Episodes

  • Victor Varnado - Tic-Tac-Toe and Designing Arcade Games

    Victor Varnado - Tic-Tac-Toe and Designing Arcade Games
    May 15 2026
    New High Score!! It's our best ep yet! We talk to comedian, actor, filmmaker, and video game designer Victor Varnado (Comedy Central, TruTV) about his lifelong obsession with creating video games. His new venture HighScoreGameArcade features an ongoing worldwide Tic-Tac-Toe Championship available to over 100 million people right now! We talk about early game creations, Victor's plans to be a supervillain, and how to pitch a movie tie-in game to a director (by making the costumes historically accurate!). It's a fun one! Support the show by checking out our sponsors! This episode is brought to you by Mint Mobile, currently offering 50% off 3, 6, and 9-month plans! Visit: MintMobile.com/mynewthing My New Thing is a comedy podcast featuring interviews with the funniest people on the planet discussing their latest obsessions! We're talking hobbies, sports, video games, and obscure films you can only find on VHS. It's a podcast where comedians talk about anything but how they got started in the biz! What a relief. Hosted by comedians Dan Wilbur (The Onion, Sirius XM) and Zach Sims (Comedy Central) Join us, hobbyholers! Follow us on Instagram! Music by Corn Mo. Art by Jordan Doll. Want to see us live? We host a weekly stand-up show in Park Slope, Brooklyn every Wednesday at Young Ethel's! Email us: MyNewThingPod@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 hr and 2 mins
  • BONUS - Our Google Search Histories

    BONUS - Our Google Search Histories
    May 13 2026
    Get ready to clear your history after this one! It's a bonus episode about every dirty detail of the world Zach and Dan searched for this month! Today on the bonus episode of the show, Dan asks Zach to reveal his Google Search History for May, 2026. The results... may shock you! It's a fun talk about history, science, and the human soul. We learn about hantavirus, rent in NYC, and how to pronounce "Pulitzer Prize." It's a fun hang! Support the show by checking out our sponsors! This episode is brought to you by Mint Mobile, currently offering 50% off 3, 6, and 9-month plans! Visit: MintMobile.com/mynewthing My New Thing is a comedy podcast featuring interviews with the funniest people on the planet discussing their latest obsessions! We're talking hobbies, sports, video games, and obscure films you can only find on VHS. It's a podcast where comedians talk about anything but how they got started in the biz! What a relief. Hosted by comedians Dan Wilbur (The Onion, Sirius XM) and Zach Sims (Comedy Central) Join us, hobbyholers! Follow us on Instagram! Music by Corn Mo. Art by Jordan Doll. Want to see us live? We host a weekly stand-up show in Park Slope, Brooklyn every Wednesday at Young Ethel's! Email us: MyNewThingPod@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    45 mins
  • Jim Tews - Fermenting Foods

    Jim Tews - Fermenting Foods
    May 9 2026
    Take a big bite out of this episode! It'll help your gut health! Today in the Hobby Hole, Zach and Dan talk to Jim Tews (FX, NY Times Bestselling author of Felines of New York) about his obsession with fermenting different foods. We talk about food poisoning, solo filmmaking, Cleveland, and sobriety. It's good for your body and soul! Check out Jim's special With Pictures! Support the show by checking out our sponsors! This episode is brought to you by Mint Mobile, currently offering 50% off 3, 6, and 9-month plans! Visit: MintMobile.com/mynewthing My New Thing is a comedy podcast featuring interviews with the funniest people on the planet discussing their latest obsessions! We're talking hobbies, sports, video games, and obscure films you can only find on VHS. It's a podcast where comedians talk about anything but how they got started in the biz! What a relief. Hosted by comedians Dan Wilbur (The Onion, Sirius XM) and Zach Sims (Comedy Central) Join us, hobbyholers! Follow us on Instagram! Music by Corn Mo. Art by Jordan Doll. Want to see us live? We host a weekly stand-up show in Park Slope, Brooklyn every Wednesday at Young Ethel's! Email us: MyNewThingPod@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 hr and 14 mins
  • BONUS - Street Fighter (1994)

    BONUS - Street Fighter (1994)
    May 6 2026
    From Heaven...Like Lightning!! It's another bonus episode of the show! In honor of Calvin Cato's obsession with the Street Fighter games, we decided to give the 1994 Street Fighter movie a try. Boy, were we... entertained...? This episode is about what went wrong, what went right, and why this movie could have been truly great if everyone got out of de Souza's way! A new regular interview episode will be up on Friday! Support the show by checking out our sponsors! This episode is brought to you by Mint Mobile, currently offering 50% off 3, 6, and 9-month plans! Visit: MintMobile.com/mynewthing My New Thing is a comedy podcast featuring interviews with the funniest people on the planet discussing their latest obsessions! We're talking hobbies, sports, video games, and obscure films you can only find on VHS. It's a podcast where comedians talk about anything but how they got started in the biz! What a relief. Hosted by comedians Dan Wilbur (The Onion, Sirius XM) and Zach Sims (Comedy Central) Join us, hobbyholers! Follow us on Instagram! Music by Corn Mo. Art by Jordan Doll. Want to see us live? We host a weekly stand-up show in Park Slope, Brooklyn every Wednesday at Young Ethel's! Email us: MyNewThingPod@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    56 mins
  • Calvin Cato - Fighting Games

