The Last Hurrah

Join guest host Thom Huenger, IO Duarte and The Safety Chicken as they prepare for Spring and Avengers Endgame.

When a surprise party goes wrong and the birthday boy is missing, we find Hugo an unlucky audience member who just happened to be attending the show on his birthday - he's not unlucky because he's on our show, he's just unlucky... we'll let him tell you.

It's the most wonderful time of the year, join Kevin Cole, Lydia Hadfield and IO Duarte for The Last Hurrah's annual Missed Connections special!

Join Kevin Cole, Matt Bannister, Rich Del Grande, Katie Rattigan and Karli Cole as they discuss travel mishaps and the state of mini-golf in America.

Guest host Thom Huenger and One-man-band Trevor Williams join panelists Sonny Etzler and IO Duarte to discuss the holidays.

Join Kevin, IO, Thom, Karli, Rich and Lydia for a festive Hurrah that takes us all the way from Thanksgiving to Christmas!

Join us for a very belated but very spooky Last Hurrah, recorded live on Oct 26 at Maryland Ensemble Theatre!

This month on The Last Hurrah, guest host IO Duarte is joined by Matt Kline, Karli Cole, Nylah Bannister and Nurse Jiggy to welcoming the coming of fall, prevent the flu and figure out if there even is pumpkin in a PSL.

Join Kevin, Thom and special guests Callan Holderbaum and Rich Del Grande as they sniff scented markers, eat just grape flavored Mike and Ikes and so much more!

Kevin, IO and Thom return with a little help from Em to discuss their sudden love for the new Queer Eye.

Join Kevin Cole, Matt Vance, IO Duarte, and Lydia Hadfield as they discuss No Joke! A Puerto Rico Benefit Show, retroactive flood prevention and disappointing celebrities.

On this month's Last Hurrah, we are joined by Thom and Trevor from Now Available on Videocassette, Emily and Julia from The Great American Love Story, IO from All Dogs Go To Hollywood, and Karli from Good Times with Karli Cole, it's the most ambitious crossover event in podcast history! Join us as we take a look back at all the big trends we missed out on growing up.

This month on The Last Hurrah, meet Tom Peters, the CEO of the Peeps Candy Corporation (formerly Borne Again Chocolates). 

February is a month for love unless you're alone. Then it's a month for logging on to craigslist and attempting to find the person you made eye contact with at the McDonald's Drive-Thru, maybe they will love you. In this episode we give an informal review to Frederick's newest restaurant, Taco Daddy and then we delve into our local missed connections.

This October, Kevin, IO and Karli discuss their deepest fears, Karli shoots an episode of Good Times and Lia Seltzer sends in a spooky story!

This month on The Last Hurrah we premiere Kevin's one act play Weekend At Bannon's or The Passion Of The Mooch. We discuss dog movies and more as we launch AnnualPodcasts.com and the birth of Now Available on VideoCassette! Watch the video of Weekend At Bannon's at AnnualPodcasts.com/LastHurrah

This month on The Last Hurrah, IO Duarte returns to host the show and they bring their dogs along as well as a few friends. Tune in and find how many dogs are out there saving lives.

This month on the Last Hurrah, Kevin returns for a month in wilderness. What did he miss? How has the world changed? FIND OUT when he talks to IO Duarte, Karli Cole Thom Huenger and Robert Martin. PLUS: Stand Up comedy from Colin Shultzaberger and IO Duarte.

We celebrated the end of Pride 2017 with guest host IO Duarte, Christine McQuaid, Amber George, and Karli Cole by finding out what the Babadook is actually about, reminiscing about being queer youth and things that creeped us out, as well as picking next year's unconventional gay icon! 

Not sure how to have fun this summer? Let our Summertime Expert, Charles Ray help you make the most of it!

On this month's Last Hurrah, Kevin, Thom, IO and Karli save the world from environmental changes and recap the newest King Kong movie.

This month on the last hurrah we dish out some legit tax advice with IO Duarte, Lydia Hadfield, Adam Eisenstadt and stand up comedian Ryan Grimes!

