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Strip Mall Think Tank

Starburns Audio LLC
Comedians Jake Johannsen and Jeff Cesario try to solve stupid, small problems with the help of their weekly guest.
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Episodes

Bromance with The Sklar Bros!

Just a funny, great bull run through a college football gauntlet with two of the most fanatical Michigan fans ever, Jason and Randy Sklar Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Oct 26, 202235 min

Brian Regan, baby!

The hilarious Brian Regan returns with budding Santa beard to discuss rooting for underdogs, bowling your age, elongating baseball telecasts and the next Supermarket Sweep. Never stops with this guy! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Oct 19, 202236 min

Black Crowes Steve Gorman!

Talking the road, the bus, Christmas Soccer, and college football with Steve, who proved surprisingly Easy To Handle. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Oct 12, 202245 min

The 5 Stages of Losing w/Dave Dameshek

Sports maven and Pittsburgh Uber-fan Dave Dameshek helps me deep dive through the denial, acceptance and re-denial of rooting for losing teams. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Oct 05, 202238 min

Music Quiz With The Men of Carolla

Adam Carolla show stalwarts Chris Laxamana & Gary Smith (producers) and Bald Bryan Bishop (sarcastic curmudgeon!) join Jeff for a wall-to-wall music lightning round featuring questions like “Guitar riff that makes you play along” plus a running gag that involves …Oasis?! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sep 28, 202245 min

ESPNU’s Chris Childers!

The always entertaining Chris Childers (“Full Ride”) stops by and we take so many left turns we barely left enough time to bash Penn State! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sep 21, 202247 min

Fox Sports Radio’s Dan Beyer

Dan Beyer helps Jeff and Chet see which NFL and college football games were really a bad sign of things to come for certain teams. We also nail the geographic location of Dan’s hometown, Merrill, Wisconsin, better than any damn Google Maps! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sep 14, 202232 min

Chad Hanging

The voice of the World Series of Poker, Norman Chad, shares great stuff on destroying a friend’s Yom Kippur weekend, his bubble bursting at the Washington Post, and his acrimonious divorce from the Big Ten Killer cast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sep 09, 202241 min

Brian Stack, Pt.2

The hilarious Brian Stack (writer/performer for Conan and Colbert) was so chock full of anecdotes we built a second episode with stories about Amy Poehler, Tina Fey, Andy Richter, Conan and more. Awesome stuff. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Aug 31, 202244 min

Brian Stack - from Conan to Colbert Pt.1

The hilarious writer/performer Brian Stack (Conan’s “Ghost Crooner” and “Traveling Salesman”) shares great stories about his early improv days in Madison, WI and Chicago and how it led to gigs on Conan and now Colbert. Chris Farley, Amy Poehler, Tina Fey, Andy Richter, Conan - plenty of stories to go around! Pt.1 of 2 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Aug 24, 202232 min

BEST OF PWP - Ben & Josh Mankiewicz!

One of my favorite episodes, this is rollicking spin through Josh and Ben’s lives and their brotherly bond. Hope you have have a blast listening to it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Aug 17, 202247 min

Ted Alexandro live from his hotel room!

In the middle of a tour with Jim Gaffigan, the always funny Ted Alexandro riffs on showbiz auditions, road life, and the slivers of time he finds to follow his Mets. Always a blast with Ted! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Aug 10, 202244 min

Brad Williams live from Vegas!

Just finishing his run doing standup in Cirque du Soleil’s review “Mad Apple,” Brad Williams goes wire-to-wire funny including a great Chuck E. Cheese AND a great Just For Laughs story. I’m still not done laughing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Aug 03, 202241 min

Skimmin’ with Fitzsimmons

The great Greg Fitzsimmons and I riff on a variety of topics from his empty nest becoming overbooked again, all the way to the pipeline he had as a kid to Mets tickets. Awesome show! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jul 27, 202240 min

Alonzo Bodden from Montreal!

