Episodes

Actor/performer Melissa Heiman works on "Team Al," as in Al Pacino -- she recently rehearsed with him for Amazon's hit TV show HUNTERS. We sit down to discuss obsessive-compulsive disorder, which is by no means a laughing matter and can be a debilitating illness. However, Melissa finds *some* aspects of *her* OCD beneficial -- especially during the current COVID-19 outbreak. Melissa shares her experience with hypnotherapy, and we talk about our inexplicable obsessions, including looking for an i...

Jeff Thompson is an actor, writer, and magician and not only does he take us "behind the scenes" of MAGIC, but also demonstrates us a sick card trick... ya know, just to blow our minds. And, being a graduate of the Academy of Magical Arts and all, he sure does! He also tells us about his audition at The Magic Castle... very intense! Later, we recommend three films: the 2018 Glenn Close/Jonathan Pryce vehicle The Wife, Color Out Of Space (2019) with your man Nicolas Cage and J. D. Dillard's The ...

Jeff Thompson is an actor, writer, and magician and not only does he take us "behind the scenes" of MAGIC, but also demonstrates us a sick card trick... ya know, just to blow our minds. And, being a graduate of the Academy of Magical Arts and all, he sure does! He also tells us about his audition at The Magic Castle... very intense! Later, we recommend three films: the 2018 Glenn Close/Jonathan Pryce vehicle The Wife, Color Out Of Space (2019) with your man Nicolas Cage and J. D. Dillard's The ...

Jeff Thompson is an actor, writer, and magician and not only does he take us "behind the scenes" of MAGIC, but also demonstrates us a sick card trick... ya know, just to blow our minds. And, being a graduate of the Academy of Magical Arts and all, he sure does! He also tells us about his audition at The Magic Castle... very intense! Later, we recommend three films: the 2018 Glenn Close/Jonathan Pryce vehicle The Wife, Color Out Of Space (2019) with your man Nicolas Cage and J. D. Dillard's The ...

Amanda Sitko is a TV Writer (BROCKMIRE) and a veteran performer at the Upright Citizens Brigade theater. She credits STRANGERS WITH CANDY as her major comedy influence and prefers those people who've seen it/loved it to those who haven't. The discussion opens up to all things High School... including growing up in Siberia, where comedy was almost as rare as women behind the wheel. CW: we also discuss the use of derogatory terms in Film and TV, as well as the phenomenon aptly coined by another gr...

Amanda Sitko is a TV Writer (BROCKMIRE) and a veteran performer at the Upright Citizens Brigade theater. She credits STRANGERS WITH CANDY as her major comedy influence and prefers those people who've seen it/loved it to those who haven't. The discussion opens up to all things High School... including growing up in Siberia, where comedy was almost as rare as women behind the wheel. CW: we also discuss the use of derogatory terms in Film and TV, as well as the phenomenon aptly coined by another gr...

Amanda Sitko is a TV Writer (BROCKMIRE) and a veteran performer at the Upright Citizens Brigade theater. She credits STRANGERS WITH CANDY as her major comedy influence and prefers those people who've seen it/loved it to those who haven't. The discussion opens up to all things High School... including growing up in Siberia, where comedy was almost as rare as women behind the wheel. CW: we also discuss the use of derogatory terms in Film and TV, as well as the phenomenon aptly coined by another gr...

You can see comedian Peter Murphy on MTV, Hulu and Comedy Central but it's only on this podcast where you get to hear him talk about... CRICKET, as in the second most popular sport in the world. In fact, cricket has got between 2 and 3 billion fans, that's waaaaay more than baseball and its mere 500 million fans! After Peter tells us about playing cricket in his apartment, we look up sexy cricketeers and analyze a list of the players who had died on the field. Most importantly, Peter enlightens ...

