Young Person's Radio

Tom Scharpling (The Best Show, Double Threat, radio icon & extremely cool dude) joins Colb for the final installment of YPR. The two discuss Lebron James, Damian Lillard, and a host of other NBA topics before diving in on Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Bruce Springsteen, Elton John, and all things Best Show. A fitting end to Young Person's Radio... for now... The Best Show airs live every Tuesday from 9pm-midnight at thebestshow.net Tom's book IT NEVER ENDS is out this July Colby's podcast HONEY BABY SWEETIE LOVE, a parody of relationship podcasts, is available wherever you get your podcasts Learn more about Radio Free Brooklyn at radiofreebrooklyn.com and listen live via the RFB mobile app

A super-sized episode in which Loyal Caller Tim Keck joins Colb to reflect on 200 episodes of Young Person's Radio, including best episodes, worst guests, and more! Plus, a call from Lower East Simon! Listen as the boys send off the show in style! Young Person's Radio airs every Sunday morning at 10 on Radio Free Brooklyn. Listen live at radiofreebrooklyn.com or the RFB mobile app.

Trevor Lyon (Tea Time with Trevor) and Matt Strickland (Pod Cusack, MTV) join Colb to give the inside scoop on some upcoming podcasts rumored to be in development at The Ringer, including Bill Simmons' Sex Rankings, Fincher and Dragons, Beat Up or Beat Down (with Ron Artest), Mann Cave, and so many more! Young Person's Radio airs every Sunday morning at 10 on Radio Free Brooklyn. Listen live at radiofreebrooklyn.com or the RFB mobile app.

Lauren Oyler returns to the program to discuss her debut novel, FAKE ACCOUNTS, which is out Tuesday, February 2, from Catapult Press. She and Colb talk the joys and challenges of writing a novel about the internet, auditioning for the Yale improv team, and about how the last time she was on the show, a lot of what we talked about got quoted in a bad review of the book. What trouble will we get into this time?? Young Person's Radio airs every Sunday morning at 10 on Radio Free Brooklyn. Listen live at radiofreebrooklyn.com or the RFB mobile app.

Film at Lincoln Center's own Maddie Whittle makes her third appearance on YPR to discuss the bizarre movie year that was 2020, how the pandemic is reshaping the industry, what worked and didn't work about David Fincher's MANK, Richard Brody's white-hot Godfather III take, her thesis on Terrence Malick, and so much more! Young Person's Radio airs every Sunday morning at 10 on Radio Free Brooklyn. Listen live at radiofreebrooklyn.com or the RFB mobile app.

Music industry veteran and Detoxicity podcast host Mike Joseph joins Colb for a wide-ranging talk about streaming vs. buying records, Mike's days as an album reviewer, what a post-pandemic music business might look like, and so much more! Mike is one of our favorite guests for a reason, folks! Young Person's Radio airs every Sunday morning at 10 on Radio Free Brooklyn. Listen live at radiofreebrooklyn.com or the RFB mobile app.

Trevor Lyon returns to YPR to join Colb in revealing the host of new Star Wars, Pixar, and Marvel projects that Disney failed to report during their now-infamous Investor Day conference on December 10. Young Person's Radio airs every Sunday morning at 10 on Radio Free Brooklyn. Listen live at radiofreebrooklyn.com or the RFB mobile app.

Tim Keck (Come at Me Show) joins Colb for another installment of the Overtime Show, where we talk about sports, e-sports, and the role of art in society. In this episode, there's Tyler Herro's op-ed about the 14 things he learned in his first year at the Miami Heat, the 2020 console wars, and a discussion of one of Fran Lebowitz's finer points about the arc of artistic careers from the documentary PUBLIC SPEAKING (2020). Young Person's Radio airs every Sunday morning at 10 on Radio Free Brooklyn. Listen live at radiofreebrooklyn.com or the RFB mobile app.

Colb goes it alone to celebrate the 193rd episode of YPR, and boy, do we celebrate. Discover the similarities between a track from Bruce Springsteen's Born in the USA album and the obscure NSYNC album track "I Just Got Paid" from the 1997 debut album. Share in Colb's joy at an all-time great interaction with a Shake Shack employee during the worst months of the pandemic. Revel in tales from RFB lore. Laugh, cry, have a ball! Young Person's Radio airs every Sunday morning at 10 on Radio Free Brooklyn. Listen live at radiofreebrooklyn.com or the RFB mobile app.

