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Jay Sukow's Glenwood stories spark a full-scale town meltdown featuring pizza wars, gossip culture, jailhouse romance, and a rapidly disappearing population.

Billy was scheduled to host Jay. Billy refused to take the interview. There may have been… financial tension.

Gail stepped in. Everyone survived.

Jay takes us back to Glenwood, Illinois — a place where:

• Everyone knows your business

• The Glenwood School for Boys is a constant threat

• Teens sneak beers in the forest preserve

• Deep dish is strictly for tourists

Real Chicago pizza is tavern-style. Square cut. No debate.

From Jay's hometown memories, the ensemble creates:

• A gossip podcast about everyone's business

• Murder-for-hire teenagers (discount pricing)

• Competing pizza wars

• Jailhouse proms

• Funeral pizza parties

• Oompa Loompa labor disputes

• Alien population control

Population: decreasing.

We apologize to: Glenwood, Jay, deep dish fans, Oompa Loompas, and the funeral industry.

We do not apologize for tavern-style pizza.

Director and Creator: Billy Merritt Producer, Editor & Graphics: Hill Kane Production assistance: Jim Tripp, Amber Bellsdale (Thank you both)

Featuring: Jay Sukow Amber Bellsdale Daniel Belum Don Slovin Flannery Wilson Gary Yorke Hill Kane J. Jaramillo Jason Spiro Jim Tripp Katya Vasilaky

Music: "Memfish" performed by Little Kahunas | Produced by Peter Miller

Hosting: Libsyn

"The BIT" and "The BIT Comedy Network" are trademarks owned by Billy Merritt. © 2024–2026 Billy Merritt. All rights reserved. Inquiries: [email protected]

Everybody's a Podcaster Feat. "Terry Gross"

It's the end of the year, the end of the podcast, and the end of whatever was left in the fridge. Join us as the BIT Comedy Network wraps up 2025 with one final, chaotic, heartfelt, and slightly undercooked episode of Dinner Party.

What's on the menu?

🎧 A "Podcast Party" hosted by the Double Ls (Luke & Laura), where microphones are hot and egos are hotter.

🐟 A shady fish-based gift from aquarium moguls Jim and Janet of "Something's Fishy."

🏛️ An unexpected guest: actual NPR royalty Terry Gross shows up, and things get even weirder.

🎮 Dean and Thea, the Bitcoin siblings, attempt to evangelize crypto in exchange for gas money and a meal.

🐠 A tragic culinary climax involving a 12-inch halibut, a mayor, and one very regrettable dinner choice.

Unforgettable Highlights:

🥤 Mr. Sunshine: gift, friend, snack

🌍 Terry Gross discusses dried fish taxidermy. Seriously.

💋 Tense debates about fish hierarchy: are you a bottom feeder or a visionary?

🤔 Political intrigue, podcast sponsorships, and one potential fish conspiracy (cue new spinoff: Something Fishy: North Side Secrets)

DIRECTOR/CREATOR: Billy Merritt Editor/Producer: Hill Kane Guest-Starring:

• Luke Bovard + Yuehan Liu (The Double Ls - Luke and Laura)
• Brett Kohler (Luis, Roommate)
• Hill Kane + Jim Tripp (Janet + Jim, Something's Fishy proprietors)
• Flannery Wilson + Don Slovin ("Terry Gross" and her sidekick producer Don)
• Thea Marie Thorkildsen + Dean Aisles (Sibling Crypto Hacks)

Featured Sponsors:

🔺 Butterball (for your poultry needs) 🔺 HomeGoods (pillows AND propaganda) 🔺 Something's Fishy Aquarium Supply 🔺 BitCoin Birthday Cards & Cult Merch

Listen in and remember:

💔 Fish are friends...until they're the mayor.

🍽️ North side or south side, we all bleed chowder.

💬 And in improv, as in life: "Yes, and... please don't eat the guests."

This is the final episode of the BIT Comedy Network for 2025. We'll see you in 2026 with more madness, more characters, and hopefully fewer fish-based tragedies. Apply to join the ensemble at bitcomedynetwork.com.

