Clear the Dance Floor

Colb kicks off 2024 with a bang as he welcomes Nick Naney (The Tonight Show) to the airwaves for some good old fashioned movie talk, but not before Nick takes part in the brand new segment, Whatcha Been Cookin' Lately? Hear he and Colb beg for callers the minute Nick starts talking about therapy, plus best Jack Nicholson stories, Yoda's date with Fergie in 2006, the line from the unwatchable 2005...

Colb closes out 2023 with Maggie Crane (Side by Side) and Allie Viti (How To with John Wilson) live in studio! Topics include: the baffling popularity of video podcasts, celebrity journalism, the New York Times' Sunday Routine column, tons of Boston talk, Ben Affleck's perpetual meme-ability, May December, Killers of the Flower Moon, Poor Things, and much more! A veritable delight of an ep! Clear...

Paige Smith-Hogan and Nora Jefferies of the long-running Sounds Great! comedy show in Brooklyn return to the studio to help Colb create a Christmas Special in the style of Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, and Bob Hope. Highlights include Nora's topical monologue, Paige's reworking of "Silver Bells," a visit from Rudolph to talk about donating to Radio Free Brooklyn, and so much more! An ep for the ages...

Colb welcomes back the dynamic duo of Tim Keck (Nerdy for 30 podcast) and Matt Strickland (MTV) to draft NBA players according to how much fun they would be to hang out with. Clear the Dance Floor airs every Sunday afternoon at 4 on Radio Free Brooklyn. Listen live at radiofreebrooklyn.org or the RFB mobile app. Theme music by Ex-Husband Logo design by Amir Khan

Radio Free Brooklyn's own Mike Joseph (The Vibe from Mike's House, Detoxicity podcast) joins Colb in the studio to round out the year in music, including bad albums with good titles, a round of "Too Low/Too High" on Rolling Stone Magazine's list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, and of course, the Taylor Swift vs. Beyonce rivalry that took the culture by storm this year. Plus, Mike weighs in...

Winnie Stack and Christine Covode of the sketch group Sleepover join Colb in the studio to prep the audience for a tasty Thanksgiving treat. Topics include: the mystery Netflix movie that made Winnie cry (Nyad, it was Nyad), internet anxiety, karaoke etiquette, and more! Plus, a call from Tess from Chicago who seems baffled by the very idea of a radio show! The CDF hot streak cannot be stopped! Cl...

Comedian Kevin O'Brien joins Colb in the studio to pay homage to the medium of radio itself. They talk college radio shows, drinking mores, moving to New York, stand up comedy, the time Tom Scharpling yelled at Kevin on The Best Show, and more, before finally admitting that at the end of the day, they just want to be free. Clear the Dance Floor airs every Sunday afternoon at 4 on Radio Free Brookl...

Comedian Sylvie Borschel joins Colb in the studio to submit to his incessant questioning about her days as a blackjack dealer at a casino outside of Philadelphia. Topics include why craps is a perfect game, the camaraderie among the other employees, and player dos and don'ts. We also squeeze in a little diversion about Sylvie's move to New York, her experience doing improv and performing character...

Comedian Dan Moore joins Colb in the studio to cover a whole host of topics, from the annals of mid-00's MTV to his days as a middle school substitute teacher, during which he scandalized one of his students! Colb can't stop laughing during the Surreal World segment! Akmal Tajihan joins by phone for most of the episode! This is what we in the biz call, "a very good episode." Clear the Dance Floor...

Brooklyn Comedy Collective Managing Director, improviser extraordinaire, and upcoming New York Comedy Festival performer Julian Hernandez visits Colb in the studio to talk ALL KINDS of things: his approach to his latest solo show, whether or not the movie BIRDMAN holds up, and of course, the writings of French philosopher Jean Baudrillard! Plus, a call from MATT STRICKLAND to report on the WFMU Re...

Colb welcomes comedian Emma Rodgers back to the show to celebrate the end of the Writers' Strike and finally promote some of the exciting new projects they've had in the can this whole time. They also talk radio legend Casey Kasem, how good How To with John Wilson is, and Emma takes the show right into the gutter with her disgusting bathroom talk! Plus, new bed music from Ex-Husband, aka James Cro...

Improviser, cinephile, filmmaker and more, Patrick Keene, calls in to help Colb celebrate the 25th anniversary of the year 1998. What begins as an attempt to take a holistic look at the culture of that year (Clinton impeached! Michael Jordan's second three-peat! Seinfeld ends!) descends into a conversation about movies exclusively, including Hollywood's take on Godzilla, Armageddon vs. Deep Impact...

Colb welcomes writer and Buffalo Tom guitarist Bill Janovitz to the airwaves to discuss his fantastic new book, Leon Russell: The Master of Space and Time's Journey Through Rock and Roll History. They talk about the music scene in LA in the 60s, Leon Russell's rise to stardom as a solo artist, recording with such artists as The Rolling Stones, the Beach Boys, and Bob Dylan, and the Elton John coll...

