Ep 11: Bedtime for Dickocracy?
What a week: Brett Kavanaugh's possible confirmation is looming, and #MeToo energy is exploding, thankfully, perhaps like never before. So that’s what...
After the Laundry, the Misery
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Joe Raiola, MAD Senior Editor Emeritus, talks humor, Zen, culture, drugs, hope, and despair—and what happens when they all collide—with Lion's Roar editor Rod Meade Sperry.
Ep 10: Of Meglin and Mushrooms
Turn On, Tune In, Drop Dead: Joe Raiola recalls his late MAD magazine comrade Nick Meglin, and we delve into the use (and misuse) of mild-altering sub...
Ep 9: Alan Watts’s Private Lesson From Beyond the Grave
Joe shares his tale of a “cinematic” visitation, of sorts, from Alan Watts, famed philosopher, rapscallion, and synthesizer of Zen -- and many other f...
Ep 8: “I Was Glad Not To Be Shot”
Comedian and "After the Laundry, the Misery" co-conspirator Joe Raiola just did his “Joy of Censorship: Free Speech in the Age of Trump” show for a Re...
Ep 7: Vegas! (Where “Everything is Normal.”)
Flashing lights. Families, and children, bathing in cigarette smoke. “Spiritual nightlife.” Welcome to Las Vegas, land of the Gene Wilder Slot Machine...
Ep 6: What Samantha Bee Said
Comedian and Full Frontal host Samantha Bee’s use of an epithet in reference to Ivanka Trump is big news. And now she’s issued an apology. Being a com...
Ep 5: “I’d Rather Be a Buddhist In Denial”
Comedian and MAD Magazine Senior Editor Emeritus Joe Raiola has been spending time with a Zen community for the better part of ten years. Now that he’...
Ep 4: A Royal Wedding in the Golden Age of Bullshit
This episode, MAD Magazine Senior Editor Emeritus and Lion's Roar's Rod Meade Sperry are talking about the elephants in the room: Guns. Trump. And, yo...
Ep 3: Catch a Rising Joe
The formula goes that Comedy = Tragedy + Time, so Episode 3 goes way back with MAD Magazine Senior Editor Emeritus Joe Raiola to the slightly disturbi...
Ep 2: Holy Purell! Zen, Catholicism & the Magic-Trick Jesus
MAD magazine Senior Editor Emeritus Joe Raiola on how Catholicism, getting "bad advice" from Jesus, and Zen practice have all informed his worldview (...