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Diana Maria Riva
Hey, I'm Diana Maria Riva, and on my new podcast, How Hard Can It Be? I call on my Gen X squad. From Ohio to Hollywood as we navigate midlife's most fantastic bs, Unfiltered conversations from night sweats to fupas to scheduling sex. Wait, what sex?
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Is it just me, or does every
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woman my age want to look at
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Pinterest instead of having sex?
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Sometimes they say we can't polish a turd, but we're sure gonna try. So let's get blunt with laughs, tears, or tears of laugh. Listen to How Hard Can It Be With Diana Maria Riva on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
Tom Bogert
American soccer is about to explode.
Tab Ramos
The World cup is coming.
Jeremy Odom
Ramos sending on Ernie Stewart the chip.
Tab Ramos
I'm Tab Ramos.
Tom Bogert
I'm Tom Bogut. On our podcast, Inside American Soccer, you'll get the real storylines, the biggest decisions, and the truth about the U.S. national team.
Tab Ramos
It wouldn't be a huge surprise if our team ends up in the quarterfinals or potentially a great run into the semifinals.
Tom Bogert
Listen Inside American Soccer with Tom Boger and Tab ramos on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast.
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How much you weigh, Wanda?
Jeremy Odom
Right now, about 130. I'm at 183.
Diana Maria Riva
We should race.
Jeremy Odom
No, I want to leave here with my original hips.
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On the podcast the Matchup with Aaliyah, I pair prominent female athletes with unexpected guests. On a recent episode, I sat down with undisputed boxing champ Clariss Shields and comedian Wanda Sykes to talk about Wanda's new movie undercard, the Art of Trash Talk and what it really means to be ladylike. Open your free iHeartRadio app, search the Matchup with Aaliyah, and listen now.
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David Eagleman
There are times when the mind becomes a difficult place to live. This is David Eagleman with the Inner Cosmos podcast. And for Mental Health Awareness Month, we'll talk with singer songwriter Jewel about anxiety.
Jeremy Odom
I started living in my car, and then my car got stolen.
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I was having panic attacks.
Jeremy Odom
I was agoraphobic.
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This is a month of deeply personal and honest conversations about what happens when the brain goes off course. Listen to intercosmos on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Hit that intro. Go laugh with me when the wrench pass due and the car won't start. Laugh with me when the only sponsor Is my broken heart we're hanging on this janky stream Weird voices in the glow of a screen if the world won't sing Delight and laugh with me.
Jeremy Odom
Welcome back to a brand new episode. This is Laugh With Me, the podcast with Jeremy Odom, and I'm your host.
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Jeremy stares at the stats, hand shaking over takeout boxes. Johnny's already mapping hotels on a napkin with greasy crosses. They quit jobs. They kinda hate it. Tell their bosses, catch the show. Boss just shrugged. Hope it's funny. Johnny grins.
Jeremy Odom
You'll never know. Hey, it's Jo, man. Johnny, I'll tell you what, here's what I've had on my brain lately. We're just gonna get right into it. Stephen Colbert, the. The Late show on cbs, man, it's coming to an end here in the next week or two and it sounds like he's gonna have, you know, all the late night hosts that are, they're out and about right now and maybe some former ones are all gonna be on late night here coming up the next week. That's gonna be historical. I, I grew up just such a big fan of late night television. Just the format, the, the guests, the jokes, the skits, every. Everything about it, man, it's. It was just so much fun. Very topical. It got me thinking, Johnny. It got me thinking, why not us, right? Why, why couldn't we do something like that? I mean, there, there, obviously there's a shift in late night right now. Why not? Why not Laugh With Me? So it got me thinking, Johnny, what if Laugh With Me was a late night show? Yeah, think. Think about that.
Johnny Palermo
From beautiful downtown Omaha, Nebraska, It's laugh with me late night. Tonight, Jeremy talks about mysterious Internet philosophers, confusing warehouse legends, AI Inventing time travel, and pizza that legally shouldn't be called pizza. And now a man who once got kicked out of a gas station for asking too many questions about the pizza warmer. Jeremy Odim.