Colb welcomes Kevin Bauer and Tim Keck, the hosts of the Nerdy for 30 podcast, to celebrate the life of Jimmy Buffett, talk Barbie and Oppenheimer (now that Colb has finally seen both), and capitalize on Tim and Kevin's nerd movie knowledge by taking standalone movies like Hereditary, The Witch, and Elvis and transforming them into big budget franchises. Clear the Dance Floor airs every Sunday aft...

Sara Hennessey and Rachel Coster, hosts of the podcast Epic Lyfe, join Colb live in the studio, and the callers can't get enough! Comedians Whitley Watson and Akmal Tajihan call in to talk summer barbecues, celebrity sightings at restaurants, Labor Day Weekend, Colb's trip to see Bruce Springsteen at MetLife Stadium (and Little Steven's show-stealing moment), earnest mantras, and so much more! Plu...

The Radio Free Brooklyn stream picks up an alternate universe, in which Colb reads a selection of his recent essays. Topics include a 2012 trip to the Museum of Modern Art to see 1977's The Spy Who Loved Me on the big screen, what Nick Pinkerton's book on Goodbye, Dragon Inn gets right about visits to the cinema and the life of the street, the unexpected fact that Norman Mailer and Joan Didion saw...

Colb welcomes comedian and fellow Dylan fanatic Ryan Ciecwisz to the show to count down some of Bob's strangest turns of phrase. Plus, Art Pepsicola (Tim Keck) calls in to report on the ongoing Edinburgh Fringe Festival, including his one-man show "My First (and Last) Haircut." Clear the Dance Floor airs every Sunday afternoon at 4 on Radio Free Brooklyn. Listen live at radiofreebrooklyn.org or on...

Character comedian extraordinaire Haley Hepworth joins Colb in the studio to talk all things summer, including beach vs. pool, park hangs, amusement parks, Coney Island, Disney World, Disneyland, big outdoor concerts, and more! Clear the Dance Floor airs every Sunday afternoon at 4 on Radio Free Brooklyn. Listen live at radiofreebrooklyn.org or the RFB mobile app.

Colb celebrates his birthday live on the air by talking Barbenheimer with Tim Keck (Nerdy for 30). The lack of calls is disgraceful, not that Tim and Colb need any help in that department. Colb accuses the audience of sucking and being bad. Clear the Dance Floor airs every Sunday afternoon at 4 on Radio Free Brooklyn. Listen live at radiofreebrooklyn.org or the RFB mobile app.

Colb welcomes writer Ray Padgett to the show to talk about his new book, Pledging My Time: Interviews with Bob Dylan Band Members. Order Ray's book here: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/pledging-my-time-ray-padgett/1143665873 Flagging Down the Double E's, Ray's Substack: https://dylanlive.substack.com/ Clear the Dance Floor airs every Sunday afternoon at 4 on Radio Free Brooklyn. Listen live at r...

Carolyn Egan (UCB) joins Colb in the studio to welcome the show back from its two-week vacation and guide beleaguered listeners through their lonely summer weekends. Plus, the debut of the new segment "Bob Dylan Sings Karaoke Now, in 2023," the return of the spoken word intro, and a call from a source deep in Hollywood with insider access to the drama at Turner Classic Movies, and how Discovery ex...

Comedian Chloe Troast joins Colb in the studio to turn her weekly stand-up show Cherry into, naturally, a baking show. They also talk hellish voiceover classes, the new Clear the Dance Floor guest questionnaire, and more! Plus, they field a call from Jonny Sports, the Radio Free Brooklyn Sports Correspondent! Clear the Dance Floor airs every Sunday afternoon at 4 on Radio Free Brooklyn. Listen liv...

The wonderful Lili Anolik, author of Hollywood's Eve, host of Once Upon a Time at Bennington College, and writer of so many terrific pieces, joins Colb in the studio to talk about, well, a whole lot! They cover Lili's friendship with Bret Easton Ellis and how the Bennington College podcast came to be, her ongoing updates to her book about Eve Babitz, taking her 8- and 10-year-old kids to see Mulho...

Comedian and photographer Matt Strickland (@fotobrood on Instagram) joins Colb in the studio to talk STUFF. You know, like DVDs, CDs, records, and the like--all the crap that fills our houses but that we love nonetheless. Together, Matt and Colb discuss the self-destructive joys of collecting, the brief moment in time where DVDs were double-sided, how often they actually put on the records that th...

Colby welcomes comedian Tim Keck (Nerdy for 30) back to the studio to revive one of their favorite formats: The Overtime Show, where they talk about sports, e-sports, and the role of art in society. Topics include an NBA Playoffs check-in, as the East and West find their way to the finals, the impending release of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom and media's celebration of the franchise's...