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Another podcast-within-a-podcast! This one features the talented and hilarious Bayne Gibby. Bayne is an actor/writer/director who most recently appeared in the Oscar nominated film Lady Bird. She portrayed Connie on HBO's Enlightened and was Gigi on the HBO's The Comeback. Just a few of her other television credits include Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (CW), Shameless (Showtime), The Guest Book (tbs), Hot in Cleveland (TVLand), Fresh Off the Boat (abc), et al. Her first children's book, You Mean the World to Me (Scholastic) has sold over 90K copies.

The Russian nesting dolls of podcasts. Worst of the Best is a demo of a pitch of a podcast. While we fine tune it, I present the first draft here for you. Improviser/writer/actor/magician New Jersey native and Bruce Springsteen devotee Matt Donnelly calls out the worst album Bruce Springsteen has ever put out. Is it the one you would've picked?

Mel Brooks is promoting History of the World, Part 1 on KGO Radio on a show hosted by my dad! Bonus info: I was there in studio and also escorted Mr. Brooks to the TV side to do AM San Francisco. Bonus Bonus info: He was utterly great and even told me a joke -- just to me! A private joke from Mel Brooks to me! Lastly, that network news anchor at the very end, Bob Schmidt? Ten years after this was recorded, I was working with him the the ABC Radio Network Newsroom in NYC. Bonus Bonus Bonus info: our collective memory is that a very young Tom Hanks was also on that same show promoting Bosom Buddies. I can't verify it but my dad and I both remember it that way so it must be true.(iTunes is weird sometimes and I'll find things mysteriously deleted. I recovered the full interview on a backup drive and reposted it with the additional content.)

What happens when you combine a teacher's strike and disgruntled, talented, irreverent, audacious music students?We mark the 35th Anniversary of the Berklee College of Music's teacher's strike with the tiniest phenomenon from that unprecedented time.Not for the faint of heart -- the music thumbs its nose at convention and even taste. IG: LastOneToThePartyPodcastemail: LastOneToThePartyPodcast@gmail.com

Theodore Isidore Gottlieb was a one-of-a-kind performer whose career spanned six decades. He was known for stream-of-consciousness monologues which he called "stand-up tragedy". He frequently had himself introduced as "a noted philosopher, metaphysician, and podiatrist”. Theodore occupied a unique space in the entertainment landscape. Give a listen to a sample of his work and how I came to discover it for myself.Instagram: @LastOneToThePartyPodcastLastOneToThePartyPodcast@gmail.comIf you enjoy the episode give us a like, a review, and/or a subscribe!

The one and only Johnny "The Whizzer" Wizniewczki! For a brief period in the early 2000's The Whizzer barged into the studio of Jake and Jackie on WFNY and took NYC by storm. Here are the highlights and bonus samples and even a bonus bonus sample.

A brief tangent on the real meaning of the podcast, what's in store after the new year, and where to submit requests for any future episodes.

Rollins travels further into the MCU and onto some of the, um, lesser earlier contributions. Which ones hold up, which ones disappoint, what are some of the auxiliary successes? Also the truth behind our previous episode!

What If WTF's Marc Maron interviewed me? I think it might go something like this...

8-year-old Rollins Eason (my son) has gone all in on the MCU. He's seen the benchmark movies (save for Iron Man and Captain America: Winter Soldier) and tells us all about what's good in them, who's the coolest, which one he wants to be and more!

Caught without a guest, I improvise an episode about improv. Improvise in the sense that upon my late night realization that I had no episode I opened the mic and started talking. Proust has nothing to worry about. This is a loose, one-man, oral history of a small slice of what it felt like to be a part of the theater at its nascent stages.email: LastOneToThePartyPodcast@gmail.com

A special (if brief) episode to tackle some of our voluminous emails from our listeners. All of your questions are finally answered!

Jessica talks to me (James Eason) about the award-winning Fleabag starring Phoebe Waller-Bridge. There are secret confessions, earnest praise, men vs. women, and a pretty great or pretty awful dad joke.

Hyland Harris joins us to talk about two movies that attack race and prejudice through satire. Hyland is a jazz drummer, tai chi instructor (www.chutaichi.com), manager at Louis Armstrong House (https://www.louisarmstronghouse.org), and musicologist.In this episode we get into a deep alternate theory of Watermelon Man (Godfrey Cambridge, Estelle Parsons, dir. Melvin Van Peebles), speculations on the behind-the-scenes of Putney Swope (Arnold Johnson, Antonio Fargas, dir. Robert Downey Sr.), and the evolutionary benefits of a turtleneck.Instagram: @LastOneToThePartyPodcastemail: LastOneToThePartyPodcast@gmail.comTwitter: @LastOneToThePa1

Erika Smith, one of the three "Hotties" from Hotties, joins us to gives her take on the kaleidoscopic experience of filming Hotties back in 2004 New York City. We find out how she got paid, romantic consequences, changes in the industry, and life after Hotties as a working actress

BJ Gallagher also got sucked into the Hotties vortex. He shares his experience with that 2005 low point in small independent film making.

A listener gave a shout out to "Hotties" a while back. If you don't know (and nobody should know anything about these movies), Hotties I & II are two flat-out awful movies that I was in back in 2005. It's cheap exploitation and all of us were suckered in by the listing which promised lots of improv. Well, I was 7 years deep into my improv journey and easily lured in. The whole experience and the final product are one collective dumpster fire, but it gave me a friend in Rick Younger. I force him to walk down this rancid memory lane with me just this once. Rick Younger: @RickYoungeremail: LastOneToTheParty@gmail.comInstagram: @LastOneToThePartyPodcast

Jess had me watch Widows (2018) with Viola Davis, Liam Neeson, Michelle Rodriguez, Elizabeth Dibicki, et al. Is Robert Duvall the important "glue" in every movie he's done? Will Widows become a must-see movie within the next five years?Instagram: @LastOneToThePartyPodcastemail: LastOneToThePartyPodcast@gmail.comTwitter: LastOneToThePa1

Jessica Eason (The Babysitter's Club, The Big Show Show, Real Housewives of South Boston) talks to James Eason about John Cassavette's A Woman Under The Influence. An all-time favorite of Jess's the conversation gets into gender roles, the movie Housekeeping, and gets deeply emotional.Instagram: @LastOneToThePartyPodcastemail: LastOneToThePartyPodcast@gmail.comTwitter: @LastOneToThePa1

Jessica Eason (The Big Show Show, The Babysitter's Club, Real Housewives of South Boston) knew Richard Pryor was a legendary stand up but had only seen him in two movies. She dives into two Richard Pryor concert movies and one very famous album. A lot of tangents into other stand ups, persistent social issues, and moreInstagram: @LastOneToThePartyPodcastemail: LastOneToThePartyPodcast@gmail.com