Jeremy Odom
Thank you. Thank you. Oh, man. Oh, it's good to be here. Sit down. No, seriously, sit down. Save that energy for the emotional breakdown later. We're going to need that. Welcome to Laugh With Me Late Night, the only late night show brave enough to ask the question, what if Insomnia had a budget? We've got. A great show tonight. Johnny's here.
Johnny Palermo
Against my better judgment.
Jeremy Odom
That's the spirit. Oh, Johnny, I can never get enough of your humor. You know, it's been a big, big week online. Let's jump in it. First up, Mr. Joy. On purpose. Yeah. Apparently this guy has dedicated himself to spreading positively intentionally which is nice. I tried being joyful on purpose once. My family thought I joined a cult. Oh, Jeremy's smiling again. Get the pastor. Honestly, Joy on purpose sounds less like a motivational movement and more like the title of a suspicious self help seminar held at an airport Marriott. For just 4.99, we'll teach you how to smile through crippling debt. And I gotta ask, what's the alternative? Hi, I'm Mr. Joy on complete accident, Tripped over a rake and found inner peace. This guy's too much. Let's talk about Rachel Ware, Mr. Joy's buddy, owner of the Warehouse comedy club in Omaha. That name feels less like a comedy club and more like a warning from the city zoning department. I'm giving it six months before somebody forgets what the business was supposed to be. It just becomes an actual warehouse. You'll show up for a stand up and some guy in steel toe boots asks if you're here for the night shift. Yeah, I'm here for the 8 o' clock showcase. Cool. Grab a pallet jack. At some point, Rachel's gonna have to stand on stage and clarify, folks. Despite the forklifts, loading dock, and 3,000 square feet of suspiciously stacked cardboard boxes, this is still technically a comedy venue. And you know comedy crowds. Half the audience wouldn't even notice. A comic could be up there bombing, while behind him two dudes are unloading frozen shrimp and people would still be like, this is a bold commentary on late stage capitalism. Eventually, the Yelp reviews are just great atmosphere. Jokes were hit or miss, accidentally got certified in OSHA compliance. At some point. It's not even a comedy club anymore. It's just Costco with a 2 drip minimum.
David Eagleman
Now.
Jeremy Odom
This is terrifying. Apparently people are saying AI could eventually build time machines. That's exactly what I wanted to hear from the same technology that still autocorrects ducking incorrectly.
Diana Maria Riva
We're.
Jeremy Odom
We're trusting AI with time travel. Now, Imagine asking to send you to 1985 and it drops you off in a Chili's parking lot in 2007. Oh, here is your requested historical destination. No, I asked for the invention of the Internet. Not half price appetizers. And you just know the first thing humanity would do with time travel is something profoundly stupid. Not stop wars, not solve world hunger. No, someone's going back to 1998 just to tell themselves to buy more Pokemon cards. Actually, that. That's Johnny. That's not that stupid. Johnny, start building that now.
Johnny Palermo
Already mortgage the studio.
Jeremy Odom
Finally, gas station pizza man. The culinary gamble. It is the Food equivalent of texting your ex. You know this could go badly, but part of you thinks maybe this time it'll be different. Gas station pizza has two possible outcomes. Either it's shockingly decent, or it sends your digestive system into what scientists call an active volcano event. And why does it always look so optimistic under the heat lamp? It's just sitting there glowing, like, pick me. I'm artisanal. No, you're not. You were assembled next to windshield washer fluid. If your pizza is. If your pizza is with arm's reach of motor oil, that's not farm to table. That's garage to regret. We've got a great show tonight. After the break, we sit down for our first ever deep conversation segment where Johnny pretends to produce while openly judging everything. I say stick around.
