Papa's Basement

Mollie somehow tries to talk about infants dying as a bad thing, but I manage to change her tune by reminding her how adorable (and affordable!) a baby-sized coffin must be. We also talk a friend of hers whose cheating husband tried to convince her that she got herpes from gym equipment (and not his philandering penis), and I come clean about genuinely hating dogs as a species. Click here to listen to the latest episode of Papa's Basement in your browser. Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Spotify Stitcher YouTube Follow this episode's cast on Twitter and Instagram: Mollie Heckerling - Twitter - @MollieSchmollie, Instagram - @MollieHeckerling John Papageorgiou - Twitter - @PapasBasement, Instagram - @PapasBasement

Mikael surprising us with a massive, audible fart. For the better part of two decades, if you were talking improv comedy in Washington, D.C., you were talking Shawn Westfall. The man established the curriculums taught to countless performers in the city, founded and ran his own improv theater (RIP Unified Scene!), and enthralled innumerable audiences with his longtime comedic partner Mikael Johnson as part of the improv duo ShawnMikael[s]. While Shawn left DC and now calls Portland, OR home, he was back in town for the holidays, and I was lucky enough to get him on the show alongside Mikael. They're both as funny as ever, and I think you'll love ("and share?," said in my guiltiest Jewish mother voice) the episode. Also, the episode title will make zero sense unless you listen to it, so you kinda have to now? Oh, and the photo is a shot-by-shot as Mikael surprised us with a massive, audible fart. I love cerebral comedy! Click here to listen to the latest episode of Papa's Basement in your browser. Apple

Remember Eva? She's back! In mom form! Yes, co-host Eva Kriksciun returns to the show after giving birth to talk with me and Mollie Heckerling about being a new mom. They bond over brooding, I sit on the sidelines, kid-cucked, and then Eva introduces the podcast to the term "meconium." Is it an early-90s black metal band that burned down churches in their native Norway? A radioactive byproduct of the Chernobyl disaster? The first name of a prospective first-round draft pick? You'll have to listen to find out! (Or Google, but where is the fun in that?) Click here to listen to the latest episode of Papa's Basement in your browser. Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Spotify Stitcher YouTube Follow this episode's cast on Twitter and Instagram: Eva Kriksciun - Twitter - @OrchardEva, Instagram - @OrchardEva Mollie Heckerling - Twitter - @MollieSchmollie, Instagram - @MollieHeckerling John Papageorgiou - Twitter - @PapasBasement, Instagram - @PapasBasement

Hear the story of Vickie, a middle-aged Greek importer that my mother tasked me with procuring three items from for New Year's Day (a link to my mom's ridiculous email, mentioned in the episode). Co-host Mollie Heckerling and I also meditate on the weird ways that fame can either find us or elude us (in our case, very much elude us), and what it takes to keep going (answer: amphetamines). Not to mention Mollie's amazing segment on what a giant old lady whore she's looking forward to being when finally sent to a nursing home. Please share this if you listen to it and like it, and reach out to me and Mollie. PLEASE!!! Click here to listen to the latest episode of Papa's Basement in your browser. Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Spotify Stitcher YouTube Follow this episode's cast on Twitter and Instagram: Mollie Heckerling - Twitter - @MollieSchmollie, Instagram - @MollieHeckerling John Papageorgiou - Twitter - @PapasBasement, Instagram - @PapasBasement

Mollie Heckerling joins the show again as we discuss adult attachment style (aka why certain people you date are fundamentally going to make you batshit crazy), our OCD mothers, how we’re spending Christmas, and why maybe, just maybe, we aren’t going to make it, after all. Click here to listen to the latest episode of Papa's Basement in your browser. Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Spotify Stitcher YouTube Follow this episode's cast on Twitter and Instagram: Mollie Heckerling - Twitter - @MollieSchmollie, Instagram - @MollieHeckerling John Papageorgiou - Twitter - @PapasBasement, Instagram - @PapasBasement

