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  • 404: Jeremy Alder and Almost A Grown Man

    404: Jeremy Alder and Almost A Grown Man
    2025/10/21

    Jeremy Alder! Comedian! Ex-preacher! Almost A Grown Man! Friend! Delight! More!

    We have a great chat! You have a great listen!

    About Jeremy Alder:

    Homeschooled in the heart of Texas by fundamentalist missionary parents with a penchant for conspiracy theories, Jeremy’s childhood was anything but conventional. Now married with children of his own, Jeremy’s material delves into the trials and tribulations of growing up homeschooled, the complications of religion, the mysteries of marriage, the chaos of parenting, and the existential crisis of aging—all with a healthy dose of skepticism and silliness, dry wit and charm.

    Jeremy headlines comedy clubs and bars around the country and has opened for several nationally touring acts, including Demetri Martin, Russell Howard, Tom Papa, Aparna Nancherla, Nicole Byer, and Chad Daniels. He has been a featured performer at numerous comedy festivals, including Laughing Skull Comedy Festival, SF Sketchfest, Big Sky Comedy Festival (Best of Fest), Asheville Comedy Festival, and Cleveland Comedy Festival (Best of Fest). Jeremy’s Dry Bar Comedy special, “Purity Pants”, has generated over 6 million across platforms.


    About his album "Almost A Grown Man":

    Jeremy Alder’s debut comedy album Almost A Grown Man is out courtesy of Blonde Medicine. A ‘güero’ born, raised and homeschooled in South Texas, Jeremy was steeped in a world of alternative facts and fervent beliefs and learned early on to find humor in life’s absurdities. Alder started comedy 10 years ago and now he’s got an autobiographical hour of jokes and stories about growing up weirdly religious and homeschooled in Texas, young marriage, remarriage, and fatherhood. Also, plenty of God, sex, drugs, and guns to keep it interesting.

    The album was recorded in the historic small town of Hillsborough, North Carolina, where Jeremy lives. Said Alder, “I recorded the album at a bar around the corner from my house. There were a lot of locals there, including the mayor, as well as my wife and kids. It felt like a community event!”

    Jeremy went to seminary after college, where he developed a humorous and provocative preaching style that sometimes got him in trouble. When a personal crisis led him to stop preaching and going to church, he turned to standup. The comedy community quickly became his new spiritual home, which he will be the first to tell you, is not a good thing.

    Jeremy met label heads Dominic Del Bene and Jessica Mozes by coincidence outside a show and found another supportive community in Blonde Medicine.

    Almost a Grown Man will is available wherever comedy is heard.



    Thanks for listening!

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    For part two, subscribe via Apple Podcasts or just click on over here to Patreon!
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  • 403: Ophira Eisenberg and Picking Weird Things