You can see comedian Peter Murphy on MTV, Hulu and Comedy Central but it's only on this podcast where you get to hear him talk about... CRICKET, as in the second most popular sport in the world. In fact, cricket has got between 2 and 3 billion fans, that's waaaaay more than baseball and its mere 500 million fans! After Peter tells us about playing cricket in his apartment, we look up sexy cricketeers and analyze a list of the players who had died on the field. Most importantly, Peter enlightens ...

You can see comedian Peter Murphy on MTV, Hulu and Comedy Central but it's only on this podcast where you get to hear him talk about... CRICKET, as in the second most popular sport in the world. In fact, cricket has got between 2 and 3 billion fans, that's waaaaay more than baseball and its mere 500 million fans! After Peter tells us about playing cricket in his apartment, we look up sexy cricketeers and analyze a list of the players who had died on the field. Most importantly, Peter enlightens ...

Hope you have a killer Valentine's Day! Our guests Justin Michael Terry and Ryan Marsico of the legendary improv team Red Door see two things as greatly undervalued: DEATH, as in "the state of being dead," and IMPROV. We share our near-death experiences, we talk improv (CW: we also discuss creating characters who use derogatory terms), we cry, we die laughing, and finally, we answer the ultimate question, To Be Or Not To Be (spoiler alert: it's To Be -- but only if you do it right). At the end ...

Hope you have a killer Valentine's Day! Our guests Justin Michael Terry and Ryan Marsico of the legendary improv team Red Door see two things as greatly undervalued: DEATH, as in "the state of being dead," and IMPROV. We share our near-death experiences, we talk improv (CW: we also discuss creating characters who use derogatory terms), we cry, we die laughing, and finally, we answer the ultimate question, To Be Or Not To Be (spoiler alert: it's To Be -- but only if you do it right). At the end ...

Hope you have a killer Valentine's Day! Our guests Justin Michael Terry and Ryan Marsico of the legendary improv team Red Door see two things as greatly undervalued: DEATH, as in "the state of being dead," and IMPROV. We share our near-death experiences, we talk improv (CW: we also discuss creating characters who use derogatory terms), we cry, we die laughing, and finally, we answer the ultimate question, To Be Or Not To Be (spoiler alert: it's To Be -- but only if you do it right). At the end ...

Sean Kearney is Game Developer, Designer and Writer, as well as a former guest of the podcast. He's worked on a variety of games for companies such as Disney, EA, and Nexon. His credits include: WHERE'S MY WATER?, CORNY CRUSH (starring Shane Dawson) and dozens of games based on Disney Channel shows that you’ve probably never heard of, but your younger nieces and nephews likely enjoyed. We interviewed Sean about his job, his humble beginnings in writing "funny poems," and his passion project, ZE...

Sean Kearney is Game Developer, Designer and Writer, as well as a former guest of the podcast. He's worked on a variety of games for companies such as Disney, EA, and Nexon. His credits include: WHERE'S MY WATER?, CORNY CRUSH (starring Shane Dawson) and dozens of games based on Disney Channel shows that you’ve probably never heard of, but your younger nieces and nephews likely enjoyed. We interviewed Sean about his job, his humble beginnings in writing "funny poems," and his passion project, ZE...

Sean Kearney is Game Developer, Designer and Writer, as well as a former guest of the podcast. He's worked on a variety of games for companies such as Disney, EA, and Nexon. His credits include: WHERE'S MY WATER?, CORNY CRUSH (starring Shane Dawson) and dozens of games based on Disney Channel shows that you’ve probably never heard of, but your younger nieces and nephews likely enjoyed. We interviewed Sean about his job, his humble beginnings in writing "funny poems," and his passion project, ZE...

As Terry Crews continues making the headlines in his online battle with Gabrielle Union, we've got TV writer Ashley Soto (VIDA, FAST AND FURIOUS: SPY RACERS) lead us in an intellectual dissection of Terry's 2003 vehicle WHITE CHICKS. This "comedy standard" (to quote Ashley) was directed by Keenen Ivory Wayans and stars Marlon Wayans and Shawn Wayans as a pair of FBI agents donning whiteface to pass as two white women. Also, we recommend Alfred Hitchcock's lesser known - but not lesser - film RE...

