Your EX Drinking Buddy

This week I am joined by comedian and drummer, Jay Rashid. Jay tells us about getting into music, being in and out of bands through high school/ college, taking a 10 year break from bands, starting stand up during that break, and now a life doing both music and comedy. Great Drinking Buddy Stories this week: Jay tells us about a DD situation gone wrong, almost dying in Orlando FL twice in one trip...

This week I am joined by comedian Jimmy Schatz. Jimmy tells us about growing up in Manhattan, putting on solo variety shows before trying stand up comedy, hanging out with ultra wealthy classmates, and so much more. GREAT EX Drinking Buddy stories this week: Jimmy talks about drinking in High School because of sex in the city, getting into harder drugs by his senior year, crying on 5th avenue, get...

This week we have the return of my great friend and hilarious comedian Greg Melly. Greg tells us all about his first ever stand up comedy special taping, the pressure of putting it together, and the stress of the release afterword. Some EX Drinking Buddy stories this week too: we talk about people showing up to our special tapings wasted, the "after parties" or lack thereof, and the significant di...

This week i am joined by comedian Jamie Freeland. Jamie tells us about getting into surfing while living in Florida, at one point being a sponsored surfer and competing, getting a PhD, then moving to New York to pursue stand up comedy. GREAT EX Drinking Buddy stories this week: Jamie tells us about smoking weed at a 3/11 concert, starting to drink around 15, crazy stories from his surf buddies, go...

This week I am joined once again by my great friend, musician, and podcaster, Joe Isidore. We do this one in person because Joe, along with his wife and the "A New Low" crew came up to New York City for my first special taping. We talk about the trek up to the city, the special taping itself, and other New York style adventures. A couple EX Drinking Buddy stories this week: Joe tells us about preg...

This week we have the return of comedian Grace Lobo. Grace talks to us about her recent boom on social media through knitting, what that has meant for her stand up, through this discovering that she is a story teller, and more. Fun EX Drinking Buddy stories this week: Grace talks about going in and out of her "drinking eras", a company retreat that turned weird, world traveling, and this idea of "...

This week I am joined by podcaster and one of the founders of the "A New Low Network" podcasts, Greg Pineda. Greg tell us about growing up in Church, being an athlete as a kid, getting into and producing podcasts in the early 2010's before the boom, how A New Low came to be, the podcast that brought us all together, and more. GREAT EX Drinking Buddy stories this week: Greg gets into his first time...

This week I am joined by comedian Jack Sullivan. Jack tells us about growing up in DC, being obsessed with hip hop as a young man, wanting to be a performer as a child, getting into comedy after moving to New York, life before and after coming out and more. Great EX Drinking Buddy stories this week: Jack talks about the first time he drank at 14, a country music concert gone wrong, partying hard a...

This week I am joined by comedian Jack Barth. Jack talks about growing up in Arizona, going to college in Washington State, joining a comedy "club" in college, and eventually moving to New York for work while pursuing stand up comedy. GREAT EX Drinking Buddy stories this week: Jack started smoking weed before ever drinking, letting it rip when he got to college, getting named "Party God", a 7/11 g...

This week I am joined by comedian James Patrick. We talk about him growing up in Brooklyn. NY, finding stand up through his mom who did stand up, going from good student to drop out, to winning the Laughing Buddha comedy competition, and more. GREAT EX Drinking Buddy stories this week: James tell us about never drinking or doing a single drug to falling off the deep end, an ex that encouraged a pa...

This week I am joined by writer, comedian, and all around entertainer, Hozho Harris. Hozho tells us about growing up on a Reservation, to then moving to a very white part of Massachusetts, and back to Arizona before making the jump to NYC. How she got into the arts and then stand up comedy, and so much more. GREAT EX Drinking Buddy Stories this week: Hozho tells us about trying beer to fit in with...

This week we are joined again by comedian and podcaster, Teresa DeGaetano. Teresa catches us up on the last few months since she last came on the show, podcasting, and her comedy, GREAT EX Drinking Buddy stories this week: Teresa takes us through her now 7 months of sobriety, going from all inclusive's to sober trips, dealing with people in our lives who may not be on board with us not drinking, w...

