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Chad Daniels is a Minnesota stand-up comedian with more than a billion streams to his credit, and in July 2024 released his 10th comedy special and first …By Sean L. McCarthy

Chad Daniels is a Minnesota stand-up comedian with more than a billion streams to his credit, and in July 2024 released his 10th comedy special and first for Netflix, Empty Nester, marking his freedom from raising two kids as a single dad in small-town Minnesota. Daniels sat down with me over Zoom to talk about how he balanced it all in his early y…

Kyle Ayers is a comedian from Missouri currently based in Los Angeles who hosts the popular podcast and live show, Never Seen It, where comedians …By Sean L. McCarthy

Kyle Ayers is a comedian from Missouri currently based in Los Angeles who hosts the popular podcast and live show, Never Seen It, where comedians rewrite famous movies and TV shows they’ve never seen. You may have seen Ayers perform his stand-up on Conan or on the OnlyFans comedy showcase, LMAOF. Ayers also created and hosted the live comedy show, …

The state of the comedy industry, like most everything else in 2024, feels very much in flux. Danny Frenkel and Alex Dajani have seen firsthand …By Sean L. McCarthy

The state of the comedy industry, like most everything else in 2024, feels very much in flux. Danny Frenkel and Alex Dajani have seen firsthand how technology and social media have changed the relationships between performers and fans in the 21st century, and have set about finding a better way for them to connect today. Danny worked at Facebook si…

Ashley Gavin is a comedian from New York City who studied computer science and helped craft the curriculum for Girls Who Code, before deciding to …By Sean L. McCarthy

Ashley Gavin is a comedian from New York City who studied computer science and helped craft the curriculum for Girls Who Code, before deciding to embark on her own path in comedy in 2012. Gavin says she became Carnival Cruise Line’s first openly gay performer later that decade, and when the pandemic shut down that gig, she pivoted to podcasting and…

During this episode, Carina speaks with Philip Ryan, President of the Mazenod Panthers All Abilities Football Club in Glen Waverley. The Mazenod Panthers All Abilities Football Club provides opportunities for people with an intellectual disability to play Australian Rules football. Philip speaks about the positive impact that playing footy can have…

During this episode, Carina speaks with Kevin Maloney from the charity Tackling Leukaemia. Kevin is a Wheelers Hill local, and he has an inspirational story of mateship, the tragedy of leukaemia, community sport, and the power of grassroots organising to make a difference. Tackling Leukaemia is a registered charity that aims to increase the level o…

During this episode, Carina speaks with Belinda Lo, the Director of Legal Services and Principal Lawyer at Eastern Community Legal Centre. Eastern Community Legal Centre provides free legal services to people that live, work or study in Melbourne’s eastern suburbs. Belinda speaks about the importance of community legal services, the scourge of elde…

During this episode, Carina speaks with Greg Male and Daniel Roper from Monash Men’s Shed in Glen Waverley. Since 2010, the Monash Men’s Shed has provided a space for local men in the community to come together and enjoy a range of activities of interest. As a heath promotions charity, the Shed is focused on improving the health and wellbeing of me…

During this episode, Carina speaks with Janine Saligari from Amaroo Neighbourhood Centre in Chadstone. Nestled amongst residential houses in Chadstone on Amaroo Street, Amaroo Neighbourhood Centre is a neighbourhood house and op shop that has been providing support and services to local residents in need for over 40 years. Janine speaks about the l…

During this episode, Carina speaks with Bihong Wang, President of the Asian Business Association of Whitehorse in Box Hill. The Asian Business Association of Whitehorse, also known as ABAW, is a volunteer organisation that supports business owners of Asian heritage in the Whitehorse community and beyond. ABAW is also dedicated to passing on cultura…

All Politics Is Local is a podcast where Carina Garland, the Federal Member for Chisholm, speaks with remarkable locals about their contributions and connections with the community. During each episode Carina will speak with a Chisholm local and will spotlight their impact on the community. Connect with Carina: Email: Carina.Garland.MP@aph.gov.au I…

The beloved Little Housebooks by Laura Ingalls Wilder have sold over 60 million copies since their publication in the first half of the twentieth century. Even her unpolished memoir, Pioneer Girl, which tells the true story behind the children’s books, was widely embraced upon its release in 2014. Despite Wilder’s enduring popularity, few fans know…

