Had a chat with Pastor Tom Ryberg about Good Friday, dirty hippies, and the appropriation of religious iconography by non-religious folk. Fun!   Tom is a pastor at the United Church of Christ, presently serving a church in Battle Creek, MI. Check out this article he wrote for the Battle Creek Inquirer about guns, crime and humanity.   About the 5 Min Podcast: I'm working together with the people at sparemin.com to take calls from anyone and everyone, a few of which will make it into my podcast feed. If you want to talk with me for five minutes about Comedy, the world, the mind or anything else that you think I'd dig, look me up, I'm @mike on sparemin (https://www.sparemin.com/Mike), and our chat will be posted on there and possibly on here. 

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Great Friday with Pastor Tom Ryberg

 On the show today I check in with Andrew Heaton. and Pastor Tom Ryberg about politics, religion, and the coming Trumpocalypse. Check out Heaton's full length episode here, and check him out online here. Tom is a pastor at the United Church of Christ, presently serving a church in Battle Creek, MI. Check out this article he wrote for the Battle Creek Inquirer about guns, crime and humanity.   About the 5 Min Podcast: I'm working together with the people at sparemin.com to take calls from anyone and everyone, a few of which will make it into my podcast feed. If you want to talk with me for five minutes about Comedy, the world, the mind or anything else that you think I'd dig, look me up, I'm @mike on sparemin (https://www.sparemin.com/Mike), and our chat will be posted on there and possibly on here. 

Minisode: Pastor Present & A Political Heaton

 Welcome to our third 5 Minute podcast. I'm working together with the people at sparemin.com to take calls from anyone and everyone, a few of which will make it into my podcast feed. If you want to talk with me for five minutes about Comedy, the world, the mind or anything else that you think I'd dig, look me up, I'm @mike on sparemin (https://www.sparemin.com/Mike), and our chat will be posted on there and possibly on here. Today on the show we have Dulcinea Pitagora, MA, LMSW. She's a therapist who specializes in alternative sexualities, currently pursing a PHD in Human Sexuality, and the co-organizer of the first ever AltSexNYC conference, which you can (and should) learn about here. We discuss the commonly held misconception that being into kink is caused by trauma and how that relates to the idea of the sad clown in comedy. Enjoy, and check back soon! 

Minisode: Sex(y) Mythbusters

 Welcome to our second 5 Minute podcast. I'm working together with the people at sparemin.com to take calls from anyone and everyone, a few of which will make it into my podcast feed. If you want to talk with me for five minutes about Comedy, the world, the mind or anything else that you think I'd dig, look me up, I'm @mike on sparemin (https://www.sparemin.com/Mike), and our chat will be posted on there and possibly on here. On today's episode I talk with Myq Kaplan, who just started a kickstarter to fund his new music album. Check out the video and help him get money to make music here! Finally you can check out all the full length previous appearances Myq's made on my podcast below: MBH4&5: Words, Minds & Myq Kaplan MBHumor 45: Myq Kaplan 3 MBHumor 67: Myq Kaplan: Small, Dork & Handsome 87: Religion - LIVE Me, but on Myq's podcast 

5 Myqutes in Heathens

Welcome to our first 5 Minute podcast. I'm working together with the people at sparemin.com to take calls from anyone and everyone, a few of which will make it into my podcast feed. If you want to talk with me for five minutes about Comedy, the world, the mind or anything else that you think I'd dig, look me up, I'm @mike on sparemin (https://www.sparemin.com/Mike), and our chat will be posted on there and possibly on here. Inaugurating this series is previous guest of the podcast comedian and scholar Andrew Heaton. Check out his full length episode here, and check him out online here. Coming up next: Myq Kaplan.

