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#519 Talk Talk with Ron Bennington from 2023-06-07T12:51:20

Ron Bennington joins me on today's episode to talk about interview style and his series Unmasked. Ron is someone whose style of interviewing I've always admired, it seemed fitting to have him on...

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#518 Jew Special Commentary Part Two The Cheapening from 2023-05-23T11:00

Continuing the Jew Special Commentary now in Romania! We dive into the last few bits of my special Jew on my Youtube now. If you're listening stick around till the end and you can hear all the s...

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#517 Jew Special Commentary with Ari Shaffir from 2023-05-16T11:00

I've done a lot of these commentaries over the years and I've found them to be incredibly interesting as a fan of comedy and useful as a comedian. Today I'm gonna break down the first half of my...

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#516 2023 State of the Union with Dave Smith from 2023-05-09T11:00

Dave Smith came over for the State of the Union! Dave breaks down what the hell is going on in America and around the world in our annual Skeptic Tank State of The Union, which is usually done i...

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#515 War Is Heaven with Geoffrey Asmus from 2023-05-02T11:00

Geoffrey Asmus or The Only Funny White Guy (Keep an eye out for his new special on Youtube) joins me to talk about war and the military. He's never been in the military and he's never been to wa...

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#514 Moving Day with Andy Haynes from 2023-04-25T11:00

Andy Haynes came in to talk to me about his job as a mover. He became a mover the day he moved to New York and was doing it throughout the pandemic. It turns out lots of comics do it because of ...

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#513 The Curious Case of Peter Schickele with Danny Polishchuk from 2023-04-18T11:00

Five-time Grammy winner Pete Schickele is unknown to many but if you were a comic in the 90s you may know him as the guy who beat you out for a Grammy. Danny Polishchk brought this story to my a...

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#512 Ryan Sickler, MD with Ryan Sickler from 2023-04-11T11:00

Fellow Maryland-er Ryan Sickler and I were able to fill up a whole podcast episode just about Maryland. It's the state where we both grew up and have two very different versions of it. Ryan also...

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#511 Big Jay From LGA with Big Jay Oakerson from 2023-04-05T19:00

Big Jay Oakerson made me pick him up at the airport as my last responsibility as producer (Jewish term) of his new standup special, Dog Belly. I’m so proud of him. The special is amazing. I stil...

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#510 Professor Pain with Mike Vecchione from 2023-03-28T11:00

Mike Vecchione has a new special out now called "The Attractives" but before he did standup, Mike was a teacher for some rough and tough kids in Philly. He molded and shaped America's wild youth...

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#509 Filthy Strip Club Stories with Joe List&Henry Phillips from 2023-03-21T19:00

Joe and Henry came over to kill some time with me before we all headed to the Whit Reaper concert. A natural way to kill time is by talking about all the weird times you've had in strip clubs ac...

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#508 DeadHead with Phil Hanley from 2023-03-14T23:30

Phil Hanley is an expert on the Grateful Dead. Deadheads they call themselves, and he came over to clue me in on why this band is so awesome. They've got drugs, good music, and cool fans. What e...

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#507 Hotboxing In A Rental with Dan Soder from 2023-03-07T12:00

Dan Soder drove with me to Vancouver after our show in Seattle and we had a great time doing some not-so-legal things! Can I get more dangerous than podcasting and driving? Listen to find out! Listen

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#506 Liftie with Ryan O'Neill and Brent from 2023-02-21T17:00

Ryan O'Neill and I spent some time in Salt Lake City with Brent the Liftie! Brent is a lift operator in Salt Lak City and he gave us the scoop on what it's like and showed us a good time on the ...

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#505 High Society Golf Scum with Kevin Ryan&H. Foley from 2023-02-14T12:00

Kevin Ryan and H. Foley came over to talk about some of the first jobs they ever had, which led to a great conversation with the garbage guys about working at country club golf courses. Who do y...

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#504 Israstine with Andy Haynes from 2023-02-08T12:00

The Coward of Gramercy and Israel Palestine expert Andy Haynes came over to talk with me about the conflict even though I had no logical points on the matter.

 

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#503 Toilet Humor with Colum Tyrrell and Nate Marshall from 2023-01-31T19:00

Colum Tyrrell and Nate Marshall joined me in Pittsburgh where we talked about our bathroom fails and favorites in between shows.. in the bathroom. 

 

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#502 Magic the Dungeoning with Rick Glassman from 2023-01-24T12:00

Rick Glassman is pure magic. Not only is he the most interesting man in podcasting, he’s also a recovering dork who played Magic the Gathering for as many as 87 hours a week. Rick came over to S...

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#501 Guido Adjacent with Paul Virzi from 2023-01-17T12:00

Paul Virzi is a great comic but he's also kind of a Guido. Paying for meals is a guido thing. Saying "The Joshua Tree" is a Guido thing. Keeping your car SUPER clean...That's a Guido thing.

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#500 Frijole Diver with Tim Brown from 2023-01-10T12:00

Tim Brown is a Free Diving instructor I met during my time in Guatemala over the holidays. He's a 21-year-old kid from Australia who decided one day that he wanted to try free diving and now he'...

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#499 Semper Fi with Brian Simpson from 2023-01-03T12:00

I apologize for the terrible audio on this episode. The battery on my Tascam ran out so there are only 15 mins of good audio. Brian Simpson does not deserve bad audio so be sure to check out his...

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#498 Christ-Hanuk-Mas with Andrew Youngblood and Shahyan Jahani from 2022-12-20T12:00

Shahyan Jahani and Andrew Youngblood were with me for my shows in Dallas and they joined me for a podcast in the green room before it was time for the show. We talked about Christmas mostly and ...

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#497 Freebies with Hans Kim and David Lucas from 2022-12-13T12:00

Hans Kim, David Lucas, and I talk about free stuff! As a young comic, the generosities of others are what really keep you going. Netflix passwords, drugs, and free meals are all great to give a ...

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#496 The Oregonian with Matt Braunger from 2022-12-06T12:00

Matt Braunger came to talk with me while I was in LA and he told me all about his new special Doug and what it was like growing up in Oregon. Lot's of interesting Oregon facts and a story about ...

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#495 DIY with Fahim Anwar from 2022-11-22T12:00

Fahim Anwar and I talk about how satisfying it is that we both put our specials out on our own. There's nothing quit like doing something yourself. However, we realized there isn't much else we ...

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#494 Girls Gotta Beat with Ashley Hesseltine&Rayna Greenberg from 2022-11-16T00:00

Rayna Greenberg and Ashley Hesseltine came over and brought me a vibrator from their new line Vibes Only. They talked to me about how chicks use vibrators an...

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#493 Wawa and Other Local Shit with Nate Marshall, Geoffrey Asmus&Brian Six from 2022-11-09T16:30

Nate Marshall, Geoffrey Asmus, and Brian Six joined me in the green room at Helium Comedy club in Philly to talk about why Wawa is so treasured among the people of Philly and what might be the e...

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#492 The Jews with Joe List, Jim Norton, Robert Kelly, Ryan Long and Joe DeRosa from 2022-11-01T17:00

Live from Skankfest Vegas Ryan Long, Jim Norton, Joe List, Robert Kelly, and Joe DeRosa join me as we berate the crowd for telling awful stories about Jews. Listen

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#467 Nelson Muntz with Dan Soder from 2022-04-19T14:00:30

Dan Soder came over to talk about his special that came out nearly three years ago. "Son Of A Gary" on HBOMax. This podcast is three years in the making. I've been wanting to get Dan on to talk ...

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#466 Guide Me To Hell with Katie Hannigan from 2022-04-12T13:30:40

Katie Hannigan sits down with me to tell me about her time as a NYC tour guide. It was a tawdry world of autistic tourist nerds and their dumb families.  Listen

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#465 Michigan Militia Lottery Losers with Big Jay Oakerson&Robert Kelly from 2022-04-05T11:00

Big Jay Oakerson and Robert Kelly joined me on the road to Michigan for a weekend of shows. Come with us on the drive to Fort Wayne and watch us test our luck with a $20 scratch off ticket. Stay...

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#464 Ernest with Kerryn Feehan from 2022-03-22T11:00:14

Ernest was a good dog. The best. 

Standup comedian Kerryn Feehan talks to dog owner and comedian Ari Shaffir about h...

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#463 Raaaaage with Robert Kelly from 2022-03-16T11:00:48

Standup comedian Robert Kelly is not in control of his emotions. He sat down with me, who is known to be emotionless, and told me about his problems controlling his ...

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#462 The Warped Tour with Ryan Long from 2022-03-08T14:30:33

Ryan Long came to the studio to tell me about his days touring with his band The Johnstone's and what it was like playing Warped Tour. 

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#461 The Denver Chronicles with Ryan O'Neill and Brandt Tobler from 2022-03-01T12:00

Standup comedian Brandt Tobler who once tried to kill his dad, and son of a falconer and comic Ryan O’Neill met me for a throwback podcast in the tradition of the...

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#460 Teacher's Pet with Amy Shanker from 2022-02-22T12:00

Comedian and former Chicago inner-city school teacher Amy Shanker talks to me a 2.2 GPA high school graduate about what it was like being a teacher. Spoiler alert...

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#459 When Radio Was King with Cipha Sounds from 2022-02-15T12:00

Or as I wanted to call it *Airhorn Sound*

Cipha Sounds came over to the studio to talk about his days as a DJ on Hot97 in New York. He explained to me, the whitest Jew boy in the world, w...

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#458. City of Compton with Jamar Neighbors from 2022-02-08T12:00

Jamar Neighbors joined me on tour in Phoenix and told me all about growing up in Compton. Told me how he threw rocks at crack heads, beat people up, and almost got recruited to be in a gang but ...

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#457 The Godfathers with Mark Normand and Sam Morril from 2022-02-01T14:00

Mark Normand and Sam Morril came over to the Skeptic Tank studios to have a nice sober conversation with me about why they’re all better off without alcohol. And the...

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#456 Cold Hearts Warm Farts with Steve Rannazzisi from 2022-01-25T12:00

Steve Rannazzisi came over to the new studio to talk about how much we hate winter and a bunch of other random things like the new Jackass and what podcast would have the dumbest listeners. It's a ...

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#455 The Most Texas Podcast Of All Time with Joe Rogan and Tony Hinchcliffe from 2022-01-18T12:00

Liberal mouthpiece Joe Rogan, and I guess heterosexual comedian Tony Hinchcliffe met me at a gun range in Texas to shoot the poop and tell stories about the past ...

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#454 Do Better: An Unattainable New Years Resolution Podcast with Sarah Tollemache from 2022-01-11T14:30

Sarah Tollemache and ever-fatter former non-steroid winner of Sober October Ari Shaffir sit on a treadmill in a gym they’ll never use to go over ways they’re goin...

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#453 White People Want Me Dead with Nate Marshall from 2021-12-28T12:00

Nate Marshall and I talk about how we both kind of feel the media is turning everybody on each other. We kept it funny, relaxed. Nate watched so much TV and read ...

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#452 Chicks Suck with Emma Willmann from 2021-12-21T11:00

Emma Willman and I talk about women. What they like. And a loooooot about what they don’t like. It was a funny conversation that I really could only have with a c...

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#451 Nirvana Is My Pearl Jam with Joe List from 2021-12-14T11:00

Joe List came over to argue with me about music. For real Joe is top 3 or 4 comics into music. He’s got great taste and he loves going to live shows even more tha...

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#450 Unicycling In A Homeless Toilet with Jeff Danis and Ryan O'Neill from 2021-12-07T11:00

Comedians and Beach Cops Ryan Oneill and Jeff Danis join me at a park in Los Angeles right outside an area where all the homeless people of Los Angeles take their...

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#449 That Chappelle Movie (Solocast) from 2021-11-30T11:00

I attended skateboarder and standup comedian Dave Chappelle’s screening of his movie at Madison Square Garden. And MAN! What a show. I really thought it was just ...

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#448 Mother Of The Year with Ms. Pat, Bob Saget, Rich Vos and Robert Kelly from 2021-11-16T18:00

We got a whopper! Comedian and mom Ms Pat join comedian and America’s dad Bob Saget, comedian and dad Rich Vos, comedian and father of a son who loves me more tha...

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#447 From Rogan to La Grange with Shane Gillis and Mark Normand from 2021-11-09T11:00

Comedian Shane Gillis and Comedian Mark Normand take a ride with me, known child abductor, further and further away from the liberal safety of Austin and closer a...

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#446 Swipe Right If You're Horny with Jared Freid from 2021-11-02T10:00

Modern love guru Jared Freid talks to me, a renowned late pull outer, about the dating scene, what can be improved on the apps, his successes, and failures with r...

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#445 My Daddy Was A Mobster with Anthony DeVito from 2021-10-25T23:00

I talked to Comedian Anthony Devito about finding out his dad was a made guy in the mob before they found him shot many times in the trunk of a car. Also about coming to terms with his dad's vio...

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#444 Rehab with Chloe LaBranche from 2021-10-18T10:00

Recovering coke enthusiast and comedian Chloe LaBranche tells me about all her many trips to rehab. This one was WILD. So many great stories from Chloe about a wo...

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#443 Can I Get A Witness with Doug Smith from 2021-10-11T10:00

Former Jehovah’s Witness Doug Smith and I talk about the Jehovahs. They. Are. Weird. Doug got raised in it when his mom decided some guy at her front door had gre...

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#442 Summers End with Mat Edgar and Ryan O'Neill from 2021-10-04T10:00

Mat Edgar, Ryan O'Neill, and I talked about our adventure in the woods for the final day of the greatest summer of my life. We found one of the coolest, most remo...

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#441 Korea Was Hell with Chris Alan from 2021-09-27T12:35:21

Comedian and Air Force vet Chris Alan came over to tell me, famous draft dodger, about his time in the armed forces. It’s waaaay different than what you see in mo...

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#440 Avoiding The Conversation with Yannis Pappas from 2021-09-13T17:00

Yannis Pappas came over to my house to talk about the greatest baseball game ever attended. But it turns out I'm a terrible podcast host and as much as Yannis tri...

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#439 Wrecks In Effects with John Hastings from 2021-09-06T10:00

John Hastings and I talk about car accidents on a fun episode of Skeptic Tank. John has been in a dozen accidents so he’s got a lot of experience. And I have hit ...

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#438 Six Months Of Hating Men with Annie Lederman from 2021-08-30T10:00

Annie Lederman tells me about her time as a man-hater. Annie has come out of it since then but she recounts the way she got caught up in a world of despising an e...

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#437 When The Store Had Balls with Eleanor Kerrigan from 2021-08-23T09:00

Eleanor Kerrigan comes over to talk about the glory days of the Comedy Store. Eleanor and Ari were employees of the Store together at the turn of the century. Tha...

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#436 Breastfeeding For Adults with Greg Fitzsimmons from 2021-08-16T17:00

Greg Fitzsimmons and Ari Shaffir go on a deep dive into forbidden acts of love in this public Patreon episode of Ari Shaffir’s Skeptic Tank.

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#435 Cockfighter with Rojo Perez from 2021-08-09T17:00

Standup comedian and retired rooster fighter Rojo Perez sits down with Standup comedian and rooster fight enthusiast Ari Shaffir to talk about cockfighting. Futu Manu in Tetum. Pelea De Gallos i...

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#434 Just A Little Bit More Than The Law Will Allow with Steve Rannazzisi from 2021-07-26T17:00

Star of the League, shoplifter, and standup comedian Steve Rannazzisi talks to tagged stealer of Netflix passwords, and standup comedian Ari Shaffir about breakin...

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#433 Anorexics Have Sick Diet Tips with Maddy Smith from 2021-07-19T10:00

Former fatty and current standup comedian Ari Shaffir talks to world-renowned weight fluctuator and comedian Maddy Smith about her massive weight gains and losses...

