Unemployed with Anna Roisman
102 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 1 year ago - ★★★★★ - 143 ratingsThis is a safe space for anyone who has ever lost a job, left a job, or is sitting at their desks bored out of their mind right now! Based on the hit live digital talk show, "The Unemployed Show," where Anna and guests would wear pajamas every week and commiserate about bad jobs, this podcast is a more intimate look into the world of unemployment and underemployment. Anna sat in front of a camera on her couch for 'The Unemployed Show' for 2 years and then got a job hosting a show in front of hundreds of thousands of people on the app HQ. Is she the fairy godmother of unemployed millennials? Some say yes! Hopefully this podcast will inspire you to pick yourself up and get a new job, or stay on your couch and chill all day. Either way, you'll laugh with Anna and her guests about the insane things they did for work. Each week Anna interviews friends, comedians, and professionals about their worst (and best!) job stories and how they figured out life as an unemployed person. Oh and sometimes they call a stranger from the internet who is unemployed and in need of a pep talk. It's sweet.
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Episode 99: From A 'Housewives' Dig To Becoming A Bravo Personality with Daryn Carp
August 10, 2022 12:30 - 1 hour - 67 MBHappy 99th episode everyone! This week we are joined by one of the greats! We have host, comedian, Bravo personality, and friend, Daryn Carp (Shaken & Disturbed Podcast, People's Reality Check) on the show! Daryn is one of the busiest freelancers we know, but for an hour she was unemployed with us. We discuss her first jobs in her family's ski shops, working as a waitress in her hometown, and then the coveted retail job at American Apparel (RIP). But after her retail days, Daryn landed the N...
Episode 98: Corporate, Comedy, and 'Cancel Culture' (the podcast) with Evan Shapiro
July 19, 2022 12:00 - 83.9 MBThis week's episode is with an amazing Film & TV Producer, Professor, Cartographer of the Media Universe, and Anna's friend, Evan Shapiro! Evan has had some incredible jobs over the years working for big corporate media companies, producing major comedy series like Portlandia, teaching at NYU, and his latest venture- starting a podcast with his daughter about cancel culture! (Brave, right?! It's so funny.) Evan gives some of the best advice we've had on this podcast. He talks to us about the...
Episode 97: And Just Like That...She Worked! with Nicole Travolta
June 30, 2022 17:33 - 1 hour - 57 MBWe're back! We've been on a little break but hey, we're on our way to episode 100! This week we have on one of Anna's new and close friends who she has never met in person, the hilarious and talented Nicole Travolta! Nicole and Anna literally met over instagram where they were posting SATC impressions over the pandemic and then ended up collaborating on a video! A video that they shot separately from NY and LA and edited it together! Technology, people. This episode is so wonderful because N...
Episode 96: Jewish or Fully Employed? With Eitan Levine
June 03, 2022 16:05 - 1 hour - 68.8 MBShabbat Shalom! We're dropping this episode on a Friday because Anna has her good friend and fellow Jewish comedian, the host of the Tiktok series "Jewish or Antisemitic" Eitan Levine! Eitan is serving us the Jewish content we need where anyone can play the game - you just have to decide if it's Jewish or not! Eitan starts off this episode with a story about seeing the Baldwins which you know Anna lives for. Eitan is a hustler - he produces a bunch of shows and content and videos for compani...
Episode 95: The Long Island Mom of TikTok with Becca Bastos
May 19, 2022 15:30 - 1 hour - 60.1 MBWe're back with Episode 95 (almost 100!) and we have the hilarious TikTok star and content creator, Becca Bastos! You may know her from her Long Island mom characters, her flight attendants, her chipotle employees, and the list goes on. Check out her TikTok if you haven't already fallen in love! We discuss her road to TikTok success, and of course Anna gets advice on becoming a TikTok star, her life's goal. We talk about becoming a full-time content creator and what it's like to negotiate de...
Episode 94: The Teenage Manny with Khalid Rahmaan
April 28, 2022 17:07 - 1 hour - 67.7 MBThis week on the podcast we have the hilarious comedian and friend of Anna's, Khalid Rahmaan! First of all this is the nicest episode of the pod. The complimenting alone is so sweet! Khalid is one of the most positive comics on the scene. Khalid talks to us about how he was fired over Zoom in the pandemic for a customer service job, which we believe to be iconic. But he embraced the pandemic days and started doing voiceovers and standup shows online to stay busy. Khalid wasn't always a full-...
