Dogbrain with Andrew Cahak

Ian Fishman!  Stand-up-improviser-sketch-performer-voice-over-artist-burner.  A multi-hyphenate amongst multi-hyphenates!  Get into it.

Rana May is the winner of the 2014 Funniest Person With A Day Job contest at the House of Comedy in Bloomington, MN.  She rules.  She also brought donuts, so she double-rules.

Tommy Ryman is a regular performer at Acme Comedy Co. in Minneapolis, one of my favorite comedians to watch and, as I did not find out until after this recording, has been featured on the most recent season of Last Comic Standing on NBC.  He has a fantastic comedy album out on Stand Up! Records called "Bath Time with Tommy Ryman" which you should spend your money on.

Look, I've been trying to get Jeff "Pfoser" Pfoser (pronounced "Foe-zer") AKA Jay Foz on Dogbrain since the show began but he's busy being a comedian, a creative director at a local ad agency a father of four (four!) and, miraculously, a well-adjusted person so finding time is hard.  Finally, he's here for one of the best episodes yet.  Dig it, daddy-o.

Katie Sisneros.  Wow.  This is a good one.  Katie (NOT KATHERINE) is a Minneapolis based writer, academic, English history expert and junk food enthusiast.  She also is a co-founder and co-editor of The Tangential, a rad depository of interesting things that just published their second book called Bright Lights Twin Cities.

Matt Olson (with an "son", son!) is the primary director and one of the key visionaries behind the Twin Cities comedy and sketch super group The Turkeys!  He's also an award winning filmmaker and has been to the Cannes Film Festival, which, as you will find out in this episode, is not as glamorous as it seems.  This is a great talk (I say that every time but it's always true) and I'm very happy to share it with you.

Isaac Witty! He was on Conan!  He was in Christian music videos!  He is a Minnesota Twins fan! He is a real Turkey!  Isaac is the 1st second generation comedian to appear on Dogbrain.  We'll talk about growing up as the son of Christian comedians, writing and performing clean comedy vs. the more risque material he does with The Turkeys ("Anything that's dirty, Gabe wrote it,") and why growing up is stupid.

Robert Baril is a man of many trades.  Substitute teacher by day, stand up comedian by night.  On the weekends, he hosts "Laughing Matters," a news/talk radio show featuring comedians offering their takes on political and general interest stories.  Robert is also one of the co-hosts of Filter Free Amerika, a great podcast dedicated to politics, news and interviewing people of interest.  This episode of Dogbrain is a great talk: a long, insightful one that touches on many subjects including religion, education, history and politics.  If that's your cup of tea then this is your... cup of tea?

Sean McPherson AKA Twinkie Jiggles is a man of many talents and many passions.  He's a founding member of St. Paul's hip hop consortium Heiruspecs, plays bass for Doomtree's Dessa and launched the hugely successful pub trivia company Trivia Mafia with Chuck Terhark, amongst various other projects.  He also leads his own band, Twinkie Jiggles Broken Orchestra, which just released their first record "Too Big To Fail" in January of 2014.  Sean and I talked about all of this stuff and more in one of the best episodes of Dogbrain yet.

Comedian Bill Young!  Who doesn't love Bill Young?  According to his Tinder profile, it's African American Women, a problem that Bill is looking to rectify.  Please help him out, ladies.  You can find out how in this episode.

HUZZAH! The gregarious and dynamic Gus Lynch joins me for a fantastic episode. In true form, Gus came to the show ready to play so this is a great, great conversation with a professional performer of a very high caliber.  Trust me, I'm a comedian.

Not only is Zac Naughton one of my oldest friends but he's also one of the greatest purveyors of sick guitar riffs this side of the Atlantic.  In high school, he formed the band BRIAN JONES, a band I managed for nearly a decade, but now he's creating music on his own with a new album coming soon.  He's also a ridiculous, childish, childlike man and he's been responsible for some of the deepest laughs of my life.  Ugh!

Adam Quesnell joins me for a discussion of comedy, action figures, fast food and more.  This is a great talk with a great comedian and is very much a perfect example of what I want this show to be.  Lucky for you, you get to listen to it!

JD Provorse of the North Dakota Provorses is here!  Experience the passion!  Experience the fury!

Wendy Maybury is here and she is super-pregnant because we recorded this ten days before her due date (not because there is something called Super-Pregnancy).  Wendy is a sassy southern gal who now lives and performs comedy in Minneapolis and she is truly a peach.  I could talk to her for hours AND I DID.  This is the longest episode of Dogbrain yet so be prepared.

Comedian and local Karnov-look-alike, Corey Adam, is here with insight about positioning and marketing yourself in the entertainment industry.  Corey also hosts his own podcasts, The Dirty Bomb Shop and Chronic Zen, and various open mics in the Twin Cities area and he knows how to fight and will tell you how if you ask.  Good stuff from a short, hirsute Italian man.

The Grawlix's Ben Roy is here.  This is a good one.  One of the best.  I love doing this show and this episode is a perfect example of why: it's weird, insightful and funny.  YES.

Here's what you need to know about Mike O'Keefe: He's from Michigan and is the epitome of a midwestern Catholic boy, he loves professional wrestling to an almost dangerous degree and he looks exactly like Notre Dame's Fighting Irish mascot.  He's also very young and very funny.  Goddamn him.

Patrick Ryan Bauer (P-Bau!) talks about fast food, comic books and, of course, comedy.

Look, I'm not going to lie to you.  I'm down with JC.  And I'm not talking any old JC neither.  I'm talking about John MOTHER-F-ING Conroy.  I mean, I could pretend like I'm not a big fan of his comedy, or in awe of his talent or just generally impressed by his character but I don't play games.  I'm not a fan of them.  Not one bit.