William Denton is a scholarly analytics and mathematics and statistics librarian at York University in Toronto. He is also a man interested in the music of everyday sounds. He created STAPLR, which is a program that takes all of the noises arou

26. THE 25 BEST MINUTES FROM THE FIRST 25 EPISODES

Mar 12th, 2017 32m 28s

On this, our 26th episode of 25 Minutes of Silence we go on a retrospective of the best moments from our first 25 episodes and boy, have there been some good ones. In just 25 episodes we’ve had everyone from a New York Times best selling author

25. KEN BONE

Mar 5th, 2017 27m 32s

Ken Bone’s life changed on October 9, 2016 after asking Hilary Clinton and Donald Trump a question about energy policy during the second presidential debate. His bright red sweater, glasses, disposable camera and genuine demeanor skyrocketed hi

24. MATT BESSER

Feb 26th, 2017 28m 53s

Matt Besser is one of the founding members of the Upright Citizen’s Brigade sketch group and theater. Together Besser, Amy Poehler, Matt Walsh and Ian Roberts helped revolutionize sketch comedy in the 1990s with their Comedy Central series and

23. POWERPUFF GIRLS WRITERS AND ARTISTS

Feb 19th, 2017 31m 15s

In 2016, Cartoon Network rebooted the classic 90s series The Powerpuff Girls. Today’s guest isn’t one of the show’s writers or one of the show’s artists, it’s nine of them! The series writers, Jake Goldman and Haley Mancini as well as many of t

22. MIKE UPCHURCH

Feb 12th, 2017 27m 10s

Emmy award winning comedy writer Mike Upchurch literally wrote the book on sketch comedy. His University of Nevada master’s thesis, “The Poetics of Sketch Comedy” acts both as a history lesson, and a how to guide on all things sketch. Besides h

21. DIRECTOR OF THE JOHN CAGE TRUST – DR. LAURA KUHN

Feb 5th, 2017 27m

John Cage was an experimental composer famously called “one of the leading figures of the post-war avant-garde.” Perhaps one of his most known works is 4’33”, a music piece where the composer sits at a piano in complete silence for the duration

20. MARQUES RAY

Jan 29th, 2017 27m 13s

Marques Ray is an actor and comedian who has performed stand up on Conan on TBS as well as Montreal’s Just for Laugh’s Comedy Festival. You may also know him from Fox’s sketch comedy series Party Over Here or as Juan Julio in the ABC series Dr.

21. Director of The John Cage Trust - Dr. Laura Kuhn

Jan 24th, 2017 37m

John Cage was an experimental composer famously called "one of the leading figures of the post-war avant-garde." Perhaps one of his most known works is 4’33”, a music piece where the composer sits at a piano in complete silence for the duration

19. AN AUDIENCE AT PACK THEATER IN LOS ANGELES ON 12.23.16

Jan 22nd, 2017 29m 43s

Live theater originated in ancient Greece nearly three thousand years ago. Since then, an uncountable number of entertainers have done everything from comedy to drama and everything in between to delight and mystify an audience. Instead of doin

18. BEN CURTIS

Jan 15th, 2017 32m 15s

“Dude, you’re getting a Dell” is one of the most recognizable commercial catch phrases of the early 2000s. That line was performed by actor, yogi and musician Ben Curtis. The “Slacker Steve” commercials aired from 2000 to 2003. Since then, Ben

17. KATIE WILLERT

Jan 8th, 2017 30m 51s

Katie Willert is one of the stars and writers of the long running, Webby Award nominated series After Hours on Cracked.com. Founded in 2010, the series is an institution of online culture and Katie’s stern, yet charming character is one of the

16. RON GILBERT

Jan 1st, 2017 29m 1s

Ron Gilbert is a legend in the video game industry. He designed the PC classics Maniac Mansion, The Secret of Monkey Island and other successful point and click adventure games and created the SCUMM scripting language. Arguable the best thing a

15. LINDSEY BEER

Dec 25th, 2016 27m 30s

As of 2015, Lindsey Beer is one of only two female screenwriters to contribute to the multi-billion-dollar Transformers film franchise. Besides writing for the upcoming “Transformers: The Last Knight”, Lindsey is also writing the upcoming films

14. ANDRES DU BOUCHET

Dec 18th, 2016 27m 14s

Many people know today’s guest as classic Conan characters “Tony The Cameraman” or “Comic Khan” but I know him as Andres Du Bouchet. In his time writing for Conan on TBS as well as its precursors The Tonight Show With Conan O’Brien and Late Nig

13. ARIANA LENARSKY

Dec 11th, 2016 28m 22s

Ariana Lenarsky has lived an interesting life. As a former professional lullabyist she sang people to sleep for a living. Articles she’s written have appeared on McSweeney’s, Elle and The Huffington Post among other places. Under her twitter ha

12. ASTRONAUT JERRY M. LINENGER

Dec 5th, 2016 29m 27s

Jerry M. Linenger is a former NASA astronaut who flew on the Space Shuttle and Space Station Mir and a retired Captain in the United States Navy Medical Corps. In 1997 he spent 132 days, 4 hours and 1 minute in space. This was at the time the l

11. THE DEVASTATOR PRESS (AMANDA MEADOWS AND GEOFFREY GOLDEN)

Nov 27th, 2016 29m 2s

Founded by Amanda Meadows and Geoffrey Golden, The Devastator Press is the only all-comedy book publisher in America. Amanda and Geoffrey created “The Devastator” in 2010 as a means to promote comedy books and writers that they love. Since then

10. AHMED BHAROOCHA

Nov 20th, 2016 28m 2s

Ahmed Bharoocha is a stand up comedian and actor who has performed on Conan, Tosh.0 and Adult Swim’s Dream Corp LLC. He recently released a very funny Comedy Central half hour stand up special as well as his debut stand up album “Almond Badoody

9. SOVEREIGN SYRE

Nov 13th, 2016 27m 42s

Sovereign Syre is a stand up comedian that has opened for Marc Maron. She is host of the podcast “Observations” on iTunes and also a former adult film actress. We spent close to an hour talking about the struggles of transitioning between enter

8. ZOLTAN ISTVAN

Nov 6th, 2016 28m 4s

Zoltan Istvan is journalist and entrepreneur who is running for President of the United States of America under the Transhumanist Party ticket. He currently writes the blogs “The Transhumanist Philosopher” for Psychology Today as well as “Trans

7. GINA IPPOLITO

Oct 30th, 2016 27m 11s

Gina Ippolito is a comedy writer who wrote for the ninth and final season of Cartoon Network’s Emmy Award winning program Regular Show. She also wrote for the 2016 reboot of the classic cartoon The Powerpuff Girls among other shows and is a co

6. CHRIS BALLEW

Oct 23rd, 2016 28m 12s

Chris Ballew is the lead singer and ‘basitarist’ of the triple platinum selling alternative rock group The Presidents Of The United States of America. He also releases childrens music under the pseudonym Caspar Babypants. With his POTUSA’s song

5. SCOUT DURWOOD

Oct 16th, 2016 27m 3s

If you were to describe Scout Durwood in two words, those words would be “boundless optimism.” Whether she’s acting as Jordan, co star of the MTV show Mary + Jane, acting as herself in Oxygen’s Funny Girls or performing stand up and music in so

4. MATT LIEBERMAN

Oct 9th, 2016 26m 55s

Matt Lieberman is a social media renaissance man. He is a correspondent for Sourcfed, a writer / performer for the sketch comedy youtube channel Nuclear Family and io West’s DJ Faucet, and a life advice guru for all of his Lieberfriends. Matt u