Ep 4’s formerly very bald guest, Brad Morris returns to Bald Talk with tales of his yo-yo like experience with being an Alopecian and the miraculous return of his hair thanks to a yet to be named pharmaceutical drug. We would suggest, Al-NO-precia. He and Brian talk about adjusting to change, delve into the challenging issues faced by the bullying community and have their podcast skills challenged by some clunky Zoom issues. Brad also returns to help Brian dovetail nicely back to Bald Talk’s roo...
May 25, 2022•1 hr 14 min
Actor, writer, and master improvisor, Roy Jenkins has lived as a bald man since his 30's, but he knew it was coming with having a very bald father. He and Brian unpack accepting the inneviatble, how being lazy about vainty allows for acceptance, and get into Roy's origen story in finding the Groundlings and his writing stint at Late Night with Conan O'Brien. The baldies discuss the nuts and bolts of survival in show business, trying to be mentally present on set, and the evils and wonders of com...
May 18, 2022•1 hr 1 min
Actor, writer, producer, podcaster, the brilliant anf funny powerhouse that is Jessica St. Clair joins Brian for a truly bald Bald Talk. Jessica is open and candid about the mental challenges she experienced during her successful (thank god!) battle with breast cancer, which included losing a significant amount of her impressively fertile hair and freezing her eyebrows. She and Brian talk about the illogical shame that comes along with personal suffering and hardship, the importance of taking aw...
May 11, 2022•1 hr 4 min
This week, it's a 90's NC indie rock scene reunion with our guest Chuck Johnson, a supremely talented guitarist, pedal steel guitairst and composer who's music has evolved from his indie rock days in NC with his band, Spatula to his John Fahey like acoustic work to his more recent lush, ambient pieces on such albums as "Basalms" and "The Cinder Grove". He is also on the 40 year balding plan, so these days he keeps his hair short and sweet. He and Brian discuss what goes into making atmospheric m...
May 04, 2022•1 hr 2 min
Actor, writer and amply haired producer Anders Holm of Workaholic legend is not bald, but Brian was able to stomach a chat with him anyways. Anders does have a secret about his teeth which he shares, seeks to know the effortless life of Pete Davidson, and recounts his pandemic highpoint which involved sharks and a private jet. Brian lets Anders know he is the guy dressed like Thor at the Patriarchy meetings, and confuses him with the word "teutonic". __ Show Information Twitter: @baldtalkpodcast...
Apr 27, 2022•1 hr 1 min
The Bitter Buddah himself joins Bald Talk this week! Celebrated stand up comedian, podcaster and actor, Eddie has been a major part of the NY and LA comedy scene for decades. Known for his unflinchingly personal material and comedically confrontational stage persona, Eddie is actually a self-reflective sweetheart who dares to be vulnerable. He talks about losing his hair to stress as a very young man, how his comedy is his therapy, the career advice he received from Jerry Stiller and lists his t...
Apr 20, 2022•1 hr 9 min
Actor, musicin, improvisor and comedian Mark McConville is the baldest member of the genius improv group Superego, because he is the only bald member of Superego. But that is fine by him, because Mark is down with baldness! He discusses his bald outing story that saved him from getting what is now a now Vegas trash haircut, and how a past girlfriend's over dyed hair led him to embrace the bic and shave it off. Brian and he chat about comedy origins, creative survival and prove they are terrible ...
Apr 13, 2022•1 hr 14 min
Since 1998, Peter Sagal has been the host and emcee for the popular NPR series, not podcast, "Wait Wait Don't Tell Me", but it is only in the past few years that he has gone with the fully shorn look. He used to cling to his Tin Tin like tuft of hair under the delusion that there was more than met the eye. Peter proves to be a great interviewer peppering Brian with bald queries, sharing a great bald outing story and delving into his own relationship with hair loss. Peter also recounts his transi...
Apr 06, 2022•1 hr
Diedrich Bader is an actor who’s massive resume reflects his enormous talent, despite the size of his forehead he inherited from his German ancestors. Apparently there is a region in Germany known for big foreheads?! He shares openly about his insecurities with hair loss, remembers days of Wally Ball with a young Brad Pitt, examines the hard truths about how actors are affected by their looks, and tears up about the mentor who set him on his current path. Diedrich is a class act and it was a fin...
Apr 05, 2022•1 hr 13 min
Comedian, actor, writer, producer and proud New Jerseyite, Chris Gethard is known for his self-examining vulnerability in comedy, and he brings that same unflinching truth to his talk with Brian about his long standing widow's peak and his "weird body... even by New Jersey standards." The pair discuss career victories and failures and how hard it is to be objective about accomplishments when your survival is tied to your creative life. Chris shares about how feeling he had to keep up with folks ...
