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DENNIS ANYONE? with Dennis Hensley

"A podcast about making things up and making things happen." L.A.-based writer-performer Dennis Hensley believes that art and creativity make the world go around and make life worth living. Each week, he interviews a different creative person each about what they do, why they do it, and how they manage the ups and downs of a creative life. Some guests are famous, some are less so...all are what Dennis describes as "beautiful strugglers." Past guests have included authors, actors, photographers, musicians, screenwriters, acrobats and one visual artist who makes cartoons centered around dead houseflies.

Production Whisperer & Host of the When Is Now Podcast Capella Fahoome: "People Make Me Happy"

70 hours 34 mins; May 16, 2024

Photographer & Director Mike Ruiz: "All I Did Was Fantasize About Being at Studio 54"

71 hours 11 mins; May 09, 2024

Actors Kevin Daniels and Logan Arditty ("Monsters of the American Cinema"): "I Will Never Be Scared of a Script Again"

48 mins; May 02, 2024

DENNIS ANYONE 10th ANNIVERSARY INTERVIEW PART 2

68 hours 34 mins; April 25, 2024

DENNIS ANYONE 10th ANNIVERSARY INTERVIEW PART 1

58 mins; April 18, 2024

I Think I Do FIlmmaker Brian Sloan: "Hey, Do You Know Somebody Named Elaine Stritch?"

53 mins; April 11, 2024

Transition fiImmakers Jordan Bryon and Monica Villamizar: "Surely I Could Have Found A Nicer Bra To Burn"

47 mins; April 04, 2024

A LOVE LETTER TO XANADU with Alonso Duralde and Dave White from the Linoleum Knife film review podcast

57 mins; March 28, 2024

Author Abdi Nazemian Part 2 ("Only This Beautiful Moment"): "My Books Aren't About The Fact That They've Been Banned. My Books Are About What They're About"

65 hours 36 mins; March 21, 2024

Author Abdi Nazemian ("Like A Love Story"): "The Opposite of Shame Is Madonna"

78 hours 2 mins; March 14, 2024

ACMT WORKSHOP REUNION w/ Kristin Dahl, Sherri Fleming, Karole Forman, Dennis Osborne and Jon Thomas

55 mins; March 07, 2024

TCM Host and Author Dave Karger (50 Oscar Nights): "Oprah Roses Don't Die"

45 mins; February 29, 2024

THE YEAR IN MOVIES 2023 Part 2 w/ film critic Glenn Gaylord and actor-writer Drew Droege

79 hours 45 mins; February 22, 2024

THE YEAR IN MOVIES 2023 Part 1 w/ film critic Glenn Gaylord and actor-writer-film lover Drew Droege

64 hours 10 mins; February 15, 2024

Playwright & Director Luke Yankee ("Marilyn, Mom & Me"): "My Mother Was Famous For Going 'Fire, Ready, Aim'!"

60 hours 44 mins; February 08, 2024

Author Curtis Chin ("Everything I Learned, I Learned In A Chinese Restaurant"): "I Live My Life As A Chinese Waiter"

72 hours 23 mins; February 01, 2024

Author Tim Murphy ("Speech Team"): "I Don't Even Think I Knew What Mincing Meant"

87 hours 1 min; January 25, 2024

""ONLY IN WEHO!" The Creators & Stars of the webseries "OPEN TO IT" play YOU DON'T KNOW MY LIFE!

55 mins; January 18, 2024

Performer-Writer Adam Sank: "Stop Freakin' Taking My Neosporin"

69 hours 7 mins; January 09, 2024

NEW YEARS IN PALM SPRINGS GAME NIGHT w/ Craig Chester, Jack Kenny, Byron Lane & Terry Ray playing You Don't Know My Life!

