Episodes
Eva and I discuss how garbage the Supreme Court is and the 45 minutes it took me to buy an iPad at Best Buy. 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: Mollie Heckerling - Twitter - @MollieSchmollie, Instagram - @MollieHeckerling John Papageorgiou - Twitter - @PapasBasement, Instagram - @PapasBasement
Published 06/27/22
The glorious Mollie Heckerling brings her Dear Abby best to answering a slew of questions I lob at her, ranging from social media unfollowing etiquette to standard jizz opacity to the IQ of Joey Lawrence and the rest of the Lawrence Brothers. It's a great listen. She's so damn funny. And I'm really good at recording her! Click here to listen to the latest episode of Papa's Basement in your browser. Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Spotify Stitcher YouTube Follow this...
Published 06/22/22
I embrace my Greek roots by soaring on gossamer wings of phyllo dough to the St. Nicholas Greek Folk Festival after a dinner with my lovely buddy Mike Sacks. And a night of improv ends very unexpectedly. 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: Mollie Heckerling - Twitter - @MollieSchmollie, Instagram -...
Published 06/11/22
After dodging it for two years, I finally contracted the modern plague. Hear all about how my life was single-handedly blown up in the most punishing way possible. 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: Mollie Heckerling - Twitter - @MollieSchmollie, Instagram - @MollieHeckerling John Papageorgiou - Twitter -...
Published 06/05/22
Eva and I celebrate all that is Sylvester Stallone by each doing our impression of the man as we celebrate his career. (We had no reason for this, it wasn't his birthday or anything. Just the joys of a podcast no one pays money for.) We also discuss the aftermath of my latest live improv comedy show, a new ADHD toy for me to play with, and how I spent a summer between 6th and 7th grade in a John's Hopkins basement teaching myself algebra out of a textbook courtesy of...Dr. Tripathi. Click...
Published 05/18/22
The second (and final) episode about my recent visit to NYC covers marching around half of Brooklyn on foot to witness a never-ending sea of hipsters taking photos of themselves in front of crap, multiple improv shows, a trip to the famous Katz's Deli, and FINALLY MEETING MOLLIE HECKERLING!!! 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...
Published 05/09/22
Part one of stories from my road trip to NYC, including hanging out with a pair of LOVABLE Brooklyn drug dealers, a trip to the homeland of the Warriors aka Coney Island, seeing James McAvoy on stage in "Cyrano" (and why NYC audiences are just as embarrassing as audiences anywhere else), and a drunken brawl I was privy to in my hotel at 4 am. Enjoy! Click here to listen to the latest episode of Papa's Basement in your browser. Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Spotify...
Published 05/01/22
Click here to listen to the latest episode of Papa's Basement in your browser. One of the great comedy minds of our time, Mike Sacks, is back on the show to talk about his latest work of satire, Passing on the Right, as well as its incredible companion book, I Am Super Pumped! Let's Do This Shit!!!!!!!!!!!": The Marketing of "Passing on the Right", which chronicles how he got ripped off to the tune of several thousand dollars by a publicist that got him jack crap in the end. On top of...
Published 04/17/22
Eva Kriksciun grew up on the good side of the tracks...the Greenbriar side of the tracks. It wasn't until her middle school years that she was forced to rub elbows with Brookfield filth like myself. And oh, did we say and do things that shocked her and her upper-lower-middle class sensibilities. hear all about them in this latest episode of the podcast, as well as my recent dive into yoga (what?) and...a dancing lesson (WHAT?!?!) Click here to listen to the latest episode of Papa's...
Published 04/11/22
Yes, by law, Mollie and I discuss Chris Rock getting slapped by Will Smith. But I also cover a bunch of random things that happened to me since I last did an episode with Mollie, including getting a lady cop (the technical term) locked out of her vehicle into her car, an extremely embarrassing (but on-brand) moment at the gym, and realizing I might finally be thin enough to be worthy of attention because a gay man complimented my beard. Click here to listen to the latest episode of Papa's...
Published 03/29/22
Eva’s back! In podcast host form! We discuss such important topics as Eva’s baby bragging to the other babies that his mom has kept it TIGHT, me descending into full basic bitch-dom with my recent purchases of a massage gun and a copy of The Body Keeps The Score, and I close things by educating Eva about one of the most disturbing scenes in movie history, courtesy of Midnight Express. Click here to listen to the latest episode of Papa's Basement in your browser. Apple...
Published 03/21/22
We are actually recording videos of the podcasts now and uploading them to YouTube! So that's a thing! Mollie Heckerling and I also discuss the Ukraine situation, focusing on Louis C.K.'s trip over there (to presumably m********e in front of Putin to neutralize the target), as well as the ageless caucasoid beauty of Vanna White. Click here to listen to the latest episode of Papa's Basement in your browser. Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Spotify...
Published 03/03/22
Eva Kriksciun returns as I reveal mini-mental breakdown led me to quit all of my improv-related activities and binge watch Euphoria as I watch my friend's cat. Is that a step in the right direction? Or am I in a bad, bad place? Gotta listen to find out! 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 - Twitter -...
Published 02/22/22
John talks about making a Hinge profile, Mollie talks about what she's most proud of after having her kids (it's not what you think), and we discuss the disgusting urban legend (which I choose to wholeheartedly believe) surrounding Hollywood legend Danny Thomas and glass coffee tables. 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...
Published 02/08/22
After shamefully being bested a few years ago by the Clio Yogurt Bar, I throw my hat back in the ring to see if I can master my old foe. Mollie Heckerling and I also discuss how my body is falling apart like an old G.I. Joe toy tugged apart at the limbs despite my recent attempts at fitness. 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...
Published 01/28/22
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 flashing back to the days that Mötley Crüe had me spelling "Jöhn" with an umlaut. Click here to listen to the latest episode of Papa's Basement in your browser. Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Spotify...
Published 01/20/22
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 gym equipment (and not his philandering penis), and I come clean about genuinely hating dogs as a species. Click here to listen to the latest episode of Papa's Basement in your browser. Apple Podcasts Google...
Published 01/11/22
Mikael surprising us with a massive, audible fart. 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 comedic partner Mikael Johnson as part of the improv duo ShawnMikael[s]. While Shawn left DC and now calls Portland, OR...
Published 01/09/22
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." Is it an early-90s black metal band that burned down churches in their native Norway? A radioactive byproduct of the Chernobyl disaster? The first name of a prospective first-round draft pick? You'll have to...
Published 01/03/22
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 us or elude us (in our case, very much elude us), and what it takes to keep going (answer: amphetamines). Not to mention Mollie's amazing segment on what a giant old lady whore she's looking forward to being...
Published 12/31/21
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 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: Mollie...
Published 12/23/21
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 city and ask a girl out (yes, I'm actually straight) and Mollie working on a puppet show where the puppets are (possibly literally) made of trash. I really loved this one. I hope you listen. Mollie is funny as hell and deserves the...
Published 12/13/21
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 - Twitter - @OrchardEva, Instagram - @OrchardEva John Papageorgiou - Twitter - @PapasBasement, Instagram - @PapasBasement
Published 11/27/21
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 when giving birth. Even if she doesn't have to. Oh, and our shared obsession of Blind Date and its host, Rodger Lodge. Yep, that's it. Click here to listen to the latest episode of Papa's Basement...
Published 11/08/21
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 do most of the anniversary episodes, which is playing a kazoo sound effect and then doing a normal episode. 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...
Published 11/01/21