You Must Be (a) Mental(ist) - BONUS: “In Conversation, with Nick Pagliochini”

Featured Guest: Psychic Buster – The Eccentric Mentalist

As Nick learns the ebb and flow of Season 2 of “This Weekend, with Nick Pagliochini,” he’s also finding out that he loves talking to folks – no big surprise – he’s a people person, and he’s pretty darn good at it!

That said, while several of the episodes thus far have included interviews – a new feature for “This Weekend, with Nick…” – many of the conversations were quite lengthy and had to be cut for time. That’s just not gonna cut it! These incredibly talented and influential folks deserve to be heard…and heard they will be with NEW, supplemental podcast episodes entitled, “In Conversation, with Nick Pagliochini.”

Breaking the ice, for this initial venture into the unknown, it’s Buster Caldwell – a psychic, an Eccentric mentalist, and your new favorite adorable mind-reading neurodivergent weirdo. With roots in Orange County and Southern California, Buster has experienced a lot and has plenty to share with you! About his childhood, how he discovered himself, and how you definitely should not wait! Do it NOW!

This Weekend Ep. 8 — Feb. 22, 2024

Foolish Mortals… This Weekend is Soulfully for the Dogs, Fitness, and Victorian Era

Episode 8, Season 2 of “This Weekend, with Nick Pagliochini” is chock-full of Cabaret, Art, Dickens, Firecrackers, Disney, Knott’s, the paranormal – both real and imagined, fishing, fitness, and so much more! For more, please check the link in bio at ThisWeekendWithNick or NickPagliochini on Instagram.

Full Show Notes:

Miss Tosh presents Kiss Kiss Cabaret from Beauty of Burlesque at the Black Rabbit Rose in Hollywood, CA

Masters of the American West® at the Autry Museum of the American West in Griffith Park (Los Angeles), CA

46th Firecracker Festival in Chinatown - Los Angeles, CA

31st Riverside Dickens Festival at the Jensen Alvarado Historic Ranch and Museum in Jurupa Valley (Riverside), CA

Celebrate Soulfully at the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, CA

Celebrate Gospel at Disneyland Park in Anaheim, CA

Anaheim Ducks Days at Disney California Adventure Park in Anaheim, CA

Disneyland After Dark: Star Wars Nite at Disneyland Park in Anaheim, CA

Knott’s PEANUTS™ Celebration at Knott’s Berry Farm in Buena Park, CA

Knott’s Boysenberry Festival at Knott’s Berry Farm in Buena Park, CA

Jurassic Quest at the OC Fair & Event Center in Costa Mesa, CA

Farm-to-Table Cookout Tours at Tanaka Farms in Irvine, CA

The Kellogg House Ghost Tour from Haunted Orange County at the Heritage Museum of Orange County in Santa Ana, CA

WELCOME FOOLISH MORTALS: A Haunted Mansion Reunion at the Ghostly Retreat in Fullerton, CA

San Clemente Day: Fishing Derby at the San Clemente Pier in San Clemente, CA

Oso Fit 5K Fun Run & Community Health Fair at the Norman P. Murray Community Center in Mission Viejo, CA

Irvine Park Railroad’s 28th Anniversary at Irvine Regional Park in Irvine, CA

The 47th Annual OC Home and Garden Show at the OC Fair & Event Center in Costa Mesa, CA

9th Annual Fire & Ice Chili Cook-Off and Craft Beer Festival at The Shops at Dos Lagos in Corona, CA

MOLAA’s 2024 Afro-Latinx Festival at the Museum of Latin American Art in Long Beach, CA

Make A Move LA - Westchester at Hart House in Westchester, CA

Love At First Paw Comedy Event Benefitting Bubbles Dog Rescue at JuneShine Tasting Room in Santa Monica, CA

Lantern Paw Festival, in collaboration with Firecracker's Paw'er Dog Walk at Blossom Plaza in Chinatown - Los Angeles, CA

CicLAvia—Melrose through the Fairfax, Larchmont, Melrose Hill, and East Hollywood neighborhoods of Los Angeles, CA

