149 Lizzie & Kat – Love Hurts

Lizzie and Kat continue their journey through Beverly Hills, 90210 season five with another socially-distanced podcast recording, and this one has a lot of complementary video content! Scroll down for more on the visual references discussed in this episode. And at 12pm PT on Tuesday, May 19, don’t miss Kat interviewing Elle Fanning about her role as executive producer and star of Hulu’s new comedy series The Great, which you can participate in live as part of Women In Film’s Laptop Cinema Club—RSVP here.

• The Flaming Lips-produced album Miley Cyrus & Her Dead Petz (streaming for free)

• Libertarian activist, veteran, and alumnus of our alma mater: Adam Kokesh

• The 1989 École Polytechnique massacre, in which 14 women were killed by a shooter who claimed he was “fighting feminism”

• The documentary Tower about the 1966 shooting at the University of Texas at Austin

Live reunion of Landry’s (Jesse Plemons) band Crucifictorius from Friday Night Lights covering The Flaming Lips’ “She Don’t Use Jelly” at SXSW

Tracy Fraim (Lenny) alongside Sarah Paulson as the hairdresser behind Marcia Clark’s iconic ‘do in American Crime Story: The People v. O.J. Simpson

Tracy Fraim (Lenny) alongside Mark Wahlberg in Fear

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'BH90210' Reboot Minisode

We can hardly believe that it's finally here... this Wednesday, August 7—29 years after the premiere of Beverly Hills, 90210, and 19 years after its conclusion—the miniseries reboot, BH90210, will premiere on Fox. We'll be live-tweeting the West Coast premiere at @90210blaze, and releasing our next full-length episode the next day, covering the reboot premiere with some ~friends of the show.~ Recaps of the further episodes of the reboot will be found on our Patreon, and our journey through season 5 of the original series will resume next week! 🤜🤜

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136 Mickey Keating – Up in Flames

Joining us for the original Fyre Fest—the Beverly Hills, 90210 episode where Steve Sanders Management sets a rave party ablaze—is the multi-talented Mickey Keating! Mickey is a full-time contributor to Instinct Magazine, and his debut short horror film Daddy’s Girl is available to watch online at Crypt TV. More importantly, he’s a burgeoning game show and talk show prodigy, and you can watch his appearances on Joker’s Wild with Snoop Dogg, and The Wendy Williams Show. His book Paused is available on Amazon.

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133 Andy Kamenetzky – The Dreams of Dylan McKay

We are thrilled to discuss this unforgettable episode with Andy Kamenetzky, who originally joined us for the season two episode, “A Competitive Edge.” Andy is a sports reporter for ESPNLA 710, and he and his brother Brian together host the Kamenetzky Podcast. So, that makes him the perfect guest to analyze the gameplay in the KEΓ House flag football tournament at California University—just kidding, the trippy journey through Dylan’s psyche has always made this Andy’s favorite episode of the series.

Discussed on this episode:

• The Space Jam website

• “90210 What Becomes A Legend Most?” by David Browne for Entertainment Weekly, September 1994

• The opioid receptor antagonist Naloxone (brand name: Narcan) was approved for opioid abuse treatment in 1971 by the FDA with opioid abuse kits being distributed by many states to medically untrained people beginning in 1996.

  • If you or someone you know are battling opioid addiction, resources can be found at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) website.

  • For information about opioid overdose, visit the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) website.

• “Luke Perry’s Startling Vulnerability in the ‘Beverly Hills, 90210’ Episode ‘The Dreams of Dylan McKay’” by Dan Piepenbring for The New Yorker, March 2019

  • To learn more about Piepenbring’s description of this episode as a “Boschian hellscape,” read: “How Hieronymous Bosch’s Hell Lives on Today” by Nathan Dunne for The Atlantic, April 2016

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131 Amy Salvini Swanson & Beth Salvini – Things That Go Bang in the Night

It’s so exciting for us to finally be joined by Beth and Amy, the sisters behind longtime supporter of the podcast, Greenwich Letterpress! It’s such a delight to discuss the Halloween episode of Beverly Hills 90210 season five with them. Discussed on this episode: the Día de los Muertos movie Coco, the podcast Running From Cops, and Courtney Stodden’s sexy pumpkin patch photoshoot, about which the Daily Mail notes, “The pair were eventually asked to leave the patch by security after they received several complaints from members of the public who found Courtney's attire offensive and her behaviour of a sexual nature.”

This episode is brought to you by The Cocoa Fondue Show. Watch the short before June 24 to help it win the Amazon Studios All Voices Film Festival!

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128 Santina Muha – Rave On

This week, we’re joined for an iconic season 5 episode by our good friend Santina Muha. Listen to Santina’s previous appearances on The Blaze: “Stand (Up) and Deliver,” “Leading from the Heart,” “Something in the Air” (live read), and “Remembering Luke Perry” (clip show). Discussed in this episode: Santina’s short film Take It Back, the 90210 eyeshadow palette (sold out 😿), the extremely “dad joke” autograph of Luke from General Hospital, her memories of meeting Luke Perry, the THNK 1994 Museum, the wild art film that is Jamie Walters’ Levi’s commercial, and The Big One podcast.

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127 Lizzie & Kat – Life After Death

We’re flying solo this week to take a serious look at the constitutional crisis following Brandon’s ascension to claim his birthright as the sophomore President of the California University Student Body, after the “shocking” death of his running mate Josh Richland. Well, you know what they say: when you play the game of thrones, you win or you die. This episode of The Blaze podcast features appearances by special guests Lucy Q. and Rick Dees!