I spoke to Sam Reich on this podcast back in the fall of 2020, when he was in his first year running Dropout, the subscription-based …By Sean L. McCarthy

I spoke to Sam Reich on this podcast back in the fall of 2020, when he was in his first year running Dropout, the subscription-based streaming platform he founded as a follow-up to CollegeHumor where he had worked for much of his adult life. Four years later, Reich and Dropout are ready to graduate to the big leagues, with one of their shows alread…

Hank and John Green began influencing online viewing long before we tied the word influencer to social media, launching their Vlogbrothers YouTube channel on Jan. 1, 2007, …By Sean L. McCarthy

Hank and John Green began influencing online viewing long before we tied the word influencer to social media, launching their Vlogbrothers YouTube channel on Jan. 1, 2007, 17 years, 3.77 million subscribers and almost a billion views ago. Three years later, the brothers founded VidCon, the first and largest global gathering of YouTubers, growing si…

At the age of 49 — three decades removed from an FBI drug bust that sent him to prison, and 24 years into his career …By Sean L. McCarthy

At the age of 49 — three decades removed from an FBI drug bust that sent him to prison, and 24 years into his career as an ex-con turned stand-up comedian — Ali Siddiq was still seeking his big break in show business. His debut special, It’s Bigger Than These Bars, found him back in a Texas jail performing for inmates, but it came and went on Comed…

It's finale time! The agents shed some sanity and finally get to use that flamethrower, as the situation comes to a climax in our playthrough of Viscid. Tales Of... M Cell is a Delta Green (Arc Dream Publishing) campaign -- a modern-day setting in which the X-Files meets the Cthulu Mythos, by way of True Detective. Follow our team of Agents tasked …

The story of five best-selling novels beloved by evangelicals, the book industry they built, and the collective imagination they shaped Who are evangelicals? And what is evangelicalism? Those attempting to answer these questions usually speak in terms of political and theological stances. But those stances emerge from an evangelical world with its …

In God Gave Rock and Roll to You (OUP, 2024), Leah Payne traces the history and trajectory of CCM in America and, in the process, demonstrates how the industry, its artists, and its fans shaped–and continue to shape–conservative, (mostly) white, evangelical Protestantism. For many outside observers, evangelical pop stars, interpretive dancers, pupp…

Zoë Coombs Marr is an Australian comedian who won Best Newcomer at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival in 2012, then returned four years later to …By Sean L. McCarthy

Zoë Coombs Marr is an Australian comedian who won Best Newcomer at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival in 2012, then returned four years later to win Best Show in Melbourne and receive a Best Show nomination in Edinburgh in 2016 for Trigger Warning, which she performed in drag character as a misogynistic male comedian named Dave. Coombs Mar…

While Agents Madeline and Michaels investigate a suspicious law firm in Washington D.C., in Billings, Montana, Agents Morgan and Garret are preparing for a long-awaited visitor. Tales Of... M Cell is a Delta Green (Arc Dream Publishing) campaign -- a modern-day setting in which the X-Files meets the Cthulu Mythos, by way of True Detective. Follow o…

Janine Harouni is a Staten Island native who began her stand-up comedy career in earnest only after moving to London, England, in 2012. Harouni experienced …By Sean L. McCarthy

Janine Harouni is a Staten Island native who began her stand-up comedy career in earnest only after moving to London, England, in 2012. Harouni experienced her first viral success as one-third of a sketch group called Muriel whose YouTube fame prompted deals with both the BBC and Quibi, and she’s also appeared onscreen in a recurring role on ITV’s …

Exhibiting Evangelicalism provides the first account of the growth and development of historical museums created by white evangelical Christians in the United States over the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Exploring the histories of the Museum of the Bible, the Billy Graham Center Museum, the Billy Sunday Home, and Park Street Church, Devin …

Dave Merheje is an award-winning Canadian stand-up comedian and actor who co-starred in the Hulu series, Ramy, and recently co-starred on the big screen opposite …By Sean L. McCarthy

