Storyteller Caitlin Hicks, (playwright, performer, author, actor) describes the stories in these podcasts that explore the grief of life as well as the meaning, the humour, the redemption. The series features a variety of first-person character stories in a number of episodes from her international theatrical touring shows: Mother Love, Next of Kin, The Trouble of Christmas, The Life We Lived. Hicks will also share chapters from her novel," A Theory of Expanded Love". But here, she shares a ...
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The Tip of the Hershberg
Raanan Hershberg is a loud, Jewish comedian originally from Louisville, KY.
Every Wednesday, comedian Raanan Hershberg (The Tonight Show, Comedy Central) talks shit about movies, stand up comedy, and other obsessions with a different guest.
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On this week's ep, Raanan talks to the great Todd Barry about Darren Aronofsky's The Wrestler in which he played Mickey Rourke's boss. Follow Raanan @Raanancomedy Follow Joe @toddbarry Subscribe to The Tip of the Hershberg Patreon (featuring all old bonus episodes of Joe and Raanan Talk Movies as well): https://www.patreon.com/joeandraanantalkmovie…
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Episode 17- The Godfather verse Godfather Part 2 w/Joe List
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Raanan's old pal Joe List comes on this week and we talk Godfather verse Godfather 2, plus a little of the new Scream Movie. Follow Raanan @Raanancomedy Follow Joe @Joelistcomedy Subscribe to The Tip of the Hershberg Patreon (featuring all old bonus episodes of Joe and Raanan Talk Movies as well): https://www.patreon.com/joeandraanantalkmovies1 Sub…
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Episode 16- The Death Penalty, Suicide Hotlines, and Bill Hicks w/ Dan Perlman
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On this week's episode, we have Special Guest Dan Perlman and it's one of the funniest eps yet. We talk Suicide Hotlines, the Death Penalty, George Carlin, Bill Hicks, and more! Follow Raanan @Raanancomedy Follow Dan @DanJPerlman Subscribe to Raanan’s YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/MrRaananhershberg…
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Raanan goes solo for the first time on this week's ep. Follow Raanan @Raanancomedy Subscribe to The Tip of the Hershberg Patreon (featuring all old bonus episodes of Joe and Raanan Talk Movies as well): https://www.patreon.com/joeandraanantalkmovies1 Subscribe to Raanan’s YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/MrRaananhershberg…
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Caitlin Peluffo is one of the fastest rising comics right now and also Raanan's old friend and current neighbor. They talk comedy, apartment escapades, and more. Give it a listen! Follow Raanan @Raanancomedy Follow Caitlin @caitlinpeluffo Subscribe to The Tip of the Hershberg Patreon (featuring all old bonus episodes of Joe and Raanan Talk Movies a…
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Episode 13: Bein' A Road Comic W/ Ben Moore
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On this week's ep I get into the down and dirty details of being a road comic with veteran comedian Ben Moore. Follow Raanan @Raanancomedy Follow Ben @ben.moore.in.person Subscribe to The Tip of the Hershberg Patreon (featuring all old bonus episodes of Joe and Raanan Talk Movies as well): https://www.patreon.com/joeandraanantalkmovies1 Subscribe t…
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Episode 12: Stand Up vs. Music W/ Isabel Hagen
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On this episode, I talk with one of my favorite comics and violists Isabel Hagen about the differences and similarities between stand up and music. It was a very, very fun conversation! Follow Raanan @Raanancomedy Follow Isabel @Isabelhagen_ Subscribe to The Tip of the Hershberg Patreon (featuring all old bonus episodes of Joe and Raanan Talk Movie…
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"Maybe my story can be a tiny beam of light in a large, dark cave," says Anneke Lucas in the podcast that begins to tell her story, from her book QUEST FOR LOVE. "Elite pedophilia is the world’s best protected secret.By Anneke Lucas as voiced by Caitlin Hicks
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Episode 11- First Time At A Sex Orgy W/ Jeff Scheen
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This week, Raanan talks with comedian Jeff Scheen about his first time at a sex orgy. Follow Raanan @Raanancomedy Follow Jeff @newyorkjeffrey Subscribe to The Tip of the Hershberg Patreon (featuring all old bonus episodes of Joe and Raanan Talk Movies as well): https://www.patreon.com/joeandraanantalkmovies1 Subscribe to Raanan’s YouTube Channel: h…
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Episode 10- Oscar Nominees w/ Dan Perlman
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This week, Raanan talks with comedian and creator of Showtime's "Flastbush Misdemeanors" Dan Perlman about 2023 Oscar nominees. Follow Raanan @Raanancomedy Follow Dan @DanJPerlman Subscribe to The Tip of the Hershberg Patreon (featuring all old bonus episodes of Joe and Raanan Talk Movies as well): https://www.patreon.com/joeandraanantalkmovies1 Su…
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Episode 9 - Orgasm Gap w/ Carmen Lagala
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Raanan has his hilarious friend Carmen Lagala on to talk about the Orgasm Gap, Talking Shit, Feminism, and more!
