DopeTown 3000

For our 50th episode, we decided to do a purely-pulled-from-Twitter-off-the-top DT3K cypher lounge. And because it's impossible for us not to when we're together, you know we did those bits. Follow us on Instagram/Twitter/Facebook @Dopetown3000 to get the latest on our live shows and dope AF pics/videos with our guests. Also stay tuned for Season 2 coming at you this fall!

David Zwick (Try It, You'll Like It!) took a food pilgrimage to Seoul, South Korea and learned that if one does a good deed during their trip, one shall be rewarded – which in this case was in the form of a baby octopus. Follow us on Instagram/Twitter/Facebook @Dopetown3000 to get the latest on our live shows and dope AF pics/videos with our guests!

Peter Banifaz (Shameless, Veep) found out that Disney jail is a real thing when he got locked up during his high school grad night. He also had a suprisingly easy escape, but his journey was no less emotional than Shawshank Redeption. Follow us on Instagram/Twitter/Facebook @Dopetown3000 to get the latest on our live shows and dope AF pics/videos with our guests!

Carl Tart (Brooklyn 99, Comedy Bang! Bang!) took us back to his broke days and how being a fuccboi in Vegas can get you caught up in danger. Thank goodness he lived to tell the tale – but we can't fully confirm everyone else in the story did. Follow us on Instagram/Twitter/Facebook @Dopetown3000 to get the latest on our live shows and dope AF pics/videos with our guests!

Andrew Steven (The History of Standup, Too Effing High) told us an unusual story about his life-long quest toward better health and exercise. In fact, we caught him just before taking his "hero's hike" across the John Muir Trail. Godspeed, Andrew. Follow us on Instagram/Twitter/Facebook @Dopetown3000 to get the latest on our live shows and dope AF pics/videos with our guests!

Mike McLendon (Too Effing High) takes us back to the time when he was nearly stranded in St. Petersburg, Russia but was saved by two unlikely strangers. Not all heroes wear capes – some rock matching white Crocs. Follow us on Instagram/Twitter/Facebook @Dopetown3000 to get the latest on our live shows and dope AF pics/videos with our guests!

Amanda Salvatore (Guilty Pleasure) proves that rom-coms are true and you really can find love in New York City – don't @ us. Follow us on Instagram/Twitter/Facebook @Dopetown3000 to get the latest on our live shows and dope AF pics/videos with our guests!

Amy Albert (Mom, Get Your Shit Together!) reminisces about the time she visited her mom in rural India and how she brought an important part of the Upper East Side with her – XOXO. Follow us on Instagram/Twitter/Facebook @Dopetown3000 to get the latest on our live shows and dope AF pics/videos with our guests!

Zach Olsen (Baywatch Watch) tells a story about being sick during most of his first trip to Japan – but it lead to him seeing visions of a cartoon dog who gave sage advice. His temperature was very high, obvi. Follow us on Instagram/Twitter/Facebook @Dopetown3000 to get the latest on our live shows and dope AF pics/videos with our guests!

Sherry Cola (Good Trouble, Claws) takes us through her come-up journey and how she gave birth to the viral character known as Lil Tasty. She also brings the bars-on-bars and we're not mad at it. Follow us on Instagram/Twitter/Facebook @Dopetown3000 to get the latest on our live shows and dope AF pics/videos with our guests!

So why did Beth Appel (Everything Is Rent, Comedy Bang! Bang!) and her platonic guy friend lie about being an engaged couple in a self-help DVD? Because that New York rent. See, everyting IS rent. Follow us on Instagram/Twitter/Facebook @Dopetown3000 to get the latest on our live shows and dope AF pics/videos with our guests!

Matt Newell (I’m Too Effing High) talks about tagging along with his fiance and her best friend during their thrill-seeking adventures. #thirdwheelthrillseeker Follow us on Instagram/Twitter/Facebook @Dopetown3000 to get the latest on our live shows and dope AF pics/videos with our guests!

Joey Bergren and Justin Sherman (Everything Reviewed) came through with beer, bars, and a story about getting busted for bearing a box of bullets. Follow us on Instagram/Twitter/Facebook @Dopetown3000 to get the latest on our live shows and dope AF pics/videos with our guests!

Philip Labes (GLOW, More Guns!) recalled his very first LA audition which required him to make out with an imaginary person for an uncomfortable amount of time – showbiz is weird, y’all. Follow us on Instagram/Twitter/Facebook @Dopetown3000 to get the latest on our live shows and dope AF pics/videos with our guests!

Clare Loughran (Inside the Disney Vault) reminisced about her time picking up cow patties at a summer camp farm and how she even made a song to make the activity more appealing for other campers – and you know we ran with that. Follow us on Instagram/Twitter/Facebook @Dopetown3000 to get the latest on our live shows and dope AF pics/videos with our guests!

