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Stories from the Center of the Universe Episode 251: Ron LazzerettiRon Lazzeretti is a singer, song writer, writer, film maker and commercial director. Ron is from and lives in the Chicago area and grew up in an Italian family that had a cast of characters! He grew up loving music, playing neighborhood baseball and admiring comedians such as Steve Martin. Ron went to college at Northern Illinois and afterwards got a job in advertising. He has since worked on various creative projects and was the writer and producer of Michael Keaton’s directorial debut “The Merry Gentleman.” They discussed that he considered moving to Los Angeles to further his career...

2024-01-011h 09

The Best Radio You Have Never Heard Podcast - Music For People Who Are Serious About Music Cold Camping - The Best Radio You Have Never Heard Vol. 471NEW FOR NOVEMBER 1, 2023 As your wet socks dry . . . Cold Camping - The Best Radio You Have Never Heard Vol. 471 1. Lumpy Gravy (edits 1 & 2) - Frank Zappa 2. Room Full Of Mirrors (live) - Jimi Hendrix w/ Dave Mason and Chris Wood 3. Get Up, Stand Up (live) - Peter Tosh 4. No Woman, No Cry (live) - Joan Baez 5. Count Down By Threes - Ron Lazzeretti 6. Won't You Give Me One More Chance - Turnpike Troubadours 7. From The Beginning (alt) - Emerson, Lake and Palmer 8. The Ballad Of Danny Bailey (live...

2023-11-0100 min

Playtime with WC Turck Ron Lazzeretti: Movies Music and the Graveyard ShowWhether in his films or in his country/blues infused Americana-style music, in the view of this music aficionado, negative space is hardly an afterthought for Chicago singer/songwriter Ron Lazzeretti, but a notable characteristic. That is fully evident in Michael Keaton’s critically acclaimed directorial debut “The Merry Gentleman,” starring Keaton and Kelly Macdonald, which Lazzeretti wrote and produced. His new album is a strong collection of solid songs titled, Fat Head, Sunday Paper, which is out, officially, September 29th, 2023. Visit ronlazzerettimusic.com, watch The Merry Gentleman on YouTube and check out The Graveyard Show by visiting thegraveyardshow.com

2023-09-251h 11

Playtime with WC Turck I’m not a Comedian...I’m Lenny Bruce’s Ronnie MarmoRarely a work of theater causes us to think about those deeper narratives guiding our lives. Ronnie Marmo’s riveting performance in “I’m Not A Comedian… I’m Lenny Bruce”, serves as shining guidepost. Marmo also wrote an exemplary one-man show, which was directed by the co-collaborator Joe Mantegna. Marmo is an award-winning actor. The website is www.lennybruceonstage.com For more about The Lenny Bruce Memorial Foundation-lennybruce.org For the Australian Pink Floyd Show tour dates, visit: www.aussiefloyd.com And to pre-order the new album from Ron Lazzeretti visit: ronlazz...

2023-09-1346 min

Strung Out Strung Out Episode 159. THE PHILOSOPHY OF ART. SINGER-SONGWRITER RON LAZZERETTISend us a textSoftspoken, funny, a natural storyteller. Those are the first words that come to mind when talking to Ron Lazzeretti. But he is a hard-working songwriter, crafting lyrics and biting down on each word to see if has gold, or fool's gold. Ron Lazzeretti is an artist. And like so many singer-songwriters around Chicago, feeds that habit by working "side gigs." He is a filmmaker, an advertising executive, a writer. His movies have been directed by such notables as Michael Keaton. But, to draw those accomplishments out is something that takes a bit of coaxi...

2023-07-1653 min

Hog Butcher Radio Hour Episode 14- Guy Van SwearingenWhen Guy Van Swearingen co-founded A Red Orchid Theater with his pal and fellow actor Michael Shannon, he couldn’t have known that 25 years later they’d still be at it, still taking on challenging and uncompromising material in that same thrillingly intimate space. There may be better known theaters in Chicago, but none more exciting to watch. And if the excitement of the theater isn’t enough, Guy always has another adrenaline pumping career to fall back on. For as long as the theater has existed, Guy has also been a Chicago firefighter. How he has managed to balance two su...

