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Join comedian Alvin Williams as he explores the often quirky passions that make our lives unique from members of all walks of the entertainment industry along with his family and friends! With special guests and uncensored conversations that promise to go off course into the deep end of bizarre, Williams helps us all try to gain more understanding on why people love what they love, and perhaps make the world a little brighter in the process!
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"The Old You is Dead!" Episode 21: Heather Turman
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Heather Turman is an award winning screenwriter, movie producer, comedian, and host of the new podcast "Indie Women". I had the pleasure of meeting Heather early in our comedy careers, and we performed together on the road for years before our paths took us on different journeys over the last decade. We finally reconnected again for the first time …
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"Hey Bring Me Some Candy!" Episode 20: Thomas Nichols
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Thomas Nichols is a hilarious comedian, actor, author of the irreverent comic book series "Just Us Cops", and devoted fiance! In this episode, Thomas and I have a philosophical conversation about life, comedy, and the pursuit of great candy! Runtime 86minAf Alvin Williams
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"Freed And Vaccined" Episode 19: Phillip Kopczynski
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Phillip Kopczynski is one of the funniest people I've had the pleasure of working with in comedy. He recently filmed his debut Dry Bar Comedy Special called Full Grown Man and hosts a weekly Podcast called Dangerous Loner, where he gives his personal take on anything and everything that comes to mind! Currently he's on the road performing nonstop o…
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"Don't Forget Who The F**k You Are" Episode 17: Sean Carson
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Sean Carson is a multi-talented entertainer who has taken his talent from Terrell, TX all the way to Los Angeles where he now calls home. An honest singer/songwriter in a world of pretenders, and a man who thinks differently than most. I've called him a friend for a decade and he's always been someone I can gain a different perspective from in the …
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"Let The Story Tell Itself" Episode 16: Ron Torres
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Ron Torres is a gifted filmmaker and improv comedian. His film and performance journey has taken him coast to coast from Hollywood to Atlanta, and back again. During that time he has turned every lesson into art, and we are all better for it. Ron and I met one another at the very beginning of our professional journeys in 2007, and in this episode, …
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"Magic AND Comedy?! Holy McNuggets!" Episode 15: Jessica Jane
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Jessica Jane was born into a family of magicians. Some would say she was already destined to become a magician herself, but she has relentlessly worked on her craft as if nothing in her life has ever been promised. Her work ethic and magnetic personality have led her to the high seas where she performs all around the world on cruise ships, providin…
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"Photographers Should Wear Pajamas" Episode 14: Sapna Odlin
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Sapna Odlin is a creator. She is an accomplished photographer and website designer by trade, and has an eye for the unique. So much so that she holds the distinction of having her work shared on Instagram by Kate Middleton of The Royal Family. Above all that, she's an amazing friend. In this episode, Sapna has a sit-down with me from her home in Re…
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"They Shoulda Never Gave You Passports!" Episode 13: Louis Johnson
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Louis Johnson has done it all in comedy. He has performed on Showtime, Comedy Central, BET, A&E, and has over 20 years of USO Comedy Tours under his belt. He is now the host of the podcast "A Good Green Room" and just finished wrapping up taping for his new Dry Bar Comedy special when he sat down with me to share some funny stories from his career.…
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"So...You Want A Shot?" Episode 12: Monica Nevi
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Monica Nevi is one of my favorite comedians and best friends. During the peak of the pandemic, Monica remained more active than most, having both her debut live stand-up comedy album "Mostly Finger Guns" and her guided meditation comedy album "Chill" both reach #1 on the iTunes Comedy Album charts! In this episode, Monica and I discuss her return t…
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"The Things People Do For Free Champagne" Episode 11: Chris Pendleton
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Chris Pendleton is one of the most talented and unique comedy performers you'll have an opportunity to see on the high seas. Her cruise ship career has spanned over 20 years and I've had the opportunity to learn the ropes from her both onstage and off when I first began my cruise ship comedy career. In this episode, Chris and I remember some fun mo…
