Endless Bummer

The Bummer is back from the grave! It's not just Mike this month! This month bi-coastal (LA/NYC) comedian Lisa Curry is on the podcast! We delve deep into the recesses of our childhoods and even further back than that to discover the regional similarities between mid-west white trash and southern white trash. Hometowns, weird festivals, donated 80's toys in a 19th century museum mansion? That's from memory. But these are the things discussed and expect even more trashiness! Follow Lisa on Twitter! @lisa_curry http://lisa-curry.squarespace.com/ The music on today's show is RVA's own Clever Girl. The song is Speed Boat. https://clevergirlrva.bandcamp.com/

Mike will be back next month! But check out his stuff! Can't Afford Games www.twitch.tv/engletr0n www.patreon.com/engletr0n www.twitter.com/cantaffordgames Come to the LIVE COMEDY recording of A Comedy Album feat. RVA feat.: John Thomas Clay Shoaf Rachel Murphy James Isaiah Munoz and ME! Mike Engle! THIS WILL BE AT MY NOODLE AND BAR (1600 Monument Ave.) IN RVA ON FRIDAY, MARCH 17!!! IT WILL ALSO BE FREE! :D New monthly show in Short Pump starting in April! @engletr0n on Twitter The song on today's show is Killer of the Night. The band is Flossed in Paradise.

Don't mind Mike Engle...it's just a new year (2017)and he's worried about America! Are you!? You should be! Listen to this podcast if you want to know about all of the cool shit Mike's doing while the world crumbles around him! He also raised $398.50 for Planned Parenthood at the last A Comedy Show feat. Music at My Noodle & Bar. YAY! Send him a congrats tweet! @engletr0n ABOVE ALL ELSE - STAY INFORMED. STAY ACTIVE. DO NOT STAND IDLY BY AND LET THIS HAPPEN TO AMERICA. The music on today's show is The Low End Yoshi(Yoshi's Wooly World v.s. A Tribe Called Quest Remix) by @8bitmullet

Mike Engle has been a very busy, bad, bad boi! He is starting up a new weekly PS4 stream where he's funny and he plays budget games. It's called Can't Afford Games! You can join him every Monday at 12 p.m. staring December 5 at www.twitch.tv/engletr0n Also, he can't afford even budget games (under $20), so contribute to his Patreon at www.patreon.com/engletr0n if you like his content and want more. Follow his this new craziness on Twitter! @cantaffordgames The music on today's show is The Talkies. The song is Johnny Blacktooth. https://thetalkiesrva.bandcamp.com/

Mike THANKS EVERYONE!!!!!!! :D The music on today's show is @allefre (Flossed in Paradise). The song is Loss Leaves You.

Episode 27 is not my content! It's Benjie Saunder's new podcast What Could Go Wrong? He's hilarious. You will love him immediately. So please check out @benjiesaunders. That's it! The music on today's show was Richmond's own 8-Bit Mullet. The song is The Low End Yoshi. (The Low End Theory + Yoshi's Wooly World)

Mike Engle roasts himself and talks about seeing @birdcloudamerica. The song is Do What I Want by Birdcloud.

This is a first for the Endless Bummer! Mike Engle does his first swapcast/crossover/collabropod/same podcast being released at the same time as another podcast event in July 2016! Woo! Mike teamed up with Mike "Hobbit" Bickett (Mike²) from the Geeks Under the Influence podcast! What's discussed on this special amazing collab? The panel discusses movies that deserve to be remade! Not willy-nilly cash grabs! We also talk about books and comics that are ripe for the Hollywood reimagining/interpretation/mutilation. I had an absolute blast doing this! Thanks to every at GUI: Mike, Yankee Blue Jeans, Low Down Brown Macgyver, and Crump! Geeks Under the Influence is on iTunes and here on Soundcloud. @geeksundertheinfluence This music on today's show is Ashes. The song is Booze Mansion. www.ashesrva.com

What do three Americans and a gourd have in common? I don't know, but it's time to eat your pumpkin pie and get rowdy because Mean Jeans are on the Endless Bummer! Fresh outta PDX, Means Jeans talk about their NoVa origins, favorite NOFX albums, and the 90's. Why not listen with ears? The song I used on today's show is R U Mental? For all of Mean Jeans' music, visit meanjeans.bandcamp.com/. Look out for their new record out on Fat Wreck Chords in 2016! Also, make sure you snag a comp from Richmond's own Running Around Records' BernACopy. Only $3 in support of Bernie Sanders. runningaroundrecords.bandcamp.com/album/bernacopy

The Endless Bummer podcast is back from summer break! Mike interviews a super talented musician from the land where GTA V takes place, it's Colleen Green! Chill hard while Mike and Colleen chat about our mutual love of the Descendents, Jeff's birfday, and positivity! Also, important to note! You can catch Endless Bummer on both Soundcloud and iTunes on the last Wednesday of each month from here on out. Maybe that'll bring about some better production value? But no promises. I'm still doing all of this all on my phone. Catch all of the cool shit that Colleen Green is doing on Facebook (facebook.com/colleengreen420) and get her new album "I Want to Grow Up" on Hardly Art Records. The song I used on today's show is Colleen's cover of blink-182's "M+M's". Way gnar.