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This week, Raanan talks with hilarious comedian and creator of the highly praised Showtime show Flastbush Misdemeanors Dan Perlman. They talk one of their favorite topics- narcissism in showbiz. Give it a watch, like, subscribe, comment, share. Follow Raanan @Raanancomedy Follow Dan @DanJPerlman Subscribe to The Tip of the Hershberg Patreon (featur…
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Episode 7: Stand Up vs. Theater w/ Christopher Shinn
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Raanan talks with Pulitzer Prize-nominated playwright Christopher Shinn about the differences between theater and stand up comedy. Follow Raanan @Raanancomedy Subscribe to The Tip of the Hershberg Patreon (featuring all old bonus episodes of Joe and Raanan Talk Movies as well): https://www.patreon.com/joeandraanantalkmovies1 Subscribe to Raanan’s Y…
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Your eyes cannot help but see what is here: the sight of someone like yourself And then you think: How can this be? Is that really all the time there is left? A chance encounter in the dark winter days of December 2022. A benevolent energy in a hospital room with snaking tubes and mystery signs, the face of a newborn and a lifetime of important peo…
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Episode 6: 'Two Jews From KY' with Ariel Elias
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Two Jewish comedians from Kentucky talk about their experiences growing up as outsiders in the South and then into a long conversation about weight issues. Follow Raanan @Raanancomedy Follow Ariel @ariel_comedy Subscribe to The Tip of the Hershberg Patreon (featuring all old bonus episodes of Joe and Raanan Talk Movies as well): https://www.patreon…
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Episode 5- Shitting Your Pants as An Adult w/ Sam Evans
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This week Raanan talks with hilarious comic Sam Evans about life, the business and shitting you pants as an adult. Follow Raanan @Raanancomedy Follow Sam @reallysamevans Subscribe to The Tip of the Hershberg Patreon (featuring all old bonus episodes of Joe and Raanan Talk Movies as well): https://www.patreon.com/joeandraanantalkmovies1 Subscribe to…
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Episode 4- 'Good Luck and Bad Luck in Your Career' w/Steve Rogers
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In this ep Raanan talks with his hilarious friend Steve Rogers about dealing with Good Luck and Bad Luck in Your Career. Steve became one of Brian Regan's go to openers 3 years into his career, did The Late Show with Steven Colbet 5 years in, but also had some dissapointments as well. This ep is funny and a little bit moving. Follow Raanan @Raananc…
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In this ep Raanan talks with one of his favorite comics, Jordan Jenson (hot off her amazing The Late, Late Show set) about some of their favorite topics: anxiety, depression, prozac, small dicks, and more! Enjoy. And as always, please subscribe, rate, review, comment, ect. Follow Raanan @Raanancomedy Subscribe to The Tip of the Hershberg Patreon (f…
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In our second episode, comedian Gabe Mollica and I talk about one of our biggest artistic heroes Stephen Sondheim. We also reminisce fondly and not so fondly about outdoor gigs during the Pandemic. It's a really fun ep- like, review, subscribe, and enjoy! Also, Gabe has an awesome new solo show called SOLO that just got a Six Week Extension at the …
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Episode 1- 'Masculinity' with Geoff Asmus
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On the debut episode of 'The Tip of the Hershberg', Raanan talks with one of his favorite comics- Geoff Asmus- about Masculinity. A picture of Geoff and his friends was used by Alex Jones on INFOWARS as an emblem of how weak and effeminate the new generation of men are. We discuss this picture, and whether Geoff is jealous that Raanan is more of a …
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Naïve but adventurous, twenty-two years young and fresh out of university, Public Health Nurse Marion McKinnon accepts an assignment for a four day, multi stop, two-hundred mile trip from Williams Lake to Anahim Lake into the vast Cariboo-Chilcotin country of British Columbia. It’s December and the first snow has fallen across the land. The year is…
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A flight attendant with 25 years seniority works through the early pandemic. An essential worker with close family ties and lots of friends. Suddenly, her life is upended.By Caitlin Hicks (for Erin Em)
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BC author Claudia Cornwall’s discovered almost 30 years ago that she was descended from family murdered in the Holocaust by a Waffen SS Sargent named Arlt. The remaining details were shrouded in the mystery of her grandparents’ last moments, one historical May day in a forest in Minsk. 80 years after their death, Cornwall received their executioner…