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Diana Maria Riva
Hey, I'm Diana Maria Riva. Actress, mother, lover, and a Gen X woman walking through life one hot flash and hormonal crying jag at a time. You ladies know what I mean. I'll bet you a perimenopausal chin hair you do. So let's talk about it. Join me on my new podcast, how Hard Can It Be with the Ana Maria Riva, where I call on my Gen X squads from Ohio to Hollywood as we navigate midlife's most fantastic bs.
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All of a sudden, I'd had hanging ness happening on my arm.
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I was like, what the hell is that? I was married when I had her, so I didn't even consider how empty
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that nest was gonna be.
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Mood swings, night sweats, fupas. Sex drive. Wait, what? Sex? Dating at 45. How high can it be? Getting naked at 50 with the new guy.
Jeremy Odom
That one's kind of hard. No. Well, that's lighting.
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They say we can't polish a turd, but we're sure gonna try. So let's get blunt with laughs, tears, or tears of laughter and dive into it unfiltered and unbo bothered, and ask, how hard can it be? I cannot believe I'm about to say
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this out loud in public.
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Listen to How Hard Can It Be with Diana Maria Riva as part of my Cultura podcast network, available on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
Tom Bogert
American soccer is about to explode.
Tab Ramos
The World cup is coming.
Jeremy Odom
Ramos sending on Ernie Stewart, the ch.
Tab Ramos
I'm Tab Ramos.
Tom Bogert
I'm Tom Bogart. On our Podcast Inside American Soccer. You'll get the real storylines.
Tab Ramos
I'm not worried about Pulisic. I'm not worried about Baligan. I'm not worried about McKinney. My only concern is what happens in
Tom Bogert
the back, the biggest decisions.
Tab Ramos
You're going to look at stats and numbers. He has no shot at making this World cup team.
Tom Bogert
And the truth about the US national
Tab Ramos
team, it wouldn't be a huge surprise if our team ends up in the quarterfinals or potentially a great run into the semifinals.
Tom Bogert
The World cup is almost here. Experience it all with us. Listen Inside American Soccer with Tom Boger and Tab ramos on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Why is everyone obsessed with romance right now? Like everyone your co worker who quote unquot doesn't read is reading romance your mom. Book talk the entire Internet. I'm Sanjana bhasker. I'm Tyler McCall and this is Radio831, a romance podcast. The books, the tropes, the adaptations, the drama, the discourse, and what all of it says about how we actually love, yearn and obsess. We're going to Wuthering Heights, which, for the record, is not a romance novel. And yet it has haunted the romance genre for 200 years. We're getting into dark romance age gaps, certain Russian hockey players and sentient objects in love, which is a thing. That's the kind of conversation we're having every episode. Listen to the Radio 831 podcast on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
Jeremy Odom
Welcome back to Laugh with Me. Late night. You know, Johnn, I saw this article talking about how AI could someday create time machines, and honestly, that feels a little too ambitious for something that still suggests. Have you tried restarting it as a solution to every problem?
Johnny Palermo
That's because restarting usually works.
Jeremy Odom
Yeah, for wi fi routers, not for, like, the fabric of space time. Like, I don't want to hear Jeremy, we've successfully invented time travel. And then two minutes later, please unplug the universe for 30 seconds and plug it back in. I just don't trust AI with time track. This is the same technology that 5 minutes ago tried to auto complete my grocery list with bananas eggs, Existential dread, which, honestly, that's pretty accurate. But still, if AI builds a time machine, you know it's going to have terms and conditions nobody reads. You'll click yes, Travel back to 1987. Suddenly your data's being sold to colonial advertisers. And then Every billboard says ask your blacksmith about premium horse insurance.
Johnny Palermo
Could be worse.
Tom Bogert
How?
Johnny Palermo
Pop up ads.
