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She graduated from the Nashville School of Law in May 2017 and passed her state bar exam on her first attempt. She is currently practicing law part time, working in the entertainment industry, serving as a board member for the Kindness for Kids Foundation and producing her own television show and vlog.

On October 14th, The Perfect Race will be released in theaters in multiple cities where she reprises the role of Courtney Smith-Donnelly, starring opposite Clarence Gilyard in this inspirational sports drama.

Excited to have Miss Tennessee USA 2017 Allee Sutton-Heathcoat stop by the podcast!

Team TWiV cover the discovery of another giant virus from 30,000 year old Siberian permafrost, and how viral aggregation accelerates the production of new infectious viruses and increases fitness, demonstrating an Allee effect.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Rich Condit,  Kathy Spindler, and Brianne Barker

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Links for this episode

• PhD and postdoctoral programs at Dept of Microbiology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
• 30,000 year old Mollivirus sibericum (PNAS)
• Aggregating viruses promotes early replication (Curr Biol)
• Letters read on TWiV 521
• Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks!

Weekly Science Picks

Brianne - Why don't we have vaccines against everything?
Rich- Golden Globe Race
Dickson- The Anatomy of Figure Drawingby Robert Demarest and Warder Clyde Allee
Kathy- Orientation of the moon’s appearance, Southern Hemisphere
Vincent - Paul has Measles in English and Spanish

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Grammy- and Tony-winning songwriter Allee Willis has co-written some of pop music's most enduring earworms (think "September" by Earth, Wind & Fire and "I'll Be There For You" from the TV show Friends), but her collection of kitsch takes the cake — and inspired her to create an online kitsch museum. Hear Allee tell tales of tackiness, tunes, and throwing parties! 

The Allee Willis Museum of Kitsch • Vintage Los Angeles' video tour of Allee's house • Opening theme: "Keepers" by Still Flyin' • Closing theme: "Slow Draw/Feeling In My Heart" by Eric Frisch • Additional music by Funk LeBlanc • www.forkeepspodcast.com

This week, we kick off the episode with a short chat with Australian supermodel Daniel Garofali the new face of C-IN2's GRIP Athletic line of underwear. This model/dancer/writer/television host is such a great guy and he talks about his love of KIVA.org, the Australian Olympic team, and C-IN2! And to top it off, C-IN2 is giving a lucky Swish Edition listener a GRIP Athletic gift pack (which will include a calendar and DVD from Daniel!). Watch the hot GRIP video and register here to be entered to win! Start listening at the 15:30 minute mark for Daniel!

After that, the hosts talk to the incredibly talented Grammy winning songwriter Allee Willis from her home in Los Angeles. Allee has written thousands of songs, many of which you know by heart, such as I'll Be There For You (The Theme from "Friends"); Earth, Wind & Fire's September and Boogie Wonderland; The Pointer Sister's Neutron Dance, and countless others. She starts out by telling us how she came to be working with Charo right now on a new album. Yup, The Love Boat Charo! Allee is an internet pioneer, a multi-media artist, a top party thrower, the curator of her own online museum of kitsch--which is her lifelong obsession and passion--and, she has a multifaceted, interactive live stage show coming up in North Hollywood on September 21 & 22, that our L.A.-area peeps MUST check out. Hear Allee's amazing stories starting at the 35:00 minute mark.

And if that wasn't enough, we've got the August return of our own gay manners expert Steven Petrow. This nationally known etiquette expert, speaker, columnist and author has some things to say about people cutting lines at airports, whether it's okay to invite yourself to a wedding, and a bit about his late friend, the humorist David Rakoff. Steven joins us at the 1:05:30 mark.

Plus, the boys chat about the Olympics closing ceremonies; Madonna getting fined in Russia for standing up for the gays; Romney's pick for VP; the fact that gonorrhea might never go away; the original cast of 90210 return; and, much more gay and pop culture hilarity!

Grammy award-winning songwriter and multimedia artist Allee Willis joins Simon and Brian for a conversation about songwriting and her fascinating career. Allee talks about her work on 'Boogie Wonderland', 'September', 'In The Stone', 'Let Your Feelings Show' (Earth, Wind & Fire); 'I'll Be There for You' (the theme from Friends); 'I Shoulda Loved Ya' (Narada Michael Walden); 'What Have I Done to Deserve This?' (Pet Shop Boys); 'Stir It Up' (Patti LaBelle); 'Neutron Dance' (The Pointer Sisters) and more.