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#432 Bark Like A Doggie With Luis J. Gomez from 2021-07-12T17:00

Comedian and homosexual child predator Luis Gomez talks to pot-stirrer and comedian Ari Shaffir about his old days selling comedy tickets to classless tourists in...

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#431 Edibles: This Is How Those Stories Start with Mike Cannon and Brendan Sagalow from 2021-07-05T22:18:39

Space Cakes, Gummies, Brownies, chocolates, and the legendarily deadly Banana Bread. Comedian Brendan’s Sagalow and standup comedian Mile Cannon talk to standup c...

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#430 Stav Cums On My Tits and Pours Cum Down My Throat: A Relationship Advice Episode with Stavros Halkias from 2021-06-22T00:00

Host of the Cumtown podcast Stavros Halkias joins standup comedian Ari Shaffir for a relationship and sex advice episode of Skeptic Tank. This is a “Dear Ari” relationship advice episode that’s ...

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#429 Anxiety Ridden Time Bomb of Self Loathing with Big Jay Oakerson from 2021-06-15T10:00

Standup comedian and host of The Bonfire and Legion of Skanks (in that order) Big Jay Oakerson talks about his struggle with anxiety disorder with comedian and host of nothing Ari Shaffir. Jay r...

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#428 Crazy Latin Chick with Kim Congdon from 2021-06-08T10:00

Comedian Kim Congdon is fucking nuts. Standup comedian and your host Ari Shaffir sits down with this crazy Chonga to discuss the origins of the stereotype of the fiery Latin woman and how wild a...

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#427 You're Fired with Graham Kay from 2021-06-01T10:00

Comedian Graham Kay has been fired more than anyone on Earth. Stand-up comedian Ari Shaffir, fresh off not appearing on the Joe Rogan Experience Podcast for two years and before that losing his ...

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#426 Beaten By Hecklers: A Patreon Mailbag Episode With Robert Kelly from 2021-05-25T10:00

Standup comedian Robert Kelly and standup comedian Ari Shaffir share their plan for world domination in a public Patreon episode. This is the kind of thing I do all the time on Patreon behind th...

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#425 Garbage People with Kevin Ryan and H. Foley from 2021-05-11T10:00

Comedians Kevin Ryan and H. Foley from the  @AreYouGarbage? Com...

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#424 Road Trip with Mark Normand from 2021-05-03T11:00

Mark Normand and I take a drivecast down to Pennsylvania for a show at SoulJoel’s Comedy Amphitheater. And we shot the shit the whole drive. I’ve always heard pod...

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#423 Pinc Louds Saved Our Summer from 2021-04-20T11:00

Lead singer of Pinc Louds, Claudi, sat down with standup comedian Listen

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#422 Chinese Circus Freak with Andrea Jones-Rooy from 2021-04-12T10:00

Comedian and Political Scientist Andrea Jones-Rooy came over to talk to standup comedian Listen

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#421 There's No Glory Holes For Women with Ian Fidance from 2021-04-05T10:00

Ian Fidance and I took a drive down to New Jersey and talked and laughed about his weird level of sexuality. He’s got some unique views on sex and love and whethe...

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#420: "A Pot of Weed" w/ Dan Soder, Tony Hinchcliffe, Adrienne Iapalucci, Duncan Trussell, Sal Vulcano, Steve Rannazzisi, Mark Normand from 2021-03-29T10:00

A celebration of marijuana in honor of the 420th episode of Ari Shaffir's Skeptic Tank Podcast. I got my friends and comedians Duncan Trussell, Dan Soder, Tony Hinchcliffe, Steve Rannazzisi, Sal...

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#419: "Stay in Your Lane" w/ Nate Bargatze from 2021-03-18T11:14:45

My guest today Nate Bargatze and I are talking about Hollywood, and its pontifical actors who can’t seem to stop gabbing. They give us their opinions constantly, all day long, and most of the ti...

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The Spiritual Healer w/ Bonnie Willow from 2021-03-01T17:00

Bonnie Willow is a super interesting woman I met in a hostel in the Andes. She is a Reiki Master and Inter-Faith Minister. Bonnie also runs a school, The School of Peace. I don’t even know how t...

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The Spiritual Healer w/ Bonnie Willow from 2021-03-01T17:00

Bonnie Willow is a super interesting woman I met in a hostel in the Andes. She is a Reiki Master and Inter-Faith Minister. Bonnie also runs a school, The School of Peace. I don’t even know how t...

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#417: "You're Gay" w/ Matteo Lane from 2021-02-22T11:00

Standup Comedian Matteo Lane comes on Ari Shaffir’s Skeptic Tank this week to tell me all about gay culture. It’s FASCINATING. And it’s changed so much since I first discovered gays back in coll...

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#416: "Serious as a Heart Attack" w/ Keith Robinson from 2021-02-15T12:00

Standup comedian Keith Robinson joins standup comedian Ari Shaffir this week to tell me about his stroke. I had a lot of questions. And Keith was forthcoming and hilarious. My favorite kind of g...

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#414: Friend Zone w/ Brendan Sagalow from 2021-01-25T14:46:39

Brendan Sagalow is a master at getting turned down by women. “I just don’t see you like that,” they tell him. It’s called being put in the friend zone. And it happens to Brendan A LOT. Join us a...

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#413: My 2020 Year In Review Part 7 of 7 - Resolutions and Goals for 2021 - Ari Shaffir's Skeptic Tank podcast - from 2021-01-24T17:25:30

I try to do these public resolutions every year. That way I'm more likely to stand by them. Everybody should make resolutions. They're not lame. They're goals. It's important to verbalize wher...

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#413: Year In Review (6 of 7) - Leaving America - Ari Shaffir's Skeptic Tank podcast from 2021-01-23T11:30

With the winter approaching, and the threat of lockdowns looming, I decided to leave the country to do some exploring. Ari Shaffir loves to travel. And what a better ti...

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#413 My 2020 Year In Review 5/7 - The Skanks Election - Ari Shaffir's Skeptic Tank Legion of Skanks Luis Gomez Big Jay Oakerson Dave Smith Shane Gillis Zac Amico Joe Derosa No More Weeks from 2021-01-22T14:13:56

I almost forgot about the election that saved comedy. Not the presidential election. No, that doesn't really matter. We're still gonna be at war with 7 countries and watch the rich get richer ...

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#413: My 2020 Year In Review 4/7 - Best Summer Ever from 2021-01-21T05:03

In part 4 of My 2020 Year in Review podcast, I talk about returning to New York City. I am standup comedian Ari Shaffir. And I'm only a standup comedian while I'm doing standup comedy. Otherwi...

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#413 My Year In Review 3/7 - Moving Into My Parents' Basement from 2021-01-20T11:51:16

Covid changed a lot for a lot of people. Bezos is killing it more than ever. And whoever owns Purell. But for the rest of us things went off the rails. With the March lockdown looming, standup...

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#413: My 2020 Year In Review 2/7 - Troll of the Year from 2021-01-19T16:47:36

Troll of the Year. On part 2 of My 2020 Year in Review podcast I talk about how I brought a city to its knees. With a few expertly timed and crafted words I made Los Angeles crumble. It was hila...

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#413: My Year In Review - Part 1 of 7 (New Orleans, Hawaii, and Planning The Special) from 2021-01-19T03:40:46

It's time for my annual Year In Review podcast. This ain't about what happened in the world. This is about what happened in the world of the greatest living athlete, Ari Shaffir. It was a wild o...

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#412: The Peoples Revolution (with John Dennehy)@JDennehy_Writes from 2021-01-11T08:30

John Dennehy came over to talk to me about Ecuador. Specifically about the 2005 People's Revolution that toppled their government. John was there for all of it. He even helped set up road blocks...

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#411: Tim Dillon - "Eat The Rich, Gas The Poor" (Intro/outro with Joe List and Ari Shaffir from 2020-12-22T02:59:42

Tim Dillon got together with me to help me understand wealthy people. They're not like you and I. Sometimes I hate them and sometimes I am in awe of them. Tim broke down all the reasons they suc...

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#410: Auto joErotic A Fixation with Joe Rogan (plus Ryan Oneill joins for the intro) from 2020-12-14T09:30

Joe Rogan loves two things. Fast cars and dank weed. And he's owned plenty of both. Joe and I talked about where his automobile obsession came from, the coolest cars he's ever driven, road handi...

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#409: Shane and Shaffir Shit on Shit from 2020-12-07T12:34:25

Shane Gillis and I love to get drunk and talk trash. Pretty much everything sucks if you look into it. So I came up with some shit to talk shit about and then Shane and I shit on that shit while...

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#408: The Lady With A Giant Hog (Margo Reiss @Margo_A_GoGo) from 2020-11-30T13:23:49

Margo Reiss came over and let me ask her all about transsexuality. I mean, super cool about it. Let me just ask anything I didn't understand and she explained what it was like to me. We got into...

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#407: Obsessive Obsessive Compulsive Compulsive Obsessive Compulsive Compulsive Obsessive Compulsive Compulsive Compulsive Obsessive Obsessive Obsessive Compulsive Obsessive Obsessive Compulsive Compulsive Compulsive Obsessive Obsessive (with @EliSairs) from 2020-11-23T09:00

Eli Sairs came over to talk to me about his OCD. He's got it bad. And it's all wrapped up with Jesus, too, which makes it even harder to deal with. The levels this guy has to go through just to ...

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#406: Oh, The Horror! (Zac Amico) from 2020-11-17T04:54:47

Zac Amico told me some amazing stories about producing low budget horror movies. Zac is a hilarious comic and podcaster and he's also a producer of films for Troma, one of the greatest pulp horr...

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#405: War Stories (Jake Hanrahan) from 2020-10-26T05:22:25

Jake Hanrahan talked to me about conflict reporting. He goes to war zones and tries to bring back word of what's actually going on in these areas. It's crazy. He brings back tons of footage. Loo...

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404: Talkin' Baseball (Lip Reading) with Jimmy O'Brien of Jomboy Media from 2020-10-14T19:16:23

Jimmy O'Brien from Jomboy Media came over and we had a great talk about baseball. Jimmy is crazy about the sport. And we share favorite teams! The greatest sports franchise of all time, The New ...

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#403: Mailbag (with Joe Derosa and Louis Katz in the park) from 2020-10-05T21:01:26

Joe Deros and Louis Katz met me in a park on the outskirts of Chinatown just to shoot the crap. Derosa and I drank Natty Lights. Katz kept his mask on the whole time. We got stared at by old Chi...

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#402: 2020 State of the Union Part 2 w/ Dave Smith from 2020-10-01T02:59:34

Dave Smith and I finish the last 4 hours of the craziest year of our state of the union podcasts we've ever done. There was just so much going on. We got into politics, the press, war, the way e...

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#401: The 2020 State of the Union part 1 (w/ Dave Smith) from 2020-09-25T17:15:20

Dave Smith came over to start our yearly talk on what's going on with America. Dave is a libertarian. So he's one of the more unbiased voices you'll get on politics because he has no political t...

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#400: Shoot To Kill (@DanishAndOneill) Ryan Oneill and Jeff Danis of Beach Cops and Boner City USA fame join Skeptic Tank to talk about getting shot at from 5 feet away and living to tell about it. from 2020-09-14T21:28:35

Ryan Oneill and Jeff Danis come on to talk about some criminal mastermind shooting 3-5 gunshots at Oneill from about 4 feet away. Unfortunately the guy missed. But something good will come from ...

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#398: Simps Up, Ho's 'Round (@KerrynFeehan) from 2020-08-24T04:50

Kerryn Feehan came over to tell me about this wild world of getting dudes to just send you money. For nothing. I mean, legitimately for nothing. And then we started talking and she started telli...

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#397: Loss Prevention Officer (@JoeListComedy) The hilarious tales of his time stopping thieves like me. (sears, stealing, mall cop, I hate myself, tuesdays with stories, tuesgays from 2020-08-11T21:58:56

Joe List came over to tell me about his years working theft prevention at a Sears outside Boston. These are great stories about being exactly my enemy at one of my passions, shoplifting. 

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#396: Music is for Drugs (@AriShaffir) from 2020-08-03T14:33:20

I took too many whatevers and went on a deep dive into the way music is a response to social events and drug use. It's a solecast originally on my patreon. Join, if you want, at Listen

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#395: New Dog Old Tricks (Justin Silver) (....... Dog, Training, puppy, trainer, the, language, of, dogs, skeptic, tank, bandit) from 2020-07-27T16:54:57

Justin Silver, heralded dog trainer from the @TheLanguageOfDogs instagram page and the book by the sam...

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394: Doing Rails (w/ Nick Cody) (nick cody virus train o&a portland australia myanmar shah shan state food poisoning toilet quarantine hotel bill burr 7 more minutes philly rant mid-flight brawl heggie luke from 2020-07-14T20:32:23

Nick Cody joined me from Melbourne, Australia to tell me about his epic trip he took across America at 19 years old. Went from Portland to NY by train to save like $90. Idiot. But also very cool...

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#393: Shaped Like a Human Question Mark (@CarmenComedian) from 2020-07-07T14:57:26

Carmen Lynch was a scoliosis nerdburger in hight school. She wore a back brace and couldn't make friends. She came on the podcast this week to tell me about it. How she dealt with having scolios...

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#392: NYC Street Fair (@JoeDerosaComedy&@PhilanthropyGal) tags: Corrine Fisher Joe Derosa NYC Drink Street Drinking outdoors guys we f*cked 3 more weeks cocktails to go from 2020-06-30T15:01:12

Corrine Fisher and Joe Derosa came to the studio to talk about the awesome and unique state NYC boozers find themselves in. It's summertime and none of the bars allow indoor seating. So many of ...

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#391: Cops (@BigJayOakerson) from 2020-06-22T17:04:26

Big Jay Oakerson came to the studio to talk to me about Cops. His favorite show in the history of television just got BLMed so he's in a bit of a state of mourning. And when I say favorite, I me...

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390: Gingie Whisker (@CheetoSantino) from 2020-06-16T02:30:14

Andrew Santino met me for the last podcast in my quarantine to talk about the wet brown devil, whisky. Bourbon, Scotch, Rye, you know what I'm talking about. It's my favorite alcohol. For when I...

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#389: Sam Morril's 5 Things I Can't Wait To Do Again from 2020-06-09T03:02:31

Sam Morril hung out with me in my backyard to tell me what he's been missing lately. He's so damn funny. Please everybody watch his new special, "I Got This" on YouTube now. I guarantee he'll be...

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388: Free Hong Kong (@IAmGarron) from 2020-06-01T15:42:32

Garron Kertnen Chiu met me at a Hong Kong comedy club to tell me about the protests for autonomy that have been going on there over the past year or so. All the important details, like how do yo...

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#387: Mark Normand's 5 Things I Can't Wait To Do Again (@MarkNormand) from 2020-05-25T15:59:53

Mark Normand, fresh off the success of his new special "Out To Lunch" (available now on YouTube), met me on the deserted streets of New York to play the 5 things we miss game. We probably got to...

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#386: The Revenge Robber (@MadFlavor) from 2020-05-18T04:00

Joey Diaz is one of my all time stealing heroes. He is an inspiration to shoplifters everywhere. Even though he's semi-retired since having a child, his legend lives on. This episode is all abou...

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#385: Bobby Kelly's 5 Things I Can't Wait To Do Again from 2020-05-11T15:04:15

Robert Kelly joins me for the first in a series of podcasts where I'm just gonna do some wishful thinking. Fun podcast with a good friend. It's nothing serious. It's all about the stuff we've be...

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#384: 10 Days of Silence; Vipassana Meditation (with Jessica Michelle Singleton) from 2020-05-04T20:15:40

Jessica Michelle Singleton came on to talk to me about taking a 10 day vow of silence for Vipassana meditation. I tried it a few years ago and failed. Still got a ton out of it. But she made it ...

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#383: Silent But Deadly; The @JoeListComedy Story from 2020-04-28T01:39:59

Joe List has a bad attitude and a worse stomach. He ate nothing but chicken parm sandwiches and Chipotle for the last 14 years and then for some reason, one day last year his stomach just stoppe...

