EPISODES
Two-thirds of the Best of Friends podcast, our new friends Krista Doyle and Erin Mallory Long are on this super-sized episode of The Blaze with Lizzie and Kat podcast this week! In this episode, Andrea and Steve take center stage as Beverly Hills 90210 focuses on school districts and gold diggers. You can buy Krista’s and Erin’s books through our Amazon link.
Tickets to our live show on September 12 in Los Angeles are available at tinyurl.com/blazeLIVE
Listener favorite and Beverly Hills 90210 expert Santina Muha returns to The Blaze with Lizzie and Kat podcast! Listen to her first appearance on our podcast, and watch Santina’s video, “What It’s Like To Be A Woman In A Wheelchair” on Buzzfeed. In this episode, “Leading from the Heart,” when Brenda and Brandon’s cousin Bobby comes to visit, he enters into a complicated flirtation with Kelly.
Tickets to our live show on September 12 in Los Angeles are available at tinyurl.com/blazeLIVE
The writer and satirical genius behind the Los Feliz Daycare Twitter account, Jason Shapiro joins The Blaze with Lizzie and Kat podcast this week to watch Beverly Hills 90210 for the very first time. It’s a family affair with the introduction of Dylan’s mother, Iris McKay. Having her in the picture drives Dylan to drink, and meanwhile, Donna experiments with playing the stock market.
Tickets to our live show on September 12 in Los Angeles are available at tinyurl.com/blazeLIVE
The Blaze with Lizzie and Kat is joined by Frances Callier and Angela V. Shelton, a.k.a. Frangela, to talk about racial politics on Beverly Hills 90210. In this episode, “Ashes to Ashes,” Brandon confronts racial prejudice and profiling when a black family moves in to the neighborhood. Guest stars include Richard Roundtree (Shaft) and Vivica A. Fox (Independence Day).
You can buy tickets to our live show, September 12 at the Nerdist Showroom in Los Angeles, with special guest Christine Elise, here: http://holdmyticket.com/event/215845
For tickets, go to: http://holdmyticket.com/event/215845
Good friend and host of the No, Totally! podcast, Shaun Lau joins The Blaze with Lizzie and Kat! podcast. We tackle feminism, friendship, and more as the series welcomes Emily Valentine!
Stay tuned for information on how to get tickets to our first live show, with special guest Christine Elise McCarthy (Emily Valentine herself!), September 12 at the Nerdist Showroom in Hollywood. In the meantime, listen to our “Back 2 School: Fall of Junior Year” playlist on Spotify! And order Christine Elise’s book Bathing and the Single Girlthrough our Amazon link!
It’s one of our silliest episodes yet as UCB writer & performer Brian Thompson of the brand new podcast Something is on The Blaze with Lizzie and Kat podcast this week to talk about one of his favorite episodes of Beverly Hills 90210. The gang goes camping, Fran Drescher has a gay husband, and much, much more on this week’s episode of The Blaze!
The Blaze with Lizzie and Kat podcast welcomes UCB performer Meghan Parks to discuss “Pass, Not Pass,” a very drama-filled episode of Beverly Hills 90210. We talk about being L.A. natives, and we’re all grossed out by West Beverly Hills High School summer drama teacher Chris Suiter. See Meghan at her next UCB show on July 30, La, La, La, LA: A Puppet Musical - tickets here!
Read Kim Hoffman’s Huffington Post article, “What My ‘90s Childhood and Popular LGBT Idols Have in Common” here, and check out Leeni’s band Prom Queen here! Buy tickets to the Cruel Intentions musical here. If you or someone you know is experiencing end-of-summer eczema, please visit the National Eczema Association.
Comedian, host of the Caligula’s Grotto podcast, and contestant on the new season of Last Comic Standing, Ryan Conner watched Beverly Hills 90210 for the first time and joined us to tell the tale! Weirdly, we discuss what Brandon does wrong when he discovers his new young friend is being abused, and Ryan makes some predictions about what’s to come for Mel Silver and the rest of the characters as the series progresses.
The Blue-Eyed Barbadian himself, Josh Briggs from the Totally Beverages and Sometimes Hot Saucepodcast returns to The Blaze with Lizzie and Kat podcast to talk Beverly Hills 90210! He was last with us for a special segment on Andy Rosen’s episode, “The 17-Year Itch,” but we loved him so much we had to bring him back! Meanwhile in Beverly Hills, Dylan’s still reeling from his family drama, and the rest of the gang plays high-stakes poker.
