Dodge City

Tim Girrbach is an actor who also does sketch, character, and musical comedy. He grew up in New Jersey and now lives in Manhattan.

Adult nursing relationships; shooting Mantitties; high school regrets and extracurriculars; origins of Lubka; foot fetishes; the bug woman on the D train; shooting Maine Mofos video; Winona Forever; Japanese host boys; early onset high blood pressure; Dodge's memoirs trilogy.

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http://www.youtube.com/user/TheGirrbach

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Twitter: @squirmandgerm

Comedian and activist Elsa Waithe moved to New York City in 2013 from Virginia.

Power poses; sleeping outside to audition for NBC; the 4Ps—perimenopause, pregnancy, periods, puberty!; loving your B.O.; love at first sniff; the banal horrors of the New Yorker; trapping a lactating cat; Dodge is the Planned Parenthood of feral cats; growing "out" in NYC; working in a mall portrait studio; Elsa's xtreme meet-cute; getting arrested for activism; WTF is Snapchat; saying yes to opportunity; getting injured by cops' brutality.

Twitter: @elsajustelsa

http://www.amny.com/opinion/unfollow-unfriend-block-keeping-people-out-is-a-way-to-stay-healthy-on-facebook-twitter-1.12080336

Dodge's feral cat Instagram: @trappkween

Podcaster, comedian, and journalist Lindsay Goldwert moved to NYC in the 00s.

Bedbugs; feelings about fonts; being maternal without having kids; asking for a raise; passion about viral content; parallels between journalism and comedy; adopting and naming cats; teachers and mentors; honesty about age in the biz; plastic surgery and injections; (not) giving up too easily; working with a Swedish firm; Hitler's bad taste; Stefan Zweig; Richard Strauss.

Twitter: @lindsaygoldwert

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Daniel Glik, a financial analyst, millennial, and first-generation American, moved to NYC from Los Angeles in 2013.

Work life; shiksas & Jews; LinkedIn; philosophy vs. econ; Ukrainian parents; thwarted from the Peace Corps; Dodge's time in Russia and move to NYC; traditional vs. nontraditional life choices; CRISPR9; Jewish heaven & hell; whistling your money away; pagers and dial-up nostalgia; long-haired rebellion; president of Toastmasters; what it means to be a grown-up; economic inequality and gentrification.

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Actor, writer & comedian Cara Kilduff moved to New York City in 2000.

Animal wrangling for a national Broadway tour; swamp Yankees; alter egos; high end dog escort; Twitter-based shoe servants; Wylie's perversions; Cara heckles Dodge's station IDs; working at McDonald's; running out of rich people.

Twitter: @CaraKilduff

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James Phillip Gates, a theatre and film director from Essex and then London, has lived in New York City since 2006.

Taking off our clothes; the Jersey Shore of England; James's immigrant status; Bertolt Brecht; working at the Metropolitan Opera; James auditions to be a Real American; intimacy; tantric sex; good little flautists; playing at the Reagan inauguration; Dodge needs a website designer; James's coming out to mum and dad; Dodge's dad had issues; Mainers' unpretentiousness.

www.jamesphillipgates.com

Twitter: @jamespgates

Instagram: @jamesphillipgates

Comedian, photographer, and lifelong New Yorker Jenny Rubin grew up in the West Village in the 70s and 80s—and might soon be moving to a slower-paced locale.

Brooklyn Heights Retirement Brownstone; the aughts vs. the two-thousands; long walks and photography as therapy; Horatio Street and Sally Field; cheerfully morbid Barry Rubin; low rents on the LES in the 90s; Murphy the dog; the struggle to stay in NYC or to know when it's time to leave; Robin Byrd; working at Wetlands in the 90s; smoking everywhere in the 90s; immortalized by Sylvia Plachy; rehoming dogs; Dodge hates vision boards; almost five years as nonsmokers.

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Instagram: @jennyrubin70

Twitter: @jennyjrubin

Jourdain Searles moved to New York City in 2014 from Augusta, Georgia to attend grad school at NYU Tisch School of the Arts.

The wake of multiple murders across the country; the arrest of fellow comedian Elsa Waithe at a BLM protest; give Jourdain a job already; growing up with drama and blindness in Augusta; radicalized by film studies; film geeking out; pansexual vs bisexual vs all the sexuals; Missy the cat; actions toward police accountability; a poem for Eric Garner; older white lady friends.

Twitter:@buzzkillcomic / @shadypodcast / @bromancepodcast

Body camera pilot project questionnaire: https://policingproject.org/nypd-body-worn-camera-feedback/

Call your Congressional rep (http://www.house.gov/representatives/find/) about HR 1102 (police accountability act of 2015) and HR 2875 (law enforcement trust and integrity act of 2015).

Comedian and native New Yorker Khalid Rahmaan has lived most of his life in Crown Heights, Brooklyn.

Khalid's former dating frenzy; driving adult ed; living in Morocco; zero tolerance for smartphone zombies; complicated family trees; graduating from therapy; Crown Heights from crack houses to Starbucks; the Upper East Side poop attacker; the "racial diversity" of Boston; Khalid's work with NPR and The Nation; Maine's version of gentrification; peer pressure to eat healthy; Khalid's dog walking and cat care business.

www.khalidrahmaan.com

Twitter: @KhalidSays

www.petsonthemovenyc.com

http://www.wnyc.org/shows/neighborhood

Two comedian / actors: Tarik Daniels moved to NYC from Oakland, California in 2004; Frank Liotti from Commack, Long Island in 2002.

The pain of being a sensitive human; music to calm cats; women who wear wigs; Pride fashion show; Tarik is a "blouse"; the first legally non-binary gender person; Dodge's literary theory rant; running into familiar ferals around town; Saudi Arabian women driving . . . bumper cars; Frank dancing in grocery stores. An episode of technical chaos that mostly didn't show!

Tarik: Twitter / Instagram: @TarikDaniels / @Tarik78; Queer Comedy Jam on SVTV

Frank: Twitter / Instagram: @Frank_Liotti / @frankaholic; High Maintenance upcoming on HBO

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jun/16/jamie-shupe-first-non-binary-person-oregon

http://www.wsj.com/articles/saudi-arabian-women-love-bumper-cars-but-not-for-bumping-1466445023