Episode 93: 'How Cum' Interns Do All The Work? With Remy Kassimir
April 13, 2022 12:30 - 1 hour - 63.3 MBThis week on the podcast we have the host of "How Cum" podcast, hilarious comedian and friend, Remy Kassimir! Remy and Anna catch up on life and talk about how she lived in Oregon at the beginning of the pandemic and ran a comedy show online out of her boyfriend's parents' basement. AKA an iconic move. Remy talks about growing up in NYC where she wanted to go to comedy shows as a teenager because clearly she had the urge to do comedy. Anna and Remy remember her crowning achievement of winnin...
Episode 92: Singer, Homemaker, Box Factory Worker: A Triple Threat! With Becky Chicoine
March 25, 2022 12:15 - 1 hour - 63.2 MBThis week on the podcast we have Anna's good friend, the hilarious comedian Becky Chicoine (Girls With Brown Hair). Becky and Anna talk a lot about their moms, their workouts, and then deep dive into Becky's work history. From her first job as a "homemaker" at a nursing home (their term not ours) where sometimes people died, to working in accounting (but falling asleep at the desk), to working in a box factory but got in trouble for talking to a friend, to working in restaurants, to writing ...
Episode 91: From Content Creating to Pärdē-ing with Gregory Littley
March 09, 2022 15:50 - 1 hour - 61.4 MBThis week we are blessed with an incredible guest. He's a Content Creator, Digital Strategist, Shorty Award Winner, and the CEO/Co-founder of Parde Beauty, we've got Gregory Littley on the podcast this week! Greg and Anna are oldddd friends and met years ago when they were both making tons of videos, only Greg was getting paid for his and Anna was doing it for fun. They're also both from Philly, though they met in NYC. Anna and Greg chat everything from nail art to their mom's instagram acco...
Episode 90: Going "Full Hog" Into All The Jobs with Zach Zimmerman
February 23, 2022 14:17 - 1 hour - 60 MBOMG we're 90 episodes old today! Happy birthday to us, it's not easy staying unemployed this long! :) To celebrate, we have the hilarious comedian and writer Zach Zimmerman (The New Yorker) on the show. Zach has a book coming out this spring so we caught him early on the press tour! The book is called, Is It Hot in Here or Am I Suffering for all Eternity From all the Sins I Committed on Earth? And while he calls it a title, we call it a poem! The stories in this episode are awesome. Zach kne...
Episode 89: Do Not Reveal Anything About Yourself At The Office with Maddy Smith
February 09, 2022 13:30 - 1 hour - 59.1 MBWe have one of NYC's funniest comedians on the podcast this week, Maddy Smith (Wild 'n Out, That Time Of The Week Podcast)!! Maddy and Anna catch up about their pandemic, Maddy's job on MTV's Wild 'n Out, what she's been up to lately, and how she's killin it in the standup comedy world. But of course we take it back to Maddy's early jobs like when she was hired to clean her grandma's house, working as a referee for soccer games as a teenager, and ending up in a finance job. Maddy teaches us ...
Episode 88: Booking to Manifest and Manifesting to Book with Patrick Cotnoir
January 27, 2022 15:25 - 1 hour - 63.5 MBThis week's episode is awesome because we have one of NYC's best comedy bookers, the funny and charming Patrick Cotnoir (The George Lucas Talk Show, The Chris Gethard Show). Patrick and Anna talk all about how this episode happened, because it was through a DM that Patrick sent Anna when he was recently laid off from a job. (REMINDER: While we love to talk to people about their job history we in no way want you to lose jobs! Keep your benefits!) Patrick has been a booker in NYC for a while a...
Episode 87: Keep Your Friends Close and Your Restaurant Industry Friends Closer with Jake Cornell
January 12, 2022 15:00 - 1 hour - 57.4 MBWe are so lucky to have one of the funniest people and the only 'gay dad in Brooklyn' on the first pod of 2022, Jake Cornell (Going Out Podcast). Jake and Anna catch up about his viral Tiktoks that blew up in the pandemic which you will love if you haven't already seen! They also chat all things restaurant industry and how great it is to work in a NYC restaurant and make friends with your coworkers. Jake talks about what it was like to have his restaurant close down in the pandemic and turn ...
Episode 86: It's The End Of The Year As We Know It with Anna & Ellen!
