My comedy fairy godmothers, Aparna Nancherla (Conan) & Jo Firestone (The Tonight Show),stop by my nest and we talk showing up, multiple wives, giving tweens sex talks, and how to act at parties! 

This one was nothing but goofs and I couldn't be prouder.

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@aparnapkin
@kingfirestorm
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Friends: Aparna Nancherla (Conan) & Jo Firestone (The Tonight Show)

Top gal, Meredith Scardino (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, The Colbert Report) and I, discuss staying positive, anal glands, and how being the youngest child means you can go to school for painting and then become a comedy writer. Oh...and a whole minute of us literally howling.

This episode was so full of wisdom and fun, so if you don't enjoy it...it's your own fault.

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@scardinoandsons
@marlenarodrigz

Friend: Meredith Scardino (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, The Colbert Report)

This week, Tim Barnes (It's All True Podcast, The Moth)and I chat about his childhood indoors, the worst advice he keeps on giving, and is being rich really really really hard? That last one was a real doozy. 

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@TimBarnes451
@MarlenaRodrigz

Friend: Tim Barnes (It's All True Podcast, The Moth)

After an emergency break, we're back! With life-long friend, Glenn Boozan (Adam Ruins Everything, Above Average) talking about college comedy, nude pics, how to get things done when you're burnt out, and more!

Friend: Glenn Boozan (Adam Ruins Everything, Above Average)

Alison Leiby (Triumph Election Special, Joke Phenom) fell into stand up comedy because of a near death experience, which I kinda freaked out about, then later we got real real about starting over in comedy in a new city.

Friend: Alison Leiby (Triumph Election Special, Joke Phenom)

Met Calvin Lee Reeder (Sundance Film Festival, Writer / Director) at this year's Sundance Episodic Labs. Turns out he'd already been to Sundance Film Festival FIVE TIMES before. Woah. Dat cray.

We talk about how to produce your own films, whether we're allowed to laugh at Kim K's robbery, phones in movies, and answer questions from 1703.

Find Calvin's films here:
http://www.calvinleereeder.com/

song: Bugg'n
artist: TNGHT

Friend: Calvin Lee Reeder (Sundance Film Festival, Writer / Director)

Sheedz Olaylwola (Empire, Chicago PD, Black Lives Matter) is a dream person, role model and my new life coach. 

She talks coming up in a comedy institution as a woman of color and we advise implants, cheating, and whiteness.

Friend: Sheedz Olaylwola (Empire, Chicago PD, Black Lives Matter)

Megan Gailey (Conan, Adam Devine House Party) teaches me how to pick up dudes, and we discover a young lady in need of a lot of help on Yahoo Answers. What you need to know is, wear a condom!

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@megangailey
@marlenarodrigz

Friend: Megan Gailey (Conan, JFL Montreal)

Jonathan Rowell (Roast Battle, Riot LA) and I were together when we found out the world had ended. Now we're just trying to get through the day like everyone else. We answer some questions, talk through it, and make a plan to stay positive. At the very least, there's some fun moments that got me through and I hope they help you too.

Love,
M

DOOMSDAY Edition w/ Friend: Jonathan Rowell (Roast Battle, Riot LA)

Friend: Emily Maya Mills (Key & Peele, Comedy Bang Bang) warns that no one should start their comedy careers in LA, and then explains how she succesfully did just that. We also talk coming out to your parents about hiding your boobs, and the terrible timing of depression. Annnnd Emily almost reveals what T.M. is!!!!

I mean this ep is clearly the MOST loaded.

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@emilymayamills 
@marlenarodrigz

Song: "The Wheel" by Sohn

Friend: Emily Maya Mills (Key & Peele, Comedy Bang Bang)

Krystyna Hutchinson (Guys We Fucked) & Wendi Starling (Glamourpuss) get all up in my nest [over a few drinks] and we chat about the perks of three-ways, unrequited roommate love, somewhere in there one of us cries, and more!!! This episode was absolute magic and I'm pretty sure I blacked out at the end of it.

Friends: Krystyna Hutchinson (Guys We Fucked) & Wendi Starling (Glamourpuss)

Ashley Brooke Roberts (National Geographic Explorer) stops by to talk erotic fantasies, using your personality, doing debt wrong, and more!

We got faded and ended the whole thing with a personality test that I secretly hope no one ever hears, but I was too lazy to edit it out. Enjoy!

Friend: Ashley Brooke Roberts (National Geographic Explorer)

Josh Sharp (CC Comics To Watch) answers the question we're all really asking ourselves, what is sex?  We also figure out the necessity of showers, when you should eat an apple, and more!

Oh! And we also talk about the time we almost had a three way with Tracy Morgan fuuuuunnnnn.

Friend: Josh Sharp (CC Comics To Watch)

Dewayne Perkins (Wild 'N Out, 3Peat)stops by for drinks and we talk sleeping with the enemy, makeup, ghosting, girliness, and endurance.

This episode has a big ole nugget of shade that makes my jaw drop for 5 minutes. #spoiler #malort

Friend: Dewayne Perkins (Wild 'N Out, 3Peat)

My lovely pal Jackie Cruz (Flaca from Orange Is The New Black!) and I get into it about her origin story including a deadly car accident, bad gigs, and her goal to get those white girl roles. We also give advice to someone who's nervous about touching their genitals & butts, a gal who doesn't know who to trust, and figure out how to talk to hot people!

Music and Production by Kyle Rodriguez

Friend: Jackie Cruz (Flaca from Orange Is The New Black!)

Allen Strickland Williams (Conan, Comics To Watch) swings by and we chat banana deaths, free ballin, bein a successful comedian, and more!!!

