Beste College Stories podcasts (2024)

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S1E5: Possibilities and Norma Jean's Pastries 14:07

1M ago14:07

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It's a sweet double feature this week as Nic and Asher sit down with Christina Fletcher of home goods and creative shop Possibilities and Whitney Ackerson of Norma Jean's Pastries, both located in Franklin, Indiana. Find Norma Jean's here: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Norma+Jean's+Pastries/ Explore Possibilities here: https://shoppossibilities…

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S1E4: Johnny Rees of Rees Restoration 13:59

2M ago13:59

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Brayden and Jordan sit down with Johnny Rees of Rees Restoration to talk about the hustle of starting a new business in the trades. Learn more about Rees Restoration here: https://www.reesrestorationindy.net/ == These recordings are made possible by the Engaged Learning team at Franklin College, which includes the offices of career and professional…

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S1E3: Julie Stewart of Salvage Sisters Antique Market 16:32

2M ago16:32

16:32

This week's guest is found on the literal Main Street — happens to be Jefferson Street here in Franklin; lots of Founding Father names around here — in an antique shop next to a retired train station. Julie Stewart of Salvage Sisters Antique Market is a local establishment unto herself, and Riley and Zach dive into her story with all its twists and…

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S1E2: Rye Von and Art Haus Balloon Company 35:02

2M ago35:02

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Episode two is a tour de force of the entrepreneurial spirit with Rye Von of Art Haus Balloon Company, with more "Wait, what!?" moments than I could keep track of. Join students Trey and Joshua as they help weave together the story of the founder who went to a trade convention and quit her job on the spot to try something new. Learn more about Art …

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S1E1: Kari Kermode of Style Dance Academy 30:33

2M ago30:33

30:33

We couldn't have asked for a better first episode than this one where Amirah, Kearsley, and Jacqueline talk with Kari Kermode, Kearsley's mom and founder and owner of Style Dance Academy in Franklin, Indiana. Learn more about Style Dance Academy here: http://www.styledanceacademy.com/ Kearsley's involvement with the family business has been written…

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Main Street Moxie - A new podcast from Franklin College 4:12

3M ago4:12

4:12

Welcome to a new pod series from Franklin College: A small, private, liberal arts school in the heart of America’s heartland, in this in-between world of being just 20 minutes from Indianapolis, one of the country’s 25 largest cities, and what you may lovingly refer to as the middle of nowhere. Franklin is the second-largest town or city in Indiana…

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#104: “First: Showbiz Job, Drink, Kiss & Arrest” w/ Taylor Adams

5+ y ago

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New grad Taylor Adams just got to New York from Indiana, and tells us about getting started in showbiz. Jaimie freaks when she hears about the Disney gig she just did. (Hint: The Little Mermaid, Belle, and Pocahontas were all involved). Taylor talks about how her group of college students contacted Kevin to come back to campus to be on the show, an…

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#103: “Townie Pulls A Gun & Hell House” w/ Timmy McBride & Russell Stewart

5+ y ago

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We’re BACK from a looong hiatus, and we’re doing something new: for Back 2 School Month, we’re talking to RECENT college grads, about their college stories that JUST happened, and what it’s like getting into showbiz now. We’ve got Timmy McBride & Russell Stewart on the show today – Timmy hosted our old late night talk show at Ball State for 3 years…

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#102: “Hangin w/ Miami Football Players” w/Anthony Devito (Colbert, Comedy Central)

6+ y ago

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Anthony Devito! One of our favorite storytellers, a man who has been featured on This American Life, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert & Comedy Central, and who — more on topic for us — made future NFL players laugh at the University of Miami before bailing on his architecture major to do this for a career. How’d he end up in Miami? He literally c…

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#101: PART 2: Ball State to NYC: The College Stories Origin Story

6+ y ago

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Look, this is five people who did a college TV show doing a Q&A about that TV show, and 4/5 of us are drunk. If that doesn’t sound fun to you, feel free to skip, and we will not be offended. BUT WE THINK IT’S FUN! Some stories told: Jaimie drunkenly tried to chase a bat into a dorm elevator while wearing a ball gown. How Shane told Jon he was elect…

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#100: From Ball State to NYC: The College Stories Origin Story

