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Magician Michael Carbonaro chats with Trey Elling, ahead of his June 16th show at Austin's Paramount Theatre. Topics include:


The "Lies On Stage" Tour (0:00)
A Zoom card trick (3:23)
A love/hate relationship with magic (5:45)
Political correctness in comedy (7:43)
The live show (11:32)

Comedian and actor Brian Posehn chats with Trey Elling, ahead of his shows at Creek and the Cave. Topics include:


Austin, TX (0:00)
Brian's new comic, Grommets (3:39)
8th grade graduations & the like (10:22)
Interviewing Geezer Butler of Black Sabbath (16:43)
The new hour (21:23)
Brian's skater past (22:40)
An ode to standup (24:57)

Comedian Mike Vecchione chats with Trey Elling, prior to his headlining shows at the Comedy Mothership. Topics include:


Back at The Mothership (0:00)
Philly --> NYC (2:24)
Teaching special education (8:25)
Philly sports insanity (14:03)
Comedy crowds (23:14)

Filmmaker Viggo Mortensen chats with Trey Elling about THE DEAD DON'T HURT, a new Western he wrote, directed, starred in, and scored. Topics include:


His mom's influence on the story (0:00)
Vicky Krieps as the female antagonist (2:38)
Acting is playing (4:34)
Collaboration (5:36)
The non-linear structure (7:44)
Getting the horseback riding right (11:28)
Believability (13:04)
What he learned making this film (16:11)
An ode to filmmaking (17:48)

Phil Rosenthal, star of Netflix's Somebody Feed Phil and creator of Everybody Loves Raymond, chats with Trey Elling, prior to his annual appearance at the ATX TV Festival. Phil also co-hosts the podcast, Naked Lunch. And he's written two books, Somebody Feed Phil The Book and Just Try It!, a children's book co-authored with his daughter, Lily.

Topics include:


Chicago (0:00)
A love for television (2:46)
Meeting Bruce Springsteen (7:14)
Meeting Larry David (10:03)
Phones at the dinner table (11:54)
Food: the key to bipartisanship (13:07)
Phil's books (16:18)
Favorite ATX food (18:05)
Norman Lear (21:08)
An ode to shared meals (23:16)

Nellie Bowles, currently a writer for The Free Press and formerly with The New York Times, chats with Trey Elling about MORNING AFTER THE REVOLUTION: DISPATCHES FROM THE WRONG SIDE OF HISTORY. Topics include:


The book's goal (0:00)
CHAZ! Seattle's Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (2:55)
Cancel Culture (12:21)
Black Lives Matter (15:03)
San Francisco (28:06)
Trans lives matter (37:15)
Optimistic or pessimistic about things? (48:37)