Dave Merheje is an award-winning Canadian stand-up comedian and actor who co-starred in the Hulu series, Ramy, and recently co-starred on the big screen opposite Daisy Ridley in the film, Sometimes I Think About Dying, which premiered at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival and is available now to buy or stream. As a stand-up, Dave won the Just For Laug…

Neal Brennan’s first big claim to fame came two decades ago when he co-created, wrote and executive produced Chappelle’s Show with his friend Dave Chappelle (with whom …By Sean L. McCarthy

Neal Brennan’s first big claim to fame came two decades ago when he co-created, wrote and executive produced Chappelle’s Show with his friend Dave Chappelle (with whom he’d previously collaborated on Half Baked). Since then, Chappelle has become both the biggest stand-up comedian in the world and a lightning rod for criticism. Brennan, meanwhile, h…

Agents Madeline, Morgan and Garret have a close encounter of the toe-d kind, while Agent Michaels gets his 15 minutes of fame. Tales Of... M Cell is a Delta Green (Arc Dream Publishing) campaign -- a modern-day setting in which the X-Files meets the Cthulu Mythos, by way of True Detective. Follow our team of Agents tasked with investigating, contai…

Cultural Christians in the Early Church, which aims to be both historical and practical, argues that cultural Christians were the rule, rather than the exception, in the early church. Using different categories of sins as its organizing principle, the book considers the challenge of culture to the earliest converts to Christianity, as they struggle…

Rob Haze is a comedian from Atlanta who currently makes his living in Los Angeles performing stand-up and writing for comedy shows on TV — …By Sean L. McCarthy

Rob Haze is a comedian from Atlanta who currently makes his living in Los Angeles performing stand-up and writing for comedy shows on TV — among his credits are Sherman’s Showcase, the ESPY Awards, Kevin Hart’s year-in-review specials for Peacock, sketch comedy for Bleacher Report, stand-up on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, and most recent…

A top-secret dossier on Tibalt Grieves hints at clandestine government experiments. Tales Of... M Cell is a Delta Green (Arc Dream Publishing) campaign -- a modern-day setting in which the X-Files meets the Cthulu Mythos, by way of True Detective. Follow our team of Agents tasked with investigating, containing, and covering-up incursions of The Unn…

Cara Connors grew up in Chicago but began her comedy career in Toronto, where she studied with The Second City, created and starred in original …By Sean L. McCarthy

Cara Connors grew up in Chicago but began her comedy career in Toronto, where she studied with The Second City, created and starred in original series for CBC, provided social media humor for the series Workin’ Moms, and earned herself a New Faces slot with Just For Laughs. Since moving back to the states and settling down in Los Angeles, Connors h…

Caitlin Peluffo is a New York City-based comedian who played soccer in college and explored a degree and career in the art world before diving …By Sean L. McCarthy

Caitlin Peluffo is a New York City-based comedian who played soccer in college and explored a degree and career in the art world before diving into stand-up comedy. A decade later, Peluffo has performed on three different late-night shows on CBS — The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, The Late Late Show with James Corden, and most recently After Midn…

In 1908, Unitarian pastor Bertrand Thompson observed the momentous growth of the labor movement with alarm. “Socialism,” he wrote, “has become a distinct substitute” for the church. He was not wrong. In the generation after the Civil War, few of the migrants who moved North and West to take jobs in factories and mines had any association with tradi…

Bill O’Neill is an actor and clown from Los Angeles whom you may recognize most readily from his frequent appearances in commercials as a Wendy’s employee. …By Sean L. McCarthy

Bill O'Neill is an actor and clown from Los Angeles whom you may recognize most readily from his frequent appearances in commercials as a Wendy’s employee. But O’Neill’s career goes back to his early teen years, when he scored a major speaking role in the 2008 film, Drillbit Taylor. A member of L.A.’s burgeoning clown community, he co-starred with …

Madeline and Garret's trip to the morgue does not turn out quite as planned, leading to an "escalation" of the Grieves' case. Drop us a line on our Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tales_of_podcast Tales Of... M Cell is a Delta Green (Arc Dream Publishing) campaign -- a modern-day setting in which the X-Files meets the Cthulu Mythos, by way of …

Zach Zucker is a clown-based comedian and actor who splits his time between Los Angeles and London, where he has become known as the ringmaster …By Sean L. McCarthy