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After Later with John Wessling and Tommy Drake

After Later with John Wessling and Tommy Drake

By John Wessling

A light-hearted romp through the emotional minefields of the beginning of the end of the world
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After Later with John Wessling and Tommy DrakeMay 06, 2020

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Simulation Willing

Simulation Willing

Best friend comedians, John Wessling and Tommy Drake, reconnect after months at sea and contemplate starting a podcast. They discuss the theory that Matt Rife is a wholly AI created entity, Voyager 1’s voyage into the binary abyss and traveling with a heavy coat.
Dec 19, 202301:29:56
Bottom Speed

Bottom Speed

John and Tommy discuss running of all things.
Sep 14, 202301:17:47
Lying to Your Children

Lying to Your Children

John tries to talk about the stuff he wants to talk about
Sep 07, 202301:18:26
All Bangers

All Bangers

After last episode’s deep dive into the craaaaaaft, Tommy tortures John even further by pushing the conversation into sports talk radio territory.
Sep 01, 202301:02:20
Elevator Pitch

Elevator Pitch

John and Tommy finally reconnect after a very busy summer and discuss the freshly demystified art of stand up comedy. John mocks himself for talking about “his craaaft!”
Aug 24, 202301:05:40
Heirloom Tomato

Heirloom Tomato

John pushes through heat stroke and Tommy perseveres. They make pitches to join the Savannah Bananas, discuss the evolutionary causes and benefits of primate auto sexual behavior, weirdos in space and living on the moon.
Jun 12, 202355:14
Don't Know What You Got Til It's Gone

Don't Know What You Got Til It's Gone

John and Tommy discuss self help, meditation, and home car repair while Tommy drops names from his past to try to get more people to tune in.
Jun 08, 202301:03:07
Classic Triangle

Classic Triangle

John and Tommy interview Tom Foss. Foss tells us about his multiple UFO sightings, if he felt threatened, who he thinks they were and if he’d go with them if he could. Spoiler: it’s time travelers.
Feb 28, 202301:22:13
I Eat For Pleasure

I Eat For Pleasure

John and Tommy discuss communication and bidets.
Feb 07, 202301:24:00
Notary Private

Notary Private

John and Tommy show you the many meaningful ways you live better than a king and how contrary to overwhelming evidence and popular opinion, things have never been better. #comedypodcast
Jan 31, 202301:09:23
Tournament of the Sexes

Tournament of the Sexes

John and Tommy discuss Tommy's 50th birthday festivities, the wives make cameos and are surprisingly cool with a proposed coke-fueled strip club fiesta. #comedypodcast
Jan 24, 202301:03:00
Fat Boyz with a Z

Fat Boyz with a Z

John and Tommy discuss various topics including backlash over their mention of Bill Cosby and their presidential thrid party ticket predictions.
Jan 11, 202301:31:25
The Meatless Meat

The Meatless Meat

John and Tommy make predictions for 2023 the old fashioned way… thanks to an overdose of hallucinogens! Tommy kills Ric Flair, John brings Betty White back, Steve Buscemi becomes an AI car driver, Trump gets arrested, Pete Davidson bones Liz Cheney, Aliens arrive twice and nobody cares and The Rock is Trans. It’s a good year. #comedypodcast
Jan 03, 202302:34:46
Frank Weed

Frank Weed

John and Tommy discuss the future. While discussing driverless cars and robotic automation, Tommy reinvents communism. John tells the story of a recent vivid prophetic dream in a Star Cave.
Dec 19, 202201:15:31
Sausages

Sausages

John Wessling and Tommy Drake in Eastern Europe, entertaining the troops. Three segments recorded in various modes of transportation and repose, in three different iron curtain countries. #armedforcesentertainment #comedypodcast
Dec 14, 202202:06:45
Pleiades Nuttz

Pleiades Nuttz

John and Tommy drink coffee and bloviate from the Hotel Pacai in Vilnius Lithuania. The first half is about the top secret tour they’re on and the second is about Antarctica in the After Later style we all know and love.
Nov 21, 202201:12:39
Time Travel Agent

