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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

After 14 years, we have recorded the 700th episode of the Papa’s Basement Podcast. I actually reminisce about the show’s history for once, instead of celebrating it the way I […]

I duped someone into going out on a date with me, and she was game enough to come on the show afterward and discuss what that was like (and keeps […]

I had an entire show planned, then I remembered as soon as Eva and I started recording that it was the 20th anniversary of my dad’s death tomorrow. So I […]

Give us your money via Patreon! -Co-host Eva is pregnant…and her baby better get me a gift. -I overcome a disease that afflicts the elderly. -Stories from my level four […]

I reveal to Eva the various maladies that are claiming my rotting, 40-year-old body, and I then bring up a point that my mom made the last time we both […]

Fez Whatley of the legendary Ron & Fez show passed away this week. We talk about how gifted a performer he was, the struggles he fought in his later years […]