Half Alive with the La Brothers

06/03/2025

Our latest episode, with a real writer!

Writer, mental health advocate, and self- defense coach, Julio Rivera, discusses his latest book, Internal Jiu Jitsu: How to Conquer Inner and Outer Resistance by Giving Way, which was published in May (mental health awareness month) by White Deer Publishing. He is a graduate of NYU’s journalism p...

03/03/2025

She stole this look from the La brothers.

03/01/2025

Playwright extraordinaire Dan Guyton joins the La brothers for an interview this episode:

Real life working writer and actor Daniel Guyton joins the La brothers for this episode to explain how he balances acting, directing, and writing with teaching theatre as a college professor. Basement La's insecurities morph into true inspiration as Dan patiently shows the brothers how it's possible...

01/23/2025

The La Brothers start the new year the only way they know how!

With 2025 freshly born, the La brothers reminisce about the many insane holidays they've had in the past. One memory involves an ugly scene on the set of Friends, and another a chance encounter with Truman Capote's ghost in the restroom at Washington Square Park. And then there are the family Christ...

11/02/2024

What do Oscar Wilde and the La brothers have in common? Nothing, of course, since Wilde was at least successful at one time and the La brothers never were. But the twins wrangle with an interesting quote from Wilde about the tragedy of getting what you want. They also sift through responses from lis...

09/06/2024

Will the La brothers entice Armie Hammer to move in with them?

Is it especially humiliating to get rejected for a non-paying acting role? Or to have your short story rejected by an online journal that doesn’t pay its writers? This week, La and La discuss this particular strain of rejection. Not incidentally, they are both newly-fired from their latest surviva...

07/19/2024

After reading irate subscribers' emails about their interview with Clementine Roach who killed a heckler with the instrument she was playing, La and La read some old journal entries, to see if they can get any inspiration from their younger selves. Basement La's journals turn out to be surprisingly poignant, while Attic La's poem from the early 90's reveals his utter lack of poetic skill.

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06/10/2024

This is the La Brothers' first time interviewing a didgeridoo player/ murderer. Hilarity ensures!

Half Alive features the fictional La and La brothers who are sixty-year-old twins with more than a few career, financial, and size challenges. They chased big dreams in their youth (professional acting, writing), but were unable to catch them. Now, they've returned home to Schenectady from their yea...

05/07/2024

Ma*****ia! The La brothers have done it this time. Response to their interview with Xerses Barnmuster-Weston has been fiercely hilarious.

Half Alive features the fictional La and La brothers who are sixty-year-old twins with more than a few career, financial, and size challenges. They chased big dreams in their youth (professional acting, writing), but were unable to catch them. Now, they've returned home to Schenectady from their yea...

03/12/2024

Celebrate Tuesday with a raucous new episode of the Half Alive podcast. The La brothers are in fine dysfunctional form as they interview a star of stage and screen, Xerxes Barnmuster-Weston!

Half Alive features the fictional La and La brothers who are sixty-year-old twins with more than a few career, financial, and size challenges. They chased big dreams in their youth (professional acting, writing), but were unable to catch them. Now, they've returned home to Schenectady from their yea...

02/09/2024

Funniest episode yet of Half Alive with the La Brothers: Our Listeners React https://media.rss.com/halfalive/feed.xml Available anywhere you get your podcasts (Apple, Google, iHeartRadio, YouTube, Spotify, Pandora....)

Half Alive features the fictional La and La brothers who are sixty-year-old twins with more than a few career, financial, and size challenges. They chased big dreams in their youth (professional acting, writing), but were unable to catch them. Now, they've returned home to Schenectady from their yea...

01/08/2024

The La brothers interview Hollywood actor Tracy Bracegirdle who explains how she made lemonade out of lemons when her acting career didn't turn out quite the way she planned. Theme music "The Trapezist" by Quincas Moreira. Guest podcaster Adira Amram as Tracy.

The La brothers interview Hollywood actor Tracy Bracegirdle who explains how she made lemonade out of lemons when her acting career didn't turn out quite the way she planned. Theme music "The Trapezist" by Quincas Moreira. Guest podcaster Adira Amram as Tracy.