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I’m Kasey Koop and, as a comedian, former Playboy columnist, stripper and recovering addict, I have a bevy of colorful friends living free – either from drugs and alcohol, societal traditions or shame. Kasey’s FREEk Show Podcast features our boldly unfiltered conversations about the ongoing fight for personal freedom. Come let your freak flags fly!Follow @kaseykoop on Twitter/Instagram
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Justin Foster is a nationally-touring comedian and host of Foster the Podcast with a new album called “Dangerless.” We talk my getting mad at him for getting sober, having time to learn new things in sobriety and the humbling experience of starting comedy over in LA after headlining in Dallas. Presented by Meltdown Comics! This Week’s Guest: Justin…
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Zara Lisbon is a sober novelist and writer for Hellogiggles. We talk falling in love with alcohol, having body image issues at 12, the mixed messages about women that don’t allow us to win, her Young Adult thriller series, fiction’s value, being a channel for God in our writing, Lana Del Rey and trusting yourself. Presented by Meltdown Comics! This…
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Chris Zeischegg AKA Danny Wylde is an ex- star, musician and author of the book, Body to Job. We talk how sex work led to craving monogamy, getting his erections bled out, the difficult years leaving and transitioning into other work, the emotional labor of sex work and moving to avoid a stalker. Presented by Meltdown Comics! This Week’s Guest: Chr…
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Charlie Berlin is one of my biggest influences, a sober advocate for women’s mental health and trauma healing and founder of the organization, La Femme Nouvelle. We talk being in abusive relationships, being abusers, coke speeding up our rock bottoms, choosing happiness, anxiety as trapped energy, building self esteem and her upcoming marriage. Fol…
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Chris Estrada is a comedian who’s on Time Out LA’s list of Comics to Watch in 2018. We talk doing comedy on the road, being raised by women, being an ex-Cap’n Save-A-Hoe, doing meth with escorts in hotel rooms and growing up in South Central. Presented by Meltdown Comics! This Week’s Guest: Chris Estrada Twitter: @ChrisEstrada85 Follow Kasey! TW: @…
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Alex Hooper is a comedian and host of Crave, the stand-up-comedy-show-meets-rave. He’s been on Comedy Central’s Roast Battle and Corporate. We talk festivals opening us up, having a well-rounded, fun life outside of stand up, his Pug Yoga calendar making it onto Ellen, spreading joy and Lana Del Rey. Follow his IG and Twitter @hooperhairpuff. Prese…
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April AKA Ashley Soltys is a dancer, stripper, professional hooper, bartender and coach. We talk getting secondhand Maced at the strip club, internalized misogyny, Aziz Ansari, male accountability, traveling alone, performing at Burner festivals and being healers. Presented by Meltdown Comics! This Week’s Guest: April aka Ashley Soltys Instagram: @…
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Lucia Brizzi is an actor, comic and creative coach with her own personal growth comedy show, Wow! So Alive! We talk her all-female comedy group, the surprising joy of growing up, performing with her ex-boyfriend and allowing instead of forcing. Presented by Meltdown Comics! This Week’s Guest: Lucia Brizzi Twitter: @luciabrizzi Instagram: @luciabriz…
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Jessica Michelle Singleton is a world-touring Billboard Top 10 Comedian and paid regular at The Comedy Store with a #1 album and her Ignorance is #Blessed podcast. We talk health problems from trauma suppression, mommy issues, attaining happiness and enlightenment through pain, the messiness of spiritual exploration and meditation. Presented by Mel…
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Alex Firer has written for The Onion, Splitsider and currently for a UCB House Team. We talk the humanizing of Nazis, being an immigrant, how to become a comedy writer, the internet’s one-upping culture, rape jokes and his bisexuality. Buy his zine, “Mom Presents I Think These Guys Are Hot Stuff” on The Devastator. Presented by Meltdown Comics! Thi…
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Logan Pierce AKA J.R. Verlin is a star nominated for the Best Actor AVN and author of “Between the Sheets: Rise of a Working Stiff.” We talk losing job opportunities because of sex work, people’s invasive questions, drugs, the declining money in sex work, ’s gender role reversals, meeting his girlfriend filming a scene together and female ographers…
