Give Me a Name

Ben and comedian Mehul Patel (@mehulpatelnyc) look back at the roller coaster life and career of the "Mayor for Life" of Washington DC, Marion Barry.

Check out Mehul's show on April 27th at the Paradise Club in the Edition Hotel!

The first repeat guest in Give Me a Name history: Ben and comedian Mike Bramante (Do Less podcast) at long last show some respect to one of the greatest comedians ever, Rodney Dangerfield. 

Buy tickets to Mike headlining Carolines in New York City on March 5th!

https://www.carolines.com/attraction/mike-bramante/

Use the promo code: BRAMANTE

After a long and lonely winter, Ben and Bo Ballew (Talk Sauce podcast, Waterline NY - next show 3/19) revitalize Beatlemania discussing the band's lead guitarist, singer-songwriter, George Harrison.

Ben and cartoonist David Sipress discuss the fall of the Russian Empire by examining the famous Siberian mystic whose life is steeped in legend, Grigori Rasputin.

David Sipress has been a staff cartoonist at The New Yorker since 1998 and has published nearly seven hundred cartoons in the magazine. He also studied Russian History in the Department of Soviet Studies at Harvard University.

His new book, What's So Funny?: A Cartoonist's Memoir, is now available and can be purchased using this link:

https://www.amazon.com/Whats-So-Funny-Cartoonists-Memoir/dp/0358659094

For more information on David Sipress and to view some of his cartoons, visit his website:

https://www.davidsipress.com/the-author

Ben talks to one of his favorite teachers Charles Worrall about the fascinating and unique life and death of 16th century Danish astronomer, Tycho Brahe.

Ben and Dr. Stefan Zimmers explore 9th century Europe through the life of the Viking-fighting King of the Anglo-Saxons, Alfred the Great.

Dr. Zimmers is an Assistant Dean in the History Department at Georgetown University and a frequent lecturer at the Smithsonian. He studies and teaches a wide variety of topics ranging from the Black Death and the Crusades to colonial Latin American history. He specializes in Anglo-Saxon and Angevin English history.

Ben and comedian Jimmy HVD (UncommonTakes podcast) review the short but eventful life and complicated legacy of Australia's most iconic outlaw, Ned Kelly.

Ben and comedian Zubi Ahmed (@chopzubi) dig up the story of Julius Caesar and Marc Antony's lover, the last pharaoh of Egypt, Cleopatra VII.

Ben and comedian Zach Brazao (@zachbrazao) go over both the brutal and magnanimous sides of the richest man in American history, John D. Rockefeller.