Happy Summer, ya bummers! Mike Engle finds himself in the shallow end of the pool during an adult swim. All the adults are admiring his hairless chest and back. He does a backstroke and impresses no one. That's a weird start. But hey, it's Endless Bummer! This month's guest is comedian and actress Christina Marie Leonard. She recently released a web series she created called Loch Ness. http://lochnesswebseries.com She and Mike talk about metal, weird awkward phases of childhood, Twitter, MySpace, and, of course, Star Wars. Speaking of Wookies, be sure to check out Christina's new podcast The Hidden Rebels. https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-hidden-rebels/id1126160646?mt=2 Follow her on Twitter @cmarieleonard Also, to hear Christina's high school band that influenced the web series, visit www.myspace.com/lochnessne :P The music on today's show is Cough. The song is "The Wounding Hours". https://cough.bandcamp.com/

Episode 23! M.J.! Here's your chance, do your dance at the Space Jam! Endless Bummer gets renamed Talkin' Poop! Two extreme special guests. 2 Xtreme 4 Functioning. Clare O'Kane was a delight! We talk about how comedy house shows can work (and not work), how she got to write a few episodes of Spongebob Squarepants, and finding your comedy "voice". Deep stuff! Follow Clare on Twitter! @babysfirstgun Watch Flophouse on Viceland! Screaming Females absolutely rocked the fuck out Hardywood Brewery and I got to interview them beforehand. We talk about poop. A lot. So much so that Marissa suggested I change the name of my podcast to Talkin' Poop (although pooping IS kind of an Endless Bummer in its own way depending on your diet). We also delve deep into The New Alternative Music Festival, Zach Morris, Zach Hill, and debunking the fact that SPIN's Top 100 Guitarists of All Time list is bullshit. They didn't even include Moby. The song is "Ripe" by Screaming Females from their album, Rose Mountain! Get it now! http://www.screamingfemales.com/ Follow them on Twitter @Screamales and catch 'em on tour! I messed up the RIP interview, but please go their event at GWARbar on Saturday, May 28 at 10 p.m.! https://www.facebook.com/events/276479782694815/

WELCOME TO ENDLESS BUMMER! On this month's episode, Mike Engle phones up comedian, nerdtern, and fellow podcaster Kyle Clark to talk about about how Relationship of Command is a perfect album, other musical odds and ends, how he began interning at the Nerdist, more discussions on podcasting and comedy in general, and how his podcast, This is Rad!, came to be! This one is absolutely filled to the tippy-top brim with tons of fun stuff that you will absolutely want to cram into your brain stem! I am very stoked to present this one to you all. Follow Kyle on Twitter at @kyleclarkisrad. Also, check out his album Pizza Night. https://kyleclarkcomedy.bandcamp.com/ Don't miss Mike's monthly show, A Comedy Show feat. Music, on May 20 at My Noodle & Bar in Richmond, VA at 10 p.m.! The music on today's show is The Magic Fountain. The song is Glamscum's First Communion. https://themagicfountain.bandcamp.com/album/the-magic-fountain-lp-2

Marchable Madness is upon us! Endless Bummer time! Today's guest is Nathan Possum, a Richmond marsupial who can talk and even more impressive, does stand-up comedy! He can even produce podcasts and hosts shows in his living room that he lives streams. What a talent animal! Mike and Nathan talk about hosting their very first rooms, Nathan's experience working lights on the road for bands, and nerd wishlists! The music on today's show is Nathan's podcast's intro music! A lot of possessives! Check it out! @possumcast

The distance is far, but the time space around you is meowing loudly! It's Mike Engle and the first Endless Bummer of 2016! You're a champion of social media! Maybe! I don't know your life! I do know the lives of two legendary musicians, because there have been a lot of interviews with these fine British gents. But never together. At the same time. World exclusive! Morrissey and Robert Smith go head-to-head on the issues that matter. The presidential race. Bringing home the bacon. Will narcissism prevail? Or will they both say "goodbye" at the same time at the end? You'll have to listen to see. Also! Dawn Brooks! Celebrity crushes? We weigh in. Comedy talk. Rating yourself and your sets and even on the most base level your jokes. Special guest appearance: Snack Snackerson! We get serious near the end, but moral of the story is try to at least be civil with everybody. Complete peace is a lie and an illusion. But let's do our own best to try and get the fuck along, because why not? And why not, indeed. The band on today's show is Bare Thoughts. The song be Stay. https://barethoughts.bandcamp.com/

