Gag Economy

Podience! It is high summer and we are moving around and around. Lots of pieces are getting mixed up and rearranged. Life is one big puzzle when you really think of it, isn't it? In this episode we talk about MOVING in NYC, we give some advice on what to do with your DYNAMICS, we define often occuring phenomenon and we end with an EPIC multi generational ghost of gags past. Thank you for tuning in...

Hi Podience! We have YET ANOTHER PIANIST on the pod. Ding ding ding! You heard it right! It's pianist/composer/conductor Mikael Darmanie, the gendre defying piano-core-space-hop artist whose AI biography we have debunked on the pod. Get to know him real time with us and hear our collective ghosts of gags past, listen to us improvise a new music hit and join in our niche classical music sh*t talkin...

Can you ever be fired if you were never hired because you are a gag worker so your job is fake??? This questions ANSWERED plus hard-hitting JOURNALISM regarding Smokey Robinson-gate and, of course, GAG STORIES ABOUT GETTING FIRED AND OTHER GIGS WE'VE BEEN PLAYING AND GHOSTS OF GAGS PAST. 

LADIES AND GERMS - do you know how to access the dark web?? NEITHER DO WE!!!! Please text us detailed instructions to access the dark web and a front and back photo of your credit card.   We've got a RETURN TO FORM in this episode--aka gag stories up the wazoo! A wedding proposal in Central Park gone wrong! A commute with the undead! A private gig for a tech overlord! Buckle up, get your notebooks...

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN - ( trigger warning) it's one day until tax day! We know your freelance taxes are a nightmare! You're so close to giving up and filing an extension! We get it! BEEN THERE - DONE THAT! This year, however, we managed to sneak in right before the deadline so that we could have your tax questions ANSWERED. In this pod, we tell you what it's like to be free of gig FOMO, we tell you...

HAPPY WEDNESDAY, GAGGERS! Congratulations on making it this far into 2025. FYI, in case your body has crusted over in that basement urban hovel of yours, it's almost spring! And you know what that means??? WEDDING SEASON! Wedding season is nigh and it's coming for you. So commiserate with us as we conjure up that great third thing that will free us all. But first, two write-in gags. LOVE U! XOXOXO

Well well well...what do we have here? Looks like our favorite ultra niche meme curator MAXIM MEMEGEROV (@maxim_memegerov) is back in our boudoir. A LOT has happened since our first collab...address changes, spouse schucking, gig having. In this episode, we discuss our new lives, what it's like to gig in the midwest, what it's like to have a "REAL JOB" and much more. We dish hot takes, crack jokes...

Ladies assemble! Take out your rollers and pack that extra makeup wipe because GAG ECONOMY IS BACK! Welcome to the first episode of season 2! Wellness abound, vibe shifts galore, Whac-a-mole but with gigs...it's all happening, PEOPLE! In this episode we talk to return guest, TAYLOR EIGSTI, fresh off his second Grammy win. If you've ever wanted to know what it's like on that glamorous day - this po...

PODIENCE! Welcome to our new era! We are so happy to usher you into our new season. We talk "WELLNESS," we talk, "HOW TO TAKE CARE OF YOUR DELICATE, MUSICIAN BODY". This intro episode is split up into three parts: first, we catch up and unravel our brains' deepest thoughts, second, we go into a light opera wormhole and third, we tell you how it's gonna go from here on out. You signed up for this p...

PODIENCE! This may not be the pod you want but it's the pod it's the pod you deserve. It's giving intense lethargy! It's giving this blackout lasted 365 days! It's giving aud lange syne! In this episode, we gossip, we play guess the gig with a one word clue, we reflect on a year's worth of gigs and gags, we impart life lessons as freelancers, etc etc etc. Did we have it all in 2024? The only way t...

LADIES, LADIES, LADIES! We snagged legendary ZADDY AKA the OG TURTLE DADDY HIMSELF - MISTER DAVE BALARKRISHNAN, VIOLINIST/COMPOSER/GRAMMY WINNER and FOUNDING MEMBER OF THE TURTLE ISLAND STRING QUARTET! JEALOUS? In this penultimate episode of 2024, Mr. Daddy soothes our end-of-the year hysteria with his Aristotelian knowledge and calming presence. He masterfully engages with our unsavory conversati...

PODIENCE! Welcome back to Ho Rogan...I mean Female Car Talk...I mean GAG ECONOMY! In this episode, we talk about our, NOT ONE, NOT TWO...well, actually, yes...TWO DIVORCES! But BEFORE THAT, we catch up, we talk about a special BY women FOR women gig, we give you some freelance rules to live by and we offer a little bonus for you overachievers: how to win at a recording session. Why? Because....WOM...

GOOD MORROW and HAPPY HALLOWEEN, PODIENCE! Extra, extra, HEAR ALL ABOUT IT—this podcast is brought to you with LOVE. You're about to listen to a VERY IMPORTANT episode where we discuss the perils of working FOR friends. Before we dive into this universal freelancer topic, though, we entertain you with jokes, gossip, and reflections on recent gigs we've played in the METRO NEW YORK CITY AREA. In th...