6+ y ago

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SPECIAL EP. 100: This is the ultimate college story for our hosts: it’s the origin story of the College Stories podcast. Kevin, Jaimie, Jon, Shane & Elizabeth all met on a TV show they created at Ball State (that still exists today) which has a hell of a backstory. They worked together, lived together, eventually moved to NYC, worked in showbiz, an…

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#99: “Steroids & Poker” w/ Mike Cannon (comedian & podcast host)

6+ y ago

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Mike Cannon is one of the nicest guys you’ll ever meet who also has insane stories about doing steroids. Mike played college basketball at Rockland Community College where he was point guard/artificially enhanced enforcer, and then he *almost* played at SUNY Geneseo. Mike made his money in college playing underground poker games in New York City wi…

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#98: “Shoplifting & Marc Summers” w/ Asterios Kokkinos (Comedian)

6+ y ago

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Asterios blew the fuckin’ doors off the show in episode #98. We start with a Marc Summers (of Double Dare!) college story, and end with a little shoplifting. Asterios is a comedian, comedy writer, and part-time ass-kicker of bigots on Reddit (our description, not his). He has an insane amount of stories, and we begin with when Asterios’s Emerson Co…

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#97: “4 Day Coma / I LOVE JAIL!” w/ Greg Burmeister (Rock N Roll)

6+ y ago

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We’ve double-checked, and it’s confirmed Greg Burmeister is the first guest we’ve had whose college experience included a 4-day coma. The man is a party machine (although that is NOT what led to his coma!) and his college experience was less of the campus life, and more of the rock & roll life. Greg played in bands throughout college (Cue The Doves…

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#96: “My Friend, Dummy” w/ Kenny DeForest (comedian)

6+ y ago

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Kenny followed a great high school basketball career by playing one more year at Drury University, then aiming his competitive spirit at All-America level partying, culminating in one of the most insane nights we’ve had on this show (beginning at about minute 50). He takes us through his transition from recruited college athlete to his early retire…

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#95: “Why Aren’t I Dead?!” w/ Mara Marek (host “Happy Never After” podcast/comedian)

7y ago

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Usually, we write a notable fact about the guest’s “college story” here. But for Mara Marek, all you need to know is that her life is NUTS. She’s had about 8 full lives, and she has no idea why she’s not dead. A rundown: she somehow went to college BEFORE she was done with high school. Is that allowed? Apparently, it is in Michigan! Then she quit t…

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#94: “Dropping out = $$$” w/ Cliff Cash (comedian)

7y ago

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Cliff Cash is a very funny, unique comic who dropped out of college and made a bunch of money real fast. Like Bill Gates! Then, well, things got weird. But it was a baller couple years! He also started college at the top — had a private dorm room and a fake ID immediately, and could be seen wandering campus at all times with a solo cup. And guess w…

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#93: “2 Schools, 2 Arrests” w/ Eric Schmidt (Comedian/Writer)

7y ago

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Eric Schmidt: a funny, nice, tall man who attended two colleges, and was arrested at each. He even had to promise one school that he wouldn’t come back! Eric talks growing up in Florida, going to performance arts high school, and starting college at South Florida, which was basically a full-time Spring Break. He gained a borderline shocking amount …

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#92: “Wasted At Another School” w/ Joe Gerics (stand-up comic)

7+ y ago

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Georgetown’s Joe Gerics describes in great detail their beef with Syracuse, we talk about the shock of people in college who are incredibly comfortable being naked in public, moms who do your college applications for you, and how to say “King of Cocksucker” in German, and a few other foreign language swears. Joe was also a part-time, hard-core part…

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#91: “BAR FIGHT!” w/ Alyssa Wolff (Author/Comedian)

7+ y ago

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Harvard’s Alyssa Wolff has one big thing in common with Ball State’s Kevin: drunk Halloween college fights. Dressed as a lady village person, Alyssa stood up for her friend at a Chinese restaurant bar in Boston and told us all about it. That wasn’t her biggest hit: she also crashed into a very important person’s house, at a very important time. She…

