Explore every episode of the podcast A Really Smart Podcast
| Title | Pub. Date | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Episode 135: Shower Beers Are A Romantic Thing (@wittwells) | 08 Mar 2023 | 01:17:21 | |
Witt Wells is a comedian and writer based out of NYC. He and Tommy talk shoe stores, donating blood, and shower beers. | |||
| Episode 134: Assistant, Girlfriend Type Person Thing (SOLOCAST) | 02 Mar 2023 | 00:31:58 | |
Tommy babbles about boardwalk pizza, road gigs, and showering without water. | |||
| Episode 125: Uncle Rooster's Back In Town (w/uncleroosterianirarousso) | 24 Nov 2022 | 02:14:22 | |
Ian Ira Rousso is a New York-born, LA-based comedian, host of The Ian Ira Rousso Show podcast who is gearing up to record his debut comedy album Sorry Again at QED in Astoria. | |||
| Episode 036: As For Kanye. Well, We Will Always Have The "College Dropout" Album | 06 Jan 2021 | 01:02:56 | |
Hey tommets, | |||
| Episode 035: It's Not the End Of The World, It's Just America | 04 Jan 2021 | 01:05:01 | |
Hey tommets, | |||
| Episode 034: One Man's Endless Tangents Are Another Man's Entertainment | 30 Dec 2020 | 01:01:09 | |
Hey tommets, | |||
| Episode 033: Yeti's, Pilgrims, And Lindbergh Babies | 28 Dec 2020 | 01:03:02 | |
Hey tommets, | |||
| Episode 032: Yippie Ki-ya It's Christmas ... MoFo! | 23 Dec 2020 | 01:20:34 | |
Hey tommets, | |||
| Episode 031: Cheese Willie & Frozen Pizza | 21 Dec 2020 | 01:00:54 | |
Hey tommets, | |||
| Episode 030: Tommy Haha's Ear Wax | 16 Dec 2020 | 01:05:53 | |
Hey tommets! | |||
| Episode 029: Last Call For Swalwell's Sexy Super Spy | 14 Dec 2020 | 01:03:18 | |
Hey tommets, | |||
| Episode 028: Grass Fed Meat, John Lennon, AMERICA! | 09 Dec 2020 | 01:18:51 | |
Hey tommets, | |||
| Episode 027: Dog Eat(s) Dog Poop | 07 Dec 2020 | 01:13:06 | |
Hey tommets, | |||
| Episode 124: I Put Saracha on My Saracha (w/ @davidadamjin) | 16 Nov 2022 | 01:51:58 | |
Comedian David Jin joins Tommy. A younger comic who’s lived a lot of lives, David Jin hasn’t changed a single bit from his city crawler roots. | |||
| Episode 026: Great! I Always Wanted To Get Stoned With My Pet Lion | 02 Dec 2020 | 01:16:46 | |
It's Wednesday, kids! | |||
| Episode 025: The World Burns ... Meanwhile, Cher Sings To The World's Loneliest Elephant | 30 Nov 2020 | 01:11:43 | |
Merry Christmas, kids! | |||
| Episode 024: Are You Worried About The Rain Forest? Don't Worry, John Kerry Has A Plan//Thanksgiving Spectacular! | 25 Nov 2020 | 01:20:33 | |
Hey guys, do the new covid lockdowns have you down? Are you fearful the world is ending? Well, Tommy's here to tell you ... it is! But at least he's got a sense of humor about it. Btw, he kept saying Wednesday was the 24th, its the 25th, don't kill him. He made a mistake. | |||
| Episode 023: The Fall Of The Republic Has Never Looked Finer ... We Got CHEESECAKE! | 23 Nov 2020 | 01:11:00 | |
READ UP!!! | |||
| Episode 022: Thanksgiving Gets No Respect! No Respect At All! | 18 Nov 2020 | 01:00:36 | |
Hey guys! Happy 2nd lock down ... "the end of the republic has never looked finer." | |||
| Episode 021: The Orange Man Has Been Defeated | 11 Nov 2020 | 00:43:13 | |
Hey Guys. Today I talk Election 2020, Weed World, and Alex Trebek. | |||
| Episode 020: An Orange Guy and A Dementia Patient Walk Into A Polling Booth | 04 Nov 2020 | 00:49:54 | |
Hey Guys! Today I babble about the Election 2020, people who talk while chewing on food, true crime podcasts. | |||
| Episode 019: You Need to Vote! Let's Not, but Say We Did | 28 Oct 2020 | 00:52:48 | |