48 mins; January 05, 2024

Filmmaker Todd Verow & Actor Guillermo Diaz: "It Was Like Summer Camp...With Poppers"

60 hours 13 mins; December 28, 2023

Excerpts from Dennis Hensley's THE MISMATCH GAME: I'll Be Homo For Christmas Edition

56 mins; December 21, 2023

Performer & Radio Host John Hill ("Wellness Check"): "I Thought I Had EGOT-ed At Six Flags"

64 hours 8 mins; December 13, 2023

Holiday Gift Guide 2023 w/ Michael DeMartino, Eddie Shapiro, Dudley Beene & Patrick Marks

73 hours 9 mins; December 07, 2023

Author Mark S. King (My Fabulous Disease) Part 2: "I Am, By The Way, A Ginger Daddy And I'm Hanging On To That"

36 mins; November 30, 2023

Filmmaker Billy Luther ("Frybread Face & Me"): "I Just Knew I Had a Story To Tell"

41 mins; November 22, 2023

Author Mark S. King (My Fabulous Disease): "I Grew Into My Top-hood"

57 mins; November 16, 2023

Mad Magazine & Match Game writer Dick DeBartolo Part 2: "If I Come Up With Something Stupid, I Can Just Put It Up on Facebook"

53 mins; November 09, 2023

Mad Magazine & Match Game Writer Dick DeBartolo: "Yes, Alfed E. Neuman Is Running For President"

59 mins; November 02, 2023

Filmmaker Dion Labriola (Dear Ike: Lost Letters to a Teen Idol): "Thanks for the Smile! - Carrot Top"

46 mins; October 26, 2023

Writer-Performer Mitchell Anderson (You Better Call Your Mother): "I Owe It All To My Dirty Laundry"

81 hours 0 mins; October 19, 2023

Writer-Performer Ryan Raftery (Mother of the Year: The Kris Jenner Musical): "It's Like Having Your Brain Stroked To A Low-Grade Orgasm"

53 mins; October 10, 2023

Cartoonist Carlo Quispe (Uranus Comics): "Stop The Car! Stop The Car! Elizabeth Berkley Is Right There!"

34 mins; October 03, 2023

Singer Jim Verraros ("Take My Bow"): "I Just Got Tired Of People Telling Me I Needed To Be Something Other Than Who I Was"

70 hours 8 mins; September 28, 2023

Mortified LA Host & Story Producer Leonard Hyman: "I Am SomebodyThat Wallows"

53 mins; September 19, 2023

Filmmaker Sav Rodgers (Chasing Chasing Amy): "Every Day Is A School Day"

78 hours 26 mins; September 14, 2023

Filmmakers Tom Gustafson & Cory Krueckeberg (Glitter and Doom): "The Stems Have Been Delivered"

78 hours 26 mins; September 05, 2023

Author Manuel Betancourt (The Male Gazed): I Just Love a Big Dumb Hunk

78 hours 26 mins; August 31, 2023

The MisMatch Game: Here Comes The Pride Edition excerpts

64 hours 39 mins; August 22, 2023

Actor-Writer-Director Craig Chester (Adam & Steve): "How Does Loni Anderson Live?"

80 hours 33 mins; August 17, 2023

Author JD Doyle (1981): "I Wanted to See Gay America"

58 mins; August 10, 2023

Writer-Performer Alex Alexander (Perception vs. Reality 101): "I Will Not Be Ignored, Los Angeles"

67 hours 21 mins; August 03, 2023

Filmmakers Andy & Danny Vallentine (The Mattachine Family): "Each Day is Vallentine's Day"

39 mins; July 25, 2023

Filmmaker Corey Sherman (Big Boys): "I Wanted Him To Be Big Guy Who Likes Big Guys"

37 mins; July 18, 2023

Documentarian Marc Saltarelli & Gay Icon Bruce Vilanch (Studio One Forever): "Think Mark Zuckerberg With An Afro and a Large Penis"

31 mins; July 14, 2023

The Disappointments Creator & Star Rich Burns: "It's The Creative Highlight Of My Life"

72 hours 31 mins; July 11, 2023

The DNR Studios Summer Fling Crossover featuring You Don't Know My Life!

