Hunk with Mike Bridenstine

Jade Catta-Preta is the new host of "The Soup" on E!, which returns February 12th. She's also a nationally headlining stand-up comic. Sometimes she even does stand-up in Portuguese in Brazil, because why not? Her favorite things are reality TV and stand-up comedy. Listen. And O uço.

Mary Neely is an actress. She is a director. She is a writer. She played Brido's younger sister in like, 12 Pepcid commercials. She is the best. You will love her. #BringBackTheBurnsFamily

THREE GUEST ALERT! Max Beasley ("Who Charted") is comedian, a filmmaker and an award-winning screenwriter. And Brido thinks he's the best young comic in L.A. A lot of different guests had talked about him on the show, so Brido wanted to get him on too. James Fritz and Brendan McGowan are regulars on the show and will be serving as your political correspondents, helping you analyze all of the Democ...

Nithya Raman is running for Los Angeles City Council. Her resume is bonkers. She worked in the slums of India. She helped to start the SELAH Neighborhood Homeless Coalition. She was Co-Chair of the Silver Lake Neighborhood Council's Homelessness Committee. She was Executive Director of Time's Up Entertainment. She has a degree from Harvard and a Masters in urban planning from MIT. Josh Androsky is...

DeMorge is an insanely talented actor/writer/director in Los Angeles. He just got the lifetime achievement award from Channel 101. Brido mostly knows him from stand-up shows like Blam Blam Blam, which DeMorge produces. He also has a wide variety of interests, including boxing, F1 racing, and heavy metal. They get into all of it. Enjoy. 

Nick Rutherford is a great comedian. He was also in Good Neighbor with Kyle Mooney, Beck Bennett and Dave McCary. He's been a writer for Saturday Night Live. He currently writes for Rick and Morty. He's on Dream Corp LLC on Adult Swim. And a whole lot more. We talk about it. He's fun. You're gonna love him if you don't already.

A smattering of clips from the Patreon aftershow (and/or secret shows) with Cornell Reid, Jared Logan, Howard Kremer, Brendan McGowan, Nate Craig, Matt Dwyer, Dave Ross, Noah Harpster, Megan Koester, Ryan McManemin, and Paul Danke. And it's basically just a flagrant advertisement for the Patreon. Which you should definitely sign up to join. Patreon.com/Brido.  

Matt Braunger is a comedian and an actor. He's been on MADtv, Agent Carter, BoJack Horseman. His comedy albums and specials are some of the best out there. He's been on Letterman, Conan, Comedy Central, Chelsea Lately, The Joe Rogan Experience. He co-founded the Bridgetown Comedy Festival. He hosts the Advice From A Dipshit Podcast. Basically, he's great and you should listen.

TRIGGER WARNING!!! Kenneth Hymphreys is the author of "Jesus Never Existed", the creator of the website jesusneverexisted.com  and the YouTube channel, Jesus Never Existd. So that's what he and Brido talked about. 

Comedian Steve Hofstetter has over 100 million views and 300,000 subscribers on YouTube. You've probably seen at least one of his heckler videos. He's also been all over TV and is an author and syndicated writer. He and Brido discuss his old beef with Larry the Cable Guy, how to defeat a heckler, and they discuss Steve's fantastic documentary about Babe Ruth. Great guest. Great episode. Listen.  

Colt Cabana has been a professional wrestler for over 20 years. He  performs all over the world. He wrestles for New Japan Pro Wrestling. For Ring of Honor. He was Scotty Goldman in WWE. He's the host of The Art of Wrestling podcasts, which has over 300 episodes. He and Brido talk about it.   

Adam Burke ("Wait Wait Don't Tell Me") was in town from Chicago. He loves old Hollywood. So Adam and Brido discuss old movies, classic actors, Adam also explains Brexit, and a whole lot more. He's Australian, kind of. He's Northern Irish, kind of. He's British, kind of. He's American. But mainly... he's a hunk. Listen. 

Juli Grigsby is a professor of Anthropology. She specializes in Race and Ethnicity, Gender and Sexuality, Violence, African Diaspora, Economic and Social Inequalities, Crime, Health Disparities, U.S. Social Movements, Women's Health and Community Organizing , Black Feminist Theory, and Critical Race Theory. Brido met her at a party. They started talking about hot button issues in both of their pro...

Gborie (the G is silent) is so fucking funny. His half hour on Comedy Central comes out TONIGHT! He and Brido discuss the murder of Michael Jordan's father, stand-up comedy, 80's music videos, professional wrestling, sports and mostly make each other laugh a bunch. You'll dig it.

Rojo Perez (HBO, "Conan") was in town. He's hilarious. Rojo and Brido talk about the movie "Cocktail". They talk argue over Derek Jeter being overrated. They both love magic tricks. There's laughs aplenty. Plus listener Joel finally sent a theme song. It's amazing (ly bad). Give this a listen on your terrible commute.

Megan Gailey has done stand-up on every Comedy Central show to ever exist. Plus "Conan". Plus "The Tonight Show" in a couple days. Her debut album "My Dad Paid For This" came out today. She and Brido talk about wedding preparations, the NFL and whatever, it's fun. She's hilarious. You're going to love her.  

See who "Hunk with Mike Bridenstine" decided to dress up as for Halloween this year. 

Charla Lauriston is a comedian and writer (Comedy Central, "Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt", "People of Earth", "Ghosted", "The Last OG"). Essence Magazine listed her as one of 8 black women ready for SNL. Her new album "Karate" is v stream-able. Charla and Brido talk about mindfulness. And weed yoga. And comedy stuff. And other drugs. She's great. You will love her.    

Lizzy Cooperman is one of Brido's favorite comedians. She's an L.A. comedy darling. She's been on TV ("Craig Ferguson", "Corporate", "Crashing"). She's written for TV ("The Eric Andre Show", "Not Safe with Nikki Glaser"). But Lizzy is also one of the most unique performers out there, and she also has one of the most unique performance backgrounds. She's a published poet. She got her start in perfo...

Mike Burns (@DadBoner, "Power Moves with Mike Burns") and Mike Holmes (@holmesjokes) are two of Brido's best friends. They got together to get loose and conversational, tell some stories and talk about some current events. 

Our Jeffrey Epstein Corespondent, Brendan McGowan is back to file a new report. This time with comedian, James Fritz. Two of Brido's favorite people. They also talk Hunter Biden, Bernie Sanders, the new Joker movie and So much more. Allegedly. 

Paul Danke is hands down the best comedy host in Los Angeles. He also knows about secret beaches along the Pacific Coast. Brido and Danke talk about Mitch Hedberg. They talk about Larry the Cable Guy. They talk about Seattle in the 90's. It's everything you've ever wanted to happen in a podcast. 

Back in July, comedian Josh Androsky (Vice, Chapo Trap House) came over to talk about socialism. The episode was mysteriously taken down. It's back. 

Ryan McManemin is the co-founder of A Special Thing Records. He won a Grammy for Patton Oswalt's "Talking For Clapping" in 2017. But he won't brag about it because he's very cool. Give it a listen.

Megan Koester is a comic's comic. She's an alt-comedy darling. She's been a contributor to Vice. She's been on "Corporate" on Comedy Central. She co-hosts the podcast "Grifthorse" with Howard Kremer. She's committed around $100,000 in return fraud. We talk about it.   This episode has a cameo from our Jeffrey Epstein correspondent, Brendan McGowan. He's got a story you don't want to miss.