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Justin Foster is a nationally-touring comedian and host of Foster the Podcast with a new album called “Dangerless.” We talk my getting mad at him for getting sober, having time to learn new things in sobriety and the humbling experience of starting comedy over in LA after headlining in Dallas. Presented by Meltdown Comics! This Week’s Guest: Justin Foster IG, TW: @justincomic Follow Kasey! TW: @KaseyKoop IG: @KaseyKoop Creator and Host: Kasey Koop. Producer and Audio Engineer: Makenzie Mizell. Theme Music: Kraig Tyler

Zara Lisbon is a sober novelist and writer for Hellogiggles. We talk falling in love with alcohol, having body image issues at 12, the mixed messages about women that don’t allow us to win, her Young Adult thriller series, fiction’s value, being a channel for God in our writing, Lana Del Rey and trusting yourself. Presented by Meltdown Comics! This Week’s Guest: Zara Lisbon IG: @z_list_celeb TW: @zaralisbon Follow Kasey! TW: @KaseyKoop IG: @KaseyKoop Creator and Host: Kasey Koop. Producer and Audio Engineer: Makenzie Mizell. Theme Music: Kraig Tyler

Chris Zeischegg AKA Danny Wylde is an ex- star, musician and author of the book, Body to Job. We talk how sex work led to craving monogamy, getting his erections bled out, the difficult years leaving and transitioning into other work, the emotional labor of sex work and moving to avoid a stalker. Presented by Meltdown Comics! This Week’s Guest: Chris Zeischegg AKA Danny Wylde IG: @dannywylde Follow Kasey! TW: @KaseyKoop IG: @KaseyKoop Creator and Host: Kasey Koop. Producer and Audio Engineer: Makenzie Mizell. Theme Music: Kraig Tyler

Charlie Berlin is one of my biggest influences, a sober advocate for women’s mental health and trauma healing and founder of the organization, La Femme Nouvelle. We talk being in abusive relationships, being abusers, coke speeding up our rock bottoms, choosing happiness, anxiety as trapped energy, building self esteem and her upcoming marriage. Follow her company’s IG @la.femme.nouvelle. Presented by Meltdown Comics! This Week’s Guest: Charlie Berlin IG: @la.femme.nouvelle Follow Kasey! TW: @KaseyKoop IG: @KaseyKoop Creator and Host: Kasey Koop. Producer and Audio Engineer: Max Mizell. Theme Music: Kraig Tyler

Chris Estrada is a comedian who’s on Time Out LA’s list of Comics to Watch in 2018. We talk doing comedy on the road, being raised by women, being an ex-Cap’n Save-A-Hoe, doing meth with escorts in hotel rooms and growing up in South Central. Presented by Meltdown Comics! This Week’s Guest: Chris Estrada Twitter: @ChrisEstrada85 Follow Kasey! TW: @KaseyKoop IG: @KaseyKoop Creator and Host: Kasey Koop. Producer and Audio Engineer: Max Mizell. Theme Music: Kraig Tyler

Alex Hooper is a comedian and host of Crave, the stand-up-comedy-show-meets-rave. He’s been on Comedy Central’s Roast Battle and Corporate. We talk festivals opening us up, having a well-rounded, fun life outside of stand up, his Pug Yoga calendar making it onto Ellen, spreading joy and Lana Del Rey. Follow his IG and Twitter @hooperhairpuff. Presented by Meltdown Comics! This Week’s Guest: Alex Hooper Instagram: @hooperhairpuff Follow Kasey! TW: @KaseyKoop IG: @KaseyKoop Creator and Host: Kasey Koop. Producer and Audio Engineer: Max Mizell. Theme Music: Kraig Tyler

April AKA Ashley Soltys is a dancer, stripper, professional hooper, bartender and coach. We talk getting secondhand Maced at the strip club, internalized misogyny, Aziz Ansari, male accountability, traveling alone, performing at Burner festivals and being healers. Presented by Meltdown Comics! This Week’s Guest: April aka Ashley Soltys Instagram: @mssmashing Follow Kasey! TW: @KaseyKoop IG: @KaseyKoop Creator and Host: Kasey Koop. Producer and Audio Engineer: Mason Booker. Theme Music: Kraig Tyler