2018-05-0950 min

Hog Butcher Radio Hour Episode 13- Dag JuhlinThere are any number of ways that you might know Dag Juhlin. Maybe you were a fan of The Slugs, the underdog, hard drinking, fist fighting band Dag co-founded with his brother, Gregg. Or maybe you know him from the innovative Poi Dog Pondering. Or his good-time party band of crack musicians, Expo 76. Or his new band, Sunshine Boys. Or his day job as one of radio legend Steve Dahl’s sidemen on his weekday radio show on WLS in Chicago. Or the daily podcast they do as well. There are any number of ways you might know Dag Juhlin an...

2018-02-2856 min

Hog Butcher Radio Hour Episode 12- Bill FitzGerald“We should open a bar.” Many have thought it, but Bill FitzGerald actually did it. And now 37 years later, he seems genuinely surprised at the emotional response to the news that he’s retiring and possibly selling his legendary nightclub, Fitzgeralds. In our far flung conversation, Bill talks about how it all started, how a trip to New Orleans opened his eyes to the possibilities, how he met his wife and partner in crime, Kate, years before he actually met her, and how a steady parade of musical greats have marched through Berwyn to play on a stage in a club l...

2018-01-181h 02

Whiskey & Bananas Mixtape Series “Dancing in the Dark,” A Playlist by Ron Lazzaretti (Vol. 38)We asked our friend Ron Lazzeretti, writer, director, musician and ad man, to curate this month’s playlist, presented by “Whiskey & Bananas.” Almost Like The Blues — Leonard Cohen There’s not much Leonard Cohen music that I don’t like, but I like his last few records best of all. It’s like when his life was nearing its end, he collected all the wisdom he’d gathered and put it all together for an awe-inspiring grand finale. In A Parade — Paul Simon I took a trip to the emergency room last year. Everything turned out fine, but the insanity of that scene…the...

2017-05-3136 min

Hog Butcher Radio Hour Episode 11- Charna HalpernThe New York Times called her "The Hidden Architect of Modern Comedy." She's nurtured the careers of the likes of Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Adam McKay, Chris Farley, Andy Richter, Cecily Strong, Aidy Bryant. The lord and master of SNL, Lorne Michael regularly looks to her for new talent. She's gone from having IO (formerly Improv Olympic) kicked out of numerous bar backroom venues (Andy Richter and his pickup truck were always on call to move sets from one place to another) to recently building a 7-million dollar comedy mecca on Kingsbury Street in Chicago, the true home of improvisation...

2016-11-1559 min

Hog Butcher Radio Hour Episode 10, Christian Stolte- Part 2Part 2 of our 2-Part discussion with Chicago actor and Chicago Fire star Christian Stolte, In this installment we talk about what a cool guy Paul Newman was to be around, what a magician producer Dick Wolf is, what it’s like to be part of an ensemble on a hit television show, and how oddly fulfilling it is to be a star, co-writer and co-creator of the The Graveyard Show (http://thegraveyardshow.com), the best little web series that no one’s ever seen. And we wash it all down with another song from Oak Park’s favorite son, Terry White.

2016-09-2045 min

Hog Butcher Radio Hour Episode 9, Part 1- Christian StolteChris Stolte comes from St. Louis. But he’s a Chicago actor if ever there was one. Since the early nineties, he’s been a veteran of theaters like Steppenwolf, A Red Orchid, Goodman… For years, he seemed to appear in every movie that was shot in Chicago- “Road To Perdition”, “Stranger than Fiction,” “Public Enemies “…. And maybe most memorably, “Law Abiding Citizen” where he played the horrible son of a bitch who pissed off Gerard Butler. Then after two decades of somehow making it work here in Chicago, Dick Wolf rolled into town and Chicago turned out to be the perfect place to be...

2016-08-3058 min

Hog Butcher Radio Hour Episode 8- Rashawn Nadine ScottSecond City Mainstage cast member Rashawn Nadine Scott’s story plays like one of those great, classic show biz tales of a girl with a dream. "I made a plan, and then a few months later, here I was with four duffle bags," she told the Chicago Tribune when they named her one of the hot new faces of 2015. From the minute she stepped off the bus from her hometown of Tacoma Washington (it probably wasn’t a bus, but this is a showbiz story) she’s made wonderful things happen for herself in short order. She was a recipient of the...

