Hey Idiots!

Hey Idiots! Ari Shaffir is on this week to talk to me about Judaism and growing up as a good(?) Jewish boy. We talk about the state of gender equality in comedy, as well, and how some men need to just shut the fuck up and work harder, but also, so do some women. It's a great conversation where I learn a lot. Or at least enough to start planning my extremely late Bat Mitzvah. I forgot to ask hi...

Hey Idiots! This week my guest is the incomparable Alex Carabaño! I met Alex recently doing a show in New York and instantly loved him and so will you! He's so fun and silly and owns an AMAZING vegan restaurant called, "VSPOT". We're eating there during the interview so heads up you are going to hear some sloppy talking with a mouthful, mostly from me, because I'm a trashcan th...

Hey Idiots! This week I'm sitting down with my hilarious friend, Yedoye Travis, to talk with him about his love of anime. I know almost nothing about anime other than how much I'd love to look like one of those anime girls with pink hair and ridiculously giant tits (Oh, yes, we definitely go there.) Is Yedoye the odd man out as a young, black man who loves anime or is that a big thing in b...

Hey Idiots! This week, I sit down with CEO/Founder of BadMirror. TV --and cryptocurrency lover--Sevan Chorluyan. Sev is a young and driven entrepreneur. He tells me all about launching Badmirror--a crowd-powered, personalized video broadcasting platform that connects local and global communities--and how he is funding it with cryptocurrency. There is a lot to learn in this episode and we have some...

Hey Idiots! This is an episode that I relate to waaay too closely. And if you listen regularly, you can guess why. It's about ADHD! I interviewed my friend and roommate (who also happens to be a funny comedian) Jenn Scott! We talk about ADHD, we have very ADHD moments, we laugh a fuck ton and it's just a great chat that is a very candid look into living with the attention span of a squirre...

Hey Idiots! It's another COME UP episode! This time, my guest is my friend Buddy Hutton! We started together (with my first come up guest who you may remember, Jeremy Scippio) and he quit and now maybe he is coming back?  Listen and hear all about where life took him and how he ended up back in LA and what his hesitations are. I basically plunge into his soul. Buddy is a great guy and so smart...

Hey Idiots! This one's for all my millennials! And all my listeners who don't understand millennials! My guest this week is Social Media Strategist, Lynae Cook. We talk all about building a career in social media from the days it was in it's infancy. Lynae is a badass friend of mine who has so many talents, but we focus in on all her social/digital media wisdom.  She offers a lot of in...

Hey Idiots! This week I'm joined by my friend Benji Aflalo to talk about what it's like growing up in Beverly Hills! Benji was the first person to ever bring me on stage at The Comedy Store potluck open mic back when he was a door guy and now he's the star of his own television show, Alone Together ! (Also, starring the hilarious Esther Povitsky!) We talk all about his childhood and ho...

This week I am sitting down with my hilarious friend, Jake Weisman! Jake and I have known each other for years since we both started doing comedy in Los Angeles. He's one of my favorite comedians and people. In this interview, we talk all about creating a TV show and what goes into that from developing the initial idea, to selling, to filming and all the other magical things.  Jake is currentl...

Happy New Year, Idiots!  I'm kicking off the New Year with an awesome guest: Baron Vaughn! (Grace & Frankie, MST3K, Corporate) Baron is an incredible comedian and actor, but more than that, he's a super awesome person with an amazing mind! We talk about lots of stuff on this episode including Baron's life as a new dad, comedy, being empaths and how growing up with addicts gave us a...

Hey Idiots! I was supposed to put out this little holiday special with my lovely and hilarious BFF Dana Moon BEFORE I left to be silent in the desert over Christmas but it didn't happen before I had to depart. BUT since the stories are still funny and it's not too far from holidays, I thought, "WHY WASTE IT!?" So here you go. My late little gift to you. Dana and I talking about our...

Hey Idiots!  This week I'm joined by my hilarious friend, David Perdue! We talk about his experience as a Morehouse man and the ins and out of historical black colleges! He is so funny and also super patient with all my dumb questions! Like does he hate white people? Did they hide lifesize cutouts of MLK around campus? Can I come to Morehouse homecoming?  It was a super informative interview b...