 Lucia Brizzi is an actor, comic and creative coach with her own personal growth comedy show, Wow! So Alive! We talk her all-female comedy group, the surprising joy of growing up, performing with her ex-boyfriend and allowing instead of forcing. Presented by Meltdown Comics! This Week’s Guest: Lucia Brizzi Twitter: @luciabrizzi Instagram: @luciabrizzi Follow Kasey! TW: @KaseyKoop IG: @KaseyKoop Creator and Host: Kasey Koop. Producer and Audio Engineer: Mason Booker. Theme Music: Kraig Tyler

Jessica Michelle Singleton is a world-touring Billboard Top 10 Comedian and paid regular at The Comedy Store with a #1 album and her Ignorance is #Blessed podcast. We talk health problems from trauma suppression, mommy issues, attaining happiness and enlightenment through pain, the messiness of spiritual exploration and meditation. Presented by Meltdown Comics! This Week’s Guest: Jessica Michelle Singleton Twitter: @jmscomedy Instagram: @jmscomedy Podcast: Ignorance is #Blessed   Follow Kasey! TW: @KaseyKoop IG: @KaseyKoop Creator and Host: Kasey Koop. Producer and Audio Engineer: Mason Booker. Theme Music: Kraig Tyler  

Alex Firer has written for The Onion, Splitsider and currently for a UCB House Team. We talk the humanizing of Nazis, being an immigrant, how to become a comedy writer, the internet’s one-upping culture, rape jokes and his bisexuality. Buy his zine, “Mom Presents I Think These Guys Are Hot Stuff” on The Devastator. Presented by Meltdown Comics! This Week’s Guest: Alex Firer Twitter: @alexfirer Follow Kasey! TW: @KaseyKoop IG: @KaseyKoop Creator and Host: Kasey Koop. Producer and Audio Engineer: Mason Booker. Theme Music: Kraig Tyler

Logan Pierce AKA J.R. Verlin is a star nominated for the Best Actor AVN and author of “Between the Sheets: Rise of a Working Stiff.” We talk losing job opportunities because of sex work, people’s invasive questions, drugs, the declining money in sex work, ’s gender role reversals, meeting his girlfriend filming a scene together and female ographers. Presented by Meltdown Comics! This Week’s Guest: Logan Pierce Twitter: @whoislogan IG: @who_is_logan Follow Kasey! TW: @KaseyKoop IG: @KaseyKoop Creator and Host: Kasey Koop. Producer and Audio Engineer: Mason Booker. Theme Music: Kraig Tyler

Breezy AKA Shay is a professional dancer in the Suicide Girls Blackheart Burlesque Troupe and a stripper. We talk touring the world, her multiple hustles, getting her stripper name from a fake ID, being rejected by customers, internet hate, staying true to herself and attracting guys who like a showgirl.Presented by Meltdown Comics! This Week's Guest: Breezy aka Shay IG  @_papermashay Follow Kasey! TW: @KaseyKoop IG: @KaseyKoop Creator and Host: Kasey Koop. Producer and Audio Engineer: Mason Booker. Theme Music: Kraig Tyler

Lauren Rantala is a producer at Super Deluxe, comedian and writer whose show, “Tiffany the Teenage Grim Reaper” won Best Animated Project at the NY TV & Film Festival. We talk being the black sheep in religious, conservative towns, male teachers’ inappropriate behavior, abstinence-only sex ed., the incident that made her quit music, freeze-and-appease and writing for women. Presented by Meltdown Comics! This Week’s Guest: Lauren Rantala TW: @laurenrantala IG: @laurenrantala Follow Kasey! TW: @KaseyKoop IG: @KaseyKoop Creator and Host: Kasey Koop. Producer and Audio Engineer: Mason Booker. Theme Music: Kraig Tyler

Hot Wheels AKA Brit Kinnard is a roller-skating-stripper-turned-office-manager. We talk how she invented roller skating stripping, stripping in 3 different cities, moving to escape an abusive stalker, victim blaming, Louis CK, transitioning from the club to an office, forgiveness, feeling no shame about stripping and our alcoholism. Presented by Meltdown Comics! This Week’s Guest: Brit Kinnard IG: @prittybritty_bangbang Follow Kasey! TW: @KaseyKoop IG: @KaseyKoop Creator and Host: Kasey Koop. Producer and Audio Engineer: Mason Booker. Theme Music: Kraig Tyler