This week I am joined by comedian Akash Bajpai. Akash tells us about growing up in Jersey, the culture shock when he got to the University of Michigan, getting through college during Covid, and starting stand up. GREAT EX Drinking Buddy Stories this week: Akash blacked out on bid night at UM, lit a Christmas tree on fire by accident then ran naked, getting lost in Michigan's upper peninsula hammer...

This week I am joined by film maker, comedian, and music creator Matthew Zeitoun. Matt tells us about his first love, music, moving to Los Angeles, getting into film making, and coming back to the east coast and trying his hand at stand up. Crazy EX Drinking Buddy stories this week: Matt talks about crashing USC classes and parties while in LA, eating too many weed brownies while at work, getting...

This week I am joined by comedian Jill Weiner. Jill talks about growing up in the south, the insanity of going to a school that was K-12, getting into stand up at 32, a whole life she lived before moving to New York, a 6 month road trip across the country, and so much more. GREAT EX Drinking Buddy stories this week: Jill tells us about getting drunk on scotch at 13, doing acid and other drugs in h...

This week I am joined by comedian Brooks Tawil. Brooks tells us how he got into stand up, Covid derailing his start, his observations about different clubs and the comedy scene in New York as a whole, which led him to opening his own club, Bushwick Comedy Club, with a few other people in stand up. Great EX Drinking Buddy Stories this week: Brooks explains the transition from a "goodie two shoes" t...

This week I am joined again by my great friend and comedian Michael Thomas Geary. We talk about what we have been up to since his last appearance, stand up comedy, and social media or in his case a lack there of. Fun EX Drinking Buddy stories: Michael talks about his 13 years in sobriety, still getting resentments to this day, and living in the solution instead of the problem. Follow MTG on INSTAG...

This week we have the return of comedian Rob Roeck. Rob tells us what's been going on in the Daytona comedy scene, what he's been up too since his last time one the podcast, and we talk ad nauseum about stand up comedy. Fun EX Drinking Buddy stories this week: Rob tell us about a 14 day cruise, a party camping weekend that turned into one of his worst times on stage, traversing across Spain, and a...

This week I am joined by former Executive Chef now comedian, Kieran Minihan. Kieran talks about growing up in London, going from university to bartending to restaurant life, starting from the absolute bottom in the kitchen to being the Executive Chef at an incredibly upscale restaurant in London, his back and forth between England and the US, and the chaos of all of it. GREAT EX Drinking Buddy sto...

This week we have the return of my good friend and hilarious comedian, Samantha Santos. Sam tells us about her comedy career, her engagement with (friend of the podcast) JC Mendoza, we talk halftime show and the diversity in New York City compared to everywhere else we have been to in the US, and so much more. Great EX Drinking Buddy stories this week: Sam tells us about a trip to Puerto Rico, a B...

This week I am joined by musician, actor, and writer turned firefighter and comedian, Walter Vincent. Walter talks about the elephant in the room- going from feature length films to fire fighting, he tells us how he found and got into stand up comedy, the travel with being in bands and film making, and so much more! GREAT EX Drinking Buddy Stories this week: Walt talks about his partying band days...

This week we have the return of my great friend and hilarious comedian, JC Mendoza. JC tells us about his growth as a comedian and in his career, some fun accomplishments in the last few years, we rail against the social media machine, and catch up on his upcoming nuptials. Fun EX Drinking Buddy stories this week: JC goes into why he has slowed down his drinking, how he got into edibles after thin...

This week I am joined by comedian Liz Glazer. Liz tells us about going to law school, practicing law, becoming a law professor, all before making the move into stand up comedy, growing up in New York, what the last few years have been like becoming more and more successful, and more. GREAT EX Drinking Buddy Stories this week: Liz talks about weed changing her perspective and pushing her towards st...

This week we have the return of comedian Tessa Fleming. We catch up on her life in New York, Tessa's stand up career, and what it is like now compared to when she first got into it. Great EX Drinking Buddy stories this week: Tessa and I do a deep dive into the similarities between trying to "make it" in the arts and sobriety, we discuss how we deal with people drinking and using around us, dealing...

This week I am joined by comedian Shaun Murphy. We talk about his latest special out now on YouTube, how he got into stand up comedy, a New York dry run, then eventually moving to The City full time, and more. Great (adjacent) EX Drinking Buddy stories this week: Shaun talks about why he has never had a drink or tried drugs, being the best guy to have in the group because he always has a clear hea...