Hey Guys! Feeling kinda sleepy. Just woke up! Here I babble about feeling the pressure to vote, when sleeping just feels too good, John Stewart, and videos that don't upload. | |||
| Episode 018: Thanks Covid (Tommy enters the Twilight Zone) | 21 Oct 2020 | 00:59:05 | |
Hey Guys, today I babble about orgies aka ... "Halloween Parties" , Utopia, and Demi Lovato talking to aliens. | |||
| Episode 017: Fortune Cookie Jokes | 14 Oct 2020 | 00:54:23 | |
Hey Guys! Today I talk about taking life advice from a fortune cookie, hanging out at the comedy store, and the janitor at my gym who talks to himself. | |||
| Episode 123: Loyalty, Loyalty, Loyalty (SOLOCAST) | 09 Nov 2022 | 00:50:31 | |
Tommy babbles solo today, about plays, bar fight, and loyalty. | |||
| Episode 016: Every Single Teenager is a Crack Head | 07 Oct 2020 | 01:00:38 | |
Hey Guys! Today I babble about "The Social Dilema", the DMV, "The Comedy Store" doc, and Ozzy's sex life. | |||
| Epidode 015: Comedic Lives Matter | 30 Sep 2020 | 00:59:53 | |
Hey guys! Today I babble about awkward BLM moment at the Emmys, french movies, and jail. | |||
| Episode 014: He's Not An Underdog, He's The Fu%$@ing President | 23 Sep 2020 | 01:02:35 | |
Hey guys! I babble about Italian restaurants, celebrity death crybabies, and weed (that first time tho). | |||
| Episode 013: The R Word | 16 Sep 2020 | 00:55:33 | |
Hey Guys! Happy Wednesday! Today I try something new where I'm walking around my office (like I'm on stage) , noticed I might sound out of breath at some moments. But it still a good rant. I Babble about the two shows I had over weekend, Biden -v- Trump, the media, Kim Jong-Un, soup, and OnlyFans accounts. Gowski pops in for like, 10 seconds. | |||
| Episode 012: “Check Out My Mixtape, Not My Sex Tape” Random Panhandler on 42nd Street | 11 Sep 2020 | 01:05:30 | |
Hey Guys!! We dropping this episode on Wednesday! Don’t shoot me, I’m busy writing jokes to entertain you people. Tonight on tonight's, nighty, night, night podcast I ramble about that random panhandler that asked I check out his mixtape, comedy in the park, Mulan, and finishing my first joke notebook. | |||
| Episode 011: The Motivation?? There Was None! Was The Sex Really That Good? | 11 Sep 2020 | 01:00:44 | |
Hey guys! Happy Wednesday, getting over the hump, Really Smart Podcast episode day! This episode title has really nothing to do with the actual context of the episode. I overheard my roommates say it about a TV show they were watching in the other room. And thought, “Huh! Hey!” And here we are. I do a good hour on this episode. Had a lot to talk about: The DMV, Deblasio being a noob, the Soup Nazi is my friend, buying a cooler, and trying to stay healthy. I was in the mood to ramble so, buckle up. | |||
| Episode 010: Out To Brunch, Bunch (@christianladigoski) | 11 Sep 2020 | 01:24:35 | |
Hey guys, been beating the mic scene with some pent up bits. But today I talk about brunch woth my “friends” then joined by Gowski and our friend Jacob. Mind you, Jacob and Gowski were high. They couldn’t keep the mic still for shit. Give them some slack if sound is wack. It’s listenable! Be back next week for more good and hot fun! | |||
| Episode 009: COMEDY IS BACK!! | 11 Sep 2020 | 00:45:45 | |
Hey guys, this episode will be uploaded on time-ish!! Usually like having these things early in the AM. But I had to bang out outdoor mics, and that keeps me out of the house (and recording) but here you go, fam! COMEDY IS BACK! The sad state of our art form has had me a bit melancholy today. I’m well, just I’m just more bombed than Boston. Comedy is rough, I mean who gets heckled by a swing set? Today I ramble about outdoor comedy, some comedy history, some movies are back in production, Broadway is uniting for one big spectacular, and having an existential crisis. | |||
