Inside The Oscars with Puck's Matt Belloni - LA Mag

Bryan opens the show asking Gina about her recent trip to the 'Happiest Place on Earth' as she joined radio royalty on a guided trip to Disneyland including a visit to the little known private restaurant inside New Orleans Square, Club 33. They then welcome on the king of NSNG living Vinnie Tortorich to discuss his upcoming fourth documentary examining the "Keto" food industry on the heels of his previous offerings Fat, Fat 2 and Beyond Impossible. They also discuss the unfortunate return of Vinnie's cancer and why he's optimistic about fighting it.

Bryan and Gina reconnect to discuss their weekends bouncing around Los Angeles which saw Bryan visiting the local cineplex and Gina getting her first traffic ticket in quite some time. Bryan also reviews the new Ryan Gosling summer movie 'The Fall Guy' that had a disappointing opening based on box office numbers but which he is optimistic will end up being successful based on word of mouth as people see it and recommend it to friends.

Bryan and Gina reconnect and open the show reminiscing about their respective weekends with Bryan celebrating a momentous milestone and Gina heading to the desert for a birthday celebration. They then welcome in their guest Angel Carter Conrad to discuss her work with the newly launched Kids Mental Health Foundation as well as new previously unreleased music from her late twin brother Aaron Carter.

Bryan and Gina reconnect after their respective weekends to discuss their Los Angeles experiences including Bryan's return to the glorious splendor of In-N-Out after an extended hiatus and Gina returning to the LA airwaves. After Gina shares some of her time on Good Day LA+, they turn to questions from you, the listeners and cover questions on movies, their relationships with Adam Carolla, travel tips and much more.

Bryan and Gina reconnect to discuss their respective weekends including Gina's mind numbing statistics homework and Bryan's proud father moment attending his daughter Tessa's first baseball game. They also discuss some of the entertainment they've been consuming recently with Gina's household diving heavily into old episodes of 'The Twilight Zone' while Bryan hit the theaters for the new much discussed Alex Garland offering 'Civil War'.

Bryan and Gina link up to discuss their weeks which saw Bryan off to a sporting goods store for some unique purchases and Gina off to the Inland Empire for some quasi-extreme sporting fun. Later they welcome in their guest this week, someone who is very near and dear to Gina, her plastic surgeon Dr. Elise Min. They discuss Dr. Min's methodology of how a surgery comes about from a patient's initial meeting with her patient care coordinator all the way to their post operative follow up with Dr. Min, and more.

Bryan and Gina reunite to catch up after their respective vacations where Bryan's family headed to Scottsdale, AZ and Gina and her husband headed back Kansas City to visit Gina's mom and hometown friends. After recapping their trips Bryan treats us to a special review of a star-studded Documentary film he recently watched exploring the life and career of Los Angeles radio legend Phil Hendrie.

With Bryan away on location Gina Grad rolls solo to start off this week's episode reminiscing about her weekend and specifically the adventures of KidBoy and Lady. Gina then welcomes in our amazing guest and CEO of the XPRIZE Foundation Anousheh Ansari to discuss her extensive work though XPRIZE and their mission is to bring about radical breakthroughs for the benefit of humanity through incentivized competition. They also discuss Anousheh's groundbreaking eleven days in space working on the International Space Station as first self-funded woman to visit space and the first Iranian ever to visit space.

Bryan and Gina link up to recount their weekends that were meant to be spent together but were called off at the last minute thanks to an L.A. staple, traffic. They discuss what they each did instead and highlight how they'll be making their make up plans in the near future. They then welcome on Elementary School Counselor Jamie Weddle for a wide ranging discussion about his role mentoring and helping kids aged T-K to 5th grade and what he's learned along the way.

Bryan and Gina reconnect to discuss their respective weekends including Bryan's attentive watching of and thoughts on The Oscars and Gina's third (or fourth) visit to Good Day L.A. with a curveball thrown in for good measure. Gina also describes her experience at a magical hotel and water park that had her howling at the moon and counting herself as a member of the Wolf Pack. Later they welcome in award show gifting guru Lash Fary to get the low down on Oscar gift bags and the in's and out's of delivering the beautiful gifts to the beautiful people each awards season. To watch this episode on YouTube go to the LAMag YouTube channel at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠youtube.com/losangelesmagazinevideos⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and subscribe while you’re there!