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Breezy AKA Shay is a professional dancer in the Suicide Girls Blackheart Burlesque Troupe and a stripper. We talk touring the world, her multiple hustles, getting her stripper name from a fake ID, being rejected by customers, internet hate, staying true to herself and attracting guys who like a showgirl.Presented by Meltdown Comics! This Week's Gue…
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Lauren Rantala is a producer at Super Deluxe, comedian and writer whose show, “Tiffany the Teenage Grim Reaper” won Best Animated Project at the NY TV & Film Festival. We talk being the black sheep in religious, conservative towns, male teachers’ inappropriate behavior, abstinence-only sex ed., the incident that made her quit music, freeze-and-appe…
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Hot Wheels AKA Brit Kinnard is a roller-skating-stripper-turned-office-manager. We talk how she invented roller skating stripping, stripping in 3 different cities, moving to escape an abusive stalker, victim blaming, Louis CK, transitioning from the club to an office, forgiveness, feeling no shame about stripping and our alcoholism. Presented by Me…
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Matt LeGrande is a comedian and gay recovering Christian Missionary. We talk growing up a white Missionary in Indonesia, the church repressing his sexuality, seeing our parents as human, signing an anti-being gay waver at college, spirituality, gratitude and the pressure to act like straight dudes in stand up! Presented by Meltdown Comics! This Wee…
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Max Blum is a sober addict, cat dad and editor of music videos for everyone from Migos to Lil Yachty. We talk how fun becoming a lame sober person is, how desperate we looked while trying to be cool, the lie that you need substances to be creative, the radness of shitty tattoos, letting go of outcomes, acceptance, staying sober in the music industr…
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Danielle Perez is a comedian, actress and host of the Thighgap Comedy Show. We talk the female gaze, body image, Cardi B’s success for strippers and Latinas, the pressure on Latinas to find a man despite being self-supporting hustlers, predatory men in comedy, our “Me Too” experiences and the harassment she’s gotten for being in a wheelchair. Prese…
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Alison Stevenson is a comedian and writer for publications like Vice with an album called “Eat Me.” We talk men misinterpreting sexual openness for an invitation, male comics praised for their realness while female comics’ experience is dismissed as “too real,” guys being scared of us writing about them, our noncommittal generation, the awfulness o…
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Nikki Knightly AKA Alexis Sanchez is my co-stripper, a model, comedian and star. We talk music festivals, choreographing positions, chemistry with sex work partners, being “dick drunk,” misconceptions about sex work, the prep for filming an anal scene, our mothers’ disapproval, drugs not working, gaslighting and going through a heroin addiction. Pr…
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Aeon Magdalena AKA Ashley is a raw stripper, mom and creator of Submerge LA. We talk breaking out of a religious background, starting dancing at 29, stripping reminding us who we are, working in nude clubs to bikini bars, meeting her baby daddy on Craigslist, giving happy endings, the value of sex work and teaching her son about stripping and conse…
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Jon Daly is an actor, comedian and writer who stars in the Showtime series, I’m Dying Up Here. We talk his mission to finger televangelist Joel Osteen’s butthole, smelly strip club customers, having Jim Carrey as a boss, coming up in UCB in NY and going to middle school with Christina Aguilera. Check out this hilarious episode of KAsey's Freek Show…
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Dani Fernandez is a writer, comedian, host on nerd channels and Twitter superstar. We talk her bringing up other women with her, sexually violent threats, being called ugly but also having her success attributed to good looks, her year-long marriage, using Twitter to raise social consciousness, her suicide attempt, the cycle of abuse and our emotio…
