Ken Reid and Natasha Sizlo

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August 28 – September 3, 1982

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This week Ken welcomes author of the new memoir “All Signs Point to Paris”, Natasha Sizlo to the show.

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Ken and Natasha discuss how this is her very first podcast, having no idea what you’re doing in life, the wisdom of children, Natasha’s Scottish mother’s love of old Hollywood, class and accents, loving Laverne and Shirly, the importance of theme songs, Astrology, moving to Paris, watching television with your family, historical houses, Family Ties, Growing Pains, cigarettes, Rx drugs, Finders of Lost Loves, magicians, mentalism, The Magic Castle, life changing moments, Ouija boards, getting kicked out of boarding school, missing a few essential pop culture years of television, Sabrina, Philadelphia Story, TCM, Rom Coms, meet cutes, loving knowing how the sausage is made, cinematic stories, Bringing Up Baby, Madonna’s film career, shared experience, The Facts of Life go to Paris, revisiting Twin Peaks for the first time, how Friends is the new Brady Bunch, and realizing how important television was to you becoming the person you are now.

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About Ken Reid

I’m Ken Reid, a stand up comedian from Boston, MA and a life long television fan. I’ve been twice nominated as the Best Stand up in Boston and I have been featured on Comedy Central, NPR, Nerdist, and MSN. I own every issue of TV Guide. Each week a guest chooses an issue at random, picks their viewing choices from that week and the show is our discussion of the tough viewing choices of our past. We get into stories about growing up, people’s relationship with television, some cultural/media studies dissection and I spit out a lot of trivia.

Note: The Ken Reid TV Guidance Counselor Podcast is rated PG-13 and may contain mild language.

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