Minisode: 5 Minutes in Heaton

 Sam Dingman is a radio producer, podcastronaut, storyteller and writer in Brooklyn, NY. He makes podcasts at Panoply, and previously made radio shows at On the Media. He is a winner of the Moth GrandSLAM, an MLB Fan Cave Top 30 finalist, and his work has been featured on RISK!, SplitSider, UCB’s "A Funny Thing," TBTL, The Billfold, the First Person Arts Festival, The Los Angeles Comedy Festival, Seattle Sketchfest, Out of Bounds Comedy Festival, and beyond. He makes radio shows in his living room, where he also watches Baltimore Orioles games through gritted teeth, usually while drinking tawny port.  You can reach him via email at samdingman at gmail dot com, or on Twitter @samdingman. Also, we went to high school together. Surprise! 

88: Sam Dingman

Holiest of Molies, get your rolliest of pollies to the showiest of showies! Ahem. All that is to say, we'll be talking religion at this month's Malignant Brain Humor. Our panel features comedic voices from the religious to the non. Bring your Jewish guilt, your catholic shame or your non-denominational self-esteem and enjoy the show! As always, if you have comedy vids that you especially like which touch on or around the subject, please post them below! I will watch them and be available to discuss them here or in person at the show. Religiolously yours, Mike On the show this month we've got: Myq Kaplan @MyqKaplan (Conan, Letterman, Ferguson, Comedy Central, Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myq_Kaplan)) http://myqkaplan.com/ Sarah Pappalardo @yourpappalardo (Co-founder of Reductress, Second City, IO Chicago) http://www.sarahpappalardo.com/ TJ Young @ThatTJ (The Beards of Comedy, Comedy Central, MSN) http://www.thattj.com/ Andrew Tavin @AndrewTavin (Awooga Comedy, Podcast Monsters, College Humor) http://andrewtavin.tumblr.com/ Also, Dominic has a degree in theology, so this could get real fuckin' real. :D 

87: Religion (Live show)

Loved this panel. Check them out on the episode and individually. Hey. Sometimes people say words. And then other people get angry at them. And then we fight over whether the people who got angry were wrong to get so angry or if the people who said the words were wrong to say the words. WHO'S THE REAL VICTIM HERE? WHO DO I SHOOT? (Non-Trigger warning: There will be no shootings at the show).We'll be talking about political correctness. Is it a thing? Is it too much of a thing? Does it tarnish the good name of Politics? Is it even that correct?The people on this show. They're phenomenal. You are going to like them and it. And I'm going to like you for coming.These are their names.Jordan Temple@JordyPloy(MTV's Decodedhttp://jordantemple.flavors.me/#Joe Zimmerman@joezimmerman(Conan, Comedy Central Half Hour, Universe City Podcast)http://www.ZimmermanComedy.com/Joe Zimmerman@joezimmerman(Conan, Comedy Central Half Hour, Universe City Podcast)http://www.SarahKComedy.com/Rae Sanni@RaeSanni(It's About Us Podcast, KATG)http://ehraesalright.tumblr.com/  

86: Political Correctness - LIVE

I sit down with Micah Sherman (High Maintanence, The Second City, Improv Asylum, iO, Annoyance Old School Sketch Show, Please Be Seated) and Dan Hirshon (Funny Cakes Comedy, Grandma’s Favorite, Miracle Workers, and Kandid Films), to talk about their new sketch album, John Rodgers: Idiot. We also talk about Donald Trump and Kanye West a lot. :D Micah & Dan On the Web http://micahsherman.com/ http://danhirshon.com/ Get the Album: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/john-rodgers-idiot/id1015517947  

85: John Rodgers: Idiot (Micah Sherman & Dan Hirshon)

First in our monthly live at The PIT series (next recording is on May 14th, tickets will be available here soon). This show was a rousing success, great audience, great guests. Still figuring out how to mic everyone up and get the best audio for the recording but I think you'll enjoy this one. If you dig the show please subscribe and rate us over at iTunes! Guests include:Chemda Katg of Keith & The Girl (she's the girl) - http://chemda.com/Sarah Kennedy, Albuquerque's funniest comedian who isn't in Breaking Bad. Also Albuquerque's funniest comedian.http://www.sarahkcomedy.com/Jaqi Furback of official comedy, and the-30.comhttp://www.jaqifurback.com/Rae Sanni of the The Three A-Negroes podcast.http://ehraesalright.tumblr.com/ Also, hop on over to the brand new Double X section of the website, where I've collected the interviews that I did with women over the course of the show. Super funny folks.

