Mike talks with musician, singer, comedy aficionado Shonali Bhowmik about her new album “One Machine at a Time” 

Listen to RANDY: a collection of CDs found at a garage sale in Poolesville, Maryland of a self-produced audio memoir put out by a local guy named Randy.

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Mike interviews 24-year-old musician, artist, and writer Asher White on her latest release, “Home Constellation Study,” her 15th album, and Mike talks about his love and respect for the late artist and writer Joe Brainard.

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A mediocrity tells high school graduates to avoid what he did as a youth, and Mike talks with “public relations operative” Phil Elwood about his new book “All the Worst Humans: How I Made News for Dictators, Tycoons, and Politicians”.

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Mike catches up with an old friend. It goes badly. Mike interviews Julie Klausner, the creator and co-star of “Difficult People,” and co-host of “Double Threat” as well as an interview with Billy Domineau, the author of the “Seinfeld 9/11” script.

This episode was produced by Rob Schulte.

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When Mike’s away the Rob will play. Producer Rob Schulte interviews writer and comic Tim Barnes and plays the first chapter of the new audio book he produced, KILL THE RICH.

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Rob’s Substack

Tim’s Website

Kill the Rich Audio Book

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Mike Sacks interviews Adelle Waldman and Evan Waite about their new books, one a novelistic take on contemporary capitalistic culture, the other a throwback to 1970s humor books.

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Mike talks with veteran TV comedy writer Michael Jamin (King of the Hill, Maron, Beavis and Butthead, Just Shoot Me) about his new humor essay collection, “A Paper Orchestra” and what it takes to write comedy for a living. Producer Rob talks with Tara Avery of Stacked Deck Press and Soizick Jaffre about Soizick’s new graphic novel, “A Good Sport.”

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Mike talks with Dan Guterman and Martha Kelly about their now animated Netflix series, Carol & The End of the World. And Mike explains his new multi-level marketing humor school idea.

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The great, late Larry King babbles live on air for 30 min.

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Mike Talks About His OCD, OCD, OCD (three is Mike’s magic OCD number)

On this month’s episode, I talk about my experience with OCD, and the potential connection between OCD and humor. The link between depression and humor has been discussed over the years, but I’ve never heard much about OCD and humor, and I’ve always wondered why that is. In my own experience, I’ve found that at least 70% of the comedy writers I’ve interviewed, or have just known, also have OCD, and, in some cases, quite severely.

What I’ve found that helps, at least for myself, is to funnel the energy of OCD into something positive (writing) rather than circling the drain with anything repetitive (tics, washing hands, etc). I’ve also found that having OCD might allow me, and other writers, to possibly think differently, which may help with the creative process.

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