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Bonus Episode: Will Robelo - RuPaul’s Drag Race (”9021-HO”)

Shantay! Tori Spelling and Jennie Garth guest-judged the latest episode of RuPaul’s Drag Race, and the queens had to compete in an acting challenge that paid homage to Beverly Hills, 90210. Longtime friend, early guest on the podcast, and drag enthusiast Will Robelo joins us to discuss our journeys with the art of drag and to recap this incredible night of television. You can purchase the RPDR episode on Amazon Prime, watch the Untucked follow-up on YouTube, and hear Jennie and Tori on RuPaul and Michelle Visage’s podcast “What’s the Tee?”

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114 Megan Rooney - A Pig is a Boy is a Dog

Joining us all the way from Chicago is Megan Rooney, one of the generous donors to our fundraising campaign benefiting the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media, and Jewish Family Service of Los Angeles. Since Megan is on the Board of Directors for the Animal Care League, she’s the perfect guest to talk about Brenda and Donna’s involvement in animal rights activism. You can read The Baltimore Sun’s epic review of Beverly Hills, 90210′s 100th’s episode online.

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109 KXCU Presents: “Heartbreaker”

It’s 2am, Condors, and DJ David Silver can’t be in the studio tonight, so your gals Lizzie and Kat are stepping in to cover his graveyard radio shift. Calls come in from listeners April in Los Angeles, Lance in Montreal, Pallavi in New York, and Jess in Australia. This episode is an experiment into the electronic grid, so it’s a good thing we love to party!

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106 Marc Andreyko - Somewhere in the World it’s Christmas

Kat is joined by her sister Alexx as a guest cohost for this week’s episode, and it’s Christmastime in Beverly Hills. We’re honored to interview a Beverly Hills, 90210 fan, comic book writer Marc Andreyko, whose latest comics anthology Love is Love benefits victims of the Pulse nightclub shooting and their families through Equality Florida.

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105 Robyn O’Neil - Windstruck

Guess what, Blazers, Lizzie and Kat are in a throuple now, and our new life partner is visual artist and host of the “Me Reading Stuff” podcast Robyn O’Neil. These things happen when the Santa Ana winds blow through town! In this episode, we tackle Beverly Hills, 90210′s bad hombres like Howard Stern and Dan Rubin, and discuss David Silver’s unnecessarily *extra* nudity. Also, let’s talk Kanye.

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096 Josh Stewart - Radio Daze

We didn’t quite get to the Beverly Hills, 90210 episode “Radio Daze” in last week’s episode, but please do make sure to listen to our special interview with actor Paul Johansson about his time playing John Sears on 90210. So this week, we are joined once again by Josh Stewart (1, 2) to finally get freaky at the freshman pool party / dance contest. Plus, we introduce a new segment for our time at California University!

L.A. listeners, Kat will be performing in the Beverly Hills, 90210 themed storytelling & variety show “I Will Always Love You…” at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre on Saturday, December 17 at 9pm. It’s a free show!

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094 Karen Tongson - Greek to Me

Since we didn’t even go to a school with a Greek system, we recruited USC Gender Studies professor and pop culture expert Karen Tongson to join us on the show to discuss the Beverly Hills, 90210 episode where Andrea meets an anti-Semitic sorority president! Karen’s cultural study of Los Angeles’ sprawl, Relocations: Queer Suburban Imaginaries, is available on Amazon. She can also be heard as a guest host of the Pop Rocket podcast, and has contributed to the latest issue of the food magazine Lucky Peach.

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093 Brian Hill - The Little Fish

Recorded LIVE at Comic Con Palm Springs, for this episode when the Beverly Hills 90210 gang gets to California University, we welcomed our friend, and fellow alum of our alma mater, Brian Hill to the stage!

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Beverly Hills 90210 Fundraiser on August 4, 2016

Tickets are on sale for next week’s Beverly Hills 90210 “Something in the Air” live read, benefiting the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media, and Jewish Family Service of Los Angeles. For cast updates, ticket info, and more, visit: www.donnamartingraduates.com

Live Read Announcement

Tickets for our live staged reading of the season three episode of Beverly Hills 90210, “Something in the Air” are on sale now! Tune in to this special announcement for some casting news, and get your tickets online at tinyurl.com/DonnaMartinGraduates

066 Jensen Karp - The Back Story

Our guest this week on The Blaze with Lizzie and Kat podcast has so many projects, it’s hard to keep up! We’ll just say this about Jensen Karp: his shop Patti Lapel is selling some incredible Beverly Hills 90210 merch, he hosts the Get Up On This podcast, and his upcoming memoir is entitled “Kanye West Owes Me $300 & Other True Stories From A White Rapper Who Almost Made It Big.”

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061 Karen Rosin & Lindsey Rosin - Too Little, Too Late / Paris 75001

Beverly Hills 90210 writer Karen Rosin returns to The Blaze with Lizzie and Kat podcast to kick off the Paris episodes of season three! She’s joined by her daughter Lindsey who had a guest role in the episode, and is now the director of such L.A. stage productions as Cruel Intentions and the upcoming Friday Night Lights musical, and the executive producer of the upcoming Cruel Intentionssequel coming to NBC, and Squad Goals coming to CBS. Lindsey’s novel Cherry is available for preorder through our Amazon link.

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058 Cher Thompson - So NoTORIous

On one more “hiatus” episode before we return next week to cover season three of Beverly Hills 90210, we’re joined by listener Cher Thompson of the blog “The Anonymous Woman” to discuss the complete series of So NoTORIous! Get your own copy of the show on DVD for under $5 on Amazon!

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