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"Laughter is Yoga" Episode 10: Suzy Nece
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Suzy Nece is a yoga instructor, comedian, professional dancer, choreographer, and teacher for the last 20 years who toured nationally with the New York-based Bessie Award-winning dance company, Jane Comfort and Company. Beyond her professional credits she is also an amazing friend and a loving mother. Every conversation I have with Suzy, I still le…
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Things I Don't Hate w/Alvin Williams Episode 09: Miguel Corral
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Miguel Corral is a Business Strategist for the San Francisco based tech firm Genesys. After becoming the first male in his family to graduate college, he went on to receive his MBA from the University of Michigan. Sidenote, he has also been one of my closest friends since 15yrs old. Every conversation between Miguel and I is a philosophy session in…
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Things I Don't Hate w/Alvin Williams Episode 08: Derek Marshall
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Derek Marshall is a certified hypnotherapist and behavior modification expert, with certifications in Sports Hypnosis and Hypnobirthing. Whether working with athletes, expecting moms, or his live performances, Derek's passion is making positive change in the lives of both his clients and his audiences. In this episode, Derek and I catch up to discu…
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Things I Don't Hate w/Alvin Williams Episode 07: Reno Alston
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Reno Alston is a Professional Winner. He has been a championship winning coach in grade school/high school AAU and college basketball. He is also a loving family man and brother (my older brother to be exact)! His coaching career has spanned the past 20 years, and his athletic career has spanned my entire lifetime. In this week's episode, Reno fina…
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Things I Don't Hate w/Alvin Williams Episode 06: Tom Franek
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Tom Franek is an award winning, world renowned, grammy nominated pianist and musical entertainer who has been featured on ABC as well as many international television shows for his often mystifying ability to switch between classical music and comedy in a moment's notice (these are my words, not his, because he is often too humble of a person to sa…
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Things I Don't Hate w/Alvin Williams Episode 05: Cassandra Claude
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Cassandra Claude is a music professor at the University of Miami, a professional vocal wellness coach, and author of the critically acclaimed book "A Singer's Compass: A Journey Exploring The Internal Power Of Your Singing" In this episode, Cassandra sits down with me to discuss her many passion projects, as well as her current artistic mission to …
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Things I Don't Hate w/Alvin Williams Episode 04: Dorell Green
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Dorell Green is an up and coming comic based out of Colorado. But there is so much more to this man's story: He is a retired police officer of 20 years, a military veteran, a former professional Football Player, devoted father and dedicated husband. He sat down with me to discuss why comedy is now his new love and what challenges he's faced along h…
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Things I Don't Hate w/Alvin Williams Episode 03: Tyler Gray
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Tyler Gray is a party-starting savant. His diverse career in entertainment boasts 8 years as a Cruise Director on both Celebrity Cruise Lines and Norwegian Cruise Lines, as well as a 2 year stint in The Blue Man Group! He is currently the Entertainment & Activities Director for the JW Marriott Savannah Plant Riverside District in Savannah, Georgia.…
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Things I Don't Hate w/Alvin Williams Episode 02: Stephani Parker
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Stephani Parker is one of my closest friends in the entertainment industry. She is an international vocalist, songwriter, pianist, and guitarist who has an unmatched hunger to improve in every aspect of her performances. She has most recently developed a highly successful series of live Zoom concerts and took some time to talk about her most recent…
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Back at it again with a new podcat! Nina & Erik return for a short (long) discussion about a mysterious artwork depicting a magical dream land where maybe a cigar is just a cigar and paint brushes and towers are just a cuddly kitten's wildest fantasy. And all the while, an impending latent loaf of liminal luv looms large in Nina's psyche. =/?????\=…
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As winter tightens its grasp on our souls, let us take you to a tropical land filled with squawking birds, orange juice and gravel. Forget about snow, the white stuff blanketing this magical world is something all together different. We discuss “Hélio Oiticica: To Organize Delirium”—the first major US retrospective of the artist (organized by the t…