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#382: Psychedelic Christmas (@DuncanTrussell) from 2020-04-19T04:26:34

Duncan Trussell and I talked about LSD for about 2 hours. Nobody in my life is more of an acidhead than Duncan. He knows the history, the risks, the joys, all of it. We did this in honor of Bi...

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#381: Hurricane Katrina; The Good Old Days (@MrSeanPatton) from 2020-04-12T21:17:18

Sean Patton becomes the first Skeptic Tank guest to ever appear via webcam to tell me about what New Orleans was like for him in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Pretty much Skeptic Tank is t...

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#380: Have A Corona (@MarkNormand) from 2020-04-01T21:06:50

Mark Normand became the first (and only) guest in the newly built Skeptic Tank Studio! This was recorded March 17, the first day bars and restaurants were closed in New York. We talked about wha...

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#379: Aloha Oe Vey (@ChinoBrah) from 2020-02-07T07:27:02

Chino LaForge met me before one of our shows to tell me about the history of the country of Hawaii. I think it ain't even really part of America. Honestly. I know it is, but I don't agree. Chino...

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#378: Robert Kelly Live (an album commentary with @RobertKelly) from 2020-01-12T09:24:44

Roberty "Bobby" Kelly had me over to the YKWD studios to record an album commentary episode of Skeptic Tank on his first comedy album, Robert Kelly Live. On these episodes I break down a comic's...

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#377: Dog Day Afternoon (@Iapalucci) from 2020-01-07T06:58:46

Adrienne Iapalucci came over to my hotel room in Spokane and we sat and talked about dogs for almost 2 hours. She's been a long time dog freak and so have I. And I just recently got my first dog...

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#376: My 2019 Year in Review (a solocast) from 2019-12-31T05:53:17

2019 was a great year for me. They're all great years, to be honest. But 2019 was no different. Come along as I go over all my favorite podcasts, standup shows, travels, and details of another y...

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#375: Kid With A Cow Heart (@JessicaKirson) from 2019-12-06T14:30:58

Jessica Kirson met me at Gas Digital studios to tell me about what her daughter has been going through with heart surgeries. Her kid was born with major heart problems so she's been through mult...

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#374: Truth Be Told (@Jimmy_Dore) from 2019-12-01T22:52:31

Jimmy Dore met me at All Things Comedy studios to explain to me exactly what a progressive is. I've found more and more that I relate to his views on politics more than most people. The distrust...

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#373: Jew (@SamTripoli @SteveRannazzisi @SteveSimeone @MichaelRappaport @BoonShakaLaka @DanishAndOneill @TonyHinchcliffe from 2019-11-16T01:54:38

In honor of me announcing the date of my long awaited standup special recording for "Ari Shaffir: Jew," I brought on some friends to talk about Jews. Sam Tripoli, Michael Rappaport (just walking...

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#372: 'Roid Rage (@iAmMikeCannon) from 2019-10-28T09:19:26

Mike Cannon met me at Gas Digital to tell me about his old days as a total meathead who legit took steroids. I'm not even kidding. You can't believe how much of an idiot this guy was. He's norma...

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#371: So Over October (a solocast) from 2019-10-24T01:22:37

I am so freaking DONE with this month. It's the worst. It's not even difficult being sober. It's just boring. Really really boring. In years past I could occupy myself with a contest against my ...

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#370: Troll (Milo Yiannopoulos) from 2019-10-16T19:40:20

Milo Yiannopoulos came over to my apartment to have one of my favorite talks ever on this podcast. It's a talk about trolling. Milo is one of the best in the world at it. This is gonna take you ...

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#369: The Podfather (@Redban) from 2019-10-08T19:56:57

Brian Redban took me into his new podcast studio to talk about the early days of the podcast scene in Los Angeles. When everything was guerrilla. When it was fresh and new and nobody knew what i...

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#368: The 2019 State Of The Union (@ComicDaveSmith) from 2019-09-30T23:15:22

Dave Smith joins me for our annual look at how things are going in America. We talk about politics, climate, drugs, economics, and everything else we can think of. Dave is really well read and n...

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# 367: Dragon Lady (@BigJayOakerson) from 2019-09-23T23:40:09

Big Jay Oakerson (43:45) and I went up to the roof to talk about smoking. How he started, how he tries to quit, how cool it is, what it does to you, the smell. Really all of it. As we did it, he...

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#366: Smackdown (@SalVulcano) from 2019-09-17T17:56:43

Sal Vulcano and I both went to WWE's Smackdown on September 10, 2019. It was Sal's 80th WWE event. It was my first. I had SO many question. So Sal came over to my apartment 6 days later to tell ...

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#365: The Revolution (Kalle Lasn, Adbusters Editor in Chief) from 2019-09-09T07:59:31

Adbusters Editor in Chief, Kalle Lasn met me in his office at the magazine to talk to me about the revolution. I see it going down only with violence but he is far more hopeful about the ways in...

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#364: Matrix Vacation (a solocast) from 2019-08-27T14:09:09

Let me tell you about the month I took off from screens. All July. No texting, no computer. Only a land line. It was weird for sure, but it was also kind of glorious. 

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#363: On A Steel Horse I Ride (Xavier Himma) from 2019-08-20T10:12:09

Xavier Himma met me on the roof of my apartment to tell me about his amazing bike ride from Ottawa to Argentina. I've never even heard of such a thing. Be aware that the first 3 minutes of the i...

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#362: Once Upon A Time In Hollywood (A Spoiler Alert Episode) with @SamMorril) from 2019-08-09T06:03

Sam Morril and I went to see Tarantino's new movie "Once Upon A Time In Hollywood" and then came back to my place, got drunk off scotch and talked about what we saw.

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#361: Spange (Tall Boy) from 2019-07-22T16:00

A homeless non-binary person let me sit with her and talk about what it's like to live on the street and beg for change. Spange is a homeless term that means spare change. I think it's a verb. A...

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#360: The Cacophony Society (@chuckpalahniuk) from 2019-07-08T16:00

Chuck Palahniuk had me over to his Portland writing office to tell me about the heyday of the Portland Cacophony Society. It's this crazy group that pulled large scale pranks on the minds of nor...

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#359: Digital Vacation (@AriShaffir) from 2019-06-23T20:00

I am going offline for a while. I want to clear my head of all the noise and clutter that the internet has been throwing at me. It's become a net negative in my life and I want to find myself an...

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#358: Jabba (album commentary w/ @SteveSimeone from 2019-06-10T09:10:09

Steve Simeone and I sat on the balcony of his new apartment and broke down his new album, Jabba. We talked about the origins of the bits, the messages he had in them, what his theories are on th...

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#357: Fun Bucks (Bill Ottman) from 2019-06-04T18:27:23

Bill Ottman came over to my apartment to try his best to get the idea of crypto currency through my fat skull. For a Jew, it's almost shocking how little I understand about monetary things like ...

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#356: Down By The River (@ComedianRonT @SteveSimeone) from 2019-05-20T16:40:15

Ron Taylor had a long talk with myself and Steve Simeone about his time living in a van. He used to park it outside the Comedy Store. He'd take chicks there. He'd do horrible bowelly things in t...

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#355: Methistopheles (@JessaReedComedy) from 2019-05-08T17:05:42

Jessa Reed came over to my old apartment (I think this is the last one from the old place) to tell me about her junkie past. She was a serious meth head. I mean for real. Like, drink your own pi...

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#354: Fear of Flying (@BigJayOakerson from 2019-04-25T20:03:03

Big Jay Oakerson was my surprise opener for my shows in Toronto. This was the most amount of people I had ever played for in a night when I was headlining and Toronto has always been cool to me ...

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#353: Modern Hippie (@TFerriss) from 2019-04-12T04:22:53

Tim Ferriss met me in Austin to talk about travel and art and nature and love. He's a hippie. He's what the new version of a hippie is. He makes time to see interesting places around the world. ...

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#352: Water World (@RowAtlantic) from 2019-04-05T07:33:36

Tim Crockett came back to talk about his EPIC journey rowing solo across the Atlantic ocean. He said he'd do it and he did it. Jesus. 63 days on the water. Rowing. Alone. Just rowing and rowing....

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#350: Shooter (Dan Soder, Michelle Wolf, Dave Attell, Jeff Danis, Ryan Oneill Yannis Pappas, Tim Dillon, Stavros Halkias) from 2019-03-25T09:51:52

The epic live table read of my horrible screenplay I wrote in college. I got a group of the funniest comedians around to help me bring this piece of garbage to life. And MAN were they funny. Dan...

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#351: Around The World with Tom Rhodes (@_TomRhodes) from 2019-03-12T04:54

Tom Rhodes had me over to his pad to tell me about his unique new album, Around the World. It's a standup look at over 20 cities. So we took the opportunity to get Tom to answer some of my quest...

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#349: So You Wanna Be An Ultimate Fighter (@MickeyGall) from 2019-02-25T09:34:38

Mickey Gall came over to apartment and backyard to talk about what it's like day-to-day to be a professional MMA fighter. It was a real solid look at what it's like to be a typical guy making hi...

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#348: This Is An Emergency (@GregStone_) from 2019-02-15T09:26:21

Greg Stone came over to my apartment to tell me about his time working at an ER. He saw lots of drug addicts and deaths. All pretty interesting stuff. It actually made me consider volunteering a...

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#347: Hot Tub Time Machine (@BertKreischer, @SteveRannazzisi, @DanishAndOneill, @MarkNorm) from 2019-02-06T09:55:26

Bert Kreischer, Steve Rannazzisi, Ryan O'Neill and I sat in a hot tub in Park City and talked about the past. It was the first night of a week of skiing and storytelling shows and oh what fun it...

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#346: My 2018 Year in Review from 2019-01-12T10:29:15

Come with me on a trip down memory lane. To a simpler time. A time when people were different. A time of life, of laughs, and of love. Back. Way back. Back to like 3 weeks ago. Back to 2018.  Listen

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#345: The Conspirator (@SamTripoli) from 2018-12-14T10:31:39

Sam Tripoli met me in LA to talk all the lies, all the deceit, all the coverups, all what they refuse to report on, all the o...

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#344: The 2018 State of the Union podcast (@ComicDaveSmith) from 2018-12-06T13:33:43

Dave Smith came over to my apartment in NY to record our annual "State of America" podcast. This year, we ended up focusing waaaay more on social issues than political ones. But of course, since...

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#343: Breaking Up Is Hard To Do (@CarlDonnelly, @RyanSickler) from 2018-11-26T16:56:42

Carl Donnelly met me in his Edinburgh flat to talk about his divorce. And really about breaking up in general. Ryan Sickler joined me briefly on the interview to add in a little about his breaku...

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#342: A Pirate's Life For Me (@FahimAnwar from 2018-11-16T04:05:41

Fahim Anwar met me at the Comedy Store to talk about the glory days of illegal downloads. We talk about Napster, about CD burners, threatening letters from cable providers, and mods for gaming s...

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#341: The Knickerbocker (@SamMorril) from 2018-11-06T15:25:19

Sam Morril came over to my apartment to talk about the Knicks. He's just about the biggest Knicks fan I know. It's just him and Michael Che at the top for comedians. So we sat down and talked ab...

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#340: The Simpsons (@GlitterCheese) from 2018-10-30T09:56:25

Liza Treyger had me over to her new apartment to talk Simpsons. It was my favorite show in high school and college and I was put to shame by the love Liza had towards it. We talked about episode...

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#339: If These Balls Could Talk (an album commentary with @LouisKatz) from 2018-10-24T10:31:23

Louis Katz joins me for an album commentary episode where we break down his first album, If These Balls could talk. We did this over a 4 month period for some reason so there are these giant cut...

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#338: Where's Your Red? (The Shocking Truth Behind Sober October) from 2018-10-16T09:46:30

Come with me on a casual walk around the East Village of Manhattan as I match Brad's workout output in a revealing expose on the nature of his points during the workout challenge. 

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#337: The Other Kind of Jew Camp (@SteveBugeja) from 2018-10-02T06:32:05

Steve Bugeja had me over to his flat in Edinburgh to talk about Jewish summer camp. Steve was a counselor one year at a camp right around the corner from where I spent 6 summers as a camper. It ...

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#336: Fun is a Four Letter Word (@BertKreischer) from 2018-09-18T07:15:19

Brant Krislop came to my apartment to talk about fun. We sat in my backyard, smoked cigars, and thought about what fun has meant to us over the years. Fun in childhood. Fun in adulthood. Fun wit...

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#335: Pranks for the Memories (@Daniel_Sloss) from 2018-09-11T19:17:10

Daniel Sloss came over to my flat in Edinburgh to tell stories about all the pranks he and his friends have played on each other. They get down. And Sloss is not someone who takes it well so be ...

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#334: Gas The Jews (@CountDankulaTV) from 2018-09-03T14:11:17

Count Dankula met me in Edinburgh, Scotland to tell me about his crazy ordeal being arrested AND CONVICTED of a crime for making a funny video on YouTube. It's a crazy state of things right now,...

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#333: Great Ball of China (@ComicMikeV from 2018-08-28T23:04:47

Mike Vecchione had me over to the apartment he shares with his partner Dan Soder to talk about his first trip to the Orient. He went to China for two weeks. What happens when you make your first...

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#332: 9/11 Killed JFK (@DSGermain&@TimJDillon) from 2018-08-14T02:38:07

Tim Dillon and Dan St Germain came over to talk about conspiracy theories. Both those guys are way into that stuff so that's all they talk about anyway. 

 

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#331: White China (@AndyCurtain) from 2018-08-01T11:55:04

Andy Curtain made his way from Shanghai to Montreal to tell me about the darkest sides of life in China. He's lived in Shanghai for a decade now and he REALLY knows what it's all about. Fun disc...

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#330: Shroob (Shroom Noob) (@KevinIso) from 2018-07-09T19:58:18

Kevin Iso came over to my apartment to talk about shrooms. I know I've lost site of what it's like to be new to magic mushrooms, so I had Kevin come in to tell that side of it. He just started t...

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#329: Where To Next (@RolfPotts) from 2018-07-02T18:19:37

Rolf Potts brought over an old paper atlas to my apartment and we leafed through it and imagined all the places we want to go. Every page bringing new ideas for adventure. Rolf is a traveler. He...

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#328: Free Base (@RichVos) from 2018-06-21T19:05:55

Rich Vos and I sat in my backyard and talked about his days as a drug addict. Man, I love talking to addicts about their old days. He got DOWN! Tons of good stories. He's been sober for a while ...

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#327: Cappereira (Nick Capper) from 2018-06-04T05:23:04

@CapperFlapper had me over to his apartment in Melbourne to talk about travel, farming, his deep sexual love affair with aboriginal history, and shitting. It was an all over the place conversati...

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#326: Bushcraft Party Boys (Robert Kelly&Joe List) from 2018-05-29T07:45:38

@JoeListComedy, @RobertKelly, and I packed our camping gear and went to the woods to do some camping and definitely not to chow down on each other's knobs like we need it to live. No. Just campi...

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#325: Festival Fun Uncle (Ryan Mirvis) from 2018-05-21T04:00

Ryan Mirvis (@RyanMirvis) is the festival queen. There's nobody who personifies good times at music festivals like Mirv. He met me at the Comedy Store the day after Mitzi's memorial to break dow...

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#324: Last of the Bogicans (@BlokeFranklin from 2018-05-02T13:14:18

Chris Franklin met me in my AirBnB in Melbourne to talk about the bogan life. Franklin is a true bogan. The last of a non-dying breed. There are still plenty of bogans in the wild, although very...

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#323: Mitzi from 2018-04-25T14:03:10

Mitzi Shore came into my life in my first 3 months of standup. I spent the next 10 years getting close with the owner of the Comedy Store. She passed away earlier this month. And I took the oppo...