    Calvin Cato - Fighting Games
    May 1 2026
    Hadouken! Watch out for this episode because it's going to kick you in the teeth! Today in the Hobby Hole, Zach and Dan talk to the hilarious Calvin Cato (Netflix, Sirius, Oxygen) about his addiction to video games both new and old. We talk about Street Fighter, fighting tournaments, and where you could play arcade games in Brooklyn in the 90s. We also talk about Calvin's recent obsession with old cartoons on Tubi! It's a real treat. Enjoy! Support the show by checking out our sponsors! This episode is brought to you by Mint Mobile, currently offering 50% off 3, 6, and 9-month plans! Visit: ⁠MintMobile.com/mynewthing⁠ My New Thing is a comedy podcast featuring interviews with the funniest people on the planet discussing their latest obsessions! We're talking hobbies, sports, video games, and obscure films you can only find on VHS. It's a podcast where comedians talk about anything but how they got started in the biz! What a relief. Hosted by comedians ⁠Dan Wilbur⁠ (The Onion, Sirius XM) and ⁠Zach Sims⁠ (Comedy Central) Join us, hobbyholers! Follow us on ⁠Instagram⁠! Music by ⁠Corn Mo⁠. Art by ⁠Jordan Doll⁠. Want to see us live? We host ⁠a weekly stand-up show⁠ in Park Slope, Brooklyn every Wednesday at Young Ethel's!Email us: ⁠MyNewThingPod@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 hr and 12 mins
  • BONUS - Kingpin (1996)

    BONUS - Kingpin (1996)
    May 1 2026
    You kids remember the 90s? Well, even if you don't listen to this! Today on the bonus episode, Zach and Dan watch the 1996 comedy Kingpin because we heard on our recap episodes that it was the greatest movie about bowling ever made. We were not disappointed. We talk about what holds up, the Amish, who you're allowed to make fun of, and the importance of plot versus a series of funny ideas put on film. We all learned something important about ourselves and about art. All from Kingpin! Support the show by checking out our sponsors! This episode is brought to you by Mint Mobile, currently offering 50% off 3, 6, and 9-month plans! Visit: MintMobile.com/mynewthing My New Thing is a comedy podcast featuring interviews with the funniest people on the planet discussing their latest obsessions! We're talking hobbies, sports, video games, and obscure films you can only find on VHS. It's a podcast where comedians talk about anything but how they got started in the biz! What a relief. Hosted by comedians Dan Wilbur (The Onion, Sirius XM) and Zach Sims (Comedy Central) Join us, hobbyholers! Follow us on Instagram! Music by Corn Mo. Art by Jordan Doll. Want to see us live? We host a weekly stand-up show in Park Slope, Brooklyn every Wednesday at Young Ethel's! Email us: MyNewThingPod@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    50 mins
  • Sean Donnelly - Skateboarding and JFK

    Sean Donnelly - Skateboarding and JFK
    Apr 24 2026
    Open your eyes and your ears because we've got all the facts The Man doesn't want you to know! Today in the Hobby Hole, we're joined by our dear friend Sean Donnelly (Colbert, Comedy Central), who tells us about his recent obsession with the JFK assassination as well as his old obsession with skateboarding on Long Island. We talk about myths, conspiracies, and eating candy in a parking lot with our friends. It's a great hang! Support the show by checking out our sponsors! This episode is brought to you by Mint Mobile, currently offering 50% off 3, 6, and 9-month plans! Visit: MintMobile.com/mynewthing My New Thing is a comedy podcast featuring interviews with the funniest people on the planet discussing their latest obsessions! We're talking hobbies, sports, video games, and obscure films you can only find on VHS. It's a podcast where comedians talk about anything but how they got started in the biz! What a relief. Hosted by comedians Dan Wilbur (The Onion, Sirius XM) and Zach Sims (Comedy Central) Join us, hobbyholers! Follow us on Instagram! Music by Corn Mo. Art by Jordan Doll. Want to see us live? We host a weekly stand-up show in Park Slope, Brooklyn every Wednesday at Young Ethel's!Email us: MyNewThingPod@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 hr and 13 mins
  • BONUS - Untold: Chess Mates

    BONUS - Untold: Chess Mates
    Apr 24 2026
    Checkmate, listeners! We're back with another bonus episode! Today on the show, Zach and Dan discuss the Netflix documentary Untold: Chess Mates. It's a window into the dark world of competitive chess, and wouldn't you know it... There are some real dorks in the mix! We talk about the cheating controversies, the constant online gaming, and our episode of this very show with Abe Gatling about Chess. It's a good one! YouTube rec: Game of The Century Explained! Support the show by checking out our sponsors! This episode is brought to you by Mint Mobile, currently offering 50% off 3, 6, and 9-month plans! Visit: MintMobile.com/mynewthing My New Thing is a comedy podcast featuring interviews with the funniest people on the planet discussing their latest obsessions! We're talking hobbies, sports, video games, and obscure films you can only find on VHS. It's a podcast where comedians talk about anything but how they got started in the biz! What a relief. Hosted by comedians Dan Wilbur (The Onion, Sirius XM) and Zach Sims (Comedy Central) Join us, hobbyholers! Follow us on Instagram! Music by Corn Mo. Art by Jordan Doll. Want to see us live? We host a weekly stand-up show in Park Slope, Brooklyn every Wednesday at Young Ethel's! Email us: MyNewThingPod@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    55 mins