This week I sit down with a close family friend, Pony, AKA John Connerton of the 2nd Battalion, 4th Marines (known as "The Magnificent Bastards!") and we discuss his time serving in the Vietnam War and how it affected him. We talk everything from Purple Hearts, to the treatment of returning soldiers, PTSD and having to go off the grid for nearly a decade after the war. It's an interest...

I'm joined this week by the ever enthusiastic, Emery Emery. Emery is the host of two podcasts: "Skeptically Yours" (along with the lovely Heather Henderson), and "Ardent Atheists". Emery and I have been friends for a few years and I've been a guest on both of his podcasts in the past. Emery is a passionate Atheist. Being my hippie, spiritual self, there have certainly been...

This week's guest is Mistress Catherine Walters, a Pro Dom I met at a comedy show. She tells me what it's like dominating men for a living. We discuss the difference between a pro doms and a dominatrix. She tells me her specialty and some weird requests or other dark things that some other doms do. We also talk about how it effects her relationship and family lives. It's a very interes...

Hey Idiots! This week I have my long time friend Alyssa Yeoman as my guest. We sat on the bench for our state championship hockey team and now we are both stand up comedians! She featured for me all weekend in Seattle and we had an awesome time! We talk about her family dynamic as a woman who was adopted by a white mom and black dad, how that has affected her self-identity and we get into comedy t...

This week is a little heavy but it's a good interview as long as you ignore my sick voice and constant sniffling. I spoke with Lisa Curry about growing up in a tumultuous household in Indiana. It gets pretty dark but it shines a light on how prevalent abuse may be and how it effects people for the rest of their lives. We had some deep moments but as two close friends and comedians, we still ma...

Hey idiots! My guest this week is Caitlin Cutt from White Wine True Crime. We are talking pregnancy! She is nearing the end of hers so I wanted to find out what it's like being pregnant and all the weird stuff that goes along with it. I only know the cartoonish version of pregnancy and it turns out, it's so different for everyone! We had a lot of laughs and she's just really awesome. C...

This week I am joined by my friend, Johan who is an undocumented immigrant enrolled in the DACA program. We talk about his childhood and how the creation of DACA changed his life and what it means now that President Trump has said he is cancelling the program. It was an interesting look into a lifestyle I had no experience with and I learned a lot. We also managed to have some good laughs despite...

Hey Idiots!  This is another special edition episode where I look inside the journey of a comedian and this time it's Pallavi Gunalan who is barely a year in. We talk about how her parents feel about her comedy career and where she sees herself 5 years from now. I'm going to have her back on a separate episode to talk science stuff and you'll hear why. She's great! You're great...

This week I sit down with the dynamic Kasey Koop! Kasey is amazing and we met doing stand up comedy a few years ago. Since then she's done so many things including writing a column for Playboy, getting sober, and becoming a stripper. Not necessarily in that order.  Everyone wonders what goes on in the mind of a stripper and nobody ever assumes a stripper is sober. Kasey answers all of our ques...

This week, I sit down with Chris Medina  (click that to go to his website and get a reading! DO IT!) to find out about being a psychic. Does he see dead people? Does he see when people are going to die? How do I know he's not just saying general shit to impress me? We talk about skepticism and he tells me things to look out for in a "psychic" to avoid being conned and he explains the d...

This week's guest is my friend Chelsea Frank who opens up about her eating disorder. Is she anorexic or bulimic? Was she overweight as a kid? Did Hollywood make her this way? Do people with eating disorders hate fat people? Does someone have to go to the bathroom with you when you're in rehab for an eating disorder? All this and more ignorance, as well as a lot of terrible #dadjokes Subscr...

This week I'm joined by one of my best friends, Dulcé Sloan to have a very important conversation about being a black woman in the United States in 2017. I have been wanting to have her as a guest since before I even launched the podcast but our schedules hadn't worked. After recent events, I had to find a way to squeeze this conversation into our busy lives because it needs to be heard. L...

Recently my brother overdosed on what I assumed was the drug I knew he was addicted to. It turns out, his addiction isn't limited to one specific thing. I didn't know he was still doing any drugs. A lot of people in my family never knew he had done them at all. How much was because he was hiding it? How much was everyone else's denial? This is an interview with him, from the hospital w...