Please subscribe and rate us on your preferred podcast platform and sign up for the patreon! Thanks for listening! Writer for the punk rock humor website The Hard Times Magazine, and host of the comedy Podcast "What's More Metal?"  Nariko was winner of the Portland's Funniest Person Contest and named one of SplitSider Magazine's "Top Up and Coming Comedians." He's been on the Bridgetown Comedy Festival, 10,000 Laughs, and the TreeFort Music Fest among others. Back in his hometown of Portland he is the host of “The Cool Kids” comedy show at the legendary Doug Fir Lounge and has been featured on EPIX’s “Unprotected Sets," “Laughs” on FOX, Spotify, SiriusXM, and iHeartRadio.

Please subscribe and rate us on your preferred podcast platform and sign up for the patreon! Thanks for listening! Born in the rust belt, reared in the bible belt,  Kristen Becker believes in Good Deeds and Dirty Jokes. Her comedy dances gingerly back and forth between drunken redneck and woke women studies major as she playfully explores the good and bad of both sides of the aisle, leaving you left to wonder whether we really are that different, after all. A twenty year veteran of stand up comedy,  she continues to skewer the status quo with her salty social commentary. Last year the Not -for Profit she founded,  Summer of Sass, INC received a $3.7M donation, allowing her to  secure a safe harbor for future LGBTQ+humans.    Becker has worked with everyone from underground comedy legend Doug Stanhope,  punk preacher Jay Bakker (yes, Jim and Tammy Faye were his parents) and Righteous Babe Ani DiFranco.  Becker was featured on the “Welcome to Provincetown” podcast, named a top ten podcast of 2022 by The NY Times .

Please subscribe and rate us on your preferred podcast platform and sign up for the patreon! Thanks for listening! Simply put, Rich Roll is a change agent. At age 40, Rich made the decision to overhaul the sedentary throes of overweight middle age. Walking away from a career in law, he reinvented himself as a globally recognized ultra-distance endurance athlete, bestselling author, and host of the wildly popular Rich Roll Podcast, one of the world’s most listened to podcasts with over 200 million downloads. Named one the “25 Fittest Men In The World” by Men’s Fitness and the “Guru of Reinvention” by Outside, Rich shares his inspirational story of addiction, redemption, athletic prowess, and authentic living in his bestselling memoir, Finding Ultra, and in the cookbook and lifestyle guides The Plantpower Way and The Plantpower Way: Italia, which he co-authored with his wife Julie Piatt. A graduate of Stanford University (and member of their dynastic, multiple NCAA Championship Men’s Swimming program) and Cornell Law School, Rich has been featured on CNN and on the cover of Outside magazine, and has been profiled in The New York Times, Forbes, ESPN and many other prominent media outlets.

Please subscribe and rate us on your preferred podcast platform and sign up for the patreon! Thanks for listening!   For the last six years, David Blum worked for Audible as the editor-in-chief of Audible Originals. Previously, Blum served as the founding editor of Kindle Singles, the store for original, high-quality longform fiction and nonfiction on Kindle. He began his career as a reporter for The Wall Street Journal, and has worked as a contributing editor at New York Magazine (where he coined the term "Brat Pack"), Esquire and The New York Times Magazine. He has also written for The New Republic, Vanity Fair and The New Yorker. In 2006 Blum became editor-in-chief of The Village Voice, and later served as editor-in-chief of the New York Press and 02138 Magazine. Blum's first book, "Flash In The Pan: The Life and Death of an American Restaurant," was published by Simon & Schuster in 1992, and was named a notable nonfiction book of the year by The New York Times Book Review. His second book, "Tick...Tick...Tick...: The Long Life & Turbulent Times of 60 Minutes," was published by HarperCollins in 2004.