62 hours 13 mins; June 29, 2023

Novelist Jude Hopkins (Babe In The Woods): "I Kept Thinking About The Dangling Modifier & The Comma Splice That I Missed"

87 hours 18 mins; June 22, 2023

Divercitours Founder & Tour Guide Saul Franco: "You Are Living An Adventure Every Day In Mexico City"

59 mins; June 15, 2023

Playwright Eric Anderson (Back Porch): "I Wanted To Write Something Affirmative"

34 mins; June 08, 2023

Filmmaker & Author Sam Irvin (I Was A Teenage Monster Hunter): "All I Want To Do Is Be On A Set Saying Action & Cut"

78 hours 43 mins; June 01, 2023

"Naked Boys Singing" Creator Robert Schrock: "You Gotta Make Friends With The Pole"

52 mins; May 25, 2023

The Bottoming Process playwright Nicholas Pilapil & Stars George Salazar & Rick Cosnett: "I Wanted To Write Me As Katherine Heigl"

44 mins; May 18, 2023

Director-Choreographer-Actor Vincent Paterson (co-author of Icons & Instincts): Part 2 "Getting a Bad Review From the Pope Made My Day"

84 hours 1 min; May 11, 2023

Director-Choreographer-Actor Vincent Paterson (co-author of Icons & Instincts): "I Was Always The White Boy That The Black Girls Wanted to Dance With"

60 hours 29 mins; May 04, 2023

Singer Matt Zarley (creator & star of 11 O'Clock Number): "Sometimes You Just Need a Yes"

81 hours 12 mins; April 27, 2023

Filmmaker-Actor Todd Flaherty ("Chrissy Judy"): "You Have To Feed The Hungry Ghost"

36 mins; April 20, 2023

Author Sam Staggs (Did You Sleep With The Models?): "I Looked Up And There Was Al Parker…"

66 hours 34 mins; April 13, 2023

Filmmaker Gregg Araki ("The Doom Generation"): "It's The Brattiest Kid That Conquered The World"

69 hours 17 mins; April 06, 2023

Singer-Songwriter Brandon Stansell: "There's No Feeling Like Finishing a Song"

63 hours 33 mins; March 30, 2023

Entrepreneur Wendy Miller (Ask Your Gay BFF Oracle Cards): "I Peed Next To Della Reese!"

63 hours 33 mins; March 23, 2023

Playwright Steve Silverman ("Happy Birthday McKenna"): "I Want To Make People Uncomfortable"

60 hours 20 mins; March 16, 2023

Filmmaker Robert Chandler ("Dirty Sexy Comics"): "I've Never Held One Myself"

60 hours 3 mins; March 09, 2023

THE YEAR IN MOVIES 2022 Part 2 w/ film critic Glenn Gaylord and actor-writer Drew Droege

69 hours 17 mins; March 02, 2023

THE YEAR IN MOVIES 2022 Part 1 w/ film critic Glenn Gaylord and actor-writer Drew Droege

73 hours 18 mins; February 23, 2023

Cinema Craptaculus Presents The Expanded Universe crossover episode w/ hosts John H.H. Ford and Smoore: "Romance…Wherefore Art Though?"

57 mins; February 17, 2023

Actors Jonny Beauchamp & Mike Manning (The Way Out): "We Owe It All To Super Coffee & Chipotle Burritos"

57 mins; February 09, 2023

Eric Orner (Cartoonist & Author of Smahtguy: The Life & Times of Barney Frank): "You Should Stick to the Kinds of Fairies That Wear Chaps"

42 mins; February 02, 2023

Actor Jonathan Slavin (Home Front): "It Might Have Been Joey Lawrence Related"

72 hours 38 mins; January 26, 2023

Filmmaker Matt Carter (In From the Side): "Come For the Shorts, Stay for the Drama"

66 hours 28 mins; January 19, 2023

Dollmation Sensation Warren Wright: "The Only Nudes On My Phone Are Barbies"

59 mins; January 12, 2023

Tom Goss's Big Fat Gay Ass Christmas Listening Party w/ Tom Goss, Benjamin Koll, Keith Lawrence, Liz deRoche and Mike Briggs.