Happy holidays from Mike Engle to you, ya bummerinos and bummerettes! Hope your end of the year is going awesome and your new year is new, shiny, and perhaps even sparkly with a dash of WOAH! On today's Endless Bummer, Mike conducts his first phone interview with Melissa Eslinger! She is a stand-up comic based in Los Angeles who is a regular on the KillTony podcast. She embodies all amateur comedians' nervousness by shaking a lot on stage, but she is amazingly hilarious! Mike and Melissa talk The World Famous Comedy Store, open mic crowdedness in L.A., and Fallout 4. Nerdz! Listen to KillTony at www.deathsquad.tv The second interview of the podcast features Jesse Jarvis, host of Leprecomedy at McCormack's Irish Pub in RVA every second and fourth Wednesday of the month 5 YEARS RUNNING! Holy shlitz! Jesse spills the beans on what it takes to start an open mic, keep one running so long, and the do's and don't of hosting, flyering, and going over your time (which is a perma-DON'T). The music on today's show is Doll Baby. The song is Drift. Check out their shoegazey glory at https://dollbabyrva.bandcamp.com/.

BOO! It's that time of year! Since we are an end of the month podcast now, the Endless Bummer is getting creepy, spooky into Halloween. But we have the LEAST sinister guest on the planet imaginable this month in the form of DMG! David Marie-Garland! RVA phenom comedian man DMG discusses both the pilot episode and series finale of the hit TV show Gilmore Girls with Mike, which he had never seen before but enjoyed! Ever wonder what happened to Rory and Lorelei after the show ended and they went their separate ways? Mike rolls a d20 to find out and DMG acts as GM (Gilmore Master). Other topics of note include discussing Lightning Bolt, weirdos who blast Free Bird on boomboxes in bars, and Twinkle Twinkle Little Fails. This week's music on today's show is @negativegemini. The song is You Never Knew.

New format, one new guest, one old guest! Bum into the bummiest of bummers! We have John Thomas! Mike and John discuss the enigma that is Mr. Popo, tentacle porn, Marvel, and other superhero stuff! John even took the quiz at thesuperheroquiz.com. (NewsFLASH, it sucks, please don't take it. It's a waste of time.) We also have Brian Mann! He talks about his time as a young Mann living in Chicago, doing ComedySportz, and the nightmarish hellscape in which he resided. This one is full of love, life, laughs, and Ass-Eatin' Alice. The music on today's show is a remix of Strike the Earth from Shovel Knight by @djcutman featuring Kevin Villecco. Mike is performing at The Slow Ride Podcast, Live! on Friday, September 25 at 10:00 p.m. at the Coalition Theater in RVA. Only $5! https://www.facebook.com/events/1496531837311466/

I had my very first guest on Endless Bummer who was a comedy man that I did not know personally! It's Henry Jensen! Because Henry was a stranger to Mike before the podcast conversation, we took old school Myspace surveys to get to know each other! We compared Henry's today answers to high school senioritis Mike's answers in 2008, which makes it super awkward, but, hopefully, funny! The music on today's show is a Dana Valery remix by Maggy Thump. Please check out The Maggie Thump Show on Soundcloud and iTunes! https://soundcloud.com/themaggythumpshow

Today's Endless Bummer guest is a multi-talented Southern man-bear-human named Jason Kusterer! Jason and Mike discuss a lot of stuff! We talk music! Because Jason is the super sludge-y vocalist/guitarist for the RVA metal band Dirt Merchant. Other topics of interest include what it's like being a modern 20-something, college and going to it, and, of course, a feud as old as time space: Maiden v.s. Slayer. Jason also plays an original song called "Quick Breath" at the end too! :D Music on today's show is Dirt Merchant, ya dingus! The song is off their new EP "Devil's Orders". It's called Breach. https://dirtmerchantva.bandcamp.com/

This episode of Endless Bummer hits so close to home that takes place in my home with someone who shares my home with me. It's my roommate Lindsay Benkel! She is an awesome lady who loves video games (like myself)! She does cosplay and goes to video game conventions dressed as badass characters. Lindsay does homemade costuming and prop designs and she is damn good at it! Please give her love and shout outs and commissions on her Facebook! https://www.facebook.com/ParadoxicallyCharmingCosplay The music on today's show is Close Talker. The song is The Guilt. https://closetalkerva.bandcamp.com/

First touring band on Endless Bummer! It's Dads from Piscataway, New Jersey! Get pumped like Arnold, because John, Scott, and Ryan talk Jersey, the sitcom dads, and how to properly plug a SnapChat for their friend Alex! The song on today's show is Dads (duh.) The song is Get to the Beach! www.wearentdads.com