Congrats to co-host Eva Kriksciun and her decision to ruin her life. But the show must go on, and comedian Mollie Heckerling has decided to join the Papa's Basement family as co-host. We discuss the past month of our lives, which has seen me living on my own in the city and ask a girl out (yes, I'm actually straight) and Mollie working on a puppet show where the puppets are (possibly literally) made of trash. I really loved this one. I hope you listen. Mollie is funny as hell and deserves the attention. VALIDATE US WITH YOUR APPROVAL!!! Click here to listen to the latest episode of Papa's Basement in your browser. Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Spotify Stitcher YouTube Follow this episode's cast on Twitter and Instagram: Mollie Heckerling - Twitter - @MollieSchmollie, Instagram - @MollieHeckerling John Papageorgiou - Twitter - @PapasBasement, Instagram - @PapasBasement

John is out of the house and watching his friend's sickly dork of a cat. Hear all about it! Click here to listen to the latest episode of Papa's Basement in your browser. Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Spotify Stitcher YouTube Follow this episode's cast on Twitter and Instagram: Eva Kriksciun - Twitter - @OrchardEva, Instagram - @OrchardEva John Papageorgiou - Twitter - @PapasBasement, Instagram - @PapasBasement

We discuss John's Halloween costume and the party he ultimately attended, as well as the conclusion of his improv classes at his current theater meaning the end of his social life. Also, Aaron Rodgers lying about his Covid vaccination status, and Eva disclosing that she's going to crap the floor when giving birth. Even if she doesn't have to. Oh, and our shared obsession of Blind Date and its host, Rodger Lodge. Yep, that's it. Click here to listen to the latest episode of Papa's Basement in your browser. Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Spotify Stitcher YouTube Follow this episode's cast on Twitter and Instagram: Eva Kriksciun - Twitter - @OrchardEva, Instagram - @OrchardEva John Papageorgiou - Twitter - @PapasBasement, Instagram - @PapasBasement

After 14 years, we have recorded the 700th episode of the Papa's Basement Podcast. I actually reminisce about the show's history for once, instead of celebrating it the way I do most of the anniversary episodes, which is playing a kazoo sound effect and then doing a normal episode. Click here to listen to the latest episode of Papa's Basement in your browser. Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Spotify Stitcher YouTube Follow this episode's cast on Twitter and Instagram: Eva Kriksciun - Twitter - @OrchardEva, Instagram - @OrchardEva John Papageorgiou - Twitter - @PapasBasement, Instagram - @PapasBasement

I duped someone into going out on a date with me, and she was game enough to come on the show afterward and discuss what that was like (and keeps the crying to a minimum). Click here to listen to the latest episode of Papa's Basement in your browser. Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Spotify Stitcher YouTube Follow this episode's cast on Twitter and Instagram: Eva Kriksciun - Twitter - @OrchardEva, Instagram - @OrchardEva John Papageorgiou - Twitter - @PapasBasement, Instagram - @PapasBasement

I had an entire show planned, then I remembered as soon as Eva and I started recording that it was the 20th anniversary of my dad's death tomorrow. So I did an entire episode about that instead. I promise it's funny, we just talk about his chain smoking and giant Greek immigrant hog. Click here to listen to the latest episode of Papa's Basement in your browser. Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Spotify Stitcher YouTube Follow this episode's cast on Twitter and Instagram: Eva Kriksciun - Twitter - @OrchardEva, Instagram - @OrchardEva John Papageorgiou - Twitter - @PapasBasement, Instagram - @PapasBasement

Give us your money via Patreon! -Co-host Eva is pregnant...and her baby better get me a gift. -I overcome a disease that afflicts the elderly. -Stories from my level four improv grad show. -Hunting for an apartment so I never have to close the bathroom door again. -The thing I'm geekiest about in life is Dune. And I still won't see it in a theater. Click here to listen to the latest episode of Papa's Basement in your browser. Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Spotify Stitcher YouTube Follow this episode's cast on Twitter and Instagram: Eva Kriksciun - Twitter - @OrchardEva, Instagram - @OrchardEva John Papageorgiou - Twitter - @PapasBasement, Instagram - @PapasBasement