61 hours 23 mins; December 22, 2022

HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE 2022 Part 2 w/ Andy Scahill, James Carroll, Paul Ybarra & Andrew Harper

41 mins; December 14, 2022

HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE 2022 Part 1

48 mins; December 12, 2022

Writer & Exec Producer Michael Ausiello (Spoiler Alert): "TV Guide Was Like My Hustler"

49 mins; December 08, 2022

Web Series Creator & Star Artie O'Daly: "I Always Wanted To Be On A Sitcom…I Just Had To Make It Myself"

73 hours 10 mins; December 01, 2022

Actress Julie Hagerty (A Christmas Story Christmas, Airplane): "Thank God For My Hair"

68 hours 32 mins; November 24, 2022

Dancer & Choreographer Locky Brownlie ("Bro-lesque"): "It's All Your Gay Fantasies Come To Life"

30 mins; November 15, 2022

The late great Leslie Jordan (Will & Grace, Sordid Lives): "Always Making a Spectacle of Myself"

66 hours 30 mins; November 10, 2022

The cast and writer of the play Daddy Issues play You Don't Know My Life!

36 mins; November 03, 2022

Author David Ambroz (A Place Called Home): "I Think Of No As A Request for More Information"

66 hours 30 mins; October 27, 2022

Actor Bill Brochtrup (The Inheritance, NYPD Blue): "Your Greatest Role Is Ahead Of You"

43 mins; October 20, 2022

Actor Tony Rodriguez (The Simpsons): "There's Nothing More Satisfying Than Musical Stupidity"

63 hours 25 mins; October 13, 2022

Actor-Writer Sam Pancake: "The Sweet Nectar of Semi-Celebrity"

75 hours 29 mins; October 06, 2022

Encyclopedia Madonnica Author Matthew Rettenmund: "So What Makes You So Lucky?"

96 hours 38 mins; September 29, 2022

Sweepstakes & Contest Enthusiast Michelle Willis: "I Never Know What Will Show At My Door"

48 mins; September 22, 2022

REUNION RECAP The Skinny on the Skinny-Dipping

31 mins; September 15, 2022

GayVN-winning Adult Film Actor Joel Someone: "I'm Glad I Got Hot and Didn't Die"

80 hours 41 mins; September 01, 2022

ONJ Forever: A Flashback Tribute to Olivia Newton-John w/ performer John Cantwell AKA Love Connie

59 mins; August 24, 2022

Easter Sunday actor Rodney To: "You're a Middle-Aged Man Who Looks Like a Boy"

80 hours 53 mins; August 18, 2022

Writer-Performer Will Nolan (Gay History for Straight People): "Waiting By the Phone for Beyonce To Call"

68 hours 44 mins; August 09, 2022

Photographer Gabriel Goldberg (Coming of Age): "I Heard You Had Ideas"

68 hours 44 mins; August 04, 2022

Author Alexander Cheves ("My Love Is A Beast: Confessions): "Heaven's a Dance Floor, Man"

65 hours 33 mins; July 28, 2022

Author Blair Fell (The Sign for Home): "I Dressed My G.I. Joes Like Anne Boleyn"

87 hours 50 mins; July 21, 2022

Model-Artist John Coulter (All Man: The International Male Story) "It's The Only Time You'd Get To Model Mesh"

56 mins; July 14, 2022

The Cast of Tilda Swinton Answers An Ad On Craigslist plays You Don't Know My Life!

44 mins; July 07, 2022

Filmmaker Alex Liu ("A Sexplanation"): "My Brain is on the Cover of The Journal of Sexual Medicine"

94 hours 27 mins; June 30, 2022

YOU DON'T KNOW MY PRIDE! w/ the hosts from DNR Studios

45 mins; June 23, 2022

Filmmaker Peter McDowell ("Jimmy In Saigon"): "I'm a Big Tracker-Downer"

54 mins; June 16, 2022

Musicians & Madonna Summer Creators Jason Arnold (AKA Shyboy) & Mark Nubar: "Were They Like Friends Or Something?"

47 mins; June 09, 2022

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