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Bill Dixon is a comedian, writer and producer at The Bachelor who is 9 years sober. We talk him helping me get sober, the Dane Cook moment that changed his life, how stand-up helps other areas of your life and teaches you how to take criticism, drunk-driving a bulldozer, his parents meeting in rehab, smelling babies and the double-edged sword of Tw…
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Hana Michels is a comedian and writer for sites like Funny or Die and Splitsider. We talk unsolicited joke tags from guys, men explaining our jokes to us, open relationships, her therapist parents, depression, panic attacks, double standards in parenting, childhood masturbation, outspoken male feminists, guys stealing our jokes and hating being a m…
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Quincy Jones is a comedian with his own HBO special, “Burning the Light,” who is fighting cancer. We talk haters and the backlash to success, happiness as revenge, people’s false claims about his cancer, him watching me pull dudes, white privilege, the entitlement of white men afraid of having to work harder, faith and manifestation. All on this ep…
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Dixie AKA Josie Johnson is an ex-stripper, nerd, gamer, wife and cam model. We talk her transition from the pole to a desk job, she and I’s checkered past, the emotional labor of stripping, her finding empowerment through stripping after abusive relationships, our dating/marrying younger men, her plastic surgery and creating boundaries. Presented b…
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Alabama aka Kelsea Polk is a stripper, pole dance instructor, host and producer of the Wicked Woman show. We talk working a nude event together, stripping jading her about men, pole competitions, my attempt at working in a topless club, destigmatizing pole and men’s investment in pitting women against each other. This Week’s Guest: Alabama aka Kels…
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Johnny Olsen is a photographer who is 20 years sober. He is one of my favorite spoke-in-the-wheel-class-clowns. We get deep talking codependency, suicide, death as a homecoming, spirituality and the lack of it in Western society, selling drugs, reincarnation, healthcare, alcoholism and escaping a trap house while it was getting burnt down and shot …
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Wendi Starling is a powerhouse comic and writer whose sets serve unapologetic bluntness. We talk her sugar daddies, selling her panties, the NY comedy scene vs. LA, people pigeonholing female comics, being sex workers AND comics, pegging a billionaire with a strap-on, women disrespecting sex workers and meditation. This Week's Guest: Wendi Starling…
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Alexis Sanchez is a sober transgender LGBTQ advocate who was welcomed by her employer, Kontakto Entertainment, as, “Hollywood’s first Latina Transgender Talent Manager in the making.” We talk organizing LA Pride, transitioning in sobriety, body shame, dating, intimacy issues, male validation, her RV trip for the documentary “Disarm Hate” and inters…
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On this episode I bring in sexual deviant and co-stripper of mine, Ava Dark. A Bulgarian boss bitch, Ava dances, bartends AND waitresses at the club. We talk receiving more respect stripping than waitressing, “slap dances," strip club personas, stripper group sex with guys picked off the street, Cap’n Save-A-Hoe, being a hustler and working as a do…
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Madison Shepard is a comedian, writer, actor and host of Thigh Gap Comedy. We talk being mixed race, self-preserving as the class clown, being a feminist while letting men buy us things, the pressure on female comics not to publicize our relationships to have more opportunities and being an outsider. Follow Madison! Twitter @madisonshepard Instagra…
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Kraig Tyler AKA Liquid Giraffe is a liquid drum and bass DJ who spins at my strip club as well as festivals and parties all over LA. You may be familiar with him from his days in the band Crazy Town, of “Butterfly” fame. We talk Burning Man, running the NY streets with Chloe Sevigny, 90’s raves, resistance fatigue, art as resistance, horizontal dem…
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On the very first episode of The FREEk Show Podcast, I catch up with a close friend, Charity “Bubblewrappe” Redding who is a DJ and sober feminist. We bond over being sober in the strip club and our shared experiences, myself as a stripper and her as an ex-dancer and current strip club DJ. Charity tells tales of ecstasy-fueled stripper orgies, dati…
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