Billy and the BIT CREW players wish you the very merriest of Christmases, the happiest of Chanukahs, and a fantabulous and super-fun Holiday Season/New Year. As an homage to "holiday dinners." Billy insisted that we recreate that frenetic and sometimes awkward ritual with a special improv form called "Dinner Party." We even made a theme song. We hope you enjoy this special Christmas edition of Podcast Town. We are releasing a super, secret, double-dog-dared, New Year's bonus edition of DINNER PARTY at the stroke of Midnight on New Year's Eve.

Listen to the full version of the Dinner Party Theme song!

DIRECTOR/CREATOR: Billy Merritt Producer/Editor: Hill Kane

CAST:

• Narrator/Director: Billy Merritt
• Hosts Ruby + Violet: Amber Bellsdale + Hill Kane
• Guests Brady + Greg: Konrad Andrew + Brent Kohler
• Semi-Dysfunctional Fam: Dad-Don Slovin; Mom-Terry Armstrong; and Football Bobby-Jim Tripp "Podcast Town" Improv is part of The BIT Comedy Network.

MUSIC: "Memfish" performed by Little Kahunas | Produced by Peter Miller © Production Assistance from Luke Bovard (thank you) - ya gotta have a plan B!

Audio Production, Graphics/Art, Show Notes by Hill Kane of Raising Kane Media + Marketing.

Hosting Platform: Libsyn.com

"The BIT" and "The BIT Comedy Network" are Trademarks owned by Billy Merritt. © 2024-2026 Billy Merritt - All Rights Reserved Inquiries + Notices + Requests: [email protected]

Season Two Finale of rabbitHOLE - Live from OSLO! - A Random rabbitHOLE OMG OMG! The BIT Comedy Network's first LIVE show was at the Oslo Impro Fest on October 24th.

We have been performing together under the BIT marquee for about two years, but we had never met or performed live as a troupe. Even with the wonky audio (it gets better after the introduction), we think you'll enjoy this RANDOM rabbitHOLE journey through rolling D20s, experimental medicine, the benefits of divorce and hot water, fruits with curative powers, and a costumed heist. (We still don't know if Amber is a camel, in camo, OR a camel wearing camo ...)

As always, rabbitHOLE is 100% unscripted. If you enjoy the show, do your part: 👉 Follow, rate, and share with your most unhinged friend.

Director/Creator: Billy Merritt Producer/Editor: Hill Kane

CAST (in alphabetical order) The OSLO FIVE: Amber Bellsdale Luke Bovard Hill Kane Yuehan Liu Thea Marie Thorkildsen

Produced by: The BIT Comedy Network

Production + Graphics: Hill Kane, Raising Kane Media + Marketing

Music: "Shark Bait" by Little Kahunas | Produced by Peter Miller (1959-2025 RIP Friend)

📍 Hosted on Libsyn.com 📧 Contact: [email protected] ©2024–2025 Billy Merritt | All Rights Reserved "The BIT," "The BIT Comedy Network," and "rabbitHOLE" are Trademarks owned by Billy Merritt.

Happy Thanksgiving from the BIT Comedy Network! We bring you the next installment in The Primrose in VII. Many years have passed and the Inn is spookier and more dastardly than ever. We don't have nipples in this episode, but there is a lot of other weird stuff. ENJOY!

As always, MOVIE! MOVIE! is 100% unscripted. Music and some sound effects were added in post. This was our season two finale. See ya next year!

If you enjoy MOVIE! MOVIE! follow, rate, and share it with your friends! Tell them Billy $*@#ing Merritt recommends it.

DIRECTOR/CREATOR: Billy Merritt CO-EDITORS/PRODUCERS: Hill Kane + Jim Tripp CAST:

• Dean Aisles
• Luke Bovard
• Margot Escott
• Yuehan Liu
• Don Slovin
• Jim Tripp
• Flannery Wilson
• Thea Marie Thorkildsen

Musical compositions and sound effects are licensed from Pixabay.com (a very cool royalty-free resource).

"Movie! Movie!" Improv is part of The BIT Comedy Network.

Production Assistance, Audio Production & Graphics/Art by Hill Kane of Raising Kane Media + Marketing.

