Hey Idiots!

Hey Idiots! This week my guest is Jenny, the owner, booker and pretty much ring leader of Laughs Unlimited in Sacramento! She talks to me about how she ended up owning a comedy club and what it's like to run one. I tackle a lot of the misconceptions comedians spread about booking and working the road, she even gives me some insight I was completely oblivious to! This is a cool peek behind the...

Hey Idiots! It's been a year and a half since my brother overdosed and I sat with him in a hospital room asking about the road that lead him there.  We talk about how he views all of that now, his current successes and hurdles, as well as his outlook for the future, given his past experience. This conversation meant a lot to me and I hope it reaches some people who need it. If you're strug...

Hey Idiots! I got to interview a comedian I have looked up to since I started and it did NOT disappoint! Shawn Pelofsky--gay icon, military touring extraordinaire--sat down with me to talk about her new special and told some crazy stories about her life and where comedy has taken her. We talk about our sorority days--we were both Chi O's :) And we compare college debauchery and more. She's...

Hey Idiots! Amazing episode this week! I'm joined by hilarious comedian Taylor Tomlinson! We talk about life on the road and how we're both attempting to slow down on touring to take care of ourselves and how difficult that actually is. There's so much good stuff in this episode from self-love to relationships to being women in comedy and so so so much more. We talk about how past trau...

 Hey Idiots! What an incredible interview I have for you this week! My hilarious friend Eric Lampaert joined me and we talked about everything under the sun AND ABOVE IT! (Seriously, we got into the big bang theory and how everything is a reaction of what's already happened and he explains why we don't really have any control)  It's an amazing interview and we go deep into the reasons...

Hey Idiots!  Enjoy this overly lenghty episode of me, alone, spouting off about the California propositions which I loosely attempted to educate myself on eventually leading to me being pissed off at society, as a whole, and still not even super sure of what the fuck I'm doing. Don't forget to vote or whatever I'm supposed to say. Join me and other idiots in the private Facebook group...

Hey Idiots! Here's a brand new episode of a young man named Logan Salvadore I just met while traveling through Prague! (I hope to do more of these through my touring!) He had a cool life story and we didn't even get to dig into all of it! I learned about a religion I'd never heard of which, like many religions, has some pretty good principles buried in the BS of organized religion. He...

Hoodily boodily doodily Idiots! This week is all about Sweden and Swedish culture! Why are they so tall? Who is the Swedish chef based on? Do they eat Swedish fish? Do they get drugs for free? Why are they all so good looking? Where are they hiding the mammoths? Is Sweden actually the same place as Switzerland and we are all being tricked? Are there even Jews in Sweden? Which culture looks the mos...

Hey Idiots! Oh. My. God. This interview was SO fun! I sat down with my friend Sydnee Waggoner, who I used to play soccer with back in middle and high school. She now lives in PRAGUE and is a PROFESSIONAL OPERA SINGER! WHAAAT!?? So cool! She came to my show and then I had to ask her all my dumb questions about opera. But ALSO she was Miss Alaska once upon a time so of course I had to pry and find o...

Hey Idiots! My guest this week is Austrian comedian Paul Jacobs who talked to my about Hitler, Krampus, the EU and more. This episode is insane and I laughed so hard throughout it because I genuinely knew so little about Austrian culture and it was so funny to learn some of it. It's all the weirdest customs of white people in a magnifying glass. I mistook the EU to just specifically mean Euros...

Hey Idiots! I sat down with Austrian ex pat comedian Reginald Barris to have a conversation that went all over the place (and back to Austria several times).  Reginald started comedy a few years ago in Vienna, Austria when there was no English speaking comedy scene. He has helped build the scene from the ground up and helped me get all the venues locked in for a few of my European shows, as well a...

Hey Idiots! I sat down with one of my Edinburgh flatmates, Eleanor Conway, to talk about sobriety and her journey to recovery. It's a really honest conversation about the struggles of maintaining sanity in sobriety and having to walk a line when you're in a field surrounded by people who love to party. Eleanor is really open and honest about the downward spiral that lead to recovery and ho...

