Spurned on by Ben, who only eats food out of some proletariat obligation to be a more efficient laborer, Andrew and Adam attempt to cut sugar, starch, grains, joy, pleasure, and the will to live out of their diets for an entire week—a real Whole7 challenge! The results: the most contentious, heated episode yet! You don't fuck with another man's diet. Featuring standup comedy clips from Sarah Benson and Troy Walker ! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Sep 15, 2020•1 hr 8 min•Season 1Ep. 18
The podcast within a podcast is BACK. Here's a taste of this Patreon exclusive! Want the full Boston cream pie? Go to patreon.com/grawlixsaves Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sep 09, 2020•9 min
Is meditation just a trick pulled by creepy, crystal-worshiping aging hippies to skeeze on college Buddhist chicks? Or is it actually a way to set your mind at ease and channel some inner peace? The boys try it every day for a week to find out. Featuring standup clips from the eternally amazing Emily Heller (this one's a specially selected deep cut) and our sweet boy Benjamin Roy ! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Sep 01, 2020•57 min•Season 1Ep. 17
If you love someone, let them go. If you love something, grow up. It's an inanimate object. Life is about experiences, not things. Stop keeping so much shit in your house. In this episode, Andrew, Adam, and Ben purge one item per day for a week straight—which explains that recent flood of Those Who Can't merch at Denver-area Goodwill stores. Featuring standup from Denver's darlings Christie Buchele and Aaron Urist ! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Aug 18, 2020•1 hr 3 min•Season 1Ep. 16
In an effort to understand one another from the inside out—but not in a disgusting way—Andrew, Adam, and Ben take personality tests to find out once and for all whether they're assholes or just wired a certain way. Spoiler alert: It's both! Featuring standup clips from Phoebe Bottoms and Chris Charpentier . Enjoy! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Aug 04, 2020•1 hr 2 min•Season 1Ep. 15
Continuing the trend of walking a mile in one another's discount Keds sneakers, Andrew challenges Ben and Adam to play a spirited game of D&D—AND NOT MAKE FUN OF IT. Join our intrepid trio as they saunter about a mystical realm armed with only their wits! And a bunch of badass medieval weapons. Featuring standup clips from Patrick Richardson and Steph Tolev ! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Jul 21, 2020•1 hr 2 min•Season 1Ep. 14
Realizing that they may be too high and mighty when it comes to their reading pursuits, the boys decide to read Twilight , a wildly popular book that they would typically sneer at. The results are exactly what you expect—Ben, Adam and Andrew each fall for separate hunky vampires and run away with them into the woods. The podcast is now over. It's the ending we all saw coming. Featuring standup clips by our own sweet baby Andrew Orvedahl and Denver's Lily Ostberg . Enjoy! Learn more about your ad...
Jul 07, 2020•1 hr 14 min•Season 1Ep. 13
In an attempt to get in touch with their inner selves, the boys decide to give sensory-deprivation salt tanks a go. No light. No sound. Just afloat in 200 gallons of salt water and with nothing but their own thoughts to keep them company. Will they discover deep truths? Will they go crazy? Will they convince a posh float studio to let them do it for free? Look inward. The answers await. Featuring standup clips from Hayden Kristal and our own Ben Roy ! A very special thanks to VIVE Float Studio f...
Jun 23, 2020•1 hr•Season 1Ep. 12
Bored with the utter mundanity of mail, the boys try to spice up the daily ritual of visiting the mailbox for one very lucky friend: Rory Scovel! AKA Principal Quinn from Those Who Can't ! AKA Robbie from the new Comedy Central show "Robbie! " AKA the co-host of the Starburns podcast Pen Pals with Daniel & Rory ! Listen in as Rory crowns a winner and settles once and for all who is the best at the lost art of correspondence. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Jun 09, 2020•55 min•Season 1Ep. 11
Ever wanted to really get into the brains of Andrew, Adam, and Ben? Really delve into those respective subconsciouses and see what makes the fellers tick? Of course you haven't. It's a hellscape in there—a swirling Hieronymus Bosch painting of dick jokes and insecurity. Which on second thought actually sounds pretty cool. Join the boys as they take you through their dream journals. Featuring standup clips from Dan Soder and Katie Bowman . Enjoy! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone....
May 19, 2020•57 min•Season 1Ep. 10
The boys decide to sweat buckets on everybody near them in a hot yoga class. Ben, Adam, and Andrew are no strangers to exercise. We need not tell you this. You see them coming down the block, take in those Grawlix-boy physiques, lower your shades and are all like, "Damn, girl. Damn." But hot yoga is something else entirely. It's yoga. At a 105 degrees. And it's so damn hard. So the boys decide to see if they have what it takes. First person to leave the class sobbing loses. LINKS: See The Grawli...
