Papa's Basement

Hear the story of Vickie, a middle-aged Greek importer that my mother tasked me with procuring three items from for New Year’s Day (a link to my mom’s ridiculous email , mentioned in the episode). Co-host Mollie Heckerling and I also meditate on the weird ways that fame can either find us or elude us (in our case, very much elude us), and what it takes to keep going (answer: amphetamin...

Mollie Heckerling joins the show again as we discuss adult attachment style (aka why certain people you date are fundamentally going to make you batshit crazy), our OCD mothers, how we’re spending Christmas, and why maybe, just maybe, we aren’t going to make it, after all. Click here to listen to the latest episode of Papa’s Basement in your browser. Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Spotify St...

Congrats to co-host Eva Kriksciun and her decision to ruin her life . But the show must go on, and comedian Mollie Heckerling has decided to join the Papa’s Basement family as co-host. We discuss the past month of our lives, which has seen me living on my own in the city and ask a girl out (yes, I’m actually straight) and Mollie working on a puppet show where the puppets are (possibly...

John is out of the house and watching his friend’s sickly dork of a cat. Hear all about it! Click here to listen to the latest episode of Papa’s Basement in your browser. Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Spotify Stitcher YouTube Follow this episode’s cast on Twitter and Instagram: Eva Kriksciun – Twitter – @OrchardEva , Instagram – @OrchardEva John Papageorgiou &#...

We discuss John’s Halloween costume and the party he ultimately attended, as well as the conclusion of his improv classes at his current theater meaning the end of his social life. Also, Aaron Rodgers lying about his Covid vaccination status, and Eva disclosing that she’s going to crap the floor when giving birth. Even if she doesn’t have to. Oh, and our shared obsession of Blind...

After 14 years, we have recorded the 700th episode of the Papa’s Basement Podcast. I actually reminisce about the show’s history for once, instead of celebrating it the way I do most of the anniversary episodes, which is playing a kazoo sound effect and then doing a normal episode. Click here to listen to the latest episode of Papa’s Basement in your browser. Apple Podcasts Googl...

I duped someone into going out on a date with me, and she was game enough to come on the show afterward and discuss what that was like (and keeps the crying to a minimum). Click here to listen to the latest episode of Papa’s Basement in your browser. Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Spotify Stitcher YouTube Follow this episode’s cast on Twitter and Instagram: Eva Kriksciun – Twitte...

I had an entire show planned, then I remembered as soon as Eva and I started recording that it was the 20th anniversary of my dad’s death tomorrow. So I did an entire episode about that instead. I promise it’s funny, we just talk about his chain smoking and giant Greek immigrant hog. Click here to listen to the latest episode of Papa’s Basement in your browser. Apple Podcasts Goo...

Give us your money via Patreon! -Co-host Eva is pregnant…and her baby better get me a gift. -I overcome a disease that afflicts the elderly. -Stories from my level four improv grad show. -Hunting for an apartment so I never have to close the bathroom door again. -The thing I’m geekiest about in life is Dune . And I still won’t see it in a theater. Click here to listen to the late...

I reveal to Eva the various maladies that are claiming my rotting, 40-year-old body, and I then bring up a point that my mom made the last time we both watched The Godfather : the severed horse head scene is maybe the most ridiculously implausible scene in an otherwise fantastic movie. Just a real oasis of bs. Give us your money via Patreon! Click here to listen to the latest episode of Papa&#8217...

Fez Whatley of the legendary Ron & Fez show passed away this week. We talk about how gifted a performer he was, the struggles he fought in his later years just to keep going, and how unbelievably kind he was to me the one time we had a chance to meet and talk. RIP, Big Cat. Tonight we play Taps on our cakehorns in memory of you. Give us your money via Patreon! Click here to listen to the late...

John sees Chappelle perform live at the Anthem in DC and Mikael discusses his dive into baseball card collecting, aka the white trash version of buying stock. Give us your money via Patreon! Click here to listen to the latest episode of Papa’s Basement in your browser. Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Spotify Stitcher YouTube Follow this episode’s cast on Twitter and Instagram: Mikael Jo...

