Shakeytown Radio

Troy Conrad (rationalentertainment.com) is a comedian, writer, and producer whose projects include Comedy Jesus, Angry Town Hall, The Bush Monologues, Set List, and The David Feldman Comedy Podcast Radio Show. On this episode, Gene and Brodie chat with Troy about religion and atheism, getting fired from comedy clubs, the Edinburgh Comedy Festival, and the struggle to not be a hater. Also, the Chri...

Karen Kilgariff is a comedian, writer, singer/songwriter/musician, producer, and actress who was a cast member on “Mr. Show With Bob and David” and “The Book Group,” as well as the head writer of “Ellen.” She is working on a new CD with her comedic songs, two of which she performs live on this episode, recorded on St. Patrick’s Day. Karen, Gene, and Brodie talk about Irishness, dread on the colleg...

Part two of Gene and Brodie's conversation with Roger Nygard, the filmmaker behind the new documentary, "The Nature of Existence." We talk about stand-up comedians, southern wrestlers, confrontational preachers, sci-fi authors, and existential crises. Also, music from quite possibly the greatest band of all time... Hickey. (MATTY LUV RIP)

Roger Nygard is the filmmaker behind "Trekkies," "Trekkies 2," and the new documentary "The Nature of Existence," which looks at the similarities and differences between religious, scientific, and atheistic worldviews on life, the universe, and everything. In part one of their conversation with Roger, Gene and Brodie cover his vast television and film career, his role in stand-up comedy, his obser...

James Adomian, live from the Dresden Room in Hollywood, California! Only here, on The Shakeytown Radio Hour! James talks to Gene and Brodie about his stand-up, sketch, acting, and writing career and his impersonations of Jesse Ventura, Alex Jones, Brody Stevens, Paul F. Tompkins, Eddie Pepitone, and many more. The conversation also turns to “Saturday Night Live” and their monopoly on network telev...

A Shakeytown Radio Minute: Gene and Brodie praise "Parks and Recreation," one of them is seen outside a hotel with Chloë Sevigny, we get a Pauley Perette follow-up, and a discussion of big spoilers from "The Shield" season five.

A Shakeytown Radio Minute: On this Valentine's Day minisode, Frank Black sings to the atoms in your heart, Gene's just talkin' 'bout mine shafts, Brodie stands between Roastmaster General Jeffrey Ross and "Real World" bad boy Puck, and Jimmy Dore knows a secret.

A Shakeytown Radio Minute: Gene and Brodie talk about Podcast Squared, booster shots, volunteering, and being respectful of Charlene Yi in tense traffic situations - all this in 10 minutes!

A Shakeytown Radio Minute: Gene and Brodie test a new type of minisode with the iPad. They discuss lunar travel, Czech baked goods, Neil Hamburger, poochies (to the EXTREME!), the difference between Wendy O. Williams and Lydia Lunch, the authenticity of Pauley Perrette, the Coen Brothers' "Miller's Crossing," spousal intellectual cowing, leap year birthdays, and the most important part of Presiden...

Gene is back from San Francisco and has some stories about SF Sketchfest! Brodie brings up the future of pay-per-podcast. We discuss the Oscar nominations for Best Picture and how all men are rightfully portrayed as jerks in "The Social Network," debate the casting of people with unconventional looks on "The Shield," predict future guests of the show, and enjoy the music of The Dead Kennedys and B...

Where's Gene? Where's the new episode? Who's Troll? All this in two minutes and 27 seconds!

Jackie Kashian (@jackiekashian on Twitter) is a comedian and host of "The Dork Forest," a podcast which explores odd hobbies and fascinations. She joins us to discuss gaming, sci-fi, the power dynamics when siblings have authority over each other, Atlantic City's tastiest sandwiches, and much more. Gene channels the spirt of CCH Pounder and Brodie makes the best Galileo joke ever. Also, the music...

Jimmy Dore is a comedian who hosts the popular podcast "Comedy and Everything Else," "The Jimmy Dore Show" on KPFK 90.7 FM in Los Angeles (and other Pacifica Radio stations across the U.S.), the "Pop and Politics" live show at the UCB Theatre in L.A., and a new live show at Flappers in Burbank. Jimmy sits with Brodie and Gene to chat about coming from the Chicago stand-up scene, negotiating throug...