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#322: Road Trip (@Aiapalucci) from 2018-04-09T14:58:16

Adrienne Iapalucci and I were driving back to Manhattan from a road gig in Syracuse and we decided to do a podcast about road trips. Well, it barely centered on road trips because I'm a terrible...

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#321: Let My People Go (@AriShaffir) from 2018-04-02T20:03:49

Ari Shaffir comes to my apartment to tell you about Passover. All of it. Not just what you're supposed to do, but also where the holiday comes from, all the laws, the seder, what matzah tastes l...

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#320: Take My Wife, Please (@AubreyMarcus) from 2018-03-27T10:13:07

Aubrey Marcus came over to my apartment and we had a really in depth discussion about open relationships. Aubrey is the most honest person I've ever met on the subject. He has truly looked inwar...

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#319: Boston Tea Farty (@JoeList) from 2018-03-20T09:54:02

Joe List kept me awake on the drive back from Boston by telling me all about Boston. Meta as balls, huh? He grew up out there and we talked about all the casual violence, the racism, the women, ...

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#318: The Queens Irish (@DesBishop) from 2018-03-13T04:19:56

Des Bishop came over to Skeptic Tank headquarters (my apartment) to tell me about Ireland. Des moved there from Queens when he was a teenager and managed to go from a Brooklyn problem child, to ...

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#317: Ski Utah (Ryan "@DanishAndOneill" Oneill, @NickDiaz209, @BertKreischer from 2018-03-06T08:43:19

Ryan Oneill drove with me from Salt Lake City to Boise to talk about the gnar pow we got in Utah. We skied 6 out of 7 days, stayed at 3 different places, and did 5 shows. It was a tremendous wee...

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#316: Girls Gone Mild (@RachelJSimmons from 2018-02-27T08:49:36

Rachel Simmons met me to talk about her research on female development and confidence. She just came out with a new book on the subject so we talked about that, about the pains of doing press, a...

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#315: Fake News (@Chloe_Hilliard) from 2018-02-16T08:12:47

Chloe Hilliard came over to talk about her days as a journalist before she started standup. We go over all the problems with journalism today, including fake news. And we get into some nice stuf...

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#314: Moving Day (@MikeRecine) from 2018-01-27T08:14:47

Mike Recine came over to my apartment to answer my question about what it's like being a mover. Not a mover and a shaker, but an actual mover. Of people's houses. 

 

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#313: Row, Row, Row Your Boat Gently Across The Fucking Atlantic Ocean (with Tim Crockett @RowAtlantic) from 2018-01-16T18:20:37

Tim Crockett met me in Athens, Georgia to tell me about the monumental feat he is undertaking. Tim is going to row, BY HIMSELF, across the Atlantic Ocean. He'll be miles from the nearest boat or...

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#312: Resolutionaries (with a crapload of comics) from 2018-01-01T19:06:33

New years resolutions with Rich Vos, Big Jay Oakerson, Chris Distefano, Sam Morril, Tracy Morgan, Des Bishop, Joe Machi, Bonnie McFarlane, Cipha Sounds, Yannis Pappas, and Jared Freid. 

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#311: Foster The Person (@MonroeMartinIII) from 2017-12-25T11:53:35

Monroe Martin came to my apartment to talk about his life as a foster kid. Monroe spent most of his childhood in and out of foster homes. He filled me in on what it was like in this fun conversa...

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#310: Hot Yogi (Tricia Donegan from 2017-12-18T08:01:38

Tricia Donegan took me upstairs to the roof of her yoga studio on the Lower East Side to tell me all about how she got started in yoga. She ran the studio and the classes that I took most during...

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#309: Valuable Friction (@ColinIsMyName from 2017-11-27T22:21:26

Colin Wright met me in a park in New Orleans to tell me about the unique way he travels the world. Colin has been living in a different place every 4 months or so for years, while he writes book...

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#308: Sober Octobert; A November to Rebender (@BertKreischer) from 2017-11-06T08:26:15

Bert Kreischer joined me to talk about alcohol. He's an expert on the subject. For real. We split the podcast up, doing the first half while he was 25 days into his sobriety, and then we did the...

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#307: Skool's Out Fa'Evah (@JayLarsonComedy) from 2017-10-23T05:24:27

 
Jay Larson met me at Venice High to talk about our old school days. We sat on the lawn like creeps and talked about high school until we got asked to leave. Great conversation and...

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#306: Mother Fucker (@ChristinaP) from 2017-10-10T10:18:30

Christina Pazsitzky met me in LA to talk about motherhood. She just became a mom a couple years ago. It's the first realistic version of motherhood that i've ever heard. Good into and outro, too...

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#305: Hot Yoga Sucks And I Never Intended To Fucking Do It And I have No Interest In It Whatsoever But I'll Do It Anyway Because It's A Fucking Bet But This Is Ridiculous And I Don't Want To Do It (@AriShaffir) from 2017-10-02T08:03:55

Ari goes to Hot Yoga. This is the worst thing to happen to anyone in the world in all of history. I want to do druuuuuuuugs! This sober Octobert stuff is moronic.

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#304: My Daughter Sucks At Suicide (JMScomedy)) from 2017-09-19T10:03:56

Jessica Michelle Singleton met me in LA to talk about her suicide attempt. It's waaaaay funnier than that. I love hearing about suicide and we did this without any crazy gravity to the subject. ...

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#303: The 2018 State Of The Union (@ComicDaveSmith) from 2017-09-12T06:46:12

Dave Smith came to my apartment to have a chat about America. Dave is a really well read staunch libertarian. So he breaks it down from an intelligent place that's not biased towards any powerfu...

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#302: I Regret Nothing (@RonFunches, @DanSoder, @CheetoSantino, @BertKreischer) from 2017-09-04T19:37:14

Andrew Santino, Ron Funches, Dan Soder join me in Montreal for live podcast from the Just For Laughs festival and talked about the topic of regret. I don't know. I choose topics. It was great, t...

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#301 The Barreness (@FunnyLynne) from 2017-08-23T06:06:26

Lynne Koplitz had me over to her apartment to talk about menopause. She's deep into it and she was open about all of it. The hot flashes, the crankiness, the inability to breed. It was such a fu...

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#300 Quittin' Time (@DanishAndOneill) from 2017-08-14T08:06:22

Danish and Oneill came over to my Los Angeles AirBnB to talk about when it's time to call it a career in show business. That was the topic. Obviously we tangented onto some ridiculous crap. And ...

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#299: But... But You're Blek (@LoyisoGola) from 2017-08-01T01:16:29

Loyiso Gola met me in Montreal to give me a bit of an introduction to South Africa. Loyiso is one of the biggest comics in South Africa so he was the perfect guy to tell me about a country I kne...

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#298: Vagabonder (@RolfPotts) from 2017-07-18T07:36:02

Rolf Potts met me in Tompkins Square Park to talk to me about travel. Rolf wrote one of my favorite books of all time called Vagabonding. It's all about long term travel. It influenced the hell ...

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#297: Bob and Ari Smoke Cubans (@RobertKelly) from 2017-07-12T16:59:43

Robert Kelly met me on the stoop outside the Comedy Cellar. He's gotten way into cigars in the last few years. So we sat outside the club and he told me all about stogies as we smoked two possib...

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#296: Brandon Goldberg, Stripper At Law (@AaronBergComedy) from 2017-07-03T13:00

Aaron Berg came to my apartment to tell me about his days as a male stripper in Toronto. It was really fun and got kind of seriously dark in the middle there. And then back to more fun. Come on ...

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#295: Low School (@AdamEget) from 2017-06-21T22:45:39

Adam Eget met me at the Comedy Store to talk about Cedu, the crazy bad kid school his parents shipped him off to because he was a spazz. It's amazing what people got away with 20+ years ago. The...

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#294: Je Zu Tin Ba De (@HeyItsChili, Nedi) from 2017-06-13T02:45:57

William Childress (skip to 53:30) had me over to his homestay in Siem Reap, Cambodia to talk about Myanmar. He lived there for years. And it was the first place I went on my travels this year. S...

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#293: Greek Life (@StavComedy) from 2017-06-01T19:38:32

Stavros Halkios came to my apartment to tell me all about the people bringing down the EU; Greeks. Stavvy is a really funny young comic in New York and he also grew up in Greek Town with Greek p...

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#292: Cleavage Day 2017 with Legion of Skanks (@BigJayOakerson, @ComicDaveSmith, @LuisJGomez) from 2017-05-19T03:26:42

The entire Legion of Skanks came with me on an ogling walk around Manhattan during my 2nd favorite* holiday of the year, Cleavange Day. Dave Smith, Luis J Gomez, Big Jay Oakerson and I walked as...

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#291: Balding Eagles (@KurtMetzger, @Seanytime, @MarkNorm) from 2017-05-11T07:34:59

Mark Normand, Sean Donnelly, and Kurt Metzger came to my apartment talk about the number 2 most important issue facing men today; balding. (boners are number 1). It was mostly fun meanderings bu...

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#290: Cave Man (John Spies) from 2017-05-04T08:50:43

John Spies sat down with me on the deck of the Cave Lodge in Soppong to tell me all about cave exploration and the unique life that he's built in northern Thailand. The man has lived an amazing ...

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#289: Tales of a Teenage Bedwetter (@MarkNorm) from 2017-01-03T21:00

Mark Normand invited me to his brand new apartment to do a podcast about bedwetting. Mark and I were both very late bedwetters. So we got together and talked about what it's like to be 14 and st...

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#288: Death of a Salesman (@TimJDillon) from 2016-12-21T08:57:15

Tim Dillon came to my apartment to tell me about his former life in sales. He's sold everything. From mortgages to office equipment to a history of New York. Tim has hilarious stories about all ...

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#287: Big Buck Hunter (@JoeRogan) from 2016-12-14T00:41:20

Joe Rogan met me at the Improv in LA to tell me all about his obsession with hunting. He's been a hardcore hunter for about 4 years now. And he broke down why he does it, what it's like out ther...

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#286: Shreddin' The Gnar (@MooseFucker) from 2016-12-06T07:53:24

Craig Campbell returns to the Skeptic Tank to talk about snowboarding. He's a crazy back country snowboarder on top of being a comic. He's that guy who's skiing next to you on a path and then al...

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#285: Allergic to Life (@ShaneComedy) from 2016-11-17T10:06:47

Shane Mauss came over to my apartment in New York to try to explain to me what he's learned about human anxiety and how it's no longer relevant in a safe, modern world. I say try because I'm an ...

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#284: #BertIsFat (@BertKreischer) from 2016-11-09T09:02:18

Bert Kreischer came to my apartment while he was in New York and we talked about who was fatter; him or Tom Segura. Bert made some solid cases for his side of things but most of those cases were...

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#283: Take This Job And Shove It (@TomSegura) from 2016-11-02T08:11

Tom Segura took me up to his hotel room in the East Village of New York and we sat and talked about all the jobs we've had over the years. Pretty much every comic you've ever heard of has had to...

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#282: Aunt Flo (@Aiapalucci, @Stollemcache, @AmberSmelson) from 2016-10-27T09:12:35

Amber Nelson, Sarah Tollemache, and Adrian Iapalucci came to my apartment to tell me about periods. And I mean all about it. About the blood flow, about PMS, about cramps, about period diarrhea,...

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#281: The Reyk (@AriEldjarn) from 2016-10-18T08:40:49

Ari Eldjarn and I drove around in Iceland and did a podcast about that beautiful country while we did. Ari is a comedian in Reykjavik. One of the first comedians, to be more precise. He and I hu...

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#280: I Hate Myself (@JoeListComedy) from 2016-10-11T21:54:14

Joe List invited me over to his apartment to talk about self loathing. I've always noticed that Joe has a bit of a deal with hating himself. I guess I kind of have the same thing once in a while...

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#279: Garbage Dump, USA (@SalVulcano) from 2016-10-05T20:55:52

Sal Vulcano came to my apartment to enlighten me on why Staten Island isn't the worst place in America. He's a native of the land of high bangs, Italian garbage, and trash dumps. And then, I don...

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#278: Pigeons (@KurtMetzger, @KerenMargolis) from 2016-09-27T22:06:21

Kurt Metzger caught the cold. He was the latest comic to get the e-rage. It happened while I was in Scotland and he wanted to talk about it on my podcast, so as soon as I got home, we made it ha...

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#277: Not All Those Who Wander Are Lost (@HenryRollins) from 2016-09-13T19:15:49

Henry Rollins met me in a hotel cafe in Edinburgh, Scotland to talk about travel. Henry goes all over the globe. He really likes to get off the beaten path and explore new places. I thought I li...

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#276: "Running" Of The Bulls (@KaiHumphries, @MiloComedy, @Daniel_Sloss) from 2016-09-08T02:00:26

Kai Humphries, Milo McCabe, and Daniel Sloss met me at the Abattoir comedian's bar in Edinburgh, Scotland to tell me their harrowing tale of cheating death at the Running of the Bulls in Pamplon...

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#275: Open (@PhilNWang) from 2016-08-31T01:34:12

Phil Wang came to my room at my Edinburgh flat to talk about open relationships. Phil has been in a non monogamous situation for the last three years. So we met up to talk about cheating without...

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#274: The Fringe (@JoeDerosaComedy, @AlexKealy, @AhirShah, @AlexSmithComic) from 2016-08-14T16:38:58

My Edinburgh roommates Joe Derosa, Alex Kealy, Ahir Shah, Alex Smith, and I all got together to talk to about the world's largest comedy festival, The Edinburgh Fringe. And since it's the Fringe...

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#273: 2016 State of the Union Address (@ComicDaveSmith) from 2016-08-03T07:25:32

Dave Smith met me in my apartment to give me the rundown on what's happened in America over the last year. He pays way more attention to all sides of the news than anyone I know, and he's a libe...

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#272: Lunch Meat (@RealJeffreyRoss) from 2016-07-25T23:05:19

Jeff Ross met me in Washington Square Park to talk about delis. We're both Ashkenazi Jews so it's a no brainer that we each have our opinions on the matter. But we also got other people in on th...

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#271: Losing My Religion (@RobbieTheFire) from 2016-07-12T08:50:48

Rob Bernstein came over to my apartment to discuss his exit strategy from re...

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#270: NY Pizza Party (@NotAlexis) from 2016-07-06T09:03

Alexis Guerreros took me on a pizza tour of New York. He's a standup comic but he runs these tours for extra cash and he took me on one, showing me his favorite of 3 different styles of pizza. P...

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#269: The Middle East (@NotHormones) from 2016-06-20T05:49:19

Hormoz Rashidi met me at the LA bungalow I was staying in while I was recording the next season of This Is Not Happening and he tried explaining to me all the histories of the middle east and ou...

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#268: Live Sony Hack (@BigJayOakerson) from 2016-06-15T08:31:10

Big Jay Oakerson and I went up to a buddy's rooftop in New York and talked about garbage music while we looked into people's windows hoping to find some action. Jay has the worst taste in music....

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#267: Door Guys 2 (@BobbyLeeLive) from 2016-06-06T20:56:39

Bobby Lee invited me over to his house to do this podcast about the second generation of Comedy Store door guys. We recorded this at Tiger Belly studios, which is just his living room, I guess. ...

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#266: Abstinicks (@NickYoussef) from 2016-05-30T08:15:38

Nick Youssef met me at my Echo Park AirBnB cabin to talk about going celibate. Nick swore off sex about 5 months ago and now he's talking about keeping it in his pants. We get into a little figh...

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#265: Knife Hits in Alaska (@DanSoder) from 2016-05-19T11:11:01

Dan Soder came over to my place to tell me all about the summer he spent working in a cannery in Alaska. The people he worked with were straight deigns without even realizing it. This might be t...

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#264: Narcos (@LuisaDiezNuts) from 2016-05-09T07:58:36

Luisa Diez came over to talk about her father's involvement in the Escobar drug cartel in Colombia. She grew up in the middle of it all with her father who was pretty much CFO of Escobar's carte...