Hosting Platform: Libsyn.com

"The BIT" and "The BIT Comedy Network" are Trademarks owned by Billy Merritt © 2024 - 2025 Billy Merritt - All Rights Reserved

Inquiries + Notices + Requests: [email protected]

Wordnesia | Frogs | Math Teacher President Ever stared at a word until it stopped being a word? That's where this week's rabbit hole begins—when Hillary's brain short‑circuits over the word speaker and takes a detour through psychology, frogs, and semantic satiation. 🐸💭

From there, the BIT crew spins a surreal chain of scenes featuring:

• Two frogs debating existence (and auditioning for a Budweiser commercial)
• A crappy math teacher turned football coach turned U.S. President
• Nine‑year‑old engineering prodigy designing roller coasters and performing surgery
• Captain Mouse trying to make it big at Disneyland
• And a funeral so wild it probably shouldn't be this funny

Somewhere between linguistic collapse and theme‑park chaos, we even manage to learn why you should always show your work—and never praise your principal in private.

🧠 "A frog does not repeat. A frog resonates." – Actual comment from a frog fan forum (via Hill's monologue)

🧮 "Budget cuts is math, so if you get rid of the math teacher, maybe the budget works itself out." – Coach Brent, Bad Math Teacher & U.S. President

🎢 "He flew off that rollercoaster and did three sick flips. It was so f*cking cool." – A eulogy you'll never forget

Frogs, Budweiser, Disney, Mickey Mouse, math teachers, grammar purists, law‑school pedants, lovers of the subjunctive tense, roller‑coaster engineers, safety inspectors, the guy who IRL flew off the roller coaster, Captain Mouse and the entire Mouse family, adjunct professors, insurance, semantic satiation, and anyone who still believes words have meaning.

rabbitHOLE is 100% unscripted and fueled by the BIT CREW's real-life internet spirals, nostalgic chaos, and shared trauma. If you enjoy the show, do your part: 👉 Follow, rate, and share with your most unhinged friend.

Director/Creator: Billy Merritt Producer/Editor: Hill Kane

CAST (in alphabetical order): Terry Armstrong, Amber Bellsdale, Luke Bovard, Hill Kane, Brent Kohler, Don Slovin, Thea Marie Thorkildsen, Jim Tripp, Flannery Wilson,

Produced by: The BIT Comedy Network

Production + Graphics: Hill Kane, Raising Kane Media + Marketing

Music: "Shark Bait" by Little Kahunas | Produced by Peter Miller (1959-2025 RIP Friend)

📍 Hosted on Libsyn.com 📧 Contact: [email protected] ©2024–2025 Billy Merritt | All Rights Reserved "The BIT" and "The BIT Comedy Network" are Trademarks owned by Billy Merritt

North Caldwell, New Jersey - with Special Guest - Margot Escott

Tiny town. Big secrets. One suspiciously spiritual traffic light. Birch beer, buried mafia lore, an abandoned sanitarium, and a Church of the Traffic Light that really leans into metaphysics — Margo Escott brings us back to North Caldwell, NJ, and Podcast Town builds a delightfully deranged local variety show around it. Expect tomato politics, a Sopranos-adjacent tour, electrocution "illuminators," and at least one tomato to the face.

In this episdode:

• Host Billy Merritt interviews Margo about growing up in a town with no stores and no traffic lights — until suddenly there is one.

• The town's favorite podcast - "Tonight in North Caldwell," complete with call-ins, commercials (Tony Soprano Tours; Freddie's Funeral Home), and a fireman's picnic parade gone very, very sideways.

• Highlights include: the Overbrook Sanitarium ruins, Big Al's Maserati Tomato Farm and its overprotective daughter, the Church of the Traffic Light, and the surprise Tomato Queen pageant (chaos, chanting, and tomato splatter included).

Standout lines (for the quote-tweet pile)

• "Praise all stoplights."
• "Traffic light be with you."
• "Who dat bitch?"

Cast & Credits Host: Billy Merritt. Guest & town chronicler: Margo Escott. Full Podcast Town improv troupe — characters include Mildy/Lisa, Tim, Luke, Big Al, Tia (Traffic Light priest), and more.

