The Healing Club

I couldn't remember the name of the movie with Quvenzhane Wallis, Beasts of the Southern Wild, somewhere in the middle of this episode. Cody Greenlee and I look up people from the past in order to see what they're saying on social media. We talk about rumors of pranks we heard about third-hand in high school, and jobs we've left on bad terms. One of my old managers tried standup a few weeks ago an...

Warren Wright returns to RAP WITH ME about structural inequality, crisis comedy, and institutionalized stupidity at the end of the world. This is the day after mid-term elections, and things aren't looking good since the Democrats seem poised to lose control of yet another Congress. Warren and I wonder why we're both such miserable sad boys when all we really care about is having fun and feeling g...

This podcast was an emotional roller-coaster! Big topics! Great fun! Sad times! Don't smoke too much weed out of a dirty bong or else you'll become a checked out spectator of your own life.  That's what we learned. We also talk about the movie Quiz Show, which is one of my all time top five favorite films. Great comedy!  

Wacky intro with silly voices and a truly horrible ad for Anchor.com at the top of the episode, and then a poorly recorded drunken shuffle of immature pitter patter back and forth comedy joshing through the middle of the thing. Suddenly the conversation in the program shuts down for some mysterious reason, so I cut it off abruptly and talk about a book called FAREWELL TRANSMISSION.  This book...

Micah Green returns to talk about Iron Maiden songs, popular culture, teenage heartbreak, info-tainment wars, social media branding, collective longing, and what happened when the entire audience boo'ed him at the Joe Pera standup show at White Oak Music Hall last week. This could be our best podcast together. Maybe it's the one that'll find an audience. Maria Bamford does a ten second ad for the...

I'm opening for Maria Bamford this weekend. Tess and Eddy are two recurring guests. Two of the best guests. This is a chaotic podcast with a few of the same questions Eddy usually asks about why gay men get horny, but also some genuinely sweet moments of joy and fun laughs. I'm opening for Maria Bamford this weekend at Rockefellers.  Buy your tickets through Comedy Hub Houston.  We don't...

This episode may sound a little different because it was recorded in the podcast studio at The Secret Group. We talk about my favorite scene in Braveheart, which was when the gay guy got thrown out of a window. Everyone shares their stories of suicide attempts, and I talk about the consequences of getting slightly fatter. Radu pitches a premise for an idea for a Juwanna Mann sequel or whatever. &n...

Quick update: I haven't smoked one cigarette in the two weeks since Stephanie and I recorded this episode. That's the good news. The bad news is I lost in the semi-final round of the Funniest Person in Houston comedy contest. I still hoped I could win two weeks ago, but I didn't. Stephanie and I check in with each other for the first time in a while after all those crazy podcasts we did together a...

Not a Christian episode, not a literary episode, no mention of the 1999 heroin comedy Jesus' Son (starring Billy Crudup and Samantha Morton)...  this is a chatty little gem of local comedy cross-talk with myself and Dulce Mac. It gets into sex, drugs, rock and roll and all the rest of it. We have fun. I talk about a contest I didn't know I would lose in the second round. Nothing important. No...

Micah Green returns for a fun-filled conversation I don't remember because it was almost two weeks ago and so much has changed. We just try to keep up with each other and metaphorically peacock walk as well as we know how, podcast-wise.  The 2017 Sean Baker directed docu-style comedy-drama The Florida Project is one of the best movies I've seen in recent years, but we don't talk about it. I m...

Julie Talbert and Jay Marasi are the guests for this one. The conversation gets a little serious. We wander through mucky emotional waters once we get to talking about depression, feelings of inadequacy, how we compare ourselves to others and why...  There's a bittersweet mood, but it's hopeful. No mention of the 1942 American horror film Cat People, directed by Jacques Tourneur. I read a pas...

Manic energy and out of control improv laughs on this silly, deeply stupid podcast with guest Jordan Brady. It's a crowd-pleaser and a time passer. During the intro I mourn the passing of my dear friend Scotty Peterson. No mention of the 1981 teen slasher classic The Funhouse, directed by Tobe Hooper. I've always thought this movie was, in its own way, just as scary and menacing as Tobe Hooper's o...

Gregory Haney makes his first appearance on the Healing Club! We talk about how we know each other, what we've learned together as comedians in Houston, and how we spent our COVID months when the world was shut down. Gregory was in the hospital recovering from horrific medical problems which he describes at length. This podcast has nothing to do with one of Marilyn Monroe's first major roles as an...