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#263: Foos Fighter (@KelseyCook) from 2016-05-02T17:08:47

Kelsey Cook met me over at the Full Charge's place to talkaboutfoosball. I've always had a fond spot in my heart for thesport,and Kelsey is THE BEST comedian foosball player in theworld.She's am...

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#262: Cleavage Day (@GaryVider) from 2016-04-19T05:48:19

Gary Vider met me in Central Park to walk around and gawk at women for Cleavage Day. Cleavage Day is the first weekend day over 70 degrees in New York. It takes place in every city that has a re...

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#261: You're A Man Now (with my nephew on his Bar Mitzvah) from 2016-04-11T09:11:21

My nephew had his bar mitzvah last weekend. I hadn't been to one in too long. They're so much fun! It made me remember my own bar mitzvah. How important it was to me, how fun it was. They're gre...

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#260: The Michael Jackson of Helping Sick Children (@SteveSimeone) from 2016-04-05T08:44:58

Steve Simeone and I had some dinner, watched a college basketball game, and talked about all the time he spends over at Children's Hospital. He's been going over there all the time for over a ye...

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#259: Existence is Futile (@DuncanTrussell) from 2016-03-30T01:12:08

Duncan Trussell invited me up to his compound in the mountains to explain to me what existentialism means. It's a heady conversation that I barely remember thanks to marijuana, but it was really...

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#258: Psychedelia (@ShaneComedy) from 2016-03-21T10:44:12

Shane Mauss met me on the patio of the Comedy Store and told me tons of tales about all sorts of psychedelic drugs. I had no idea Shane was this deep into psychedelia. He's been to so many diffe...

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#257: Money For Nothing (2 anonymous defense contractors) from 2016-03-14T10:33:47

Two US Army defense contractors met me in a secret location in America to discuss what it's like to go work for the government on foreign soils. They both work as contractors in stations all ove...

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#256: Take a Hike (@TheoVon) from 2016-03-07T23:52:30

Theo Von met me at a secret hike in LA to do a walking podcast about hiking. Theo's a hilarious comic but he's also hiked Mount Kilimanjaro. I climb hills, bro. Hills. He climbed a giant mountai...

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#255: The 2016 Gay Super Bowl; The Oscars (@SchmoesKnow) from 2016-03-01T09:56:20

The Schmoes, Kristian Harloff and Mark Ellis, invited me to their posh burbank studio to do our yearly roundup of the Oscars. We did it after the Oscars this year because Kristian actually got t...

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#254: Spoiler Alert 5 - Zoolander No. 2 (@Kathleen_McGee) from 2016-02-26T09:49:08

Kathleen McGee and I went to see Zoolander no. 2 in Vancouver and we did a spoiler alert podcast about it. Its the 2nd year in a road we did this. And both times with sequels. It's a fun discuss...

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#253: Give Me A Lyft (@JMScomedy) from 2016-02-16T05:05:32

Jessica Michelle Singleton came over to talk about what it's like to drive for a ride-share company. She's ridden for Uber and Lyft so she's got first hand knowledge on the subject. And we even ...

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#252: The Big C (Kelsey) from 2016-02-08T07:27:32

My friend Kelsey sat down on a beach on the island of Maui to talk about her experience with cancer. Kelsey got it, beat it, and got it again all in her 20s. It was a very open and honest interv...

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#251: The Ari Shaffir Interview Part 2: The Early Years (@DanishAndOneill, @AriShaffir) from 2016-01-31T23:48:55

Danish and Oneill met me at my AirBnB in Echo Park while I was in town to shoot This Is Not Happening season 2 (new episodes February 24 at 12:30am) to do an interview about Ari Shaffir. Ari Sha...

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Rant in the Car from 2016-01-18T09:28:42

I've been editing This Is Not Happening stories for 50 hours a week for the last 2 weeks so I didn't have time to do a full interview. I was going to just skip the week, but then I thought, you ...

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#250: The Ari Shaffir Interview - Later Years (@DanishAndOneill) from 2016-01-12T07:09:32

Jeff Danis and Ryan Oneill met me at Full Charge's place in LA to interview the host of Ari Shaffir's Skeptic Tank, Ari Shaffir. I turned the reins over to two of the least capable men on the we...

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#249: Boozapalooza (@GlitterCheese) from 2016-01-04T22:30

Liza Treyger had me over to talk about alcohol. It wasn't one of those cry-about-it podcasts. This was a celebration of booze. Liza is good at drinking. Really good. Better than me for sure. So ...

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#248: Spoiler Alert 4: Star Wars - The Force Awakens (@MikeBlackAttack, @SteveSimeone) from 2015-12-30T21:21:56

Mike Black and Steve Simeone met me at the Comedy Store and we talked about the new Star Wars. There's tons of spoilers in here so stay away if you want everything to be fresh. But it's really n...

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#247: Mickey D's (@TheMikeLawrence) from 2015-12-16T23:35:24

Mike Lawrence worked at McDonalds. For, like, a long time. I mean years. I know, right? So this episode is all about that. He came over to my apartment on his way home from his new writing job o...

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#246: Phish Heads (@MikeFinoia) from 2015-12-07T22:13:28

Mike Finoia came to my apartment to talk about being a dirty hippie who followed Phish on the road from gig to gig. We also got into his trip ...

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#245: Loose Lips Sink Ships (@MarkNorm) from 2015-11-30T08:52:54

Mark Normand came over to my apartment to have a discussion about keeping one’s mouth shut. Mark gets into trouble all the time for sh...

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#244: Butterflather (@PatCoppolino) from 2015-11-11T08:47:07

Patrick Coppolino met me in my hotel room in Calgary to do a catch-up session on how he now feels about fatherhood. You might remember Patrick as a new father in episode 61. Well, it's been a fe...

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#243: Hostel Territory (@HebertComedy) from 2015-11-03T07:56:19

Sean Hebert met me in a hotel room in Toronto to talk to me about hostels. I met Sean on my travels a few times. I've smoked dirt weed with him in his comically tiny apartment in Hong Kong and I...

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#242: A Thousand Whys to Doi (Happy Halloween) from 2015-10-26T09:05

Happy Halloween! To celebrate the holiday, I talked to a bunch of people about the different ways they fear dying. Everybody has their little irrational fears about dying in some normal situatio...

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#241: DMT (@CarlDonnelly) from 2015-10-20T04:22:04

Carl Donnelly invited me over to his flat in Edinburgh to talk about DMT. Carl has done it more than just about anybody I know. He's had a wide range of different experiences with the drug and w...

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#240: Death Wish (@ChrisGethard, @NikkiGlaser,&@AllisonDore) from 2015-10-15T09:34:12

Chris Gethard, Nikki Glaser, and Allison Dore were my guests on a live podcast at the JFL42 comedy festival in Toronto, Canada last month. I never feel comfortable doing these ...

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#239: Bogans (@TheNickCody) from 2015-10-05T07:00

Nick Cody met me in my flat in Edinburgh to explain to me what the hell a bogan is. I knew I didn't like them, but I couldn't properly express why. So Nick broke it down to me. If you don't know...

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#238: Hot Cosby (@MatEdgar) Spoiler Alert #3 South Park S19.E01&02 from 2015-09-28T23:38:18

Mat Edgar and I sat in our condo in Edmonton, Alberta Canada and watched South Park Season 19 episodes 1 and 2 and then did a spoiler alert podcast about what we saw. It's the third SA episode. ...

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#237: Nun Of The Above (@KelliDunham) from 2015-09-22T05:52:56

Kelli Dunham met me in a park in Brooklyn to talk about her days as a nun. She, for real, lived in a nunnery and did all that garbage. Can you imagine living like that? Join us for a beautiful d...

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#236: Who's Walking Whom (@GaryVider) from 2015-09-14T19:10

Gary Vider came over to my apartment to do a podcast about dog walking. He's a comedian who's been pretty much making a living walking dogs for the last 5 years. It was a fun talk and of course ...

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#235: First Responder; A 9/11 Story (Cris Italia) from 2015-09-07T19:03:38

9/11 was a terrible day in American history. This is one story of the many stories of that day. Cris Italia was a volunteer EMT and was around the corner when the first plane hit. By the time th...

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#233: Death of the Party (@KyleKinane) from 2015-08-24T21:21:24

Kyle Kinane had me over to his flat in Edinburgh, Scotland to do an album commentary on his first album, Death of the Party. This is the 6th of these comedy album breakdowns I do with the comedi...

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#232: The Wrestler (@ColtCabana) from 2015-08-17T17:17:47

Colt Cabana had me over to his flat in Edinburgh, Scotland for a talk about indy wrestling. Colt is a looper. He's made a living as a wrestler for almost two decades. We talked about the travel,...

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#231: State of the Union Address (@ComicDaveSmith, @AhirShah, @AlexKealy, @AlexSmithComic) from 2015-08-10T21:47:02

Dave Smith came over to my apartment to catch me up on the state of America over the last year or so. We've gone through a lot of change as a country. Gay marriage was legalized, racial tension ...

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#230: Unconservative and Incorrect (@NickDipaolo) from 2015-08-03T05:30

Nick Dipaolo met me at my apartment to talk about how he's not a conservative and how Libertarians feel about conservativism and political correctness. Fun podcast and I finished it only minutes...

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#229: Lisa Lisa (@Wayne Rada) from 2015-07-27T09:41:14

Wayne Rada met me in NoLita, Manhattan to take me on a tour of the murals down there. It's a history of graffiti and a run-down of the giant, builiding sized paintings that are all over lower Ma...

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#228: That's Clearly A Travel (@JosephVecsey) from 2015-07-21T04:18:04

Joe Vecsey met me at the basketball courts in Stuytown for a talk about the And 1 Mixtape years of streetball. Joe grew up playing with all of them as a kid in New York. We talk all about Rucker...

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#227: The Herp (@JoeListComedy) from 2015-07-13T11:20

Joe List met me in Central Park on a beautiful summer day to have a wonderful talk about herpes. Joe's got it. He's open about it. And he answered everything you wanted to know abou tit. If you ...

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#225: Vagina Turkey Baster (@RachelJSimmons) from 2015-06-29T08:37:49

Rachel Simmons and I had a high school reunion for two last week. And while we were doing that, we recorded a podcast about artificial insemination. A few years ago, Rachel got knocked up the mo...

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#224: Take Me Out To The Ball Game (@PaulMorrissey) from 2015-06-23T05:11:16

Paul Morrissey and I went to a Yankee game to talk about baseball. We got seats right behind the visitor's bullpen and we did a podcast from right there. We started on the walk to the subway, co...

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#223: Palsy (@DaveyWester1, @IanEdwardsComic, @TheZaraMizrahi) from 2015-06-16T02:06:15

Davey Wester trekked his way across Manhattan to my apartment to talk to me about his cerebral palsy. Davey is a Comedy Store comic from way back. We've had a couple CP comics there over the yea...

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#222: Mop This Way (@Derek1Gaines) from 2015-06-08T22:09:22

Derek Gaines met me at my apartment to talk about his former life as a janitor. It's one of the dirtiest jobs most people will ever come in contact with. The thing I learned from this above all ...

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#221: Mistu Softu (@TurnerBSparks) from 2015-06-02T01:24:31

Turner Sparks met me at my new New York apartment during his visit from Shanghai. We talked about the unique challenge he's faced opening up a Mister Softee franchise in China. It's kind of craz...

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#220: Gift of Garble (@BigJayOakerson from 2015-05-26T05:39:29

Big Jay Oakerson had me over to his apartment to talk about the worst interviews we've been a part of. We both sat through the same horrendous interviewer at SXSW and that's what gave us the ide...

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#219: Khob Khun Krap (@PeteeC) from 2015-05-18T23:22:51

Pete Cornacchione and I sat down outside the airport in Chiang Mai, Thailand to talk about all the things we saw out there. We did so much that we couldn't even fit it into one episode. So we ju...

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#218: Spoiler Alert 2 - Whiplash (@SamMorril) from 2015-05-11T07:00

Sam Morril and I went to go see Whiplash before it was out of theaters. And we barely made it. There were, like, 6 people in the theater. As soon as it was done, we went back to my aparment and ...

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#217: Rocket Man (@FahimAnwar) from 2015-05-03T23:00

Fahim Anwar met me at Benji's place while I was in LA and we talked about his career as an aerospace engineer. It's a long way from that to Guy Code. Man. Join us as we sat outside and brough Ar...

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#216: Tenement (Nick Mullen) from 2015-04-27T07:00

Nick Mullen met me at my in New York to talk about his illegal living situation. Nick is a funny young comic who literally lives in tenement housing. We talked all about it and got into some exi...

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#215: Thicker Than Water (@SteveSimeone) from 2015-04-20T08:45:35

Steve Simeone had me over to his apartment to talk about family. I was there to get a ride to the airport to leave LA back to New York. It's a great discussion on blood with the guy who's probab...

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#214: No J No Way (@RickIngraham from 2015-04-13T09:10:55

Rick Ingraham met me at Benjy's apartment in LA to talk about quitting pot. Rick was a longtime smoker. He was always with us at the Comedy Store when we found places to get high. A real, multip...

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#213: 2 Years a Slave (@MadFlavor) from 2015-04-06T07:08:22

Joey Diaz and I sat in his North Hollywood yard and talked about being two years into being a parent. It got way deeper than I expected. Diaz manages to bridge the worlds he was in between this ...

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#212: Unpopular (@ThisDavidTaylor) from 2015-03-31T06:53:10

David Taylor came over to Benji's place in LA and we talked about him being unpopular. He's an unpopular person. Has been for years. And I've wanted to talk to him about it for years. And now I ...

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#211: NASCArmo (@SamTripoli) from 2015-03-23T22:12:38

Sam Tripoli and I got the hookup to the Brickyard 400 in Fontana. It's a NASCAR event. Neither one of us are fans of the sport, but since we have a sports podcast (Punch Drunk Sports) we figured...

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#210: Weirdo (@BrentWeinbach) from 2015-03-16T11:49:27

Brent Weinbach met me at the place I'm staying in LA to talk about how weird he is. Brent is, to put it mildly, a strange person. He sniffs chairs before sitting down, doesn't have a cell phone,...

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#209 Tennis, Anyone? (@MichaelKosta) from 2015-03-10T04:12:41

Michael Kosta came over to my Los Angeles boarding house to have a nice talk with me about tennis. Kosta played since he was little and was even a professional for a few years before turning to ...

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#208: Pad Thai (@GeoffKeith) from 2015-03-03T07:44:04

Geoff Keith met me at the Comedy Store to talk about all his amazing trips to Southeast Asia. He's been there a few times. To the Phillipines, to Thailand, and somewhere else that I'm forgetting...

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#207: Cup o' Joe (@NickYoussef) from 2015-02-24T01:44:54

Nick Youssef came to my hotel room in Seattle to talk about coffee. Nick has nothing of value in his life, so he fills his void by shopping for old records, thrift store clothes, and coffee. He'...

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@206: The 2015 Gay Super Bowl; The Oscars (@SchmoesKnow) from 2015-02-16T11:11:47

Kristian Harloff and Mark Ellis met me at the Comedy Store for the 3rd straight year to talk about the Oscars. I love these podcasts. We get to shit on movies for 2 hours, it's great. Kristian a...

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#205: Bound (@GwenMedia) from 2015-02-09T06:34:51

Mistress Isabella Sinclaire came over to the apartment I'm unwillingly sharing in LA to tell me about BDSM. She's pretty much a professinal torturer, which is way different than that job would b...

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#204: Rasslin' (@TheMikeLawrence, @SteveSimeone) from 2015-02-02T11:18:10

Mike Lawrence met me at the Creek and the Cave in Long Island City so we could record a podcast about wrestling. Mike has always been one of the comics who loves wrestling on a non-ironic level ...

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#203: Prison Rules (@Ali_Speaks) from 2015-01-26T08:00

Ali Siddiq met me at the Comedy Store to talk about prison. I always knew prison life was hard, but damn. I didn't know about all of this. Ali spent 6 years locked away with some of the most vio...

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#202: On Race (@GodfreyComedian) from 2015-01-19T21:32:19

Godfrey came over to my apartment in New York and we had a long non-judgemental talk about race. It was really interesting to me and I think talks like this can really help us grow as a society....

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#201: Paid Regular (@AriShaffir) from 2015-01-16T12:31:55

The story of how I became a paid regular at the Comedy Store. From when I started comedy to when I got passed to when I made the announcement that I'll be filming my special in the Original Room...

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#200: Potluck (@DanishAndOneill, @FahimAnwar, @AriShaffir) from 2015-01-12T11:25:36

Jeff Danis and Ryan O'Neill came over to my AirBnB in LA while I was in town to film my special, Paid Regular. We talked about the open mic at the Comedy Store known as potluck. It was a parade ...

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#199: Noma (@RobertKelly) from 2015-01-06T04:34:04

Robert Kelly invited me down to the Riotcast studio to act as my producer for a podcast about our amazing experience eating at Noma. Noma was named the best restaurant in the world by Restaurant...

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SA #1: Happy New Year (@Kathleen_McGee) from 2014-12-30T04:40:52

Kathleen McGee and I got SUPER high and went to see Dumb and Dumber To and then we did a podcast and talked all about it when it was over. Recorded in my hotel room in Vancouver, this was suppos...

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#198: A Very Jewish Christmas (@DanNaturman) from 2014-12-22T19:58:08

Dan Naturman stopped by my apartment to talk about what Christmas is like as a Jew. It was a surprisingly upbeat and pro-Christmas talk from two people who would have been used as the star on a ...

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#197: Injection Protection (Morgan Black) from 2014-12-16T07:34:42

Morgan Black met me in my hotel room in Vancouver to talk about his job at Insite. Insite is the safe injection place on Hastings Street in Vancouver. It's a place in heroin alley where junkies ...

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#196: Far and Away (@NickDipaolo) from 2014-12-08T10:00:37

Nick DiPaolo met me in the damn soundbooth at The Stand (I've really started doing these just about everywhere, huh?) to talk about life in the sticks of Westchester. Nick is from Boston, lived ...

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#195: BackWords (@LizMiele) from 2014-12-01T16:34:55

Liz Miele came over to my apartment to talk about dyslexia. Well, she came over to talk about running marathons but the damn recorder screwed its mother right at the end of a 2 hour podcast so t...

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#194 Tits_McGee (@Kathleen_McGee) from 2014-11-24T07:47:43

Kathleen McGee came to my hotel room in Vancouver to update me on all the new adventures she's been on. I had her on to talk about some new sexcapades but then we also got into depression and gi...

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#193: Shiny Happy Jihad (@JoeRogan) from 2014-11-17T22:29:15

Joe Rogan had me over to Freak Party studios to do an album commentary of his 2007 album, Shiny Happy Jihad. This is the first time I'm doing this where it's not the comic's first album. But I w...

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#192: The Unicorn Whisperer (Christine Marie Evans) from 2014-11-11T01:24:57

Christine Evans made the block and a half trek to my aparment to talk about sex some. And more importantly, about the threesomes here and Big Jay have been having for the last 6 months. You see,...

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#191: Remember This (@SteveSimeone) from 2014-11-04T02:32:08

Steve Simeone is my guest for the 4th of these album commentary podcasts. The cool thing about this one is that Steve's album doesn't come out till tomorrow. I begged him to do this with me and ...

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#190: Candyman Candyman Candyman (@DeanDelray) from 2014-10-27T09:39:56

Dean Delray came over to my Los Angeles AirBnB to discuss a great love we both share. Candy. It's our muse. Seriously, we're both highly addicted to candy and we can't stop eating it but this is...

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#189: Catastrophic Alcoholic (@TheTeeb) from 2014-10-20T10:38:29

Jayson Thibault came to my AirBnB to talk about alcholism. Jayson is a drunk. He's addicted to alcohol. He was sober for almost 3 years and then he relapsed and now he can't stop drinking. So we...

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#188: KMOQ: (@DanSoder) from 2014-10-13T20:33:04

Dan Soder met me at my apartment to talk about growing up in a single parent household. Dan's dad was like me, so he was gone pretty early in Dan's life. From then on it was just him and his mot...

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#187: American Werehoser in London (@Escariot) from 2014-10-07T02:23:02

Pete Johannson met me at my flat in London to talk about the city. He moved here from Canada 5 years ago and he loves it. We talked all about London. The food, the healthcare, the girls, the dru...

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#186: Das Juden (@LouisKatz from 2014-09-29T21:42:39

Louis Katz met me at Union Square to have whole foods salad bar lunch on steps like champions. We talked about being Jewish. I only really have my own perspective on it, so it was nice to hear w...

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#185: Kiss the Cook (@ThisDavidTaylor) from 2014-09-22T16:56:08

David Taylor met me at my LA AirBnb to talk about chefing. Chefing? Sure. David has been cooking for a few years now and he's gotten kind of into it. So we just talked about that. And of course,...

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#184: Yellowman (@ShengWangTime, @BigJayOakerson) from 2014-09-15T04:49:45

Sheng Wang came to my apartment to talk about the Asian American experience. Well, he came over to do a podcast, and then I asked him all about Chinatown, and then it just becomes a whole podcas...

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#183: Popo (@MarkDemayo) from 2014-09-08T10:16:51

Mark Demayo came over to my apartment this week. We ...

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#182: Are You Concert Experienced (@NickYoussef) from 2014-09-01T09:00

Nick Youssef and I were in Chicago to watch Arcade Fire and to do a show at Zanies to pay for it. So we decided to do a podcast all about concerts. Nick's been to a million concerts and I've bee...

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#181: It's A Match (@Walkinsauce) from 2014-08-25T09:42:48

Christina Walkinshaw met me in Montreal to talk all about Tinder. She's an expert of sorts and she and I discussed all things Tinder, her tumultuous past with Sam Tripoli, deportation and we pre...

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#180: Haole 5-0 (@JonahRay) from 2014-08-18T10:59:53

Jonah Ray invited me into his converted garage studio to tell me all about Hawaii. Hawaiians have always been the biggest homers of any state in the US. And the daily life in Hawaii has always i...

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#179: A Fun Guy (@DuncanTrussell) from 2014-08-10T17:00

Duncan Trussell invited me over to his sweet ass apartment to talk about magic mushrooms. I needed someone for a shroomfest episode this year and as soon as I realized I was gonna be in LA, I th...

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#178: Mandingo (@DanteNero) from 2014-08-04T10:25:49

Dante Nero came over to my apartment to tell me about his days as a stripper. Dante use to work all over New York under the name "Mandingo." It's a life filled with debauchery, sweaty women, and...

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#177: Hand Raped at Scissorpoint (@AlMadrigal, @KurtMetzger, @BrodyIsMeFriend, @JohnHeffron) from 2014-07-28T15:02:11

Al Madrigal, Kurt Metzger, Brody Stevens and John Heffron all joined me at the 2014 Montreal Comedy Festival for the Skeptic Tank's first live podcast. We talked about virginity. About losing it...

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#176: The Making of an Adult J Degenerate (@LuisJGomez) from 2014-07-21T08:00:07

Luis J Gomez came over to my aparment to talk to me. I was trying to figure out how a guy like him was made. Where he came from. Luis is kind of a degenerate. He might disagree, but that's how I...

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#175: Sir Fuxalot (@MarkNorm) from 2014-07-14T07:00

Mark Normand met me at Tompkins Square park one day. We sat in the grass, took in some sun, and talked about all the women he's been sleeping with. Mark has been going buck wild since his breaku...

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#174: Drug Kurtel (@KurtMetzger, @KerenMargolis, Winston, @AriShaffir from 2014-07-07T09:57:56

Kurt Metzger had me over to his apartment in Harlem to talk about drugs. Kurt has always been that one friend that everybody has who can always find anything you're looking to do. From weed, to ...

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#173: Beijingaling (@DesBishop, @ComicDaveSmith) from 2014-06-30T19:05:36

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#172: Begrudgingly Domesticated (@Jason23Nash) from 2014-06-23T18:31:52

Jason Nash met me at his friends deluxe apartment in the skyiyiy to talk about marriage. Nash has always been, shall we say, rageful about his marriage onstage. It was nice to get a good honest ...

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#171: Lights Off (@BillyWayneDavis) from 2014-06-16T18:10:06

Billy Wayne Davis had me over to his dinge hole of a motel 2 years ago to talk to me about his imploded marriage. It was a wreck and he's finally out of it. I held on to this one for so long bec...

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#170: HIV for Victory (@JeffScott101 from 2014-06-09T07:00

Jeff Scott had me over to his West Hollywood apartment to tell me the story of his HIV. How he got it, how he's managed to live with it for 30 years, how it's affected his life, how he's been tr...

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#169: Blacklanta (@ComedienneMsPat, @BigJayOakerson) from 2014-06-02T05:14:55

Ms. Pat joined me in a park in Brooklyn (maybe Park Slope? No, that seems wrong) to tell me about what it was like growing up in the hood in Atlanta. Spoiler alert: It was way different than how...

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#168: Bert Bert Bert (@BertKreischer) from 2014-05-27T02:01:50

Bert Kreischer had me over to his house to talk about his first CD, Bert Bert Bert. This is the third one of these album analysis episodes I've done and it might end up as the most interesting. ...

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#167: Swing and a Miss (@Attell, @BigJayOakerson, @KurtMetzger) from 2014-05-19T07:28:25

Dave Attell joined Kurt Metzger, Big Jay Oakerson, and me at a table in front of the Stand comedy club in New York to talk. Talk about what? Not any single topic like this podcast is supposed to...

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#166: Open and Shut (@AndyHaynes, @SteveRannazzisi, @SteveSimeone) from 2014-05-13T03:47:32

Andy Haynes met me at the Comedy Store to talk to me. He gave me a perspective on open relationships that I've been missing. That of a failed open relationship. Fun conversation and it was inter...

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#165: Queen of the Blow Job (@KatieManzella) from 2014-05-05T22:35:35

Katie Manzella came over for the last podcast ever from my LA apartment. I invited her over to talk about her love affiar with blow jobs. Katie is beyond a pro at it. She's the queen. She loves ...

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#164: Hip Hop Slop Shop (@PeteDavidson, @BrickStoneNews) from 2014-04-29T00:07:58

Pete Davidson came over to my apartment in LA to talk to me about rap and hip hop. He brought his friend Dave Sirus. And lucky he did, too, because Pete was super distracted checking tweets from...

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#163: Little (@FunnyBrad, @TonyHinchcliffe, @SarahTiana) from 2014-04-21T17:24:57

Brad Williams joined me on the patio of the Comedy S...

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#162: 1 Year in New York (@DougBenson) from 2014-04-14T09:35:55

Doug Benson met me at the Comedy Store and we sat on the patio, smoked reefer, and talked about each of our years in New York. It was a fun podcast that didn't even get interrupted by the AA mee...

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#161: AIDSycle (@NickYoussef) from 2014-04-08T04:31:56

Nick Youssef takes a break from his busy day of mentoring jihadists to joing me on the roof of the Comedy Store for a podcast. This is the first one I've done from up there. We talked about his ...

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#160: Around the World (@SarahTiana, @SteveSimeone from 2014-03-31T07:00

Sarah Tiana has me over to her new house to talk about all the places she's been. And she's been to soooo many places. Comedy has brought her all over the middle east and half of Europe. And her...

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#159: Thrilled (@TomSegura) from 2014-03-24T09:50:08

Tom Segura had me over to his palatial beach house t...

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#158: Thin Skinned Comedy Fucker (@JoeDerosaComedy) from 2014-03-17T08:33:22

Joe Derosa had me over to his house so we could talk about what it's like boning girls from the comedy scene. But we got way sidetracked by a percieved slight and so we had to deal with that fir...

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#157: Divorce, of Course (@JacobSirof&@SherrySirof) from 2014-03-10T21:26:43

Jacob Sirof and Sherry Sirof (nee East) each had me over to their places of residence to talk about the divorce that they're going through right now. First I went to Moshe Kasher's old place whe...

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#156: Daddy Dearest (@BrandtTobler) from 2014-03-03T09:41:05

Brandt Tobler and I walked to Runyon Canyon on a hot February afternoon. We talked about what a shitbox father he had. It's a story that has its roots in mall scams that Brandt had worked all th...

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#155: The 2014 Gay Super Bowl; The Oscars (@SchmoesKnow) from 2014-02-24T22:31:39

The Schmoes, Kristian Harloff and Mark Ellis, met me at the Comedy Store for a second straight year to have fun and talk about the Oscars. It's the funnest way you'll find to get ready for your ...

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#154: Specials (Jonas Larsen) from 2014-02-18T06:47:32

Jonas Larsen (the Senior Vice President of Talent and Specials for Comedy Central) met me for the final podcast from Skeptic Tank East headquarters 1. We talked about comedy specials. How they l...

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#153: Love (@DuncanTrussell) from 2014-02-11T05:07:47

Duncan Trussell had me over to his new apartment to do a podcast. We ate a cookie, had some wine, and talked about love. Total coincidence that this is coming out for Valentine's Day, by the way...

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#152: The Streetz, USA (Doc Willis) from 2014-02-03T11:04:03

Doc Willis met me at the Comedy Store to talk about ...

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#151: Ass Burger (@AutisticThunder) from 2014-01-27T05:56:58

Josh Meyrowitz came over to my LA apartment to talk to Mat Edgar and me about asperger's syndrome. I've been hearing about it ever since I was little but I've never met anyone with it until Josh...

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#150: Door Guy 3 (@DanishAndOneill) from 2014-01-21T05:06

Jeff Danis and Ryan Oneill met me at the Comedy Store on a beautiful January day. We talked about working as an employee at the Store. It's a job a lot of us had and each era of door guy was dif...

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#149: Doctor Doctor (Dr. Steve Graham, @JeremyHornElite from 2014-01-13T08:00

Dr. Steve Grraham and Jeremy Horn met me in my hotel room at the MGM to talk about what being a doctor really entails. Dr Steve, as everybody calls him, was awesome. He was completely open about...

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#2014: Revenge for the Holocaust from 2014-01-06T06:18:50

Ari Shaffir's album. I decided to do a slightly in depth analysis of my CD, Revenge for the Holocaust. This is the kind of thing I want to see more of in comedy. Discussing a standup recording t...

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#148: Flip, Flop, Fuck (@MyqKaplan) from 2013-12-30T18:13:47

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#147: Closet Case (@KevinMeaney) from 2013-12-23T05:30

Kevin Meaney invited me over to his apartment to talk about what it was like coming out of the closet at 50 years old. He was married with a kid when he did it. This was such a great podcast. He...

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#146: Collabrorectors (@BarnesBros, a film crew, Kim Barnes) from 2013-12-16T22:49:33

Brad and Todd Barnes came to my apartment to do a podcast about working as a team to make movies. They brought with them the film crew that eventually led to my landlord evicting me. Despite tha...

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#145: Son of the Mob (@BarryRothbart) from 2013-12-09T19:43:44

Barry Rothbart came over to my apartment to tell me about growing up with a father who hung out and worked with organized crime. It must have been strange growing up knowing your father was a ga...

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#144: The Dont Worry about Lawsuits makeup episode (@PaulMorrissey MyNextDoorNeighbor @AriShaffir) from 2013-12-04T17:12

Paul Morrissey came by my New York apartment yesterday on his way to do the Artie Lange show and it ...

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#142: Gender Bender (@LaurenHennessy) from 2013-11-25T06:49

Lauren Hennessy came over to my NY apartment to tell me about what it's like to be a he/she. Lauren is a boy trapped in a girl's body. He's been that way since he was born. And you think you had...

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#141: Happiness (@SteveSimeone) from 2013-11-18T04:51:18

Steve Simeone invited me over to his place while I was in LA and we talked about happiness. It started off being a conversation about being broke, but it quickly shifted as it became evident tha...

