Podcast
Mishka Shubaly Podcast
Hosted by Mishka Shubaly · EN
The prolonged isolation of COVID has taught me that I really have some incredible friends: novelists, memoirists, poets, musicians, songwriters, comedians, painters and so on. Also, I am terrible at keeping in touch with them. These conversations will be part catch-up with my friends (some of whom I haven’t spoken to in years) about our addictions and/or sobriety, our mental health struggles, and the challenges of the creative life. And these will be in-depth explorations of their work, how they work, what inspires them, and what’s coming next. Yes, I’m a writer and musician, but I’m a fan first. These are artists and people I love, and it’s my honor to share them with you. Now sign up for my dang patreon: https://www.patreon.com/mishkashubaly
Photos by Tamara Lee Carroll, podcast theme by HEELS
10episodes
Episodes
Newest firstAll episodes
David Coppin Lanegan
Feb 27, 202501:12:52Tap to summarizePlease subscribe and rate us on your preferred podcast platform and sign up for the patreon! David Coppin Lanegan is a poet and singer living in the desert of Ellensburg, WA. He performs across Washington as a member of the poetry collective Headlight Children, and in his punk group The Black Velvet Band. His debut collection 'Devotional' was published in 2024, and Black Velvet’s debut record 'Flood' materialized in early 2025. He currently serves as Inland Poet Laureate. Find him on IG @_theblackvelvetband_ or @williambillybilliam Listen to Black Velvet Band here
Transcribe →
comedian Chad Riden
Dec 20, 202401:16:40Tap to summarizePlease subscribe and rate us on your preferred podcast platform and sign up for the patreon! Chad Riden currently lives on the Taos County, New Mexico high desert mesa where he is building a sustainable, off the grid compound with some awesome friends while producing comedy shows for the TaosComedy 501c3 non-profit. Riden has appeared on “The Daily Show” on Comedy Central, the Late Show with David Letterman’s “Tony Mendez Show,” ABC/CMT’s “Nashville,” “CBS This Morning,” HBO/Max “Love Off The Grid,” “Chrisley Knows Best,” “Still The King,” “TRUMP OCH KOMIKERNA – HUMORKRIGET” (TV4 Sweden, C-MORE’s “Trump Vs Comedy”), CMT-Canada’s “Mississippi Snake Grabbers,” and once ate lunch at The Magic Castle in Los Angeles whose newsletter called him “the most famous un-famous person.” Chad produced and hosted the annual Guinness world record breaking 184+ hour long #BrokenRecordShow (longest stand-up comedy show, multiple comedians) every year from 2015-2018 as part of the Nashville Comedy Festival. “Broken Records,” a documentary shot during the 2016 show, is available to stream on ShortFilmsMatter.com Riden ran for Mayor of Nashville in 2015, which was hilarious and everybody loved it even though he lost miserably. Undaunted, in 2018 he ran for Governor of Tennessee and garnered 1,096 votes statewide, finishing 14th out of 28 candidates on the ballot – a mere 1,335,011 votes short of winning the whole damn thing.
Transcribe →
comedy journalist Julie Seabaugh
Nov 21, 202401:25:06Tap to summarizePlease subscribe and rate us on your preferred podcast platform and sign up for the patreon! As a professional comedy journalist of more than two decades, Julie Seabaugh has contributed to The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Rolling Stone, The Hollywood Reporter, Variety, GQ, The Village Voice, L.A. Weekly, and numerous other titles. Her coverage of modern roasting culminated in 2018 book Ringside at Roast Battle and her love of Mitch Hedberg led to producing/hosting 2020’s Hope on Top: A Mitch Hedberg Oral History for SiriusXM. With Emmy-nominated filmmaker Nick Scown she co-directed September 2021 feature documentary Too Soon: Comedy After 9/11 for Vice. 2022’s 50 Years of the Comedy Store six-LP vinyl box set features her liner notes; her Positive Connections: A Brody Stevens Oral History debuted on SiriusXM in February 2023. The book collection A Tight 20: Two Decades of Comedy Journalism is available now.
Transcribe →
Elk Hunting with Elliot Broder
Nov 1, 202401:32:37Tap to summarizePlease subscribe and rate us on your preferred podcast platform and sign up for the patreon! Thanks for listening! Elliot Broder is a standup comedian, DIY agriculture enthusiast, and former unofficial spokesperson of U.S. Catfish. You can find him at @mikehawkburns on Instagram, Threads, etc. I met Elliot a couple of times over the years while doing comedy in Colorado. We even went running once but not super tight bros. When I landed a coveted elk tag this spring, I posted about it on social media, soliciting a more experienced hunter to accompany me on my elk hunt. Everyone who chimed in ended up washing out except for my last choice-- Elliot Broder. When you have one option, that's your best option, so I put the screws into him to get him to come. Spoiler alert: we weren't just successful on our hunt, we ended up having the best time, Elliot kicked much ass, and in the future, he's going to be the first person I call for my next hare-brained scheme. He's a deep dude, too, with much to say about building a meaningful life under the shadow of capitalism. Hope you dig it.
Transcribe →
Nariko Ott
Apr 5, 202301:19:58Tap to summarizePlease subscribe and rate us on your preferred podcast platform and sign up for the patreon! Thanks for listening! Writer for the punk rock humor website The Hard Times Magazine, and host of the comedy Podcast "What's More Metal?" Nariko was winner of the Portland's Funniest Person Contest and named one of SplitSider Magazine's "Top Up and Coming Comedians." He's been on the Bridgetown Comedy Festival, 10,000 Laughs, and the TreeFort Music Fest among others. Back in his hometown of Portland he is the host of “The Cool Kids” comedy show at the legendary Doug Fir Lounge and has been featured on EPIX’s “Unprotected Sets," “Laughs” on FOX, Spotify, SiriusXM, and iHeartRadio.
