I totaled my car in the snow and recount the harrowing tale for you with co-host Mollie Heckerling. We also talk about the new John Cena / James Gunn show “Peacemaker” on HBO, and Mollie gets into a brilliant exploration of hair metal bands and 80s masculinity that had me […]
Mollie somehow tries to talk about infants dying as a bad thing, but I manage to change her tune by reminding her how adorable (and affordable!) a baby-sized coffin must be. We also talk a friend of hers whose cheating husband tried to convince her that she got herpes from […]
For the better part of two decades, if you were talking improv comedy in Washington, D.C., you were talking Shawn Westfall. The man established the curriculums taught to countless performers in the city, founded and ran his own improv theater (RIP Unified Scene!), and enthralled innumerable audiences with his longtime […]
Remember Eva? She’s back! In mom form! Yes, co-host Eva Kriksciun returns to the show after giving birth to talk with me and Mollie Heckerling about being a new mom. They bond over brooding, I sit on the sidelines, kid-cucked, and then Eva introduces the podcast to the term “meconium.” […]
Hear the story of Vickie, a middle-aged Greek importer that my mother tasked me with procuring three items from for New Year’s Day (a link to my mom’s ridiculous email, mentioned in the episode). Co-host Mollie Heckerling and I also meditate on the weird ways that fame can either find […]
Mollie Heckerling joins the show again as we discuss adult attachment style (aka why certain people you date are fundamentally going to make you batshit crazy), our OCD mothers, how we’re spending Christmas, and why maybe, just maybe, we aren’t going to make it, after all. Click here to listen […]
Congrats to co-host Eva Kriksciun and her decision to ruin her life. But the show must go on, and comedian Mollie Heckerling has decided to join the Papa’s Basement family as co-host. We discuss the past month of our lives, which has seen me living on my own in the […]
John is out of the house and watching his friend’s sickly dork of a cat. Hear all about it! Click here to listen to the latest episode of Papa’s Basement in your browser. Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Spotify Stitcher YouTube Follow this episode’s cast on Twitter and Instagram: Eva Kriksciun […]
We discuss John’s Halloween costume and the party he ultimately attended, as well as the conclusion of his improv classes at his current theater meaning the end of his social life. Also, Aaron Rodgers lying about his Covid vaccination status, and Eva disclosing that she’s going to crap the floor […]
