YTunes Shuffle

This week hosts Maggi Mayfield and David Earl Waterman call on their moms to share an important song before they share a song about their moms. Not only do we learn that both mothers are incredibly similar, but both moms surprise the heck out of our hosts with stories Maggi and Dave have never heard before!   First we call David's mom, Barbara where she shares stories of protesting in Ithica, NY. Then we talk to Maggi's mom, Libby, where we learn about a very memorable Fourth of July weekend in Washington, DC.   If you'd like to be a part of the show and be featured in our Listener Song Of The Week, please reach out with your song and story to ytunesshuffle@gmail.com   Keep the conversation going and find us on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Thanks for listening and don't forget to subscribe!

Have you ever met a real life ice skater? Well get ready for Maddison Bullock; a professionally trained athlete who also happens to be a very talented movie actress and producer. Coming off the recent release of her film "ICE: The Movie," Maddison had a few minutes to share with us her #Fave5 songs. She shared the stories of growing up as an athlete in Colorado, what she THOUGHT dating was, dishing on her new boo (only a little), the music that makes her think of the incredible relationship with her mom, the first time she really discovered music on her own, and how she came to write, produce and score her film "ICE: The Movie." If you like the music she picked you can learn more about her #Fave5 with these juicy YTunes Nuggets! Then we play Band Or Bar which is in Berkley California, before we learn about her First and Last Concert stories. Keep up with Maddison on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. And if you haven't already...please subscribe to YTunes Shuffle on iTunes and the iHeart Radio App and give us a rating! Thanks for joining us.

Eban Schletter is a parody and commercial song writer, most notably for Spongebob and Mr. Show. He brought an incredible #Fave5 songs talking mostly about his upbringing in Northern California, his bizarre relationship with his sister, where he started to learn to play music, and the story of the first woman he really obsessed over. Did you love Eban's #Fave5? Here are the YTunes Shuffle Nuggets to his songs. Band name or Bar name takes us to Beachcomber, Fiji before wrapping up with his First and Last Concert Experience. Follow Eban on Facebook, Instagram or Twitter.   Thank you for listening and make sure to tell us what you think on Facebook, Instagram or Twitter!

This week's episode features Harry Howard, an up and coming super star actor who runs his own podcast called "Podcrashers with Harry Howard," a talk show "Harry And Kelly," and also runs the studio space that this episode was engineered in: Global Voice Broadcasting.  Harry BROUGHT his #Fave5 songs with him (which you can read all about the juicy YTunes Shuffle Nuggest on his music here.) We discover that Harry uses his music to meditate and really formulate was he wants out of life. He talks about envisioning his professional future, what college was like when you start your own fraternity, and how past mistakes as an intern helped shape his current humble and grateful attitude. He also describes what he wants out of a romantic relationship with a very surprising song. Then we head to Stratford-upon-Avon for Band Or Bar. See if you can guess it correctly as well! Harry dives into his First Concert and then tells the tale of his Last Concert before we learn how to connect with him on Instagram and Twitter. Thank you for listening to this week's show. Please connect with us and tell us what you think of the show on Facebook, Instagram or Twitter.

Fiona Goodwin spent some quality time with the show despite being a very busy comedian working on debuting her One Woman Show: "A Very British Lesbian." Fiona brought her Fave 5 songs and shared all about how she grew up in the English countryside. Her songs wove us through stories of being a high schooler looking for an answer to why she was attracted to women. Instead, she found a friend who introduced her to the church. She studied for years and travelled all over the world on missions running from her truth. Fiona details an exorcism performed on her, falling in love on the set of a church play, and road tripping all over Europe with the love of her life. Band Or Bar takes us to Berkley, CA and then Fiona dives into her very surprising First Concert before rounding out the show with the Last Concert story. The entire episode was recorded on Easter so there is a running joke about Fiona's obsession with Cadbury's Eggs. Hope you enjoy the episode. Learn more about Fiona's #Fave5 songs with these YTunes Nuggets.   Connect with Fiona and see any of her upcoming shows online.