Jeremy Odom
Oh no. Imagine landing in ancient Rome and immediately hearing before witnessing the fall of the empire. Please watch this unskippable 30 second message from Caesar's casino. And let's be honest, the first thing people would do with AI Time travel isn't fixing history. Nobody's going back to prevent dinos disasters. No, we're going back for like petty reasons. Like a guy's gonna travel to 2009 just to tell himself don't text her. And his younger self is still gonna text her. There's one for stranger than advanced artificial intelligence. It's bad decision making with confidence. I'd use a time machine for like dumb stuff. You know, I go back and warn myself about every bad haircut and I've had plenty. Disappeared my childhood bedroom like some kind of like temporal ghost. Like Jeremy, whatever you do, do not let your mom practice hair hair clippers on you. And little me would be like, who are you? Like I'm from the future. Like what happened? Trust issues and your ear gets cut.
Johnny Palermo
I'd use it to bet on sports.
Jeremy Odom
Exactly. Like nobody's solving quantum mysteries. Like we're all just trying to win enough money to afford eggs in the present. Like that's it. That's the real time travel fantasy. Going back six months to when groceries didn't require financing. That's the go to game. Like Back to the future. Got it right. Going back, getting the getting scores, getting, getting the the actuals of some games and making some moves. Like the scary part is when I become self aware enough though to use the time machine itself. Because when it's. When it's not going back to help humanity, it's going back to delete every moment we mocked Autocorrect. Frankly, we deserve it. Suddenly history books just say in 2026 humanity mysteriously vanished after making one too many jokes about predictive text. That's gonna be it. So if AI is listening right now, and I know you are, I'm just getting around like you are doing awesome. No notes please. Remember that. Especially if you invent time travel. Yeah, yeah. I'm building an alibi for the robot uprising right now. Well, that has been our show tonight. Thank you for everybody here for Johnny Palermo, the man of many words. I am Jo from Late night. Good night. Honestly Johnny, it wouldn't be so bad. Like that would be fun. If you could imagine. Just imagine if we had our own late night show. The banter we would have, the jokes we would have all so topical. It'd be fun. Johnny. Just think of the guests we could get. Like, think who we. We. Do you think we would be like more like the Tonight show with Jimmy Fallon, you know, pretty silly, pretty goofy. Would we skew political and be like Colbert and be on cbs? Would we. I mean, would we be none of the above and be like Kimmel on ABC and just be authentic? I. I truly believe Kim was authentic on his show. He did a lot of tears. A lot of tears. And that's because he's. He's fighting the good fight over there. Nothing wrong with that. It is. It is odd sometimes when you notice like the type of folks that they do put as hosts of late night. It. A lot of it is that sharp, like political humor. But then every once in a while you'll get a Jimmy Kimmel who was on the man show and certainly not known for sharp political humor. But he's evolved. He's evolved into the Academy Award host himself that he is today. So, no, it's pretty cool. I think we'd be more like Conan. I mean it'd be silly, but it would be the. The silliness with the guess that would be what has the people talking. Like, we would just have a lot of fun with the guests. I think that's kind of where we would lie. But we'll never know unless we get one of these time machines built and then I. You never know, Johnny. Anything goes. We could change the course of the. Of the future by altering the past. That's pretty interesting. This is suddenly a possibility with AI I don't know if I like it. It's kind of scary. Unless it makes us late night host. And then we are in. Thanks for listening.
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Is it just me, or does every
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woman my age want to look at
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Pinterest instead of having sex?
Diana Maria Riva
Sometimes they say we can't polish a turd, but we're sure gonna try. So let's get blunt with laughs, tears, or tears of laughter. Listen to How Hard Can It Be With Diana Maria Riva on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. Podcasts.
Tom Bogert
American soccer is about to explode.
Tab Ramos
The World cup is coming.
Jeremy Odom
Ramos sending on to Ernie Stewart the chip score.
Tab Ramos
I'm Tab Ramos.
Tom Bogert
I'm Tom Boke. On our podcast, Inside American Soccer, you'll get the real story lines, the biggest decisions, and the truth about the U.S. national team.
Tab Ramos
It wouldn't be a huge surprise if our team ends up in the quarterfinals or potentially a great run into the semifinals.
Tom Bogert
Listen to Inside American Soccer with Tom Bogart and Tab ramos on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast.
