Alex is joined by artist and writer Randall Maynard to discuss the forced optimism of making art when you’ve been dealt a bad hand. Also the world might be falling apart outside of their recording booth. Will they live!!!!
In a tragic barbershop quartet accident one man lost the ability to feel shame. That man went on to become best selling author, comedy writer, and music maker Daniel O’Brien. What happened next will shock you!
In this episode I let Caitlin Durante, Co-host of The Bechdal Cast, take over and try to convert my audience to the church of Paddington. We also put a call out there for love. Let’s see if we can make this happen listeners.
Journalist Saundra Sorenson joins me in the booth for a little mindfulness meditation on the mind numbing horror of a prehistoric fish and other wonders brought to you by the BBC and Sir David Attenborough.
A bunch of sweaty people slamming their bodies together and it's not an orgy?! Writer and podcaster David Bell comes on the podcast to talk about how moshing makes the world a better place.
This week I'm joined by my podcast big- Comedian, Writer, and podcast host Amanda Salvatore- and we talk about podcasting like a bunch of recursive dorks.
What can simultaneously strengthen your friendships while keep the chaos of existence at bay? According to comedy writer and prolific podcaster Tom Reimann, boardgames!
The Hot Goss's Rebecca Edwards said she wanted to come on the podcast to talk about how wonderful siblings are, but she mostly just made fun of her family.
Is that sweat on your mat or are you bleeding? Writer, actor, and host of the podcast 'That's My Story, Period.' Steph Garcia, joins Alex to talk making time for yourself, motherhood, and moving meditation.
Can throwing things at someone as hard as you can help you make friends? Yes if it's during a sanctioned dodgeball game. This week performer, member of the Story Pirates, and international dodgeball athlete Lindsey Ford joins me in the booth to convince me that reliving my childhood gym class trauma might actually be a good thing.
How can the silly, selfish, and un-self aware life of birds make us rethink the foibles of our own species? In this episode I'm joined by Katie Goldin, the mind behind @Birdsrightsactivits on twitter, for a humanizing conversation about birds.
Apparently the library is actually pretty cool. Who knew? Katie Willert of Cracked's 'After Hours' did, and she joins me this week to talk about it.
Comedian Teresa Lee comes on the podcast to show Alex the world's been looking at supermodels all wrong... there's a joke in there somewhere.
Alex and guest Nicky Young (writer, editor, writers PA for the Gifted) get weird on this one, but you also might learn a thing or two about the everyday courage of just surviving, so there's something in this episode for everybody.
Comedian and Producer Bridgett Greenberg comes on the show to talk about space exploration, feeling small in a good way, and all the cool kids who made out at her Bat Mitzvah.
Nick Skardarasy- host of the We Rebel podcast- joins Alex to talk about Grass Roots Movements and how they're reshaping the political landscape. Heads up, if you like listening to two cis straight white men caveat everything they say for forty five minutes, this episode is for YOU!!!!
Alex and co-host/ show ruiner/ music nerd Matt Grosinger are joined in the booth by Alex Stein of the Alex Stein Podcast to talk about the courage behind The Beach Boy's album, Pet Sounds.
Writer, Podcaster, and Internet Person Michael Swaim ' lightens' the mood by talking to Alex about his favorite ball of gas up in space, the sun.
Andy Erikson- Last Comic Standing, Scream Queens- brings a little magic to the booth and talks to Alex about Harry Potter.
Actor and Comedian Katy Stoll jumps on mic to talk about badass women.
Comedy Writer Dan O'Keefe (Seinfeld, Silicon Valley, The League) joins Alex to talk about Elvis Costello and symbolically defanging your problems through music.
Actor, Comedian, and obvious New Yorker, Greg Burke joins Alex in the booth to really rub in how little Alex knows about Bruce Springsteen.
Adam Parker, Nerd Extraordinaire at LA's famous Meltdown Comics and Collectables joins Alex to talk about the transformative potential in comic books, and his opinions on Hydra Cap... whatever the F that is.
Film maker and co founder of the Los Angeles Chinese Film Festival, Lewis Liu joins Alex this week to talk about the slowly improving role of Minorities in Media.
Jen Curan, member of Harvard Sailing Team- the 'Monty Python of the Youtube era'-,and one of the leaders of the Nerdist improve school and theater joins Alex to talk about how an obsession with 'murder shows' might keep you from getting murdered yourself. Happy Halloween I guess? We didn't plan it this way.
On this weeks cast Alex is joined by fellow over six foot muscular motorcycle enthusiast, playwright, screen writer, and game tester John Cassel to talk about the grand daddy of roll playing games, Dungeons and Dragons.
Dylan Farr joins Alex this week to talk cartoons and SURPRISE!!... they also talk about surprise!
Nerdist Features Editor Matt Grosinger joins Alex to talk about his favorite adroit sitcom and the dangers of the good drug nostalgia.
Jackie Rae Aubel from Nerdist School Network's Guilty Pleasures Podcast joins Alex to talk about one of the top three things you can do with a book... reading! They also dish on some truly awful female charicters and how old they were when You Know Who died (no spoilers)
Marcus Rinehart, a genuine television writer and someone who's had the distinct honor of saving Alex's thumb once, joins Alex to talk about his favorite part of the periodic table: Metal... Oh, and I guess it's a music genre, too.
