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Syndication

James goes to prison. Kaleb rides a bike. Cliff teaches Diane how to run a three-card monte racket.

Direct download: Episode_76_-_Prison.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 12:41pm PDT

The correct version of that got lost in the shuffle when we migrated from Podomatic to Libsyn, and the one on here now is broken, inexplicably short by 8 minutes or some such thing. I'm going to fix it and reupload it. Delete your original version if you care about such things.

Update: the episode is now fixed.

Category:general -- posted at: 3:43am PDT



Sketch: The Hugely Inappropriate Last Role of a Legendary Actor. (Inspired by the death of Lauren Bacall, who was in an episode of Family Guy, but also inspired by every other actor who has ever lived.)

James goes to a sex store, because I guess he's gunning for a gig at Vice. Kaleb drives to the middle of nowhere.

Movie Recommendations for Miserable People: The Vanishing, Pay Day.

Give us some money if you're a wayfaring rich guy. Libsyn is expensive.


Direct download: Episode_75_-_Amen_Road.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 5:11pm PDT



James meets Kaleb in the distant future: 1975.

Kaleb tries to tell a story about Jimmy Cliff. James decides it's a good idea to break the news of Robin Williams' death about halfway through this story, ruining everything.

Direct download: Episode_74_-_Ready_For_The_Winter.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 2:24pm PDT



We're now on Libsyn in earnest. So I gotta do these descriptions right.

There's an opening sketch. We're trying to do a sketch every week to keep the writing muscles limber. We're also doing this as a sort of anti-improv mission statement.

We talk about the passing of Kaleb's hero, Jim Rockford. We also talk about Dawn of the Planet of the Apes and outsider art phenomenon LEWIS. This was recorded prior to his discovery, unfortunately, but hey, that's just this business.

Donate to the cause if you want. We're both dead broke. Beyond broke.


Direct download: Episode_73_-_Intrusive_Thoughts.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 1:52am PDT



Alright. We're caught up. This is the first Libsyn-exclusive episode. No more Podomatic for us. Not ever. Unless people don't donate when our money runs out. Then we'll probably wind up there again. But hey, right now it's time for big, shimmering statements of optimism.

I remember nothing about this episode because Podomatic ran out of bandwidth and I got distracted. We did a sketch. Thanks to everybody who helped us get here. Another new episode next Saturday.

Please donate on PayPal at thelastexitshow@gmail.com

Direct download: Episode_72_-_Oil.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 6:08pm PDT



Kaleb buys a house. James meets The Pogues. Cliff teaches Norm how to play the stock market.

P.S. I'm gonna start deliberately misrepresenting stuff in the episode summaries.

Regards,
The Editor.

Direct download: Episode_71_-_Buying_A_House.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 5:54pm PDT



Kaleb books a flight to London. Bobby Womack dies. Dolly Parton plays Glastonbury. Diane convinces Cliff to join her book club.

Direct download: Episode_70_-_Dead_Legends.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 5:49pm PDT



Kaleb has a misunderstanding with a celebrity. James moves in down the street from some punk kids. Norm asks Frasier for marriage advice.

Direct download: Episode_69_-_A_Misunderstanding.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 5:31pm PDT



James returns from his big move as Kaleb slowly remembers how to have a conversation. Cliff presents Sam with an investment opportunity.

Direct download: Episode_68_-_Stop_Sweating.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 5:27pm PDT



The Last Exit gets its first sponsor. James talks about Hannibal. Kaleb talks about some direct-to-DVD ephemera from 10 years ago.

Direct download: Episode_67_-_Betrayers.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 5:20pm PDT



Kaleb makes plans, gets an unexpected phone call, and goes to the dentist. James goes to the FA Cup. Louie falls asleep at an afterparty and meets a woman who isn't what she seems.

Direct download: Episode_66_-_Plans.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 5:14pm PDT



James sings, Kaleb swings. Trains are discussed. Flannery O'Connor is discussed. And, always and forever, modernity comes first.

Direct download: Episode_65_-_Caught_The_Westbound.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 4:54pm PDT



Wow, my batting average for doing a legitimate episode description in the Podomatic days was horrible. I guess I just figured putting on an amazing podcast was enough.

Anyway, we definitely talked about Sam Phillips in this episode.