    403: Ophira Eisenberg and Picking Weird Things
    2025/10/13
    Ophira Eisenberg! Comedian! Writer! Story-teller! Host! Friend! Delight! More! Ophira is taping her next 1-hour comedy special, produced by Lewis Black, at The Comedy Cellar on Nov 9, 2025 at 5pm and 7pm. You can follow me @ophirae everywhere except for TikTok where she is @ophiranyc. We have a great chat! You can have a great listen! Also, this is only the first HALF of our chat. For part two, subscribe via Apple Podcasts OR merely click on over here to Patreon! PS Below is more about Ophira, from the bio on her website. Enjoy that as well! Ophira Eisenberg is a Canadian-born standup comedian, writer, and host. She hosted NPR’s comedy trivia show Ask Me Another for 9-years, where she interviewed and played silly games with hundreds of celebrities including Sir Patrick Stewart, Awkwafina, Rosie Perez, Yo-Yo Ma, Bob The Drag Queen, Nick Kroll, Chelsea Handler, Jim Gaffigan, Michael C. Hall, and so many others. As a comic and a parent to a 6-year-old, Ophira is the host of the new comedy podcast Parenting Is A Joke co-produced by iHeart Radio and Pretty Good Friends Productions. The show launches on October 18th. She can be seen live, regularly headlining across the United States, Canada, and Europe delivering her unique blend of standup and storytelling to a loyal fan base of smart, irreverent comedy lovers. She has appeared at Montreal’s Just for Laughs Festival, The New Yorker Festival, The New York Comedy Festival, Moontower Comedy Festival, Bumbershoot, The Nantucket Film Festival, Women in Comedy Festival and more. Her new comedy album at special Plant-Based Jokes is available on iTunes and is streaming now on YouTube. Lauded as “hilarious, high risk, and an inspiration,” Ophira filmed her comedy special Inside Joke, when she was 8½ months pregnant. The show’s material revolves around how she told everyone that she was never going to have kids, and then unexpectedly found herself expecting at “an advanced maternal age.” Her other comedy albums, Bangs! and As Is She has appeared on Comedy Central, This Week at The Comedy Cellar, Kevin Hart’s LOL Network, HBO’s Girls, Gotham Live, The Late Late Show, The Today Show, and VH-1. The New York Times called her a skilled comedian and storyteller with “bleakly stylish” humor. She was also selected as one of New York Magazine’s “Top 10 Comics that Funny People Find Funny,” and hailed by Forbes.com as one of the most engaging comics working today. Ophira is a regular host and teller with The Moth and her stories have been featured on The Moth Radio Hour and in two of The Moth’s best-selling collections, including the most recent New York Times Bestseller: How To Tell A Story: The Essential Guide to Memorable Storytelling from The Moth. Ophira’s first book, Screw Everyone: Sleeping My Way to Monogamy (Seal Press), is a comedic memoir about her experiments in the field as a single woman, traveling from futon to futon and flask-to-flask, gathering data, hoping to put it all together and build her own perfect Frankenmate. It was optioned for a feature film. She is also sought after as a brilliant interviewer and moderator, and has interviewed dozens of celebrities, writers, and actors including Neil Gaiman at New York’s Town Hall; Jane Curtain, Anne Beatts, Heather Gardner, Sudi Green, Alysia Reiner, Jeanne Tripplehorn, David Crane, Jeffrey Klerik at The Nantucket Film Festival; Eugene Levy, Catherine O’Hara, Daniel Levy and Annie Murphy at the 92nd Street Y; and Nell Scovell and Sloane Crosley at The Mark Twain House. Originally from Calgary, Alberta, Canada, Ophira graduated with a Cultural Anthropology and Theater degree from McGill University. She now lives in Brooklyn, NY where she is a fixture at New York City’s comedy clubs including the Comedy Cellar, Gotham Comedy Club, New York Comedy Club and Carolines, as well as Brooklyn’s famed performance venues The Bell House, Union Hall, and Littlefield. She resides with her husband and son where she can regularly be seen drinking a ton of coffee.
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  • 402: DNA and Dark Horse

    402: DNA and Dark Horse
    2025/10/03

    DNA! Comedian! Journalist! Friend! Delight! More!

    DNA's debut comedy album, Dark Horse, is free on all the platforms, or buy it from BandCamp. You can find out more about his comedy festivals, shows, and upcoming movie at votedna.com or @votedna on all social media. He is also a journalist and you can read his stories on SubStack at Genetic Strands.

    We have a great chat! You can have a great listen!

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    46 分
  • 401: Abby Wambaugh and The First 3 Minutes of 17 Shows

    401: Abby Wambaugh and The First 3 Minutes of 17 Shows
    2025/09/29

    Abby Wambaugh! Comedian! Writer! Improviser! Friend! Delight! More!

    Abby is bringing her show, "The First 3 Minutes of 17 Shows," to Dixon Place theater in New York City, October 1-25! Presented by Hannah Gadsby!! Tickets at www.abbynyc.com!

    About the show:

    After waking up in the hospital following a late miscarriage, Abby—still high on anesthesia—made an unexpected decision: to become a comedian. Now, in her uniquely goofy and heartfelt hour, Abby shares her 17 best ideas for her first show.