Please subscribe and rate us on your preferred podcast platform and sign up for the patreon! Thanks for listening! Adam Cayton-Holland (www.adamcaytonholland.com) is a national touring comic who has appeared on Conan, The Late Late Show with James Corden, Comedy Central Presents, @midnight, The Meltdown with Jonah and Kumail, Happy Endings and was named one of Esquire’s “25 Comics to Watch,” as well as one of “10 Comics to Watch” by Variety. Do the math. That means fifteen comics fell through the cracks. Adam was not one of them. Along with his cohorts in The Grawlix, he created, wrote and starred in “Those Who Can’t,” which aired for three seasons and is available to stream on HBOMax. The Grawlix also host a podcast, “The Grawlix Saves the World,” which is available everywhere. His albums, “I Don’t Know If I Happy,” “Backyards,” “Adam Cayton-Holland Performs His Signature Bits,” (voted one of Vulture’s Top Ten Albums of 2018), “Semblance of Normalcy,” and “Hot Takes,” are all available on iTunes. “Adam Cayton-Holland Performs His Signature Bits” is also available on vinyl through the record label Saddle Creek. Adam’s writing has appeared in McSweeney’s, The New York Times, Esquire and The Atlantic. His first book, Tragedy Plus Time, is available everywhere.

Please subscribe and rate us on your preferred podcast platform and sign up for the patreon! Thanks for listening! This week's guest is Andy Baker, he's Hack Oddity, he's Another Fat Guy Cooks, he's a terrible, terrible little man and he's my friend and I love him a lot. Andy is my one friend who isn't a comedian and he should be a comedian. He didn't do anything for a long time and now he does a cooking show called Another Fat Guy Cooks that is brilliant and not just because I did the theme he no longer uses. Andy was born with two club feet and after we get done ridiculing each other, we talk a little bit about how that childhood gulag informed who he became as an adult.

We lost Mark Lanegan a year ago today. I'd be hard-pressed to name another artist who has affected me as deeply. He was also a great friend of mine. I thought I'd start out addressing a couple of questions from other fans so I wouldn't spend the whole time just talking about my fancy feelings and then ended up spending most of the time on the questions. Oh well, I managed to squeak my fancy little feelings in at the end. Thanks for listening. Please take a minute to rate and review the podcast or even sign up for my Patreon

Please subscribe and rate us on your preferred podcast platform and sign up for the patreon! For Patreon supporters, I'll be answering listener suggested questions on bonus episodes with my mom once a month. Thank you for listening! When we say 'Mom' or 'Dad,' one of the things we're saying is "I have known this person my entire life." Before there was anything else, there was Mom and there was Dad and there was auntie Anita. Anita is my mom's older sister, the first of 17 children. She came down to visit after my mom's surgery so I just had to have her on the podcast. We all cried a little bit and I hope you will, too.

Please subscribe and rate us on your preferred podcast platform and sign up for the patreon! For Patreon supporters, I'll be answering listener suggested questions on bonus episodes with my mom once a month. Thank you for listening! Since 2005, Ryan McKee has worked as a writer, producer and content creator in TV and digital media for Duel, Guy Code, Girl Code, MTV News, Game On!, and The Late Late Show with James Corden. He also created, wrote, and served as executive producer for the Snap Originals series James Corden’s Next James Corden and won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Short Form Comedy or Drama Series in 2018. For the past couple of years, he has been making original sports media content for SGPN and now The Action Network, as well as hosting and producing the NBA Gambling Podcast. Please enjoy the Videos page for examples of his work. You can also read about the comedy anthology he published in 2020.

Lou Poster is a writer and the voice of the band Driftmouth. We’ve been friends for 20 years now, so we’ve been in some shit together. 18 months ago, he fed me some venison and put this crazy idea in my head that one day, I might shoot a deer, too. This past winter, that idea blossomed into a full-on obsession. The adventure that followed became a transformative experience.

