Papa's Basement

Longtime cohost and even longertime (not a word) friend Eva Kriksciun got married. Hear all about it as I pepper the story with my salty language in our latest comedic triumph. 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 In...

We rehash how I was properly exalted by loved ones on my 40th birthday, Eva apologizes to all those bald men with beards she slandered, and we pay our respects to Erik Myers , a hilarious comedian that died this week. 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 th...

Days away from my 40th birthday, I reflect on my life with a depth, clarity, and vulnerability I rarely offer. JK we discuss dating sites for men with acorn peens, Eva “Size Queen” Kriksciun losing her virginity at age 13 to adult entertainer Peter North, my ability to guess age/race/sexuality/class through hearing a voice alone via my love of stereotypes, and some incredibly disgustin...

Eva and I discuss our favorite surprise birthday party memories, factory towns for fancy people, and why I now urinate off of my front porch. Let us share 30 minutes of your life as you freeze to death in a snowdrift. Viva climate instability! Click here to listen to the latest episode of Papa’s Basement in your browser (and here to give us your money via Patreon). Apple Podcasts Google Podc...

Mikael Johnson joins me as we talk…well, I remember we talked the films of Adam Sandler. Ironically (or maybe not ironically, given the episode title), I don’t recall a ton about this episode. Oh, yeah, we discussed our Valentine’s Day plans as well. There. That’s the episode. Click here to listen to the latest episode of Papa’s Basement in your browser (and here to g...

Anand “Big Brown” Gahlot is a guy I met over a decade ago as we both operated DC-area podcasts and were attempting to get on-air. Yes, that’s how old we are: we did podcasts before podcasts were even a goal unto themselves (or even called podcasts), and were instead weird little episodic demos for radio jobs that you hosted on a website or burned to CDs that you then handed out to frie...

Eva delights in my telling the story of how listening to Tony Robbins in my mid-20s set my life down an objectively horrible path. I also talk about how screwing around with our phones at all times has even ruined my ability to watch quality movies, and I now only stream films that I can comfortably watch half-assed while texting and browsing (e.g., my joyful viewing of Heartbreakers and All The R...

It’s snowing, which means I talk with Eva about why I hate snow (that’s…that’s what I do). I also discuss two folks I know via Twitter that have started OnlyFans accounts and me wrestling with my cheapness in deciding whether or not I wanted to see acquiantances naked, which is the best thing in life, and makes me feel like most people do about a snow day. OnlyFans accounts...

Happy New Year! In our first episode of the year, we close the episode with an amazing story of Mikael Johnson getting catfished by a child into driving out to a date that never happened not once BUT TWICE. It’s an amazing story, and the rest of the episode is also fantastic, featuring: My autistic level of Metallica knowledge, a summary of what World War I-era plastic surgery looked like (c...

Comedian Mollie Heckerling joins us to talk about how everyone spent their 2020 holidays, what constitutes a Christmas dinner, as well as the time she put on a wedding dress and stalked John Travolta at the tender age of four. Cute! Click here to listen to the latest episode of Papa’s Basement in your browser (and here to give us your money via Patreon). Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Spotif...

Snapping a nude to send someone used to mean something. Either you had to use a webcam, which snapped pics with the resolution of a Game Boy, or pull out a digital camera, take your photo, stick the SD card in your computer, and then email the nudes. What barbarism. We also talk the revelation that is DiGiorno’s croissant crust pizza, and a local grocery chain by the name of Giant Food doing...

Author Mike Sacks returns to our show to promote his latest parody film novelization Souchers , a send-up of such 90s touchstones as Clerks , Singles , and Reality Bites . Hear all about Mike’s life in Brooklyn during the pandemic, his amazing, oddity-filled Instagram, and his one-sided celebrity Twitter beefs in our latest episode, and make sure to buy Slouchers on Amazon. Only $0.99 on Kin...

Show topics: -Juuuuust how lousy is it to re-gift something if the gift is awesome and not a fruitcake or some other such garbage -Eva mocks the disgust I feel when women date young, dumb, handsome men, but my complete comfort with men dating young, dumb, attractive women. I AM NOT A HYPOCRITE, PEOPLE! TELL HER THESE ARE DIFFERENT THINGS AND IT IS GROSS AND WRONG WHEN WOMEN DO IT!!!! -My mom compl...

