Podcast
Young Person's Radio
Hosted by Colby Smith · EN
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 guests are (luckily) among New York’s most interesting and innovative writers, comedians, artists and more. Together they’ll take calls, share stories, and maybe give Colby some hope about one day entering the world of the relevant. YPR airs every Sunday from 10-11am on Radio Free Brooklyn.
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The Tom Scharpling Interview
Mar 1, 202101:00:30Tap to summarizeTom 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.netTom's book IT NEVER ENDS is out this JulyColby's podcast HONEY BABY SWEETIE LOVE, a parody of relationship podcasts, is available wherever you get your podcastsLearn more about Radio Free Brooklyn at radiofreebrooklyn.com and listen live via the RFB mobile app
Transcribe →The 200th Episode Extravaganza
Feb 15, 202101:17:07Tap to summarizeA 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.
Transcribe →New Ringer Podcasts (with Trevor Lyon and Matt Strickland)
Feb 8, 202100:59:30Tap to summarizeTrevor 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.
Transcribe →Fake Accounts (with Lauren Oyler)
Feb 1, 202101:05:05Tap to summarizeLauren 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.
Transcribe →Maddie Whittle on MANK, Movies, and More!
Jan 25, 202100:56:39Tap to summarizeFilm 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.
Transcribe →The State of the Music Biz (with Mike Joseph)
Jan 18, 202101:00:16Tap to summarizeMusic 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.
Transcribe →New Star Wars and Marvel Projects (with Trevor Lyon)
Jan 11, 202101:00:12Tap to summarizeTrevor 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.
Transcribe →The Overtime Show #7
Dec 21, 202000:59:29Tap to summarizeTim 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.
Transcribe →The 193rd Episode Party!
Dec 14, 202000:48:31Tap to summarizeColb 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.
Transcribe →Brooklyn Swamp Dragons #1 (with Emily Duncan and Matt Strickland)
Dec 7, 202001:03:10Tap to summarizeEmily Duncan (Epicurious) and Matt Strickland (MTV) join Colb to talk about NBA Basketball.Young Person's Radio airs every Sunday morning at 10 on Radio Free Brooklyn. Listen live at radiofreebrooklyn.com or the RFB mobile app.
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