I reveal to Eva the various maladies that are claiming my rotting, 40-year-old body, and I then bring up a point that my mom made the last time we both watched The Godfather: the severed horse head scene is maybe the most ridiculously implausible scene in an otherwise fantastic movie. Just a real oasis of bs. Give us your money via Patreon! Click here to listen to the latest episode of Papa's Basement in your browser. Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Spotify Stitcher YouTube Follow this episode's cast on Twitter and Instagram: Eva Kriksciun - Twitter - @OrchardEva, Instagram - @OrchardEva John Papageorgiou - Twitter - @PapasBasement, Instagram - @PapasBasement

Fez Whatley of the legendary Ron & Fez show passed away this week. We talk about how gifted a performer he was, the struggles he fought in his later years just to keep going, and how unbelievably kind he was to me the one time we had a chance to meet and talk. RIP, Big Cat. Tonight we play Taps on our cakehorns in memory of you. Give us your money via Patreon! Click here to listen to the latest episode of Papa's Basement in your browser. Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Spotify Stitcher YouTube Follow this episode's cast on Twitter and Instagram: Mikael Johnson - Twitter - @UncleSamOfUSA, Instagram - @MikaelLJohn, @Mr.Bingeworthy John Papageorgiou - Twitter - @PapasBasement, Instagram - @PapasBasement

John sees Chappelle perform live at the Anthem in DC and Mikael discusses his dive into baseball card collecting, aka the white trash version of buying stock. Give us your money via Patreon! Click here to listen to the latest episode of Papa's Basement in your browser. Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Spotify Stitcher YouTube Follow this episode's cast on Twitter and Instagram: Mikael Johnson - Twitter - @UncleSamOfUSA, Instagram - @MikaelLJohn, @Mr.Bingeworthy John Papageorgiou - Twitter - @PapasBasement, Instagram - @PapasBasement

Mikael tells tales of his interactions as a child with an older neighbor that strongly resembled Beavis' & Butthead's hero, Todd, including an Ocean's 11-like heist of the man's porn. Give us your money via Patreon! Click here to listen to the latest episode of Papa's Basement in your browser. Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Spotify Stitcher YouTube Follow this episode's cast on Twitter and Instagram: Mikael Johnson - Twitter - @UncleSamOfUSA, Instagram - @MikaelLJohn, @Mr.Bingeworthy John Papageorgiou - Twitter - @PapasBasement, Instagram - @PapasBasement

I'm embarrassed to type out what this episode's title was derived from, so you'll have to listen and find out. Eva also sticks up for herself (how dare she!), and I discuss how, at age 40, I'm pretty much falling apart like a reanimated corpse. Give us your money via Patreon! Click here to listen to the latest episode of Papa's Basement in your browser. Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Spotify Stitcher YouTube Follow this episode's cast on Twitter and Instagram: Eva Kriksciun - Twitter - @OrchardEva, Instagram - @OrchardEva John Papageorgiou - Twitter - @PapasBasement, Instagram - @PapasBasement

I got a speeding ticket in Arlington, VA. If anyone knows how to get out of speeding tickets in Arlington, VA, you will be my new best friend. Give us your money via Patreon! Click here to listen to the latest episode of Papa's Basement in your browser. Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Spotify Stitcher YouTube Follow this episode's cast on Twitter and Instagram: Mikael Johnson - Twitter - @UncleSamOfUSA, Instagram - @MikaelLJohn, @Mr.Bingeworthy John Papageorgiou - Twitter - @PapasBasement, Instagram - @PapasBasement

John gets hooked on caffeine, Mikael does his best to talk him down from his bender. And we saw a toad. Give us your money via Patreon! Click here to listen to the latest episode of Papa's Basement in your browser. Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Spotify Stitcher YouTube Follow this episode's cast on Twitter and Instagram: Mikael Johnson - Twitter - @MikaelLJohn, Instagram - @MikaelLJohn John Papageorgiou - Twitter - @PapasBasement, Instagram - @PapasBasement

Mikael is finally watching Game of Thrones 20 years later, and I have an encounter with a knife-y hobo with a striking resemblance to Bruno Mars. Give us your money via Patreon! Click here to listen to the latest episode of Papa's Basement in your browser. Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Spotify Stitcher YouTube Follow this episode's cast on Twitter and Instagram: Mikael Johnson - Twitter - @MikaelLJohn, Instagram - @MikaelLJohn John Papageorgiou - Twitter - @PapasBasement, Instagram - @PapasBasement