After Later with John Wessling and Tommy Drake

John Wessling comes out of hibernation and welcomes new co-host Tommy Drake to the new and improved After Later.

Helium Podcast Network episode 4 - Billy D Washington Tales of the Virus, Billy D Washington's afro-sci-fi sonic fiction thriller available now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and everywhere podcasts are fouind.

Helium Podcast Network episode 3 - Tommy Drake DryBar special "Mouse" now streaming for free on YouTube.com

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Helium Podcast Network episode 1 - Jay Whitecotton  Twitter - @whitecotton  IG - @jaywhitecotton

The title sounds like the definition of boring, but Paul Oddo makes it interesting. He's a comic from Houston, a highly skilled artist and wood craftsman, host of the Scienpaulogy podcast and he joined me from his studio in Brooklyn to talk about all kinds of foolishness. We talk Rona, art, nihilism, simulation theory, The Bay of Pigs, cocaine in the 80's, taking Toad-derived DMT in a yoga studio...

One of my oldest and dearest spiritual advisors, Dick Wilkins (AKA, Dick Williams, Evil Dick, Spooky Dick, The Advocate of the Void) joins me today after too damn long! He currently resides in "Upstate Manhattan" with his amazing better half, talented playwright Carole Real. We talked about his bold return to college, going to Cal-Berkeley in his 50's, his bold admission of wearing blackface in co...

Tom Rhodes is one of the most respected and highly revered comics working around the world today. I've been blessed to hang and work with Tom on many occasions throughout the years and it always seems that we pick right back up where we left off no matter how long its been. It was a treat to have him on the show on my birthday and I enjoyed talking about Tom's travels around the world and his time...

The True Stories of The Shirtless Man, by John Wessling

Raheel Ramzanali is rising star in the media world and it was a long overdue treat to get to talk with the dude. This one is a real deep dive into the racial culture of sports talk radio, with very little TEA for the haters. I enjoy hearing Raheel's love for radio and sports talk and I know he'll be one of the top in this business sooner than later. It was great to hear about some of the glory day...

The True Stories of The Shirtless Man, by John Wessling

One of my dearest oldest friends in comedy and life, the man who married my wife and I in the Church of Johnny Cash, The Right Reverend and Grand Revelator Robert L. Mungle joins me today. We talk of many things in this episode, the struggles of the small business owner and the trials and tribulations of our heroes in the bar business during the age of The Rona, his time in the sun of adolation at...

The True Stories of The Shirtless Man, by John Wessling

Morgan Preston is one of the very few people who have performed comedy in all 50 US states in 50 consecutive days. Me and my crew may have done it first, but we were like the Gemini astronauts. Morgan and his gang have done it twice and plan on doing it again... and faster. We obviously talked about our experiences Cannonball Running it across the country but we also talked about shou sugi ban, th...

The True Stories of The Shirtless Man, by John Wessling

Tony Casillas, a very funny young man from the DFW comedy scene, did some high quality BS'ing with me today. We agreed on the irritation of social media being so important in our lives and for our careers, which was a surprise to me since he's only 25! We talked honestly about our experiences performing in the age of The Rona and our reluctance to do any more shows until things get right. Then I'm...

Digging deeper into lives and daily schedules of the men and women who "work for a living'"  Tyler Johns tells us about the actual grinds of welding pipelines in the oil and gas industry. Brant Croucher recently shifted full-time to the fun world of general contracting, remodeling old houses in the Montrose area of Houston. Part 3 of Learning a Trade coming soon.

The True Stories of The Shirtless Man, by John Wessling

Very funny comic and talented musician, JR Brow is my guest. He just found out before we recorded the interview that his COVID-19 test came back negative after a week in quarantine. This proves, yet again, that nothing good comes from helping somebody move. We talked about Rona symptoms, how he lost his sense of smell in high school, narcolepsy and driving, selling an invisible vape pen, his Germa...

THE GREATEST OF ALL PART TIME, Adrian Holden joins me today. He's a sports talk guy from Houston, does a lot of play by play and really knows his stuff. We dove right into why sports talk radio is so heavily staffed by white dudes, how the Rona is a nightmare for college and high school sports and so much more. Follow Adrian at @theGOAPT

My neighbors made a new fence because they were tired of seeing my buttcrack and I need AC repair at my house, and then Tim Young joined me from his mountain retreat in Virginia. Tim is the high-functioning leftist Buddhist I always wished I could be. We talk about his construction work on his family property, dating in the woods, comedy's slow return and then finally a detailed instruction on pro...

The REAL Judd Jones, as far as I know, joins me today from the viral hotspot of Florida. We complained about people who have our names, whined about the death of comedy, bitched a lot about people's denial of the coronavirus, mourned the loss of our beautiful hair and totally forgot to talk about our friend Vic Henley. Judd did get temporarily positive talking about the job security of the maritim...

I dig into the TRADES today and my guests are: Ryan Lencl, owner of his own masonry shop in Ohio, Scott McGrath of McGrath Pest Control in Houston TX, Joe Breda of Old Humble Distilling in Houston TX, Richard VanDyke, Industrial Carpenter from Beaumont TX and JB Nader, an air traffic controller in Houston TX.

Matthew Broussard (@mondaypunday) has enjoyed a fair amount of success in the comedy world since peaking as 2012 Houston's Funniest Person. ;) There was a couple of times when phone calls clipped me out of the conversation, but I left them in to hear what Broussard said when I was gone. I like the illegal wiretap vibe of the recording. Matthew joined me from NYC today and we tried to connect with...

Will Marfori is a true original. We started off by discussing his awesome first name, Guillermo, and how he was named after his grandfather, a Filipino Hero...and then things spiraled into hilarious mayhem. Will is one of the bravest live performers I've seen and its clear that the current world we live in has made him even more fearless.