College Stories

New grad Taylor Adams just got to New York from Indiana, and tells us about getting started in showbiz. Jaimie freaks when she hears about the Disney gig she just did. (Hint: The Little Mermaid, Belle, and Pocahontas were all involved). Taylor talks about how her group of college students contacted Kevin to come back...

We’re BACK from a looong hiatus, and we’re doing something new: for Back 2 School Month, we’re talking to RECENT college grads, about their college stories that JUST happened, and what it’s like getting into showbiz now. We’ve got Timmy McBride & Russell Stewart on the show today – Timmy hosted our old late night...

Anthony Devito! One of our favorite storytellers, a man who has been featured on This American Life, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert & Comedy Central, and who — more on topic for us — made future NFL players laugh at the University of Miami before bailing on his architecture major to do this for...

Look, this is five people who did a college TV show doing a Q&A about that TV show, and 4/5 of us are drunk. If that doesn’t sound fun to you, feel free to skip, and we will not be offended. BUT WE THINK IT’S FUN! Some stories told: Jaimie drunkenly tried to chase a...

SPECIAL EP. 100: This is the ultimate college story for our hosts: it’s the origin story of the College Stories podcast. Kevin, Jaimie, Jon, Shane & Elizabeth all met on a TV show they created at Ball State (that still exists today) which has a hell of a backstory. They worked together, lived together, eventually moved...

Mike Cannon is one of the nicest guys you’ll ever meet who also has insane stories about doing steroids. Mike played college basketball at Rockland Community College where he was point guard/artificially enhanced enforcer, and then he *almost* played at SUNY Geneseo. Mike made his money in college playing underground poker games in New York...

Asterios blew the fuckin’ doors off the show in episode #98. We start with a Marc Summers (of Double Dare!) college story, and end with a little shoplifting. Asterios is a comedian, comedy writer, and part-time ass-kicker of bigots on Reddit (our description, not his). He has an insane amount of stories, and we begin with when Asterios’s...

We’ve double-checked, and it’s confirmed Greg Burmeister is the first guest we’ve had whose college experience included a 4-day coma. The man is a party machine (although that is NOT what led to his coma!) and his college experience was less of the campus life, and more of the rock & roll life. Greg played...

Kenny followed a great high school basketball career by playing one more year at Drury University, then aiming his competitive spirit at All-America level partying, culminating in one of the most insane nights we’ve had on this show (beginning at about minute 50). He takes us through his transition from recruited college athlete to his...

Usually, we write a notable fact about the guest’s “college story” here. But for Mara Marek, all you need to know is that her life is NUTS. She’s had about 8 full lives, and she has no idea why she’s not dead. A rundown: she somehow went to college BEFORE she was done with high...

Cliff Cash is a very funny, unique comic who dropped out of college and made a bunch of money real fast. Like Bill Gates! Then, well, things got weird. But it was a baller couple years! He also started college at the top — had a private dorm room and a fake ID immediately, and...

Eric Schmidt: a funny, nice, tall man who attended two colleges, and was arrested at each. He even had to promise one school that he wouldn’t come back! Eric talks growing up in Florida, going to performance arts high school, and starting college at South Florida, which was basically a full-time Spring Break. He gained...

Georgetown’s Joe Gerics describes in great detail their beef with Syracuse, we talk about the shock of people in college who are incredibly comfortable being naked in public, moms who do your college applications for you, and how to say “King of Cocksucker” in German, and a few other foreign language swears. Joe was also...

Harvard’s Alyssa Wolff has one big thing in common with Ball State’s Kevin: drunk Halloween college fights. Dressed as a lady village person, Alyssa stood up for her friend at a Chinese restaurant bar in Boston and told us all about it. That wasn’t her biggest hit: she also crashed into a very important person’s...

It’s another deleted scenes episode! Sometimes, our guests have TOO much good stuff, and when that happens, we collect the tangents, and off-the-rails stories, and put them in a big grab bag of fun, and call ’em “Deleted Scenes.” On today’s episode #90: comedian/writer Steve O’Brien (original ep #72), MTV/VH1 producer Kim Reynolds (#74), director...

We play a lot of college hits in this episode with very funny comedian & author Alyssa Wolff (Lean Over: Women, Work, and Women’s Work)! Jon asks if Harvard is actually harder than other schools (spoiler: they have a class called “Cosmic Connections”), we talk about the unique kind of homeless person that hangs out...

Screenwriter Jeff Lock went to our alma mater (Ball State) in Muncie, Indiana, worked at Arby’s, then wrote a script about an Arby’s-like place in Muncie, and now it’s going to be a real movie that starts shooting soon. COLLEGE WORKS! Jeff also talks about how he got a later start in college after slacking...

Nick Blake survived the celebration of the Red Sox championship in 2004 (barely), and eventually things got even better: he met the girl who he’d marry, and he brought her back to campus to propose in a super college-y way. In this mini-episode that’s a follow-up to Nick’s epic story from #85, we also talk...

It’s Thanksgiving tradition to get into fights with your family, and when it comes to that, 2016 is looking like an all-timer! To commemorate that, here’s a short, special episode that features Kevin’s career highlight (performing stand up on Letterman) which came on Thanksgiving Eve of 2013, and the family fight it caused. To those of...

Nick Blake (TV producer/writer) happened to be just starting at Boston College when the Red Sox broke their “curse” and won the World Series in 2004, and he has an epic tale of being there on the scene to celebrate…and then having to pay the price for it. We also talk about sports fandom in...