After treating the listening audience to a song, Gene and Brodie discuss Nina Bargiel's contribution to the Lizzie McGuire canon, take questions from Twitter, report on how their holidays went, chronicle Brodie's fight with Frankenstein youth on the mean streets, psychoanalyze Brodie's challenging Jesse Thorn to a boxing match (for charity!), make New Year's resolutions, plan getting loaded in 201...

Over an hour of music and conversation with Common Rotation (Adam Busch, Eric Kufs, Jordan Katz), with an appearance by Dan Bern. Between some Christmas music and "an old Long Island protest song," we discuss movies inspired by true events, the pay-to-play racket and the Clear Channel monopoly, and the frightening prospect of strip club food.

Amber Tozer is a comedian, writer, actress... and DANCER! Amber joins Gene and Brodie to discuss her stint on the mattress black market, her work with autistic children, craziness and courageousness in Cambodia, unsolicited advice, holy pizza in Pueblo, Colorado, and her coast-to-coast stand-up career. Also, a very special holiday song from Richard Cheese.

Our 25th episode! Our guest? Only the best for our audience. He is in all your favorite movies. He is a veteran of stand-up comedy. He was one of Johnny Carson's favorite guests. He directed the web series "Vamped Out." He is the host of his own live chat show, as well as the upcoming Fox game show "Million Dollar Money Drop." Kevin Pollak joins Gene and Brodie on the show to discuss his career, h...

Jim Vitale is a singer, songwriter, and guitarist with a new album coming out thanks to funds raised from Kickstarter. We discuss trying to make it in the music industry in L.A., how our childhood novelty gifts mall outlet has become more and more of a darkened head shop, Gene's grudge with the state of Colorado, Brodie's obscure Kill Rock Stars references, and party favors for your next nudist be...

Joe Wilson is a writer, filmmaker, comedian, former private investigator, and whistleblower against entertainment industry scams. His current project is Vampire Mob, a web series starring John Colella as Don Grigoni - “He’s a hitman and a vampire, and he just found out his mother-in-law is moving in, for eternity.” Brodie, Gene, and Joe discuss the Wikipedia habits of the cast of “Caddyshack,” def...

Ben Acker (@bnacker on Twitter) and Ben Blacker (@BenBlacker on Twitter) are the co-creators of the Thrilling Adventure Hour (http://thrillingadventurehour.com), a live radio-style comedy production at The Largo in Los Angeles. They discuss their writing projects and tell stories about putting on their star-studded stage show. They also quiz Gene to see if he actually likes anything, heed Brodie's...

A few words about our upcoming episodes and many more words about our friend Jim Vitale and how he needs your help on Kickstarter for his new album!

Nina Bargiel (ninabargiel.com, theslackdaily.com, @slackmistress on Twitter) is a writer and "transmedia storyteller" whose work includes "Lizzie McGuire," "Woke Up Dead," "The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy," "Valemont," and "Savage County." We discuss alternate reality games, zombie apocalypse ethics, crafting narrative and pitching jokes, the surliness of Jim Carrey's agent's assistant, and m...

The scariest Shakeytown yet! Megan Marie joins her husband Brodie and their friend Gene to talk about NoNotLiterally.com, expensive vegan weddings, and film, literature, and television from the horror genre. Gene's wife Tish joins in as the conversation turns to breastfeeding, placenta eating, vaccines, and the Buffalo Bill tuck-and-dance. THE HORROR, THE HORROR! Also, the most frightening episode...

Jason Nash is an actor, comedian, filmmaker, and writer. His podcast Guys With Feelings has returned after a year hiatus and his new webseries "Jason Nash Is Married," co-starring Busy Phillips, premieres November 2nd on Atom.com. Jason, Gene, and Brodie get together for some D&D, Don Draper love, complaining about our wives (and our wives' justified complaining about us), mockery of the Trader Jo...

Lauren Weedman is an author, actress, and all-around awesome person. Her first break in television was as a correspondent for "The Daily Show," an experience which she wrote about for Seattle's weekly "The Stranger" and her book "A Woman Trapped in a Woman's Body (Tales from a Life of Cringe)." Her TV and movie appearances include "Reno 911," "The United States of Tara," "Imagine That," and "Date...