ATTENTION PODIENCE, ATTENTION HUMAN NESTING DOLLS, ATTENTION WORKING WOMEN WHO ARE 30 WEEKS PREGNANT: THIS POD IS FOR YOU! We sit down with the lovely, woman-with-two-hearts-gold-star-podience-listener, KATHRYN KOCH. We gossip, laugh, provide incredibly valuable advice all while spooning on a made in the USA couch. Too bad this is an aural medium for all of you spoon fetish freaks. Anyway, Kathryn...

HERE YE, HERE YE, the podience hath spoken! We have brought forth live from space, AKA Earth cause Earth is also in space, OUR MOST FAMOUS GUEST YET - TAYLORRRRRRR EIGSTIIIIIIIIIII. This blessed pod comes with celeb intel, intensely embarassing gig stories, live magic topped off with a nominal amount of screaming and giggling. We ask important questions like, "can we have your Grammy, Taylor?," an...

PODIENCE! Welcome to our BEST INCREDIBLY NICHE HIGH ENERGY POD YET. We are relaxed, rechaged and READY to go with stories, gossip, advice - you name it. In this pod we ask you to ask yourselves poingiant questions such as: "are you a gig groveler?" or "how fast will you sign up for our masterclass?" or "are you ready for your second puberty?" We of course dish about our latest and greatest gigs, c...

HAPPY POD DAY! In this episode we have the INCREDIBLE, TALENTED AND EXTREMELY JACKED ....wait for it........MICHAEL HEWITT!! He is both known for performing and for teaching men how to be, well, more manly. GRRRR! We deep dive further into our love of opera, wellness, being naked on the job and what it's like to be silent but deadly. Stay to the end for a messy little surprise. 

Podience - it is here: high summer. It also happens to be the HOTTEST SUMMER EVER AKA also the name of NYC's hottest new club where twinks and literal sharks come together in the middle of the broken down G train tunnel to sing motets and madrigals for an audience of the biggest sewer rats you've ever seen. In this pod we discuss how not to be a "she'll do it" girl, we get an insight into a Brookl...

Podience! Gaggers! Gaggle! Gagonians! Here ye, here ye: we doth declare you the supreme listeners of the Gagonian Galaxy and we are we come to you with another riveting episode. In this episode we feature MATT, THE COMEDIAN ET CETERA, FOSTER. We talk clown school, YES, CLOWN SCHOOL, what it's like to be a stand up, a gig of the week from the ladies and TWO(!) ghosts of gags past from Esquire Foste...

Good Day, Gaggers! Look! It's a pod in which we name drop celebs we've seen on gigs! This pod is a jam packed Where's Waldo of celeb sightings. We've got Tom Brady. We've got A Random European King. We've got Oprah. We've got Your Mom.  ALL THIS AND MORE!! PLUS, the longest gag story we've ever included in the pod because it is SIMPLY THAT GOOD.  Buckle up and whip out that celeb bingo out, babies...

PODIENCE! HELLO! WE ARE BACK IN ORBIT! We have many stories to tell from our space travels, some more pleasant than others, however we were sworn to secrecy by the interplanetary CIA so we will have to revert back to gig talk. This pod is brought to you live from our latest travel gig with sound equipment provided to us by our hot sound man, Arnold Schwarzenegger. Thank you, Arnold! In this pod we...

MUST BE READ IN A DAVID ATTENBOROUGH CADENCE: We have been blessed by a reluctant guest, the infamous: Gig Boss. Plucked from high up from above, the Gig Boss makes a rare appearance. It took us over 365 days of poking and prodding, as the Gig Boss does not merely leave his throne for anyone. Gaggers, we present to you the following: A RARE INSIGHT INTO THE INNER WORKINGS OF THE MIND OF A GIG BOSS...

PODIENCE! IT HAS BEEN TOO LONG. AMAZING NEWS, THOUGH, WE HAVE AN OFFICIAL GAG LAIR. The lore behind the lair is too intense to discuss. Think...staring directly into next week's eclipse intense, Top Gun Mach 10.2 speed intense, "B*yonce's the greatest artist of all time" propaganda intense. In this episode we: have an intense catchup and gossip session that includes SOME CURRENT EVENTS, we exhaust...

GREETINGS PODIENCE! We come to you on the DAY OF THE ACADEMY AWARDS to share our takes on the best picture nominees. Yep - we watched them all for you so you don't have to! ALSO, great news, we were nominated in the "best Oscar movie takes from gig musicians" category so you'll be seeing us scam our way to the red carpet any moment now. If you see any cops dragging away two beautiful ladies get yo...

Greetings, podience. We come to you with a Leap Day Pod. If the only thing you do today is listen to this leap day pod, you will have had a good day. CAPICE?! The last Leap Day was in 2020 and we ALL REMEMBER HOW THAT WENT, DON'T WE!? Anyway, in this pod we talk financial advice, Caroline recalls her "for the looks" gag, we read one write in and we discuss some THRILLING classical music news items...