In February's live episode of the Last Hurrah, we discuss every tid bit of valentine's you could hope for! From butt-stuff to missed connections!

Get a glimpse into the creation of Feb 26th's last hurrah and then join the fun at the Maryland Ensemble Theatre to see the finished product!

Live for the first time in months, The Last Hurrah is back and their fired up about the nightmare world we seem to find ourselves spiraling into. Catch up on how everyone's handling it, and then take a break with a special performance from The Comedy Pigs!

The Last Hurrah makes it's poorly anticipated return to the Maryland Ensemble Theatre on Sunday January 29th, so this week we bring on a new element of the podcast... Welcome to writer's night (or a small portion of it). As we build each show, with more intensity than ever before, we will be sharing a 30 minute glimpse into The Last Hurrah's Writer's Night so you can see how we put a show together, tear it apart, and somehow manage to put it together again before the show goes up at the end of the month!

This week on The Last Hurrah, the infamous tale of the man with a hook for a hand instead of a hand. PLUS we discuss the show's past and future before pulling out a ouija board to summon the dead! Don't miss all the exciting sex magick this show has to offer!

This week, Kevin, Isabel and Karli discuss Necropant and dark arts. Spells are cast, demons unleashed, and the world may never be the same.

On this week's Last Hurrah we cope with the loss of Brangelina, drink a little too much apple cider and explore the cuddle kama sutra

On this week's Hurrah, Karli tells a tale of ghost sightings and ankle twistings, as well as her favorite fairy tale. PLUS! Thom pays a special tribute to Gene Wilder.

In this episode we explore every potential for labor day, particularly "that kind" of labor with the assistance of a nurse and doula. We grill, we play sports, everything you could want to do on your day off from work.

This week, inspired by the lighting, we delve into mysteries of the unknown and bid a fond farewell to our friend Nicky Costanza.

This week on The Last Hurrah we delve into the world of freestyle diss tracks with the help of Isabel Duarte, Matt Kline and Karli Cole! We lay down some harsh rhymes on Kraft Mac and Cheese, the heat and Donald Trump.

This week on The Last Hurrah, we discuss who we're voting for, the whereabouts of Jimmy Hoffa and bid a fond farewell to our own Christine McQuaid who is more than equipped to run Thom's Therapy Corner for a week. Lydia Hadfield stops by with some Harry Potter and the Cursed Child spoilers and Isabel Duarte closes out the show with some great stand up! 

Teaming up with Jesse Marciniak from the Maryland Ensemble Theatre's METLab program, a panel consisting of Isabel and Helena Duarte and Christine McQuaid plus a little help from The Last Hurrah's Two Human Family (but not by blood) Band put together the next great METLab script: An original musical entitled Secret Teen Baby! In it, we learn the story of Tatiana Veronica, a woman of all races except for white and how she came to love Janice, a secret teen baby. But when tragedy strikes (or more so, crushes) can their love prevail in a world that hates Teen Babies? Goo-goo Gah-gah, bitch!

Join Kevin, Karli Cole and Noah Sommer as they dissect the world of Pokemon Go! Capture the hated Zubat and figure out why folks are so sad!

This week we celebrate two years of The Last Hurrah, we discuss how much better things are now as opposed to when we started. Isabel Duarte shares some nihilist tindr accounts, Karli Cole warns about the dangers of playing Pokemon Go and Christine McQuaid does some stand up! Don't miss it!

This week on The Last Hurrah, guest host Christine McQuaid takes over to talk about all thing America! Joined by panelist Lydia Hadfield and bandleader Thom Huenger, the three cover past 4th of July celebrations- the good, the bad, and the ugly. This episode also features a heated US History trivia game between two audience members. Last but not least, The Frederick County Patriotism Liaison joins in on the fun to give the dos and don'ts of how to be your best patriotic self this weekend.

This week, James McGarvey (alias: Jiggy. Alias alias: Nurse Jiggy) is in the hosting chair, joined by Thomas Scholtes and One-man-band-leader Thom Huenger! They're sick and tired of being confined to the rules and limitations of the United States and tonight they begin their advocacy for a great Frexit, exiling Frederick from Larry Hogan and the rest of Maryland, NAY! The rest of... AMERICA.