    More about Abby from Abby's website:

    ABBY WHO-MBAUGH??

    ABBY WAMBAUGH is a multi award-winning American comedian, writer and improviser who lives in Copenhagen and regularly performs in the UK. Abby debuted at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2024, winning Best Newcomer in the Jones ISH Comedy Awards, Best Show in the European Comedy Awards, and Best Comedy in the Theatre Weekly Fringe Awards. Abby was also nominated for Edinburgh Comedy Awards Best Newcomer, Comedian’s Choice Best Newcomer, NextUp’s Biggest Award in Comedy and Best Newcomer at the 2025 Chortle Awards. Abby has a BA in Humor and Social Change, and was an Autumn 2021 Resident of St. Nells Humor Writing Residency (run by New Yorker cartoonist and comedian Emily Flake).

    We have a wonderful chat. You have a wonderful listen!

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    44 分
  • 400: Liz Glazer and the 400th Episode Milestone Celebration Spectacular Also Including a Conversation of Form and Function and a Great Many Other Things!

    400: Liz Glazer and the 400th Episode Milestone Celebration Spectacular Also Including a Conversation of Form and Function and a Great Many Other Things!
    2025/09/23

    Liz Glazer! Comedian! Friend! Delight! More!

    Liz is one of my dearest friends, and whenever Broccoli & Ice Cream hits a milestone number of episodes, I like to have her on to celebrate, and that's what's happening here!

    Liz is great!

    You can check out her debut stand-up comedy special "Do You Know Who I'm Not?" on Youtube for free!

    AND you can listen to us have this delightful chat right here right now.

    Also, this is only the first HALF of our conversation.
    For the second half, subscribe via Apple Podcasts OR merely click on over here to Patreon!
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    33 分
  • 399: Skulk and The Many Incessant Lives and Subsequent Deaths Deserved of Skulk the Hulking