| Episode 008: … And Then, He Went To The Open Mic | 11 Sep 2020 | 00:56:35 | |
Hey guys, feel I owe you guys an apology for last weeks episode. I was hella sleepy, in part because I took three cbd gummies and there was a tropical storm going down. Regardless, I felt I was sub par that episode. I admit I’m my own worst critic. A buddy of mine loved it, so what the hell do I know? | |||
| Episode 007: Haaaaaash Gummies | 11 Sep 2020 | 00:56:01 | |
Hey, This is coming to you late cause I’m doing a job and hitting mics. We were going through a tropical super storm, so if I sound drowsy to you, blame it on the rain! Today I talk about random stuffish like asshole homeless people, and trying CBD gummies for the first time eeeeeeeever! Gowski makes an appearance at the end. | |||
| Episode 122: Daredevil Is A F!!ck Boy (w/ @cool_ass_vern) | 02 Nov 2022 | 02:12:56 | |
Vernon Payne is a comedian and storyteller from Brooklyn, NY. He got his start in Albany, NY in 2009 and since then has gone on to perform two one man shows for the Emerging Artist Festival called “Teenage Love” and “Hilariously Mediocre”. Vernon has also recently been part of the World Stages PBS show Stories For The Stage. You can catch Vernon all around NYC and beyond. | |||
| Episode 006: My Kind of Cancer | 11 Sep 2020 | 01:02:21 | |
Hey guys - Checking up on ya! New job got me out of the house, and mics starting to sprout through the city, normal-ish, kids! Today, I’m catching up to doing these pods on a close to the time of posting. Today, I ramble about Deblasio, cops, Nick Cannon’s thing, cancel culture, and how I want to beat up a football mascot. | |||
| Episode 005: No Tommy, Its It’s A Pelican! | 11 Sep 2020 | 00:51:44 | |
Hey guys! Posting this later in the day, started new job this morning. So spent, but feeling groovy. This episode I ramble about visiting fam in Maryland, flamingos verses pelicans, and making meatballs. I’m realizing these pods being two weeks late really doesn’t keep you up to date, stay tuned might bang out two a week if there is a demand. I don’t know. I’ll see how I feel. | |||
| Episode 004: I Found The Cheese Man | 11 Sep 2020 | 00:54:15 | |
Hey Tommets - Happy 4th (2 weeks late). Today I talk about patriotism when 50% hates your country, drinking Guinness out of a coffee cup, my connection to Carl Reiner. It was Gowski, the roommate’s birthday. He makes a pop in near the end. | |||
| Episode 003: Guy Walks Into a Deli And Orders A BLT | 11 Sep 2020 | 00:48:11 | |
Hey Tommets, Out of town until Friday night. Was able to bank two episodes before I bounced. Next week will talk fourth of July, so come back for that if that is super important to you. This episode I ramble about job interviewing, Sirius XM, and BLT’s. | |||
| Episode 002: I Wish I Had A Jew Fro | 11 Sep 2020 | 00:45:04 | |
Episode dose, #brothawemadeit! Today I ramble about everything from getting a haircut, “The Night of”, and that silly, I take responsibility video. | |||
| Episode 001: Breakfast All Day (@christianladigoski) | 11 Sep 2020 | 01:12:04 | |