This week, knowing that Thom has lived the virtual reality experience, we try to relay that feeling to those in the audience. Kevin and Christine dish on their troubled history with video games and things take an explosive turn when we play a new game! Join the fun Sundays at 7pm at the Maryland Ensemble Theatre!

While stuck at work, Kevin, Christine and Isabel attempt to get psyched for the summer, discussing theme park mishaps, summer shenanigans, and sugar daddies.

This week, Kevin, Thom and Jiggy discuss the Preakness Stakes! These experts on horse racing are un-matched in their knowledge of what makes every sport racist and how Beyonce's Lemonade came to be. PLUS! A Visit from special guest, triple crown winner American Pharaoh!

This week, we welcome our freshly graduated Two Human Family (But Not By Blood) Funtime Schmucker's Jamtime House Band to the show! The band is comprised of former-One-Man-Band-Leader Thom Huenger and Karli Cole. In this show Kevin and Isabel teach Thom and Karli what it's like to be completely finished with college and we get a glimpse into Karli's life as the madame of a brothel.

This week, Kevin, Thom and Isabel explore the primary elections. Who is Bernie Sanders and could he possibly be the most deceitful candidate in the race? We discuss the harmful effects of voter suppression and then get down to the one issue millennials actually care about... Coachella! From the bands playing to wearing anything other than a Native American Headdress, this episode has it all!

We're not going to lie, this week's episode starts off strong (namely with a discussion of butt chugging) but that's what happens when you come back from hiatus, right? After that, we play catch-up with some news that Kevin and Thom didn't get to discuss during their absence, namely, the biggest prostitution scandal to ROCK frederick county! Robert Martin and Kaity Rattigan join the fun!

Kevin Cole and Thom Huenger return to the show to explain their month long absence... working on/creating the MET's newest original show: OedipusROX! Written by Sarah Shulman and composed by Thom Huenger, OedipusROX is a rock and roll musical based around the classic greek tragedy. Kevin discusses the show with Thom as well as Music Director Robert Martin and Eric Jones (Creon). Everything goes well until the last 10 minutes when the show spirals into a discussion about Star Wars... whoops! LastHurrahLive.com

Giovanni Kavota, James McGarvey and Cal Holderbaum entertained the audience with a thrilling recap of their prom escapades, questionable trendsetting, and high-stakes interactions with their female peers. The trio topped off the evening with a hilarious longform improv set.

Christine McQuaid returns from a long hiatus (2 months) to step up to the hosting plate and she brings her A-game. She also bring Lisa Burl, James McGarvey and Giovanni Kavota. The dish on bad neighbors/roommates they've had through the year and James & Gio perform some improv!   LastHurrahLive.com

If your excuse for not attending The Last Hurrah has been a blatant and unrestrained hatred for the host, then you’re in luck! Kevin’s out of commission to work on OedipusROX! at the MET (opening April 8th) so the next four shows will decidedly be hosted by anyone else!  We kick off the run of guest hosts with Julia Williams, she was a special guest on Tinder Live, portrayed the role of Snaggle in A Christmas Play, and is a full fledged Comedy Pig! Her final shows with the Comedy Pigs are March 18 & 19 and she’ll be performing as the Gravedigger in Shakespeare in the Pub presents: HAMLET in Alexandria on March 22. She’ll be talking about advice and “words of wisdom” she’s been getting from folks over the past few months. Don’t miss this show because if you can’t see her other performances you may never see her again as she is set to head to the Windy City in a few weeks.She’ll be joined by Lydia Hadfield and Lia Seltzer as well as Green Party Candidate Birdie Suspenders!

The Last Hurrah returns to the web after a series of technical issues and they're back with a brand new open mic night featuring the likes of Kevin Cole, Matt Kline, Isabel Duarte, Colin Shultzaberger and Lydia Hadfield! Learn more at LastHurrahLive.com