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Walk around EXPO CHGO with us! Artists notoriously love to hate art fairs and we are no exception. We spend a casual Saturday trying to find meaning in the most pointless of all the world's art fairs which is really saying something because all art fairs are pretty pointless. But hey, we had fun. Shoutout in particular to Spudnik Press for their le…
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Summer’s drawing to a close. And so we wistfully dream of Augusts paston this, the avant-est garde of podcasts. Thomas Hirschhorn and philosophical fan art, sneaky teens, Batman’s secret hotel, Nickelodeon auf Deutsch, bull semen, and Manifesta: the biennial backpacking through Europe after college instead of getting a job.So Whether you’re into ra…
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André has taken the unusual step of asking to appear before the Senate Subcommittee on Degenerate Funding for the Arts. Art on trial! After visiting the Whitney Biennial—portions of which remain on view through July 16—André has asked to appear before a joint session of podcast. And Lordy we have the tapes! Does the ‚"WhiBi" make, "an exciting, pow…
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Press junket! Curator Michael Darling gives an overview of Takashi Murakami's exhibition "The Octopus Eats Its Own Leg," followed by a conversation with the artist. Marc Ecko explains that access to merch is the highest form of art and Erik asks a question from the audience.Af I DON'T HATE THIS
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Hot off the pod! We visited the preview of Takashi Murakami’s exhibition “The Octopus Eats Its Own Leg” at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. We discuss isolationism, nationalism, adults telling teenagers the best use of their creativity is to participate in capitalism and pigeons getting it on in the park.…
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We kick out the jams with some live music in Berlin's Maurer (Wall) Park, a wonderful communist-era grove known for its love of Oasis hits. Erik is late to the final opening ceremony of the Sommerakademie at the Zentrum Paul Klee because he doesn't know the exchange rate between American minutes and European hours. Andre makes a prophetic predictio…
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We ran into each other on the bus in a meet-cute. And like a romcom we were supposed to meet at the art opening but went to different galleries. Our star-crossed podcasters discuss the recent Christopher Williams exhibition at Corbett vs. Dempsey, podcast mattresses, the new default d-bag voice and smooshing koosh.…
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The gang accidentally went for drinks after brunch last Saturday. On the walls of the bar we were confronted with works of art including a painting of a fish mounted to a plaque mounted to a wall. Co-host Nina joined us after receiving local anesthetic at the dentist.Additional topics: Ice stormsHumping, dry…
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Many people are troubled by the world and scared about the future. But there is good news, if you are willing to hear it. Are you a rebel who will be judged or are you willing to accept The Risen Trump? Which way do you want to live?Af I DON'T HATE THIS
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Technically, anything deliberately sent to a reporter or media source is considered a press release: it is information released by the act of being sent to the media. However, public relations professionals often follow a standard format that they believe is efficient and increases their odds of getting the publicity they desire. The format is supp…
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We are joined by bean magnate and architecture impresario Keefer Dunn. Architecture, white cubes, ziggurats and telephonophobia are discussed. We also talk about the real need to get hacienda style Taco Bells on the historic register.Af I DON'T HATE THIS
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Drunk Art History: The Lost Episode
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Maybe it wasn't such a good idea to mix Tequila and Dr. Pepper. Maybe it was an even worse idea to start recording a podcast afterwards. But either way, I Don't Hate This is proud to take you on an inebriated journey through Art History's greatest moments where we learn a thing or two about the Mona Lisa, Napoleon, Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun an…
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The City Chicago is in a pension crisis! And in order to pay for it Mayor Rahm Emanuel is raiding the treasures of the city’s cultural heritage! Join a dowager countess, a trophy wife, a thinly veiled caricature of Julian Schnabel and a security guard as they pay top dollar for works in the Art Institute’s collection. It’s Masterpiece, the board ga…
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And Then at Some Point They Bring out A Box Turtle
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Fully exploiting the global resources of the Callot Media Empire, Erik and Nina are joined via Skye by sculptor Olivia Martin Moore, reporting in Berlin.Af I DON'T HATE THIS
