Satire Site The Hard Times Launches New Podcast “Hipsterocracy” Hosted by Stand-up Comedian Johnny Taylor
Hipsterocracy is a weekly podcast covering a range of topics concerning pop culture of all types but with a focus on counter-culture and cult classic media forms such as horror, comedy, and professional wrestling.
"Johnny is a natural relaxed host who gets his guests to tell their tales with some good laughs on the way. For the listener it's a cool hang out." - Keith Lowell Jensen, comedian and author of “Punching Nazis and Other Good Ideas.”
Focusing on lowkey rants in Taylor’s trademark sardonic style to start each episode, the meat of the show is a chat with a special guest (guests are scheduled to include “King of Staten Island” co-writer Dave Sirus, Wrestling podcast king Conrad Thompson, and rock band Portugal. The Man) that is fast-moving, covering a range of topics with tongue planted firmly in cheek.
Since the show’s debut in early October of 2020 it has been consistently in the top 40 of the US Stand-up podcast charts (peaking at #18) with a stay at the #1 spot in Austria (we don’t know why either).
Hipsterocracy with Johnny Taylor is short digestible audio episodes that focus on bringing the audience in as a third party to a relaxed and sometimes hilarious banter session between friends.
It’s now streaming on Apple podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, and anywhere else you can stream podcasts.
About Johnny Taylor:
Johnny Taylor's raw, personal, and often darkly hilarious style made him a quickly rising star within the California comedy scene. With grizzled vets arguing he got "too good, too quick" he did things his own way and found himself sharing the stage with comedians like Dave Attell and Robin Williams and was soon opening for Iliza Shlesinger and Brian Posehn. Just two years in, his first album "Tangled Up In Plaid" was released on Stand Up! Records and debuted in the iTunes Top 10 comedy releases. With his follow up album and TV Special "Bummin' With The Devil" debuting at #1 on both iTunes and Amazon, he's showing no signs of slowing down.
About The Hard Times:
The Hard Times started in late 2014 with just a few punk kids, comics, and friends of Matt Saincome, Bill Conway, and Ed Saincome. In 2017, the site branched out in a new gaming vertical called Hard Drive. Three former Hard Times contributors in Jeremy Kaplowitz, Mike Amory, and Mark Roebuck were tapped to be co-founding editors of the section. In 2019 Hard Drive created satirical gamer presidential candidate Ace Watkins.
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Hipsterocracy Podcast
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