Gag Economy

Greetings Podience! AND A VERY MERRY GIGMAS! Presenting Gag Economy's Holiday 2025 episode containing ghost of gigs past, present and future! We tell you how to deal with back handed musical compliments, offer the correct opinions about the infamous SHARK TANK 3d PRINTED CARBONFIBER instruments and we end by forcasting our prodigious future. Our 2026 wish for you, freelancers: high-demand opportunities that bring you both financial freedom and creative fulfillment, and full tupperwares of gig food!  

WELCOME TO THE VAULT! You are listening to a long lost episode! My how times have changed...or haven't they? Did what we just said make sense? Who knows. But consider this a FLASHBACK episode as we GEAR UP for the 2025 holiday season! In this episode we gossip, make jokes, present revelations, talk about past and present gigs. May this episode find you at a time where you most need it. XOXOXOXO

GREETINGS, podience! Where did we go? Why did we go? Did we become prey to the latest human laundering scheme? Well you better LISTEN UP because we anwser all of that in this here post Thanksgiving Thanksgiving episode. In this episode, we discuss the top 5 gigs of our time off of pod, we give you holiday tips that can be used at any and all family gatherings Thanksgiving and not Thanksgiving related, we tell you why have been gone for so long and we give you ideas on how to live your best freelance life! Stay tuned to hear some of Marta's wedding details! XOXOXO 

Podience! It is high summer and we are moving around and around. Lots of pieces are getting mixed up and rearranged. Life is one big puzzle when you really think of it, isn't it? In this episode we talk about MOVING in NYC, we give some advice on what to do with your DYNAMICS, we define often occuring phenomenon and we end with an EPIC multi generational ghost of gags past. Thank you for tuning in! 

Hi Podience! We have YET ANOTHER PIANIST on the pod. Ding ding ding! You heard it right! It's pianist/composer/conductor Mikael Darmanie, the gendre defying piano-core-space-hop artist whose AI biography we have debunked on the pod. Get to know him real time with us and hear our collective ghosts of gags past, listen to us improvise a new music hit and join in our niche classical music sh*t talking. Thanks for tuning in! 

Can you ever be fired if you were never hired because you are a gag worker so your job is fake??? This questions ANSWERED plus hard-hitting JOURNALISM regarding Smokey Robinson-gate and, of course, GAG STORIES ABOUT GETTING FIRED AND OTHER GIGS WE'VE BEEN PLAYING AND GHOSTS OF GAGS PAST. 

LADIES AND GERMS - do you know how to access the dark web?? NEITHER DO WE!!!! Please text us detailed instructions to access the dark web and a front and back photo of your credit card.  We've got a RETURN TO FORM in this episode--aka gag stories up the wazoo! A wedding proposal in Central Park gone wrong! A commute with the undead! A private gig for a tech overlord! Buckle up, get your notebooks out, class is in session at Gag University.  This episode is sponsored by hangnail and used kleenex.  CHECK OUT THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE: https://youtu.be/yJAGx8vYsS8   

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN - (trigger warning) it's one day until tax day! We know your freelance taxes are a nightmare! You're so close to giving up and filing an extension! We get it! BEEN THERE - DONE THAT! This year, however, we managed to sneak in right before the deadline so that we could have your tax questions ANSWERED. In this pod, we tell you what it's like to be free of gig FOMO, we tell you what it's like to encounter a hoard of carefree boomers in a train on the way to a travel gig and, finally, we end with some priceless tax advice. 

HAPPY WEDNESDAY, GAGGERS! Congratulations on making it this far into 2025. FYI, in case your body has crusted over in that basement urban hovel of yours, it's almost spring! And you know what that means??? WEDDING SEASON! Wedding season is nigh and it's coming for you. So commiserate with us as we conjure up that great third thing that will free us all. But first, two write-in gags. LOVE U! XOXOXO

Well well well...what do we have here? Looks like our favorite ultra niche meme curator MAXIM MEMEGEROV (@maxim_memegerov) is back in our boudoir. A LOT has happened since our first collab...address changes, spouse schucking, gig having. In this episode, we discuss our new lives, what it's like to gig in the midwest, what it's like to have a "REAL JOB" and much more. We dish hot takes, crack jokes and ask pertinent hard-hitting questions like "what would your serial killer name be?" or "FMK this classical soloist" and "where is YOUR fame spot?" This episode is best enjoyed on a walk, in a car or right before your first theraputic ketamine session. XOXOXO.

Ladies assemble! Take out your rollers and pack that extra makeup wipe because GAG ECONOMY IS BACK! Welcome to the first episode of season 2! Wellness abound, vibe shifts galore, Whac-a-mole but with gigs...it's all happening, PEOPLE! In this episode we talk to return guest, TAYLOR EIGSTI, fresh off his second Grammy win. If you've ever wanted to know what it's like on that glamorous day - this pod is FOR YOU! We get TMI, we do FMKs, we get the down and dirty and hopefully this brings us one step closer to the EGOT that the Gag Economy universe has been dreaming about. 