Please subscribe and rate us on your preferred podcast platform and sign up for the patreon! For Patreon supporters, I'll be answering listener suggested questions on bonus episodes with my mom once a month. Thank you for listening! Mat Alano-Martin has spent the last 13 years on the road telling jokes and sharing stories all across America. He has appeared at comedy clubs, theaters, punk rock dives, redneck roadhouses, casinos, colleges, living rooms and everywhere in between. Alano-Martin’s albums “Profiled as Such,” “Blood Mouth” and “Midnight Nachos” can be heard in regular rotation on Sirius/XM’s comedy channels and he has appeared several times on the nationally syndicated The Bob & Tom Show and once on Laughs on Hulu. His first comedy special “Tango in Philly” will be out later this year. He has worked with such notable acts as Patton Oswalt, Tig Notaro, Maria Bamford and Chris Gethard and has performed at several festivals and prominent showcases across the country and beyond including: – 208 Comedy Festival – Boise, ID – 10,000 Laughs – Minneapolis, MN – Altercation Comedy Festival – Austin, TX – Beast Village Comedy Festival – Des Moines, IA – Bird City Comedy Festival – Phoenix, AZ – The Black Box Comedy Festival – Atlanta, GA – Cleveland Comedy Festival – Cleveland, OH – Cloudtop Comedy Festival – Sante Fe, NM – Comcast’s “Look Who’s Laughing Now” – Indianapolis, IN – Comedians You Should Know – Chicago, IL – The Fest – Gainesville, FL – Finger Lakes Comedy Festival – Ithaca, NY – Fountain City Comedy Festival – Kansas City, MO – Fresh Out – Los Angeles, CA – Gilda’s LaughFest – Grand Rapids, MI – Green Gravel Comedy Festival – Iowa City, IA – High Plains Comedy Festival – Denver, CO – Hong Kong International Comedy Festival – Hong Kong, China – Hopkins Comedy Festival – Hopkins, MN – Hot Tub with Kurt and Kristen – Los Angeles, CA – If You Build It – New York, NY – The Indy Fringe Festival – Indianapolis, IN – Laugh in a Box Festival – Cincinnati, OH – Laughing Devil Comedy Festival – New York City, NY – Laughing Skull Comedy Festival – Atlanta, GA – Let’s Fest – Fort Wayne, IN – Limestone Comedy Festival – Bloomington, IN – Live From Outer Space – New York, NY – Lookout Comedy Festival – Chattanooga, TN – Milwaukee Comedy Festival – Milwaukee, WI – Parlour Car – Chicago, IL – Pittsburgh Comedy Festival – Pittsburgh, PA – Red Clay Comedy Festival – Atlanta, GA – Sacramento Comedy Festival – Sacramento, CA – The World Series of Comedy – Chicago, IL He is also the co-founder of the Limestone Comedy Festival and his jokes have been used for the Frank and Funny greeting card line.

Please subscribe and rate us on your preferred podcast platform and sign up for the patreon! For Patreon supporters, I'll be answering listener suggested questions on bonus episodes with my mom once a month. Thank you for listening! Jay Whitecotton is the product of a clinically diagnosed schizophrenic family of drug addicted Star Trek nerds, who would rage tweak all night while playing Dungeons and Dragons. Somehow this was not a setback. Based in Austin, Texas he is quietly painting himself in the corner with no other option, but becoming a full time comedian. He’s performed at Funny or Die’s Oddball Fest, Las Vegas Punk Rock and Bowling Festival, Moontower Comedy Fest, and many more. In 2016 his debut album hit #1 on iTunes comedy and he taped for FOX.

Tina Muir is a former elite marathoner who is now CEO of Running for Real, and hosts a podcast of the same name. As a professional runner she was a 2:36 marathoner, represented Great Britain and was sponsored by Saucony. In her first race following retirement at what was considered the peak of her career, Muir won the 2019 Disney World Half Marathon. In that same year, she published Overcoming Amenorrhea: Get Your Period Back. Get Your Life Back. In 2022 she and Zoe Rom will release Becoming a Sustainable Runner.

If you enjoy the podcast, please take a moment to share it with someone else, maybe even subscribe and rate us on your preferred podcast platform?  Please sign up for the patreon: https://www.patreon.com/mishkashubaly For Patreon supporters, I'll be answering listener suggested questions on bonus episodes with my mom once a month. Thank you for listening!   Kyle Pogue is a stand up comic living and working in Fort Collins, Colorado. He's a regular performer at The Comedy Fort in Fort Collins and Comedy Works in Denver. Pogue has been on a butt load of festivals, including the High Plains and Altercation comedy fests. He has also opened for Mishka Shubaly on the road, a resume which also includes almost getting in bar fights, being stranded in the desert for a while when it was pretty hot, not having a thought for three days after taking MDA, getting hammered at The Fun House, meeting a lot of comedy heros and one funny Englishman, and also telling jokes in every broken dive bar and dejected comedy room from Phoenix to New Orleans without the looming threat of fame or success to get in the way.

