Everybody Has a Podcast With Ruth and Ray

Ruth Vaca and Ray Nowosielski are totally different but are partners both in marriage and in the media biz, mostly non-fiction and documentary. Join them week to week for a diverse variety of interesting guests and ride along with their lives on the D-List of the art and craft they have chased their whole lives. TrueStories.us

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Hollywood icon Jimmy Stewart’s daughter Kelly Stewart Harcourt

Ruth & Ray are coming off the release of their latest iHeartMedia podcast, "GEORGE BAILEY WAS NEVER BORN" about IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE and, just in time for Christmas, have on special guest KELLY STEWART HARCOURT, daughter of "George Bailey" himself, one of the greatest Hollywood actors ever, Jimmy Stewart. They talk intentions for this podcast and expand a bit on their story that you may have first heard in "Bailey" episode 10 "Happy Ending".

Spouse filmmakers behind 2000s Michael Moore documeghits, Kurt Engfehr & Elizabeth Marcus

Happy new year!!! Before they worked with Ruth & Ray to create iHeartMedia podcast "GEORGE BAILEY WAS NEVER BORN", husband-wife KURT ENGFEHR & ELIZABETH MARCUS worked with Michael Moore on two of the biggest and most controversial documentaries ever, Oscar-winning "BOWLING FOR COLUMBINE" and Cannes Palm d'Or-winning "FAHRENHEIT 9/11".

Oscars 2024 Recap, with Ruth bestie Julia “Bling”

Watching The Oscars has been a hallowed tradition for both Ruth & Ray since long before they met. This episode we are joined by Ruth's BFF Julia "Bling" -- who she has watched The Oscars with since they were teens -- for her first of what will hopefully be many appearances on the show. Join us for a funny convo about this year's movies, moments and the best ceremony in years!

Hit IU Basketball Podcast Creator, ‘Proxima B’ Filmmaker Star Ward Roberts

Just in time for March Madness, Ruth & Ray talk with old friend and hit "Hoosier Hysterics" podcaster Ward Roberts about his new movie "Invaders From Proxima B" -- just snapped up by Buffalo 8 and coming your way soon -- the time Ward made Bloomington IN explode when he got IU legend Bobby Knight to return; life as an actor and moviemaker in Hollywood as part of Drexel Box; his daughter's acting debut; and his in-the-works Cole Porter documentary. Its a good un!

Largest rural LGBTQ center Spencer Pride documentary filmmakers Mitch Teplitsky & Charles Pearch

Ruth & Ray left their beloved New York City just over 5 years ago to have Pablo in semi-affordable Bloomington Indiana.  There they came to know Mitch Teplitsky, another New Yorker taking what has turned out to be a prolonged sabbatical in the Midwest – and also feeling a little “seller’s remorse” about it.

2024 Oscar Best Documentary Winner Assistant Editor Christine Giordano #Ukraine #Frontline

'20 Days in Mariupol' captured the invasion of Ukraine and won this year's Oscar and Peabody Award. Ray didn't even know that Christine Giordano, his friend and former commercials collaborator from Ruth's and Ray's days in Austin TX, had landed at the storied PBS Frontline as an assistant editor until he got a message from a friend day after that Oscars that Christine was part of the 'Mariupol' team!