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Ep. #948: Margaret Cho

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Margaret Cho is here to discuss her album Lucky Gift, her February 16 Live and LIVID! tour date at Just For Laughs Vancouver, her experience with the January 2025 Los Angeles wildfires and our increasingly hot planet, the socio-political state of the USA, its impact on her stand-up tour, and whether or not total losers can be beaten if they keep winning, her parents’ love of music and comedy concerns, Korea’s collective comedians, inspirations like Sandra Bernhard and Billy Bragg, how Tim Heidecker may have perfected the comedy/music tour, writing songs in tribute to Robin Williams and Nex Benedict, whether she’ll do a full music-oriented tour, and much more.  

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Ep. #897: Tom Mullen

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Tom Mullen discusses his Washed Up Emo podcast and archival enterprise, working for different labels and conceiving of the video chronicling the road Bob Dylan might have taken from Greenwich Village to Big Pink, getting Jeff Bridges to narrate it and also to join Facebook, a fascinating promo project about Jeff Buckley, bringing Fred Armisen together with members of the Clash for a Funny or Die bit, why he started Washed Up Emo, what emo even means these days, news about the latest season of Washed Up Emo, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #855: Mikey Day

Mikey Day discusses his work hosting Is it Cake? and as a performer and writer on Saturday Night Live, why Is it Cake? features so many SNL cast members as celebrity judges, how his work on both shows might inform one another, legendary Canadians like SNL producer Lorne Michaels and Ryan Gosling, playing a part in Unfrosted, which is Jerry Seinfeld’s new movie about Pop-Tarts, other future plans, and much more.      

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