December 23, 2021 19:12 - 48 minutes - 44.3 MBIt's the end of the year and so we sat down to give back to the community and give some advice to people who have things to say about their jobs! This is the first IN PERSON episode with Anna and Ellen before covid creeped back into NYC. But this is exciting: we now have a phone number and can take your calls! If you want to call in for our next episode where we can discuss anything you desire, CALL US! 929-274-4837 and leave a message. It will ring a bunch but wait for it. We also have an e...
Episode 85: Leader Of The Job Revolution(s) with Marcia Belsky
December 08, 2021 16:17 - 1 hour - 62.1 MBThis week's episode is with the hilarious comedian Marcia Belsky (Comedy Central, Tonight Show)! We talk all about Marcia's song "100 Tampons" and how cool it was to have it go super viral in the pandemic with celebrities lip syncing it on TikTok and everyone sharing it. It's so funny, and continues to grow on social media, and honestly was the thing that led Marcia to focusing on doing comedy full-time. But Marcia's had her share of day jobs in customer service, and easily made friends ther...
Episode 84: Turning Nail Art Dreams into Reality with Winnie Huang
November 24, 2021 15:15 - 1 hour - 61.1 MBThis week's guest is the fabulous and incredible Winnie Huang. She is a content creator, nail professional, judge on Canada's Next Top Nail Artist, and Anna's friend from a job! They met working together on the awesome app Airtime, and now they're real life friends. Winnie lives in Canada and is a professional nail artist. (Do yourself a favor and follow her incredible instagram @WinnieIsAwesome because her nail art is on another level!) She works with the iconic brand CND, and makes the bes...
Episode 83: Child Prodigy Of The Comedy Scene with Ruby Karp
November 10, 2021 13:00 - 64.8 MBThis week we are blessed to have an old friend and one of the funniest, most hardworking comedians on the scene, Ruby Karp! Ruby is a comedian, author of "Earth Hates Me" and senior in college...and yet she had time to be unemployed with us this week! Ruby talks about all of the jobs she's had from her early comedy writing jobs (yes she was a teen), to hosting shows at UCB from a very young age (where she and Anna met), to publishing her book! This episode is so much fun because Ruby is abou...
Episode 82: Leaving A Full-Time Tech Job to Start Over Non-Technical(ly) with Alexis Gay
October 27, 2021 14:40 - 1 hour - 66.6 MBWe have an amazing episode this week with comedian and podcast host, Alexis Gay! Alexis hosts the amazing podcast "Non-Technical" where she talks to stars in the tech world about everything BUT their resume. So basically the opposite of this podcast! Alexis is super inspiring because she was working in tech, at startups, at Patreon, and decided to take the leap to leave her full-time job and work for herself doing comedy and starting her podcast. We talk a lot about what it's like to make th...
Episode 81: From Planning Butt-Con To Writing For Peacock with Corin Wells
October 13, 2021 05:01 - 1 hour - 64.4 MBThis week we have the amazing comedian Corin Wells on the pod! Corin is a writer for The Amber Ruffin Show on Peacock, as well as a voice actor on Tooning Out The News. But on the day we recorded? She was unemployed! We talk all about her time living at home with her parents during the pandemic and then coming back to NYC and landing 2 amazing jobs. (Hello inspiration right here!) But before these awesome gigs, Corin worked in retail for Bath & Bodyworks, a theater in Philly, the citibike co...
Episode 80: A Soccer Star Can Have A Lot Of Feelings with Lorena Russi
September 29, 2021 14:19 - 1 hour - 62.5 MBIt's our 80th birthday!!! And we're still unemployed! We have an amazing guest on this week - she's one of the funniest around town, Lorena Russi! You may know Lorena from The Late Show with Stephen Colbert or her hilarious digital work. She and Anna met doing comedy shows and spent one of the last days before the pandemic at a bizarre commercial audition that Lorena fully remembers and Anna doesn't! Lorena talks to us about all of the jobs she had like random jobs of scrubbing off graffiti ...
Episode 79: Trade Shows, Singing Telegrams, and Butt Doubling with Sandi Marx
September 22, 2021 14:06 - 1 hour - 67.5 MBOn the pod this week we have the very funny Sandi Marx! Sandi is one of the most beloved storytellers of the NYC storytelling community! She is a seven-time Moth StorySLAM champion, and had a successful one woman show at Joe’s Pub called, "The Sh*t Show." While she's a performer now, Sandi takes us back to her 10 years as a successful talent agent in New York. But before she worked in show biz, she had a tonnn of random jobs! Starting with working in a jean store as a teen, Sandi had to chal...
