Tim Barnes chats with comedian/writer Evan Waite about his early fascination with comics, his brief career as a teacher abroad, and how he carved his way into being a working comedy writer.

Evan Waite is a co-executive producer on Fox’s Family Guy, and wrote on the Emmy-winning Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, NBC’s Sunnyside, Inside Job, The President Show, Our Cartoon President, Fairfax, and Kevin Hart’s Guide to Black History. He won a Writer’s Guild Award for his work on Adult Swim’s Three Busy Debras. He also contributes to The Onion, The New Yorker and McSweeney’s, and has written for Mad magazine, ClickHole, and Funny or Die. He lives in LA and can be found on Twitter at @TheOhBits.

His first humor book, "Life Wants You Dead: A Calm, Rational, and Totally Legit Guide to Scaring Yourself Safe" is available now and in bookstores everywhere!

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CREDITS:

* Host: Tim Barnes

* Guest: Evan Waite

* Theme Song: “You Are The Genre” by Freddie Nunez

* Music Engineer: Adam Smith (@a_scug on Instagram)

* Podcast Art: Madhuri Shukla

Tim Barnes chats with musician/Vanderpump Rules cast member Israel Isaac about his early passion for music, finding the courage to be openly gay and Christian, and how his music and faith have enhanced in the process.

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CREDITS:

* Host: Tim Barnes

* Guest: Israel Isaac

* Theme Song: “You Are The Genre” by Freddie Nunez

* Music Engineer: Adam Smith (@a_scug on Instagram)

* Podcast Art: Madhuri Shukla

Tim Barnes chats with comedian/writer Andrew Nadeau about his early fascination with jokes on TV, navigating a comedy career while managing a chronic illness, and launching the social media branding company (Tim hopes that’s the right way to describe it) Persona Essential.

Andrew Nadeau is a writer and comedian known for specializing in personal content creation. From first working with names like Netflix, Nasdaq and Redpoint Ventures Andrew’s background as a stand up led him to focus on writing for the voices within a company rather than just the company itself. Beyond just social media writing and developing his own accounts to garner over 100,000 followers, he then launched, hosted and produced his own successful podcast, before becoming a producer of one of the top tech podcasts in the industry. Andrew works hard to help craft a voice for others, writing content that feels true to the client, allowing them to not just stand in the spotlight, but feel they’re well represented within it.

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CREDITS:

* Host: Tim Barnes

* Guest: Andrew Nadeau

* Theme Song: “You Are The Genre” by Freddie Nunez

* Music Engineer: Adam Smith (@a_scug on Instagram)

* Podcast Art: Madhuri Shukla

Tim Barnes chats with writer Mychal Denzel Smith (Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching and Stakes Is High) about his passion for mysteries, early attempts at screenwriting, and grappling with perception as he navigates his career.

You might also recognize Mychal from Tim’s [TEXT MESSAGE] interview with him for the newsletter:

Mychal Denzel Smith is the author of the New York Times bestseller Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching and Stakes Is High, winner of the 2020 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction. He is a Puffin Fellow at Type Media Center, and Distinguished Writer-in-Residence at Hunter College. Smith is host of the podcast “Open Form” on LitHub Radio. His work has appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Harper’s, Artforum, Oxford American, New Republic, The Nation, and more. In 2014 and 2016, TheRoot.com named him one of the 100 Most Influential African-Americans in their annual The Root 100 list. He was also a 2017 NAACP Image Award Nominee. Smith lives in Brooklyn.

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CREDITS:

* Host: Tim Barnes

* Guest: Mychal Denzel Smith

* Theme Song: “You Are The Genre” by Freddie Nunez

* Music Engineer: Adam Smith (@a_scug on Instagram)

* Podcast Art: Madhuri Shukla

Tim Barnes chats with Anna Suzuki about moving to the U.S. from Japan as a teen, pursuing the same performance crafts as her father, and her ultimate Broadway dreams.

Anna Suzuki is a Japanese-Jewish actor, writer, and comedian. She acts, writes, and does comedy. Anna is the co-creator of the all-Asian parody pop group, AzN PoP!, where she writes and performs original songs. Credits include: UCB NY (one-year run), UCB LA, sold out run at Joe’s Pub (Off-Broadway), SF Sketchfest, LA Diversity in Comedy Fest at Second City and more.

Anna is a three-time quarter-finalist of the Sundance Episodic Lab for her original pilots, Spooky Town, Japandering and Great Expectations, co-written with Pakistani-Muslim stand-up, Omar Shaukat. She co-wrote and co-directed the award-winning short film, Spooky Town:

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CREDITS:

* Host: Tim Barnes

* Guest: Anna Suzuki

* Theme Song: “You Are The Genre” by Freddie Nunez

* Music Engineer: Adam Smith (@a_scug on Instagram)

* Podcast Art: Madhuri Shukla

Tim Barnes chats with comedian Roy Wood Jr. about his baseball-centered philosophy, the unique struggle of being a “Jr.” and how he’s navigating the current entertainment industry chaos.

Roy Wood Jr. is a comedian, an Emmy-nominated documentary producer for the PBS documentary The Neutral Ground, a correspondent on Comedy Central’s Emmy-nominated The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, and host of Comedy Central’s award-winning podcast, The Daily Show: Beyond the Scenes. Spring of 2023, Wood guest hosted The Daily Show and headlined the White House Correspondents' Dinner to its highest ratings since 2017.

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CREDITS:

* Host: Tim Barnes

* Guest: Roy Wood Jr.

* Theme Song: “You Are The Genre” by Freddie Nunez

* Music Engineer: Adam Smith (@a_scug on Instagram)

* Podcast Art: Madhuri Shukla

Tim Barnes chats with comedian/writer/film critic Jourdain Searles (The New York Times, Vanity Fair, The Hollywood Reporter, Variety, Sight & Sound Magazine, and more) about growing up in Georgia, falling in love with cinema, and melding the skills she’s gained from comedy and criticism.

Jourdain Searles is a writer, critic, film programmer and comedian. After leaving her hometown of Augusta, GA in 2014, Jourdain pursued an MFA in Dramatic Writing at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. Upon completing her degree in 2016, she put down roots in New York City and currently resides in Brooklyn. Her work focuses on film, comedy, feminism and critical analysis.

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CREDITS:

* Host: Tim Barnes

* Guest: Jourdain Searles

* Theme Song: “You Are The Genre” by Freddie Nunez

* Music Engineer: Adam Smith (@a_scug on Instagram)

* Podcast Art: Madhuri Shukla

Tim Barnes chats with comedy writer/animation director Grant Lindahl (Comedy Central’s Tales From The Trip) about growing up in a military family and moving from an Appalachian farming town to the coasts of New York City and L.A. in pursuit of a life in comedy and animation.

Along with developing animations for Comedy Central Grant has also written for the award winning comedy series “Mini Mocks, That’s an App?, and As scene on CC.”

He is also the host of the Comedy Central Twitch live stream “Tales from the Stream.” Where he interviews comedians and draws their picture.

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CREDITS:

* Host: Tim Barnes

* Guest: Grant Lindahl

* Theme Song: “You Are The Genre” by Freddie Nunez

* Music Engineer: Adam Smith (@a_scug on Instagram)

* Podcast Art: Madhuri Shukla