Hey Idiots! I sat down with my roommate and friend, Jessica Singer, to talk about what it was like being born to parents who had experienced the death of their previous child. Jessica was born after the death of her brother and we get into a deep discussion about how that affects a household and what kind of pressure that puts on the other children in the family. We lighten it up a little with som...

Hey Idiots! This week I'm talking to my friend, Eric Freedman about his "day job" as the road manager for Sublime with Rome. A lot of comedians have other jobs to pay the bills until comedy takes off full time. Eric's job just happens to be way cooler than everyone else's. Enjoy! Follow Eric on Instagram! Follow Eric on Twitter! Check out Tomorrow's Nobody! Go see Sublime W...

Hey Idiots! This week I sat down with the founder of the longest running all female comedy show and class, Lisa Sundstedt. I met Lisa when I first moved to LA and did her class after confidently emailing her asking to do her show, which was only for students. I took the class thinking "ugh I can't believe I'm taking a comedy CLASS" and ended up getting great bits and amazing friend...

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Hey Idiots! Just in time for Independence Day (for my American listeners, probably more of a "Good Riddance Day" for the UK) I have my friend Jamie Kilstein on to talk about codependency. Jamie is a comedian, and like many of us, he struggles with codependency. We chat about both of our histories with it, the work we've done (or haven't done) to help change our patterns and where w...

Hey Idiots! FINALLY A NEW EPISODE AND IT'S A FUN ONE! The hilarious Amy Shanker joins me to talk all things ghosts! We get paranormal and she tells me the story of her ghostly encounter. More to come with Amy and with lots of cool guests! ENJOY! Follow Amy on Instagram! Follow Amy on Twitter! Join the Ignorance is #Blessed Patreon for hot bonus content and fun gifts from me on the road! Follow...

Hey Idiots! My guest this week is my hilarious friend, Jeff Arcuri! He's so great. We planned to talk about growing up as the only boy in a house full of ladies, and we did...a little. But we went so many other silly places like fish boogers and farting in relationships. WHEN IS IT OKAY? CAN YOU FART AT WORK? I STILL DON'T KNOW! We spend a decent amount on butts. And dicks. We're hones...

Hey Idiots! This week I am joined by my hilarious friend, Ian Fidance! We talk about his psychotic break, realizing he was bisexual, sobriety and acceptance. We literally laugh and cry. It's funny, and eye opening and just god damn beautiful! LISTEN! You will love Ian because it's impossible not to. He's an angel.  Enjoy the episode and then follow him into the wilderness that is life....

Happy belated Mother's Day, Idiots! My guest this week is Maeret (pronounced "merit" like the badge) Lemons. We have a lot of laughs and a really open and honest conversation about her life as a single mom trying to chase a dream. Spoiler alert: It's not easy. She talks about accepting the imperfections that come with trying to balance both and we talk about the difference in women...

We did it, idiots! We made it to 50! We're 50! I'm 50! I have quit everything else I've done in comedy besides stand up after less than 10 episodes. I think. I don't know. But I really love you guys and this podcast and I'm so thankful! My best friend Dana Moon came in and interviewed me! We answer your questions! We talk about what we are into in men and in bed and how we feel...

Hey Idiots! I sat down with my amazing and brilliant friend Meagan Grainger to talk about her childhood growing up in a small, conservative, Christian sect commonly referred to as "Two by Twos" It was an interesting insight into the religion itself but more importantly, a very insightful peek into why Meagan is the way she is and how it still affects her life to this day. You're going...

Hey Idiots! Meet my friend, Mike Recine. He's great. He's a classic New York Italian. And maybe autistic? We dissect it. He tells me about growing up in New York with a mom who's a bad ass, an autistic brother. We talk about food and how being an adult is weird as fuck. We talk about human ego and whether gender differences are social or biological. We also about John Voight getting hi...

Hey Idiots! This week I'm talking to my hilarious friend Wendi Starling all about the deep (wet, tight) insides of being a sugar baby.  She tells me about how she got into it (in a blackout) and how it has changed her perspective and life. It's an inside look at a world that's always fascinated me. We go into great detail about the world's oldest profession and how it has changed t...