Podcasts by Terrified with Dave Ross
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SAYING GOODBYE from 2016-02-10T10:05:22
Anna and Dave give Terrified a proper send-off. This is the last studio-recorded episode of the show, and the second to last ever (or at least for a long while). The last episode will be recor...
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ZACK MYKULA from 2016-01-28T12:01:29
Zack is a musician based in Toronto. He's the drummer in the band PUP, you know, that band Dave never shuts up about. They met last summer on Warped Tour and got along immediately. In this in...
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MORE CALL-IN INTERVIEWS from 2016-01-22T02:12:57
Dave and Anna get real dumb in this episode. They come up with at least four catch phrases and can't stop saying them. They then move into more call-in interviews, with Lisa Friedrich, Ryan Stou...
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BIG ANNOUNCEMENT IN THIS EPISODE from 2016-01-14T15:55:53
Terrified... is ending! :( But for now, Anna's back, and Dave is so excited. She and Dave briefly discuss the end of the show, and the bittersweetness of it. They then move into phone interviews...
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KRISTIN RAND from 2016-01-07T08:38:34
Kristin Rand is a comedian based in Los Angeles, CA, formerly of Denver, CO. She's the best. She and Dave discuss a litany of things, from body image to personal growth to struggling professiona...
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AHAMED WEINBERG from 2015-12-31T08:00
Ahamed Weinberg is a comedian based in Los Angeles, California, and a good friend of Dave's. Pretty much immediately in the episode, Dave makes a horrible conversational faux pas with Ahamed, an...
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GARRICK BERNARD from 2015-12-17T08:07:24
Garrick Bernard is a stand-up comic and writer based in Los Angeles, CA. He and Dave discuss the idea of being funny, and the things one does throughout one's life to get good at being funny, be...
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Kevin Brody from 2015-11-25T08:38:57
Kevin Brody is a comedian and podcaster based in Chicago. He and Dave talk about his father, and his father's Alzheimer's, and the difficulty he's having dealing with his father's Alzheimer's, i...
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JEFF WATTENHOFER from 2015-11-19T08:00
Jeff Wattenhofer is a comedian based in L.A., and is a longtime friend of Dave's. They started stand-up together! They used to run HOLY FUCK together. They reminisce for awhile and then get i...
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CAITLIN GILL from 2015-11-12T08:00
Caitlin Gill is a comedian and writer based in Los Angeles, California. And she just got her first writing job! Dave and Caitlin talk about that, and what it took to do that, and what it takes...
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Danny Lobell from 2015-11-05T08:00
Danny Lobell is a comedian and storyteller in Los Angeles, CA. He and Dave discuss being a comedian, and being happy as a comedian. They discuss the idea of accepting oneself, and what it takes ...
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LIVE AT THE SAVAGE HENRY COMEDY FESTIVAL from 2015-10-29T17:47:18
This episode was recorded live from the annual Savage Henry Comedy Festival on September 5, 2015 in Arcata, Caifornia. WHAT AN AMAZING FESTIVAL. Dave and Anna had so much fun. They talked to Hum...
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Chris Conley from 2015-10-15T07:00
Chris Conley is a songwriter and musician, and lead singer of Saves The Day. He's also just the nicest and most thoughtful guy. He and Dave and Anna talk sadness, and anxiety, and emo, and the l...
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DAN "SOUPY" CAMPBELL from 2015-10-08T09:40:34
Soupy is the lead singer of The Wonder Years and about the sweetest person alive. He and Dave discuss fear, and extreme fear, and specific extreme fears, and dealing with those specific extreme...
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LIVE AT CYNIC CAVE from 2015-10-01T08:43:11
This episode comes to you live from Cynic Cave, in the basement of Lost Weekend Video, in the Mission district of San Francisco, California. It's about our favorite comedy venue in one of our fa...
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Dane Boss&Abba Serengeti from 2015-09-24T11:03
They're back! We're back! (It's back.) Dave and Anna hang out together. They talk about their return, and how they've been feeling, and where the show's going to go, and what happened in the...
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LIVE IN LOS ANGELES from 2015-09-17T09:26:34
Dave and Anna are BACK! They are back from tour and they are BACK ONLINE. Here lies the first live episode they ever did in their home town of Los Angeles, and it's at their home theater, The ...
