Papa's Basement

Mollie reveals she moved to Vermont, and I reveal I’ve been on dates with human women and performing live comedy. And this is why we haven’t done a podcast in three weeks. I’m sorry. It won’t happen again (yes it will). Click here to listen to the latest episode of Papa’s Basement in your browser. Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Spotify Stitcher YouTube Follow this epi...

Hear all about the adventures Eva and I had during consecutive weekends spent in the hayseed hellhole of Northern Virginia that is Manassas. Click here to listen to the latest episode of Papa’s Basement in your browser. Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Spotify Stitcher YouTube Follow this episode’s cast on Twitter and Instagram: Eva Kriksciun – Twitter – @OrchardEva , Instagr...

Ra cha cha or or Crotchester? Mollie and I talk the second half of my trip to Rochester to hang with my buddy Sarah and her bf Adam. Episode 728. Click here to listen to the latest episode of Papa’s Basement in your browser. Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Spotify Stitcher YouTube Follow this episode’s cast on Twitter and Instagram: Mollie Heckerling – Twitter – @MollieSchmo...

Mikael Johnson returns to Papa’s Basement to dissect a horrific Hinge date he recently went on. In terms of the terrible date checklist, this one might have it all. Click here to listen to the latest episode of Papa’s Basement in your browser. Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Spotify Stitcher YouTube Follow this episode’s cast on Twitter and Instagram: Mikael Johnson – Instag...

Part one of my trip to Rochester, including a pit stop in Scranton to see sites from The Office and dine at Alfredo’s Pizza Cafe, eating a spiedie , accidentally taking an entire two week course of antibiotics in a day, and a stop at the site of the Seneca Falls Convention, which I for some reason remembered from AP American History 25 years ago. Click here to listen to the latest episode of...

Mollie and I discuss how we spent our Fourth of Julys (Julies?), including me losing my shit on a neighbor, Mollie talks about advising her mom on how to get some when she was nine (her, not her mom), and I discuss watching Eva’s dog Princess. Click here to listen to the latest episode of Papa’s Basement in your browser. Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Spotify Stitcher YouTube Follow th...

Eva and I discuss how garbage the Supreme Court is and the 45 minutes it took me to buy an iPad at Best Buy. Click here to listen to the latest episode of Papa’s Basement in your browser. Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Spotify Stitcher YouTube Follow this episode’s cast on Twitter and Instagram: Mollie Heckerling – Twitter – @MollieSchmollie , Instagram – @MollieHecke...

The glorious Mollie Heckerling brings her Dear Abby best to answering a slew of questions I lob at her, ranging from social media unfollowing etiquette to standard jizz opacity to the IQ of Joey Lawrence and the rest of the Lawrence Brothers. It’s a great listen. She’s so damn funny. And I’m really good at recording her! Click here to listen to the latest episode of Papa’s...

I embrace my Greek roots by soaring on gossamer wings of phyllo dough to the St. Nicholas Greek Folk Festival after a dinner with my lovely buddy Mike Sacks. And a night of improv ends very unexpectedly. Click here to listen to the latest episode of Papa’s Basement in your browser. Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Spotify Stitcher YouTube Follow this episode’s cast on Twitter and Instagr...

After dodging it for two years, I finally contracted the modern plague. Hear all about how my life was single-handedly blown up in the most punishing way possible. Click here to listen to the latest episode of Papa’s Basement in your browser. Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Spotify Stitcher YouTube Follow this episode’s cast on Twitter and Instagram: Mollie Heckerling – Twitter &#...

Eva and I celebrate all that is Sylvester Stallone by each doing our impression of the man as we celebrate his career. (We had no reason for this, it wasn’t his birthday or anything. Just the joys of a podcast no one pays money for.) We also discuss the aftermath of my latest live improv comedy show, a new ADHD toy for me to play with, and how I spent a summer between 6th and 7th grade in a...

The second (and final) episode about my recent visit to NYC covers marching around half of Brooklyn on foot to witness a never-ending sea of hipsters taking photos of themselves in front of crap, multiple improv shows, a trip to the famous Katz’s Deli, and FINALLY MEETING MOLLIE HECKERLING!!! Click here to listen to the latest episode of Papa’s Basement in your browser. Apple Podcasts...

