Mishka Shubaly Podcast

MOMCAST II featuring my mom!

Around the same time, my mother discovered a mass in her throat that was *probably not* cancer and my father was diagnosed with a mass on his kidney that was definitely cancer. So I figured we were probably due for a little catch-up with my mom. I scream, you scream, we all scream for cancer!

 

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comedian Brandie Posey

Brandie Posey will be performing at my house on Nov 9th at 7pm! Please come and hang if you are in the Phoenix area.

 

Originally from Annapolis, Maryland, Brandie Posey is a stand up comedian, writer and producer who now calls LA's comedy scene home. She has been featured as a performer at the Bentzen Ball, New York Comedy Festival, RIOT Comedy Festival, San Francisco Sketchfest, FEST in Gainesville, Bridgetown Comedy Festival, High Plains in Denver, among many others. She has opened for all of your favorite comics, including Kyle Kinane, Maria Bamford and the legendary punk band Against Me! Brandie has appeared on MTV, E! and Comedy Central. She made her feature film debut in the indie dark comedy, "The Worst Year Of My Life" directed by Jonathan Smith and her first stand up record Opinion Cave debuted at #1 on iTunes & #12 on Billboard.com. Brandie’s comedic style has been described as a “Riot Grrl on acid”.

Brandie tours the country, headlining every dark corner with a microphone that will have her - from a basement in Whitesburg, KY to the stages of the Kennedy Center (twice!). She is the co-creator & host of Picture This!, the popular comedy-animation show with consistently sold out shows in Los Angeles & New York. In 2018 Picture This! shot a pilot for TruTV in partnership with Page Hurwitz & Wanda Sykes' Push It Productions. At the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre & The Hollywood Improv, Brandie co-hosts Lady to Lady alongside Barbara Gray & Tess Barker.  Lady to Lady is also a celebrated weekly podcast with over 7 million downloads & loyal fans around the world. 

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songwriter Dave Dondero

David Dondero is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. In 2006, NPR's All Songs Considered named David one of the "best living songwriters" alongside Bob Dylan, Paul McCartney and Tom Waits.

https://www.patreon.com/davedondero

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comedian Kristine Levine

Kristine Levine is a comedian who got her start 23 years ago in Portland, Oregon. She’s been featured on 6 seasons of Portlandia. Her Edinburgh Fringe show 'Fat Whore' was described as "filth, intelligence, funniness and a massive helping of fuck you to 'normal' society.”  

 

She’s currently hunkered  down in beautiful Bisbee, Arizona with two of her adult children and faithful companion, Honey Switchblade.

 

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Timo Ellis (Netherlands/ Cibo Matto/ Sean Lennon)

TIMO ELLIS is a musician, composer, and producer. He lives and works in New York City, where he was born and raised. A vocalist and multi-instrumentalist, Ellis has appeared on almost 100 albums in total over the past twenty years. He has recorded and toured with such artists as Yoko Ono, Sean Lennon, Cibo Matto, Joan As Police Woman, and Spacehog, and has variously performed and collaborated with Mark Ronson, John Zorn, The Melvins, Ween, The Lemonheads, Money Mark, and Gibby Haynes.

​Ellis’ extreme versatility has placed him in the company of musical greats of several genres – within his solo work exists an equally vast range of styles. Since the early 2000's, he has composed and recorded more than thirty solo albums under his own name and with his main band, Netherlands. Traversing the realms of rock, punk, metal, soul, lo-fi, folk/ country, electronics, and beyond, Ellis’ diverse music is unified by a few constants: impeccable songcraft, blazing technique, quirky experimentalism, and sheer intensity. His solo works have been described with phrases like “an absolute, burning blur of a song” (CMJ), “overridden-in-the-red propulsion” (Noisey), and “gritty, high energy… rambunctious” (BrooklynVegan).

Aaron Lazar (D’NT, Giraffes)

The Giraffes are a cult band from Brooklyn that has been leveling crowds with their signature mixture of heavy rock, punk, metal and surf since 1996. A well-earned reputation for mayhem has followed the band from the start. Their guitarist was shot in the leg outside of a White Castle late one night in Brooklyn after being accosted by an off-duty fire marshal with an itchy trigger finger. The bullet is still lodged in his knee. Their singer Aaron Lazar has suffered multiple Sudden Cardiac Death events. He has a defibrillator implanted in his chest which has erroneously shocked him on stage. During a show at Chicago’s legendary Double Door, it sent 700 volts directly into his heart 3 times in 30 seconds. He finished the set.