As Terry Crews continues making the headlines in his online battle with Gabrielle Union, we've got TV writer Ashley Soto (VIDA, FAST AND FURIOUS: SPY RACERS) lead us in an intellectual dissection of Terry's 2003 vehicle WHITE CHICKS. This "comedy standard" (to quote Ashley) was directed by Keenen Ivory Wayans and stars Marlon Wayans and Shawn Wayans as a pair of FBI agents donning whiteface to pass as two white women. Also, we recommend Alfred Hitchcock's lesser known - but not lesser - film RE...

As Terry Crews continues making the headlines in his online battle with Gabrielle Union, we've got TV writer Ashley Soto (VIDA, FAST AND FURIOUS: SPY RACERS) lead us in an intellectual dissection of Terry's 2003 vehicle WHITE CHICKS. This "comedy standard" (to quote Ashley) was directed by Keenen Ivory Wayans and stars Marlon Wayans and Shawn Wayans as a pair of FBI agents donning whiteface to pass as two white women. Also, we recommend Alfred Hitchcock's lesser known - but not lesser - film RE...

Writer/producer Carlton Gillespie and Sasha go head-to-head as tensions rise in our most argumentative/political/historical/scientific/slam poetry episode so far. We're discussing N.E.R.D., the hip-hop/rock band fronted by the babyfaced Pharrell Williams, Chad Hugo and Shay Haley. Inevitably, that leads to a larger discussion of Biggie vs. Tupac. Carlton schools Sasha on the correct interpretation of the lyrics of N.E.R.D.'s song "Brain" (he's wrong), Steven schools Sasha on what ASMR videos ar...

Writer/producer Carlton Gillespie and Sasha go head-to-head as tensions rise in our most argumentative/political/historical/scientific/slam poetry episode so far. We're discussing N.E.R.D., the hip-hop/rock band fronted by the babyfaced Pharrell Williams, Chad Hugo and Shay Haley. Inevitably, that leads to a larger discussion of Biggie vs. Tupac. Carlton schools Sasha on the correct interpretation of the lyrics of N.E.R.D.'s song "Brain" (he's wrong), Steven schools Sasha on what ASMR videos ar...

Writer/producer Carlton Gillespie and Sasha go head-to-head as tensions rise in our most argumentative/political/historical/scientific/slam poetry episode so far. We're discussing N.E.R.D., the hip-hop/rock band fronted by the babyfaced Pharrell Williams, Chad Hugo and Shay Haley. Inevitably, that leads to a larger discussion of Biggie vs. Tupac. Carlton schools Sasha on the correct interpretation of the lyrics of N.E.R.D.'s song "Brain" (he's wrong), Steven schools Sasha on what ASMR videos ar...

Actor/writer Irene White (SUPERSTORE, LITTLE FIRES EVERYWHERE) join us to defend... the Valley! The Valley vs. Hollywood, amiright??? If you don't live in Los Angeles, this will be very educational. Irene will even give you the one advice that you must follow when choosing your first place in Los Angeles. If you don't live in LA, don't worry, you'll get to hear from both sides and also learn what Irene loves more, cats or France. Also, we recommend Matt Berry's new TV comedy YEAR OF THE RABBIT...

Actor/writer Irene White (SUPERSTORE, LITTLE FIRES EVERYWHERE) join us to defend... the Valley! The Valley vs. Hollywood, amiright??? If you don't live in Los Angeles, this will be very educational. Irene will even give you the one advice that you must follow when choosing your first place in Los Angeles. If you don't live in LA, don't worry, you'll get to hear from both sides and also learn what Irene loves more, cats or France. Also, we recommend Matt Berry's new TV comedy YEAR OF THE RABBIT...