Heads up / Trigger note Contains playful references to mental-health institutions, prisons, and mock electrocution scenes (improv, not real). Listener discretion advised for anyone sensitive to those themes.\

Enjoy — and remember: if you're ever confused by a new traffic light, consult the parish. 🚦

Sponsors: Annual Firemen's Picnic, Church of the Traffic Light, Big Al Maserati's Tomato Farm, Dr. Wilson - Death Therapist and Child Illuminator, Tony Soprano Tour Guide Company, Freddie's Funeral Home.

DIRECTOR/CREATOR: Billy Merritt Producer/Editor: Hill Kane

CAST:

• Luke Bovard: Host Luke - Tonight in North Caldwell Podcast
• Hill Kane: Alison Maserati (Big Al's kid), one of Tim's kids
• Brent Kohler: Producer - Tonight in North Caldwell Podcast
• Don Slovin: Big Al, caller, one of Tim's kids, Freddie
• Lisa Steckman: Host "Mildie" - Tonight in North Caldwell Podcast, "Bianca"
• Thea Marie Thorkildsen: Priest of the Holy Traffic Light Church
• Flannery Wilson: Dr. Wilson - Death Therapist

And special guest, Margot Escott as the real Tomato Queen.

"Podcast Town" Improv is part of The BIT Comedy Network.

MUSIC: "Memfish" performed by Little Kahunas | Produced by Peter Miller © Production Assistance from Luke Bovard (thank you) - ya gotta have a plan B!

Audio Production, Graphics/Art, Show Notes by Hill Kane of Raising Kane Media + Marketing.

Hosting Platform: Libsyn.com

"The BIT" and "The BIT Comedy Network" are Trademarks owned by Billy Merritt. © 2024-2025 Billy Merritt - All Rights Reserved Inquiries + Notices + Requests: [email protected]

Just in time for Halloween! A BIT Comedy Network mini-feature film with all the fixings of a Halloween classic. A haunted inn, storms, knitting/crocheting, tea, bad weather, and of course...nipples!

As always, MOVIE! MOVIE! is 100% unscripted. Music and some sound effects were added in post.

If you enjoy MOVIE! MOVIE! follow, rate, and share it with your friends! Tell them Billy $*@#ing Merritt recommends it.

DIRECTOR/CREATOR: Billy Merritt EDITOR/PRODUCER: Hill Kane GUEST EDITOR: Jim Tripp CAST:

• Dean Aisles
• Konrad Andrew
• Terry Armstrong
• Luke Bovard
• Margot Escott
• Brent Kohler
• Don Slovin
• Jim Tripp
• Katya Vasilky

Musical compositions and sound effects are licensed from Pixabay.com (a very cool royalty-free resource).

"Movie! Movie!" Improv is part of The BIT Comedy Network.

Production Assistance, Audio Production & Graphics/Art by Hill Kane of Raising Kane Media + Marketing.

Hosting Platform: Libsyn.com

"The BIT" and "The BIT Comedy Network" are Trademarks owned by Billy Merritt © 2024 - 2025 Billy Merritt - All Rights Reserved

Inquiries + Notices + Requests: [email protected]

Rodeo clowns. Radiohead. Room 105. Welcome to Lakeside, CA—population: weird.

Host Billy Merritt welcomes ER doctor–turned–improviser Devlyn Corrigan, who takes us on a tour of his dusty hometown: Lakeside, California. What starts as a stroll down Main Street quickly gallops into full-blown rodeo madness, local teen drama, and a possibly haunted motel room.

Then, the Podcast Town players transform this dusty slice of Americana into a fully improvised audio fever dream, featuring:

• 🎸 A Radiohead benefit concert at the rodeo (yes, that Radiohead)

• 🏨 Creepy conspiracies about Room 105

• 🐄 Clydesdales, clown training, and hitching fees

• 🎤 A shaky rendition of the national anthem

• 🧶 Crochet horse blankets, Dairy Queen showdowns, and mysterious spring water (bonus scene)

• Billy Merritt (Narrator/Director)
• Devlyn Corrigan (Special Guest and real person)
• Fananary Wilson (Not a bananary)
• Brett Hickory (Clown-in-Training)
• Gail (Podcast Town's ultimate producer… maybe witch?)

