This Is My Baby

What do you mean parents load up their kids with candy and give them knives to carve Halloween pumpkins?? Are you guys out of your f*cking minds??   Join us this week when our producers surprised us with a favorite childhood activity to ring in the spooky season: carving jack-o'-lanterns for Halloween. It was gross, it was fun, and it was terrifying to see Sarah wield a knife in David's face.   St...

It's time to meet Brad Einstein -- comedian, puppeteer, environmentalist -- and the oldest baby we've ever had on this show. No, like, literally as old as time. Plus, we meet some of his incredible puppets and we still haven't recovered. - - Comedian and writer Brad Einstein is a two-time National Park Service Artist-In-Residence, a National Forest Service Voice of the Wilderness, and a "Brilliant...

Live from the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, it's time to meet comedian and actress Olivia Xing -- and her amazing BABY OF COLOR! Olivia Xing is an LA based comedian, writer, actor, and puppeteer. You might’ve seen her in S.W.A.T and 9-1-1 and the Oscar qualifying short film Somewhere To Be. Her most recent solo show Baby of Color was highly commended by Asian Arts Foundation Scotland for Best Musical...

Live from the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, it's time to meet comedian and Drag Race superstar Kate Butch -- and her extraordinary baby! Kate Butch is an award-winning menace to society who is perhaps best known for competing on Series 5 of RuPaul’s Drag Race UK, becoming one of its breakout stars. Before that, she made her professional debut at the age of 11, playing a sweetcorn-obsessed child in Gr...

Our podcast baby is growing up: we're in our first international arts festival! That's right, hosts Sarah Hester Ross and David Ian brought their solo shows to the world-renowned Edinburgh Fringe Festival! That could only mean one thing: we packed up our podcast mics and cringey baby shower games and headed to the fest for some live episodes. It was a month filled with thousands of live shows, awa...

It's time to meet Scott Wiener -- creator of Scott's Pizza Tours, founder of Slice Out Hunger, and one of the world's leading pizza experts (where was this on Career Day?!) -- and celebrate his pizza baby! Enjoy our most delicious episode yet. - - Scott’s love for pizza began in suburban New Jersey, where weekly pizza runs created a subliminal dietary requirement. A simple love of pizza turned int...

It's time to meet Emmy-nominated TV writer Hallie Cantor and celebrate her debut novel Like This, But Funnier! We are so excited to share this hilarious and insightful conversation about the process of writing a book, forging your own career path, and deciding whether to become a parent. - - ABOUT THE BOOK: TV writer Caroline Neumann is thirty-four and mired in professional envy and self-hatred. E...

It's time to meet comedian and women's sports podcaster Erin Foley and celebrate baby who is a total slam dunk! (Get it?!) - - Nationally headlining stand-up comedian Erin Foley has appeared on Conan O’Brien, @Midnight, and Chelsea Lately. She has her own Comedy Central Presents special and has performed at Montreal Comedy Festival, San Francisco Sketchfest, and Moontower Comedy Festival in Austin...

It's time to meet comedian Nthenya Ndunda (AKA Nthenya From Kenya) and celebrate her baby who is ALL about personal growth and taking up space! - - Nthenya is a Kenyan-born stand-up comedian, actress, and writer who brings a global perspective and razor-sharp wit to every stage. Raised between Vancouver and the American South, her comedy explores identity, culture shocks, and the beauty of contrad...

"It's either really happy or dead...and I don't know which."   Shoutout to all the human parents out there. When were you gonna tell us how hard this s*** is?! In this episode, our producers surprise us with our very own Tamagotchi babies to raise. We get to experience the highs and lows of parenting, from naming our baby to questioning every life choice we've ever made. Plus, "getting ghosted" ta...

Are you ready for it? It's time to meet the fearless team behind The Eras Tour (Drag Version) and celebrate their baby! (We're down bad over this episode, if you couldn't tell.) - - "A global drag tour is paying tribute to (Taylor) Swift, offering fans a chance to relive the bedazzled show." - USA TODAY Now over 100 shows deep into a worldwide tour -- with nearly every show sold out -- Cmart Take...

It's time to meet advocate and creator Abigail Porter AKA The Girl With the List and celebrate her anti-baby baby! - - Abigail Porter, AKA Zoomie, AKA "The Girl With the List" is a childfree reproductive rights advocate who spends her free time curing the internet’s baby fever. Her TikTok video series, also known as “The List,” reminds folks to take their birth control and to get informed before h...

It's time to meet comedian Robin Tran and celebrate her empowering baby! CW: suicide, suicidal ideation, mental health - - Robin Tran started her life and comedy career as Robert Tran. In 2015, she came out as a transgender woman and has been performing as Robin ever since. Robin was a breakout star at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2023, receiving 5-star reviews. She was named one of Just For L...

It's time to meet comedian/creator/activist/writer Franchesca Ramsey and celebrate her baby! - - Franchesca Ramsey, also known as Chescaleigh, is a comedian, writer, activist, content creator, and actor who gained media fame quickly after her early-days YouTube comedy videos and commentary on racial issues went viral. She has built a career as a writer, producer, activist, and performer -- known f...

It's time to meet comedian Kristin Key and celebrate her baby! - - Kristin Key is an internationally headlining, queer, musical comedian with sold-out shows worldwide. Her hilarious viral videos -- including the iconic LESBIAN NATIONAL ANTHEM -- have garnered over 100 million views from more than one million dedicated followers across social media. Using comedy as a way to uplift her community and...

Welcome to THIS IS MY BABY! It's time to meet our other fabulous host and co-creator - Sarah Hester Ross - and celebrate her baby! - - Sarah Hester Ross is an internationally touring cabaret artist and viral social media creator whose musical comedy blends bold feminist takes with powerhouse vocals and sharp-as-hell satire. A Grammy-considered musical comedian, she recently released her debut come...

On the premiere episode of THIS IS MY BABY, it's time to meet one of our fabulous hosts - David Ian - and celebrate his baby! - - David Ian is a London-based stand-up comedian, writer, host, and producer. He has earned multiple critically acclaimed runs at the Edinburgh Fringe, including (Just a) Perfect Gay, named one of the festival’s top LGBTQ+ shows by Attitude Magazine and Broadway Baby. A se...

Welcome to This Is My Baby – the podcast where we celebrate the achievements that don’t come with a ring, a registry, or a tiny human. Because not all life milestones are weddings or babies…some of them are quitting a job, surviving a year, finishing the thing, or finally choosing yourself. Every episode, we give flowers to the wins that usually get a polite nod instead of a party. So, if you’ve e...