This Weekend Ep. 7 — Feb. 15, 2024

Love is in the Air…for Bros, Dragons, Beads, Ashes, Lovers, and Presidents

Episode 7, Season 2 of “This Weekend, with Nick Pagliochini” is another busy one expanding beyond just Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, but encompassing the next couple weeks in Southern California. Starting out strong with a Power-Up of sorts, it’s the 1-Year Anniversary of SUPER NINTENDO WORLD™ at Universal Studios Hollywood, followed by some love and intimacy from The Poetry Brothel and two offerings from them - The Poetry Brothel LA: Sweet Tarts and The Poetry Brothel LA: Desperate Hearts. The Huntington in San Marino will be opening a new exhibition this weekend celebrating the art and influence of Sargent Claude Johnson. Tasty times are coming to Long Beach with it’s 9th Annual Dine Out Long Beach – Restaurant and Cocktail Week(s) supporting local charities and Restaurants Care. The 22nd Annual Laguna Beach Music Festival features three world class violinists, and SoCal Swordfight 2024 will feature some incredibly talented artists in their own right! The Riverside County Fair & National Date Festival kicks off tomorrow (Friday, 16 Feb) through Sunday the 25th with so many EPIC experiences and tasty treats to be shared!

#LastCall and #Free99 up next! Off to San Diego we go for SeaWorld’s President’s Day Weekend Fireworks, the Army’s 1st Armored Division Band performances, Mardi Gras AND a Fun Card Sale to play all year! Sesame Place is up next in Chula Vista with Super Grover’s Everyday Heros Weekend! Over to Riverside for Movies on the Lawn “Made in Riverside Series” – The Love Bug (1969) at the Riverside Heritage House. Heading to the San Gabriel Valley (SGV), it’s two Lunar New Year Festivities – 2024 San Gabriel Lunar Lantern Festival and 2024 Alhambra Lunar New Year Festival. Chinatown in Los Angeles can’t be left out, so they have their own Lunar New Year Festivities and the 125th Golden Dragon Parade! Prosperity Market will be Poppin’ Up at the Natural History Museum in Exposition Park, and Angel City Brewery & Public House in the Arts District of Downtown LA will be helping some nurse a lonely soul with their Broken Hearts Circus. <<Cue Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band>>

This Weekend Ep. 6 — Feb. 8, 2024

So This is Love…of Art, Nudes, Undies, Pigskin, and Beads

Episode 6, Season 2 of “This Weekend, with Nick Pagliochini” has us covering a lot of ground, so let’s get started! Up first, The Getty Villa in the Pacific Palisades with The Troubies Present: Cupid's Eros, and “The Naked” at The Getty Center (in the Sepulveda Pass) Scavenger Hunt for Valentine’s Day presented by Watson Adventures. Santa Monica is up next with Cupid’s Undie Run – Los Angeles at The Buffalo Club – are you sensing the theme of love and lust as we get closer to Valentine’s Day next week? Proceeds from the fun run support raising awareness of and funding critical research for Neurofibromatosis or NF - a group of genetic conditions that cause tumors to grow on nerves throughout the body. Heading to Downtown LA, two events are happening as part of Street Food Cinema & Til Events Production’s Love Struck Cinema taking place at the Million Dollar Theatre – The Rocky Horror Picture Show and Romeo + Juliet. During the holidays it was Santa’s Secret, but in the season of love, it’s Cupid’s Secret at the Beverly Center in Beverly Grove. And a little love for the South Bay and San Pedro with Open Mic Night at the Grand Annex Music Hall – part of the Grand Vision Foundation.

Getting into #LastCall and #Free99 this week, we start off with #TheBigGame happening on Sunday! Whether you’re a 49ers Faithful or a member of the Arrowhead Kingdom, we’ve gotchu covered! Tonight, Thursday, 8 February 2024 you can check out the Valley Food Truck Festival at Topanga Social in Canoga Park. Saturday, 10 February 2024 you can head to Shoreline Village and Rainbow Harbor in Downtown Long Beach to celebrate Mardi Gras, or head to the Fairfax District in the heart of LA, all weekend long to “laissez les bons temps rouler!” Be your preference Mardi Gras or Mutti Gras!