2016-07-0753 min

Hog Butcher Radio Hour Episode 7 - TJ JagadowskiIt’s hard to believe that when TJ Jagadowski moved to Chicago from Holyoke Massachusetts in 1992, he had never heard of Second City or, for that matter, improvisation. That’s like hearing that when Michael Jordan moved to Chicago after college, he’d never heard of basketball. Today, while most people probably know TJ best as half of the Sonic commercials duo, he, along with improv partner David Pasquesi make up the world’s greatest improv team. Co-stars of the documentary, “Trust Us, This Is All Made Up,” and coauthors of the book, “Improvisation At The Speed Of Life “ TJ and Dave just ge...

2016-05-311h 05

Hog Butcher Radio Hour Episode 6 - Tony FitzpatrickYou’d have to search far and wide to find someone with more hyphenates than artist-actor-poet-playwright-columnist-raconteur and all-around amazing character Tony Fitzpatrick. And the thing is, he makes good on all of them with his acclaimed collages, his shows like “The Midnight City” at Steppenwolf, his album cover art for the likes of Steve Earle and The Neville Brothers, his roles in films like Spike Lee’s “Chiraq, ” essays and columns for New City… The volume of quality work is breathtaking. On this episode of the Hog Butcher Radio Hour we talk with Tony about art, birds, movies, Trump, Rahm, Mad Magazine...

2016-04-121h 02

Hog Butcher Radio Hour Episode 5 - Bill ZehmeAndy Kaufman, Johnny Carson, Warren Beatty, David Letterman… Author and celebrity profile writer Bill Zehme has never shied away from enigmatic subjects. In fact, he’s always been drawn to the seemingly unknowable figures in our popular culture. In today’s episode we talk to the man that Cameron Crowe called “The King Of The First Sentence” about his legendary career, his forthcoming Johnny Carson biography, the death of the magazine, and what got him through his 2-year battle with cancer. Also on the podcast, in light of the ongoing controversies regarding presidential candidates’ appropriating rock songs as their campaign songs, (ie...

2016-03-171h 05

Hog Butcher Radio Hour Episode 4 - Stephen Cone"I grew up a queer son of a Southern Baptist minister in South Carolina, and that’s where a lot of this comes from." That's writer/director/actor Stephen Cone telling the New York Times where he drew inspiration for his latest film, a current festival favorite, Henry Gamble’s Birthday Party. His other films include the provocative and enigmatic Black Box and his most widely seen film to date, The Wise Kids. All deal to some extent with issues of spirituality and sexual identity. And all are, to the filmmaker's great surprise, Coming Of Age stories, a genre Cone was...

2016-02-0451 min

Hog Butcher Radio Hour Episode 3 - Paul KonradFor over 20 years, the WGN Morning News has ruled morning television in Chicago. More than that, it’s stood as one of the last bastions of live local television. Our guest today is one of the stars of that show, Paul Konrad, who along with the rest of the WGN morning team brings intelligence, humor and an abundance of personality to the ungodly hours of morning TV. Paul discusses his poor absence record at post-show meetings, his past experience with lederhosen, and weather god Tom Skilling’s surprising talent for shagging fly balls. Also in this Episode, The Hog Butcher Radi...

2016-01-0547 min

Hog Butcher Radio Hour Episode 2 – Steve JamesIn Episode Two of the Hog Butcher Radio Hour, Ron talks with filmmaker Steve James. From Hoop Dreams to last year’s documentary adaptation of Roger Ebert’s best-selling memoir Life Itself, Steve has established himself as one of the world’s top documentarians. Here, he talks with Ron about his amazing body of work, about why he sometimes finds himself at the heart of his own films, what effect being the subject of a film has on people, and how Hoop Dreams went from a short film to a nearly 3-hour film that spanned five years. The hour closes with D...

2015-08-261h 07

Hog Butcher Radio Hour Episode 1 - David PasquesiFor The Hog Butcher Radio Hour’s maiden voyage, Ron talks with his friend and sometime collaborator, the great David Pasquesi. One of the world’s most acclaimed improvisers, half of the legendary improv team Dave and TJ, a Second City mainstage alum, a veteran of films like Groundhog Day and Angels and Demons, stage producitons like Steppenwolf’s Glengarry Glen Ross and The Goodman Theater’s God’s of Carnage, TV shows like Veep, and the best little web series that no one’s ever seen, The Graveyard Show…. There’s nothing this guy can’t do. Including taking Ron to task for no...

2015-07-111h 03