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#140: Street Aht (@CallumPreston) from 2013-11-11T10:34

Callum Preston was spray painting a mural in an alley in Melbourne, Australia when I asked him if he'd be on my podcast. Callum is part of the Everfresh Crew and his mural was awesome. He met me...

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#139: Farmboy (@Wil_Anderson) from 2013-11-05T00:37:35

Wil Anderson and I day dran...

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#138: Black Friday (@JCAlvarado1, @MatEdgar) from 2013-10-28T17:35

Juan Carlos Alvarado met me at a secluded beach in Los Cabos, Mexico and we did a podcast about poker. We talked some about how he became a professional poker player, how he deals with losing st...

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#137: Care What You Wear (@KevinGChristy, @NickYoussef) from 2013-10-21T16:23:33

Kevin Christy had Nick Youssef and me over to his house to talk about what I need to change with my wardrobe. Kevin and Nick have always been my fashion advisors and we used it as an excuse to d...

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#136: You Can't Live With 'Em, You Can't Live Without 'Em (@NealBrennan, @NickYoussef) from 2013-10-14T09:30:40

Neal Brennan invited me to his tropical rainforest hotel room in New York and we had a nice talk about chicks. It's one of the driving influences in my life and it was nice to hear someone with ...

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Cabo Bonus Episode (@MrJimFlorentine, @BretErnst, Mexican Dirt Weed, @AriShaffir) from 2013-10-11T01:40:05

Jim Florentine and Bret Ernst joined me in Bret's hotel room in Cabo to record a bonus podcast. We were drunk, so I have no idea what we talked about. Maybe girls? The middle east? Your guess is...

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#135: Loudmouth (@BretErnst) from 2013-10-07T21:26:08

Bret Ernst invited me up to his hotel room in Cabo San Lucas to drink beers, smoke cigars, and do a podcast. I love these on location episodes. We talked about Bret's habit of overzealously argu...

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#134: Maniac (@JFodComedy) from 2013-09-30T08:15:15

John F O'Donnell met me in Bushwick to talk about his manic depressive disorder. He's gone off the deep end a few times in his life and we got into it all. How it started, what happens, how it's...

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#133: Fuck the Government (with @ComicDaveSmith) from 2013-09-23T03:37

Dave Smith came over to my apartment so we could tal...

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#132: N'awlins (@MrSeanPatton) from 2013-09-16T01:50:06

Sean Patton came over to my apartment in New York to...

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#131: 1-900-You-Suck (@1GlitterGoddess, @BigJayOakerson @AriShaffir) from 2013-09-09T07:22

Glitter Goddess spoke to Jay Oakerson and I about her new jobs as a sex therapist, and as a phone dominatrix. It was really fun. She has a bunch of guys getting her off by taking orders from her...

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#130: Whatever Doesn't Kill You (@WhitneyCummings, @BillyWayneDavis) from 2013-09-02T09:25:01

Whitney Cummings had me over to the place she was staying in while in New York and we talked about her hardships at The Comedy Store, with her sitcom, and as a child of an alcoholic. I had no id...

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#129: A Brownie A Day Keeps The Doctor... Wait, What Are We Talking About Again? from 2013-08-27T02:09

Auntie Dolores (that's not really her name) met me at the Comedy Store patio to talk about edibles. She makes some of the best brownies, pretzels, lolipops, nuts, and popcorn you can find in Cal...

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#128: Boozer (@BertKreischer, @JoeRogan, @AriShaffir, @RickyLundell) from 2013-08-19T06:30

Bert Kreischer met me on the patio of the Comedy Store to talk about his history with alcohol. We covered how he got started, when it became a major part of his life, and where he stand with it ...

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#127: The Rosa Parks of White Atheist High School Sophomores and boyfriends that look like Lucas Hirl (@JessicaAhlquist) from 2013-08-12T20:38:36

Jessica Ahlquist drove all the way from Rhode Island to my New York apartment to tell me about her lawsuit to have a prayer banner removed from the walls of her public school. She's an amazing w...

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#126: Bag Man (@CortMcCown) from 2013-08-05T23:25:23

Cort McCown came over to my LA apartment before I le...

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#125: @DadBoner (Mike Burns, Karl Welzein) from 2013-07-29T18:08:19

Mike Burns came by my apartment during his trip to New York to talk to me about his new book, Power Moves. Burns hasn't been on Skeptic Tank since the old Deathsquad days. He's hilarious and I'm...

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#124: Rape&Eggs (@Kathleen_McGee) from 2013-07-22T08:57:52

Kathleen McGee invited me over to the apartment she ...

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#123: You Know What Dad (@RobertKelly) from 2013-07-15T08:03

Robert Kelly invited me over to his beautiful Manhat...

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#122: Exspecially Cutting: (@JustyDodge) from 2013-07-08T08:03:12

Justy Dodge came over to my New York apartment on th...

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#121: Big Babies (@BigJayOakerson) from 2013-07-01T07:28:58

Big Jay Oakerson and I recorded a podcast upstairs from The Stand comedy club about how little we resemble grown men. Neither one of us know how to pay a bill on time. We had to break halfway th...

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#120: Shroomfest 2013 (@MatEdgar, @PeteeC, @TonyHinchcliffe) from 2013-06-25T03:11:16

Tony Hinchcliffe, Mat Edgar, Pete Cornacchione, and I spent Shroomfest together this year. We drove out to Joshua Tree, ate some shrooms, and wandered out into the wilderness. And then we had, w...

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#119: Mud Master (Don Barris, Mary Jane Green, Wiki) from 2013-06-18T03:52:20

Don Barris had me over to his secret location Big 3 Studios and we did a podcast about his old days working at the Tropicana. Don hosted oil and mud wrestling nights over there for years way bef...

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#118: Womb of Doom (Vanessa Ragland) from 2013-06-10T05:07:15

Vanessa Ragland came over to my rodent den of an apartment in LA and talked to me about her miscarriage. She was honest and open about the whole ordeal and it really gave me a nice look at one m...

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#117: Ain't No Sister Wife (@StevieRyan) from 2013-06-03T08:44:43

Stevie Ryan invited me over to her apartment to smoke pot and watch reality shows one day about a year ago. We ended up recording a podcast about introverts and then we recorded another one abou...

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#116: 'Cid Down and Shut Up (Brendon Burns) from 2013-05-28T02:36

Brendan Burns came to my LA garbage heap apartment to talk about his rock bottom. Brendan's rock bottom lasted for 3 years and while he was there he did A LOT of drugs. Especially psychedelic dr...

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#115: Heroin - Down In A Hole (Donovan Pee) from 2013-05-20T22:55:26

Donovan Pee met me in my hotel room in Vancouver to talk about Heroin. Donovan was a heavy heroin user and lived on the streets of one of the most drug addicted blocks in North America. He was i...

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#114: Rounders (John Caparulo, Jamie Caparulo, Ari Shaffir) from 2013-05-14T00:28:30

John Caparulo had me over to his palatial estate to do a podcast and we spent most of it talking about poker. Cap was the reason I started playing poker at casinos. He introduced it to Steve Ran...

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#113: Lefty Liberty (@Jimmy_Dore, @MatEdgar, @AriShafir, George Carlin) from 2013-05-06T09:04:47

Jimmy Dore came by my slop haven of an apartment to tell me the truth about politics. I've never been very political, but lately I've started to become increasingly angrier about how little repr...

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#112: Ramblin Man (@_TomRhodes) from 2013-04-29T06:00

Tom Rhodes and I met up at the Moontower Comedy and Oddity Festival and we talked about his vagabond lifestyle. Tom has no home. Every week he travels to a different location for standup comedy....

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#111: The Closet (@ChipPope) from 2013-04-22T17:57:14

Chip Pope met me at the Comedy Store to talk about the time he spent in the closet. I know a lot of gay people, but very few who are gay but not open about it. As always with Chip, the talk move...

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#110: Klepto (@MatEdgar, Josh Martin, Ari Shaffir) from 2013-04-15T09:12

Mat Edgar and I talked about our shoplifting days on a trip back from San Diego. We both had pasts as thieves and this was a nice way to fill half our drive home. I forgot about how much I used ...

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#22: Holocaust (Nat Shaffir) from 2013-04-08T09:31:49

My father, Nat Shaffir, talked to me about his experience in the Holocaust as a young boy. My father rarely, if ever, shared any of this with us growing up, so I'm glad I got a chance to hear hi...

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#109: Lady Heroin: What Are You Asking Me For? (Jesse, Joey @MadFlavor Diaz) from 2013-04-01T10:19:30

Joey Diaz helps me introduce the first of my two interview about heroin use that I did from my hotel room in Vancouver. This one gives an overview of how heroin makes you feel and how much pull ...

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#108: Sex Monkey (@ChrisRyanPhD) from 2013-03-25T22:12:58

Chris Ryan met me at the Comedy Store to talk about monogamy, cheating, sexual desire, ownership over women and almost everything else associated with the nature of sex. It was the first doctor ...

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#107: Frenchie le Poo-Poo (Mike Ward @MikeWardCA) from 2013-03-19T05:57

Mike Ward came to my hotel room while I was in Montreal to talk to me about his amazing journey of learning to do his standup in a 2nd language. He's got about as much to say as I can imagine an...

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#106: Find Your Dry Hump (@KevinGChristy) from 2013-03-11T10:45

Kevin Christy and I sat in his backyard and talked about relationships. Everybody has one friend who jumps from long term relationship to long term relationship and Kevin is that guy for me. As ...

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#105: Going Blind (@TomSegura) from 2013-03-04T04:03

Tom Segura invited me to go to his new Barbie Malibu Beach House so we could talk about masturbating. Just two best bro dudes intimately talking about making their penises shoot out loads of sem...

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#104: The Art of War (Greg Jackson, Ari Shaffir, @KevinGChristy) from 2013-02-25T08:50

Greg Jackson of Greg Jackson's MMA met me in a hotel room in Vegas a few hours before UFC 156. Greg has always asked me about standup comedy and how comics will handle different situations. Afte...

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#103: Oscar the Grouch (Kristian Harloff, Mark Ellis, Faizon Love, Pauly Shore, Ari Shaffir) from 2013-02-18T19:34:57

Mark Ellis and Christian Harloff met me in the Belly Room of the Comedy Store to talk about the movies. We used the Oscars as an excuse to talk but really it was about movies in general. Those g...

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#102: The Ones Who Hurt Me (Doug Benson, Marc&Brian from Chill, Bike Tour, Homeless Man, Ari Shaffir) from 2013-02-14T11:59

Doug Benson met me at the Comedy Store on a beautiful 75 degree February day. We talked about those few girls that hurt you more than all the others. The ones who you couldn't shake from your he...

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#101: Prank Tank (Jim Florentine) from 2013-02-12T04:58

Jim Florentine met me at the Comedy Store to talk about pranks. As long as I've known about Jim, I've known him as the guy who is always willing to go for the goof. He went to a damn abortion pr...

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#100: Deliverance (Ryan O'Neill, Jeff Danis, George Saint Pierre, Nate Diaz, Ari Shaffir) from 2013-02-07T11:53:19

Jeff Danis and Ryan O'Neill came by my apartment to talk about their jobs as grocery delivery drivers. Oh my god, there were so many hilarious stories. They're both comedians from the Comedy Sto...

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#99: Scrappy Doo (Greg Fitzsimmons) from 2013-02-04T08:08:51

Greg Fitzsimmons had me over to his garage to tell me how much he loves to fight. Not organized fights. Just fights. Just regular, two dudes don't know each other and then one is punching the ot...

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#98: Road Rage (Don Barris, Mary Jane Green, Ari Shaffir) from 2013-01-28T11:55:32

Don Barris invited me over to the studio in his apar...

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#97: Vegetable Face (Mac Danzig) from 2013-01-21T21:26:38

Mac Danzig met me at the Comedy Store to talk about veganism. He's a UFC fighter and 100% Vegan. It's an odd choice for a fighter. Come listen in on the conversation. He's a really chill guy. No...

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#96: Hemorrhoad Trip (Brent Weinbach) from 2013-01-14T11:40:05

Brent Weinbach and I took a road trip home from San Francisco to Los Angeles on New Years day. We stopped at all the places we've always wanted to stop and tasted some delicious new foods. It wa...

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#95: Childless (Dom Irrera) from 2013-01-07T10:12:41

Dom Irrera met me at the Laugh Factory to talk about not having children. Dom is one of the only guys I know who has gone through most of his life while avoiding parenthood and we talked all abo...

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#94: Sex: Take It Or Leave It (Dov Davidoff) from 2012-12-31T06:48:06

Dov Davidoff came over to my pig sty to talk to me about his overactive libido. He's pretty adamant that it's not an addiction. So I'd say it's more of a compulsion. Anyway, it was a fun convers...

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#93b: Noobier (Steve Lemme, Kevin Hefffernan from 2012-12-26T19:02:16

Broken Lizard's Kevin Heffernan and Steve Lemme and nothing's Ari Shaffir continue our discussion on starting standup. We talked about what it's like learning the game, how our parents took to a...

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#93a: Noobs (Kevin Heffernan, Steve Lemme, Ari Shaffir) from 2012-12-24T11:49:42

Steve Lemme had Kevin Heffernan and I over to his house so we could all talk about what it's like starting standup comedy. I've been wanting to talk to somebody about it for a long time, but tho...

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#92: Caddyshack (Greg Fitzsimmons, Steve Simeone, Greg's hyper dog) from 2012-12-17T09:02:05

Greg Fitzsimmons had me over to his garage to tell me about his days as a caddy. I had no idea any other comedian had ever worked on a golf course. It's a strange community and it was an enexpec...

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#91: Good Fatitude from 2012-12-10T12:32:40

Jamie Caparulo brought me some crazy Japanese ice cream cookies and we talked about how she's going to let herself get fat. She's married now and she's made a decision to let it all go to waste....

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#90: Banks Suck (Tom Brady) from 2012-12-03T08:00

Tom Brady had me over to his house to help teach me about our economy. The more I learn about this stuff, the more I realize how little I know. Tom is an economist of sorts and he helps break a ...

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#89: Shocking (Claire Brosseau) from 2012-11-26T08:00

Claire Brosseau had me over to her apartment to talk about her experience with electro-shock therapy. She was suffering from depression and her parents checked her in to a clinic that recommende...

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#88: Er Ah, Sports (Bill Burr) from 2012-11-19T09:26

Bill Burr and I sat out on the patio of the Comedy Store one day and talked about Boston Sports. Bill grew up a homer in the homerist city in America. Sports, comedy, and conspiracy theories are...

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#87: Mended Heart - a Love Scam follow up (Sarah Tiana) from 2012-11-12T09:58:53

Sarah Tiana invited me over to her apartment to give...

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#86: God (Steve Simeone, Steve Rannazzisi, Jesus) from 2012-11-05T08:05

Steve Rannazzisi and Steve Simeone came over to my abortion of an apartment to talk a little about faith. Each of us is in a pretty different place in terms of belieif. Simeone goes to church ev...

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#85: Totally Pauly (Pauly Shore) from 2012-10-30T03:59:09

Pauly Shore had me up to his office at the Comedy Store to talk about his unique childhood. Pauly is the son of the woman who owns and runs the Comedy Store. He was a 12 year old in the middle o...

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#84: Monsters of Comedy (Sam Tripoli, Jason Rouse, Chris Neff, Ari Shaffir from 2012-10-22T14:35:34

Sam Tripoli, Jason Rouse, and Chris Neff joined me, Ari Shaffir, in the old phone room at the Comedy Store to talk about the comedy tour we all went on 2 years prior. It was one of the funnest m...

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#83b: Magic Mike (Mike Young) from 2012-10-16T09:44

I met up with Mike Young again to finish off our marathon of a conversation about his skills with women. I won't call it game, because it's not thought out or devious like that. It's just skills...