You may remember this week's guest on the tv show, One Life To Live. Mia grew up in Ithaca, New York and was actually classmates with co-host David Earl Waterman. Mia shares what it was like growing up as Asian in a white town, having a scientific dad and artistic mother, raised on all the music. She talks about the significance of David Bowie on the world, and how it's never to late to cross items off a bucket list. She rounds out her Fave 5 songs with a song that puts words to the feeling of sending your kid off to college and what songs and composers seem to have the pulse of what human longing sounds like. We play Band Or Bar in Cook County, MN before diving into her First and Last Concert experiences. Want to know more about the music? Get all the delicious YTunes Nuggets about Mia's Fave5 songs here.   Mia plays in a band called Play'N Lucky in the Los Angeles area and you can find her partner's new venture Leaf Cuisine here.   Thanks for following us on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.

YTunes Shuffle has been on the road auditioning the show for a bigger and better platform...Maggi and David explain where they have been.   Theo Manhattan, one of the sweetest most positive people in the Los Angeles Stand Up Scene stopped by to share his #Fave5. We learn all about his dad's breakfast secret: pancakes and tacos and how his dad inspired his musical interests. Plus, there is nothing more fun than learning about the band names our friends came up with in high school. Theo shares his first gig, first love, and how a small town Minnesota kid came to Los Angeles with a dream to work in film and wound up in comedy. Like what you heard? You can check out the YTunes Nuggets on our new blog. It's delicius tidbits of info about each of the songs that Theo picked! Band Or Bar takes us to Cuba, NY. Don't click the link and see if you can guess along. We round out the show with the story of Theo's First Concert and Last Concert and if you want to keep up with Theo Manhattan, keep up with him on Facebook and Instagram.

Kicking off Season 3 in style with the self proclaimed “Punk Rock Cher,” Tuesday Thomas, comedian and producer of Los Angeles’ most successful live show Freak Show LA joins the gang! She brings her Fave 5 songs and we loved the stories. Everything from sneaking mom’s medicine, to drugs, shitty relationships, the closest person to the Manson murders either Maggi or David has ever met, plus her philosophy on where to go from here, kids, and how much we all love Cher. Plus, Maggi debuts a new feature called “YTunes Nugget,” where David picks one song out of our guests’ Fave 5 to get more information on the artist or song. See all 5 Nuggest on Facebook.   Band Or Bar goes to Maggi’s birthplace of Princeton, NJ. Try not peak and guess along with Tuesday and Maggi. Then, find out the story of her First Concert, and Last concert.   Then connect with her online on Twitter and Instagram. As always, YTunes Shuffle is on Facebook, Insta, and Twitter and taking your songs/stories or sponsor requests at ytunesshuffle@gmail.com.   Happy 2018 and welcome back to the show!

Season 2 comes to a close with a whopper of a guest, Danny Vermont! He is a comedian and writer and you might recognize his work from "Real Time With Bill Maher," "Politically Incorrect," and "Pauly Shore's Pauly-tics."   We jump right into how Danny and Dave met...and then reconnected (without Facebook). His 5 songs bring us mostly back to the good old college days in Ithica New York. We learn about Danny's high school years, his first open mic experience, how one famous comedian inspired him to go to college, growing up with a mom as a school teacher and about the dark secrets of Los Angeles. Don't think you won't get a nice legalized pot talk in there...plus, Band Or Bar takes us to Ethiopia and it's a doozy. Try playing along before you click the links. Danny's Guilty Pleasure is hilarious, and his First and Last Concert will make you sentimental. Danny has a string of shows...keep up with him on Facebook.  Then make sure to pop over to the YTunes Shuffle Facebook, Instagram and Twitter to keep up with what guests are coming up and all the places we'll be!

Wolfie Trausch is a Los Angeles native who started acting at the age of 8! He has since moved into the voice over world and when he isn't working as a voice actor, he makes extra cash as a voice over casting director and teaches seminars.   We dive right into his Fave 5 songs where we learn all about his non-existent musical upbringing. His parents were both teachers and made it difficult for him to ditch classes...but we do learn about the music he and his dad had in common and how he not only met his current b/f on Tinder, he is teaching his mom how to use the app too!  The group gets into an incredible discussion about weed and edibles in modern times and then Wolfie shares a song that he started listening to because he thought his crush was super into it.    We go to Croatia for this week's episode of Band Or Bar before learning about a really embarrassing Guilty Pleasure. Wrapping up the show with First Concert and Last Concert....Wolfie's story is sweet and really just getting started. He is not a character to be missed. Follow him on Instagram! Then make sure if you'd like to attend our Holiday Party on Wed 12/13 in Los Angeles, but can't make it...we'd still love to hear your holiday stories inspired by the music of the season. Send us your song and story to ytunesshuffle@gmail.com.