If you enjoy the podcast, please take a moment to share it with someone else, maybe even subscribe and rate us on your preferred podcast platform?  Please sign up for the patreon: https://www.patreon.com/mishkashubaly For Patreon supporters, I'll be answering listener suggested questions on bonus episodes with my mom once a month. Thank you for listening!   Kyle Shutt is an American musician widely known for his guitar playing in the seminal stoner metal band, The Sword, since 2003. From the punk and indie clubs of Austin, TX to arenas all over the world on Metallica's World Magnetic Tour, The Sword climbed the Billboard Top 200 charts to number 17 with their fourth album, Apocryphon. Having played well over a thousand shows, The Sword changed the landscape of heavy metal during the early 2000's and their influence can be heard far and wide in music today. The Sword will be supporting Primus on their A Farwell to Kings tour in 2021. Not one to rest on his laurels, in 2017 Shutt produced Doom Side of the Moon, a heavy metal reimagining of Pink Floyd's greatest hits with an accompanying psychedelic live show spectacular. The completely independent endeavor landed at number 82 on the Billboard Top 200 charts the week of its release. A followup album will be coming in 2022. Shutt turned to crowdfunding in 2018 with the undertaking of a solo album in which he wrote every song and played every instrument over a 14 day period. The Kickstarter campaign went over its goal by 25% and the ensuing support tour saw him share the stage with Electric Six and even included a slot on the Exit 111 Festival. More punk than metal, Shutt's solo career set him apart from being just a stoner rock guitarist and set the stage for many of his other endeavors. A followup solo album will also be arriving in 2022. During the coronavirus pandemic, Shutt kicked his creativity into overdrive with a painting career that saw over 150 paraody versions of himself painted onto copies of his solo album LPs and were sold directly to fans. With subjects from Star Wars characters to superheroes, no pop culture icon was safe from his self portraits. Shutt also launched another successful crowdfunding effort during the pandemic to write the first in his series of lighthearted memoirs, “Written in Stoned”. The Kickstarter campaign once again went over its goal by 25% and the accompanying parody images promoting the book on his social media accounts further cemented his signature brand of humor in the eyes of his fans. At the turn of 2021 The High Way with Kyle Shutt was launched, a self produced podcast featuring musicians and entertainers conversing with Shutt about life in the industry. Guests included Neil Fallon (Clutch), Dave Wyndorf (Monster Magnet) and Buzz Osborne (Melvins) and was immediately embraced by fans. Although he launched the podcast in an admittedly over saturated market, the program quickly rose to number 23 on the Apple Podcast Music Interview Charts in the U.S. as well as other charts all over the world. Having built his fan base without anything but hard work and relentless dedication to his craft in the face of ever changing adversity, Shutt is a unique force in an unsure world and isn't going away any time soon.

If you enjoy the podcast, please take a moment to share it with someone else, maybe even subscribe and rate us on your preferred podcast platform?  Please sign up for the patreon: https://www.patreon.com/mishkashubaly For Patreon supporters, I'll be answering listener suggested questions on bonus episodes with my mom once a month. Thank you for listening! Derek Sheen is a cuddly mess of insecurities and a stand-up comedian from Seattle.  He has released four albums on Stand Up! Records, most recently 2020's Macho Caballero.   Reviewer Richard Lanoie of The Serious Comedy Site said that Sheen "more than proves there are still some great, original, and intelligently dark comics out there. Drew Hunt of the Chicago Reader noted that Sheen's comedy can be "highly personal or emotionally transparent" and compared him to Brian Posehn for his "delivery and lucid, streetwise worldview”.    Sheen wanted to be a comic from an early age. In third grade, he recited an entire George Carlin album side for show-and-tell. He first performed standup at nine, and at an open mic at 13. He played music professionally for 15 years before returning to standup at age 35. His comedy often touches on personal topics such as his depression and alcoholism.   A gifted, one of a kind storyteller, Sheen has become a secret favorite among comedy fans across the globe. He has a gift for mining the dark depths of the human condition and excavating interesting and very personal stories, filled with shocks, laughter and hope. He is also a hopeless and gigantic idiot.   Catch Derek performing in my Sideyard on Nov 18th!