Mar 23, 2022•1 hr 4 min
As the co-host/sidekick to Conan O'Brien in all of his talk show iterations, Andy Richter has been a staple of the television landscape for almost 30 years. Andy is also a brilliantly gifted comedic actor who has appeared in numerous tv shows and films, and a podcaster with his show, The Three Questions w Andy Richter. The full pated guest chats with Brian about his brush with anxiety related hair loss during his divorce and opens up about his comparable bald spot, his insecurity about his weigh...
Mar 16, 2022•1 hr 20 min
Jeff Hiller is a talented improvisor and actor who plays Joel on Brian's current favorite show, the sweet and funny HBOMax series, "Somebody Somewhere." On the show, Jeff has a combover, which was originally Jeff's character choice but then became an on-camera necessity after Joel came down with morphea, which can cause hair loss. Jeff chats with Brian about the work and self esteem challenges of dealing with the immune disorder, his transition from social work to the stage, the years leading up...
Mar 09, 2022•1 hr 2 min
Ed Brubaker is an award winning comic book writer who has worked for Marvel, DC, and Dark Horse, just to name a few and has created brilliant noir crime series as "Criminal", "Fatale" and his most recent series "Reckless". This guy came up with the Winter Soldier, people!! And he owes is all to being bald! Not really, but Ed talks about coming from an all bald family and knowing the fate of his pate growing up. He also shares about his wayward youth that insipred his first series Low Life, getti...
Mar 02, 2022•1 hr 9 min
It seems like only 52 episodes ago that the hilarious actor/YouTube maestro, Nathan Barnatt was sitting down to chat with Brian and Charlie about being bald. And now he returns, sporting a new head of hair! Nathan goes into his change of heart and head, and explains his reasoning for the unusual hair pattern he had restored. He also spills some behind the scene secrets about recent performances on America's Got Talent and how his new hair might have screwed him over! Also, Charlie learns what it...
Feb 23, 2022•50 min
Genius improvisor and actor/writer Mitch Silpa (Two Broke Girls, All Rise) is wonderfully bald. With Charlie away with a writing deadline, Mitch joins one Bald Talker, Brian, for some speculation on the lives they could have had if they had hair, the roles they get because they are bald, and just to stay current, Mitch gives the low down on his bout with the oh so trendy Covid. Mitch is also quizzed on his knowledge of fellow bald Groundlings' performers, and challenged to name one bald lead mal...
Feb 16, 2022•1 hr
Brilliantly funny actor/writer (Big Mouth, Brooklyn 99) Gil Ozeri recently played a young Larry David on Curb Your Enthusiasm, and ironically wore a wig to do so. And though in real life, he might not be bald, but he joins Charlie and Brian for possibly the most Bald Talk yet, because things get real deep, real fast. The three open up about their anxieties, some past traumas that inform their present day actions and how they are suriving this never ending pandemic. There is barely any mention of...
Feb 09, 2022•42 min
The hilrious stand up, writer, producer, and actor Guy Branum (Talk Show the Game Show, X-Play) could easily have a side hustle as a therapist as he proves in this excellent Bald Talk. Guy delves into comedic power of baldness, the social complexities of writers rooms, coming out in the midwest in surprsingly gay friendly St. Paul. For some reason lots of bald funny people come from Minnesota and Charlie is provided another guest with which to midwestern-bond. __ Show Information Twitter: @baldt...
Feb 02, 2022•1 hr 1 min
John Flynn and Mark Rennie host the hilarious podcast Two Old Queens, which is on a quest to determine the Gayest Film Ever. The duo discuss their relationship to their hair, various bald actors' sex appeal, and Charlie's effortless appeal to Bears. There is also an enormous amount of discussion about sweat and sweating; so much so that BT might do a side podcast, Sweat Shares. TOQ are challenged in the Welcome to Podlywood Quiz where their bald Hollywood knowledge is tested, and they come away ...
Jan 26, 2022•1 hr
Pam Murphy is a hilarious actress, voice actor (Weird City, Krapopolis) and UCB improvisor who lived as a baldie during her successful defeat of cancer. Pam tells the Bald Talkers about wearing wigs while working at a hair salon, the empowerment of shaving her head, and how cancer is not an excuse for low numbers to some bosses. Pam also struts her stuff as the most self guiding guest to date allowing Brian and Charlie to sit back and let he handle the transitions. And Brian owes an public apolo...
Jan 19, 2022•1 hr 1 min
Not only is Aaron Shure an Emmy winning writer (The Office, Everyone Loves Raymond), former clown, and Disney "streetmosphere" performer, he is also gloriously bald! Aaron drops by with some insightful grooming tips and insights, tells tales of circus chimp and clown dynamics, dishes on working for the Mouse, and best of all, gets into some war stories from the numerous writers' rooms in which he has worked. The man is a delight and this was a great Bald Talk for all! __ Show Information Twitter...