Emily Duncan (Epicurious) and Matt Strickland (MTV) join Colb to talk about NBA Basketball. Young Person's Radio airs every Sunday morning at 10 on Radio Free Brooklyn. Listen live at radiofreebrooklyn.com or the RFB mobile app.

Julia Claire, comedian and host of the leftist feminist podcast Reply Guys, joins Colb to discuss Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez' interview in the New York Times, lessons learned from the 2020 Election, and of course, what do we do now?! Young Person's Radio airs every Sunday morning at 10 on Radio Free Brooklyn. Listen live at radiofreebrooklyn.com or the RFB mobile app.

Michael Barbaro! Chuck Schumer! Nancy Pelosi! Jill Biden! They all stop by to make the YPR Election Special a true night to remember! Featuring the incomparable Hallie Haas. Young Person's Radio airs every Sunday morning at 10 on Radio Free Brooklyn. Listen live at radiofreebrooklyn.com or the RFB mobile app.

Ben Marshall (Please Don't Destroy) returns to the show to talk some of our favorite moments from the NBA Bubble, pine for the New York comedy scene of the early aughts, and tell a few brutal stories of small town sports coaches. A classic ep! Young Person's Radio airs every Sunday morning at 10 on Radio Free Brooklyn. Listen live at radiofreebrooklyn.com or the RFB mobile app.

Colb and Amir Khan (UCB, movies, television, beautiful art and photography at @amirkhanstuff) talk about everything we listed in the episode title, duh. Plus, Colb tells a definitive YPR story about his horrible music taste. Young Person's Radio airs every Sunday morning at 10 on Radio Free Brooklyn. Listen live at radiofreebrooklyn.com or the RFB mobile app.

Genius artist Maddie Fischer joins Colb to mostly go deep on Great British Bake Off but not before talking about her family's obsession with the band Cake, her days hosting the SUP open mic in New York, and much more! You can find her work online at maddiefischer.com and on Instagram @paper_maddie.  Young Person's Radio airs every Sunday morning at 10 on Radio Free Brooklyn. Listen live at radiofreebrooklyn.com or the RFB mobile app. 

Comedian and A Special Thing Records recording artist Tommy McNamara joins Colb to talk about the new Bruce Springsteen songs, the best content from players inside the NBA bubble, and dropping acid with friends! Plus, Tommy gives maybe the best series of answers to the YPR Guest Questionnaire ever? An ep for the ages! Young Person's Radio airs every Sunday morning at 10 on Radio Free Brooklyn. Listen live at radiofreebrooklyn.com or the RFB mobile app.

Colb interviews music writer Steven Hyden (Uproxx, Grantland, a bunch of terrific books) about Bruce, Dylan, the Rolling Stones, Tom Petty, taping songs off the radio, the joys of internet message boards, and his new book, "This Isn't Happening: Radiohead's 'Kid A' and the Beginning of the 21st Century." One of our trademark Good Talks! Young Person's Radio airs every Sunday morning at 10 on Radio Free Brooklyn live. Listen live at radiofreebrooklyn.com or the RFB mobile app.

Colb welcomes comedian Paige Smith-Hogan to the show to help write her Tight Quarantine Five for the first time she does stand-up when the pandemic subsides. But first! Jon Hudson joins the show to settle the Twitter beef between him and Colb. Plus! Twin Peaks talk! A bonafide barnburner! Young Person's Radio airs every Sunday morning at 10 on Radio Free Brooklyn. Listen live at radiofreebrooklyn.com or the RFB mobile app.

Colb gathers Los Angeles Clippers lifer Maggie Widdoes and his trusty companion Matt Strickland to indulge in some good old fashioned basketball talk. Together, the crew pitches a dynamite new name for the Clippers, dumps on the Houston Rockets, and once again debates Lebron vs Michael Jordan. Plus, Maggie reveals her childhood Clippers crush. A bang up ep from the boys! Young Person's Radio airs every Sunday morning at 10 on Radio Free Brooklyn. Listen live at radiofreebrooklyn.com or on the RFB mobile app.

Colb enlists the help of Amir Khan (UCB) to host Honey Baby Sweetie Love, a new podcast about dating in this crazy world we call New York City. Together, they interview comedian Carolyn Egan (UCB) for advice on open relationships, who we've loved the deepest (and what happened to them), and the prison that is monogamy. Young Person's Radio airs every Sunday morning at 10 on Radio Free Brooklyn. Listen live at radiofreebrooklyn.com or the RFB mobile app.