Strip Mall Think Tank

Hilarious writer and comedian Ed Driscoll (Dennis Miller, Spilled Gravy) launches on USC and UCLA joining the Big Ten and weighs in with a killer Worst Gig. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode Joel deep dives into the origins of Mystery Science Theatre and adds one of the best Worst Gig stories ever (it involves dental analysis). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Awesome two-parter with the incredible Joel Hodgson, creator of Mystery Science Theatre 3000. In Pt. 1 we talk Minneapolis Comedy, Louie Anderson’s passing, and we find out we kinda meant a little something to each other! Pt. 2 next week - Hollywood and the creation of Mystery Science! BOTH EPISODES A MUST Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The hilarious and sports-smart Adam Felber (Starburns' Paula Poundstone and DadBandLand podcasts) joins Gary and me in an episode of “Get It Off Our Chests!” Includes: How the filthy-rich Warriors love playing the underdog, how the Astros have somehow cheated karma and how Formula One racing may blow past soccer as America’s European sports mistress. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megapho...

The hilarious comedian and filmmaker Jay Black helps me understand "Philly Jersey” and takes me where I’ve never gone before - down the dark path to Hallmark and Lifetime movies! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I go off on lacrosse highlights, Gary rants on Name/Image/Likeness with inside info, and we’ve both had it with Jimbo Fisher. It feels good to vent! Chet even does an anti-update Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jackie helps me understand just how precarious the road is for women. Harrowing. But with Jackie, still funny Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The hilarious Jackie Kashian and I dissect our Rust Belt adolescence and then tackle some comedy And of course, the Kilmartin Connection Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Finally! The amazing Sklar Brothers bury the hatchet ala Oasis long enough to talk comedy and sports! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Turns out Jeff has been carrying some things! Hear him unload serious ammo on the NFL Draft and pro golf. Producer Gary Smith gets fired up and jumps in!  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Writer and Ricochet.com chief dude Jon Gabriel shares the key to Arizona politics, the reason the Suns rule Phoenix, and one of the best writing tips ever.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The hilarious Adam Felber (NPR’s “Wait Wait,” Starburns “No One Listens To Paula Poundstone”) takes us through his comedy life, from Tufts Improv to a sketch with both Bigfoot AND a unicorn. And, well, an opera singer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Standup Brad Williams talks process, influences and a life-threatening Worst Gig, then fills in Jeff on his summer residency in Vegas with… Cirque du Soleil! Yeah, THAT Cirque du Soleil! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sports Illustrated golf writer Gary VanSickle dishes on the Mickelson Mess, the Tiger Turnaround and who might be the next Lee Trevino! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Author, comedian and Letterman writer Bill Scheft riffs four great Larry David anecdotes, talks golf and his famous uncle, and then has perhaps the best Worst Gig story to date. Top Shelf! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The great and hilarious Norman Chad joins Jeff to talk Oscars, NCAA tourney, and Worst Gigs, Norm’s centering around a seedy harness race track in Maryland… I’ll let Norm take it from there. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

From his NCAA Tourney picks to his ever-linking ‘worst gig’ tales, former Black Crowes’ drummer Steve Gorman just keeps pounding away! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

ESPNU/“Full Ride” host Chris Childers picks Illinois to go to the Final Four and it’s pretty much downhill from there. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Former standup and “Seinfeld” writer Matt Goldman talks about his shift into writing best-selling crime novels and remembers a Worst Gig involving rural Minnesota and Tom Arnold. You can almost see it already, can’t you? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Carolla producers Chris Laxamana, Gary Smith and Matt Fondiler join Jeff to talk “front gate” etiquette, misplaced guests and some truly unusual Worst Gigs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The wise and great Lewis Black plus bonus curmudgeon Jeff Stilson talk comedy and share wonderfully horrific gig stories. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Both Josh (Dateline) and Ben (TCM) Mankiewicz join Jeff. They relay their Worst Gigs and Jeff discovers which is the Reckless Mank! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jeff talks horrible standup gigs with two greats - Randy Sklar and Taylor Williamson. I think we’re just scratching the surface Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Chet and Jeff reveal their new format with none other than comedian and author Adam Carolla, who describes for Jeff his “By The Time I’m 30” Showbiz Plan and also leans ever so slightly towards the Bengals for his Super Bowl pick! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Fox Sports Radio’s Dan Beyer returns to the show to re-define the sports medicine term “Doubtful” and to make some bold NFL picks clean through the Super Bowl. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices