Mishka Shubaly Podcast

Please subscribe and rate us on your preferred podcast platform and sign up for the patreon! David Coppin Lanegan is a poet and singer living in the desert of Ellensburg, WA. He performs across Washington as a member of the poetry collective Headlight Children, and in his punk group The Black Velvet Band. His debut collection 'Devotional' was published in 2024, and Black Velvet's debut record 'Flood' materialized in early 2025. He currently serves as Inland Poet Laureate.  Find him on IG @_theblackvelvetband_ or @williambillybilliam Listen to Black Velvet Band here

Please subscribe and rate us on your preferred podcast platform and sign up for the patreon! Chad Riden currently lives on the Taos County, New Mexico high desert mesa where he is building a sustainable, off the grid compound with some awesome friends while producing comedy shows for the TaosComedy 501c3 non-profit. Riden has appeared on “The Daily Show” on Comedy Central, the Late Show with David Letterman's “Tony Mendez Show,” ABC/CMT's “Nashville,” “CBS This Morning,” HBO/Max “Love Off The Grid,” “Chrisley Knows Best,” “Still The King,” “TRUMP OCH KOMIKERNA – HUMORKRIGET” (TV4 Sweden, C-MORE's “Trump Vs Comedy”), CMT-Canada's “Mississippi Snake Grabbers,” and once ate lunch at The Magic Castle in Los Angeles whose newsletter called him “the most famous un-famous person.” Chad produced and hosted the annual Guinness world record breaking 184+ hour long #BrokenRecordShow (longest stand-up comedy show, multiple comedians) every year from 2015-2018 as part of the Nashville Comedy Festival. “Broken Records,” a documentary shot during the 2016 show, is available to stream on ShortFilmsMatter.com Riden ran for Mayor of Nashville in 2015, which was hilarious and everybody loved it even though he lost miserably. Undaunted, in 2018 he ran for Governor of Tennessee and garnered 1,096 votes statewide, finishing 14th out of 28 candidates on the ballot – a mere 1,335,011 votes short of winning the whole damn thing.

Please subscribe and rate us on your preferred podcast platform and sign up for the patreon! As a professional comedy journalist of more than two decades, Julie Seabaugh has contributed to The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Rolling Stone, The Hollywood Reporter, Variety, GQ, The Village Voice, L.A. Weekly, and numerous other titles. Her coverage of modern roasting culminated in 2018 book Ringside at Roast Battle and her love of Mitch Hedberg led to producing/hosting 2020's Hope on Top: A Mitch Hedberg Oral History for SiriusXM. With Emmy-nominated filmmaker Nick Scown she co-directed September 2021 feature documentary Too Soon: Comedy After 9/11 for Vice. 2022's 50 Years of the Comedy Store six-LP vinyl box set features her liner notes; her Positive Connections: A Brody Stevens Oral History debuted on SiriusXM in February 2023. The book collection A Tight 20: Two Decades of Comedy Journalism is available now. 

Please subscribe and rate us on your preferred podcast platform and sign up for the patreon! Thanks for listening! Elliot Broder is a standup comedian, DIY agriculture enthusiast, and former unofficial spokesperson of U.S. Catfish. You can find him at @mikehawkburns on Instagram, Threads, etc. I met Elliot a couple of times over the years while doing comedy in Colorado. We even went running once but not super tight bros. When I landed a coveted elk tag this spring, I posted about it on social media, soliciting a more experienced hunter to accompany me on my elk hunt. Everyone who chimed in ended up washing out except for my last choice-- Elliot Broder. When you have one option, that's your best option, so I put the screws into him to get him to come. Spoiler alert: we weren't just successful on our hunt, we ended up having the best time, Elliot kicked much ass, and in the future, he's going to be the first person I call for my next hare-brained scheme. He's a deep dude, too, with much to say about building a meaningful life under the shadow of capitalism. Hope you dig it.

Please subscribe and rate us on your preferred podcast platform and sign up for the patreon! Thanks for listening! Writer for the punk rock humor website The Hard Times Magazine, and host of the comedy Podcast "What's More Metal?"  Nariko was winner of the Portland's Funniest Person Contest and named one of SplitSider Magazine's "Top Up and Coming Comedians." He's been on the Bridgetown Comedy Festival, 10,000 Laughs, and the TreeFort Music Fest among others. Back in his hometown of Portland he is the host of “The Cool Kids” comedy show at the legendary Doug Fir Lounge and has been featured on EPIX's “Unprotected Sets," “Laughs” on FOX, Spotify, SiriusXM, and iHeartRadio.

Please subscribe and rate us on your preferred podcast platform and sign up for the patreon! Thanks for listening! Born in the rust belt, reared in the bible belt,  Kristen Becker believes in Good Deeds and Dirty Jokes. Her comedy dances gingerly back and forth between drunken redneck and woke women studies major as she playfully explores the good and bad of both sides of the aisle, leaving you left to wonder whether we really are that different, after all. A twenty year veteran of stand up comedy,  she continues to skewer the status quo with her salty social commentary. Last year the Not -for Profit she founded,  Summer of Sass, INC received a $3.7M donation, allowing her to  secure a safe harbor for future LGBTQ+humans.    Becker has worked with everyone from underground comedy legend Doug Stanhope,  punk preacher Jay Bakker (yes, Jim and Tammy Faye were his parents) and Righteous Babe Ani DiFranco.  Becker was featured on the “Welcome to Provincetown” podcast, named a top ten podcast of 2022 by The NY Times . 

Please subscribe and rate us on your preferred podcast platform and sign up for the patreon! Thanks for listening! Simply put, Rich Roll is a change agent. At age 40, Rich made the decision to overhaul the sedentary throes of overweight middle age. Walking away from a career in law, he reinvented himself as a globally recognized ultra-distance endurance athlete, bestselling author, and host of the wildly popular Rich Roll Podcast, one of the world's most listened to podcasts with over 200 million downloads. Named one the “25 Fittest Men In The World” by Men's Fitness and the “Guru of Reinvention” by Outside, Rich shares his inspirational story of addiction, redemption, athletic prowess, and authentic living in his bestselling memoir, Finding Ultra, and in the cookbook and lifestyle guides The Plantpower Way and The Plantpower Way: Italia, which he co-authored with his wife Julie Piatt. A graduate of Stanford University (and member of their dynastic, multiple NCAA Championship Men's Swimming program) and Cornell Law School, Rich has been featured on CNN and on the cover of Outside magazine, and has been profiled in The New York Times, Forbes, ESPN and many other prominent media outlets.

Please subscribe and rate us on your preferred podcast platform and sign up for the patreon! Thanks for listening!   For the last six years, David Blum worked for Audible as the editor-in-chief of Audible Originals. Previously, Blum served as the founding editor of Kindle Singles, the store for original, high-quality longform fiction and nonfiction on Kindle. He began his career as a reporter for The Wall Street Journal, and has worked as a contributing editor at New York Magazine (where he coined the term "Brat Pack"), Esquire and The New York Times Magazine. He has also written for The New Republic, Vanity Fair and The New Yorker. In 2006 Blum became editor-in-chief of The Village Voice, and later served as editor-in-chief of the New York Press and 02138 Magazine. Blum's first book, "Flash In The Pan: The Life and Death of an American Restaurant," was published by Simon & Schuster in 1992, and was named a notable nonfiction book of the year by The New York Times Book Review. His second book, "Tick...Tick...Tick...: The Long Life & Turbulent Times of 60 Minutes," was published by HarperCollins in 2004.

Please subscribe and rate us on your preferred podcast platform and sign up for the patreon! Thanks for listening! Adam Cayton-Holland (www.adamcaytonholland.com) is a national touring comic who has appeared on Conan, The Late Late Show with James Corden, Comedy Central Presents, @midnight, The Meltdown with Jonah and Kumail, Happy Endings and was named one of Esquire's “25 Comics to Watch,” as well as one of “10 Comics to Watch” by Variety. Do the math. That means fifteen comics fell through the cracks. Adam was not one of them. Along with his cohorts in The Grawlix, he created, wrote and starred in “Those Who Can't,” which aired for three seasons and is available to stream on HBOMax. The Grawlix also host a podcast, “The Grawlix Saves the World,” which is available everywhere. His albums, “I Don't Know If I Happy,” “Backyards,” “Adam Cayton-Holland Performs His Signature Bits,” (voted one of Vulture's Top Ten Albums of 2018), “Semblance of Normalcy,” and “Hot Takes,” are all available on iTunes. “Adam Cayton-Holland Performs His Signature Bits” is also available on vinyl through the record label Saddle Creek. Adam's writing has appeared in McSweeney's, The New York Times, Esquire and The Atlantic. His first book, Tragedy Plus Time, is available everywhere.

Please subscribe and rate us on your preferred podcast platform and sign up for the patreon! Thanks for listening! This week's guest is Andy Baker, he's Hack Oddity, he's Another Fat Guy Cooks, he's a terrible, terrible little man and he's my friend and I love him a lot. Andy is my one friend who isn't a comedian and he should be a comedian. He didn't do anything for a long time and now he does a cooking show called Another Fat Guy Cooks that is brilliant and not just because I did the theme he no longer uses. Andy was born with two club feet and after we get done ridiculing each other, we talk a little bit about how that childhood gulag informed who he became as an adult.  

We lost Mark Lanegan a year ago today. I'd be hard-pressed to name another artist who has affected me as deeply. He was also a great friend of mine. I thought I'd start out addressing a couple of questions from other fans so I wouldn't spend the whole time just talking about my fancy feelings and then ended up spending most of the time on the questions. Oh well, I managed to squeak my fancy little feelings in at the end. Thanks for listening. Please take a minute to rate and review the podcast or even sign up for my Patreon 

Please subscribe and rate us on your preferred podcast platform and sign up for the patreon! For Patreon supporters, I'll be answering listener suggested questions on bonus episodes with my mom once a month. Thank you for listening! When we say 'Mom' or 'Dad,' one of the things we're saying is "I have known this person my entire life." Before there was anything else, there was Mom and there was Dad and there was auntie Anita. Anita is my mom's older sister, the first of 17 children. She came down to visit after my mom's surgery so I just had to have her on the podcast. We all cried a little bit and I hope you will, too.  

Please subscribe and rate us on your preferred podcast platform and sign up for the patreon! For Patreon supporters, I'll be answering listener suggested questions on bonus episodes with my mom once a month. Thank you for listening! Since 2005, Ryan McKee has worked as a writer, producer and content creator in TV and digital media for Duel, Guy Code, Girl Code, MTV News, Game On!, and The Late Late Show with James Corden. He also created, wrote, and served as executive producer for the Snap Originals series James Corden's Next James Corden and won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Short Form Comedy or Drama Series in 2018. For the past couple of years, he has been making original sports media content for SGPN and now The Action Network, as well as hosting and producing the NBA Gambling Podcast. Please enjoy the Videos page for examples of his work. You can also read about the comedy anthology he published in 2020.    

Lou Poster is a writer and the voice of the band Driftmouth. We've been friends for 20 years now, so we've been in some shit together. 18 months ago, he fed me some venison and put this crazy idea in my head that one day, I might shoot a deer, too. This past winter, that idea blossomed into a full-on obsession. The adventure that followed became a transformative experience. 

Please subscribe and rate us on your preferred podcast platform and sign up for the patreon! For Patreon supporters, I'll be answering listener suggested questions on bonus episodes with my mom once a month. Thank you for listening! Mat Alano-Martin has spent the last 13 years on the road telling jokes and sharing stories all across America. He has appeared at comedy clubs, theaters, punk rock dives, redneck roadhouses, casinos, colleges, living rooms and everywhere in between. Alano-Martin's albums “Profiled as Such,” “Blood Mouth” and “Midnight Nachos” can be heard in regular rotation on Sirius/XM's comedy channels and he has appeared several times on the nationally syndicated The Bob & Tom Show and once on Laughs on Hulu. His first comedy special “Tango in Philly” will be out later this year. He has worked with such notable acts as Patton Oswalt, Tig Notaro, Maria Bamford and Chris Gethard and has performed at several festivals and prominent showcases across the country and beyond including: – 208 Comedy Festival – Boise, ID – 10,000 Laughs – Minneapolis, MN – Altercation Comedy Festival – Austin, TX – Beast Village Comedy Festival – Des Moines, IA – Bird City Comedy Festival – Phoenix, AZ – The Black Box Comedy Festival – Atlanta, GA – Cleveland Comedy Festival – Cleveland, OH – Cloudtop Comedy Festival – Sante Fe, NM – Comcast's “Look Who's Laughing Now” – Indianapolis, IN – Comedians You Should Know – Chicago, IL – The Fest – Gainesville, FL – Finger Lakes Comedy Festival – Ithaca, NY – Fountain City Comedy Festival – Kansas City, MO – Fresh Out – Los Angeles, CA – Gilda's LaughFest – Grand Rapids, MI – Green Gravel Comedy Festival – Iowa City, IA – High Plains Comedy Festival – Denver, CO – Hong Kong International Comedy Festival – Hong Kong, China – Hopkins Comedy Festival – Hopkins, MN – Hot Tub with Kurt and Kristen – Los Angeles, CA – If You Build It – New York, NY – The Indy Fringe Festival – Indianapolis, IN – Laugh in a Box Festival – Cincinnati, OH – Laughing Devil Comedy Festival – New York City, NY – Laughing Skull Comedy Festival – Atlanta, GA – Let's Fest – Fort Wayne, IN – Limestone Comedy Festival – Bloomington, IN – Live From Outer Space – New York, NY – Lookout Comedy Festival – Chattanooga, TN – Milwaukee Comedy Festival – Milwaukee, WI – Parlour Car – Chicago, IL – Pittsburgh Comedy Festival – Pittsburgh, PA – Red Clay Comedy Festival – Atlanta, GA – Sacramento Comedy Festival – Sacramento, CA – The World Series of Comedy – Chicago, IL He is also the co-founder of the Limestone Comedy Festival and his jokes have been used for the Frank and Funny greeting card line.

Please subscribe and rate us on your preferred podcast platform and sign up for the patreon! For Patreon supporters, I'll be answering listener suggested questions on bonus episodes with my mom once a month. Thank you for listening! Jay Whitecotton is the product of a clinically diagnosed schizophrenic family of drug addicted Star Trek nerds, who would rage tweak all night while playing Dungeons and Dragons. Somehow this was not a setback. Based in Austin, Texas he is quietly painting himself in the corner with no other option, but becoming a full time comedian. He's performed at Funny or Die's Oddball Fest, Las Vegas Punk Rock and Bowling Festival, Moontower Comedy Fest, and many more. In 2016 his debut album hit #1 on iTunes comedy and he taped for FOX.

Tina Muir is a former elite marathoner who is now CEO of Running for Real, and hosts a podcast of the same name. As a professional runner she was a 2:36 marathoner, represented Great Britain and was sponsored by Saucony. In her first race following retirement at what was considered the peak of her career, Muir won the 2019 Disney World Half Marathon. In that same year, she published Overcoming Amenorrhea: Get Your Period Back. Get Your Life Back. In 2022 she and Zoe Rom will release Becoming a Sustainable Runner.

If you enjoy the podcast, please take a moment to share it with someone else, maybe even subscribe and rate us on your preferred podcast platform?  Please sign up for the patreon: https://www.patreon.com/mishkashubaly For Patreon supporters, I'll be answering listener suggested questions on bonus episodes with my mom once a month. Thank you for listening!   Kyle Pogue is a stand up comic living and working in Fort Collins, Colorado. He's a regular performer at The Comedy Fort in Fort Collins and Comedy Works in Denver. Pogue has been on a butt load of festivals, including the High Plains and Altercation comedy fests. He has also opened for Mishka Shubaly on the road, a resume which also includes almost getting in bar fights, being stranded in the desert for a while when it was pretty hot, not having a thought for three days after taking MDA, getting hammered at The Fun House, meeting a lot of comedy heros and one funny Englishman, and also telling jokes in every broken dive bar and dejected comedy room from Phoenix to New Orleans without the looming threat of fame or success to get in the way. 

If you enjoy the podcast, please take a moment to share it with someone else, maybe even subscribe and rate us on your preferred podcast platform?  Please sign up for the patreon: https://www.patreon.com/mishkashubaly For Patreon supporters, I'll be answering listener suggested questions on bonus episodes with my mom once a month. Thank you for listening!   Kyle Shutt is an American musician widely known for his guitar playing in the seminal stoner metal band, The Sword, since 2003. From the punk and indie clubs of Austin, TX to arenas all over the world on Metallica's World Magnetic Tour, The Sword climbed the Billboard Top 200 charts to number 17 with their fourth album, Apocryphon. Having played well over a thousand shows, The Sword changed the landscape of heavy metal during the early 2000's and their influence can be heard far and wide in music today. The Sword will be supporting Primus on their A Farwell to Kings tour in 2021. Not one to rest on his laurels, in 2017 Shutt produced Doom Side of the Moon, a heavy metal reimagining of Pink Floyd's greatest hits with an accompanying psychedelic live show spectacular. The completely independent endeavor landed at number 82 on the Billboard Top 200 charts the week of its release. A followup album will be coming in 2022. Shutt turned to crowdfunding in 2018 with the undertaking of a solo album in which he wrote every song and played every instrument over a 14 day period. The Kickstarter campaign went over its goal by 25% and the ensuing support tour saw him share the stage with Electric Six and even included a slot on the Exit 111 Festival. More punk than metal, Shutt's solo career set him apart from being just a stoner rock guitarist and set the stage for many of his other endeavors. A followup solo album will also be arriving in 2022. During the coronavirus pandemic, Shutt kicked his creativity into overdrive with a painting career that saw over 150 paraody versions of himself painted onto copies of his solo album LPs and were sold directly to fans. With subjects from Star Wars characters to superheroes, no pop culture icon was safe from his self portraits. Shutt also launched another successful crowdfunding effort during the pandemic to write the first in his series of lighthearted memoirs, “Written in Stoned”. The Kickstarter campaign once again went over its goal by 25% and the accompanying parody images promoting the book on his social media accounts further cemented his signature brand of humor in the eyes of his fans. At the turn of 2021 The High Way with Kyle Shutt was launched, a self produced podcast featuring musicians and entertainers conversing with Shutt about life in the industry. Guests included Neil Fallon (Clutch), Dave Wyndorf (Monster Magnet) and Buzz Osborne (Melvins) and was immediately embraced by fans. Although he launched the podcast in an admittedly over saturated market, the program quickly rose to number 23 on the Apple Podcast Music Interview Charts in the U.S. as well as other charts all over the world. Having built his fan base without anything but hard work and relentless dedication to his craft in the face of ever changing adversity, Shutt is a unique force in an unsure world and isn't going away any time soon.

If you enjoy the podcast, please take a moment to share it with someone else, maybe even subscribe and rate us on your preferred podcast platform?  Please sign up for the patreon: https://www.patreon.com/mishkashubaly For Patreon supporters, I'll be answering listener suggested questions on bonus episodes with my mom once a month. Thank you for listening! Derek Sheen is a cuddly mess of insecurities and a stand-up comedian from Seattle.  He has released four albums on Stand Up! Records, most recently 2020's Macho Caballero.   Reviewer Richard Lanoie of The Serious Comedy Site said that Sheen "more than proves there are still some great, original, and intelligently dark comics out there. Drew Hunt of the Chicago Reader noted that Sheen's comedy can be "highly personal or emotionally transparent" and compared him to Brian Posehn for his "delivery and lucid, streetwise worldview”.    Sheen wanted to be a comic from an early age. In third grade, he recited an entire George Carlin album side for show-and-tell. He first performed standup at nine, and at an open mic at 13. He played music professionally for 15 years before returning to standup at age 35. His comedy often touches on personal topics such as his depression and alcoholism.   A gifted, one of a kind storyteller, Sheen has become a secret favorite among comedy fans across the globe. He has a gift for mining the dark depths of the human condition and excavating interesting and very personal stories, filled with shocks, laughter and hope. He is also a hopeless and gigantic idiot.   Catch Derek performing in my Sideyard on Nov 18th! 

Leslie Jamison is the New York Times bestselling author of two essay collections—The Empathy Exams and Make it Scream, Make it Burn—as well as a critical memoir, The Recovering, and a novel, The Gin Closet. She is a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine and teaches at Columbia University. She lives in Brooklyn with her family.   We talk about writing from the hypnagogic state, dreams, regrets, cleaning up the feces of your child/pet, and also her brilliant recent piece for The New Yorker about the Choose Your Own Adventure book series, which you can read here.

Around the same time, my mother discovered a mass in her throat that was *probably not* cancer and my father was diagnosed with a mass on his kidney that was definitely cancer. So I figured we were probably due for a little catch-up with my mom. I scream, you scream, we all scream for cancer!   If you enjoy the podcast, please take a moment to share it with someone else, maybe even subscribe and rate us on your preferred podcast platform?  Please sign up for the patreon: https://www.patreon.com/mishkashubaly For Patreon supporters, I'll be answering listener suggested questions on bonus episodes with my mom once a month. Thank you for listening!  

Brandie Posey will be performing at my house on Nov 9th at 7pm! Please come and hang if you are in the Phoenix area.   Originally from Annapolis, Maryland, Brandie Posey is a stand up comedian, writer and producer who now calls LA's comedy scene home. She has been featured as a performer at the Bentzen Ball, New York Comedy Festival, RIOT Comedy Festival, San Francisco Sketchfest, FEST in Gainesville, Bridgetown Comedy Festival, High Plains in Denver, among many others. She has opened for all of your favorite comics, including Kyle Kinane, Maria Bamford and the legendary punk band Against Me! Brandie has appeared on MTV, E! and Comedy Central. She made her feature film debut in the indie dark comedy, "The Worst Year Of My Life" directed by Jonathan Smith and her first stand up record Opinion Cave debuted at #1 on iTunes & #12 on Billboard.com. Brandie's comedic style has been described as a “Riot Grrl on acid”. Brandie tours the country, headlining every dark corner with a microphone that will have her - from a basement in Whitesburg, KY to the stages of the Kennedy Center (twice!). She is the co-creator & host of Picture This!, the popular comedy-animation show with consistently sold out shows in Los Angeles & New York. In 2018 Picture This! shot a pilot for TruTV in partnership with Page Hurwitz & Wanda Sykes' Push It Productions. At the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre & The Hollywood Improv, Brandie co-hosts Lady to Lady alongside Barbara Gray & Tess Barker.  Lady to Lady is also a celebrated weekly podcast with over 7 million downloads & loyal fans around the world.  If you enjoy the podcast, please take a moment to share it with someone else, maybe even subscribe and rate us on your preferred podcast platform?  Please sign up for the patreon: https://www.patreon.com/mishkashubaly For Patreon supporters, I'll be answering listener suggested questions on bonus episodes with my mom once a month. Thank you for listening!

David Dondero is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. In 2006, NPR's All Songs Considered named David one of the "best living songwriters" alongside Bob Dylan, Paul McCartney and Tom Waits. https://www.patreon.com/davedondero If you enjoy the podcast, please take a moment to share it with someone else, maybe even subscribe and rate us on your preferred podcast platform?  Please sign up for the patreon: https://www.patreon.com/mishkashubaly For Patreon supporters, I'll be answering listener suggested questions on bonus episodes with my mom once a month. Thank you for listening!  

Kristine Levine is a comedian who got her start 23 years ago in Portland, Oregon. She's been featured on 6 seasons of Portlandia. Her Edinburgh Fringe show 'Fat Whore' was described as "filth, intelligence, funniness and a massive helping of fuck you to 'normal' society.”     She's currently hunkered  down in beautiful Bisbee, Arizona with two of her adult children and faithful companion, Honey Switchblade.   If you enjoy the podcast, please take a moment to share it with someone else, maybe even subscribe and rate us on your preferred podcast platform?  Please sign up for the patreon: https://www.patreon.com/mishkashubaly For Patreon supporters, I'll be answering listener suggested questions on bonus episodes with my mom once a month. Thank you for listening!    

TIMO ELLIS is a musician, composer, and producer. He lives and works in New York City, where he was born and raised. A vocalist and multi-instrumentalist, Ellis has appeared on almost 100 albums in total over the past twenty years. He has recorded and toured with such artists as Yoko Ono, Sean Lennon, Cibo Matto, Joan As Police Woman, and Spacehog, and has variously performed and collaborated with Mark Ronson, John Zorn, The Melvins, Ween, The Lemonheads, Money Mark, and Gibby Haynes. ​Ellis' extreme versatility has placed him in the company of musical greats of several genres – within his solo work exists an equally vast range of styles. Since the early 2000's, he has composed and recorded more than thirty solo albums under his own name and with his main band, Netherlands. Traversing the realms of rock, punk, metal, soul, lo-fi, folk/ country, electronics, and beyond, Ellis' diverse music is unified by a few constants: impeccable songcraft, blazing technique, quirky experimentalism, and sheer intensity. His solo works have been described with phrases like “an absolute, burning blur of a song” (CMJ), “overridden-in-the-red propulsion” (Noisey), and “gritty, high energy… rambunctious” (BrooklynVegan).

The Giraffes are a cult band from Brooklyn that has been leveling crowds with their signature mixture of heavy rock, punk, metal and surf since 1996. A well-earned reputation for mayhem has followed the band from the start. Their guitarist was shot in the leg outside of a White Castle late one night in Brooklyn after being accosted by an off-duty fire marshal with an itchy trigger finger. The bullet is still lodged in his knee. Their singer Aaron Lazar has suffered multiple Sudden Cardiac Death events. He has a defibrillator implanted in his chest which has erroneously shocked him on stage. During a show at Chicago's legendary Double Door, it sent 700 volts directly into his heart 3 times in 30 seconds. He finished the set. I've known Aaron for more than 20 years now and he's one of my closest friends. We have Been In Some Shit together. We've toured together, I punched him in the neck, I returned his rental car the first time he died, we were in a band together and it broke up in a hail of recrimination. We're still friends. I'm eerily close with his cat, Bill. We talk a lot here about how death renewed his interest in life and I think it's a really useful conversation. We also play a couple of new songs, one from his band D'NT with former Beat the Devil drummer Mitchell King and one from the Giraffes. Enjoy.

Jay Chanoine is a nationally touring comedian whose style has been described as "the comedic equivalent of a toy car that you pull back, then watch it zip out of control and wonder where it will end up." He is a frequent member of The Altercation Punk Comedy Tour, a contributing writer to satirical humor site The Hard Times, and a recording artist for the Stand Up! Records label. His most recent album (2019's The Texas Chanoinesaw Massacre) was produced by Grammy award winner Dan Schlissel. It debuted at the top of both Amazon and Apple Music's comedy charts and can be heard streaming on SiriusXM Satellite Radio.   Named "The Funniest Comedian You Don't Know Yet" on AXS, Jay's high energy performances have been seen opening for national acts like Kyle Kinane, Eddie Pepitone, Myq Kaplan and Sam Jay. He has also been featured at a variety of comedy and music festivals including The Altercation Comedy Festival in Austin, Texas and Pouzza Fest in Montreal. He is currently working on his next album for Stand Up! Records.   If you enjoy the podcast, please take a moment to share it with someone else, maybe even subscribe and rate us on your preferred podcast platform?  Please sign up for the patreon: https://www.patreon.com/mishkashubaly For Patreon supporters, I'll be answering listener suggested questions on bonus episodes with my mom once a month. Thank you for listening!

Andy Iwancio will be performing at my house in Phoenix on Sept 24th with a bunch of other jerks! No cover charge, please come and hang out, details in the episode or message me directly. Andy is a trans gal comedian from Seattle (by way of Baltimore). With her ten years of comedy she brings a witty, sardonic and slightly profane style to her jokes about navigating marriage, having a disability, and, most importantly, boob puns.   She has opened for Kyle Kinane, Whitmer Thomas, James Adomian, Gareth Reynolds and Cameron Epsosito. Festival-wise, she has done Bumbershoot, SF Sketchfest, Women in Comedy NW, Upper Left, Festival, Altercation, and All-Jane.   If you enjoy the podcast, please take a moment to share it with someone else, maybe even subscribe and rate us on your preferred podcast platform?  Please sign up for the patreon: https://www.patreon.com/mishkashubaly For Patreon supporters, I'll be answering listener suggested questions on bonus episodes with my mom once a month. Thank you for listening!  

Mike Wiebe is a musician, actor, and stand-up comedian from Texas. Originally from Denton, he now lives in Austin. Wiebe is the lead singer of several nationally known Austin-based bands including Drakulas, High Tension Wires, and his most longstanding group, Riverboat Gamblers, with whom he has released six albums since 1997. Wiebe is known for a high-energy performance style which has led to frequent accidental self-injury, which, in turn, has fed back into his iconic status in Texas punk rock. He suffered a collapsed lung after a crowd-surfing accident in 2016. He once accidentally broke a gas main while swinging from the rafters of a club in Denton, Texas, filling the room with flammable gas. Since 2013, his work has also turned increasingly toward comedy, including two works released by Grammy-winning comedy label Stand Up! Records. Mike Wiebe is really one of the coolest people I know, a true artist. I can't believe we're pals. We close out the show with Worried About Me by Mike & Ian's Sidehustle (w/ Ian from Riverboat Gamblers) and Shame by Drakulas. If you enjoy the podcast, please take a moment to share it with someone else, maybe even subscribe and rate us on your preferred podcast platform?  Please sign up for the patreon: https://www.patreon.com/mishkashubaly For Patreon supporters, I'll be answering listener suggested questions on bonus episodes with my mom once a month. Thank you for listening!

Shanna Christmas was born and raised in Las Vegas, NV. She is a stand up comedian, writer, actor and producer. She stands at 6'3'' and played volleyball in college, despite much protest. Her comedy style has been described as “Edgy/Classy” as she finds ways to speak about complicated issues that can offend, but she's so charming that you can't be mad at her. Shanna has performed across North America, including Montreal and Edmonton in Canada. You can see her backside on episode 5 of Amazon's “Inside Jokes” cause she crashed JFL. Shanna's festival appearances include the 208 Festival, Altercation Festival, Black Girl Giggles, Black Women In Comedy Festival (NY) and the Devil Cup Festival, where she took home the trophy in 2018. She was also a finalist in the inaugural ABFF Comedy fest in 2021.

Brennan Whalen of Memphis, Tennessee is a salesman, above ground pool enthusiast, and lead singer/guitarist of HEELS.  I met him a few years back when I was one the road and he's become one of my closest friends and my favorite musicians. We talk about nude grilling, how Brennan drank himself out of both hips, his hot mom, and learning to cope with inconceivable loss. If you enjoy the podcast, please take a moment to share it with someone else, maybe even subscribe and rate us on your preferred podcast platform?  Please sign up for the patreon: https://www.patreon.com/mishkashubaly For Patreon supporters, I'll be answering listener suggested questions on bonus episodes with my mom once a month. Thank you for listening!

Josh McLane is the drummer for HEELS, operator of the South Point Kitchen, a recovering drug addict, lackluster husband, and decent dad. I met Josh in 2014-2015 when I was on the road with Star Anna. He was an incredibly accommodating host and his bandmate Brennan was a fan of mine so I assumed that he would be the worst and that his band would also be the worst. Dear reader, I was wrong. Josh is the best and HEELS is the best and now I have Josh and Brennan's dumb faces tattooed on my dumb body and they sing on my records and I sing on their records and we're in love and going to get married and have a baby. My brain is still ruined by covid but fortunately Josh remembered that HEELS has a new record coming out so we're debuting 'Dread,' the first single off their new record at the end of the podcast, too sweet.  

Lou Poster is a songwriter, musician and author from a coal-mining town in West Virginia. He was the primary architect for the band Grafton. Today's episode features 3 songs from his band Drift Mouth's 2020 album, 'Loveridge is Burning'. His story "The Kindness of Strangers" will be available soon on svjlit.com. He lives in Athens, Ohio with his partner Dawna and a pack of animals.   If you enjoy the podcast, please take a moment to share it with someone else, maybe even subscribe and rate us on your preferred podcast platform?  Please sign up for the patreon: https://www.patreon.com/mishkashubaly For Patreon supporters, I'll be answering listener suggested questions on bonus episodes with my mom once a month. Thank you for listening!

Dean Delray is a case study of turning passion into a labor of love, merging his affinity with music and comedy into a thriving career on stage and a growing podcast network. When he's not talking to musicians on his podcast, Let There Be Talk, chances are he is headed to his next stand up comedy gig, having performed almost 5,000 times over the past 12 years. 

Rad Pinckard is a skateboarder, former drunk, and a songwriter. I met him a couple of years ago when I needed cheap labor and we kept in touch. No, you probably haven't heard of him but I wanted to have him on the podcast because he's been writing some really incredible songs. They're sad and funny and playful and self-deprecating and terribly catchy. The recordings... well, yeah, we are both just starting to learn how to record ourselves. But I really think his cobwebbed-but-hopeful heart shines through on these tracks. The response I've gotten from people who have heard the stuff really makes me think that he can do something with these tunes. Let's try to help him on his way. He's https://www.instagram.com/rudeboyrad/ and you can hear his music at https://soundcloud.com/poolsidesacrifice. You should also follow https://www.instagram.com/basedventura/ which is the profile he runs to facilitate dog adoptions in Phoenix for the Arizona Animal Welfare League. If you enjoy the podcast, please take a moment to share it with someone else, maybe even subscribe and rate us on your preferred podcast platform?  Please sign up for the patreon: https://www.patreon.com/mishkashubaly For Patreon supporters, I'll be answering listener suggested questions on bonus episodes with my mom once a month. Thank you for listening!

Hands down, this is the best podcast I've ever done, maybe the best one I will ever do. Elaine Lalonde was born in Makwa, Saskatchewan in 1947, the second of seventeen children. I've known her for 45 years because she is my mom. No other person has had a greater influence on who I am or what I've done with my life (well, the good stuff, anyway). We talk about dogs with people names, growing up poor, the power of positivity, and making peace with maybe losing a child to addiction. Follow her on Instagram at @elaine.lalonde.7 If you enjoy the podcast, please take a moment to share it with someone else, maybe even subscribe and rate us on your preferred podcast platform.  Please sign up for the patreon: https://www.patreon.com/mishkashubaly For Patreon supporters, I'll be answering listener suggested questions on bonus episodes with my mom once a month. 

Swapcast with my friend Jonas Barnes about mental illness, sobriety, addiction, and getting your ass handed to you during the pandemic! Back to new, exclusive content next week!   Lauryn Petrie and Jonas Barnes Present: The Traumedy Hour 2 Comedians + A Guest + All The Things Society Tells Us Not To Talk About. Lauryn & Jonas talk to a guest every week about the trauma, pain, mental illness and vices that we all live with in our own way, every day. There are no holds barred as we peel back the band-aid and dig into the wounds of life. And with any luck, we can laugh at the pain and give someone a light at the end of the darkness.

Josh LaJaunie was born and raised in south Louisiana. He grew up hunting, fishing, drinking, eating, playing football, and getting fat. In early 2011, he found himself tipping the scales at over 400 lbs. He's since lost 200 lbs, become a badass ultrarunner, and is now exclusively a plant-based, plant-powered athlete. I met Josh through our friend Rich Roll and we hit it off immediately. I don't see or talk to Josh too often but when we connect, it's always epic. We had some audio difficulties with this episode but I encourage you to power through-- Josh is one of my favorite guests to date.  

You probably know Max Collins as 'the guy from Eve6,' one of the sharpest, funniest, most thoughtful people on Twitter today. You probably know Eve6 as the band behind 'Inside Out,' which you probably know as "the heart in a blender song." You probably don't know that they wrote that album when they were 16/17 years old and that Max has had a wild ride since that song hit #1 on Billboard's Modern Rock chart in 1998. We talk sobriety, mental illness, writing, and second acts.     Max Collins is an American musician, singer, and songwriter who is best known as the lead vocalist, primary songwriter, and bassist of the alternative rock band Eve 6, which he co-founded with Jon Siebels. He launched a solo career in 2013 called Marms + The Car Deaths. He has other musical projects, including a band called Fitness, and more recently has created a singing Germanic alter-ego called Chevy Mustang.

Laura McKowen is the author of the bestselling We Are the Luckiest, host of Tell Me Something True podcast, and founder of The Luckiest Club, a global sobriety support community.   https://www.lauramckowen.com/blog

Roberto Bentivegna was born in London of Italian parents. He grew up in Milan and London, attending Emerson College in Boston before pursuing an MFA at Columbia University. His short films have screened at international film festivals including Locarno, Atlanta, and Miami, and are distributed by Film Movement and Shorts International. Whilst at Columbia University, Roberto was awarded the Carla Kuhn fellowship, the Hollywood Foreign Press Award, the Alfred P. Sloan Screenwriting award and the Faculty Selects for "A Day in March". He was a finalist in the Academy's Nicholl Fellowship. His screenplays include "Shella" for acclaimed photographer Albert Watson; "The Eel" starring Sam Rockwell and Maria Bello- which was featured on the Black List and he will be directing; "Spirit House" for Film Nation; an adaptation of A.M. Homes's "May We Be Forgiven" for director Lynne Ramsay and Artificial Eye; "The Disappearance of a Quiet Man" for producers Chris Coen and Alan Moloney. Roberto was awarded residencies at Yaddo, the Nantucket Screenwriters Colony, and was a fellow in the Italian Government's Apulia Film program.

Joe Cardamone has been on my radar for fifteen years but I actually met him for the first time at Lanegan's funeral. He made a keychain for Mark's friends like the old hotel keys, imprinted with "Mark Lanegan, the Night Porter, 1964-2022." This is our first real conversation and, man, it was really so fantastic to talk to him.   Los Angeles native artist Joe Cardamone has lived a few lifetimes while leaving a wiry dent in the global underground music and film scenes. The band that Joe fronted for 17 years, The Icarus Line, formed in East Los Angeles in 1998. Over the course of six albums the punk agitators became an underground phenomenon and the most dangerous, if not the greatest, punk group of their generation. The cult band that never gave up. Performances at the Reading and Leeds Festivals in front of 30,000+ fans, multiple appearances on the legendary John Peel show, criss-crossing the US in a van opening a stadium tour for A Perfect Circle and The Cult and a UK tour with Primal Scream are just some of the "greatest hits" of a legend loaded with nearly mythic live performances and chaos. But it was the death of guitarist and original member Alvin DeGuzman in 2017 following a long battle with cancer, which was the actual end of The Icarus Line (a demise recently depicted in Michael Grodner's independent film "The Icarus Line Must Die" which is now streaming on Amazon and Hulu). The following year Joe released his solo debut, the frenzied Holy War album and film on his own imprint American Primitive. Cardamone's new approach was a modern one man show that forged R&B and crushing electronics with the combative spirit of his formative punk years. While crafting a pair of follow up albums in 2020 the world stopped and the QUARENTINA project emerged in response. Outside of his work as an artist Joe has produced and collaborated with some of the greatest artists of our time including Mark Lanegan, lan Astbury, Warren Ellis (Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds) and James Williamson (The Stooges).