PODIENCE! Welcome to our new era! We are so happy to usher you into our new season. We talk "WELLNESS," we talk, "HOW TO TAKE CARE OF YOUR DELICATE, MUSICIAN BODY". This intro episode is split up into three parts: first, we catch up and unravel our brains' deepest thoughts, second, we go into a light opera wormhole and third, we tell you how it's gonna go from here on out. You signed up for this pod on your own and you breast believe, you're gonna get what's coming to you - AKA all good things, DUH. 

PODIENCE! This may not be the pod you want but it's the pod it's the pod you deserve. It's giving intense lethargy! It's giving this blackout lasted 365 days! It's giving aud lange syne! In this episode, we gossip, we play guess the gig with a one word clue, we reflect on a year's worth of gigs and gags, we impart life lessons as freelancers, etc etc etc. Did we have it all in 2024? The only way to know is to listen to this monunentally final episode of the year! Dear podience, may all your quaintance be forgot and here's to 2025! 

LADIES, LADIES, LADIES! We snagged legendary ZADDY AKA the OG TURTLE DADDY HIMSELF - MISTER DAVE BALARKRISHNAN, VIOLINIST/COMPOSER/GRAMMY WINNER and FOUNDING MEMBER OF THE TURTLE ISLAND STRING QUARTET! JEALOUS? In this penultimate episode of 2024, Mr. Daddy soothes our end-of-the year hysteria with his Aristotelian knowledge and calming presence. He masterfully engages with our unsavory conversation no matter how hard we try! Stay tuned till the end for some really heart warming stuff - the future is bright! 

PODIENCE! Welcome back to Ho Rogan...I mean Female Car Talk...I mean GAG ECONOMY! In this episode, we talk about our, NOT ONE, NOT TWO...well, actually, yes...TWO DIVORCES! But BEFORE THAT, we catch up, we talk about a special BY women FOR women gig, we give you some freelance rules to live by and we offer a little bonus for you overachievers: how to win at a recording session. Why? Because....WOMAN. 

GOOD MORROW and HAPPY HALLOWEEN, PODIENCE! Extra, extra, HEAR ALL ABOUT IT—this podcast is brought to you with LOVE. You're about to listen to a VERY IMPORTANT episode where we discuss the perils of working FOR friends. Before we dive into this universal freelancer topic, though, we entertain you with jokes, gossip, and reflections on recent gigs we've played in the METRO NEW YORK CITY AREA. In the wise words of Caroline Cassio: A BOSS IS A BOSS. So, BE BOSSED WISELY. You're welcome.

ATTENTION PODIENCE, ATTENTION HUMAN NESTING DOLLS, ATTENTION WORKING WOMEN WHO ARE 30 WEEKS PREGNANT: THIS POD IS FOR YOU! We sit down with the lovely, woman-with-two-hearts-gold-star-podience-listener, KATHRYN KOCH. We gossip, laugh, provide incredibly valuable advice all while spooning on a made in the USA couch. Too bad this is an aural medium for all of you spoon fetish freaks. Anyway, Kathryn answers the timeless question - can a pregnant violinist have it all? Well, the answer is...YES, AND THEN SOME. YOU'RE WELCOME!!! 

HERE YE, HERE YE, the podience hath spoken! We have brought forth live from space, AKA Earth cause Earth is also in space, OUR MOST FAMOUS GUEST YET - TAYLORRRRRRR EIGSTIIIIIIIIIII. This blessed pod comes with celeb intel, intensely embarassing gig stories, live magic topped off with a nominal amount of screaming and giggling. We ask important questions like, "can we have your Grammy, Taylor?," and "what is jazz, Taylor" and "why are you here, Taylor?" We thank Mr. Eigsti in advance for letting us live read his profound NEVER-BEFORE-RELEASED-EARNEST-YET-CRINGE e-mail correspondence with the stylists at Vanity Fair about his BIG SPREAD. BOOM SHAKA LAKA! 

PODIENCE! Welcome to our BEST INCREDIBLY NICHE HIGH ENERGY POD YET. We are relaxed, rechaged and READY to go with stories, gossip, advice - you name it. In this pod we ask you to ask yourselves poingiant questions such as: "are you a gig groveler?" or "how fast will you sign up for our masterclass?" or "are you ready for your second puberty?" We of course dish about our latest and greatest gigs, contemplate a write in story and end with a very astrologically relevant parable. Send this podcast to your enemies if you do not like the sound of women talking and/or mouth sounds combination extreme nose blowing. K thanks! g2g!!! BYE!!! LYLAS! TTYL! 

HAPPY POD DAY! In this episode we have the INCREDIBLE, TALENTED AND EXTREMELY JACKED ....wait for it........MICHAEL HEWITT!! He is both known for performing and for teaching men how to be, well, more manly. GRRRR! We deep dive further into our love of opera, wellness, being naked on the job and what it's like to be silent but deadly. Stay to the end for a messy little surprise.