Over to Orange County for the Sugar Plum Festival in Westminster, then back to Long Beach for Good Saturdays at Good Time Café and Craft Beer LB’s Home Brew Champions Mash Rest ’24 at Ten Mile Brewing Company in Signal Hill. The Puppy Bowl Tailgate Party takes place at the Wags and Walks Adoption Center in Sawtelle, Lovers Lane – Cars & Art goes down on Valentine’s Day in Santa Fe Springs, 2nd Saturday ArtWalk goes down in Pomona along with Downtown Pomona celebrating Lunar New Year and the Year of the Dragon, and @TheAdventuresMarkets brings A Royal Ball to Redlands. 🎼 “…So this…is…love…” 🎶

This Weekend Ep. 5 — Feb. 1, 2024

It’s The Year of John Williams, the Dragon, and Latte Larry’s

Episode 5, Season 2 of “This Weekend with Nick Pagliochini” takes us to Walt Disney Concert Hall in Downtown LA for two events - John Williams Spotlight “A Century of Film Music” and Symphonies for Youth Beyond Volume: Music and Deafness. Next up is Exposition Park in South LA to the LA Coliseum and another pair of events - 2024 BUSCH LIGHT CLASH AT THE COLISEUM | NASCAR Cup Series Race and 2024 KING TACO LA BATALLA EN EL COLISEO | NASCAR Mexico Series Race. The Lunar New Year Celebration at South Coast Botanic Garden is happening every weekend in February of 2024 in the Rolling Hills Estates area of the South Bay. Out of LA County, and heading South and East for a slice of citrus, it’s into Orange County we go for the Taste of San Juan Capistrano launching the kick-off San Juan Capistrano’s 64th Annual Swallows Day Parade celebration which takes place in March, but fundraising and prep for La Fiesta de las Golondrinas is already underway!

Staying in Orange County, but changing pace, it’s off to Santa Ana and The Vogel Victorian for a chat with The Sassy Therapist herself – Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, Adjunct Professor of Psychology, Pepperdine Graduate School, and the co-proprietor of an incredible 1898 Queen Anne Victorian Home, some deliciously decadent events that take place in it, and the roommate to some, at times, unruly spirits – Diana Vogel!

#LastCall and #Free99 this week! Let’s go! GRAMMY Museum Free-For-All Sponsored by Roland at L.A. LIVE! In Downtown LA. The 77th Annual Carrot Festival in Holtville, CA which is in Imperial County to the east of San Diego County. Heading north to San Bernardino County, it’s a stop at the brand new exhibit at the San Bernardino County Museum in Redlands, CA - Shifting Gears: A Miniature View of America’s Changing Car Culture. Heading west, back into Orange County, it’s Creative Market So Cal’s “Cupid’s Corner – Valentine’s Day Market” in Anaheim at the STC GardenWalk. Heading to Downtown Anaheim, it's the 43rd Annual Orange County Black History Parade and Unity Festival presented by the Orange County Heritage Council. The City of Santa Ana will be celebrating their first ever Tết (Lunar New Year) Festival, hosted in collaboration by the Santa Ana Parks, Recreation & Community Services Agency and the Santa Ana Public Library at Centennial Park. Fountain Valley Recreation & Community Services will be presenting their own Lunar New Year Festival at the Fountain Valley Recreation Center & Sports Park in Fountain Valley. Keep pop back over the county line into Riverside County, it’s the Girls Day Out Market “Valetine’s Vendor Market” at the Temeku Cinemas in Temecula. And finally, it’s back into LA County for “Latte Larry’s” at Menotti’s Coffee Stop in Culver City and Venice Beach.