    399: Skulk and The Many Incessant Lives and Subsequent Deaths Deserved of Skulk the Hulking
    2025/09/15
    Skulk! Comedian! Musician! Story-teller! Friend! Delight! More! Skulk and I have a great chat about this project and more! THE MANY INCESSANT LIVES & SUBSEQUENT DEATHS DESERVED OF SKULK, The HULKING is a fictional video podcast built on music, performance, storytelling, and Ai visuals. Following the War to End All Wars and having depleted most of our resources, all people - by choice or by force - move to The City That's Always Falling Apart to try and stave off extinction. Giant forces inhabiting this final city both personify our desires and attempt to sway our fates, but an oafish beast known as Skulk tries to save us all. At times dark, goofy, aggressive, honest, and full of hope, The Many Incessant Lives and Subsequent Deaths Deserved of Skulk, The Hulking explores the decisions we make as a people - an allegory for our globalized world, the weaponization of capitalism, and the age-old ‘problem’ of the human condition. Skulk, The Hulking is an ogre-like dolt trying to help a world that has fallen apart, yet he seems only to find unique paths to an early demise, while an Earth - knowing unfortunately that he’s the planet’s last hope - keeps bringing him back to life. He is a giant force that represents us all, trying to figure things out, wading through the muckiest parts of life, fighting the forces that none of us have the energy to fight against, making the choices none of us wants to make, failing miserably, like all of us probably would. No one even wants him to do it but man, his hope just can’t be killed…or maybe he’s just an idiot. In this story, things are rarely all-bad or all-good. The audience is asked whether they approve of the reasons they do what they do and if the ends justify the means. Characters in the podcast originally appeared in Skulk (the band’s) live shows and music videos. Lady Baghead and the Followers of Baghead were originally depictions of Rene Magritte’s surrealist painting “The Lovers”. Hammerhands, a wrecking ball of hate with hammers for hands was played in Skulk music videos by Henry Zebrowski (Last Podcast on the Left, Wolf of Wall Street). And Camelman - originally a prancing merrymaker in a camel mask who pulled popsicles from his whitey tighties and handed them to the concert crowd - has evolved into the gangly overlord of our tantilizing addictions. With visuals created using MidJourney, the ‘near misses’ of Ai creation become a style. When creating with Ai, it is nearly impossible to recreate the same exact character with subsequent prompts. Yet since Skulk is constantly dying and being re-born out of whatever material the earth can find at the time, these glitches are given context and woven into the tale. The differing looks of the central characters becomes commentary on how we all appear differently based on the observers’ biases, and of course all Ai is ‘nurtured’ by our culture’s biases. Each podcast episode ends with Ai-altered music videos from Skulk (the band). Says Skulk (the artist) “I believe people fight against Generative Ai for the wrong reasons. It is a tool. How, not if it is used is the question. I believe what people actually want is regulation of Ai. It is when it can be used for harm that it gets sketchy.” The goal is to help the audience question, with a mind further-opended, why those in power, their enemies, and they themselves do and believe the things they do and believe. MORE ABOUT SKULK: Skulk, The Hulking (Steve Pasieka) is a multifaceted artist whose creative journey spans music, comedy, and technology. Part of Chicago's improv scene in the early 2000s, he eventually co-founded the improv group pH. His commitment to his craft led him to train at renowned institutions iO and The Annoyance, eventually joining the iO house team, The Chorus, and earning coaching by improv legend Noah Gregoropoulos. After moving to New York, Skulk transitioned to music, founding Skulk, The Hulking - fusing theatrical performance, socio-political lyrics and dark electronic beats. Opening for iconic musicians like Capadonna of Wu-Tang Clan and C-Knowledge of Digable Planets, the project grew to a full band releasing three albums. Recently, Skulk has become a skilled user of AI tools, creating images through MidJourney, animating visuals with MotionLeap, and exploring the artistic potential of generative AI. He believes that AI, like any tool, is only as good as the meaning and care you put into it, which he explores in his most recent project. The Many Incessant Lives and Subsequent Deaths Deserved of Skulk, The Hulking brings together many facets of Skulk’s past work in a fictional video podcast built on music, performance, Ai and storytelling. AND THIS IS ONLY THE FIRST HALF OF OUR CHAT! For part two, subscribe via Apple Podcasts OR simply click on over here to Patreon.
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  • 398: Mx. Dahlia Belle and the Gender Agenda

    398: Mx. Dahlia Belle and the Gender Agenda
    2025/09/07

    Mx. Dahlia Belle. Comedian! Speaker! Accidental activist! Friend! Delight! More!

    From her website:

    "Hilarious, and the best sort of mess, Portland-based comedian MX. DAHLIA BELLE has been compared to a Swiss Army knife - different tools to extract sharpness, softness, vulnerability, hope, and wicked wit. She's been declared one of '11 Trans Comedians... Funnier Than Dave Chappelle' by Out Magazine and has written for Cosmopolitan Magazine, The Guardian, The Stranger, and Portland Mercury. She has been a repeat guest on NPR, CBC, XRAY FM, and Portland Radio Project (PRP). Her live performances have included NW Black Comedy Festival, Upper Left Comedy Festival, Mutiny Radio, and an awkward conversation with John Waters and Piers Morgan. You can catch Dahlia in the popular Netflix special Hannah Gadsby’s ‘Gender Agenda’ or in a comedy club near you!"

    I agree with it all!

    We had a wonderful chat. You can have a wonderful listen! Enjoy!

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  • 397: Thom Norman and FarmKind

    397: Thom Norman and FarmKind
    2025/08/29

    Thom Norman! Co-Founder and Director of Outreach for FarmKind! Friend! Delight!

    Thom is the co-founder of FarmKind, a non-profit whose mission is to connect compassionate people with impactful charities that are fixing factory farming.

    Thom and I had a great chat and you can have a great listen!

    Also since we spoke, Thom let me know that they helped raise over $2M for farmed animals via the Dwarkesh podcast!

    Anyone who would like to try out their offset calculator to give to neutralize their personal impact on factory farming can see that here: https://www.compassioncalculator.org/

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    31 分