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What happens to a robust 49-year old with Omicron in a BC hospital in 31 days? A Mother's account of her son's care in a British Columbia hospital between November 2021, and a few days before Christmas.By Lena's story narrated by Caitlin Hicks
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At 19 weeks pregnant, a young Indigenous woman must make an excruciating decision - within hours - to save the lives of her unborn twins. "I remember being so afraid." This story has it all: fear, love, pain and alienation. Courage, community, and resilience. A generous, joyful storyteller.By Nievelina Carmona, presented by Caitlin Hicks
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Forever changed by her two pregnancies, Amanda Snelson tells of the unpredictable and complicated process of 2 births. As part of the discussion around Women's Choice and Roe v Wade, Amanda's story introduces new considerations to the complex picture of individual soverignty over our bodies.
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My Mother's Story is a project that encourages everyone to write the facts of their mothers’ lives. It's a series of anthologies begun by Marilyn Norry. This is the story of DORIS, told by her daughter, Colleen Winton. My Mother's Story: Gone Too Soon is the latest anthology in the series and is now available.…
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How would your life be different if you couldn't drive a car? If once a week, a steamship arrived at the dock with supplies to keep you going for the next week? If your husband and the father of your children came home on "The Daddy Boat" once a week? Cynthia Jones Meets The Union Steamship at 1 AM tells of a much simpler time on the Sunshine Coast…
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It’s 1980, two days from the summer solstice in the wild landscape of Northwestern British Columbia. Deanna and her husband, Jay Kawatski, tend their food garden carved out of the wilderness in the Ningunsaw Valley when Deanna realizes that their first child will be born very soon. The couple must hike difficult mountain & bog terrain through cloud…
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We Got One! celebrates moments that, whatever else happens in life afterwards, we have, as artists, in those moments, all the meaning we will ever need. It marks the Cinderella achievement of having been chosen, of having hit the bulls-eye on the dartboard of current social and artistic reality. We can now stand on the world stage and beam our happ…
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Six Palm Trees is the journey of a family through the emotional landscape of their shared past. Annie Shea, the family clown, provides stand-up entertainment.Annie Shea, the family clown, provides stand-up entertainment. Annie Shea, the family clown, provides stand-up entertainment at a family reunion, where everyone has gathered to celebrate 24 ye…
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High school graduate Teresa Feeney becomes pregnant from one encounter with a trusted priest Father Sully, who is leading a choir of students in a showcase of songs from the radical hippie production of HAIR. Annie Shea, herself from an enormous Catholic family where abortion is unthinkable, reluctantly becomes Teresa’s confidante. When Annie reali…
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What if you suddenly discovered that you had a twin? A person who grew beside you in your mother’s womb, whose heart beat right next to your own for nine months. A person identical to yourself, born on the same day to the same mother. Suddenly, your questions are endless: Who are you? Where is she?By Deanna Barnhart Kawatski with Caitlin Hicks
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Your father - a threat to national security? Imagine when men in heavy boots came to your home, your garden, to claim him. An introduction to the story of a family, during World War II, living with the abrupt loss and the mystery of their father.By Amanda Hale with Caitlin Hicks
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"This morning, Lisa gave way to an anxiety she'd been stifling the past several weeks. She was afraid if she got behind the wheel of her red Toyota Tercel wagon, and drove onto the highway, she was going to give into the temptation she'd had lately to steer herself into a telephone pole."By Caitlin Hicks
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Gramma Ester flies from Wisconsin to California to help with a big family wedding in 1976. Flowers, frozen turkey, chocolate groom's cake. Guests fill the church with summer: pastels and hats, ties and shiny shoes. The congregation murmuring, waits. And waits. If the music would just start to play, if the bride would just walk up the aisle on Daddy…