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#90: Deleted Scenes #4

7+ y ago

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It’s another deleted scenes episode! Sometimes, our guests have TOO much good stuff, and when that happens, we collect the tangents, and off-the-rails stories, and put them in a big grab bag of fun, and call ’em “Deleted Scenes.” On today’s episode #90: comedian/writer Steve O’Brien (original ep #72), MTV/VH1 producer Kim Reynolds (#74), director K…

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#89: “Dating, Food & Harvard: Is It Hard?” w/ Alyssa Wolff (Comedian/Author)

7+ y ago

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We play a lot of college hits in this episode with very funny comedian & author Alyssa Wolff (Lean Over: Women, Work, and Women’s Work)! Jon asks if Harvard is actually harder than other schools (spoiler: they have a class called “Cosmic Connections”), we talk about the unique kind of homeless person that hangs out at Harvard — is it like that one …

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#88: “Arby’s to Hollywood” w/ Jeff Lock (screenwriter)

7+ y ago

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Screenwriter Jeff Lock went to our alma mater (Ball State) in Muncie, Indiana, worked at Arby’s, then wrote a script about an Arby’s-like place in Muncie, and now it’s going to be a real movie that starts shooting soon. COLLEGE WORKS! Jeff also talks about how he got a later start in college after slacking for a couple years, then co-hosted the lat…

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#87: “Proposing on Campus” w/ Nick Blake (writer/producer)

7+ y ago

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Nick Blake survived the celebration of the Red Sox championship in 2004 (barely), and eventually things got even better: he met the girl who he’d marry, and he brought her back to campus to propose in a super college-y way. In this mini-episode that’s a follow-up to Nick’s epic story from #85, we also talk about Nick moving to LA to do stand up, ha…

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#86: “Family Fights! (& Letterman)” Thanksgiving Special w/ Kevin

7+ y ago

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It’s Thanksgiving tradition to get into fights with your family, and when it comes to that, 2016 is looking like an all-timer! To commemorate that, here’s a short, special episode that features Kevin’s career highlight (performing stand up on Letterman) which came on Thanksgiving Eve of 2013, and the family fight it caused. To those of you going ho…

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#85: “World Series Special” w/ Nick Blake (writer/producer)

7+ y ago

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Nick Blake (TV producer/writer) happened to be just starting at Boston College when the Red Sox broke their “curse” and won the World Series in 2004, and he has an epic tale of being there on the scene to celebrate…and then having to pay the price for it. We also talk about sports fandom in general, and how people who look down on it are hypocrites…

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#84: “#1 Party School” w/ Jay Nog (comedian, host “Paid or Pain”)

7+ y ago

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Jay Nog is the comedian you’re not surprised was part of a fraternity that got kicked off campus. He went to SUNY-Albany (9-time #1 party school according to Princeton Review), pledged a frat immediately, had messy breakups with just about every roommate he ever had, and has a cautionary tale about having a long-term “friend with benefits.” By “cau…

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#83: “Road Trips, Boobs & Car Fires” w/ Jason Kanter (Comedian)

7+ y ago

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Jason Kanter attended THE Ohio State University, and his stories are so nuts that he can’t include last names in almost any of them. Except NFL hall of famer Lynn Swann — that dude gets NAMED. Jason was president of his fraternity in college, and around him, cars were lit on fire (allegedly), beers exploded inside cars, in front of cops (not allege…

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Maynooth's "Ghost Room" 23:29

7+ y ago23:29

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Ghost Stories of Maynooth College tells the many spooky tales which populated the ancient campus of the university in Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland. These stories have been shared in walking tours, as a book and now as a short podcast series. This first episode tells Maynooth's most famous ghost story: "The Blood Room" (Room No. 2, Rhetoric House)…

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#82: “Clowns & Adderall” w/ Subhah Agarwal (Comedian/Writer)

7+ y ago

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Oh boy, where do we START with this one? Subhah Agarwal (comedian/TV writer) drops by to talk about being a quasi-valedictorian, snorting things so she could work harder, and working as a clown, on a boat, in Pittsburgh. WHAT? Right. Subhah is an NYC-based stand up comic and regular at The Stand, and she has also appeared on truTV’s Comedy Knockout…

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#81: “Late Bloomer” w/ Patrick Monahan (Comedian/Twitter Guy)