On my maiden voyage into podcasting, I ramble about what I’ve been up to since March and babble with NextCore Media founder and COO Christian “Gowski” Ladigoski. Why him? Well … he designed the website. But more importantly, Gowski is my roommate, was one of my best friends in college, and my former co-host and business partner for THE SCREENING ROOM on WRHU 88.7 FM. This gets REAL! We talk breakfast food, impressing our dads, guys named “cheese”, and regrets. Great and funny talk, but I get sentimental reminiscing about how much the kid has been there for me lately. Follow Gowski @christianladogoski!!! | |||
| Episode 121: It Was Like A Horror Fan's Union of Dre and Snoop (w/ @slashersportsmedia) | 26 Oct 2022 | 01:55:23 | |
Having been exposed to horror at a young age, Billy Graves rededicated his life to horror. Not causing it, watching horror films, writing horror films, and talking about horror films. | |||
| Episode 120: Freckle Faced Hanes (@staticradio4) | 19 Oct 2022 | 01:20:47 | |
Bob Lament is goofy looking, that's why he's on the radio. Now 22 years and counting they continue their weekly stream of consciousness dialogues on Static Radio show. | |||
| Episode 119: I'm Just ALL ABOUT SAUNAS (w/@spencerdylan) | 13 Oct 2022 | 01:05:20 | |
Spencer Dylan returns ... felt there was unfinished business. Spencer is the CEO and Founder of Fried Fitness. He lives in Austin, TX, where he runs his personal fitness. Tommy likes talking with Spencer about fitness and Yelp. | |||
| Episode 118: 'Backdraft' Was Like The Circus (w/@HollenbachLEAD) | 05 Oct 2022 | 01:20:43 | |
Battalion Chief David Hollenbach (retired) is the author of “Fireproof: Your Grand Strategy for Transforming Failure into Fuel for Your Future.” He is an international best-selling author, motivational speaker, coach, and mentor. He owns and operates David Hollenbach Consulting, LLC, and hosts the popular podcast “From Embers to Excellence.” | |||
| Episode 117: At Some Point, All Convos Lead To Hallucinogenics (w/ @mikeyopp38) | 28 Sep 2022 | 01:26:37 | |
Mike Oppenheim is the author of the weekly essay series, The Casual Casuist, now a top 25 philosophy column on Substack. | |||
| Episode 116: What We Are Trying To Say, Women Are Funny Too (w/ @reuben_my_tummy) | 21 Sep 2022 | 02:05:13 | |
Reuben Wolf is a standup comedian based in NYC. He has performed in clubs such as Helium in Buffalo and West Side Comedy Club. He has performed in festivals such as New South Comedy Festival and Aloha Comedy Festival, the latter of which he received Best of Fest honors. He currently is the producer of Kitten Around and Ugly Parrot comedy shows in NYC. He most recently released his first half hour special on YouTube titled “Reuben Wolf’s Very First (Almost) Half Hour.” | |||
| Episode 133: Fabian, Oh Fabian (w/ @varnado) | 22 Feb 2023 | 01:13:27 | |
Victor Varnado is a comedian, producer, and filmmaker who has created and produced for Comedy Central, TruTV, VH1, and NERDIST. His writing has been published on VICE, Salon, and Marvel Comics. His cartoons are in The New Yorker and Mad Magazine. As a comedian, he has appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live and Late Night with Conan O’Brien. His book The Anti-Racism Activity Book has been completed and is available now. | |||
| Episode 115: Hippies, Man (w/ @marcwendtcoaching) | 14 Sep 2022 | 01:36:06 | |
Marc Went is an executive performance coach, and a relationship expert specializing in helping men and women have deeply satisfying relationships. He is writing a book titled "Coding for Intimacy", A guide to unlocking emotional mastery for men. In addition to coaching, Marc is a musician, screenwriter, and He currently co-hosts the comedy podcast "Moped Outlaws" | |||