Music and Production by Kyle Rodriguez

Need advice? Ask my friends! WWMFDpodcast@gmail.com

Friend: Allen Strickland Williams (Conan, Comics To Watch)

Southern gem, Amber Nelson (Guy Code, TruTv) takes a break from cooking butter beans to chat about fake girlfriends, hardness, how not to be a catfish, and more!!!

Music and Production by Kyle Rodriguez

Need advice? Ask my friends! WWMFDpodcast@gmail.com

Friend: Amber Nelson (Guy Code, TruTv)

Frankie Quinones (Cholofit, Dress Up Gang) swings by to chat about making his own stuff, going viral, mystery hair, gang bangs, & more!

This episode is v silly & giggly, so get silly and listen.

Music and Production by Kyle Rodriguez

Need advice? Ask my friends! WWMFDpodcast@gmail.com

Friend: Frankie Quinones (CholoFit, Dress Up Gang)

One of my oldest friends, Rob Pugliese, stops by for a heart to heart about starting stand up together in a biker bar, slipping Viagara, sobriety and more.

Music and Production by Kyle Rodriguez

Need advice? Ask my friends! WWMFDpodcast@gmail.com

Friend: Rob Pugliese

Rafael Agustin (Jane The Virgin, Sundance Labs) stops by to talk his insane origin story of finding out he was "ILLEGAL." We also chat accomplishing everything while knowing nothing, tattoo mistakes, dating off the grid, and more!

Music and Production by Kyle Rodriguez

Need advice? Ask my friends! WWMFDpodcast@gmail.com

Friend: Rafael Agustin (Jane The Virgin, Sundance Labs)

WE'RE BACK!

With Chase Mitchell, my friend who was a fancy writer for Late Night w/ Jimmy Fallon, Hilarity for Charity, and so much more. We chat DA BIZ pretty hard then give some advice to lunatics. Ya know. The Usual!

Friend: Chase Mitchell (Late Night w/ Jimmy Fallon, Hilarity for Charity)

The lovely pal Danielle Perez (Jimmy Kimmel Live, Price Is Right)and I get together to chat about life as a disabled comedian, the challenges of being ourselves, winning the most ironic prize of all time on the Price is Right, and MORE! This is a gooooood one y'all.

Friend: Danielle Perez (Jimmy Kimmel Live, Price Is Right)

A pal for the books, Tom Thakkar (Conan, Comedy Central Radio), stops by to chat his almost-career as doctor, unhighing, and accidentally getting horny around friends. GET IN HERE NOW.

Friend: Tom Thakkar (Conan, Comedy Central Radio)

Solid friend Steve Hernandez (Chatterbox, Who's You God Podcast)stops by to chat a whooooole ton about sex and all it's different kinds. We also touch on cheating on husbands with 3-ways, why college is better than voice acting, and MORE!

Friend: Steve Hernandez (Chatterbox, Who's You God Podcast)

Fellow Beyhive member and all around bad bitch Rashawn Nadine Scott (Comedy Central, The Second City) stops by the nest to chat her start in improv, the problems with fixing diversity in comedy a little too late, if therapists really care, the burden of our eyebrows, and MORRRREEEE!

Catch her on Comedy Central's new show, "South Side" this January!

Friend: Rashawn Nadine Scott (Comedy Central, The Second City)

Ole Chicago pal and renowned canibus extraordinaire Mike Glazer(HBO, Rolling Stone)and stops by the nest to chat the lack of male-baldness in Disney movies, Mike's weird love for being genuine, how he ended up in a hot dog suit on Craig Ferguson, and MORE! This one is just haywire, pals. Enjoy.

Friend: Mike Glazer(HBO, Rolling Stone)

New pal, Christine Medrano (HBO, Super Deluxe), stops by to chat getting out of Canada, a woman's right to have a cave in her own home, advice for a bozo going on a first date with a stripper, and more!!!

Friend: Christine Medrano (HBO, Super Deluxe)

Got to get into it with the lovely Amy Silverberg (Best American Short Stories, JFL). We talk her double quadruple life as a comedian/writer/teacher/badass, objecting at weddings, and what to do when you get an owl stuck in your chimney. Maine problems!

Friend: Amy Silverberg (Best American Short Stories, JFL)

Voice-choreographer Steph Tolev (CC Up Next, JFL Montreal) actually gives a true answer to the question "how are you?" We also talk lip fillers, flatearther fathers, and the perfect solution to all long distance relationships... break up. Don't listen to this episode if you can't handle the realness.

Friend: Steph Tolev (CC Up Next, JFL Montreal)

Dewayne Perkins (Netflix, CC Up Next)RETURNS to the pod to give a major serving of truth about his quick rise in comedy this past year. We also talk the reality of fakeness on social media, workplace x-rays, boys confused by girls, and MORE!!!

Friend: Dewayne Perkins (Netflix, CC Up Next)RETURNS!!!

Beloved pal Noah Findling (Coming to the Stage, All About the Washingtons) stops by to chat industry secrets he's gained as a showrunner assistant, like how to make your writing sample stand out, and how to work for a showrunner by thinking like a showrunner. We relaxation-shame, loud-boning, faking a college career and MORE! This ep is nothing but nuggets. Can you handle it?

Friend: Noah Findling (Coming to the Stage, All About the Washingtons)

We're back for a chat with Niccole Thurman (The Opposition, Superstore)where we get into becoming correspondent for Jordan Klepper, the challenges of cancellation, only trusting hotties, how to deal when you fucking hate everything, and MORE!

Friend: Niccole Thurman (The Opposition, Superstore)

WE'RE GOING BI-WEEKLY!!!! Starting with Brianna Baker (House of Lies, Friendsgiving) who stopped by to chat about her hustle (fancy and not), working in the justice system, car or girlfriend, and MORE!

Friend: Brianna Baker (House of Lies, Friendsgiving)

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