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Hi all, Daniel again.

I don’t have a podcast, but I’m planning to appear on all of them, and these were some particularly fun and exciting ones. This first one is a BIG deal to me.

Jimmy Pardo’s Never Not Funny is very likely the FIRST podcast I’ve ever subscribed to and a genre defining trailblazer in the now ubiquitous format of Friends Talking. It was an honor and a blast to be one of the friends and do some of the talking. Listen from the top to hear how Jimmy and I met at Zanies in my embryonic “comedy nerd” days, nostalgia for the A Special Thing message board, and lots of Oak Park and Chicago talk. Or skip right to this clip about my cab driver telling me the mind-blowing truth about 9/11.

Thank you again to Jimmy Pardo and Never Not Funny, you can listen and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. I will be inviting myself back.

I also got to sit down with Off The Records’ B-$ (Brendon Walsh, pronounced “B-Money” or “BE money?”) and my Strip Law friend and colleague, Sean “the O'Connman” O'Connor.

The premise of the podcast is that Brendon and Sean have comedy friends over to listen to / react to / talk over a vinyl comedy album from Brendon’s vast collection of comedy records. He appears to literally have all of them, but ANYONE with a record player probably has this one — the HIGHEST SELLING COMEDY ALBUM OF ALL TIME, The First Family.

It’s a, let’s say, mild and gentle sketch record, hanging almost entirely on the strength of Vaughn Meader’s JFK impression, with obviously no idea of what’s on the horizon for America, Kennedy, or the man who fully hitched his career to him. So obviously things get incredibly dark and we blather over it like idiots. Tremendous fun.

Subscribe wherever you get podcasts. You can also check out the ENTIRE EPISODE below.