"Don't stick it in your mouth. ...Sorry, it tastes delicious." "If anything weird happens in Room 105, I'd love to interview you about it."

🛒 Sponsors & Local Businesses

• Bukkee's Radio Head (not the band) Supply Shop
• Bud's Big Ass Horse Watch
• Tilly's Tack Shop
• Maya's Main Street Crochet Caravan
• 7-Eleven (Unofficial)

DIRECTOR/CREATOR: Billy Merritt Producer/Editor: Hill Kane

CAST:

• Terry Armstrong - Bud, Todd, etc.
• Amber Bellsdale - Dottie (ex rodeo/prom queen turned DQ manager)
• Luke Bovard - Mysterious man in 105
• Peg Davis - Tilly
• Hill Kane - Gail (be sure to watch SHUT UP Gail on the BIT spotlight)
• Brent Kohler - Brett Hickory, Horsin' Around Podcast Host
• Don Slovin - Bukkee and various weirdos about town
• Jason Spiro - Thom Yorke of Radiohead and the ghost in 105 (bonus scene)
• Jim Tripp - 7/11 Owner and Thom Yorke fan
• Flannery Wilson - Fananery Wilson, Horsin' Around Podcast Host

"Podcast Town" Improv is part of The BIT Comedy Network.

MUSIC: "Memfish" performed by Little Kahunas | Produced by Peter Miller © Production Assistance from Luke Bovard (thank you) - ya gotta have a plan B!

Audio Production, Graphics/Art, Show Notes by Hill Kane of Raising Kane Media + Marketing.

Hosting Platform: Libsyn.com

"The BIT" and "The BIT Comedy Network" are Trademarks owned by Billy Merritt. © 2024-2025 Billy Merritt - All Rights Reserved Inquiries + Notices + Requests: [email protected]

Ever stared at a toothpaste tube and wondered if it could take you higher?

In episode 18 of Rabbit Hole, Billy Merritt and the BIT Comedy players tumble from dental conspiracies and Norwegian stop-motion cartoons to hoarding hotel soaps, prank-calling Captain Crunch, and even a pirate gang in juvie.

Along the way, fluoride turns into Flo Rida, the Soggies declare war, and toothpaste becomes the most questionable substance at the Cannabis Cup.

It's improv chaos at its finest: absurd connections, quick character swaps, and the kind of storytelling detours only this ensemble could conjure. From corporate "green peas" to Plato's cave, with a bit of toothpaste smoke in the air, this Rabbit Hole has it all.

Dentists everywhere. Captain Crunch, Admiral Crunch, and the entire Crunch Navy. The Soggies. Norwegian stop-motion animators of Carius and Bactus. Hotel housekeeping staff. Holiday Inn, Motel 6, and The Four Seasons. Johnson & Johnson (for refilling fancy bottles with baby shampoo). The Cannabis Cup. Plato and his cave dwellers. Crank Yankers (for name-dropping). Pirates everywhere, especially juvie pirates (for making you a support group). "Green peas" and corporate America. Anyone who's ever told a story too many times (we see you, Gerard).

rabbitHOLE is 100% unscripted and fueled by the BIT CREW's real-life flash memories. If you enjoy the show, do your part: 👉 Follow, rate, and share with your friends.

Director/Creator: Billy Merritt Producer/Editor: Hill Kane

CAST: Hill Kane, Brent Kohler, Don Slovin, Jason Spiro, Lisa Steckman, Thea Marie Thorkildsen, Jim Tripp, and Flannery Wilson

Special appearance by Billy Merritt

Produced by: The BIT Comedy Network

Production + Graphics: Hill Kane, Raising Kane Media + Marketing

Music: "Shark Bait" by Little Kahunas | Produced by Peter Miller (1959-2025 RIP Friend)

📍 Hosted on Libsyn.com 📧 Contact: [email protected] ©2024–2025 Billy Merritt | All Rights Reserved "The BIT" and "The BIT Comedy Network" are Trademarks owned by Billy Merritt.