The Last Rad
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For our final transmission Kyle Clark, Matthew Burnside, Laura Knight, and Adam Crosse (and Frank on the phone at one point!) are joined by former guests: Kasey Clark John Ungaro Robert Ahn Rivers Langley Brent Schmidt Kate Gaffney Sam Harter Seth Pomeroy Joe Kaye Aldrin Cornejo Casey Moran Adam Crosse Emily Kirk and Carter Glasscock For a final evening of revelry and radness. Thank you for everything. Have a Great Summer This Is Rad! Podcast 2014-2025 Check out Burnside playing video games at Get Kyle Clark's I'm a Person: Director's Cut You can go to...
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Psychedelics and Magick
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In the penultimate episode of This Is Rad! we are joined by the one and only Brent Schmidt. We welcome you to join us as we journey from the depths of the cosmos to the streets of New Mexico. Buy the ticket. Take the ride. Remember, eventually it will end but you'll still be you... Producers note: We also keep all the pedal talk to the very end. You're welcome. Weekly Rad: Don't fuck with demons! Check out Burnside playing video games at Get Kyle Clark's I'm a Person: Director's Cut You can go to and pay what you want for the full...
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Bodily Fluids, Smoking, and The Meg 2
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The Mean Boys (Keith Carey (@keithtellsjokes), Tom Goss (@tomgosscomedy), and Connor McSpadden (@connormcspadden)) have reunited to see Kyle and Matthew off to the land of ended podcasts. A land that exists deep in the Mariana Trench. The same home where the great sea beast The Meg resides. Plus, we discuss “forbidden episodes”, sexual vaping, Matthew is treated with love and respect. Check out Burnside playing video games at Get Kyle Clark's I'm a Person: Director's Cut You can go to and pay what you want for the full uncut set from “I'm a ”Person which...
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The Los Angeles Clippers (bonus)
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Kyle and longtime brother Kasey Clark sit down for an extensive conversation about the history of the Los Angeles Clippers and what it is like to truly love a sports franchise... … there's also like 45 minutes on Turnstile.
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One More Marvel
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Kyle and Matthew are joined one more time by one of our longest running regular guests Jeremy Scippio (@jeremycomedy). We have enjoyed being the mouthpiece for Jeremy's takes on the comic book world and our final episode does not disappoint. The boys look the MCU's place in 2025. A little worse for wear but in an interesting place. We'll give you that take in the episode notes because mostly Kyle and Jeremy fight about some dumb stuff about Spider-Man. Like, Jeremy takes a call, we come back, like 30 minutes goes by and then they get into it again. Don't worry, Burnside is riding along with...
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The Rad Family Reunion
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The entire crew that makes This Is Rad! Get together to chat about their history and experience with the show. They also talk about Kenny G's descent into villainy, navigating piles of fan mail that isn't ours, and turning boys into closets. Plus, we pose the question, what collectable would you brandish to stop a home invader. Fun stuff people. Weekly Rads: Kyle - Cola Boyy – Quit toPlay Chess (album) Matthew - Everybody's Doin' It by Commander Cody and his Lost Planet Airmen (song) (as feature in the film “Hollywood Blvd.”) Laura – Everybody's Live with John Mulany (show)...
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Modern Sci-Fi
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Kyle, Matthew, and Laura welcome back two of the greatest guests in This Is Rad! History, Ed Greer (@edgreerdestroys) and Klee Wiggins (@kleewigginssf). Klee and Ed have been our sci-fi ambassadors since the earliest days of the show. We reflect on the evolution science fiction in the last decade. Genre fiction is often reflective of our times and we look at what about our modern times might be reflected in sci-fi. Plus, we've all gotten older. We reflect on a decade of doing the show with two of our longest running recurring guests. Check out Burnside playing video games at Get...
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The Last Boat
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This week the boys set sail for a final voyage with one of our favorite guests, the one and only Lisa Curry. We chat about Lisa’s unique arc on the show, from boat enthusiast to ship’s captain to one of the queens of summer, she’s been a very fun member of the TIR universe. Weekly Rads: All - A painting of a Ship’s Captain lighting a pipe (image) Check out Burnside playing video games at Get Kyle Clark's I'm a Person: Director's Cut You can go to www.kyleclarkcomed.bandcamp.com and pay what you want for the full uncut set from “I'm a Person” which...
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Mass Effect Episode Coda
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Kyle and Matthew sit down for an after the episode intro. Don't think to hard about it. Matthew reviews he and Laura's recent trip to the Just Like Heaven festival. Laura finally got to see Rilo Kiley live! Vampire Weekend did a suite of super lame covers. This leads to chatting about watching bands phone a set it in. Kyle's almost done with the second issue of Huzzah! and has been watching a lot of vintage cartoons. Plus, life advice from Matt: Start a band, quit your podcast Weekly Rads: Kyle – The Amazing World of Gumball (show) Warhammer 40k Boltgun (game) Matthew...
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Mass Effect
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Oh boy folks, we've got a barn burner this week. Grant Bubar returns and is freed from the shackles of talking about music to talk about one of his true passions, the Mass Effect universe. He's got pages of notes folks. But wait, that's not all! Due to a series of unfortnuate events, Matthew was unable to make it to the IRL record. So, we're gonna do an additional episode later this week. That's right, this ep is four hours and it's not even a full episode. A shocking amount stays on task but there are also some real good bros talking about feelings around the three hour mark. But truly, they...
info_outlinePizza in the morning. Pizza in the evening. Pizza at supper time. When pizza is the subject of your podcast, you can have pizza anytime. Did I do that for the last pizza episode? I was gonna check but then I didn't and now here we are. This week on the show Kyle and Matthew welcome writer/comedian Matt Dwyer to the show. Besides being one of the darkest and funniest writers Kyle knows he's also become an excellent pizza chef in the last few years. Matt hails from Chicago and after our amazing episode with Steve Simone about proper New York pizza we felt it was only fair to get the second city's view on making a proper pizza. We get into some intresting territory about the lesser known approaches to pizza and Kyle learns to gain an appreciation for proper Chicago style deep dish pizza. If you are like him and have your doubts this is worth a listen. This is probably not a good episode to listen to while hungry cause it's mostly us just talking about how delicious food is. We also get into some great tangents about Tom Waits, Jerry Stahl, and the evils of corporate culture. Yeah, on the pizza episode.
Note: We tried an experiment with the way we opened the episode. We started and then Kyle realized that we could do the intro and the episode as one track (less editing!). So if you seem real confused, we were just trying something for the sake of trying it, fear not, we'll be back to normal format next week. Order shall be preserved and there will again be peace and freedom in the galaxy....
Weekly Rads:
Matthew – The Perfect Bid (documentary on Amazon Prime)
Kyle – 5 Below (store) and Boyfriend (rapper)
Dwyer – Coleman Hawkins (jazz musician) and Arbitrary Stupid Goal by Tarmara Shopsin (book)
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