Group Text With Erin And Melissa

Photographer and Producer, Mandee Johnson talks about the release of Super Serious, her brand new book (OUT NOW!), we learn her tips and tricks for taking the best polaroid pictures and the secret for producing live comedy in LA for the last ten years. 

Actor, comedian and activist Raiza Licea talks about producing a hit live comedy show to celebrate and make space for Latinx performers, everything involved with meeting Mr. Worldwide, and Latinx businesses you should not be sleeping on.  

Comedian Debra DiGiovanni talks about her VERY successful Friday Instagram posts, terrible dating and sad breakups, and everyone shares where their tech limits are.

Actor and co-founder of Outpost13 - a brand new online comedy channel, Paul Hungerford shares about raising kids with the internet, suddenly becoming the teacher when school gets cancelled for the pandemic and launching an online theater.

Comedian and creator / host of The Funny Dance Show on E! Justine Marino talks about launching a hilariously brilliant show in the middle of a pandemic, butterfly Instagram filters, how to support and be supported as you hustle your heart out and why everyone thinks her boyfriend Mitch is so great (you will, too).

Comedian and writer Patrick McDonald talks about stumbling on viral comedy gold mid-quarantine, finding permission to promote your art and, most importantly, calling someone on Instagram.

Comedian and host of the podcast “You Can Tell Me Anything” Teresa Lee talks about figuring out how to run a digital comedy show during quarantine, understanding human behavior and all three share hot tips from therapy

Entertainment reporter Megan Vick shares her wisdom and experiences with growing up biracial in the heart of the south, finding your voice online, and an impassioned pitch for everyone to stop what they’re doing and watch Blindspotting immediately.  

Erin & MeLissa are back from the unknown to resurrect GroupText, a podcast about friendship, communication and technology in the middle of the 2020 apocalypse.

Podcaster and photographer Dustin Baker (My Two Black Friends podcast) join Erin & MeLissa to discuss the current events of May 2020, how technology and social media is impacting the conversation around race, justice and online echo chambers, and bright spots in a dark time.

We are launching our mini-series, Oh Dear God on August 29th, 2017. We've asked our incredible guests to share their experience with religion, answer a lot of personal questions and write a letter to the American church.   We hope that you'll be patient, kind and open to everything they have to say.   We thank you.   We love you. Follow Oh Dear God on instagram and twitter @OhDearGodPod   To get a jump on iTunes, copy and paste this URL after clicking "Subscribe to Podcast" http://ohdeargodpod.libsyn.com/rss  

Austin Huff (Jim Rome Show) is a long time friend, first time guest of Group Text. He shares the two TV shows that helped turn him into a sports broadcaster, how to pick a favorite sports team and the historic event that brought him to the Staples Center for the first time.

Fellow redhead Kevin Porter (Gilmore Guys, Funny or Die) explains the not so sexy job of a dongle, the story of a viral podcast, his resting nice guy face and a community he wants to give a voice to.

The wonderful Andrée Vermeulen (Angie Tribeca, How to Train Your Dragon - Netflix) shares her hacks for being a pro instagram food stylist, the first steps to being compassionate, a TON of recipes involving either peanut butter or Yukon Gold potatoes and help for anyone considering a plant based diet no matter where you live.

The super cool Jess Rona (@JessRonaGrooming and 100 million super cute music videos of her own) shares about how dogs helped her go viral, where she goes to learn things like coffee bean roasting and the importance of a tools for making joy a guiding factor in your own life.

Connie Shin ("Sidekicks", "I Do Until I Don't") shares all the hot goss with Erin and MeLissa about her guilty pleasure follows on Twitter and Instagram, life after making her own movie and the emotional journey of buying and wearing a mesh Troll shirt.   Producer Samee Note: We recorded this in Los Angeles during the very very hot summer of 2017, you can definitely hear fans in the background. 

Join Erin, MeLissa and Group text's normally silent but now ON THE MIC Samee Junio for an insiders look into Group text with Erin and MeLissa. They talk podcasts, their favorite things on the internet, and how much they love each other.             

Re'Sean Pates (Hairspray Live, Glee) joins Erin & MeLissa to talk staying alive in a giant group text, Roscoe the Reader, and how to behave on airplanes.

Beautiful actor/comedian Rachel Scott discusses breaking up on a honeymoon, face timing with babies an the regrets she can deal with.  

Austin Gavarrette (MeLissa's little brother her whole life) talks about gaming, what is gaming, who is gaming, that maybe Erin & MeLissa should game and more!