84: Women in Humor Live at The PIT

Lance Weiss is a hilarious comedian and a delight to chat with. He was a Top 4 finalist in CMT’s “Next Big Comic”, and  on NBC’s “The Today Show,” MTV, Bravo, PBS, NY1, Sirius/XM, Cosmo.com, AOL.com, Aboveaverage.com, NY Times, NY Post, NYmag.com, Comcast as well as in AT&T and Kit Kat Commercials.  He was a semi-finalist in the New York Comedy Festival’s “NY’s Funniest Standup Competition,” and has performed in the Bridgetown Comedy Festival, Boston Comedy Festival, Out of Bounds Comedy Festival, Laughing Skull Comedy Festival, San Francisco Comedy Festival and a bunch more.  Earlier this year he performed my first one man show, “Wine And Questions With Weiss” at The Pit Theater in NYC.  FinalIy, he co-produces an awesome comedy show – “Gandhi, is that you?” in the lower east side of Manhattan every Wednesday night.  It was part of the NY Comedy Festival and also headlined Carolines on Broadway. It's a good show. Go see it.    In other news, there's a live Malignant Brain Humor episode coming to the PIT on April 24th, we'll be talking about women in comedy. Come out and join in the fun! Tickets are here: http://thepit-nyc.com/event/malignant-brain-humor-women-in-comedy/

83: The OCDelightful Lance Weiss

Just  coming off a stint writing for Night of Too Many Stars I talk with Jason Carlos Sáenz, hilarious comedian, improviser, writer on UCB's award winning maude team Onasis. Jason was a New Face at the 2014 Just For Laughs Festival and is the mind behind #SaenzSigns, which you should definitely check out (A couple are below, go check out the rest). Check out his upcoming webseries "Foxworthy and Friends," and if you're in NY go to the premiere party this Saturday in Brooklyn at Videology.      

82: Anxiety, Alcohol, Catholicism, & Jason Sáenz

In today's episode I talk to Mara Wilson about genetics, forced maturity and the lost of family, feminism, creepy creeps on the internet, love, coping with OCD, Nightvale and growing up under the shadow of Matilda. She's a joy and the whole damn episode is a joy.  Check her out at http://marawilsonwritesstuff.com  Buy tickets to her live show at Union Hall, What are You Afraid Of!  Follow her on twitter @Marawritesstuff And catch her voice work on the beloved podcast Welcome to Nightvale. -- Editor's Note: Although we do touch upon Robin Williams, this episode was recorded prior to his passing away, and therefore we do not cover that, because if we did that would be spooky and weird. If you would like to hear an episode that touches on that, check out Episode 72, recorded live at The PIT, with Ted Alexandro, Nick Turner, and Abbi Crutchfield. 

81: Social Media Sociopaths, The Saddest Sorrority, and Mara Wilson

Everyone knows how much I hate talking with people who have different beliefs than I do, but I really loved talking with Andrew Heaton even though he is a libertarian, and therefore evil.  Skilled comedian, sharp thinker, talented speaker. Perhaps a bit too tall, but it's forgivable.  Check him out at http://www.mightyheaton.com/ Read his books: http://www.mightyheaton.com/books/ On Twitter: @MightyHeaton And on facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/pages/MightyHeatoncom/313052562073698

Stand & De-Libertarianism with Andrew Heaton

Excellent comedian and man about town Aaron Kominos-Smith comes on the show to discuss his path to Comedy which included an advanced degree in architecture. Which architect is represented by Louis CK? Which comedian is Frank Lloyd Wright? Which Building is like Larry the Cable Guy? Listen and find out.  Check Aaron out at http://funnyaaron.com/ and on Twitter at @funnyaaron. 

79: The Architecture of Comedy & Aaron Kominos-Smith

Interviews with Comedians and other Artists by Mike Blejer, philosopher, pedant, and scientist (unlicensed).

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