Click here to listen to the latest episode of Papa’s Basement in your browser (and here to give us your money via Patreon). It’s been a busy few weeks since we last recorded. Some highlights of the episode: -Mikael Johnson is back! If you’ve been waiting for a challenge to Eva’s gynecocracy, it’s here! -I’m a person that dabbles in purchasing and re-selling in-d...

The Krispy Kreme Halloween donuts I mentioned in the last episode? Yeah, I didn’t get them. And, well…I might have flipped out in line at that news. Hear about that and two other stories involving my Halloween gluttony, then reach out to us and let us know via Twitter, Instagram, or email, which ones feature behavior that certifies me…a fatass. Click here to listen to the latest episod...

Krispy Kreme has debuted donuts with Hallween monster face designs, and it’s taken all of my willpower to not consume them the entirety of October. But Halloween, it’s going down. We talk about my planned gluttony, Eva’s run-in with a trained squirrel that mimicked her every move, and your responses to whether or not male shirtlessness around the house is okay. Click here to list...

Eva and I vote early in person in Virginia’s 2020 elections. Here all about our harrowing journeys at the polls and what went through our minds as we surveilled our fellow voters. Oh, and my mom insisted that I tell you all that, at least in Virginia, people age 65 and older are allowed to drive up and vote from their cars. Are you happy, Mom? Do I still get to live here for another month? G...

I, a man, don’t wear a shirt around my house. Is this weird? Am I a gross slob? I want you to leave your feedback, either by emailing inpapasbasement@gmail.com, or hitting us up on Twitter/Instagram at @papasbasement. We will read your takes on the next show. Click here to listen to the latest episode of Papa’s Basement in your browser (and here to give us your money via Patreon). Appl...

Eva K., co-host of the podcast, learned immediately after recording last wee’s episode maskless in a backyard with me that she had Covid. She’s been sick. And I’m a hypochondriac, so then I started to feel sick. This led to her infecting loved ones and me finding out what it’s like to take a dump while wearing an N95 mask. Also on the docket? I take my first bike ride as an adult man, which lead t...

Summers Restaurant, where I started performing standup and more recently performed improv, has closed due to the pandemic. I mourn, and Eva and I talk PEN15 , Cobra Kai , and everything else we’ve watched/done in the past month since last recording. Click here to listen to the latest episode of Papa’s Basement in your browser (and here to give us your money via Patreon). Apple Podcasts...

We have on Eva’s longtime friend Steph, the most Italian quarter-Italian since Robert De Niro, to join us as we pick up a topic from last week: people that should have thanked us AND DID NOT! Also, she bitches about the quality of deli meat in Nashville. See? Italian! Click here to listen to the latest episode of Papa’s Basement in your browser (and here to give us your money via Patre...

We have on longtime listener @BrendaBren, who’s spent over a decade for the United States Postal Service, to talk about what she’s seen go on lately as an employee. We don’t get much of a scoop (Louis DeJoy has sadly not sent any damming internal emails that she’s witnessed), but it was fun to have her on, regardless. Click here to listen to the latest episode of Papa&#8217...

Click here to listen to the latest episode of Papa’s Basement in your browser (and here to give us your money via Patreon). Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Spotify Stitcher YouTube Follow this episode’s cast on Twitter and Instagram. Eva Kriksciun – Twitter – @OrchardEva , Instagram – @OrchardEva Mikael Johnson – Twitter – @MikaelLJohn , Instagram – @...

Fat people behaving fatly, hiding their fatty fat food like fatties. Click here to listen to the latest episode of Papa’s Basement in your browser (and here to give us your money via Patreon). Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Spotify Stitcher YouTube Follow this episode’s cast on Twitter and Instagram. Eva Kriksciun – Twitter – @OrchardEva , Instagram – @OrchardEva Mika...

Click here to listen to the latest episode of Papa’s Basement in your browser (and here to give us your money via Patreon). Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Spotify Stitcher YouTube Follow this episode’s cast on Twitter and Instagram. Eva Kriksciun – Twitter – @OrchardEva , Instagram – @OrchardEva Mikael Johnson – Twitter – @MikaelLJohn , Instagram – @...