Fresh off his new special “Stupid Don’t Get Tired,” Alonzo Bodden talks about Canadians, his insane TikTok arc and the deadly curse of Mets fans. Great episode! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jul 20, 202234 min

Droll Driscoll!

Hilarious writer and comedian Ed Driscoll (Dennis Miller, Spilled Gravy) launches on USC and UCLA joining the Big Ten and weighs in with a killer Worst Gig. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jul 13, 202237 min

MST3K’s Joel Hodgson, Pt. 2!

This episode Joel deep dives into the origins of Mystery Science Theatre and adds one of the best Worst Gig stories ever (it involves dental analysis). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jul 06, 202244 min

MST3K’S Joel Hodgson, Pt. #1!

Awesome two-parter with the incredible Joel Hodgson, creator of Mystery Science Theatre 3000. In Pt. 1 we talk Minneapolis Comedy, Louie Anderson’s passing, and we find out we kinda meant a little something to each other! Pt. 2 next week - Hollywood and the creation of Mystery Science! BOTH EPISODES A MUST Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jun 29, 202238 min

Off Our Chests w/guest chest Adam Felber!

The hilarious and sports-smart Adam Felber (Starburns' Paula Poundstone and DadBandLand podcasts) joins Gary and me in an episode of “Get It Off Our Chests!” Includes: How the filthy-rich Warriors love playing the underdog, how the Astros have somehow cheated karma and how Formula One racing may blow past soccer as America’s European sports mistress. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jun 22, 202238 min

I, Jay, ‘Kay?

The hilarious comedian and filmmaker Jay Black helps me understand "Philly Jersey” and takes me where I’ve never gone before - down the dark path to Hallmark and Lifetime movies! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jun 15, 202249 min

Get It Off Your Chest!

I go off on lacrosse highlights, Gary rants on Name/Image/Likeness with inside info, and we’ve both had it with Jimbo Fisher. It feels good to vent! Chet even does an anti-update Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jun 08, 202237 min

Double your Kash!

Jackie helps me understand just how precarious the road is for women. Harrowing. But with Jackie, still funny Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jun 01, 20221 hr 7 min

Kashian In!

The hilarious Jackie Kashian and I dissect our Rust Belt adolescence and then tackle some comedy And of course, the Kilmartin Connection Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

May 25, 202244 min

Sklaren’t You A Pair!

Finally! The amazing Sklar Brothers bury the hatchet ala Oasis long enough to talk comedy and sports! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

May 18, 202237 min

Jeff Gets It Off His Chest!

Turns out Jeff has been carrying some things! Hear him unload serious ammo on the NFL Draft and pro golf. Producer Gary Smith gets fired up and jumps in! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

May 11, 202220 min

Say Hello to Jon Gabriel

Writer and Ricochet.com chief dude Jon Gabriel shares the key to Arizona politics, the reason the Suns rule Phoenix, and one of the best writing tips ever. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

May 04, 202239 min

Adam Felber unleashed!

The hilarious Adam Felber (NPR’s “Wait Wait,” Starburns “No One Listens To Paula Poundstone”) takes us through his comedy life, from Tufts Improv to a sketch with both Bigfoot AND a unicorn. And, well, an opera singer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Apr 27, 202238 min

Brad Williams, live and alive!

Standup Brad Williams talks process, influences and a life-threatening Worst Gig, then fills in Jeff on his summer residency in Vegas with… Cirque du Soleil! Yeah, THAT Cirque du Soleil! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Apr 20, 202250 min

Ripping apart Golf with Gary VanSickle!

Sports Illustrated golf writer Gary VanSickle dishes on the Mickelson Mess, the Tiger Turnaround and who might be the next Lee Trevino! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Apr 13, 202242 min

Scheft Shifts Into High Gear

Author, comedian and Letterman writer Bill Scheft riffs four great Larry David anecdotes, talks golf and his famous uncle, and then has perhaps the best Worst Gig story to date. Top Shelf! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Apr 06, 202243 min
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