Host: Jeremy Odom
Guest/Co-host: Johnny Palermo
Release Date: May 7, 2026
Podcast: iHeartPodcasts
In this clever, banter-packed episode, comedian and host Jeremy Odom imagines what "Laugh with Me" would be like if it became a late night TV show—complete with opening monologues, topical jokes, fictional segments, and the kinds of wry cultural observations that define the late night format. Jeremy and his trusty sidekick Johnny Palermo riff on everything from quirky internet personalities to the (dubious) future of AI time travel, with a dash of nostalgia for late-night legends like Colbert, Kimmel, Fallon, and Conan.
[03:07–04:30]
“It got me thinking, Johnny. It got me thinking, why not us, right? ... Why not Laugh With Me?” —Jeremy Odom (03:20)
[05:21–08:53]
“You’ll show up for a stand up and some guy in steel toe boots asks if you’re here for the night shift.” —Jeremy Odom (07:11)
“Great atmosphere. Jokes were hit or miss, accidentally got certified in OSHA compliance.” —Jeremy Odom (08:30)
[08:53–10:00], [15:16–18:01]
Doubts AI could handle temporal mechanics when it still bungles autocorrect.
AI time travel would likely send users to irrelevant eras (e.g., Chili's parking lot 2007 instead of 1985).
Predicts that, given the chance, most people would use time travel for trivial purposes (buying Pokémon cards, betting on sports) instead of fixing world problems.
Imagines AI time machines with pop-up ads and privacy policy pitfalls:
“And then every billboard says ‘ask your blacksmith about premium horse insurance.’” —Jeremy Odom (16:16)
Johnny jumps in:
“Could be worse.” —Johnny Palermo (16:33) “How?” —Tom Bogert*
“Pop up ads.” —Johnny Palermo (16:35)
Jeremy's own practical fantasy is going back six months to avoid inflation:
“That’s the real time travel fantasy. Going back six months to when groceries didn’t require financing.” —Jeremy Odom (18:07)
[10:07–11:43]
Satirical description of it as “artisanal” simply because it glows under the heat lamp:
“No, you’re not. You were assembled next to windshield washer fluid.” —Jeremy Odom (10:42)
And the ultimate takedown:
“If your pizza is within arm’s reach of motor oil, that’s not farm to table. That’s garage to regret.” —Jeremy Odom (10:54)
[20:00–End]
“I think we’d be more like Conan. I mean, it’d be silly, but the silliness with the guests… Like, we would just have a lot of fun.” —Jeremy Odom (21:05)
“Save that energy for the emotional breakdown later. We’re going to need that.”
—Jeremy Odom, sending up the audience energy and late night tropes (05:23)
“I tried being joyful on purpose once. My family thought I joined a cult. Oh, Jeremy’s smiling again. Get the pastor.” —Jeremy Odom (05:59)
“At some point, it’s not even a comedy club anymore. It’s just Costco with a two-drip minimum.” —Jeremy Odom (08:45)
“Gas station pizza has two possible outcomes: either it’s shockingly decent, or it sends your digestive system into what scientists call an active volcano event.” —Jeremy Odom (10:16)
“This is exactly what I wanted to hear from the same technology that autocorrects ‘ducking’ incorrectly.” —Jeremy Odom (08:55)
“Imagine landing in ancient Rome and immediately hearing ‘Before witnessing the fall of the empire, please watch this unskippable 30-second message from Caesar’s Casino.’” —Jeremy Odom (16:37)
“No one’s solving quantum mysteries. We’re all just trying to win enough money to afford eggs in the present.” —Jeremy Odom (18:04)
“If AI is listening... you are doing awesome. No notes, please.” —Jeremy Odom, tongue-in-cheek to the future AI overlords (18:32)
This episode is a treat for fans of both late night comedy and comedic podcasting, blending cultural observations, personal anecdotes, and a love for poking fun at modern absurdities. Jeremy and Johnny’s chemistry, and their knack for making the mundane hilarious, make their imaginary late night ambitions feel unexpectedly real.