This Weekend Ep. 4 — Jan. 25, 2024

Gong hei fat choy! I’m Nick Pagliochini, and you’re watching the Dis…

Episode 4, Season 2 of “This Weekend with Nick Pagliochini” takes us to Orange County, California – Anaheim specifically with a visit to “the House of Mouse.” Disneyland After Dark events have returned to the Disneyland Resort, kicking off with 8 SOLD OUT nights of love, trust, “…and a little bit of pixie dust…” for Sweetheart’s Nite, and a celebration of all things Disney before Disney+, Disney Channel Nite (which still had tickets available for purchase at the time of recording and publishing). These events taking place at Disneyland Park. Across the esplanade at Disney California Adventure Park, the Lunar New Year Celebration is under want until Sunday, 18 February 2024!

Not too far away in Buena Park, California, Knott’s Berry Farm is celebrating the Knott’s PEANUTS™ Celebration through Sunday, 25 February 2024!

Some incredible fun is being put together by this week’s guest - Jacqueline Menjivar – who is the event producer and one of the creative master minds behind The Witches Brew & Midnight Souls Productions with many year ‘round events that are absolutely amazing and can be found on Instagram @TheWitchesBrew and on TikTok @WitchesBrewLA to see and learn more.

#LastCall & #Free99 this week takes us to UncorkedLA at Union Station in Downtown LA, Dog Walking Hours (9a to 4p) at South Coast Botanic Garden in Palos Verdes Estates on the Palos Verdes Peninsula,  Stand Up For Pups Comedy Show at the Wallis Annenberg PetSpace in Playa Vista, the Lunar New Year Festival in Downtown Monterey Park, Brick Convention – LEGO Fan Event at the OC Fair & Event Center in Costa Mesa, Snowfest in Lake Forest, 2024 Riverside Lunar Festival in Downtown Riverside, Old West Days at the Victory Valley Museum in Apple Valley, and Santee Discovery Day at the Walker Preserve in Santee.

This Weekend Ep. 3 — Jan. 18, 2024

Simpsons, Wagner, Kellogg & Kitty (Yes, They All Go Together! I Promise!)

Episode 3, Season 2 of “This Weekend, with Nick Pagliochini,” takes us all over LA and Orange County. So sad to leave out the Inland Empire – Riverside & San Bernardino Counties, Ventura, San Diego, and beyond! If there is something going on, coming up in your own backyard, please, slide into the DMs @NickPagliochini & @ThisWeekendWithNick on Instagram – it’s the easiest way to get a hold of me! Or visit ThisWeekendWithNick.com and drop me a line! Okay – “housekeeping” done… Off we go!

First up is, 🎼 “The Simpsons…” 🎶, Movie, at The El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood, with an special Fan Event at 7pm on Friday, 19 January, and additional showings at 10am, 1pm, and 4pm that day, as well as multiple screenings through Thursday, 25 January 2024. Not too far away in Downtown LA, you’ll be able to take in a special performance of Richard Wagner’s Das Rheingold by the Los Angeles Philharmonic, lead by Gustavo Dudamel, celebrating Frank Gehry! Don’t miss the opportunity to take in this incredibly unique and special staging – “Dudamel Leads Das Rheingold.” Looking for something in Orange County and enjoy moments of history, mystery, myth, ghosts, and legends? Head to the Heritage Museum of Orange County in Santa Ana to experience The Kellogg House Ghost Tour being lead by Darcy Staniforth. And finally, to wrap up the first part of “This Weekend, with Nick Pagliochini” for this week, it’s off to Anaheim, not to see the mouse, but to see an adorable kitty cat at the Valentine’s Kitty Kove, an immersive experience celebrating all things Hello Kitty!

I got the opportunity to meet and chat with Nick Mendoza III, the creator of the Kitty Kove, and took a deep dive into his love of Halloween, The Grinch, the holidays, the military, and so much more! Take a listen to this incredible guy that is doing his part to bring some fun, joy, and laughter to his local community, but also to the global community at large.

And for #LastCall and #Free99!? The 50 Hour Drive-By Theatre Festival at Zombie Joe’s Underground Theatre Group in North Hollywood, David Bowie Skate Night at Moonlight Rollerway in Glendale, Cheeseburger Week in Pasadena from Sunday, 21 January through Saturday, 27 January 2024, The All American Collector’s Show in Glendale, the 2024 Women's Surf Film Festival with Sip & Shop Maker's Market in San Clemente, Monster Jam 2024 at Angel Stadium of Anaheim, Winter Joy Fest at the STC GardenWalk in Anaheim, and Wilderness Access Day at Saddleback Wilderness in Black Star Canyon/Silverado in Orange County.

