Park Pals: A Parks and Recreation Podcast

You guys, this is the big one. SO MUCH HAPPENS!!!! Cut scenes, replaced scenes, BTS from the cast themselves, Michelle Obama?! AND the Department of the Interior's Resident Bad Boy stops by, I mean..... this is truly a Parks and Rec DREAM. Thank you, writers, cast and crew, for this gift of an episode. :) Thank you to Joe Souza for sending in WONDERFUL voice memos, no one knew you were sick, and you were perfect! ahhh!!! SOURCES: Vanity Fair Article: https://www.vanityfair.c...

Today's episode is an AMAZING rerun and if you haven't heard it yet, you're in for a treat! The best! Dexhart is an amazing guest and I have a feeling some of you haven't heard it yet! Please enjoy how excited we are by how excited HE IS about this show! We love when someone on the show is as big a fan as we are! Please remember you can ask him for personal messages via Cameo! Kevin's YouTube!: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEQdbINKqPfzDhm7LFMG_2g Social Media: @thekevinsymons Get a...

(Most of) the parks crew heads to the winery, and Ben and Leslie get a WILD surprise!!!!!! and Chip McCapp (Bo Burnham) is finally here, omg we've been waiting!!!!! Thank you so much to Steve Tom and Rebecca Klingler for sending in amazing voice memos about your time on set, WE LOVED THEM!!!!!! So forever grateful! Check out their information below to follow! Rebecca Klingler: Teaching: https://www.uclaextension.edu/instructors/rebecca-klingler https://www.instagram.com/klingler.r...

Leslie is on the hunt for a new best friend, and sadly uses the sacred holy Galentine's Day to rank the people she knows... Ben and Tom learn that Jerry/Larry is a powerful paperwork beast! ...but never shows it. And yay Ann is back and we get to meet Oliver! Plus our tent guy is here! Deleted scenes, summaries and more. <3 Donate/call your Senators!!!!!!! We are all in this together, let's go!!!!!! To our immigrant friends, YOU BELONG HERE AND YOU ARE AMERICAN. We believe in t...

Today's agenda! -Amazing voice memos from Josh Breeding (our vegan restaurant store owner from the Anniversaries episode) - Amber Friendly (our reporter who has Mike Schur's favorite character name) - Requirements for state parks vs national parks -We discuss how in the heck Leslie could leave the Parks department behind! -The origin of Tom's Bistro! Sources: Jen Statsky interview: https://ministryofpopculture.substack.com/p/hacks-co-creator-jen-statsky-on-getting State Park...

Tbh, this episode should be called Ann and Leslie, but we get it :( What a beautiful send off for our Ann and Chris - the parties, the groundbreaking, the headlocks, all of it! Thank you writers, Aisha Muharrar and Mike Schur and director, Dean Holland, for making this such a magical moment for the fans to say farewell and see you soon. <3 <3 Plus, the green park bench, Tom Petty and a drone shot?! Come on. Perfect. PS, yes we talk about why they left. lol Thank you to Christopher...

We love John Balma, our fav accountant! What a true treat for US to experience his presence! We talk all about his start in Hollywood, his sort of typecasting (you've seen him in Friends and Scrubs!), his pivot to a career in dog care (OMG George Cluny is his sweet dog’s name and we are HERE FOR IT), living in San Francisco and we also hear the FUNNIEST story about his time on Star Trek. Please join us and please support his dog business below! Thank you so much John, you are and always will ...

This week we are joined by amazing Kris Carr to talk all things Second Chunce! First, we start with amazing voice memos from Rob Kerkovich and Stacy Allen, who were guests in The Cones of Dunshire episode! Then, we turn to the 100th episode of Parks, Second Chunce, where we hear wonderful memories from the cast. Ben gives Leslie the amazing gift of a consult with Jenn Barkley so we can break through our limiting beliefs and really understand that Leslie can and WILL do better things out...

Yay Cones of Dunshire! What an iconic piece of Parks and Rec lore!!!!! We discuss Leslie's reason for wanting the lockbox so badly (and how Jamm is unstable), Ron sells his cabin to an unlikely buyer and Ben is so hot when he's confident and nerdy!!!!!! I call ledgerman! Sources: https://www.thegamesteward.com/products/the-cones-of-dunshire-board-game https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3305414/ Support the show Rate and review us on Apple Podcasts! Follow us @parkpalspodcast on Instagra...

We love Brian!!!! I loved this conversation so much!!!!! Full disclosure, we kept thinking of things to talk about, so enjoy our many "endings" that turned into other stories LOL Brian Stack played Ted in Article Two, and the jeweler when Ann and Chris go to the jewelery store, BUT he was a writer on Conan for 18 years, he currently writes for Stephen Colbert and I talked his ear off about it all! We discuss his beginnings in Second City in Chicago, how he knew Amy Poehler, and advice f...

Today, Leslie fights for our voting rights!!!!!!! We talk about the history of the filibuster, the (early) 90s vibes, and get an awesome location breakdown for the skating rink, which is now a resource of the unhoused in the Los Angeles valley (follow the links below)! We also have a tangent regarding Orphan Black starring Tatiana Maslany, who plays Nadia, (check that out when you can, it's on Netflix now!) Also, we come up with a new friendship name of "Ronna" for Donna and Ron s...

Today, we have a guest from Season 1 Episode 6, "Rock Show" - Stephanie Erb! Stephanie played Ron's date/Tammy 2's "Younger, prettier sister" - go back and watch it as a refresher, so fun! We have a really great walk-down-memory-lane on this episode in particular and discuss her journey in acting, booking her first big role, our fav TV shows and of course our favorite things about Parks and Rec!! Yes, they deserve all the Emmys! Plus, so cool to see the symbolic green bench at the pit i...