The Sore Thumbs Variety Hour with Brady Reynolds and Frankie Mendez

Mi gente! Another Sore Thumbs already! On this episode, we welcome filmmaker and DJ Marcus Yves Joseph, also known as Yves Scratch-Laurent! Book him for your parties, book him for your events! No matter how white or black your friend group is: he'll DJ!

It was such a pleasure to get Marcus in the booth, but an even greater pleasure to have on the show world-renowned footballer, rapper, radiologist, and dealer Sir David "Dave" Beckham (not to be confused with the other David Beckham, or the other Dave) and his manager! Brady and Frankie had to step out before Dave's interview, but we were lucky enough to have Jill Maher, as well as Stoward Hern and his sidekick Stobin, to fill in for us.

We also had some very sweet, very famous surprise guests send in some messages via Cameo, so this is not an episode you want to miss!

Originally recorded on February 19, 2026.

WHO YOU HEAR (with Instagrams)

Brady Reynolds: @bradyfreynolds

Frankie Mendez: @frankiedez

Marcus Joseph: @mj.yves

Coleman Toomey: @coleman.toomey

Nate Oaks: @nateoaks_

The Sore Thumbs Variety Hour with Brady Reynolds and Frankie Mendez is a long-form improv comedy show between two friends and a rotation of special guests (Emerson friends, Boston-based comedians, musicians, etc.), staging ‘interviews’ between impromptu characters that meet and come to life in the booth, along with general off-the-cuff banter and musical performances. We want to cultivate for our listeners the feeling of being ‘in’ on an inside joke.

Sore Thumbs is recorded live from Emerson College in Boston, MA and broadcast live on WECB FM every Thursday at 2pm! Tune in if you feel so inclined, otherwise listen back to the episodes you missed right here!

This also means certain needle drops during the live episode have to be cut afterward for copyright reasons, so definitely tune in live if you don't want to miss out on our impeccable music taste.

For inquiries, if you are in the greater Boston area and would like to be a guest or perform music, email [email protected].

Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, commentary, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use.

Where are your children at? It's the Sore Thumbs Valentine's Day Special! Today, the Thumbs welcome Gabrielle "Gabbi" Finucan to introduce our exclusive Valentine's interview: love experts Geraldine and Q (formerly Cupid), moderated by BBC's own Chudsley Chudsworth.

Originally recorded on February 12, 2026.

WHO YOU HEAR (with Instagrams)

Brady Reynolds: @bradyfreynolds

Frankie Mendez: @frankiedez

Gabrielle Finucan: @gabvfinucan

The Sore Thumbs Variety Hour with Brady Reynolds and Frankie Mendez is a long-form improv comedy show between two friends and a rotation of special guests (Emerson friends, Boston-based comedians, musicians, etc.), staging ‘interviews’ between impromptu characters that meet and come to life in the booth, along with general off-the-cuff banter and musical performances. We want to cultivate for our listeners the feeling of being ‘in’ on an inside joke.

Sore Thumbs is recorded live from Emerson College in Boston, MA and broadcast live on WECB FM every Thursday at 2pm! Tune in if you feel so inclined, otherwise listen back to the episodes you missed right here!

This also means certain needle drops during the live episode have to be cut afterward for copyright reasons, so definitely tune in live if you don't want to miss out on our impeccable music taste.

For inquiries, if you are in the greater Boston area and would like to be a guest or perform music, email [email protected].

Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, commentary, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use.

Here we are, the first episode of Sore Thumbs! Today, we welcome Nick Carmenate (This Is Pathetic) into the booth, and an exclusive hard-hitting interview with some of the greatest minds in the world of modern law: The Honorable Judge Perkins, Rhode Island attorney-in-training Obi Bamna, and former lawyer Garrett Paulson and Nathaniel "Big Easy" Lofton of the Harlem Globetrotters. And don't forget Groggo!

Originally recorded on February 5, 2026.

WHO YOU HEAR (with Instagrams)

Brady Reynolds: @bradyfreynolds

Frankie Mendez: @frankiedez

Nick Carmenate: @nick.carmenate

The Sore Thumbs Variety Hour with Brady Reynolds and Frankie Mendez is a long-form improv comedy show between two friends and a rotation of special guests (Emerson friends, Boston-based comedians, musicians, etc.), staging ‘interviews’ between impromptu characters that meet and come to life in the booth, along with general off-the-cuff banter and musical performances. We want to cultivate for our listeners the feeling of being ‘in’ on an inside joke.

Sore Thumbs is recorded live from Emerson College in Boston, MA and broadcast live on WECB FM every Thursday at 2pm! Tune in if you feel so inclined, otherwise listen back to the episodes you missed right here!

This also means certain needle drops during the live episode have to be cut afterward for copyright reasons, so definitely tune in live if you don't want to miss out on our impeccable music taste.

For inquiries, if you are in the greater Boston area and would like to be a guest or perform music, email [email protected].

Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, commentary, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use.

Welcome to The Sore Thumbs Variety Hour! We're so excited to get started and to have you join us on this journey, whoever the [REDACTED] is reading this!

Sore Thumbs is recorded live from Emerson College in Boston, MA and broadcast live on WECB FM every Thursday at 2pm! Tune in if you feel so inclined, otherwise listen back to the episodes you missed right here!

This "episode" is a brief snippet from our first time ever in the studio, during our DJ training. With us are WECB Programming Director Harper Pack and fellow DJ-in-training Healey Walker, host of Past Lives (also on WECB, duh).

Originally recorded on January 30, 2026.

WHO YOU HEAR (with Instagrams)

Brady Reynolds: @bradyfreynolds

Frankie Mendez: @frankiedez

Harper Pack: @harperpack

Healey Walker: @healeywalk