FREE THE SHOW
Each week, Will and Jimmy bring you a brand new show, with no burdensome devotion to format. It's characters, phone calls, experiments, and what the French might call je ne sais quoi ("I don't know what the hell this is"). Climb aboard. We are good at doing this!
- Update frequency
- every 9 days
- Episodes
- 20
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2020
EPISODE 221 - PANDEMIC SPECIAL
Free the Show comes back to bring peace to an ailing world, and maybe even save us all. Like a shot of healing balm straight to the heart of the virus, Will and Jimmy fire up the old phone call machi…
Fri 10 Apr 2020
EPISODE 220 - WILL’S DVD BINDER
In the late 90s, through most of the AUGHTS, most people who liked movies had a DVD collection, and probably lots of them who were young and didn’t own large pieces of furniture in which to house the…
Wed 27 Mar 2019
EPISODE 219 - 20 QUESTIONS: THE REDEMPTION
Free the Show’s bleeding edge content rarely feels repetitive; when it does, it’s because the creators are bored and have no original ideas, so they just repeat the most tepid bits of all in what cri…
Wed 20 Mar 2019
EPISODE 218 - DRAFTING TWEETS
Being a young comedian with no real direction or representation in 2019 is a long, lonely road. There’s never really enough stimulation from successes, or validation through seeing a project do well,…
Wed 06 Mar 2019
EPISODE 217 - PIZZA
Will and Jimmy are New Yorkers through-and-through. They get by on tomato sauce and pepperoni - subsist on melted mozzarella - their veins course with olive oil - they have pizza faces with all their…
Tue 26 Feb 2019
EPISODE 216 - HALLMARK CARDS
With Valentine’s Day rapidly approaching, Jimmy and Will decided it would be sweet and precious of them to call a bunch of Hallmark stores and talk to their sweeties about cards. They were so good th…
Wed 13 Feb 2019
EPISODE 215 - FRIDGE MAGAZINE
Refrigerator Magazine was founded in 1949 by a refrigeration enthusiast and his wife, Donna. As America’s (but not the world’s) leading refrigeration-focused periodical. Generational changes brought …
Wed 06 Feb 2019
EPISODE 214 - READING TWEETS OUT LOUD
Tone of voice. It’s a wily little thing, isn’t it? Think about it. Take the phrase “My dentist loves doing ecstacy,” for example. Here’s one way it could be read: “My DENTIST loves doing ecstacy.” Bu…
Sat 26 Jan 2019
EPISODE 213 - 2018
Folks, it’s January 17th, 2019, so you know what that means: it’s time to talk about 2018 year end lists! Listeners, we’re talking Billboard, we’re talking New York Times, we’re talking Obama, and Sp…
Thu 17 Jan 2019
EPISODE 212 - IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE
Time again, time again for all Christianfolk to gather round the decorated pine tree, chug a glass of milk, pound some cookies, and watch one of the dozen or so holiday-appropriate classic movies. Th…
Mon 24 Dec 2018
EPISODE 211 - KARL’S REDEMPTION
In 1815, Napoleon Bonaparte escaped the island of Elba, where he was exiled, and marched through France toward Paris, slowly but inexorably gaining soldiers and supporters with each passing day. Thou…
Wed 19 Dec 2018
EPISODE 210 - CBD
It’s the drug craze that’s tearing through the nation like a pot-addled teen opening a baggie of kind. Will and Jimmy decided to see what the fuss behind CBD is about. It turns out it’s the non-psych…
Sat 08 Dec 2018
EPISODE 209 - PERSONAL ASSISTANTS
Will and Jimmy are personal assistants to some of the biggest male stars over forty, don’t you know? We call some restaurants and try to get reservations for tonight for some of our clients like Laur…
Sat 01 Dec 2018
EPISODE 208 - HOSPITAL WAITING ROOM
Hospital waiting rooms are among the most stressful places to pass time on this god-damned planet Earth. No one wants to be there. Everyone hurts, in big or small ways. But when two men, fated to cro…
Thu 15 Nov 2018
EPISODE 207 - WILL IS IN THE CLOSET
The premise for this episode is that Will, one of the hosts of Free the Show, is in the closet for the whole episode. Not figuratively, it’s not some dumb joke. There is a closet right next to where …
Wed 07 Nov 2018
EPISODE 206 - HALLOWEEN
Once again, it is late October, and on Free the Show, we’re pretty keen on celebrating the holidays, no matter how trite and tired certain tropes might be. To wit - everyone knows what happens on Hal…
Wed 31 Oct 2018
EPISODE 205 - PLEDGE DRIVE
As you know, Free the Show could not bring you the kind of groundbreaking and innovative content we do without the support of listeners like you. As we simply must once every year, we are taking this…
Fri 26 Oct 2018
EPISODE 204 - SLOGANS
Ba da ba ba baaah. It’s McDonald’s Time. Did you read that first sentence in sing-song, without even needing a primer to know it’s the McDonald’s jingle? Followed of course by we’re pretty sure the f…
Wed 10 Oct 2018
EPISODE 203 - JOHN’S STRANGE TOUR DIARY, VOL 2
Y’all remember John Ambrosio, and his band Long Neck, and how they are a touring rock band that we have covered on this podcast before? Well, success has not yet eroded John’s ability to connect with…
Fri 28 Sep 2018
EPISODE 202 - LORDE’S JUICE
A nicely paced, well-executed monoscene about a man who escaped from a cult interviewing for a job at a juice company. This is enough of a description to hook the listener. Listen to Episode 202
Wed 19 Sep 2018
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