There’s something about your mom’s house that makes you feel loved and accepted. The same goes for the “ Your Mom’s House ” podcast, but the acceptance is a tad different. Hosted by husband-and-wife comedians Tom Segura and Christina Pazsitzky, “YMH” has the ability to make listeners feel welcomed into an unconventional family, where laughing at the dumbest jokes imaginable is actually encouraged.
But it didn’t happen overnight and it took a village. In the mid-2000s, podcasting was brand new as Adam Carolla and “The Joe Rogan Experience” paved the way. “I thought Joe was insane when he started ‘JRE,’” admits Segura.
“I thought it was some rich guy thing where he was talking in a room at his house and he had some message board. A few months later, after seeing Christina do stand-up, he was like, ‘you two should do a podcast together.’” Brian Redban , co-owner of Sunset Strip ATX, comedian, podcaster, and producer of “JRE” and hit shows like “ Kill Tony” and “Secret Show,” quite literally has the Midas touch.
But back then, he was just having fun with tech. “When we started ‘JRE’ in 2009, it was Rogan promoting his shows and giving him an outlet to talk. Then it just blew up overnight.
Something clicked and I was like, what’s going on with Joe is helping him so much, I want to make podcasts for all my friends. It was all so new though, so I definitely had to do some convincing,” Redban recalls. In 2010, live streaming o.