There's a young Mann on the Endless Bummer today! It's Brian Mann! Please listen to our socially acceptable insanity! Brian and Mike discuss taking comedy breaks, inner dialogues, outer dialogues, and absurdism! GET READY TO GET WOOOOOO!!!!! IN YOUR WOOOOOOOO!!!! This is part 1 of 2! Brian Mann will return for his full bummer fix. The music on today's show is Common Folk! The song is The Real Thing. https://commonfolk.bandcamp.com/

We're tiny, we're toony, we're all a little loony! Mike Engle is back to the weekly bummer with Richmond's cartoon character masterfiend, Brandon Beswick and Rich Girls Comedy member! http://www.richgirlscomedy.com/ Brandon and Mike dish on their love of adult swim, King of the Hill, silliness, and at the end we do horrible impressions that you can't judge us for! The music on today's show are two songs from DJ Cutman! The first song is Manoria at 5 a.m. and the second is a cover of Daft Punk's Something About Us (8-bit Remix)! https://soundcloud.com/djcutman

Alex Hill is here to get silly today on Endless Bummer! Mike and Alex chat about our favorite Chicago comics, online dating, growing, teacher parents, and how Alex used to be an e-thug! What a punk! The music on today's show is Navi. The song is L.A.S.E.R. (Love and Sperm Excreted Radically) https://killnavi.bandcamp.com/

Endless Bummer's first two guest podcast! It's Patrick Buhse and Tancredi Vasaio! They do a two-man comedy act called The New Yorkers. Mike, Pat, and Tan talk about open mics, the singularity involving sentient robots, centaurs on the brain, and Return of the Jedi. The music on today's show is Hot Dolphin. The song is Animal. https://hotdolphin.bandcamp.com/

We have a lovely redhead on today's show! His name's Neil Heltzel! What a red-blooded AmeriGerman! Mike and Neil break all the rules of podcasting! What rebels! They chit and they chat about comedy movies, having German last names, virginity loss, and even more shenanigans involving Hitler and Bukowski. Neil's part of Rich Girls Comedy! Check 'em out! https://www.facebook.com/pages/Rich-Girls-Comedy/ The music on today's show is Suneater! The song is Cunningham (Desert Flight) https://www.facebook.com/SuneaterRVA

McKenzie Deese bums into Endless Bummer with the resolve of a thousand ping-pong paddles! She is a who also resides in Richmond, Virginia and is also knew to performing stand-up comedy...just like the host of this show: Mike Engle! We chat about Southern living, Law and Order: SVU, comedy-delivering addictiveness, being "new", our RVA home, and general silly stuff! The song on today's show is Dr. Mahattan. The song is by Kyle Anthony from the Varsity Music Group. https://soundcloud.com/varsityentertainment

Tatjana Cervenka is on the most endless of bummers! She is an amazing lady who hosts Presentation Party Night Richmond every last Saturday of the month at Studio 23! In addition to talking about PPN, Mike and Tat discuss the importance of communication, how English isn't even her first language, and the hardships her family endured as refugees of the Croatian War of Independence. For more information about PPN, check out their Facebook! https://www.facebook.com/PPNRichmond If you want to present at Presentation Party Night, e-mail Tatjana directly at ppnrichmond@gmail.com The music on today's show is Hold Tight! The song is I Guess This Is F**ing Up. https://holdtight.bandcamp.com/

Mike went to Brooklyn! Listen to some comedy he performed at Don Pedro's in East Williamsburg! Also, check out a live set from Teen Body! www.facebook.com/teenbodymusic Their set was: 1) Other Places 2) Quarterlife 3) Daymoon 4) Other Places, Pt. 2 Please check out another NYC-VA implant, Mirror Kisses! The song I used was Runaways! https://soundcloud.com/georgeclanton

Get ready to listen to Sera Erickson and all of the amazing things she does on this episode of the Endless Bummer! Sera is the vocalist for the dance rock band Toxic Moxie! She also volunteers for Girls Rock! RVA, a summer camp that teaches young ladies how to play instruments, how to start bands, and be creative! I'm glad she took time out of her busy schedule to chat it up! :) Her band's music is on the show today. The song is Blurry by Toxic Moxie. https://toxicmoxie.bandcamp.com/

Mike Engle's first episode of Endless Bummer! Today's guest is the host of the Mojo's open mic every second and fourth Tuesday of the month in Richmond Virginia. It's Tom Hall! We talk about our comedy origins, music taste origins, Stroodles v.s Donuts, Waffles v.s. Pancakes, all whilst a parade of motorcycles vrooms on by! Great for the listening audience! The music on today's show is Teen Body - Quarterlife. https://soundcloud.com/teenbody