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Almost An Episode from 2015-08-26T07:00
This is not an episode. I mean... It's kind of an episode. But it's a short episode? IT'S NOT AN EPISODE. Look, the show has been on hiatus, and it's not back yet. But it's ALMOST back. A...
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ANNA SEREGINA&DAVE ROSS from 2015-05-08T20:08:17
This week's guest is... NO ONE. Or... EVERYONE! It's just Anna and Dave this week. They catch up. They catch on the show, on their lives, and on their love of 90s radio hits. They also ma...
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Floodwater Comedy Festival from 2015-05-01T07:00
This episode was recorded live at the Floodwater Comedy Festival in Iowa City, Iowa on April 19, 2015! The fest was so fun. Dave talks to Daniel Frana, who ran the festival, Quad Cities comedi...
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Wendi Starling from 2015-04-24T07:00
Wendi Starling is a comedian who recently moved from Los Angeles to New York City. She talks depression, and mental illness, and medication, and drug use, and she talks about rape. She was rap...
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Joe Wagner from 2015-04-17T22:41:57
Joe Wagner is an insanely funny writer and performer in Los Angeles, California. He and Dave are big fans of each other. They talk about that, and love, and loving your friends, and romantic l...
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Tony Thaxton from 2015-04-10T08:17:46
Tony Thaxton is a musician, writer, performer and podcaster based in Los Angeles, California. He was also, for years, the drummer for the band Motion City Soundtrack! He and Dave discuss that,...
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Ryan Singer from 2015-04-03T08:08:45
Ryan Singer is a stand-up comic based in L.A. He and Dave talk about his start in stand-up comedy in Dayton, Ohio, and the alcoholism and frustration and insanity that came out of that. They a...
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MIKAL CRONIN II from 2015-03-27T07:00
Mikal Cronin is a musician now based in Los Angeles, California! Last time he and Dave talked, Mikal was living in San Francisco, where he'd lived for a long time. Dave had him back on the sho...
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Brent Sullivan from 2015-03-20T07:00
Brent Sullivan is a comedian in Los Angeles, CA. He and Dave discuss dating in the gay community, and Brent's frustrations with that, and with interacting with people in general. They also tal...
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Georgea Brooks from 2015-03-13T10:50:07
Georgea Brooks is a comedian from Los Angeles by way of Toronto. She and Dave discuss intimidation by men in different capacities, and how it's changed the way she carries herself and sees the ...
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Todd Glass from 2015-03-06T08:00
Todd Glass is a comedian and podcast host in Los Angeles. He and Dave talk about not doing things because you're scared. Todd holds back from trying new things if he doesn't think he's gonna b...
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Tom Segura from 2015-02-27T08:22:22
Tom Segura is a stand-up comedian based in the SOUTH BAY of Los Angeles, California. He and Dave discuss the South Bay at length. They also talk anxiety, and being comfortable with one's own a...
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Kevin Bigley from 2015-02-20T08:20:50
Kevin Bigley is an actor in L.A. He and Dave discuss narcissism, and his fear of becoming a narcissist, and how everyone in Hollywood is in immediate danger of becoming an awful, narcissistic d...
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Megan Rosati from 2015-02-13T08:00
Megan Rosati is an actor and writer in Los Angeles, CA. She and Dave discuss her fear that she's chosen the wrong path in life, and that she'll be sent to live with her sisters in shame. They ...
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Moshe Kasher from 2015-02-06T08:00
Moshe Kasher is a comedian and author based in Los Angeles. He and Dave discuss the double life he led as a child, splitting his years between the conventional American community that is Oakland...
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Megan Amram from 2015-01-30T08:00
Megan Amram is a comedy writer based in Los Angeles, CA. She and Dave discuss her fear of her own hands, and wrists, and touching her hands and wrists, and other people touching her hands and w...
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Marty DeRosa from 2015-01-23T08:00
Marty DeRosa is a stand-up comedian who just moved to Los Angeles from Chicago. He and Dave talk depression, and getting better, and taking medication, and really everything surrounding clinica...
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Sean Green from 2015-01-16T08:00
Sean Green is an LA-based comedian, writer and podcaster. He chronicles his battle with testicular cancer to Dave, and all the fear and anxiety that went/goes along with that. Also, turns out, t...
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Aristotle Acevedo from 2015-01-09T13:34:44
Aristotle Acevedo was born and bred in Alhambra, California and is the producer of THIS PODCAST. He and Dave talk about all kinds of fear and self-loathing, from not having friends to feeling l...
