Tea It Up with Phil & Cindy: Josh Maloni
"Tea It Up With Phil and Cindy" welcome a very special local journalist to the week's podcast, Joshua Maloni. Mr. Maloni is the GM/managing editor at Niagara Frontier Publications, home of the Niagara County Tribune/Sentinel•Island Dispatch and www.wnypapers.com. His beats include the Village of Lewiston, Artpark, food, tourism and television. Additional responsibilities include page and web design, business planning, advertising and coordination of special sections. For the purpose of this podcast, Maloni likes to say, “I drink milkshakes and interview celebrities.” He has worked with a barrage of entertainment talent, including cast members from TV shows “The Tonight Show,” “American Idol,” “Chicago Med,” “Chicago Fire,” “Chicago P.D.,” “FBI,” “FBI: Most Wanted,” “Blue Bloods,” “Boston Blue,” “The Blacklist,” “Psych,” “Superman & Lois,” “The Way Home,” “Leverage: Redemption,” “Star Trek: Discovery,” “Star Trek: Picard,” “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds,” “Star Trek: Starfleet Academy,” “Murder in a Small Town,” “Hell’s Kitchen,” “The Hunting Party,” “Law & Order,” “Cobra Kai,” “The Way Home” and “Holiday Touchdown: A Bills Love Story,” to name a few. Maloni has chatted with professional chefs including Bobby Flay, Gordon Ramsay, Brooke Williamson and Mei Lin; professional wrestlers John Cena, Goldberg, The Miz, Jake “The Snake” Roberts and Hulk Hogan; Rock & Roll Hall of Fame members Brian Wilson and Al Jardine of the Beach Boys, Ringo Starr of The Beatles, Peter Cetera and Lee Loughnane of Chicago, Dolly Parton, Michael McDonald of The Doobie Brothers, Mick Jones of Foreigner, Daryl Hall & John Oates, Ann and Nancy Wilson of Heart, Joan Jett & The Blackhearts, Gene Simmons of KISS, Johnny Van Zant and Rickey Medlocke of Lynyrd Skynyrd, George Clinton of Parliament Funkadelic, Pat Benatar & Neil Giraldo, Bill Medley of Righteous Brothers, and Chris Cornell of Soundgarden; plus past/present musical legends Randy Bachman, Burton Cummings, Styx, Melissa Etheridge, Amy Grant, Vanessa Williams, Kelsea Ballerini, Little Big Town, Jennifer Nettles, Lauren Daigle, Gavin Rossdale of Bush, Sarah McLachlan, Kevin Bacon, AJR, Josh Groban and Garth Brooks.