Matt LeGrande is a comedian and gay recovering Christian Missionary. We talk growing up a white Missionary in Indonesia, the church repressing his sexuality, seeing our parents as human, signing an anti-being gay waver at college, spirituality, gratitude and the pressure to act like straight dudes in stand up! Presented by Meltdown Comics! This Week’s Guest: Matt LeGrande Twitter: @mattlegrande IG: @evangelicaldaddy Follow Kasey! TW: @KaseyKoop IG: @KaseyKoop Creator and Host: Kasey Koop. Producer and Audio Engineer: Mason Booker. Theme Music: Kraig Tyler

Max Blum is a sober addict, cat dad and editor of music videos for everyone from Migos to Lil Yachty. We talk how fun becoming a lame sober person is, how desperate we looked while trying to be cool, the lie that you need substances to be creative, the radness of shitty tattoos, letting go of outcomes, acceptance, staying sober in the music industry, codependency and learning to be in healthy relationships. Presented by Meltdown Comics! This Week’s Guest: Max Blum  IG: @decafgrunge Follow Kasey! TW: @KaseyKoop IG: @KaseyKoop Creator and Host: Kasey Koop. Producer and Audio Engineer: Mason Booker. Theme Music: Kraig Tyler

Danielle Perez is a comedian, actress and host of the Thighgap Comedy Show. We talk the female gaze, body image, Cardi B’s success for strippers and Latinas, the pressure on Latinas to find a man despite being self-supporting hustlers, predatory men in comedy, our “Me Too” experiences and the harassment she’s gotten for being in a wheelchair. Presented by Meltdown Comics! This Week’s Guest: Danielle Perez IG: @divadelux TW: @divadelux Follow Kasey! TW: @KaseyKoop IG: @KaseyKoop Creator and Host: Kasey Koop. Producer and Audio Engineer: Mason Booker. Theme Music: Kraig Tyler

Alison Stevenson is a comedian and writer for publications like Vice with an album called “Eat Me.” We talk men misinterpreting sexual openness for an invitation, male comics praised for their realness while female comics’ experience is dismissed as “too real,” guys being scared of us writing about them, our noncommittal generation, the awfulness of dating artists, Neo Nazis attacking her online and body positivity. Presented by Meltdown Comics! This Week’s Guest: Alison Stevenson IG: @justaboutglad TW: @justaboutglad Follow Kasey! TW: @KaseyKoop IG: @KaseyKoop Creator and Host: Kasey Koop. Producer and Audio Engineer: Mason Booker. Theme Music: Kraig Tyler

Nikki Knightly AKA Alexis Sanchez is my co-stripper, a model, comedian and star. We talk music festivals, choreographing positions, chemistry with sex work partners, being “dick drunk,” misconceptions about sex work, the prep for filming an anal scene, our mothers’ disapproval, drugs not working, gaslighting and going through a heroin addiction.  Presented by Meltdown Comics! This Week’s Guest: Nikki Knightly IG: @nikkiknightly Snapchat: @nikkiknightly Follow Kasey! TW: @KaseyKoop IG: @KaseyKoop Creator and Host: Kasey Koop. Producer and Audio Engineer: Mason Booker. Theme Music: Kraig Tyler  

Aeon Magdalena AKA Ashley is a raw stripper, mom and creator of Submerge LA. We talk breaking out of a religious background, starting dancing at 29, stripping reminding us who we are, working in nude clubs to bikini bars, meeting her baby daddy on Craigslist, giving happy endings, the value of sex work and teaching her son about stripping and consent. Presented by Meltdown Comics! This Week’s Guest: Aeon Magdalena IG: @spidersnakewoman www.submerge.la Follow Kasey! TW: @KaseyKoop IG: @KaseyKoop Creator and Host: Kasey Koop. Producer and Audio Engineer: Mason Booker. Theme Music: Kraig Tyler