"To describe Star Anna's sound would depend on the day, the show, the album, or the band. Alt country, folk, blues, soul, and Americana are all fitting, but what remains the central focus of every performance is her voice. Whether she's sitting on a stage with only her acoustic guitar or backed by some of Seattle's finest musicians, it's her voice that defines her music. It is belted with a raw, grittiness that bellows from a deep, dark reserve. It is softly laid down atop gentle strings, aching and tender. It is spit out with a fierce recklessness that echoes the glory days of punk. She's been compared to Joan Jett, Arlo Guthrie, Fiona Apple and Joe Cocker but she is unmistakably her own entity. Spare, fragile and gutsy, Star Anna is the real thing."

Jake Flores is an American rock band formed in 1995 in Southern California, best known for their hit singles "Inside Out," "Leech," "Here's to the Night," and "Promise." They disbanded in 2004, returned for numerous tours in 2007 with a new lineup, and finally reunited with all three original members in early 2011. They signed to Fearless Records in the spring of that year, and released their fourth album Speak in Code, containing the singles "Victoria" and "Curtain," in April 2012. In 2021, they released a new EP, Grim Value, and in 2022 will release a full-length album on Velocity Records.[2]

Andy Falkous is the mouthpiece/ architect of mclusky/ Future of the Left/ Christian Fitness.

  Josh Malerman is an American novelist, short story writer, film producer, and one of two singer/songwriters for the rock band The High Strung. He is best known for writing his post-apocalyptic novel, Bird Box, which was the inspiration for the Netflix film of the same name. In 2020, he founded the production company Spin a Black Yarn with manager Ryan Lewis; their first film, We Need to Do Something, was shot in secret during the pandemic.

"You're never too old, too broke or too busy. Do what you want forever. Start at the bottom bust your ass til you get to the top."   Coke, guns, and wrestling in the streets... I fucking love Kris Pierce. When I look back at my life, I don't see any justification for how far off the rails I went. Kris endured pretty hardcore abuse and abandonment as a child but somehow never turned into a drunk/ druggie/ degenerate/ asshole. Instead, somehow wrestling, hardcore, and comedy led him to become a successful podcaster and... wait for it... a social worker. Sorry to do this to you, Kris, but this is legit inspirational. Kris Pierce is a comedian, podcaster, and pro wrestler. Listen to his podcast, Death Metal Dicks 

Now that I am a grizzled podcasting veteran with whoahhhh 12 entire episodes behind him, I can look back at the good old days and identify tropes that unfold on nearly every episode. On nearly every episode, I talk about having near instant kinship with my guest. With Keith Buckley, man, I don't know, every time we talk, we're both restraining ourselves from going right into the woo shit. He's one of those 'deck of tarot cards' people: from minute to minute, he feels like my younger brother/ older brother/ nephew/ uncle/ son/ father. We have spent very little time together in the real world to feel this much love and trust. I would absolutely walk through fire with him. Keith's been going through some shit lately. He's gotten sober, his marriage ended, his band of 20 years ended. I'll confess, I was super worried about him. But he really sounds awesome. And I'm super proud of this conversation with him.   Keith Buckley happens to be a 42 year old guy living in Buffalo, NY. He wrote two books and called them SCALE and WATCH. He used to be in a band called Every Time I Die. His wife Angie just got accepted into MENSA. His 6 year old daughter Zuzu just got her ears pierced. 

Wow, I didn't even make it through six months before breaking from my self-imposed structure for the podcast... lately, I've been listening to a lot of Why You Mad, a podcast hosted by my old friend Jake Flores and Luisa Diez. I've found their conversations about pop culture, gender, sex & sexuality to be incredibly helpful during my "rebuilding" year. Even when I don't agree with her (maybe especially when I don't agree with her) I've found Luisa's takes to spur me on because she's done her research and always brings footnotes to a slugfest. I had to have her on, try to find out what makes her tick.   Here's Luisa: I'm an anthropologist focused on modern American culture, specifically through the social and material production of artists and art. I work in arts representation and media & records management for museums, national monuments, and streaming/television media companies.   On the side, I produce live comedy shows, book comedy talent for one-off projects, and host a podcast called Why You Mad with comedian and friend Jake Flores, in which we talk about art, comedy, and anything else that comes up, through a leftist, latino, feminist perspective. 

I honestly don't know what's wrong with Rich Wilson. By which I mean that he is a joyous artist and, having fallen prey to the trope of the "tortured artist" so many times in my life, I find his persistent good cheer hard to understand. I also feel an incredibly deep kinship with this man on the other side of the ocean who I think I've actually only hung out with in person twice. Rich's podcast, Insane in the Men Brain is brilliant enough that I consider it canon for my own podcast, by which I mean that I intend to rip it off as mercilessly as possible. As soon as I broke down and finally decided to do this silly thing, I knew I had to get Rich on as one of my first guests. Rich Wilson is a multi award winning comedian and podcast host. For the first 10 years of his comedy career, Rich cut his comedic teeth at all of the UK's major comedy clubs and has remained a steadfast presence on the British comedy circuit ever since. This has taken him around the world, culminating in multi award winning, sell out shows at the biggest comedy festivals such as Melbourne, Perth and New Zealand. In 2017 Rich won “Best International Act” at the New Zealand Comedy Festival and was nominated for the same award the following year. In 2019 he won another comedy award for “Best show of the Festival” with Just Be Botanicals at the Edinburgh Fringe festival. Rich Wilson is a multi award winning comedian and podcast host of Insane In The Men Brain and Insane In The Fem Brain where he talks to funny and interesting people about their experiences with mental health featuring interviews with Heston Blumenthal, Felicity Hayward, Nicholas Pinnock, Michael Smiley, Jessica Fostekew, Scroobius Pip and many more. He has earned himself an award for “Best Podcast” with JOE and gained a nomination for “Best Social Conscience Podcast” at the Podbible Poll Winners Awards. Rich is also an indemand podcast guest and has been featured on: BBC Radio 4's You'll Do, Global Radio's Job's A Goodun, Scroobius Pip's Distraction Pieces and Dave's Conversations Against Living Miserably.