Fine Beats & Cheeses

About Fine Beats & Cheeses

Fine Beats & Cheeses with Leslie & Lynne celebrates cheesy pop culture.

Publisher

Leslie Gray Streeter & Lynne Streeter Childress

Category

news · society & culture · tv & film

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

28 Mar 2023

Latest episode

2 Jun 2026

Latest episodes

204 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   2 Jun 2026

   FINEST of the Beats and Cheeses: Galaxy Quest with Judd Winick

   We are taking a little break from new episodes, so we will be posting some of our favorite past shows. This one is from August 2024, and it features one of our favorite people. It's show favorite Judd Winick, comic artist extraordinaire, as we discuss the definitive Star Trek fan movie, Galaxy Quest! JUDD WINICK is a cartoonist and creator of the award-winning, New York Times bestselling Hilo series. Judd grew up on Long Island with a healthy diet of doodling, X-Men comics, the newspaper strip Bloom County, and Looney Tunes. He is a graduate of the University of Michigan, and today lives in San Francisco with his wife, Pam Ling; their two kids; their cats, Troy and Abed; and far too many action figures and vinyl toys for a normal adult. Judd has written and produced animation for television and film, created the Cartoon Network series Juniper Lee; has written superhero comics, including Batman, Green Lantern, and Green Arrow; and, along with his wife Pam, was a cast member of MTV’s The Real World: San Francisco. Judd is also the author of the highly acclaimed graphic novel Pedro and Me, about his Real World roommate and friend, AIDS activist Pedro Zamora. You can find him on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/juddwinick/), Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/judd.winick), Threads (https://www.threads.com/@juddwinick?hl=en) and here (https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/187541/judd-winick/)!

2. 

   20 May 2026

   FINEST of the Beats and Cheeses: Bye Bye Birdie (1963) with Olivia Howell and Genevieve Dreizen

   We are taking a little break from new episodes, so we will be posting some of our favorite past shows. This one is from March 2024, with two of our favorite guests! We've got a lot of living to do as we talk "Bye Bye Birdie", the 1963 film adaptation of the hit Broadway musical. Our guests are real life sisters Genevieve Dreizen and Olivia Howell, co-founders of Fresh Starts Registry, a registry for people who are making big changes in their lives to get the things that they need to start again. You might recognize Olivia from our recent Hallmark Christmas Movie episode! This was a sister-riffic episode, and we reminisced about a movie that all 4 of us were obsessed with, the eternal hotness of Ann-Margaret, and how everyone SHOULD love Dick Van Dyke. Get on your dancing shoes and join us! In 2020, after her divorce, Olivia wanted to create a system of support for the moments in life when we start over. Alongside her sister, Jenny Dreizen, Olivia founded Fresh Starts Registry, and since then, it has been named the “the first divorce registry of its kind” by Forbes. It has been featured in The Wall Street Journal (https://www.freshstartsregistry.com/press-library/divorce-parties-are-a-new-hot-invite-it-sort-of-ended-up-as-a-really-fun-funeral), New York Magazine (https://www.freshstartsregistry.com/press-library/starting-over-with-a-divorce-registry), Forbes (https://www.freshstartsregistry.com/press-library/hermoney-19-female-leaders-on-saying-no-to-holiday-stress-tf9h8), The Cut (https://www.freshstartsregistry.com/press-library/starting-over-with-a-divorce-registry), The New York Post (https://www.freshstartsregistry.com/press-library/2jrwcptl0kk50a0pb879xr0sr6m4sh), and more (https://www.freshstartsregistry.com/press). Fresh Starts Registry is the first registry and online platform for everything a person needs to begin their life again after a major life change, such as divorce, job changes, moving, or coming out. They provide a free registry builder (https://www.freshstartsregistry.com/registry) and bundles of products (https://www.freshstartsregistry.com/registry) based on rooms of the house and budget to eliminate the overwhelm of creating a registry for restarting their life. The platform features 100+ vetted Experts (https://www.freshstartsregistry.com/experts) in all categories to support people in all processes of their life changes. It is always free to build a registry and access the experts. Fresh Starts aims to eliminate the overwhelming (https://www.freshstartsregistry.com/resources-dashboard) feeling of starting your life over again with all the home items and Experts you need to empower you on your journey forward. https://www.freshstartsregistry.com/ (https://www.freshstartsregistry.com/) Find Olivia on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/oliviahowell/) and Genevieve (https://www.instagram.com/genevievedreizen/) there as well!

3. 

   4 May 2026

   Return of the Jedi with Al and William Penn

   This week our new episode is on a Monday because it is May the 4th, also known as Star Wars Day, and our episode is about Episode VI, "Return of the Jedi". That movie has twins in it, and so does this episode: our guests are twin brothers Al and William Penn, and you know that your hosts, Lynne and Leslie, are too. This was a really fun one, where we talk legacy and betrayal and Jabba the Hutt. But mostly, it's about family, chosen or otherwise, and we hope you like it!! Check out Al's Substack page here! (https://substack.com/@alienist2024?utm_campaign=profile&utm_medium=profile-page) And oh yeah, May the 4th be with you.

Who has been a guest on Fine Beats & Cheeses

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Juan Santana
• Jelani Greenidge
• Kelly Macias
• Analese Alvarez
• Tonya Abari

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.7 / 5

13 ratings

Spotify

4.9 / 5

9 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 55 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

80

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

77

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