Direct download: Episode_64_-_Preaching_Sin.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 4:30pm PDT



Kaleb almost goes to jail again. James discovers obscure American singer Jimmie Rodgers. Both hosts make fun of Ricky Gervais, the atheist actor. Sam has difficulty connecting with Diane.

Direct download: Episode_63_-_godnotreal.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 4:25pm PDT



Great. Another episode where I was so burned out that I didn't do a synopsis. I think this was the episode where I explained the mission behind the photo/caption project I did with quartzcity.

Here was the project. It's dormant now, but it's good stuff.

Direct download: Episode_62_-_West_Roanoke.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 4:21pm PDT



Sleazy motel reviews and talk about John Jeremiah Sullivan's piece on mysterious blueswoman Geechie Wiley.

Direct download: Episode_61_-_All_That_You_Love_Will_Be_Carried_Away.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 4:14pm PDT



Big Jim Murphy tries to orchestrate the murder of one Kaleb Horton, in the year of our Lord 2017.

Direct download: Episode_60_-_Stab_Him.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 3:49pm PDT



Again I failed on this episode's original publication. No idea what was in this one. Good title though. Swear I'll come back to it, teacher. I'll take the C+ and it'll be fine. I've been having trouble at home, teacher. I got a hard life, see.

Direct download: Episode_59_-_All_This_Cosmic_Horror.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 3:28pm PDT



Damn. Another episode where I didn't listen to playback and tried to "clever" my way out of it, like a kid who blew a homework assignment and wrote "grading is actually bad for a child's development." I'll come back to this. Maybe. Look, it's another hour of show from us. I don't really think it matters. It can't matter.

Direct download: Episode_58_-_News_Paper_Man.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 3:25pm PDT



Kaleb reviews his favorite show, the talk of the town: REAL DETECTIVES.

James feels sorry for himself. Please tell him to stop doing that.

Sincerely,
The Editor.

Direct download: Episode_57_-_Real_Detectives.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 3:20pm PDT



The Last Exit goes for a drive to the wrong side of town. Also, Kaleb steals from a preacher's boy.

Note: I mentioned that I took all these pictures I've been using, right? Isn't that cool? Very creative. Good job, Kaleb. You're really talented. You're "I want to buy a print from you for $100 immediately" talented.

Direct download: Episode_56_-_Wrong_Side_Of_Town.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 3:14pm PDT



The original description for this episode was as follows:

"We don't remember what we talked about. Nothing matters. Sleep paralysis and the devil and stuff, we guess."

I'll allow it.

Direct download: Episode_55_-_Fightin_Club.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 3:09pm PDT



Russian UFOs, English theatre, Friday the 13th, American cop shows - par for the course, really.

Direct download: Episode_54_-_A_Real_Sinner.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 3:05pm PDT



Kaleb's Johnny Depp impression, aimless bullshitting about cop shows, and James does a bad thing in London. Bonus: a few minutes of Kaleb trying and failing to host the show alone.

Direct download: Episode_53_-_Alone_In_The_Wilderness.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 2:59pm PDT



Kaleb and James dedicate an entire episode to their appreciation of Bob Dylan*. Features our top 50 BOB DYLAN songs, our top 50 BOB DYLAN interviews, and our countdown of the best BOB DYLAN influenced moments in pop culture.

*Haha, no.

Direct download: Episode_52_-_Talkin_Dylanologist_Dirtbag_Blues.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 2:56pm PDT



The original episode description for this was too embarrassing to repurpose. We talked about Pete Seeger, who had recently died and Kaleb thought sounded too educated. We also talked about famous people who have killed people with helicopters. But in a funny way, not a libelous way.

Direct download: Episode_51_-_Helicopter_Murder.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 2:54pm PDT



As a treat to themselves for the milestone fiftieth episode, your hosts drop the self-placed embargo on chatting about Johnny Cash and spend about fifty minutes on the Man In Black. Hopefully it will never happen again.

P.S. That picture up there is the first picture I ever took. It's in Tehachapi. Same place where our first 39 episodes are buried. You won't find them. They're too well hidden. There are no markers. There's no trail. Don't try.

Direct download: Episode_50_-_Fuego_DAmor.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 2:51pm PDT



Recapping the D*****t fiasco that seems it was only a dream and certainly, above all else, never happened.

Direct download: Episode_49_-_The_Enemies_List.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 2:48pm PDT



D*****t never happened. It does not exist. We at The Last Exit are totally confused about and alienated by what Kaleb was ever talking about. Ignore any mentions of it, so that it might die.