Episode 78: "You Are Not Your Job" with Noa Shaw
September 15, 2021 14:42 - 1 hour - 68.2 MBFor our 78th episode we have an incredible guest - he's a life coach, he's an amazing friend, he's Anna's SoulCycle teacher, he's Noa Shaw! Noa is the author of the book, "Stop Thinking Thoughts That Scare You" (go read it) and hosts the podcast, "I'm Here To Help" which Anna did an episode of. Trust us when we say after getting to know Noa your life will be changed. We discuss so much on this episode as Noa has had a bajillion jobs. We chat about his life changing experience from getting sc...
Episode 77: "Anything To Keep Me Away From A Day Job" with Rojo Perez
September 01, 2021 14:40 - 1 hour - 63.3 MBThis week on the podcast we have the very funny comedian, Rojo Perez (The Tonight Show)! Rojo talks about navigating the pandemic when he had a bunch of tour dates cancelled, but making it work. Anna and Rojo talk about how it's so hard to imagine going back to a day job when you're removed for so long, even if the stability (and meals?) sound enticing! We of course rewind it back to Rojo's teenage years in Puerto Rico where he worked for his dad's wood rental business. While this is an aud...
Episode 76: *Sponsored By LinkedIn* (Soon?) with Anna & Ellen
August 25, 2021 14:35 - 46 minutes - 42.9 MBThis week is a very special episode! Anna and Ellen catch up on what's going on with Unemployment and the news! Spoiler? It's a lot. But recently there have been reports of people who are actually "overemployed" (what?!) and working more than one job remotely at home since the pandemic. Also, some people are doing Twitch shows from hot tubs which is something Anna is considering, since she loves to wear bras as shirts (sign up for that Patreon to watch this episode lol). And of course we dis...
Episode 75: A Singing Waiter Who Moves People With Their Craft with Gianmarco Soresi
August 12, 2021 14:45 - 1 hour - 69.2 MBHappy 75th! This week we have on the very funny Gianmarco Soresi (The Downside Podcast)! Gianmarco is a standup comedian, actor, and former singing waiter! We talk all about his acting days from working in a restaurant where he got to perform to moving to New York and working in catering until acting in a bunch of commercials. Of course, he ended up in comedy because sometimes ya do! We of course discuss his conversation with The Rock that recently happened on Twitter where they discuss his ...
Episode 74: Cutting The Cheese, Spilling The Beans, & More with Jo Firestone
August 04, 2021 14:32 - 1 hour - 71.9 MBThis week we are so lucky to have on one of the funniest people I know, the incredible Jo Firestone! You may know Jo from Shrill on Hulu, The Tonight Show, Joe Pera Talks To You, or that CSA she's been getting too many vegetables at each week. We discuss our cooking habits and what to do when you have an overhaul of fresh vegetables (hint: make a soup)! But of course we get into all of the jobs Jo had before she was the success you know & love today and that started at the local food court. ...
Episode 73: Iconic Memories From A Task Rabbit Queen with Sharron Paul
July 22, 2021 12:00 - 1 hour - 68.5 MBThis week's episode is such a treat! We have the very funny comedian and writer, Sharron Paul (Cheap Date Comedy, Impractical Jokers.) We discuss with Sharron how she's been employed (dare we say "over-employed") throughout the whole pandemic! Also, she got engaged, so she's killing it right now. She's had some awesome gigs and of course we deep dive into her early jobs at day cares, pet sitting, and task rabbit. The stories about her task rabbit days are too funny because we've now learned ...
Episode 72: Best, Favorite, Forever Jobs with Brandy Crawford & Dan Brown
July 15, 2021 19:45 - 1 hour - 77.9 MBOn this week's episode we have a fun cross over event! We have Brandy Crawford and Dan Brown, hosts of "TV BFFS Podcast" joining us! Their podcast is about people's "Best" "Favorite" and "Forever" TV shows, aka "BFF" (and Anna is on an episode so check that out!) so naturally we talk to them about their Best, Favorite and Forever Jobs. The BEST jobs they ever had, the FAVORITE ones (more personal to them) and the jobs they could do FOREVER! Anna and Ellen also play along and Anna talks about...