May 05, 2020•49 min•Season 1Ep. 9
Behold, the first ever live Grawlix Saves the World! Live online anyway, via Twitch, from our individual homes. In quarantine. Nonetheless, huzzah! Ben, Adam and Andrew are joined by their dear old friend Kristin Rand , who reads the boys' tarot cards and gives them all a new, welcome perspective in these strange times. Thanks to our pals at Hold The Phone Comedy for hosting this event. Click here if you'd like to see the video of this live stream or check our show notes on thegrawlix.com ! Lear...
Apr 28, 2020•1 hr 11 min
The boys binge watch every single movie in the Fast & the Furious franchise. In a VERY SPECIAL AND IMPORTANT episode of "The Grawlix Saves the World," the boys decide they should fill some holes in their pop cultural canon. When Ben and Adam discover that neither of them has seen "The Fast & the Furious" movies, they vow to watch every single one, fastly and furiously, binge-indoctrinating themselves into the Fast and the Furious Universe, heretofore known throughout the land as the F&am...
Apr 21, 2020•1 hr 16 min•Season 1Ep. 8
The boys get thankful. Sometimes it seems as if the world is trying to sucker-punch you in the gut, call you fat, and then take your wallet and go buy a bunch of scratch tickets. Okay, a lot of the time. Which is why it's so important to remember the little things—the things that make you happy, make you smile, or make you curious— the things that make you grateful. The fellas vow to keep track of such things for a week and then get together to share their gratitoodies. Featuring standup comedy ...
Apr 07, 2020•1 hr 6 min•Season 1Ep. 7
Ben teaches Andrew and Adam jiu-jitsu, then they beat the shit out of each other. Ben opens up about his passion for jiu-jitsu, then takes Adam and Andrew to the Easton Training Center—where Ben works as an instructor—and coaches the boys on a few fundamentals. To demonstrate their newfound martial art, Adam and Andrew do battle like only a couple of dads pushing forty can. Did all the jiu-jitsu experts training at the center watch Adam and Andrew ineptly throw blows and laugh their asses off? T...
Mar 24, 2020•1 hr 3 min•Season 1Ep. 6
Behold: Boi Crazy. This tossed aside idea by the geniuses behind the podcast "The Grawlix Saves the World" has finally come to life—for as many episodes as it takes until we get restraining orders. In episode one, we start with a first ballot hall-of-famer teen hearthrob, Jonathan Taylor Thomas. It's three forty-something dads rating the hunkiness of teenage boys. What's weird about that? There's nothing weird about it. You're being weird. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adc...
Mar 20, 2020•20 min
The boys take a look at their sleep habits. It was Arianna Huffington who once famously said, "Sleep better you fucking idiot." In this episode, the boys do just that. Or try to anyway. After revealing that he hasn't been sleeping well because of late-night video games sessions—you know, like a child—Andrew attempts to dramatically improve his sleeping habits. Ben decides to forego naps for a week, while Adam decides to add them. Featuring standup comedy clips from Mo Alexander and Ester Steinbe...
Mar 10, 2020•1 hr•Season 1Ep. 5
The boys attempt to speak more intelligently. The pressure is on as Ben, Adam, and Andrew attempt to share stories of adolescent heartbreak without saying the words "like" or "um," thus sounding more literate and intelligent. And what's there to make sure they do just that? A trusty spatula from Andrew's kitchen—if any member of the Grawlix slips up, the other members get to hit them on the hand as hard as they can, like a schoolmarm in some terrifying British movie. Want to sound smarter? Get r...
Feb 25, 2020•1 hr 2 min•Season 1Ep. 4
Andrew tries online dating. In an attempt to get him back out there on the playing field, Ben and Adam write an online dating profile for Andrew. Meanwhile, Andrew challenges Ben and Adam to improve their own love lives by taking their respective wives out on dates of Andrew's design. Love is in the air. Featuring standup clips from Nick Vatterott and Lizzy Cooperman ! LINKS: See The Grawlix LIVE on the last Saturday of the month at the historic Bug Theatre in Denver! Support us on Patreon for a...
Feb 11, 2020•1 hr 1 min•Season 1Ep. 3
The boys eat at restaurants they would never in a million years otherwise consider. You know those restaurants that you've driven by a million times? The ones that have all but blurred into the wallpaper of your morning commute? Establishments that you hardly even notice anymore except to maybe wonder, "How does that place stay open? Who in their right mind actually eats there?" The answer to that question is the Grawlix. The Grawlix eat there. In this episode anyway, as a way to escape their us...
Jan 28, 2020•1 hr 1 min•Season 1Ep. 2
The boys take a much-needed break from social media. For the inaugural episode of "The Grawlix Saves the World," Ben, Adam and Andrew attempt to better themselves—and thus the world around them—by taking a break from social media for a week. Will the break render them irrelevant? Will they sanctimoniously feel like they're better than everyone else for doing it? Will Ben realize he has the social media addiction of a petulant tween? All will be revealed. Featuring standup comedy clips from Mo We...
Jan 14, 2020•1 hr 3 min•Season 1Ep. 1