Part one of stories from my road trip to NYC, including hanging out with a pair of LOVABLE Brooklyn drug dealers, a trip to the homeland of the Warriors aka Coney Island, seeing James McAvoy on stage in “Cyrano” (and why NYC audiences are just as embarrassing as audiences anywhere else), and a drunken brawl I was privy to in my hotel at 4 am. Enjoy! Click here to listen to the latest e...

Click here to listen to the latest episode of Papa’s Basement in your browser. One of the great comedy minds of our time, Mike Sacks, is back on the show to talk about his latest work of satire, Passing on the Right , as well as its incredible companion book, I Am Super Pumped! Let’s Do This Shit!!!!!!!!!!!”: The Marketing of “Passing on the Right” , which chronicles...

Eva Kriksciun grew up on the good side of the tracks…the Greenbriar side of the tracks. It wasn’t until her middle school years that she was forced to rub elbows with Brookfield filth like myself. And oh, did we say and do things that shocked her and her upper-lower-middle class sensibilities. hear all about them in this latest episode of the podcast, as well as my recent dive into yog...

Yes, by law, Mollie and I discuss Chris Rock getting slapped by Will Smith. But I also cover a bunch of random things that happened to me since I last did an episode with Mollie, including getting a lady cop (the technical term) locked out of her vehicle into her car, an extremely embarrassing (but on-brand) moment at the gym, and realizing I might finally be thin enough to be worthy of attention...

Eva’s back! In podcast host form! We discuss such important topics as Eva’s baby bragging to the other babies that his mom has kept it TIGHT, me descending into full basic bitch-dom with my recent purchases of a massage gun and a copy of The Body Keeps The Score , and I close things by educating Eva about one of the most disturbing scenes in movie history, courtesy of Midnight Express . Click here...

We are actually recording videos of the podcasts now and uploading them to YouTube! So that’s a thing! Mollie Heckerling and I also discuss the Ukraine situation, focusing on Louis C.K.’s trip over there (to presumably masturbate in front of Putin to neutralize the target), as well as the ageless caucasoid beauty of Vanna White. Click here to listen to the latest episode of Papa’...

Eva Kriksciun returns as I reveal mini-mental breakdown led me to quit all of my improv-related activities and binge watch Euphoria as I watch my friend’s cat. Is that a step in the right direction? Or am I in a bad, bad place? Gotta listen to find out! Click here to listen to the latest episode of Papa’s Basement in your browser. Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Spotify Stitcher YouTube...

John talks about making a Hinge profile, Mollie talks about what she’s most proud of after having her kids (it’s not what you think), and we discuss the disgusting urban legend (which I choose to wholeheartedly believe) surrounding Hollywood legend Danny Thomas and glass coffee tables. Click here to listen to the latest episode of Papa’s Basement in your browser. Apple Podcasts G...

After shamefully being bested a few years ago by the Clio Yogurt Bar, I throw my hat back in the ring to see if I can master my old foe. Mollie Heckerling and I also discuss how my body is falling apart like an old G.I. Joe toy tugged apart at the limbs despite my recent attempts at fitness. Click here to listen to the latest episode of Papa’s Basement in your browser. Apple Podcasts Google...

I totaled my car in the snow and recount the harrowing tale for you with co-host Mollie Heckerling. We also talk about the new John Cena / James Gunn show “Peacemaker” on HBO, and Mollie gets into a brilliant exploration of hair metal bands and 80s masculinity that had me flashing back to the days that Mötley Crüe had me spelling “Jöhn” with an umlaut. Click here to listen...

Mollie somehow tries to talk about infants dying as a bad thing, but I manage to change her tune by reminding her how adorable (and affordable!) a baby-sized coffin must be. We also talk a friend of hers whose cheating husband tried to convince her that she got herpes from gym equipment (and not his philandering penis), and I come clean about genuinely hating dogs as a species. Click here to liste...

Mikael surprising us with a massive, audible fart. For the better part of two decades, if you were talking improv comedy in Washington, D.C., you were talking Shawn Westfall. The man established the curriculums taught to countless performers in the city, founded and ran his own improv theater (RIP Unified Scene !), and enthralled innumerable audiences with his longtime comedic partner Mikael Johns...

Remember Eva? She’s back! In mom form! Yes, co-host Eva Kriksciun returns to the show after giving birth to talk with me and Mollie Heckerling about being a new mom. They bond over brooding, I sit on the sidelines, kid-cucked, and then Eva introduces the podcast to the term “meconium.” Is it an early-90s black metal band that burned down churches in their native Norway? A radioac...