Jan 12, 2022•1 hr 4 min
Brian and Charlie have had a talent crush for on H. Jon Benjamin for years, and the celebrated voice actor (Bob's Burgers, Archer), actor and conceptual comedian joins them for a fantastic Bald Talk that wanders from fears of flying to the insanity of commercial auditioning to an imaginary film called Weenies. Jon discusses the downtown comedy scene in NY, his incredible work with Jon Glaser, and the power of stupid comedy, something he is still commited to with his compete jazz album he recorde...
Jan 05, 2022•1 hr 4 min
Chef and TV Host Andrew Zimmern (Bizarre Foods, Family Dinner) has traveled the world with no hair to slow him down. He is famous for his brave sampling of unusual foods but in his chat with the Bald Talkers, listeners will discover that he is a spiritually guided man with passionate political and social beliefs. Andrew finds refuge with Brian and Charlie's lefty, liberal podcast space and the three have deep and wandering convos about world hunger, how emipires fall, good 'ole Donny T, and the ...
Dec 29, 2021•52 min
Brian and Charlie interview Santa Claus himself (Billy Merritt) and Mrs. Claus (Julie Brister) about the disturbing truth about Elves, their recreational drug use, their heartwarming meet cute and of course, Santa’s baldness. It’s a Christmas miracle! Enjoy! __ Show Information Twitter: @baldtalkpodcast Instagram: @baldtalkpod Email: baldtalkpod@gmail.com Brian Huskey Twitter: @thebrianhuskey Instagram: @thebrianhuskey Charlie Sanders Instagram: @charliesanders...
Dec 22, 2021•44 min
Jay Martel, Executive producer and co-showrunner of Key & Peele and Teachers, author of Channel Blue, Speed Bump, and much more, does a deep bald dive with Brian and Charlie. They discuss a lot, including switching paths in the biz, the weirdness of selling TV shows, how annoying Charlie was in the K&P writers room, and the enjoyment of the solitude of being an author. Also, Jay has some notes for he and Brian's kids writing aspirations. __ Show Information Twitter: @baldtalkpodcast Inst...
Dec 15, 2021•1 hr
Bald Talk dares to get all perspectives on baldness, and this week's hilarious guests staunchly declare that they will most likely never date a baldie. Mark Sam Rosenthal - Comedy Central, The Gaytriot, Laughter Through Tears is Our Favorite Emotion, and Katie Morrissey DC Improv, Sarah Cooper: Everything is Fine, not only give their personal reasons as to why, but they are quizzed Yea or Nay to sex with our list of bald hotties and help us answer calls to our Bald Talk Advice Line on the challe...
Dec 08, 2021•56 min
On this week’s episode of Bald Talk Brian and Charlie interview the amazing actor Cleo Berry. Among many other roles, Cleo played one of Charlie’s all time favorite characters on Weird City, the call center operative Dirg. They do a deep dive into the inconveniences, adventures, and joys of being an actor. They also discuss how not being able to find the right barber can drive you to being bald, Cleo’s pre-acting football days, and they coin the new Hollywood term “Tone Wrangler” ™. __ Show Info...
Dec 01, 2021•56 min
Stand up, actor and podcast host of "Justifying My Movie Collection" and "We Watch Wrestling", Matt McCarthy describes his distinctive redheaded receeding hairline as bald curious. Matt gets into the self reliant power of stand up verses improv, his past love affair with mushrooms (the psychedelic kind), and he and Charlie bond over Matt's current love of pro wrestling while Brian checks a leaking toilet upstairs. The trio sing the praises of seeing movies on the big screen and casting comedians...
Nov 24, 2021•1 hr 3 min
Hilarious actor and improvisor, Dave Theune, could easliy take over hosting Bald Talk as he proved by turning the tables on Brian and Charlie throughout this episode. It must be his midwestern charm, and the trio discuss the mysterious power of midwestern politeness compared to southern gentility. Charlie is educated about the staggering low points of divorce as Brian and Dave share about their respective divorce journeys. Comedy Sports verses long form improv, the profound disgustingness of 20 ...
Nov 17, 2021•1 hr 10 min
Stand up comedian, actor and podcaster Daniel Van Kirk looked into having FUE done and discusses why he ultimatley didn't get the procedure, and gives a shout out to what sounds like a very cool doctor. Daniel reflects on his approach to comedy, whether wearing a wig denotes confidence or insanity, and the three baldies discuss some groundbreaking Japanese technology that allows you to grow hair without surgery- downside is the hair is CLEAR! __ Show Information Twitter: @baldtalkpodcast Instagr...
Nov 10, 2021•1 hr 6 min
Truly hilarious stand up and actor, Todd Barry, joins the ranks of guests who have tried Rogaine and decided it's a pain in the ass, for life. So now, Todd has accepted his baldness and even urges Brian to accept his lopsided balding pattern. The three baldies also discuss the NY comedy scene of the 00's and today, Todd various TV roles playing some version of himself, the travel packages that Turkey's hair restoration industry is offering, and Todd is quizzed on Bald Cures from History. Which, ...
Nov 03, 2021•51 min