I've known Aaron for more than 20 years now and he's one of my closest friends. We have Been In Some Shit together. We've toured together, I punched him in the neck, I returned his rental car the first time he died, we were in a band together and it broke up in a hail of recrimination. We're still friends. I'm eerily close with his cat, Bill. We talk a lot here about how death renewed his interest in life and I think it's a really useful conversation. We also play a couple of new songs, one from his band D'NT with former Beat the Devil drummer Mitchell King and one from the Giraffes. Enjoy.

comedian Jay Chanoine

Jay Chanoine is a nationally touring comedian whose style has been described as "the comedic equivalent of a toy car that you pull back, then watch it zip out of control and wonder where it will end up." He is a frequent member of The Altercation Punk Comedy Tour, a contributing writer to satirical humor site The Hard Times, and a recording artist for the Stand Up! Records label. His most recent album (2019’s The Texas Chanoinesaw Massacre) was produced by Grammy award winner Dan Schlissel. It debuted at the top of both Amazon and Apple Music’s comedy charts and can be heard streaming on SiriusXM Satellite Radio.

 

Named "The Funniest Comedian You Don't Know Yet" on AXS, Jay's high energy performances have been seen opening for national acts like Kyle Kinane, Eddie Pepitone, Myq Kaplan and Sam Jay. He has also been featured at a variety of comedy and music festivals including The Altercation Comedy Festival in Austin, Texas and Pouzza Fest in Montreal. He is currently working on his next album for Stand Up! Records.

 

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comedian Andy Iwancio

Andy Iwancio will be performing at my house in Phoenix on Sept 24th with a bunch of other jerks! No cover charge, please come and hang out, details in the episode or message me directly.

Andy is a trans gal comedian from Seattle (by way of Baltimore).

With her ten years of comedy she brings a witty, sardonic and slightly

profane style to her jokes about navigating marriage, having a

disability, and, most importantly, boob puns.

 

She has opened for Kyle Kinane, Whitmer Thomas, James Adomian,

Gareth Reynolds and Cameron Epsosito. Festival-wise, she has done

Bumbershoot, SF Sketchfest, Women in Comedy NW, Upper Left,

Festival, Altercation, and All-Jane.

 

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Mike Wiebe (Riverboat Gamblers/ Drakulas)

Mike Wiebe is a musician, actor, and stand-up comedian from Texas. Originally from Denton, he now lives in Austin. Wiebe is the lead singer of several nationally known Austin-based bands including Drakulas, High Tension Wires, and his most longstanding group, Riverboat Gamblers, with whom he has released six albums since 1997.

Wiebe is known for a high-energy performance style which has led to frequent accidental self-injury, which, in turn, has fed back into his iconic status in Texas punk rock. He suffered a collapsed lung after a crowd-surfing accident in 2016. He once accidentally broke a gas main while swinging from the rafters of a club in Denton, Texas, filling the room with flammable gas.

Since 2013, his work has also turned increasingly toward comedy, including two works released by Grammy-winning comedy label Stand Up! Records.

Mike Wiebe is really one of the coolest people I know, a true artist. I can't believe we're pals. We close out the show with Worried About Me by Mike & Ian's Sidehustle (w/ Ian from Riverboat Gamblers) and Shame by Drakulas.

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comedian Shanna Christmas

Shanna Christmas was born and raised in Las Vegas, NV. She is a stand up comedian, writer, actor and producer. She stands at 6’3’’ and played volleyball in college, despite much protest.

Her comedy style has been described as “Edgy/Classy” as she finds ways to speak about complicated issues that can offend, but she’s so charming that you can’t be mad at her.

Shanna has performed across North America, including Montreal and Edmonton in Canada. You can see her backside on episode 5 of Amazon’s “Inside Jokes” cause she crashed JFL.

Shanna’s festival appearances include the 208 Festival, Altercation Festival, Black Girl Giggles, Black Women In Comedy Festival (NY) and the Devil Cup Festival, where she took home the trophy in 2018. She was also a finalist in the inaugural ABFF Comedy fest in 2021.