Chelby Morgan returns to talk to me after a stunning, provocative, and robust standup comedy open mic at Darwin's Theory in Houston, Texas. We tell stories of family, work, comedy, school, and friendship. Chelby's one of the funniest people out there, and we have an amazing time talking to each other about whatever it is we think we know. Not once do we at all mention the 1993 Peter Weir drama Fea...

This is not a podcast celebrating the 1989 kickboxing movie starring Eric Roberts, James Earl Jones and Louise Fletcher. It's a mish-mash gumbo episode featuring segments from some of my favorite episodes of The Healing Club! I have COVID right now, so I'm quarantined and can't record anything new with anyone. Meanwhile, check this out! Lots of fun moments! Great comedy! 

This is a Frankenstein splice of two episodes from two different times: November 2020 and July 2022. Drew Hollway from the Community Shower comedy podcast and Comedy Bathhouse live comedy showcase at the Secret Group joins me to talk about one of his best comedy bits. Then I read a terrible poem I wrote somewhere in the middle of a more recent conversation between me and Micah Green. It's a cute l...

Emily Peacock returns to banter with me about body issues, career anxiety, and creative limitations. In the context of those issues, we naturally and organically find ourselves chatting about the 2003 Metallica documentary Some Kind of Monster. I make some jokes about Mike Pence, Aerosmith, my family, the war in Ukraine, and more. It's a sweet conversation about time, change, giving up, moving on,...

Will Loden returns to talk drywall, politics, relationships, comedy, history, and ambition once again on the Healing Club. I think this is his fifth or sixth appearance. I'm a huge fan of his comedy and his online projects. His family had me over for Thanksgiving once because I was single and had nowhere else to go. At no point do we discuss Sylvester Stallone, John Lithgow, or the movie Cliffhang...

Dusti Rhodes joins the podcast to talk about her passions for comedy and teaching.  We discuss (my) (pathetic) social media habits, the trial of Michael Peterson as depicted in the documentary series The Staircase, and a few other things such as the Pentagon Papers and the Vietnam War. Also, how crazy was it for the Grammys to award Louis CK a statue only one year after all that scandal stuff...

I do an intro. It's about the Olga Tokarczuk novel FLIGHTS. I say something about the cloud of unknowing, the self that inhabits everyone's self. I imagine everyone's self together swirling in a trough of human momentum. All selves becoming other selves in a constant process of transformation throughout time and history. I introduce the podcast that way. Then Cody Greenlee and I have an uncomforta...

Blair v Wade at the beginning, angry stories about my past with some people at the center of a major scandal from the local art world all throughout the rest of it. I apologize for nothing. We're both angry on the day of the sad gay pride festival. Blair runs Grown Up Story Time at the Continental Club in Houston every fourth Tuesday of the month. I tell her a story for forty-five minutes. Blood R...

Trigger notice: this episode is scary. Albert, Dexter and I talk about our favorite scary movies. Albert describes a time when a guy working at the Dollar General tried to hit on him. We get into it over the Holocaust and the terrors of the Soviet gulags. Dexter hosts the Monday Night War show at the Secret Group every other Monday. Albert has a youtube podcast called Booze and News. Be careful ou...

Rich and I have a deeply personal conversation about gay marriage, bigotry, religion, spirituality and life in the Houston standup comedy scene. We try out some bits on each other (I shoehorn some of my stage jokes into the conversation). By the way, I'm headlining at Rec Room on June 18th at 8:00 p.m. The line-up is fire. This conversation is fire! We don't mention the Enron movie at all, but it...

This conversation is a little more light-hearted, animated, and joke-oriented than a lot of the others have been lately. Abbey's a free spirited and charismatic young comedian in Houston. We met up on a Saturday afternoon to discuss the friends we know, the things we've seen, and the places we've been. Trigger warning: we don't discuss the 1989 adaptation of the gruesome 1964 Hubert Selby Jr. nove...

Jesse Saldana joins Andy and me for a podcast that encompasses a wide range of moods, opinions, and perspectives. Nothing held back and nothing thought through. Freedom and danger. Laugh out loud moments. True stories. Blah blah blah. Comedy horseshit and roast battle material for the Houston scene. If you enjoy this podcast, like and subscribe. Maybe tell people about it. I got nothing.