Joanna & Kevin’s Big Show

It is the return of the Big Show! After a little hiatus, we are back to chat about all things New York City. Joanna has turned into a major theatergoer, when she is not holding down the fort at Doc Holliday’s on Avenue A. Kevin is on the Great Gatbsy money train, giving boat tours and walking tours. Joanna and Kevin are committed to a schedule for upcoming programs, so thank you for sticking with us. We record our shows at The Lambs, America’s oldest professional theatrical organization. Our theme song is by the late, great Big Ed Cody (RIP). See our new website BigShow.nyc. Visit our Facebook Page to keep up with us. Please like and review is, and subscribe! Our sponsor is Doc Holliday’s Saloon.

We have reached episode 48 on our comeback tour. The ramp up today continues as we chat about our upcoming guests and plans for the show, including upcoming trips and planned future guests. Among those we name check are past guests are Chet Lenczewski, a guy who knows an incredible amount of beer, and who Jo has to pay. Sonya Sklaroff is the painter we can’t wait to see again; yes, she is name-checked on And Just Like That… the Sex and the City reboot, which Kevin saw on her Insta. It is so great to be back recording podcasts again, as we march to our big 50th episode. We record our shows at The Lambs, America’s oldest professional theatrical organization. Our theme song is by the late, great Big Ed Cody (RIP). See our new website BigShow.nyc. Visit our Facebook Page to keep up with us. Please like and review is, and subscribe! Released July 22, 2024.

Joanna and KevinThe podcast is finally back. Joanna and Kevin’s Big Show took an extended break since the last episode in March 2022. Episode 47 here, and we are catching up and planning big things for the show. For Kevin, it was 27 month of a variety of activities. There was 18 months working for NYC Parks and working on a podcast for the city. And in January 2023 becoming Shepherd of The Lambs. Joanna has been up to lots, including managing the best bar in the East Village, Doc Holliday’s. She is now painting and finding other creative outlets. The Show now has a new website with all of our archives posted. We are planning big things for the big 50th show, which will be recorded live on location at Doc’s. We recorded this show at The Lambs. You can follow Joanna: Website Instagram Kevin Website Instagram Our sponsor is Doc Holliday’s. Visit our Facebook Page to keep up with us. Please like and review is, and subscribe! We also have a new website, visit here. Recorded June 12, 2024.

Kevin and Joanna on the roof of The Lambs. Still a little rusty after our podcasting hiatus, we have dusted off the cobwebs by now for our third episode since our big time off. In this episode, Joanna and Kevin talk about the return of poker playing, writing books, and side hustles. Joanna’s eBay store is heating up, and Kevin is looking forward to going to New Orleans one of these days for Tales of the Cocktails. Will Jo go? We wrap up with what we are looking forward to as we approach our 50th episode. You can contact us through our new website, which has it’s soft launch. We record at The Lambs, the oldest professional theatrical club in the U.S. Find out more about it here. Our theme song is by the late, great Big Ed Cody (RIP). Visit our Facebook Page to keep up with us. Please like and review is, and subscribe! We also have a new website, visit here. Recorded Jan. 25, 2022.

Patrick and Jo In our second podcast from our too-long hiatus, we welcome our first guest to sit down with us. Shower Curtain Patrick (his bar name) is a longtime regular customer of Joanna’s, and he invented a radical new shower curtain design. He sent a complimentary shower curtain to Jo, which we unbox on the show. The idea came to Patrick when he was sick of “the cling” and the “gunk” of cheap plastic shower curtains, which can be found in half of all homes in the United States (he did the research). He now is selling the curtain on his website and through his Amazon store. (You can see lots of photos of it in both places too). Patrick is one of those people that comes to New York City and makes it great. He’s from Ottawa. As we get going with more podcasts, we will be bringing on more city guests to tell us about their lives in New York City. We record at The Lambs, the oldest professional theatrical club in the U.S. Find out more about it here. Our theme song is by the late, great Big Ed Cody (RIP). Visit our Facebook Page to keep up with us. Please like and review is, and subscribe! We also have a soft launch of our new website, visit here. Recorded Jan. 25, 2022.

Joanna and KevinIn our first broadcast together since May 2020, Joanna and Kevin settle into the groove of getting the Big Show back up and running. We are together again at The Lambs, catching up. It is indeed sad that we lost two of our guests, Billy the Artist from Episode 4, and Big Ed Cody from Episode 16. Ed also recorded our theme song, which we are keeping on the opening and closing of the show. In this episode we talk about the state of New York City today; what it is like to work and live in Manhattan. Jo explains what the bar business is currently like, as she runs Doc Holliday’s on Avenue A, and deals with shortages and training new staff. We also make a pledge to produce a lot more shows in 2022. Thanks for sticking with us! Joanna has a new side hustle, visit her eBay Store for vintage clothes, jewelry, books and more. We record at The Lambs, the oldest professional theatrical club in the U.S. Find out more about it here. Visit our Facebook Page to keep up with us. Please like and review is, and subscribe! Recorded Jan. 25, 2022.

With life shutdown everyplace close to us, we make some changes. Joanna has launched a home business with an Etsy store to sell DIY cocktail mixes to make bloody marys and Moscow mules yourself, hand sanitizer, healthy hair serum, and essential oil roller bottles. We talk about the changing nature of the New York bar scene, and what the changes brought by the pandemic mean to life in the city. Kevin has been leading virtual walking tours and keeping busy, but we both believe the city will recover and survive. Support the show by shopping with Jo or going on a virtual tour with Kevin. We realize the sound quality isn’t as good as what you’d get from NPR. The show is being recorded via Zoom, so we are still working out the kinks to make it sound better. During this crisis, we plan to put out more podcasts. For more about the hosts, follow Jo online and Twitter @JoannaPokerDocs and Insta @joannadocs and her YouTube Channel. Kevin is online here and Twitter @k72ndst and Insta @k72ndst. Our Facebook Page is here. Please like and review us.

Queen ElizabethWith rhinestones on her facemask and wearing purple or camouflage, the always-stylish Queen Elizabeth is out with quarantine fashion in Brooklyn these days. We chat with the Williamsburg resident while she’s stuck at home, sometimes on her sewing machine adding bling to her vintage clothes. By day she works for one the most recognizable fashion designers, but that is on hold for now. A longtime regular at Doc Holliday’s and other East Village joints, Liz is one of our favorite people and we’ve been trying to get this good friend on the show for months and months. We talk about social distancing and meeting friends on Zoom, what it’s like to not be able to go to bowling alleys and parties, and how we are all making the best of a bad situation. Just the fact that Liz is fashioning better-looking facemasks to wear around is reason enough to listen to our show. Follow her Instagram for more about her. Joanna and Kevin are both doing creative endeavors during the stay-at-home time period. On Fridays at 5pm Jo hosts a virtual happy hour. And Kevin has virtual walking tours. Queen ElizabethWe realize the sound quality isn’t as good as what you’d get from NPR. The show is being recorded via Zoom, so we are still working out the kinks to make it sound better. During this crisis, we plan to put out more podcasts. For more about the hosts, follow Jo online and Twitter @JoannaPokerDocs and Insta @joannadocs and her YouTube Channel. Kevin is online here and Twitter @k72ndst and Insta @k72ndst. Our Facebook Page is here. Please like and review us.

Dave GardnerIt’s the ship everyone has heard about. For the 41st episode of the podcast—still recorded remotely—Joanna and Kevin’s Big Show welcomes tour guide Dave Gardner who offers RMS Titanic walking tours. Dave has a wealth of knowledge about the fateful 1912 voyage and offers insightful (and fun) tours of locations around Manhattan that have ties to the shipwreck. His tours are packed with history and we get the scoop on how they came about. You can learn more on his Facebook page. Joanna and Kevin are both doing creative endeavors during the stay-at-home time period. On Fridays at 5pm Jo hosts a virtual happy hour. And Kevin has virtual walking tours. We realize the sound quality isn’t as good as what you’d get from NPR. The show is being recorded via Zoom, so we are still working out the kinks to make it sound better. During this crisis, we plan to put out more podcasts. For more about the hosts, follow Jo online and Twitter @JoannaPokerDocs and Insta @joannadocs and her YouTube Channel. Kevin is online here and Twitter @k72ndst and Insta @k72ndst. Our Facebook Page is here. Please like and review us.

Todd MontesiWe need to laugh. For the 40th episode of the podcast—and the first one recorded remotely—Joanna and Kevin’s Big Show welcomes comedian Todd Montesi. For more than a dozen years he’s been the host of a roving underground comedy series, the Ug! Comedy Show, a downtown New York showcase. While Todd is stuck at home in Brooklyn, he’s making and sharing comedy online with this friends on his Instagram Live Show. On the show, we talk about what we’re doing at home and how to be creative. Todd shares that he’s doing virtual shows, with everyone from friends (and a stripper) as guests on his show. Todd has a long-running series PN & Friends on YouTube. He has appeared on such shows as Crashing on HBO. Follow Todd on Twitter, Instagram, and his ubiquitous Facebook Page. We realize the sound quality isn’t as good as what you’d get from NPR. The show is being recorded via Zoom, so we are still working out the kinks to make it sound better. During this crisis, we plan to put out more podcasts. For more about the hosts, follow Jo online and Twitter @JoannaPokerDocs and Insta @joannadocs and her YouTube Channel. Kevin is online here and Twitter @k72ndst and Insta @k72ndst. Our Facebook Page is here. Please like and review us.