Also, 2013 in review.

Direct download: Episode_48_-_Raw_Maximalism.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 2:45pm PDT



A new year*. A new season. Discussion about the holiday season and those post-apocalypse southern gothic D*****t cartoons S***t A***s has been doing. Not Kaleb. S***t A***s.**

*Here, we meant 2014. This year. Not a new year anymore. It's over halfway over, actually. We weren't expecting this show to ever be reposted in August.

**All references to the content in question have been censored, because none of this ever happened, to the best of our knowledge. You'd be wise to turn around and just go on back to your house and forget you ever heard any of this stuff, alright? Go home.

Direct download: Episode_47_-_The_Liars_Are_Coming.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 2:42pm PDT



A very special* feature-length episode. Kaleb and James look at Christmas films, Christmas songs, Christmas doom, and Frank Black.

*Here, "very special" means "we both thought it was cowardly to take a week off for the holidays." It is not a declaration of quality or even novelty.

Direct download: Episode_46_-_If_We_Make_It_Through_December.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 2:33pm PDT



I think this is the episode where Kaleb read Nick Tosches' Hellfire and couldn't shut up about it for so much as one second. The Last Exit Show hates real killers and we would certainly never tell a story about one. Nobody likes that kind of thing.

Direct download: Episode_45_-_The_Story_Of_The_Killer.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 2:28pm PDT



Damn it, the episode description to this one was just me asking people to pay for an eventual Libsyn subscription. I'll come back to it later this week. I swear I'll come back to it and fix this. (I probably won't.)

Direct download: Episode_44_-_You_Dont_Belong_Here.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 2:25pm PDT



I'm going to recycle the podomatic episode descriptions even when it's embarrassing. This one is embarrassing because "ennui" is a pretentious word.

Thanksgiving.
California ennui.
General misery.

Direct download: Episode_43_-_Dont_Forget_The_Motor_City.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 2:22pm PDT



Kaleb has the flu but decides to record anyway. Discussion topics include the sickbed of David Letterman, all-nighters, and hate.

Direct download: Episode_42_-_Hate.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 2:18pm PDT



Originally aired around Halloween, 2013.

Lou Reed dies. Kaleb's grandmother dies and he really gets it all out there, really uses the podcast as therapy, right? Catharsis or whatever? Very sad thing. Some talk about Halloween, as well.

Direct download: Episode_41_-_Days_Is_Gone.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 2:54am PDT



This was originally recorded in late 2013.

Kaleb talks about fire and James talks about rain. Willie Nelson comes up, as he will continue to do.

James does a sketch where the hosts play old-time radio newsmen.

Kaleb talks about Lonesome Dove, which he was just discovering somehow.

Direct download: Episode_40_-_Burn_My_Body_And_Destroy_My_Home.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 2:48am PDT

This is The Last Exit Show.

We're a comedy podcast. The comedy podcast for you to stagger into after all the reputable comedy podcasts have closed, where improv kids are regarded with deep skepticism and happy people are banned outright.

We talk, we do sketches, we try to be funny sometimes but we don't force it when we have something interesting to say, and we've been doing it awhile. This episode is for people just discovering the show on Libsyn. It's also a way to hunker down and get nostalgic if you've been listening for a long time. There are a few of you, and I can prove it.

It's not our first episode, of course. How insane would that be, to preserve our first episode for the whole world to see? It was probably just a collection of "umms" and ironic belligerence. Besides, it's gone. I threw it away. It's buried six feet underground in a train yard in Tehachapi.

Our archive, such as it is, starts at episode 40. Episode 40 is when we found an EQ method we were content with, had pop screens, real mics, and consistent volume leveling. Before that, there were usually audio problems that we blindly tolerated because we had no idea the show would survive this long. Maybe someday we'll do a "best of the first 40," but you don't need to hear the whole thing, unedited.

Episode 40 is the first episode we don't have to apologize for. Much. So it's the first episode you'll be hearing after this. I hope you enjoy. We put a lot of work into it. Tell your friends. Subscribe on iTunes when that feature becomes available.

Follow us on Twitter:
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Email us:
thelastexitshow@gmail.com

Good night. Come on back next week. We air on Saturdays.

Direct download: Episode_01_-_Introduction_To_The_Show.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 12:53am PDT

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