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James Fritz from 2014-12-12T08:00
James Fritz is a stand-up comic based in Los Angeles, CA. He and Dave talk about love, and what it is to be a good comic, and what it is to be a good person, and what it is to fail at all three...
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Kate Berlant from 2014-12-05T08:00
Kate Berlant is a comedian based in Los Angeles, California. She and Dave discuss her paranoia that something awful is about to happen, at any time, for no reason. They talk panic attacks and ...
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Beast Village from 2014-11-14T08:00
The Beast Village Comedy Festival had its first year this year, in the East Village neighborhood of Des Moines. It was SO FUN. This live episode was recorded in the basement of the Des Moines ...
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Solomon Georgio from 2014-11-07T08:00
Solomon Georgio is a comedian in Los Angeles, CA. He and Dave talk about his abusive family history, and the emotional distance he's put between himself and everything around him as a result. ...
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John Butler from 2014-10-24T07:00
John Butler is a writer and director based in Ireland! He is also gay, and is afraid that maybe he isn't overtly gay enough. He and Dave discuss his homosexuality, and the possibility that he ...
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Baron Vaughn from 2014-10-17T07:00
Baron Vaughn is an L.A.-based comedian and actor. He and Dave discuss his fear that he'll never get out from under his debt, and that he'll be judged for doing so. They dive pretty deep, and w...
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Goodrich Gevaart from 2014-10-10T07:00
Goodrich Gevaart is a stand-up comic in Chicago. He and Dave disucss mental illness and emotional problems, and what it takes to eradicate them. Goodrich is afraid that, depsite all his hard wor...
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Eliza Skinner from 2014-10-03T09:11:26
Eliza Skinner is a comedian based in Los Angeles, CA. She and Dave discuss showing your feelings to your friends, showing too much of your...
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Marcella Arguello from 2014-09-26T07:59:48
Nerdist Podcast Network Super Panel from 2014-09-14T07:00
Live from SDCC 2014, it's the Nerdist Podcast Super Panel with Matt Mira (Nerdist, James Bonding), Jonah Ray (Nerdist, Jonah Raydio), Janet Varney (The JV Club), Cole Stratton (Pop My Culture), ...
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Ron Babcock from 2014-09-13T07:00
Ron Babcock is a comedian in L.A. and a good friend of Dave's. They talk claustrophobia and being buried alive, and Ron's fear of a des...
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Rhea Butcher from 2014-09-05T07:00
Jackie Kashian from 2014-08-29T07:00
Jackie Kashian is a world-touring comic based in Los Angeles, CA. She and Dave talk death, and the fear of death, and the fear of not dying well. She's been surrounded with death the...
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Dan Van Kirk from 2014-08-22T07:00
Daniel Van Kirk is a comic actor and performer in Los Angeles, CA. He's had an unconventional trajectory in comedy, and he and Dave talk about it. He's afraid of being pigeon-holed as one of h...
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Dave Waite from 2014-08-08T07:00
Dave Waite is a comedian from Ohio, and currently based in Los Angeles, California. Dave (Ross) is a huge fan of his, and he honestly would not shut up about it on the episode. They discuss la...
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Doug Mellard from 2014-08-01T07:00
Doug Mellard is a touring comedian based in L.A. He and Dave discussed anxiety, and anxiety attacks, and the debilitating nature of anxiety and anxiety attacks. Dave has them, but Doug has the...
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Jay Weingarten from 2014-07-25T07:00
Jay Weingarten is a comic and show producer in Los Angeles, CA. He and Dave discuss Jay's fears of living an unhappy life, and of not self-actualizing. They discuss the very real way in which ...
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Andy Juett from 2014-07-11T07:00
Andy Juett is a stand-up comic, writer, actor, director, producer and father in Denver, Colorado. He and Dave discussed his occasional feelings of being overwhelmed by these things, as well as ...
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Mike Lawrence from 2014-07-04T07:00
Mike Lawrence is a comedian and writer based in New York City. He and Dave discuss what it's like to be an open mic comedian, and to be an up-and-coming comic in a big scene. In the same vein,...
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Pat Bishop from 2014-06-27T16:33:15
Pat Bishop is a comedian, writer and director in Los Angeles, CA. He's also in Dave's sketch group and one of his good friends. They discuss social awkwardness, and being shy, and Pat's fear o...