Mikael tells tales of his interactions as a child with an older neighbor that strongly resembled Beavis’ & Butthead’s hero, Todd, including an Ocean’s 11 -like heist of the man’s porn. Give us your money via Patreon! Click here to listen to the latest episode of Papa’s Basement in your browser. Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Spotify Stitcher YouTube Follow this e...

I’m embarrassed to type out what this episode’s title was derived from, so you’ll have to listen and find out. Eva also sticks up for herself (how dare she!), and I discuss how, at age 40, I’m pretty much falling apart like a reanimated corpse. Give us your money via Patreon! Click here to listen to the latest episode of Papa’s Basement in your browser. Apple Podcasts...

I got a speeding ticket in Arlington, VA. If anyone knows how to get out of speeding tickets in Arlington, VA, you will be my new best friend. Give us your money via Patreon! Click here to listen to the latest episode of Papa’s Basement in your browser. Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Spotify Stitcher YouTube Follow this episode’s cast on Twitter and Instagram: Mikael Johnson – Tw...

John gets hooked on caffeine, Mikael does his best to talk him down from his bender. And we saw a toad. Give us your money via Patreon! Click here to listen to the latest episode of Papa’s Basement in your browser. Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Spotify Stitcher YouTube Follow this episode’s cast on Twitter and Instagram: Mikael Johnson – Twitter – @MikaelLJohn , Instagram...

Mikael is finally watching Game of Thrones 20 years later, and I have an encounter with a knife-y hobo with a striking resemblance to Bruno Mars. Give us your money via Patreon! Click here to listen to the latest episode of Papa’s Basement in your browser. Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Spotify Stitcher YouTube Follow this episode’s cast on Twitter and Instagram: Mikael Johnson –...

A recall of my CPAP (sleep apnea) machine because IT CAN GIVE YOU LUNG CANCER has me on edge. And my buddy, comedian Rich Killiam, stops by to tell us some stories of his disgustingly decadent life in Berlin. Give us your money via Patreon! Click here to listen to the latest episode of Papa’s Basement in your browser. Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Spotify Stitcher YouTube Follow this episod...

I watched The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It and offer my thoughts on the entire Conjuring universe (for starters, women love these movies because they all want to have a threesome with Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmigia). And an incident late in the episode drives Eva and I to explore what a John Papageorgiou in an alternate timeline where his mom walked in on him pounding one out looks like. G...

Mikael and I discuss Zack Snyder’s new Netflix flim, Army of the Dead. We also get into why all of Clint Eastwood’s movies would be better with orangutans, especially a racist one for Gran Torino. *In this episode, I mistakenly asserted that actor Bill Duke was in the film 48 Hours . He was not, and I have taken my life in apology for this disgusting oversight. Give us your money via P...

We ponder the question: would you be sad if you learned the world were ending in a month? This might shock you, but I’d apparently be very okay with it. But I won’t spoil Eva’s response to leave you in suspense! Give us your money via Patreon! Click here to listen to the latest episode of Papa’s Basement in your browser. Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Spotify Stitcher YouTu...

A conversation about Elon Musk’s Mother’s Day SNL performance leads to Eva and I discuss ing the surprising, original impression I’d go with should I ever stand before Lorne Michaels for an audition. I also disclose why single men buy dogs. Give us your money via Patreon! Click here to listen to the latest episode of Papa’s Basement in your browser. Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Spotify Sti...

A trip to Filipino fast food restaurant Jollibee culminates in a huge Papageorgiou family fight. Because why wouldn’t it? Give us your money via Patreon! Click here to listen to the latest episode of Papa’s Basement in your browser. Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Spotify Stitcher YouTube Follow this episode’s cast on Twitter and Instagram: Mikael Johnson – Twitter – @...

DMX’s untimely death leaves Eva, a drug treatment counselor, thinking she could have saved him had she just been there for him these last few years. Prince Philip also died, and he cheated a lot but it’s okay because he was really tall. A reminder that you can’t just snap a person’s neck like they show in the movies (with that satisfying “crack” sound to accompa...

It’s Mikael and Eva in my backyard to record an episode with topics as varied as what I would have done as a king during the days of prima nocte, Eva’s incredible impression of Jennifer Tilly, Mikael’s desire to give a man a cuckoo-bird cuckolding, the latest in the Thomas Middleditch saga, and why getting your nips pierced is good for the health. It’s a fun episode. We hop...