The women behind the amazing fashion blog Go Fug Yourself, and authors of the recent hit novel The Royal We, the Fug Girls themselves Heather Cocks & Jessica Morgan are on The Blaze with Lizzie and Kat podcast this week! The four of us discovered that we’re all basically identical spirits, and we break into one of the most emotionally tortured Dylan McKay episodes of the series.
Special thanks to Shaun of the No, Totally! podcast. You can listen to Kat’s guest appearance on his show here, and you can continue listening to our Beverly Hills Beach Club Summer of ‘91 Spotify playlist here!
Maris Kreizman, the brain behind the amazingly literary pop culture blog (and soon to be a book!) Slaughterhouse 90210 is our guest on this week’s episode of The Blaze with Lizzie and Kat. Together we talk about a shared love for Beverly Hills 90210 and equally strong disdain for Brandon Walsh’s self-righteousness, all while trying to figure out exactly what is going on in this Beach Club episode of season two.
All of Maris’ BH90210 related posts can be found here. Shout-out to listener blogs A Complete Waste of Makeup and The Anonymous Woman!
Season two of The Blaze with Lizzie and Kat is here, and that means season two of Beverly Hills 90210! Join us as we hit the Beverly Hills Beach Club to talk about the ramifications on Dylan and Brenda after season one’s cliffhanger finale and introduce drama teacher Chris Suiter (the poor man’s Dean Cain). Also, Lizzie and Kat play a new game à la “name that tune” to introduce their new Spotify playlists!
It’s the final hiatus episode before The Blaze with Lizzie and Kat returns next week with season two! Brendan Creecy and Derick Armijo, hosts of the Pop Sickles Podcast and die-hard fans of the 2008 reboot of 90210, join Lizzie and Kat to argue the merits of the newer series. Brendan is also a lover of the original Beverly Hills 90210, while Derick has only seen the new one. Listen as they unpack the craziness of teen soaps in the ‘90s versus nearly 20 years later. [Note: the four of us went straight from this recording to a book signing where we met the Queen herself: Tori Spelling!]
Writer and stand-up comedian Adrian Todd Zuniga joins us for this special 90210 edition of his worldwide show Literary Death Match. Lizzie and Kat face off, reading selections from Jason Priestley’s memoir, Shannen Doherty’s Badass, Tori Spelling’s sTORI Telling, and Candy Spelling’s Stories from Candyland. It’s up to Adrian to judge a champion based on literary merit, performance, and “intangibles.” This is just a sample of what you’ll get when you check out a Literary Death Match in a city near you!
On this special between-seasons hiatus episode of The Blaze with Lizzie and Kat, we’re joined by our dear friend Sarah to host a book club about Tori Spelling’s memoir sTORI Telling! We start by counting down our top 10 Beverly Hills 90210 revelations after reading it, and go from there to the many parts of this book that … made us think.
We feel extremely privileged to be wrapping up season one of The Blaze with Lizzie and Kat with an interview with Charles Rosin, executive producer of Beverly Hills 90210 for its first five seasons. Join us as we chat with him about the behind-the-scenes creative process of creating the show in its first season, and talk a bit about the legacy of 90210 on our listeners’ lives today, 25 years later.
It’s the season one finale of both The Blaze with Lizzie and Kat podcast and the show we love the most, Beverly Hills 90210. Our good friend Alison of the Fortnight on the Internets podcast joins us to discuss the season-ending cliffhanger episode in which the Walsh family and their friends cope with the possibility of a return to Minnesota. Thank you to all of our listeners for joining us for an incredible season one!
The episode we’ve all been waiting for is finally here. Sasha Perl-Raver, host of FX’s Movie Download (airing Fridays at 8pm), joins The Blaze with Lizzie and Kat podcast this week to talk about the episode of Beverly Hills 90210 in which Brenda loses her virginity to Dylan, Steve reveals he’s adopted, and Andrea struggles with third-wave feminism.
BFFs and West Bev-heads Ben Lyons and Mike Kassar join The Blaze with Lizzie and Kat podcast this week to talk a lot about a lifetime of loving Beverly Hills 90210, and a little bit about the episode “Spring Training.” Ben writes for The Players’ Tribune and is the host of ESPN’s podcast The Lyons Den. Mike is a regular Nat Bussichio, owning Wexler’s Deli in Downtown LA’s Grand Central Market - our fav!
