Doing The Dishes With Rafferty Thompson

My guest is culture journalist Scott Timberg. He's a former staff writer at the Los Angeles Times and author of the perspicacious book, Culture Crash: The Killing of the Creative Class. We talk about the Great Recession's detrimental effect on the creative economy, the "middlebrow consensus," and, of course, Donald Trump. You can follow Scott on Twitter @TheMisreadCity

Jokes about the Kathy Griffin "controversy," The Evergreen State College situation, and Tucker Carlson!

I talk about the first days of the Trump presidency: the holocaust statement, his taxes and that it still sucks to have to look at him.

In this podcast, I take on Trump, his cabinet picks and the Meryl Streep controversy.

Here's a stand-up bit that I did about the anti-Trump Protests happening in Portland and across the country. It was recorded at my weekly comedy show, Tally Ho, that I host with Ahmad Radheyyan and Venu Mattraw.

I had the privilege of interviewing a dude who used to perform open-mic comedy and has since become an avid Donald Trump supporter. It was recorded live at the Tally Ho comedy show that I host with Venu Mattraw and Ahmad Radheyyan at My Father's Place at 9 PM every Saturday.

The third edition Halloween edition of Doing the Dishes! I review the new season of Black Mirror, and interview a champion. This episode is sponsored by Halloween. If you haven't listened to the first two: #1 doingthedishes.libsyn.com/halloween #2 doingthedishes.libsyn.com/halloween-2

I'm taking the athletes to task who are grandstanding in the wake of Donald Trump's "locker room talk." This episode contains some very gross and disturbing stuff, so please be warned.

This episode took place after the spectacular, September 24th edition of Tally Ho, the comedy show that Ahmad Radheyyan, Venu Mattraw and I run at My Father's Place every Saturday at 9 PM. This episode contains the three of us AND two other very funny people: Avalon Leonetti and Tony C. You get to hear Ahmad's Nardwuar impression! Incessantly!

An audio essay about staying in an Airbnb in Mount Shasta, CA.

Everything that you could want to know (OR WOULD WANT TO LAUGH AT!) about the 2016 presidential election. Enjoy!

This episode is about AND CONTAINS funny ideas.

This is a short audio essay about how I think that religion will become cool again!

I wrote an audio essay about Cards Against Humanity. And, no, they don't sponsor my podcast.

If you're someone who likes comedy, American history or the history of old show business, The Comedians: Drunks, Thieves, Scoundrels and the History of American Comedy, by Kliph Nesteroff, is the book for you. Hell, it's a book for anybody. It's THAT GREAT! Not only did I have the pleasure of reading the book, I had the pleasure of interviewing Kliph! This interview provides some great tidbits about Dick Gregory, Larry David, Mel Brooks and many other greats (and not so greats). Also, you can check out Kliph's amazing blog, which has been championed by Marc Maron, at http://classicshowbiz.blogspot.com/

This is a short essay I wrote about the clothing store, American Apparel.

By now, everyone has listened to Marc Maron's interview with Lorne Michaels. If you haven't, you should! It's great! Coincidentally, before that WTF episode was announced, I was putting the finishing touches on a spec script of Marc Maron's IFC show, Maron, that dealt with his fraught relationship with Saturday Night Live. You can read it here: http://doingthedishes.libsyn.com/maron-spec-script-0

I ranked the the top twenty best television episode titles of all-time!

It's Halloween! And I don't know how I did it, but I booked an interview with the actor who played Jigsaw in the SAW franchise, Tobin Bell! We chat about his legendary turn as Jigsaw, his appearance in SEINFELD and he gives some details on an upcoming project.

My guest is the online editor of Bitch Media and host of the Popaganda podcast, Sarah Mirk! We chat about her journalism career, dystopian fiction and we debate whether or not Atheism is cool. Also in this episode, I outline my plan to catfish Mark Wahlberg.