Comedian Mike Birbiglia joins in for playful banter and reflections on plastic-free choices, aesthetics, and podcasting challenges. They compare comedic styles to cream cheese and delve into the absurdity of the Dewey Decimal System. The conversation explores relationships with parents, veganism, and punk rock rebellion, with witty food jokes and admiration for Homeboy Industries' social impact.

The hosts discuss surreal experiences, therapy approaches, imaginative scenarios, inner child connection, directing projects, childhood collaboration, adult creativity, and engaging reality show moments.

Phil Rosenthal, star of Somebody Feed Phil on Netflix, engages in hilarious banter about food, society, and comedy. Topics include cultural perceptions of cleanliness, unique food preferences, and creating opportunities in creative fields. The conversation also delves into sitcom dynamics, comedy writing nuances, and the importance of authenticity in creative work.

In this bonus episode, Pete and Val discuss eco-friendly hair care products and family games. They explore the evolution of attention spans in cinema and analyze movies, boxing, and horror films. The conversation reflects on AI consumption and self-deception, therapy benefits, and struggles with decision paralysis. They also touch on prioritizing personal life over work and the evolution of humor as a survival strategy.

Judy Greer joins Pete Holmes in a fun chat about acting experiences, navigating fame, giving advice, and humorous anecdotes. They discuss friendships, parenting in the spotlight, managing advice, comedic genius, vegan cheese dilemmas, sleep enhancement, and nostalgic movie musings. The conversation is filled with light-hearted banter, quirky discussions about farts, George Clooney, flight attendants, gluttony, philosophical musings, and gift-giving memories.

Topics include enhancing sleep quality with mouth tape, struggles of maintaining presence and performance, embracing change and new beginnings, desensitized pleasure and dog training, navigating interpersonal dynamics and relationships, conflict resolution with AI, embracing transformation with Apollo Neuro, reflections on being alone and creative, and embracing present moments.

Gareth Reynolds from The Dollop podcast joins in for a hilarious banter on nostalgic memories, rowdy audiences in stand-up comedy, and whimsical scenarios like a British Batman. The conversation also touches on sponsorships, funny shapes, and navigating success in the entertainment industry.

Topics include unique sleep improvement methods like mouth taping, tech training mix-up, navigating fears at Disneyland, analyzing Disney's Peter Pan, transforming family dinner with kitten games, a parent's reflection on teaching a child to ride a bike, and exploring inner healing and self-compassion.

Comedian Finesse Mitchell shares hilarious insights on wedding rings, mistaken identities, family dynamics, and authenticity in comedy. The conversation covers the challenges of creating a comedy special, evolving humor, navigating success in the industry, and balancing relationships with a comedy career.

Topics include benefits of armra colostrum powder, joy of comedy and culinary adventures, embracing interconnectedness and inner peace, vulnerability and empathy in comedy, natural skincare, tech for well-being, and veganism journey, and playful banter and comedic skits.