Media Path Podcast

Media Path

Have you ever become obsessed with a topic and taken a deep dive into consuming all you could uncover about it?

Media Path podcast is here to indulge your obsessions. hosted by Fritz Coleman and Louise Palanker, the show takes you along on a scenic tour through books, movies, TV, podcasts and music related to a given topic of captivation. We are exploring entertainment, politics, history, true crime, world events and all of their intriguing intersections.

Fritz Coleman is a legendary Los Angeles weatherman/humorist. Louise Palanker is a filmmaker/columnist and co-founder of Premiere Radio.
Hop aboard. Discover more layers, intrigue and substance. Go beyond binging with Media Path.

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271 episodes
Updated July 23

Episodes271

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Jan 7, 2021 · 1 hr 8 min
Meeting Heroes & Home Town News
Writer/Journalist/Mayor gumpy man-about-everywhere David Laurell regales Fritz and Weezy with true tales of celebrity sitings, encounters and friendships. He shares stories about Joe Namath, Dick Cavett, Alex Trebek, Dick Clark and Marlon Brando. Plus, Fr
Dec 31, 2020 · 1 hr
Tim Conway Jr. & Talk Radio
KFI Radio legend Tim Conway Jr. may be the funniest man on the radio in Los Angeles. He may even be the funniest Tim Conway. Tim unleashes stories about his bold career launch, the dawn of internet radio, growing up in Hollywood, Tim Conway Sr., Don Knott
Dec 24, 2020 · 55 min
The Prom & The Crown
We may all be home alone for the holidays but we are joined by great cinema. It’s streaming straight to the TV on your wall or the phone in your hand and it is excellent. Fritz and Weezy are recommending the sensational writing and powerful performances i
Dec 17, 2020 · 1 hr 9 min
Shawn Pelofsky & Holiday Binging
Comedian Shawn Pelofsky is a hearty consumer of reality TV and bad Christmas movies. This pandemic season she has strapped on the binge bag and she is getting after it! Gather ‘round Bachelor Nation Children. Shawn has some wonderful opinions to share wit
Dec 10, 2020 · 1 hr 2 min
Lisa Arch & Lesley Boone
It’s hard to know if actors are handling this pandemic really well or if they are just acting like it. That’s why Lesley Boone and Lisa Arch started their own honest, raw and revealing Youtube show. Truth? They are half dressed and drinking heavily. Sure,
Dec 3, 2020 · 1 hr 6 min
Taylor Williamson & Pandemic Comedy
Standup comedians are tightly wound bundles of hilarity woven with doubt, despair and anxiety. Fold a pandemic into the mixture to yield Taylor Williamson’s mood. A proactive and solution oriented Taylor has attempted zoom shows, drive-in shows, socially
Nov 26, 2020 · 1 hr 11 min
Content Creation & Social Experiments featuring Jordan Zaslow
Jordan Zaslow’s viral videos will make your heart shine and your eyes leak happy rain. Jordan and her company Love & Fireworks create globally acclaimed social experiment content like the Regret Blackboard and You’re More Successful Than You Realize.
Nov 19, 2020 · 56 min
Biopics & Polling featuring Paul Cowsill & Cyrus Beschloss
How accurate is the Netflix Helen Reddy movie, I Am Woman? Our fact checker is Paul Cowsill from The Cowsills who toured with Helen and he knows too much to go back and pretend. Plus young people pollster Cyrus Beschloss from Generation Lab joins us to sh
Nov 12, 2020 · 1 hr 4 min
Election Decompression & Pandemic Pointers
Breaking News: Fritz and Weezy need to election vent. Let’s call this conversation Election Result Results. Can we Americans really hear each other across the cultural divide? Are we even trying? What inspires us or drives us to vote the way we do? How ca
Nov 5, 2020 · 1 hr 6 min
Brian Wilson, Paul Simon & Springsteen featuring Peter Ames Carlin
Award Winning Rock Biographer Peter Ames Carlin joins us to talk shop. Peter’s shop is stocked with best selling books about Brian Wilson, Bruce Springsteen, Paul McCartney and Paul Simon. Peter brings fascinating insight to a conversation about the drive
Oct 29, 2020 · 1 hr 3 min
Lee Sklar & Pandemic Blessings
Bass legend and fine gentleman Leland Sklar is fertilizing the soil of his pandemic pause with creative seeds which are sprouting into a YouTube channel, a photography book, graphic art, virtual concerts and new music from The Immediate Family which inclu
Oct 22, 2020 · 1 hr 1 min
Cary Grant & Class Acting featuring Marc Eliot
“Everybody wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.” So, once said Cary Grant. Born Archibald Leach in Bristol, England, at nine his was abandoned by his father and told that his mother had died. (She hadn’t.) At 14 he ran away and joined the
Oct 15, 2020 · 1 hr 3 min
Health and Healing featuring Kimberly Soenen
Kimberly Soenen is the creative director, curator and editor of “SOME People” (Every) Body, an ongoing, multiverse group project that raises questions about definitions of “health," "health insurance," “healthcare” and Public Health. A Best Practice and P
Oct 8, 2020 · 1 hr 1 min
Michael Reagan & Family Politics
Michael Reagan joins us for an engrossing conversation about finding your own voice while growing up in a Hollywood family and coming of age in a political family. Michael’s parents are Ronald Reagan and Jane Wyman. His step-mother is Nancy Reagan and he
Oct 6, 2020 · 1 hr
The Sound of Music & To Kill a Mockingbird featuring Tom Santopietro
What is it about The Sound of Music? Story? Cast? Soundtrack? Message? Family? Ideals? A dash of magic? Or all of the above? The Sound of Music Story Author Tom Santopietro is captivated by Von Trapp family values and he joins us to share his enthusiasm w
Oct 1, 2020 · 59 min
Watergate & The FBI featuring Max Holland
Why did Mark Felt leak? Was he on a hero’s journey to save democracy, uphold justice, protect The FBI or was he engaged in an epic battle of succession to the seat of power recently held for 37 years by J. Edgar Hoover? Author journalist Max Holland join
Sep 24, 2020 · 1 hr 14 min
Wendy Liebman & Jeffrey Sherman
Wendy Liebman and Jeffrey Sherman are among the world’s most adorable couples. The cutest thing about them being that they are each other’s biggest fans. Wendy is a comedian with a unique wordplay afterthought style that has taken her to The Tonight Show,
Sep 17, 2020 · 1 hr
The Black Dahlia featuring Steve Hodel
You may have a uniquely conflicted and complicated relationship with your father but until you discover him to be a serial killer, Steve Hodel wins. Steve was a retired L.A. police detective when he learned that his father George Hodel had been a suspect
Sep 10, 2020 · 57 min
John Berry & The Country Music Family
Our media path brings us to Nashville for some quality time with John and Robin Berry whose new podcast, Faith, Family and Friends gathers us around their virtual coffee table for meaningful conversations about the things that matter most. John Berry is a
Sep 3, 2020 · 55 min
Mary Tyler Moore & The Moody Optimist featuring Herbie J. Pilato
Herbie J. Pilato’s book Mary: The Mary Tyler Moore Story inspires us to explore Mary’s effect on a generation of women who have grown up to turn the world on with their smiles, their independence and their ingenuity. Plus, Fritz and Weezy head down paths