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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.

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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 . 

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

We lost Mark Lanegan a year ago today. I'd be hard-pressed to name another artist who has affected me as deeply. He was also a great friend of mine. I thought I'd start out addressing a couple of questions from other fans so I wouldn't spend the whole time just talking about my fancy feelings and then ended up spending most of the time on the questions. Oh well, I managed to squeak my fancy little feelings in at the end.

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When we say 'Mom' or 'Dad,' one of the things we're saying is "I have known this person my entire life." Before there was anything else, there was Mom and there was Dad and there was auntie Anita. Anita is my mom's older sister, the first of 17 children. She came down to visit after my mom's surgery so I just had to have her on the podcast. We all cried a little bit and I hope you will, too.