Jake Jabbour (Training to be Myself, The Meat Improv) tells a harrowing tale about breaking his back while snow tubing and how the medical “professionals” who treated him low-key didn’t know what they were doing -- yikes! Follow us on Instagram/Twitter/Facebook @Dopetown3000 to get the latest on our live shows and dope AF pics/videos with our guests!

Jiavani Linayao (Baby Wants Candy, secret Netflix movie) gets into an incredible, positive, downright incendiary experience she had with three strangers in New York. If there are any Hollywood execs listening -- turn this into a CW show, ASAP. Follow us on Instagram/Twitter/Facebook @Dopetown3000 to get the latest on our live shows and dope AF pics/videos with our guests!

When Dhruv Uday Singh (Good Trouble, I’m Too Effing High) warned us his story would get “a little dirty,” we told our moral compasses to take a break. Hear the tale of his torrid tryst -- which earns a Parental Advisory sticker and then some! Follow us on Instagram/Twitter/Facebook @Dopetown3000 to get the latest on our live shows and dope AF pics/videos with our guests!

Joy Regullano (Modern Family, Happy Together) opens up about her first experience with dealing with death and how she’s using art to express what she could not as a teenager. Disclaimer: this episode may make you laugh and cry. Follow us on Instagram/Twitter/Facebook @Dopetown3000 to get the latest on our live shows and dope AF pics/videos with our guests!

Steph Garcia (That’s My Story, Period) shares her chaotic wedding story and how Hurricane Irene showed up to crash the party. Follow us on Instagram/Twitter/Facebook @Dopetown3000 to get the latest on our live shows and dope AF pics/videos with our guests!

Jack Norman (More Guns! at Second City Hollywood, so many commercials) tells us a heart-wrenching story about how his girlfriend at the time hooked up with Jaime Foxx, which ultimately made him a better man—and obviously less of a fan. Follow us on Instagram/Twitter/Facebook @Dopetown3000 to get the latest on our live shows and dope AF pics/videos with our guests!

Benjamin Siemon (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, DuckTales) talks about a writing project he worked on with his Buffy hero, Seth Green. And also Vine stars. Like, a lot of Vine stars. Follow us on Instagram/Twitter/Facebook @Dopetown3000 to get the latest on our live shows and dope AF pics/videos with our guests!

Mary Lou Kolbenschlag (Unfabulous) spills the Beans about her first kiss during a game of “Spin the Pen” with a group of fellow child actors. Follow us on Instagram/Twitter/Facebook @Dopetown3000 to get the latest on our live shows and dope AF pics/videos with our guests!

Sarah Claspell (Everything Is Rent, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend) put her trivia skills to the test as a contestant on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire. Windex, anyone? Follow us on Instagram/Twitter/Facebook @Dopetown3000 to get the latest on our live shows and dope AF pics/videos with our guests!

Jackie Gonzalez-Durruthy (Sandy Wexler, Most Wonderful Pod of the Year) reminisces about an IRL romantic comedy moment during her trip to Italy. Follow us on Instagram/Twitter/Facebook @Dopetown3000 to get the latest on our live shows and dope AF pics/videos with our guests!

Maggie Mae Fish (Toni Lahren Show, Cracked) opens up about the time in college when she betrayed the woman she looked up to most. Follow us on Instagram/Twitter/Facebook @Dopetown3000 to get the latest on our live shows and dope AF pics/videos with our guests!

Matthew Brian Cohen (ScaryTown, McSweeney’s) tells us about his brief encounter with stardom during a summer basketball camp – a true hero’s journey. Follow us on Instagram/Twitter/Facebook @Dopetown3000 to get the latest on our live shows and dope AF pics/videos with our guests!

Alex Lewis (Valley Girl, Lewberger Comedy) tells us about his love for emo rock and how he got to see his dream line-up in wonderful San Bernardino. Follow us on Instagram/Twitter/Facebook @Dopetown3000 to get the latest on our live shows and dope AF pics/videos with our guests!

Katelyn Hempstead (Lizard People) reflects on her time teaching English in Vietnam and learned that the Tet holiday is turnt! Follow us on Instagram/Twitter/Facebook @Dopetown3000 to get the latest on our live shows and dope AF pics/videos with our guests!

Sam Manual (USA’s Second City) tells us about the time he met Joan Cusack at an airport and she unexpectedly dropped a real truth bomb on him. Follow us on Instagram/Twitter/Facebook @Dopetown3000 to get the latest on our live shows and dope AF pics/videos with our guests!

Rian Kountzhouse (producer of DopeTown 3000, Campfire Media) reflects on the time his grandparents visited him in LA and at the end of the story discovers what really happened that night. Follow us on Instagram/Twitter/Facebook @Dopetown3000 to get the latest on our live shows and dope AF photos with our guests!

Feraz Ozel (Hollywood Darlings, Chillennial comedy special) gets real about drugs and his path toward sobriety by way of a dope AF alt-J concert. Follow us on Instagram/Twitter/Facebook @Dopetown3000 to get the latest on our live shows and dope AF photos with our guests!