7+ y ago

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Patrick Monahan is a comedian who is one of the absolute best follows on Twitter. He’s got that blue checkmark, son! Check him out @pattymo and enjoy. Patrick is NOT the guy from Train (of the same name), but he IS the guy who helped popularize the “Ted Cruz is the zodiac killer” online, a Georgetown grad and lawyer, and he is able to break down a …

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#80: “Summer Camp” w/ Nick Pride (Producer)

7+ y ago

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The junior year of College Stories kicks off with producer Nick Pride, who talks about a Florida summer camp he worked at in college where he got buff and found a wife. With Nick as a guest, we get the bonus of appearances of a bunch of camp weirdos via impressions. We caught up with Nick at the 15 Year Anniversary for the college TV show we all di…

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FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL! (Re-post CS #1)

8y ago

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The school year is kicking off once again, and while new College Stories will be back every Thursday shortly, and for the duration of the school year, we bridge the gap with a re-posting of the very first episode about our 1st days of college. On the ep, all the Ball State attendees (not all “grads,” cough, Kevin & Shane): Elizabeth Kuchta (writer/…

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#79: “So, 9/11 Was Weird” w/ Doug Smith (comedian)

8y ago

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Doug Smith (comedian, Montreal Just For Laughs Festival) grew up a Jehovah’s Witness, but then quit, HARD. He went to art school in NYC, 9/11 turned into his Home Alone 2 (we explain), he dropped out but didn’t tell his dad, and he was present for some serious arson. Doug brings the stories for real — no fat on this baby today. It’s all the good st…

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#78: “Hazing” w/ Gary Vider (America’s Got Talent)

8y ago

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Gary Vider tells us everything about his time at U of Buffalo: pledging a frat, the insane hazing (and how that led to no particular lasting friendship), and his creative side-job that made him a lot of money and got his room broken into. We also talk about Gary’s run to the finals on America’s Got Talent last year, and how Heidi Klum has awful tas…

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#77: “Spring Break, USA” w/ George Gordon (comedian)

8y ago

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George Gordon accidentally ended up in ATO at Memphis University, lived on a dorm floor with one of country music’s biggest talents, and hit the biggest “college spring break locales”: Panama City and South Padre Island, with a pit stop over in Mexico. We talk cheap, awful liquors (cheap vodka is the best, relatively speaking), and what the Memphis…

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#76: “Monster” Alison Leiby (comedian/writer, “We Have Issues”)

8y ago

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Alison Leiby (comedian/writer) is, in her words, “a monster.” She started at Cornell on the rowing team, and after injuries derailed that career, she took the athlete’s mentality to college partying. Alison and Kevin compare notes on blacking out and leaving class to go heave in sinks (incredibly similar stories, actually), Alison talks about the u…

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“Pep Talks & RL Stine” w/ Josh Gondelman (Conan, John Oliver)

8y ago

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During an off week, we figured it would be a great time to re-post an old episode (original air date: 11/20/14) with a guest who has a lot going on today: Josh Gondelman. Josh was recently on Conan, also recently released an album (Physical Whisper) that hit #1 on iTunes, and is still writing for one of the best shows on TV, Last Week Tonight with …

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#75: “RA Life” w/ Kris Knight (Director/Producer, the FLAMA)

8y ago

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Kris Knight failed 7 different foreign languages in college, and now is a producer/director for Univision. Suck it, school! Kris attended Ball State University, just like our hosts, and helped produce another sketch comedy show on campus. He also worked as an RA, dealt with dummies (including a fog machine addict), and on one special day successful…

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#74: “Ghosts & Spring Break” w/ Kim Reynolds

8+ y ago

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Kim Reynolds helped bring you 6 years of VMAs (basically, she knows Jay-Z) and today she tells us about how she creatively paid for college spring break, how she chose a college (Rowan University), and she does it all while providing snacks and wine for the whole crew. What a gal! Follow Kim on her travels across the world on Instagram @kimrey83!…

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#73: “Chicago Comedy School” w/ Steve O’Brien (Actor/Comedian) 1:12:49

8+ y ago1:12:49

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Part 2 of the “What I did instead of college” extravaganza with the story-filled Steve O’Brien. Steve tells us about growing up in the Chicago sketch & improv comedy scene, starting drinking, and getting electrocuted. Oh, and basically doing a Pee Wee Herman impression across the country. Also, if you haven’t heard part 1 with Steve — may we strong…