Transcribe →
Kristen Becker
Mar 30, 202301:31:44Tap to summarizePlease subscribe and rate us on your preferred podcast platform and sign up for the patreon! Thanks for listening! Born in the rust belt, reared in the bible belt, Kristen Becker believes in Good Deeds and Dirty Jokes. Her comedy dances gingerly back and forth between drunken redneck and woke women studies major as she playfully explores the good and bad of both sides of the aisle, leaving you left to wonder whether we really are that different, after all. A twenty year veteran of stand up comedy, she continues to skewer the status quo with her salty social commentary. Last year the Not -for Profit she founded, Summer of Sass, INC received a $3.7M donation, allowing her to secure a safe harbor for future LGBTQ+humans. Becker has worked with everyone from underground comedy legend Doug Stanhope, punk preacher Jay Bakker (yes, Jim and Tammy Faye were his parents) and Righteous Babe Ani DiFranco. Becker was featured on the “Welcome to Provincetown” podcast, named a top ten podcast of 2022 by The NY Times .
Transcribe →
Rich Roll
Mar 23, 202301:37:11Tap to summarizePlease subscribe and rate us on your preferred podcast platform and sign up for the patreon! Thanks for listening! Simply put, Rich Roll is a change agent. At age 40, Rich made the decision to overhaul the sedentary throes of overweight middle age. Walking away from a career in law, he reinvented himself as a globally recognized ultra-distance endurance athlete, bestselling author, and host of the wildly popular Rich Roll Podcast, one of the world’s most listened to podcasts with over 200 million downloads. Named one the “25 Fittest Men In The World” by Men’s Fitness and the “Guru of Reinvention” by Outside, Rich shares his inspirational story of addiction, redemption, athletic prowess, and authentic living in his bestselling memoir, Finding Ultra, and in the cookbook and lifestyle guides The Plantpower Way and The Plantpower Way: Italia, which he co-authored with his wife Julie Piatt. A graduate of Stanford University (and member of their dynastic, multiple NCAA Championship Men’s Swimming program) and Cornell Law School, Rich has been featured on CNN and on the cover of Outside magazine, and has been profiled in The New York Times, Forbes, ESPN and many other prominent media outlets.
Transcribe →
editor David Blum
Mar 16, 202301:26:38Tap to summarizePlease subscribe and rate us on your preferred podcast platform and sign up for the patreon! Thanks for listening! For the last six years, David Blum worked for Audible as the editor-in-chief of Audible Originals. Previously, Blum served as the founding editor of Kindle Singles, the store for original, high-quality longform fiction and nonfiction on Kindle. He began his career as a reporter for The Wall Street Journal, and has worked as a contributing editor at New York Magazine (where he coined the term "Brat Pack"), Esquire and The New York Times Magazine. He has also written for The New Republic, Vanity Fair and The New Yorker. In 2006 Blum became editor-in-chief of The Village Voice, and later served as editor-in-chief of the New York Press and 02138 Magazine. Blum's first book, "Flash In The Pan: The Life and Death of an American Restaurant," was published by Simon & Schuster in 1992, and was named a notable nonfiction book of the year by The New York Times Book Review. His second book, "Tick...Tick...Tick...: The Long Life & Turbulent Times of 60 Minutes," was published by HarperCollins in 2004.
Transcribe →
writer Adam Cayton-Holland
Mar 9, 202301:24:13Tap to summarizePlease subscribe and rate us on your preferred podcast platform and sign up for the patreon! Thanks for listening! Adam Cayton-Holland (www.adamcaytonholland.com) is a national touring comic who has appeared on Conan, The Late Late Show with James Corden, Comedy Central Presents, @midnight, The Meltdown with Jonah and Kumail, Happy Endings and was named one of Esquire’s “25 Comics to Watch,” as well as one of “10 Comics to Watch” by Variety. Do the math. That means fifteen comics fell through the cracks. Adam was not one of them. Along with his cohorts in The Grawlix, he created, wrote and starred in “Those Who Can’t,” which aired for three seasons and is available to stream on HBOMax. The Grawlix also host a podcast, “The Grawlix Saves the World,” which is available everywhere. His albums, “I Don’t Know If I Happy,” “Backyards,” “Adam Cayton-Holland Performs His Signature Bits,” (voted one of Vulture’s Top Ten Albums of 2018), “Semblance of Normalcy,” and “Hot Takes,” are all available on iTunes. “Adam Cayton-Holland Performs His Signature Bits” is also available on vinyl through the record label Saddle Creek. Adam’s writing has appeared in McSweeney’s, The New York Times, Esquire and The Atlantic. His first book, Tragedy Plus Time, is available everywhere.
Transcribe →
Another Fat Guy Cooks
Mar 2, 202301:28:20Tap to summarizePlease subscribe and rate us on your preferred podcast platform and sign up for the patreon! Thanks for listening! This week's guest is Andy Baker, he's Hack Oddity, he's Another Fat Guy Cooks, he's a terrible, terrible little man and he's my friend and I love him a lot. Andy is my one friend who isn't a comedian and he should be a comedian. He didn't do anything for a long time and now he does a cooking show called Another Fat Guy Cooks that is brilliant and not just because I did the theme he no longer uses. Andy was born with two club feet and after we get done ridiculing each other, we talk a little bit about how that childhood gulag informed who he became as an adult.
Transcribe →