Shawna Baca is our guest this week; fresh off of directing a music video, currently in production with two documentaries, Shawna also manages to find time to organized the American Latin Film Festival sponsored by Nosotros, and also sits on the Advisory Board of the East Los Angeles Chicano Film Festival Cin Sin Fin.   Shawna is quite the "rock chick" with purple hair, but starts us off with an unending love for Madonna and closes the Fave 5 out with a Christmas song. In between we talk going from being a straight A student, going into continuation school, learning about her close friends, how she gets back into public school and then what it was like going to college as an adult. Her family has an interesting coicidence as she and her 5 year younger sister, share the same narrative where their fathers' passed away as babies. Band Or Bar takes us to Byron Bay Australia. Then we learn of her naughty Guilty Pleasure, First Concert and Last Concert.   Keep up with Shawna and her awesome award winning film projects and then be sure to like the show on Instagram!

This week's guest not only worked as an entertainment lawyer, but now runs her own company, Dang Entertainment, managing comedians. Cassie describes how she accidentally started managing comedians. Her first passion was actually to be on Broadway. Her mother is a Vietnamese singer and sang alongside her mother as a young girl in the United States. Cassie is the only American born citizen in her family and talks a lot about the family dynamics and respect given to her older brothers and sisters. We share our favorite musicals and a few high school memories (Maggi and Cassie graduated Irvine High School in Orange County, CA together). Plus, what kids from Irvine got into in high school…and it was surprisingly innocent…until her bff graduated early. Then she got into some crazy shenangians. Plus she was the person who threw all the parties. And we celebrate a family member who is no longer with us but is remembered for his service and his long important talks with Cassie.   Band or Bar takes us to KOS, Island Greece. Then we wrap up with her not-so-guilty pleasure, surprising First Concert and her Corner of The Internet.   Find Cassie Dang on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Then make sure to like the show on Facebook for details about our holiday party!

If you live in the Los Angeles area, you've probably heard Angel Martinez on your radilo dial giving you the traffic reports. She shares with Maggi and David all about her side hustle, Sustainable Shoes!    Her Fave 5 songs take us to her roots growing up in Southern California, going to school in Utah, her ski days, and the very cool story of how she got started in radio. Plus, a few stories of the reason she came back to Southern California and the special relationship with her dad. We go to Brooklyn New York for Band Or Bar and then find out Angel has a unique kissing style during the Guilty Pleasure segment. Finish out with her AMAZING First Concert story and this becomes an episode not to be missed. Keep up with Angel on Twitter or Instagram and then make sure to like the show on Facebook!

This week, Maggi and David were grateful to have Marine Corps Veteran and Actor, Alex Angelikis join the show. We talked a lot about Boot Camp, dealing with PTSD, the growing pains of being different in school and in your early 20's and finally, a veteran's Point Of View on the Colin Kaepernick NFL kneeling issue. Maggi and David were so intrigued by his Heavy Metal Fave 5 and really learned a lot about what happens when a service member comes home with PTSD and discovering that being Different...is a power!   Band Or Bar takes us to Billings, Montana...but don't click on the links. See if you can guess along before learning about Alex's Guilty Pleasure and First Concert.   Keep up with Alex on Facebook and Instagram and then make sure to subscribe to the show on iTunes and keep the conversation going on Facebook and Instagram and Twitter.

This episode was dug up from the archives and originally recorded as a practice run through on October 21, 2016 when David and Maggi were working out the kinks of the show before inviting their very first guest, ever!   You'll hear the co-hosts chat about some fundamentals of building the show and promotions before digging into Maggi's Fave 5 songs!   Through her music, Maggi shares the story of moving in the middle of high school after her parent's divorce from New Jersey to California and the kind of straight edge kids she hung around. She talks about a vivid moment in those iconic car rides between houses where her dad stepped up to answer a very awkward question. She moved often in her adult life chasing her radio dream and she talks about her first morning show job and why it may have been the creepiest job ever. Maggi also skims the surface on the story of one man she really loved, and takes us full circle back to New Jersey and one of the most awkward moments in school. Follow her stand up online, Facebook, Twitter or Instagram, and then make sure to download the show and comment on iTunes. We'd love your feedback. Like YTunes Shuffle on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram. Thanks for listening!