Mishka Shubaly Podcast

I honestly don't know what's wrong with Rich Wilson. By which I mean that he is a joyous artist and, having fallen prey to the trope of the "tortured artist" so many times in my life, I find his persistent good cheer hard to understand. I also feel an incredibly deep kinship with this man on the other side of the ocean who I think I've actually only hung out with in person twice. Rich's podcast, Insane in the Men Brain is brilliant enough that I consider it canon for my own podcast, by which I mean that I intend to rip it off as mercilessly as possible. As soon as I broke down and finally decided to do this silly thing, I knew I had to get Rich on as one of my first guests.

Rich Wilson is a multi award winning comedian and podcast host. For the first 10 years of
his comedy career, Rich cut his comedic teeth at all of the UK’s major comedy clubs and has
remained a steadfast presence on the British comedy circuit ever since. This has taken him
around the world, culminating in multi award winning, sell out shows at the biggest comedy
festivals such as Melbourne, Perth and New Zealand. In 2017 Rich won “Best International
Act” at the New Zealand Comedy Festival and was nominated for the same award the
following year. In 2019 he won another comedy award for “Best show of the Festival” with
Just Be Botanicals at the Edinburgh Fringe festival.

Rich Wilson is a multi award winning
comedian and podcast host of Insane In The Men Brain and Insane In The Fem Brain where
he talks to funny and interesting people about their experiences with mental health featuring
interviews with Heston Blumenthal, Felicity Hayward, Nicholas Pinnock, Michael Smiley,
Jessica Fostekew, Scroobius Pip and many more. He has earned himself an award for “Best
Podcast” with JOE and gained a nomination for “Best Social Conscience Podcast” at the
Podbible Poll Winners Awards. Rich is also an indemand podcast guest and has been
featured on: BBC Radio 4’s You’ll Do, Global Radio’s Job’s A Goodun, Scroobius Pip’s
Distraction Pieces and Dave’s Conversations Against Living Miserably.

Tina Muir is a former elite marathoner who is now CEO of Running for Real, and hosts a podcast of the same name. As a professional runner she was a 2:36 marathoner, represented Great Britain and was sponsored by Saucony.

In her first race following retirement at what was considered the peak of her career, Muir won the 2019 Disney World Half Marathon. In that same year, she published Overcoming Amenorrhea: Get Your Period Back. Get Your Life Back. In 2022 she and Zoe Rom will release Becoming a Sustainable Runner.

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Mat Alano-Martin has spent the last 13 years on the road telling jokes and sharing stories all across America. He has appeared at comedy clubs, theaters, punk rock dives, redneck roadhouses, casinos, colleges, living rooms and everywhere in between. Alano-Martin’s albums “Profiled as Such,” “Blood Mouth” and “Midnight Nachos” can be heard in regular rotation on Sirius/XM’s comedy channels and he has appeared several times on the nationally syndicated The Bob & Tom Show and once on Laughs on Hulu. His first comedy special “Tango in Philly” will be out later this year. He has worked with such notable acts as Patton Oswalt, Tig Notaro, Maria Bamford and Chris Gethard and has performed at several festivals and prominent showcases across the country and beyond including:

– 208 Comedy Festival – Boise, ID
– 10,000 Laughs – Minneapolis, MN
– Altercation Comedy Festival – Austin, TX
– Beast Village Comedy Festival – Des Moines, IA
– Bird City Comedy Festival – Phoenix, AZ
– The Black Box Comedy Festival – Atlanta, GA
– Cleveland Comedy Festival – Cleveland, OH
– Cloudtop Comedy Festival – Sante Fe, NM
– Comcast’s “Look Who’s Laughing Now” – Indianapolis, IN
– Comedians You Should Know – Chicago, IL
– The Fest – Gainesville, FL
– Finger Lakes Comedy Festival – Ithaca, NY
– Fountain City Comedy Festival – Kansas City, MO
– Fresh Out – Los Angeles, CA
– Gilda’s LaughFest – Grand Rapids, MI
– Green Gravel Comedy Festival – Iowa City, IA
– High Plains Comedy Festival – Denver, CO
– Hong Kong International Comedy Festival – Hong Kong, China
– Hopkins Comedy Festival – Hopkins, MN
– Hot Tub with Kurt and Kristen – Los Angeles, CA
– If You Build It – New York, NY
– The Indy Fringe Festival – Indianapolis, IN
– Laugh in a Box Festival – Cincinnati, OH
– Laughing Devil Comedy Festival – New York City, NY
– Laughing Skull Comedy Festival – Atlanta, GA
– Let’s Fest – Fort Wayne, IN
– Limestone Comedy Festival – Bloomington, IN
– Live From Outer Space – New York, NY
– Lookout Comedy Festival – Chattanooga, TN
– Milwaukee Comedy Festival – Milwaukee, WI
– Parlour Car – Chicago, IL
– Pittsburgh Comedy Festival – Pittsburgh, PA
– Red Clay Comedy Festival – Atlanta, GA
– Sacramento Comedy Festival – Sacramento, CA
– The World Series of Comedy – Chicago, IL

He is also the co-founder of the Limestone Comedy Festival and his jokes have been used for the Frank and Funny greeting card line.

I met Renee Watt briefly at a storytelling event in Phoenix with my great friend Andy Baker. Then we adjourned to a gay strip club and talked about DMT and multiverses and shapeshifting, as one does. I *officially* don't believe in, well, basically anything she does (astrology/ horoscopes/ psychic readings/ tarot) but when I was down the well last summer, I was desperate enough to feel better that I sought out her help. Surprise, surprise, my hour long tarot reading with her was incredibly helpful and I knew when I finally got this podcast off the ground that she would have to be one of the first guests.

Renee Watt got her first tarot deck at 10 years old, when a family friend exposed her to the practice. Not long after, she stumbled upon the occult section at a used book store, which catapulted her into the vast world of witchcraft and esoteric practices. Since then, she’s built a career from the mystical information she collected over the years, working as a professional writer, teacher, psychic, witch, and astrologer. Her words can be found at Astrology.com, Horoscope.com, Paranormality Magazine, The Newsette, and Shondaland.com. Renee’s astrological and spiritual expertise has been featured in Vogue, Cosmopolitan, InStyle, Bust, Coast to Coast with George Noory, and many more! You can find her on Instagram @RainbowGlitterStar, and in podcast land, by checking out her projects “Witch Doctorate” and “The Glitter Cast.” For more information on her practice, be sure to visit RainbowGlitterStar.com .

Today I caught up with my grief buddy, Sari Beliak. We yuk it up about her book deal going south, her getting hit by a car, her father's death last year, loss, fury and weeping behind the wheel. Honestly, I swear, you need this conversation. Things aren't always as dark as they seem.

Sari Beliak is a writer and comedian from Phoenix, AZ. She is a senior contributing writer for The Onion and a regular contributor to sites like The Hard Times and Reductress. She was a finalist for NBC's Late Night Writer's Workshop in 2020 which was an otherwise totally normal and chill year. Please follow her on Twitter at @thecrassceiling