Episode 71: A Powerful Woman Working For Powerful Women with Ana Bretón
July 07, 2021 14:10 - 1 hour - 61.2 MBWe are so lucky this week to have on the wonderful, Emmy-nominated director and producer, Ana Breton! Ana works in comedy and has worked on the TV shows "Full Frontal with Samantha Bee," and "The Drew Barrymore Show." Ana began her pandemic by having a baby and then switching jobs to work for Drew Barrymore! But long before these successes, we dive into her job history where she interned for Marie Osmond in Utah, went to school for journalism, wrote and reported about true crime, worked on a...
Episode 70: "I'm Never Not Gonna Not Work," with Jo Rosenthal
July 01, 2021 04:00 - 60.4 MBWe're 70! Finally almost able to retire, right?! JK we love being unemployed. And our guest this week is looking for her dream job so I hope this podcast sends that wish into the universe. We have the coolest guest on, Jo Rosenthal! Jo is a writer, artist, fashion icon, and highly employable. She started her instagram back at an internship at Nylon because they recommended it, which was very smart because she's now cultivated a great following which has helped secure jobs along the way! Jo a...
Episode 69: From Game Of Thrones to Game Of Bread with Dolly Meckler
June 23, 2021 14:36 - 1 hour - 57.2 MBThis week's episode is with a very fun guest. She's an entrepreneur, a content strategist, a content creator, and the QUEEN OF CHALLAH, we have Dolly Meckler on the pod! Dolly was introduced to us as "Challah Dolly" which is her business she started up in the pandemic that has become a huge part of her life lately. She sells her challahs wholesale, and you can order. I highly recommend getting your hands on a loaf of her "everything seasoning challah" because I ate a loaf in a night recently...
Episode 68: "Dead Eyes, Full Hearts, Can't Lose...This Job" with Connor Ratliff
June 16, 2021 15:01 - 1 hour - 89.5 MBThis week's episode is with the very funny Connor Ratliff (Dead Eyes Podcast, The George Lucas Talk Show)! Connor actually started his podcast because of a specific story about an audition he once had for the movie Band Of Brothers in which Tom Hanks said he had...dead eyes. It's an incredible story and we are so lucky to have him tell it on this podcast! Don't worry, Connor's had some pretty incredible acting jobs since then, but those memories stick. Of course we talk about his jobs that w...
Episode 67: Crying Through An Interview But Landing The Job with Giulia Rozzi
June 09, 2021 13:34 - 65.7 MBThis week we are so lucky to have the hilarious comedian Giulia Rozzi on the podcast! She has been on Conan, Comedy Central, and hosts the very funny podcast "Should I Get Bangs?" We chat about everything from how she had a crush on the bad boy of the bagel shop she worked at (wait til you hear what he did), to a job as a life alert call button tester, to working for a cool art non profit company, and of course discuss our love of The Bachelor. Giulia's stories are the BEST and we cannot get...
Episode 66: From Galaxy Hollister to Galaxy Brains with Dave Schilling
June 03, 2021 13:29 - 1 hour - 62.3 MBIt's time for the 66th episode of the pod, and we have an awesome guest, the very funny Dave Schilling! Dave is a TV writer, and he hosts Galaxy Brains podcast, so go check that out after you love Dave on this episode. We talk about social work events and whether or not we should have remote "fun" events or just not be friends with coworkers. Spoiler, he's not there to make friends - he's there to work! We talk about one of Dave's iconic first jobs at Hollister, in the mall. We also discuss ...
Episode 65: A Bar Mitzvah Dancer Dances Her Way To TV with Dariany Santana
May 26, 2021 13:22 - 1 hour - 57.9 MBThis week's guest is chef, comedian, host, content creator and more, Dariany Santana! Dariany and Anna met working together on a virtual show for Airtime years ago and this was an amazing way to reconnect. They discuss their love of soups, cooking, crunchy rice spicy tuna, her "DMs of the week" and more! But it's the stories Dariany tells from her bat mitzvah dancer days that really make us laugh! Dariany also co-owns a restaurant with her family in NJ that has been killing it lately and we ...