If you enjoy the podcast, please take a moment to share it with someone else, maybe even subscribe and rate us on your preferred podcast platform?  Please sign up for the patreon: https://www.patreon.com/mishkashubaly For Patreon supporters, I'll be answering listener suggested questions on bonus episodes with my mom once a month. Thank you for listening! Leslie Jamison is the New York Times bestselling author of two essay collections—The Empathy Exams and Make it Scream, Make it Burn—as well as a critical memoir, The Recovering, and a novel, The Gin Closet. She is a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine and teaches at Columbia University. She lives in Brooklyn with her family. We talk about writing from the hypnagogic state, dreams, regrets, cleaning up the feces of your child/pet, and also her brilliant recent piece for The New Yorker about the Choose Your Own Adventure book series, which you can read here.

Around the same time, my mother discovered a mass in her throat that was *probably not* cancer and my father was diagnosed with a mass on his kidney that was definitely cancer. So I figured we were probably due for a little catch-up with my mom. I scream, you scream, we all scream for cancer!   If you enjoy the podcast, please take a moment to share it with someone else, maybe even subscribe and rate us on your preferred podcast platform?  Please sign up for the patreon: https://www.patreon.com/mishkashubaly For Patreon supporters, I'll be answering listener suggested questions on bonus episodes with my mom once a month. Thank you for listening!

Brandie Posey will be performing at my house on Nov 9th at 7pm! Please come and hang if you are in the Phoenix area.   Originally from Annapolis, Maryland, Brandie Posey is a stand up comedian, writer and producer who now calls LA's comedy scene home. She has been featured as a performer at the Bentzen Ball, New York Comedy Festival, RIOT Comedy Festival, San Francisco Sketchfest, FEST in Gainesville, Bridgetown Comedy Festival, High Plains in Denver, among many others. She has opened for all of your favorite comics, including Kyle Kinane, Maria Bamford and the legendary punk band Against Me! Brandie has appeared on MTV, E! and Comedy Central. She made her feature film debut in the indie dark comedy, "The Worst Year Of My Life" directed by Jonathan Smith and her first stand up record Opinion Cave debuted at #1 on iTunes & #12 on Billboard.com. Brandie’s comedic style has been described as a “Riot Grrl on acid”. Brandie tours the country, headlining every dark corner with a microphone that will have her - from a basement in Whitesburg, KY to the stages of the Kennedy Center (twice!). She is the co-creator & host of Picture This!, the popular comedy-animation show with consistently sold out shows in Los Angeles & New York. In 2018 Picture This! shot a pilot for TruTV in partnership with Page Hurwitz & Wanda Sykes' Push It Productions. At the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre & The Hollywood Improv, Brandie co-hosts Lady to Lady alongside Barbara Gray & Tess Barker.  Lady to Lady is also a celebrated weekly podcast with over 7 million downloads & loyal fans around the world.  If you enjoy the podcast, please take a moment to share it with someone else, maybe even subscribe and rate us on your preferred podcast platform?  Please sign up for the patreon: https://www.patreon.com/mishkashubaly For Patreon supporters, I'll be answering listener suggested questions on bonus episodes with my mom once a month. Thank you for listening!

David Dondero is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. In 2006, NPR's All Songs Considered named David one of the "best living songwriters" alongside Bob Dylan, Paul McCartney and Tom Waits. https://www.patreon.com/davedondero If you enjoy the podcast, please take a moment to share it with someone else, maybe even subscribe and rate us on your preferred podcast platform?  Please sign up for the patreon: https://www.patreon.com/mishkashubaly For Patreon supporters, I'll be answering listener suggested questions on bonus episodes with my mom once a month. Thank you for listening!