SHAMELESS PLUG: The John Gentle Show is now available everywhere for free!
Hello! The John Gentle Show is something I made this year and I’m pretty proud of! Up until now it has been behind a paywall. That ends NOW. Today it is available everywhere you can listen to podcasts, as well as right here in full video.
Promoting things is horrible! But I would also like people to see this. If it’s new to you, take a listen! If you have seen/listened to it and enjoyed it (thanks), please consider sharing it with your friends.
Full video episodes are up on the Best Show's YouTube, as well as on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all the other usual spots. You can watch a trailer here.
In the show, the deeply pathetic John Gentle takes over for his late mentor's Sunday morning jazz radio show at the City College of Passaic, despite being removed from his teaching position years earlier for vague "misconduct" (that is explored later).
Along with a bit of a crime mystery about the mentor's death, it touches on a lot of hot topics from the most out-of-touch perspective, a guy who thinks that QR codes have something to with LGBTQ, and co-opts campus protests to save his favorite tree from getting cut down.
Every episode features a guest:
Cole Escola is John's equally twisted ex-wife.
Bridey Elliott is a diner waitress who is secretly in a findom arrangement with John.
Tom Scharpling is an anime-loving campus security guard who is easily bribed.
Colin O’Brien is a cool teacher who played in Beirut and John keeps asking to see pics of his wife.
Rachel Kaly is a wayward misfit who John tries to have a "The Holdovers" with.
Jury Duty's David Brown teaches the technophobic John about the metaverse.
Jessy Morner Ritt questions where John lands on the Kinsey scale.
The Conjuring's Hayley McFarland is in a real horror movie as John's ex-stepdaughter.
Rob Michael Hugel is a school representative with a laundry list of complaints about John.
Jon Daly has a mysterious role...
And SNL's Sarah Sherman and Luke Taylor pop in on a bonus segment where they joke about “America’s Governor” Chris Christie.
The John Gentle character originated on my old show, The Special Without Brett Davis and has since appeared on The Best Show and Hollywood Handbook. He is inspired by my own experiences at New Jersey colleges and ego-driven professors (who would rather be at NYU) making students buy their poetry books and listen to them complain about working with "that bitch" Mother Theresa (true story).
Thanks so much, I’ll be back next week to talk about some random R&B song from 1995 and an obscure Japanese punk song or whatever. Thanks!