Episode 64: A Toast To Career Changes! With Amanda McCrossin
May 19, 2021 05:09 - 1 hour - 72.8 MBThis week's episode is truly a toast! (We drank wine.) We have on Anna's old friend on who you may know as the "Sommvivant," Amanda McCrossin. Amanda is a wine personality, sommelier, content creator, and officially our favorite guest because she sent wine to record this episode! Anna and Amanda talk about how they met doing a job at a dinner theater in a barn in Delaware many moons ago. (Yes you read that correctly!) They share very funny memories from performing together and discuss Amanda...
Episode 63: From Work In Japan to Work In The Pan(dem) with Milly Tamarez
May 12, 2021 12:20 - 1 hour - 69 MBThis week we have a good friend of Anna's on the podcast, the very funny comedian, Milly Tamarez (Late Night With Judge Milly, All D*ck Is Trash)!! Milly has had some awesome success writing for TV shows in the pandemic! But we of course take it back and talk all about her unemployed days, where she was able to take the time to reevaluate and book some gigs that aren't full time jobs. Milly also was the first guest EVER on livestream show, The Unemployed Show (what this podcast is based on) ...
Episode 62: Canada's Hottest Job Is The Kinko's In Vancouver with Ophira Eisenberg
May 05, 2021 14:53 - 1 hour - 61.1 MBThis week we have the wonderful and hilarious Ophira Eisenberg (NPR's A_sk Me Another_, The Moth) on the podcast! Ophira tells us what it has been like to not only work during a pandemic, but also work while her son has been at home. (And she's just as shocked as anyone that she had to raise him herself!?) LOL. She tells us about a comedy gig she booked in Aruba...that didn't happen. But before she was a successful comic and host, Ophira grew up in Canada and worked in her family's grocery s...
Episode 61: Finance Seemed Cool, but Stand Up Comedy Seemed Cooler with Matthew Broussard
April 28, 2021 12:30 - 1 hour - 56.9 MBThis week's guest is a very funny comedian and friend, Matthew Broussard (Comedy Central, Conan, Fallon, She Does Standup Too Podcast)! Anna and Matthew reminisce about the Jewish comedic gigs they've gotten throughout the pandemic, some of them that they worked on together! They are the only Jews in comedy in NYC right now, so book them. Before becoming a successful comic, Matthew was a camp counselor in Texas, worked as an analyst in finance, and even worked remotely (before it was a thing...
Episode 60: Your Office Manager Is Probably Hungover with Morgan Miller
April 21, 2021 13:00 - 69.8 MBThis week, we're turning 60!!! 60 and Fabulous. And we have an amazing guest on, the hilarious Morgan Miller (Famously Dumped Podcast)! Morgan and Anna are old friends so they reminisce about their wild partying days from way back, and it's an awesome reunion. They also get into Morgan's jobs, starting with collecting pine cones. Anna and Morgan get into their time as Office Managers who were hungover a lot at work (because of comedy at night). Morgan also toured colleges, waited tables in U...
Episode 59: "You Gotta Quit Before They Fire You!" with Monroe Martin
April 14, 2021 14:28 - 1 hour - 65.1 MBWe're back with a hot new episode with our friend and very funny comedian Monroe Martin (Comedy Central, Fallon)! Monroe and Anna reminisce about their days of going into the Buzzfeed office to shoot the show, "Did You See This" that they both still work on remotely! We talk about needing more space in an apartment when quarantined with a partner, which is essential now. Monroe talks about all of his early jobs in Philly like working at Planned Parenthood and making up what he thought sex wa...
Episode 58: From Driving Ubers in Character to Becoming A Kardashian with Andrea Lopez
April 07, 2021 14:42 - 1 hour - 59.9 MBThis week's episode is so much fun! We've got the hilarious Andrea Lopez (NBC Bring The Funny, Comedy Central) on the podcast! We are coworkers at Buzzfeed together who've never met! So this is a special moment. We talk about her jobs in radio, driving for Uber, and of course her stint in hard news, where she covered a murder trial for a local news channel. But then she realized she was more of a comedian. She's an amazing impressionist, so naturally we discuss the Kardashians (and play a li...
Episode 57: Hosts Passing in the HQ Trivia Night with Sarah Pribis
March 31, 2021 11:30 - 58.6 MBThis week we have the wonderful Sarah Pribis (Living The Damn Dream, HQ Trivia, Tsu) on the pod! Even though we worked for the same company, we never met on the job! It's a lovely reunion for Ellen and Sarah though! Before she was an actress/comedian/host, she worked in retail, she did some nannying, she worked in restaurants, she bartended - she did it all!! We also talk about the first few weeks of the quarantine when we did an Instagram Live together early and continued to catch up over t...
