social media influencers and all those Tik Tok stars are definitely interesting.  Their individual stories and how much of a following they all have obtained probably in the past 1-2 years, they are definitely the new child actor star that everyone wanted to be 10 years ago.  I am for sure out of the popular demographic I believe, not being a teenager wearing all these crazy color cropped top clothes and such. Also not being obsessed with every bit of drama or tea that happens in real time. I don't have a twitter so I don't have that tether but Instagram, Facebook and podcasts take up the social media for me.  Oh also Tik Tok until it's banned or whatever is happening. It looks like the app will be alright since US companies have purchased basically the american data in Tik Tok company I guess and w...

With this corona thing still happening and distancing still necessary, fall really is a good but fleeting time to be out and about here in New England. These are all the things to do in the fall minus all the sports happening right now with football and stuff starting up.  1. Outdoor bar patios:      Yes drinking is fun, but mainly it's the company, and corona definitely has helped with the creativity of all these patio options now. Even they're adding fire pits and those heat lamps too.  2. Hiking:        Perfect skies and the crisp air and the changing leaves are perfect and there are many difficulties of hiking around here with a perfect skyline. Maine is perfect for the fall as is New Hampshire.  3. Corn Mazes:       So as a kid literally this was perfect and honestly more adults should do this too. I've seen a few places where there are wine spots hidden inside some and those are a game changer. I''m not positive...