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Basically The Comic Looking Like
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Nina went on a boat and to her complete and utter horror found it full of art available for purchase. We discuss vacation cruises, populism, elitism, price-points and which islands have cats and which ones have alcoholic monkeys.Af I DON'T HATE THIS
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?I Don't Hate This is recorded in front of a live studio audience. In STEREO (where available). We welcome Brandon Alvendia, our first guest ever, to the podcast as he welcomes us into his exhibtion The Great Good Place. Recorded on location at Threewalls. Nina, Erik and Brandon discuss his exhibition, tree rodent dating sagas and being a reverse h…
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Journey to the Center of I Don't Hate This
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It turns out you were consuming contemporary art all along! Erik and Nina take the show deep inside the white cube for part one of Brandon Alvendia's The Great Good Place exhibition at Threewalls Gallery.Af I DON'T HATE THIS
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It was just an ordinary day in Chicago. Erik Wenzel and Nina Litoff were talking about Young British Art. André Callot dialed up the internet and said, “there’s been a p-p-p-podcast.” A sensational episode that includes such scandalous topics as art about murderers, Playboy getting less sexy and those cheeky yBa’s.…
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Sorting Through Possessions Which Hang About Our Necks Like Millstones Sparks Panic and
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...Fills Us With AnxietyNina has become a pupil in the way of the KonMari and is converting Erik to the stealthy art of sock folding. Like ninja assassins adherents of the KonMari ruthlessly ask of their possessions, “Does this spark joy?” If the answer is, “No,” the items in question are honorably discharged to the land of wind and ghosts, freed f…
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Erik wraps up his travelogue and discusses the Venice Biennale where you can get a brick for free if you make a mandatory voluntary donation of at least €10. We do the hard work of breaking down all the lazy art about physical labor. Also therapy donkeys.Af I DON'T HATE THIS
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Erik tells us of his pilgrimage to see a talismanic artwork that forms the center of his Elements & Principles of Art & Design pedagogy and his yearly sojourn to die Schweiz. Topics include a unique annual residency for artists and curators funded by a Swiss bank and what it feels like to be a cat who wants nothing more than to just be let in.…
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What do a dead tree, a (possibly imaginary) silver dog, a mime, a dad bod and a hover hand have in common? They can all be seen in the work of American sculptor Charles Ray. Listen to Nina and Erik review the exhibition "Charles Ray Sculpture: 1997–2014" on view at the Art Institute of Chicago.Af I DON'T HATE THIS
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Summer School Part 3: Final Jeopardy
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This round it’s time for Erik to enter the hot seat when Nina puts his advanced art vocabulary knowledge to the test with her Modern and Contemporary final exam notes.Af I DON'T HATE THIS
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Summer School Part 2: Surprise Midterm
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Howard L. Willett Most Valuable Adjunct Professor Erik Wenzel has a midterm test for all of you freshman Intro to Art students out there. And this test proves that sometimes the simplest questions are the hardest to answer.Af I DON'T HATE THIS
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Summer School Part 1: AP Art History
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It's the Fourth of July and you know what that means? Summer school is in session! Drop your hot dogs, grab your books, and hit the classroom with Nina and Erik in their three-part quiz series where they revisit their art education. In part one: Nina's memory is put to the test when she rediscovers her AP Art History practice test from the 11th gra…
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Nina went to Germany and is back to tell us all about it. She and Erik address important contemporary art concerns, like falling asleep in yoga class, the Phantom Menace licensed Monopoly game and buying a dumb old rock from a vending machine.Af I DON'T HATE THIS
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Nina and Erik won't...stop...thinking about tomorrow, or about Documentia, the show Erik curated at Sidecar Gallery on the subject of archival obsessions.Af I DON'T HATE THIS
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Nina and Erik carefully document each moment as it passes during a conversation about the career of conceptual artist On Kawara.Af I DON'T HATE THIS
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Jan. 16, 2015. Recorded Podcast. In honor of the passing of On Kawara and the New Year 2015, Erik and Nina perform one hour's worth of subtitles from On Kawara's Today series.Af I DON'T HATE THIS
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