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Emily V. Gordon from 2014-06-20T07:00
Emily Gordon is a writer, performer, producer and host of the podcast The Indoor Kids (also on Nerdist). She is also a former therapist, and in recovery from hating herself! Emily and Dave dis...
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Live at Crom Fest from 2014-06-13T07:00
This episode was recorded live from O'Leaver's Pub in Omaha, Nebraska, during the second annual Crom Comedy Festival! Dave is noticeably hungover and devoid all of nutrients in his diet. His g...
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Kevin White from 2014-06-06T07:00
Kevin White is a stand-up comic and podcast host in Chicago, IL. He and Dave made fast friends at a show in Kevin's home town of St. Louis, MO, and moved quickly to record this episode together...
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Live in Nashville from 2014-05-30T07:00
Recorded live at The High Watt in Nashville, Tennessee and masterfully produced by Brandon Jazz (of Corporate Juggernaut), this episode features three undeniably great performers -- John-Michael...
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Leon Blanda from 2014-05-23T07:00
Leon Blanda is a comedian from New Orleans, Lousiana. He bends Dave's ear about government conspiracies and the helplessness of being an ordinary citizen. They recorded the interview at the be...
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Chris Thayer from 2014-05-16T08:00:03
Chris Thayer is a comedian based in Los Angeles. He and Dave discuss self-centeredness, awareness of the feelings of others, and straight-up narcissism. (Also other things.) Recorded live fro...
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Anna Seregina from 2014-05-09T07:00
Anna Seregina is a great comic and one of Dave's best friends. They had a great time. They played old 90s singles and talked a lot of trash, and also discussed Anna's upbringing in detail. Sh...
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Bert McCracken from 2014-05-02T18:37:13
Bert McCracken is the lead singer of The Used. He discusses the failing American system with Dave, and anarchy, and anarchism, and Occupy, and what might happen if America continues down its cu...
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Alice Wetterlund from 2014-04-25T07:00
Alice Wetterlund is a writer, stand-up comic, and friend of Dave's. She and Dave talked her fear and fascination of sharks, and then went deeper and deeper from there. They got so deep, in fac...
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Adam Lazzara from 2014-04-18T07:00
Adam Lazzara is the lead singer of Taking Back Sunday. He and Dave talk kids, failure, getting picked on, getting fame, losing fame, becoming cool, becoming UNcool, and Adam's stutter, just to ...
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Anthony Raneri from 2014-04-11T07:00
Anthony Raneri is the lead singer and rhythm guitarst for pop punk Bayside. He and Dave talk the artistic process, and all types of fears of failure. They also talked war a bit, and courage, a...
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Grace Helbig from 2014-04-04T07:00
Grace Helbig is a wildly popular comedian and YouTube personality. She and Dave talk the divide between the conventional comedy worlds and YouTube, amongst other things. Grace is also the nice...
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Brendan Kelly from 2014-03-28T07:00
Brendan Kelly is the bassist/vocalist for famed punk band The Lawrence Arms. He and Dave talked self-loathing, and self-loving, and dealing with self-loathing while raising children. They also...
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Jake Weisman from 2014-03-21T17:02:39
Jake Weisman is an incredible comedian and one of Dave's best friends. They talk pushing people away, and judging others, and the loneliness and terror that comes from pushing people away and j...
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Clare O'Kane from 2014-03-14T07:00
Clare O'Kane is a comedian in Los Angeles and a good friend of Dave's. They talk failure, and comedy, and success, and success in comedy and failure in comedy. They both feel like failures and...
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Andrew Orvedahl from 2014-03-07T08:00
Andrew Orvedahl is a comedian based in Denver, Colorado, and honestly? He's delightful. He and Dave talked drinking and quitting drinking and kids and quitting drinking because of your kids. ...
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Live at SF Sketchfest from 2014-02-28T09:28:29
It's Terrified's first (successful) live recording! Straight outta San Francisco Sketchfest, three of Dave's favorites joined him on stage. Barbara Gray kicked it off, then Karen Kilgariff, an...
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Andrew Polk from 2014-02-21T19:41:52
Andrew Polk is a friend of Dave's and fellow comedian, based in New Orleans. They talked growing up home-schooled, and growing up religious, and a fear of feeling left out. They also discussed...