This Weekend Ep. 2 — Jan. 11, 2024

Historic Theatre, Standup Comedy, …and the Matterhorn?

It’s time for episode 2, Season 2 of “This Weekend, with Nick Pagliochini,” and this week I had a great time sitting down and talking with Liz Schindler Johnson about the Grand Vision Foundation and it’s Grand Annex Music Hall in San Pedro, California, where last week’s guests, Dawn Zarnick and Brandy Johnston will be presenting Untold “Mostly True Stories” The Show on Friday, 19 January and Saturday, 20 Jaunary 2024!

After talking to Liz, it’s into the meat and potatoes of @ThisWeekendWithNick! The Eagles and their four-night residency in Inglewood at the KIA Forum; Paw Patrol LIVE! “Heroes Unite” at the Fox Performing Arts Center in Riverside;  A “four in one” or at least four events for the price of one admission at the Fairplex in Pomona - Asian American Expo, Sneaker Expo, K-Play! Fest, and ANIME Impulse; The Oddities & Curiosities Expo this weekend (13 Jan & 14 Jan) in Del Mar at the San Diego County Fairgrounds and next weekend (20 Jan & 21 Jan) in Downtown LA at the La Convention Center; and attending a comedy show at any number of venues in and around Southern California, but specifically the Renegade Comedy Show TOMORROW (Friday, 12 Jan 2024) at the Ice House in Pasadena that will be featuring KFI AM 640’s own news anchor extraordinaire – Heather Brooker – who happens to be my second guest for this episode!

Heather and I talk about her time with KTLA and NBC, being a mom, hosting Wake Up Call and anchoring the news on KFI AM 640, and how an open mic night lead to her love of comedy! Take a listen!

Time for Last Call and Free 99 – First off, it’s about an event that I am headed to TONIGHT (Thursday, 11 Jan 2024) – the Jim Irsay Collection – yes, that Jim Irsay – the Owner & CEO of the NFL’s Indianapolis Colts is bringing his traveling museum of iconic artifacts from rock music, American history and pop culture to Downtown LA along with some incredible musicians to perform a one night only concert that’s #Free99 to attend, but will also support Kicking the Stigma – an initiative to raise awareness about mental health, through donations.

Then it’s off to Montclair, California to experience a mile high immersive experience with The Set’s Matterhorn Lodge – a speakeasy you must see to believe! It’s through a freezer at That 80s Bar that you will be transported to another land! Admission is #Free99, but you have to make reservations to attend! Smorgasburg LA makes it’s return after a three-week holiday, after the holidays! #Free99 to get in, delicious drinks and tasty treats abound! And it’s another #Free99 #FreeMuseumSunday!

This Weekend Ep. 1 — Jan. 4, 2024

Thursday is the New Friday

In the inaugural podcast episode, and episode 1 of Season 2 of “This Weekend, with Nick Pagliochini,” I’m filling you in on the wrap of the 2023 holiday season at area theme parks, Three Kings Day at Disney California Adventure Park, the final days of several rides and attractions in Camp Snoopy at Knott’s Berry Farm, San Diego Beer Fest, and LA Zoo Lights: Animals Aglow.

I also talk with Brandy and Dawn from un-told. (mostly) true stories. about their upcoming show at the Grand Vision Foundations’ Grand Annex Music Hall on Friday, 19 January and Saturday, 20 January 2024.

Last Call / Free 99 “This Weekend” is short and sweet with a “Huge Shoot Out” for Eric Lisardo and his amazing musical talents, Netflix’s The Brothers Sun x 626 Night Market Mini in Arcadia at Santa Anita Park, and the 2024 Oshogatsu Family Festival—Year of the Dragon at the Japanese American National Museum in Downtown LA.