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#72: “No College” w/ Steve O’Brien (Actor/Comedian) 1:00:57

8+ y ago1:00:57

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Steve O’Brien (actor/comedian, “Team Submarine”) is our first College Stories guest who straight up bailed on college, and instead, used that time to live some of the craziest stories we’ve had on this show. His age 18-22 college era involved running away from home, across the country, and not telling ANYBODY about it, and eventually basically livi…

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#71: “College Football Kicker” w/ Lance Weiss 57:43

8+ y ago57:43

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Kevin has known Lance Weiss (comedian) for eight years, but only on this episode found out he was a kicker for his college football team. WHAT?! Lance shares the story about kicking for Georgetown’s (awful) football team, growing up in the deep South and wanting to get the F out, and his surprising romantic history. This episode is NOT brought to y…

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#70: “Getting Jobs” with Matt Passet 51:18

8+ y ago51:18

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Producer of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver Matt Passett talks about the mini-college that is paging for the Letterman straight out of NYU, and NYU’s supposed reputation of being “filled with d-bags.” During college, Matt interned at Conan while majoring in politics, and rode that into a career of producing TV, obviously. He also pulls back the …

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#69: Deleted Scenes #3 1:02:26

8+ y ago1:02:26

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Episode #69, dudes!!! We’re wrapping up 2015/beginning 2016 with our third deleted scenes episode. We’ve got talk about our biggest regrets, drugs, Nic Cage, and possibly Shane’s most epic story of all time. CHECK IT! (Appearances by: Kevin, Jaimie, Jon, Shane, Elizabeth Kuchta, Kristen Lavin, Matt Wayne, Pat Driscoll, Mike Trainor, Andy Bond)…

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Christmas Time, Family Time: McCaffrey-palooza 1:11:06

8+ y ago1:11:06

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On Christmas Eve, we do a #TBT to a previous episode, originally aired last Christmas, with Kevin and his two brothers, Joe and “Owen” (a med student, who should not be super-searchable via Google for, you know, professional reasons). The newest of the McCaffreys — Jaimie — is along for the hang as well. “Owen” clears up previously broadcast rumors…

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#68: “Jewish Frat & the NYPD” w/ Matt Passet (Last Week Tonight with John Oliver) 36:20

8+ y ago36:20

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Matt Passet, former Letterman Page, Conan intern, current John Oliver producer, talks about starting stand up in college, trying to be a serious writer in grad school at Columbia, his “very Jewish” fraternity at NYU, and a smoking-related throwdown with the NYPD. Oh, and Jon Daly shows off his incredible acting skills. Follow Matt on Twitter (like …

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#67: “Sorority Exile” w/ Megan Gailey (Comedian) 54:01

8+ y ago54:01

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Comedian/Purdue grad Megan Gailey was a self-described “real piece of sh*t sorority girl” in college, and she tells us just how much of a piece of sh*t she was on this episode of college stories. There’s a spring break cruise, a psycho/love-stricken cruise ship piano man, a group of the scariest women in the world, and a hardass “house mom” that tr…

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#66: “Quad Wrestling & Fake IDs” w/ Pat Driscoll (Writer/Producer) 1:14:27

8+ y ago1:14:27

1:14:27

Pat Driscoll is all New York: grew up in Queens, high school in Manhattan, college in the Bronx (Fordham). He regales us with tales of the “Ram Van,” the one magical place in NYC to get terrible (but useful!) fake New Hampshire IDs, and putting on a five-star classic wrestling match outdoors for a bunch of college students, whether they want to see…

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#65: “Driving Mr. Nobel Prize” w/ Matt Zaller (Funny Or Die, Nat Geo) 1:11:33

8+ y ago1:11:33

1:11:33

Matt Zaller (Writer/Producer, Funny Or Die, Nat Geo) had a DOOZY of a college experience: interning for congressmen, going abroad to Paris, and pissing off a Nobel Peace Prize winner — who, if we’re being real about it, was a real piece of trash. Matt attended Kansas University and knows all about birds both real and mythical, and during his intern…

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