Becca & Zak White (Your Date Is Here) get real about their birthing experience which was very frightening and took a lot of guts, but also filled with pure joy and tons of bodily fluids – a perfect Halloween story, really. Follow us on Instagram/Twitter/Facebook @Dopetown3000 to get the latest on our live shows and dope AF pics/videos with our guests!

Janina Gavankar (Blindspotting, The League, True Blood) tells us a true Hollywood story about Rick James who, unlike the Chappelle Show sketches, was quite the gentleman/unlikely father figure. Follow us on Instagram/Twitter/Facebook @Dopetown3000 to get the latest on our live shows and dope AF photos with our guests!

A special live show recording at the Westside Comedy Theatre in Santa Monica, CA. Follow us on Instagram/Twitter/Facebook @Dopetown3000 to get the latest on our live shows and dope AF photos with our guests!

Talia Caldwell (NCAA Women’s Final Four 2013, Russian Women’s Basketball Premiere League) bravely recalls an embarrassing story about the time when she couldn’t stop putting her foot in her mouth at a party – in the proverbial sense. Follow us on Instagram/Twitter/Facebook @Dopetown3000 to get the latest on our live shows and dope AF photos with our guests!

Laci Mosley (Spontaneanation, HBO’s Insecure) tells us a very hilarious/concerning childhood story about spending the day entirely on her own and the moral is that she is a SURVIVOR. Follow us on Instagram/Twitter/Facebook @Dopetown3000 to get the latest on our live shows and dope AF photos with our guests!

Brent Pope (ABC’s Speechless, Hulu’s Casual) takes us back to 2006 when he and his wife went to Pamplona, Spain for their honeymoon and how to surprise, running with the bulls be CRAY. Follow us on Instagram/Twitter/Facebook @Dopetown3000 to get the latest on our live shows and dope AF photos with our guests!

Patrick Ehlers (Nintendo Cartridge Society) reflects on his post-college malaise on the island of Oahu and how he embarrassed himself in front of Ben Linus from Lost. Follow us on Instagram/Twitter/Facebook @Dopetown3000 to get the latest on our live shows and dope AF photos with our guests!

Bill Kottkamp (Nefllix’s The Good Cop and American Vandal) tells us a story about how they and their friends got blazed in high school and took a sick trip up to the Southern California mountains which, in retrospect, it probably wasn’t that safe. Follow us on Instagram/Twitter/Facebook @Dopetown3000 to get the latest on our live shows and dope AF photos with our guests!

Eleanor K (Crystal Fighters) recounts her come-up days in London and how she got to do a very special gig with national treasure Robbie Williams. Follow us on Instagram/Twitter/Facebook @Dopetown3000 to get the latest on our live shows and dope AF photos with our guests!

Kelly Nugent (podcasts Teen Creeps and Hellmouthy) talks about her fiancé’s hot hand on the Vegas slots and a very illuminating trip to the Neon Museum. Follow us on Instagram/Twitter/Facebook @Dopetown3000 to get the latest on our live shows and dope AF photos with our guests!

Colin McGurk (UCB Harold team Mondegreen) tells us about how he got to officiate his dear friend’s wedding in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and in many ways “got lucky.” Follow us on Instagram/Twitter/Facebook @Dopetown3000 to get the latest on our live shows and dope AF photos with our guests!

Amanda Payton (NBC’s Trial & Error) reminisces on her adolescence in Santa Monica, CA and how her dream pet quite literally flew into her life. Follow us on Instagram/Twitter/Facebook @Dopetown3000 to get the latest on our live shows and dope AF photos with our guests!

Lorraine DeGraffenreidt (Learnt Up) shares a story about her transcendent experience at a downtown LA art show and subsequent journey to find the delicious treat known as the pupusa. Follow us on Instagram/Twitter/Facebook @Dopetown3000 to get the latest on our live shows and dope AF photos with our guests!

Jacquis Neal (Culture Kings) takes us back to 2009 and his trip to the liberal theatre paradise that is Provincetown, Cape Cod -- but instead of spending most of his life (shoutout to Coolio) it was just one glorious summer that he will never forget.

Lindsay Stidham (Welcome to the Clambake) gives the us lowdown on all the hip spots in the Southern California desert and also the rejuvenating experience of a sound bath -- females only!

Patrick McDonald (The Parrothead Podcast, UCB Maude Night) tells the story of how he got to witness the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City as a middle schooler and collected some hella sick memorabilia (shoutout to Mitt Romney and Team Jamaica).

Ego (Comedy Bang Bang, Spontaneanation, UCB Harold Night) drops some educational info about black hair and also tells a story about how she found love in a hopeless place -- Tinder in Maryland during the holidays.

Lloyd Ahlquist (Epic Rap Battles of History) talks about his epic trip to the White House to sit down with Obama himself and also finds out how much the Secret Service knows about him.

Zora Bikangaga, Shaun Fisher and Greg Smith bring you Dopetown 3000 - a new improvisational comedy/freestyle rap podcast - coming soon.