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A THEORY OF EXPANDED LOVE = a big Catholic family 1963 in Pasadena. Chapter 7 is set on a warm California night at an enormous event: dinner. Clashing are the noisy and urgent desires of each child in a sprawling group of sixteen. Everyone is famished. And then, there’s the guest. Who represents everything. God, Church, Community, Family. Everyone …
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Before Gramma Ester was Gramma, when she was just a little six- year-old girl, in first grade, she had a crush on a family friend named Walter Gaulke (who was 13 years older). She carried this secret hope in her heart for almost two decades before she could have the moment with her sweetheart that she wished for all her life. And yet that moment qu…
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I ached for them, and for the nearby ultimate loss I anticipated feeling when they died. But I brushed it aside, because it wasn’t my issue right then. Far from it: we were on opposite trajectories and I was so excited about mine: getting ready to go into the world!By Caitlin Hicks
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What is it about this story? The benign nature of the tanning salon? The casual event of some man walking in the front door? The front-desk training, Be friendly, smile at the customers? What was so haunting?The kindness on her beautiful face? Or was it the closeness of his face right up against the cash machine? It was 1995. It happened in our sub…
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Sharky died on the same day the pope died, and two days after Terri Schaivo was finally allowed to. Even though, as the Dalai Lama says, we all suffer and are going to die someday, there never seems to be a good day to die. As we slid him out of a shoe box into a hastily-dug hole out in the daisy garden under a dark sky and a pelting spring rain, I…
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And out of his comfortable life. It happens in an instant. A deafening clap assaults his ears. It takes a second, but George rallies. He can see he's the only one who has stepped into the intersection, so he must be the one. He puts his other foot forward.By Caitlin Hicks
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In 1983, I left my husband, my home, my friends, my family and my country to live with my lover, an artist from Toronto. In the months while waiting for his divorce to come through, we produced a show there, the first Canadian production of LETTERS HOME, by Rose Leiman Goldemberg. It was the story of Sylvia Plath's life from 1950 to 1963, when she …
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This story features Zoe, a 'spark plug' who works with her father at a used car dealership near Niagara Falls. On this fateful day, Lenny comes to the lot to buy a jalopy. Lenny and Zoe are on the same hockey team -- both dream of following in the wake of other daredevils, who made history trying to outwit the roaring strength of Niagara Falls. Who…
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It's June 15th, 1963 in Pasadena, California. Yesterday, school let out for the summer. Two weeks ago Pope John XXIII died; today, a Soviet astronaut was launched into space. But for the enormous Shea family, it's the Grand Opening of SHEA FAMILY MOTORS and everyone is there. From pimply John-the-Blimp to Baby Jude to a statue of the Blessed Mother…
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"Can you imagine how many kids get left behind at Disneyland every year? There have to be a few of them. Among all those hundreds of cars in the parking lot, there's probably enough to form a club. Maybe the club could be called "The Left Behinds" or "Disney Orphans". How many of the stories could possibly have a happy ending? "The weird part is, w…
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Once we understand the astounding lottery of our own existence, how can we acknowledge our infinite disappearance? A story of two lives lived, the music between, and the sound of a mother's voice.By Caitlin Hicks
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An everyday interaction with profound reverberations. An almost-missed opportunity. Life, circumstance, death. How do we find our meaning?By Sharon McInnes
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Annie Shea, 12 yrs old trapped in an enormous Catholic family in Pasadena, California in 1963. In this excerpt, Annie & her sisters Madcap & Clara visit Bee Bee. Just yesterday, Bee Bee gave birth to a baby girl, and was pressured to sign adoption papers. Now she desperately wants to see her newborn. Annie is sent to scout the nursery and meets a c…
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Chapter One of A THEORY OF EXPANDED LOVE, the award-winning debut novel written by Caitlin Hicks. Reviews here: https://www.caitlinhicks.com/wordpress/reviews-for-a-theory-of-expanded-love/By Caitlin Hicks
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