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#83a: Magic Mike (Mike Young) from 2012-10-15T07:30

Mike Young invited me over to his luxury apartment to talk about his super power. Mike has the unique ability to pull tail. He's always had it. You really can't quite imagine. He's magic. Magic ...

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The League Season 4 Premier Audio Book Party (Steve Rannazzisi) from 2012-10-11T19:44:49

Steve Rannazzisi and I were on our way down to San Diego to perform at the La Jolla Comedy Store for the weekend and we thought we'd record a short podcast on our way to promote the new season o...

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#82: Where Brooklyn At (Dwayne Perkins, Ari Shaffir, Old Neighbor Lady) from 2012-10-08T07:43:43

Dwayne Perkins had me over to his apartment to talk ...

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#81: Sam Kinison (Don Barris, Mary Jane, Airy Shiyfer) from 2012-10-03T11:11

Don Barris invited me over to his studio where I tri...

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#80: Chester the Molester (Dale Dudley) from 2012-10-01T07:00

Dale Dudley came over to my hotel room in Austin, TX to shoot the shit and talk about his childhood molestation. It's way more fun than the subject matter. This is a really good, honest, and fun...

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#79b: We Are Anonymous (@Anonyphant&@Star_Fawkes) from 2012-09-25T10:02

@Anonyphant and @Star_Fawkes came back to the Comedy Store to finish off our conversation about Anonymous. It was a really interesting and enlightening conversations and one of my favorite podca...

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#79a: We Are Anonymous (Luke Harder, Star_Fawkes) from 2012-09-24T08:35:33

Luke Harder and Star_Fawkes met me at the Comedy Store to talk about Anonymous. It was a really enlightening conversation. I think we all got the wrong idea about these guys. This is one to spre...

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#78: The Tom Segura CD Release Party (Brendon Walsh, Tom Segura, Duncan Trussell, Ari Shaffir) from 2012-09-22T11:40

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#77: Very Very Very Fine House (Kevin Christy, Steve Rannazzisi, Ari Shaffir) from 2012-09-17T11:28

Kevin Christy invited me over to his now finished house to...

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Comedy Talk (Kevin Shea) from 2012-09-13T23:04

Kevin Shea came over to my apartment and we talked about standup for a while. I kept waiting to start getting into a full topic but then we ran out of time so we never got into anything specific...

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#76: Ego (Bert Kreischer) from 2012-09-10T07:00

Bert Kreischer invited me over to his Man Cave and we talked about our egos. For real. We talked about how we're hoping to keep it in check and what we're afraid of becoming. And we talk about w...

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#75: No-No Words (Kurt Metzger, Keren Margolis, Ari Shaffir) from 2012-09-03T21:46:38

Kurt Metzger invited into his Spanish Harlem tenemen...

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#74b: P-O-R-N Porn Porn Porn (Yoshi Obayashi) from 2012-08-29T11:18

Yoshi Obayashi came back to my apartment after putting change in his meter and we continued our conversation about his job editing porn. It was more based on the things he saw while he was an ed...

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#74a: P-O-R-N Porn! porn! porn! (Yoshi Obayashi) from 2012-08-27T17:32

Yoshi Obayashi came over to my apartment on 2 hours of sleep to tell me about his time editing pornography for Evil Angel. I'm warning you right now, this gets dark. The 2nd part is even darker....

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#73: Love Scam (Sarah Tiana) from 2012-08-20T11:03

Sarah Tiana met me at the Comedy Store to talk about her crazy experience with love in the Middle East. It's sort of a sad story. We're comics, so it was still funny, but it was still really sad...

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More Talk with a Black Guy (Al Jackson) from 2012-08-16T08:29

Al Jackson came over to my apartment to talk about black people. But we got on a huge tangent that lasted an hour before we got on topic so I decided to let you guys hear it instead of throwing ...

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#72: Shut-in-edness (Stevie Ryan, Ari Shaffir) from 2012-08-13T09:57:14

Stevie Ryan had me over to her home during heat wave of oh-twelve. We huddled under the air conditioner like dogs and talked about introversion. Since I've known her, Stevie has always seemed ha...

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#71: Menage Blah (Kurt Metzger, Karen Margolis) from 2012-08-06T07:00

Kurt Metzger and I went to see Batman with his girlfriend, Karen Margolis, and her sister wife, Sade. Kurt and Karen are boyfriend/girlfriend. Karen and Sade are BFFs. And Sade and Kurt have sex...

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#70: Funny Girl (Bonnie McFarlane) from 2012-07-30T21:07

Bonnie McFarlane met me in Montreal to talk about this theory going around that women aren't funny. She just finished shooting a movie on the subject and she's a funny woman herself, so she had ...

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#69: Monoganick (Nick Thune) from 2012-07-23T07:00

Nick Thune came over to the slop haven I currently call my apartment to talk to me about monogamy. I don't know anyone who would have an easier time getting laid than Nick. So for him to only bo...

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#68b: Blacks (Al Jackson) from 2012-07-17T07:00

Al Jackson continues his talk with me on all things African American. Man, that term seems racist to me. He's black. We're talking about black people. Enjoy.

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#68: Colored People (Al Jackson) from 2012-07-16T07:00

Al Jackson stopped by Casa de Shaffir while he was in LA for a nice long talk about black people. Of course, I forgot to ask some key questions, but there was still plenty of time to have 3 hour...

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#67: Cuts Like a Knife from 2012-07-09T11:11

My friend came to my apartment and let me ask her questions about cutting herself. It turns out, the problems went way deeper than the cuts did. She spent multiple stints in rehab facilities to ...

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#66: Shitbag (Johnny Pemberton) from 2012-07-02T17:17:37

Johnny Pemberton met me at the Comedy Store and we talked about his horribly sick colon. Most of us take going to the bathroom fof granted. Not Johnny. To him, every dump is a blessing. A smelly...

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#65b: Refinancing the Loan Zone (Andrew Themeles) from 2012-06-26T11:07

Andrew Themeles and I get way deeper into this conve...

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#65a: Loan Zone (Andrew Themeles, Ari Shaffir, DJ, TMZ, Josh Martin) from 2012-06-25T09:57

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#64: Diabeetus (Rick Ingraham) from 2012-06-18T07:00

Rick Ingraham and I went into the old Comedy Store phone room to talk about his medical problems. Ingraham's stomach has been a cauldren of hatred for the last half decade or so and recently fou...

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#63: Drug Buddy (Brendon Walsh, Truffle, Ari Shaffir) from 2012-06-11T07:00

Brendon Walsh had me over to his place in the cool part of town and we talked about drugs for a while. Good, old fashioned, drugs. The kind our forefathers had in mind when they killed the India...

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#62: LA Story (Cort McCown, Steve Rannazzisi, Ari Shaffir) from 2012-06-07T17:07:12

Cort McCown invited Steve Rannazzisi and me to his apartment to talk...

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Podcast on a Plane (Joe Rogan, Ari Shaffir) from 2012-06-04T07:00

Joe Rogan and I got rowdy on the plane from Los Angeles to Edmonton....

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#61b: But Wait, There's More (Patrick Coppolino, Manolis Zontanos, Ari Shaffir) from 2012-06-01T08:40

Patrick Coppolino comes back to my hotel room after our secret show in a Toronto pot room and we talk about some of the things he managed to forget during the first podcast. Manolis Zontanos is ...

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#61* Babies Having Babies (Patrick Coppolino) from 2012-05-28T10:52

Patrick Coppolino came to my hotel room in Toronto to talk about being a 21 year old out of work father. I tried my best to make him and that girl get an abortion but nothing worked. Let this be...

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#60: Livin' the Dream (Manolis Zontanos) from 2012-05-21T07:20:10

Manolis Zontanos came to my hotel room while I was in Toronto and told a little tale of being a 41 year old who still lives with his parents. It's sad and funny and intriguing all at the same ti...

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#59b: Fat (Ralphie May) from 2012-05-16T19:45

Ralphie May finishes up our fatastic conversation about what it's like being so big. Interesting conversation. It's always a good time with Ralphie. Also, there are instructions on how to podcas...

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#59a: Fat (Ralphie May) from 2012-05-14T23:54

Ralphie May bought me breakfast and took me up to his house to talk to me about what it's like to be a fat guy. Interesting conversation. I split it up into 2 parts because it went so long. Ther...

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#58: Stuntman (Tait Fletcher) from 2012-05-07T09:34

Tait Fletcher stopped by my hovel to talk to me about stunt work. Ta...

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#57: Parenthoodwinked (with Joey Diaz) from 2012-04-30T09:22

Joey Diaz invited me over to his house to talk about the daughter he barely ever mentions. As always with Joey Diaz, some of these stories are amazing. He's so honest and colorful, I could just ...

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#56b: Gayest Podcast Ever (the gayer part) from 2012-04-24T08:52

Justin Martindale, Shawn Halpin and I talked in my hotel room about Justin's qualifications to run for mayor of gay. This episode is unbelievably gay. If you're Christian, you probably shouldn't...

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56a: Gayest Podcast Ever (Justin Martindale, Shawn Halpin) from 2012-04-23T10:39

Justin Martindale talked to us about his gay adventure in Dallas. I ...

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#55: Radio Days (Frazer Smith, David Taylor, Ari Shaffir) from 2012-04-16T22:34:28

Frazer Smith shares his story of how he went from being a radio god to how he lost it all. It's a really interesting tale. And I had my friend David Taylor cohost with me because he knew a lot o...

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#54: Casual Sex (Sarah Tiana) from 2012-04-09T07:04

Sarah Tiana and I were talking at The Comedy Store one Listen

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#53: Give Peace a Chance (Danny Lobell from 2012-04-02T08:04:44

Danny Lobell met me at The Comedy Store to talk about his time in Is...

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#52: Crazy Train (Christina Pazsitzky) from 2012-03-26T08:47

Christina Pazsitzky had me over at her house for wine and Skittles t...

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#51: Road Trip (Mat Edgar, Tony Hinchcliffe, Ari Shaffir) from 2012-03-19T07:00

Mat Edgar, Tony Hinchcliffe and I went on a comedy road trip from LA...

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#50: Buddhism (Duncan Trussell) from 2012-03-12T06:48

Duncan Trussell and I shared a ride out to Brea, CA to do shows at t...

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#49: Adult Breakup (Jayson Thibault, Steve Rannazzisi, Ari Shaffir) from 2012-03-05T14:43

Jayson Thibault, Steve Rannazzisi and I sat in one of the back rooms of the Comedy Store and talked about Jayson's recent breakup. It's not sappy at all, so don't worry about that. We just cover...

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#48: Musical Looper (Dean Delray) from 2012-02-28T02:12

Dean Delray stopped by my apartment to talk about his days as a professiona...

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#47: Hollywood Bowl (Joey Diaz) from 2012-02-20T08:00

Joey Diaz invited me over to talk about his time in Hollywood as a working ...

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#46: Artsy Fartsy (Ashley Snow Macomber) from 2012-02-13T09:14

Ashley Macomber invited me into her home to talk about her new art project ...

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#44: Autistic Brother (with Mike Recine) from 2012-01-30T10:55

Mike Recine was visiting LA last week and he came over...

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#43: Software Millionare (David Taylor) from 2012-01-23T13:11:11

David Taylor stopped by Skeptic Tank Studios (my apartment) to talk about his days as a working professional in the software industry during the tech boom. He gave it all up to become a struggli...

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#42: I Love the 80s (Jon Reep, John Heffron, Brutus, Ruby, Genta Reep, Ari Shaffir) from 2012-01-18T15:05:47

Jon Reep and John Heffron continued talking with me after we took a quick pot break. The addition of marijuana into the mix made us completely abandon the Last Comic Standing topic and meander i...

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#41: Last Comic Standing (Jon Reep, John Heffron, Ari Shaffir) from 2012-01-16T08:00

Jon Reep, John Heffron, and I got together to do each other's podcasts. They're on my Skeptic Tank and I'm on their Last Podcasting. For the purposes of the Skeptic Tank, we talked about Last Co...

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#40: Prostitutti Frutti (Miss X) from 2012-01-09T08:00

An upscale prostitute came to the Skeptic Tank to share with us about her job. It was one of the most interesting conversations I've had in a very long time. She was open and honest and very fri...

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#39: The Ding Dong Show (Don Barris) from 2012-01-02T13:19

Don Barris and I discuss the craziest show you will ever see, The Ding Dong Show. If you ever get a chance to see this show live, do yourself a favor and go. It's one of the wildest things in Ho...

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#38: Handsome&Handsomer (Jeff Dye, Geoff Keith) from 2011-12-26T09:50

Jeff Dye and Geoff Keith stopped by Skeptic Tank Studios to talk abo...

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#37: The Nuthouse (Steven Brody Stevens) from 2011-12-19T12:35

Steven Brody Stevens stopped by Skeptic Tank Studios (my apartment) to sha...

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#36: Edumacation (Jeremy Horwitz, David Taylor, Ari Shaffir) from 2011-12-12T08:00

Jeremy Horwitz talked to David Taylor and I about his experiences as a college professor at Santa Clara. Obviously, I asked if he's ever had sex with a student. There's actually a lot more to th...

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#35: The Jew, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (Moshe Kasher) from 2011-12-05T10:48

Moshe Kasher opened up his home to me and just like on a typical Shabbos afternoon, we talked until it got dark.

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Bonus Material with Paul Morrissey from 2011-12-02T11:45:28

Paul Morrissey finishes off our epic 4 hour conversation with him pretty much interviewing me about my desire to move to New York and then a one sided argument about the problems with continuing...

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#34: Sports Machine (Paul Morrissey) from 2011-11-30T12:11

Paul Morrissey and I continue with our conversation, this time centering on his short lived career doing sports for local news stations.

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#33 Playin' Bas-ket-baaaall (Paul Morrissey) from 2011-11-27T18:30

Paul Morrissey gets to revisit the glory of his college basketball days. This was an almost 4 hour discussion that I've separated into 2 podcasts and an extra features episode. I'm only going to...

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#31b The Cleanup part 2 (Tony Hinchcliffe, Mat Edgar, Ari Shaffir, Couches) from 2011-11-17T07:06

Tony Hinchcliffe, Mat Edgar and I met back up the day after we did part one and we finished off this discussion about the great clean of 2011 and about hoarding in general. Most of the time, we ...

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#31 The Cleanup part 1 (Mat Edgar, Tony Hinchcliffe, Ari Shaffir) from 2011-11-14T12:37

Mat Edgar and Tony Hinchcliffe were hired to help clean my apartment. While it wasn't an American horror story, it was pretty close. I'm a damn hoarder and I had built up quite the trash castle ...

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#30 Fatherhood (Al Madrigal from 2011-11-07T14:03:03

Al Madrigal took me into his home office to...

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#29: Suicide (Jenn Cole) from 2011-10-31T07:00

Jenn Cole lost her friend about a week before we recorded this. I really wanted to get into the feeling of grief that comes with loss but I'm so intrigued by suicide that I just ended up wanted ...

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#28 Persistence (Steve Simeone) from 2011-10-24T14:29:52

Steve Simeone came to the apartment and we got in ...

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#27 Censorship (Joe Rogan, Ari Shaffir) from 2011-10-17T11:13:48

Joe Rogan and I got into a conversation on the plane back from Washington, DC. We covered censorship, comedy in general, Joe's fear of the Los Angeles apocalypse, and probably a little UFC. It's...

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#26: Goin' Crazy (Steve Agee) from 2011-10-10T19:59

Steve Agee talks mental disorders.

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#25: Comic Books (Mike Lawrence) from 2011-10-03T08:48

While I was visiting New York, I interviewed comedian Mike Lawrence about comic books. I was trying to interview him about what comic book nerd life was like, but then it just turned to talk abo...

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#24: Religiot (Kurt Metzger, Ari Shaffir, Dog) from 2011-09-28T20:00:13

Kurt Metzger talks to me about his former religious lifestyle and how he feels about religion now. I...

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