Episode 56: "Mommy's Little Boy" of Staten Island with Sebastian Conelli
March 24, 2021 14:00 - 1 hour - 59.1 MBWe have one of the best on the podcast this week! Our friend and hilarious comedian, Sebastian Conelli (Loud About Nothing Podcast) is with us and we're gettin loud together baby! We compare how many unread emails we have in our phones, which is either a brag or a problem...we compare Jews & Italians and how important our meals are. We talk about Sebastian's gig of teaching improv over zoom and how much fun he's having. We dive deep into his earlier jobs like being a busboy at Applebee's whe...
Episode 55: Without Coworkers You Can Get Away With Anything At Work with Kelly Hudson
March 17, 2021 14:50 - 1 hour - 57.6 MBThis week's episode is so much fun. We have the very funny Kelly Hudson (The Squirt Podcast, Make Me Like It Podcast) on the pod this week! Kelly has had many many jobs and we're blessed to have learned about all of them! Kelly worked as a mascot at a bookstore, she worked at The Gap, she was a barista, an editor, ice cream scooper, sandwich artist, and even more that you'll find out about! Also, she was a parking booth attendant in college and really found herself there...yes what you're th...
Episode 54: The Jobs Of Your Teenage Self with Alise Morales
March 10, 2021 15:05 - 1 hour - 58.3 MBThis week's guest on the podcast is the very funny Alise Morales (Our Cartoon President, The Roast of Your Teenage Self Podcast)! Alise plays AOC on Our Cartoon President, and she's Twitter friends with AOC. Jobs can lead to cool stuff!! But before this, Alise had a bunch of fun jobs, like her first one at a Subway! Another alumni of the sandwich artist community on the pod. She also hosted at a restaurant that had a smoking section, which made it cool to smoke on the job. And, she worked at...
Episode 53: Always Be Silly, Even At Work with Jessica Kirson
March 03, 2021 14:15 - 52 minutes - 47.9 MBThis week we have the one & only hilarious Jessica Kirson (Disgusting Hawk Podcast, Relatively Sane Podcast) on the podcast! Jessica is a professional comedian now, but before? She worked in retail, she bartended, and she almost became a therapist. She had all the odd jobs in her 20s and we're so lucky to have learned about them on this episode. But leave it to her grandmother to tell her she needed to become a comedian. (And you listen to your grandmother!) And because she's a Jew you know ...
Episode 52: From 'Leisure Suit Larry' to 'Sex And The City' with The Bradshaw Boys (Cory Cavin, Jon Sieber, Kevin James Doyle)
February 24, 2021 16:00 - 1 hour - 72.7 MBMeanwhile, on the other side of town, The Bradshaw Boys joined the Unemployed Podcast for Episode 52! We're so blessed to have Cory Cavin, Kevin James Doyle, and Jon Sieber, the hilarious hosts of the podcast The Bradshaw Boys on this week's episode! We talk all about their jobs they had before deciding to watch all of Sex And The City for the first time as grown adult men. We also discuss the jobs of the characters on SATC, because how was Carrie able to afford that apartment by writing a c...
Episode 51: No Job? Give Yourself A Fellowship with Kelly Bachman
February 17, 2021 12:00 - 1 hour - 59.5 MBAnd now onto our next 50 episodes! This week we have the very funny comedian and writer, Kelly Bachman on the show! Kelly is also one of the last comedians Anna saw at a show before the pandemic, so this is a sweet reunion of sorts! Although she's currently unemployed, she's got a very inspiring and admirable schedule to be productive: She "imagines she has a fellowship that will be ending at the end of the month." And convinces herself of this each month! She tricks herself! It's brilliant....
Episode 50: "Acting is About Accents" Even If It's One Line with Tim Murray
February 10, 2021 16:18 - 1 hour - 72.1 MBIt's our 50th EPISODE!!! We'rrre 50! We did it! We're retiring! (Just kidding, you need to be working to retire, right?) This week we have a such a treat for our 50th episode. We are joined by the very funny comedian and podcast host Tim Murray (Slumber Party Podcast) is our guest! Tim is an amazing hustler, who booked himself all over the world and went on tour with his one hour standup show. But also? He's been an acting teacher for child models in LA, he's found tons of jobs on Craigslist,...