Young Person's Radio

Young Person's Radio

By Colby SmithComedy
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Young Person's Radio episodes

  • The Tom Scharpling Interview

    Tom Scharpling (The Best Show, Double Threat, radio icon & extremely cool dude) joins Colb for the final installment of YPR. The two discuss Lebron James, Damian Lillard, and a host of other NBA topics before diving in on Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Bruce Springsteen, Elton John, and all things Best Show.

    A fitting end to Young Person's Radio... for now...

    The Best Show airs live every Tuesday from 9pm-midnight at thebestshow.net

    Tom's book IT NEVER ENDS is out this July

    Colby's podcast HONEY BABY SWEETIE LOVE, a parody of relationship podcasts, is available wherever you get your podcasts

    Learn more about Radio Free Brooklyn at radiofreebrooklyn.com and listen live via the RFB mobile app

    1 hr 1 min
  • The 200th Episode Extravaganza

    A super-sized episode in which Loyal Caller Tim Keck joins Colb to reflect on 200 episodes of Young Person's Radio, including best episodes, worst guests, and more!

    Plus, a call from Lower East Simon!

    Listen as the boys send off the show in style!

    Young Person's Radio airs every Sunday morning at 10 on Radio Free Brooklyn. Listen live at radiofreebrooklyn.com or the RFB mobile app.

    1 hr 18 min
  • New Ringer Podcasts (with Trevor Lyon and Matt Strickland)

    Trevor Lyon (Tea Time with Trevor) and Matt Strickland (Pod Cusack, MTV) join Colb to give the inside scoop on some upcoming podcasts rumored to be in development at The Ringer, including Bill Simmons' Sex Rankings, Fincher and Dragons, Beat Up or Beat Down (with Ron Artest), Mann Cave, and so many more!

    Young Person's Radio airs every Sunday morning at 10 on Radio Free Brooklyn. Listen live at radiofreebrooklyn.com or the RFB mobile app.

    1 hr
  • Fake Accounts (with Lauren Oyler)

    Lauren Oyler returns to the program to discuss her debut novel, FAKE ACCOUNTS, which is out Tuesday, February 2, from Catapult Press. She and Colb talk the joys and challenges of writing a novel about the internet, auditioning for the Yale improv team, and about how the last time she was on the show, a lot of what we talked about got quoted in a bad review of the book. What trouble will we get into this time??

    Young Person's Radio airs every Sunday morning at 10 on Radio Free Brooklyn. Listen live at radiofreebrooklyn.com or the RFB mobile app.

    1 hr 6 min
  • Maddie Whittle on MANK, Movies, and More!

    Film at Lincoln Center's own Maddie Whittle makes her third appearance on YPR to discuss the bizarre movie year that was 2020, how the pandemic is reshaping the industry, what worked and didn't work about David Fincher's MANK, Richard Brody's white-hot Godfather III take, her thesis on Terrence Malick, and so much more!

    Young Person's Radio airs every Sunday morning at 10 on Radio Free Brooklyn. Listen live at radiofreebrooklyn.com or the RFB mobile app.

    57 min
  • The State of the Music Biz (with Mike Joseph)

    Music industry veteran and Detoxicity podcast host Mike Joseph joins Colb for a wide-ranging talk about streaming vs. buying records, Mike's days as an album reviewer, what a post-pandemic music business might look like, and so much more! Mike is one of our favorite guests for a reason, folks!

    Young Person's Radio airs every Sunday morning at 10 on Radio Free Brooklyn. Listen live at radiofreebrooklyn.com or the RFB mobile app.

    1 hr 1 min
  • New Star Wars and Marvel Projects (with Trevor Lyon)

    Trevor Lyon returns to YPR to join Colb in revealing the host of new Star Wars, Pixar, and Marvel projects that Disney failed to report during their now-infamous Investor Day conference on December 10.

    Young Person's Radio airs every Sunday morning at 10 on Radio Free Brooklyn. Listen live at radiofreebrooklyn.com or the RFB mobile app.

    1 hr 1 min
  • The Overtime Show #7

    Tim Keck (Come at Me Show) joins Colb for another installment of the Overtime Show, where we talk about sports, e-sports, and the role of art in society. In this episode, there's Tyler Herro's op-ed about the 14 things he learned in his first year at the Miami Heat, the 2020 console wars, and a discussion of one of Fran Lebowitz's finer points about the arc of artistic careers from the documentary PUBLIC SPEAKING (2020).

    Young Person's Radio airs every Sunday morning at 10 on Radio Free Brooklyn. Listen live at radiofreebrooklyn.com or the RFB mobile app.

    1 hr
  • The 193rd Episode Party!

    Colb goes it alone to celebrate the 193rd episode of YPR, and boy, do we celebrate. Discover the similarities between a track from Bruce Springsteen's Born in the USA album and the obscure NSYNC album track "I Just Got Paid" from the 1997 debut album. Share in Colb's joy at an all-time great interaction with a Shake Shack employee during the worst months of the pandemic. Revel in tales from RFB lore. Laugh, cry, have a ball!

    Young Person's Radio airs every Sunday morning at 10 on Radio Free Brooklyn. Listen live at radiofreebrooklyn.com or the RFB mobile app.

    49 min

About Young Person's Radio

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Young Person's Radio is the only show on the airwaves where you are guaranteed to be cooler than the host. Comedian Colby Smith guides you through his weekly endeavors to rise above dork-dom, and his…