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John F. O'Donnell from 2014-02-14T08:00
John F. O'Donnell is a sweet man, and a hilarious man, and a stand-up comic in New York, and a friend of Dave's. They talked disorders of the mind, and John's occasional breakdowns, and how the...
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Mikal Cronin from 2014-02-07T08:09:14
Mikal is a wildly prolific songwriter and musician based in San Francisco, and also just about the sweetest man who ever lived. He and Dave talked growing up, and working hard, and procrastinat...
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Emily Heller from 2014-01-31T08:00
Emily Heller is Dave's guest this week! She's a great comedian and a great friend and she's doing great. Dave and Emily get a little confused as to what they're going to talk about, because of...
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Eric Dadourian from 2014-01-22T08:00
Dave is joined in the studio this week by a great comic, and a great friend of his, Eric Dadourian. Eric is the sweetest. You'll love it.
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Chris Charpentier from 2014-01-15T20:09:54
Dave is joined this week fellow comedian Chris Charpentier! Chris is a comic in Denver, and Dave loves him dearly. You should too. They discussed feeling stupid, and feeling uneducated, and f...
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Adam Cayton-Holland from 2014-01-08T08:00
From his dining room table in Denver, Colorado, Adam Cayton-Holland joins Dave on the podcast this week. They discuss the weight and the worry of making the big decisions in one's career, and w...
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Dave Holmes from 2014-01-02T17:14:12
Joining Dave in the studio this week is none other than comedian, actor and television personality Dave Holmes! They talk growing up Catholic, and feeling separate, and trying hard to fit in, a...
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Jarrod Harris from 2013-12-18T08:00
Dave's guest this week is comedian Jarrod Harris. They talk about Jarrod's life. They discuss his fear that he doesn't allow people to love him or allow himself to love people, but all in all,...
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Erin Lennox from 2013-12-11T08:00
Dave's guest this week is his good friend, Erin Lennox! A comedian who just relocated to LA from NYC, Erin broke down her fear of failure in comedy, and of extreme success in comedy, and of not...
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Hasan Minhaj from 2013-11-20T08:00
Comedian Hasan Minhaj is Dave's guest this week! They talk growing up with immigrant parents, and as a first-generation American, what it takes to get your parents to open up, and what happens ...
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Cameron Esposito from 2013-11-13T08:00
Cameron Esposito joins Dave in the Nerdist studio today! She's wonderful, and hilarious, and came out as a lesbian at a Catholic college! So they talked about that, and dealing with that, and ...
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Paul Gilmartin from 2013-11-06T08:00
Joining Dave in the studio this week is revered comedian and podcast host, Paul Gilmartin. Of the Mental Illness Happy Hour! They discuss alcoholism, and what pushes you there, and recovery, a...
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Rob Gleeson from 2013-10-30T07:00
Rob Gleeson is Dave's guest this week! They talk comedy, and getting older in comedy, and regret, and the possibility of regretting doing comedy. Lots of comedy talk. They also discuss Rob's ...
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Allen Strickland Williams from 2013-10-23T07:00
Dave's guest this week is his good friend and fellow comic, Allen Strickland Williams. They talk hospitals and sickness and physical pain and being nice. Allen's nice. Real real nice.
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Chemda Khalili from 2013-10-16T07:00
This week, Dave interviews Chemda Khalili! Of the Keith and the Girl podcast! They dive headfirst into self-image issues, feeling fat, judgment from others, and more. They also talk about sex...
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Will Weldon from 2013-10-09T07:00
Will Weldon joins Dave in the Nerdist studio this week! They talk Will's recent divorce, and all the horror and anxiety that came along with it. Other topics include hardcore liberalism and st...
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Katie Levine from 2013-10-02T07:00
Joining Dave in the studio this week is... KATIE! Katie Levine, that is, producer of all Nerdist podcasts and all-around sweet and hilarious lady. After years of sitting on the sidelines and ...
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Christian Spicer from 2013-09-25T07:00
Christian Spicer, comedian and beloved member of the Nerdist team, joins Dave in the studio today. Death is the topic. And positivity. Death and positivity and the ways in which one can live ...
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Petey Dammit from 2013-09-18T07:00
Petey Dammit, bassist/guitarist in the acclaimed garage punk band Thee Oh Sees, joins Dave this week. Recorded in Petey's kitchen in San Francisco! Petey, who is possibly the world's sweetest ...
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