Time Travel Agent

The artists discuss war.
Oct 24, 202201:17:41
Aaron Judgmental

Aaron Judgmental

tommy and john discuss baseball and self aware beings vs. instinctual animals.
Oct 17, 202201:04:59
Soulectomy

Soulectomy

Tommy and John try to answer the question 'Can the artist ever retire?'
Oct 10, 202257:02
The Great Debriefing

The Great Debriefing

John and Tommy discuss that at the very large and very small ends of the universe we are basically mostly nothing.
Oct 03, 202201:02:27
OG and ZOG

OG and ZOG

John and Tommy discuss the origins of society and speculate on the early nature of food preparation.
Sep 28, 202201:13:25
Adderall and a New Sharpie

Adderall and a New Sharpie

John and Tommy meet up from two exotic ports of call and naturally discuss AI rising up and destroying humanity pretty quickly. #AIart #WonderApp #PaulOddo
Sep 13, 202201:05:51
Livin Sous Vide Loca

Livin Sous Vide Loca

John and Tommy discuss time.
Aug 16, 202201:16:58
The Callous of Losing

The Callous of Losing

Tommy and John venture into the IRL and go play a little poker. Ryan Thauburn joins them after the game for Mexican food before they drive home and digest the lessons the cards taught them.
Aug 12, 202241:37
One Way Ticket

One Way Ticket

Tommy and John discuss the idea of a Mars colony.
Aug 08, 202201:10:52
Peer Pressure Washer
Aug 01, 202201:09:04
Charred Lifeless Remains

Charred Lifeless Remains

Tommy and John discuss risk assessment and end games.
Jul 18, 202201:01:46
Ignorance is Bliss

Ignorance is Bliss

Tommy and John discuss the difference between 'man' and 'mankind' and address various ethical and moral dilemma's while John flexes his vocabulary.
Jul 11, 202201:02:33
The Quadrimetallic System with Will Loden

The Quadrimetallic System with Will Loden

Tommy and John discuss history and the future with Will Loden.
Jul 06, 202201:04:12
My Name is Airl

My Name is Airl

John and Tommy drive home from recording a different podcast. A military flight nurse claims she tended to a downed alien pilot named AIRL and evidently he claims Earth was a galactic prison until 30,000 BC…
Jul 01, 202232:16
Fannie Mae and the Knights Templar

Fannie Mae and the Knights Templar

John and Tommy discuss the world economy and the aliens and travel issues when working cruise ships
Jun 27, 202201:01:56
Cats and Gods

Cats and Gods

John and Tommy discuss God, Gracie (Tommy's deceased cat) and John's daughter Kini working at two restaurants and then a lot about whether or not there is a God or what is a god and it was fun.
Jun 22, 202201:01:39
The Helpless

The Helpless

From the vault, July 7 2021… Tommy and John talk about Simone Biles and that whole situation and the death of opinion.
May 30, 202258:31
Truck Stop Sunglasses

Truck Stop Sunglasses

From the vault, October 18 2021…Tommy and John talk about the nature of the universe, the God and a God, Two Buck Chuck and Kirkland golf balls.
May 27, 202201:08:10
Pick a Card, Any Card

Pick a Card, Any Card

John and Tommy go through ideas for discussion topics for future episodes.
May 23, 202202:27:08
It’s Show Business

It’s Show Business

john and tommy discuss bebe becoming an assassin, Egypt, and the Moon.
May 20, 202201:15:31
A Good Time for a Fake Alien Invasion

A Good Time for a Fake Alien Invasion

John and Tommy discuss our legacy, what we are leaving and where we should leave it for future generations to find.
Mar 02, 202254:04
All That’s Left Is Arrowheads

All That’s Left Is Arrowheads

John Wessling and Tommy Drake get right back to talking about the very nature of all things in the universe. No fan of idle talk, Tommy jumps right to his new truth of the history of man on this planet. TD postulates that modern man did a lot more than sharpen rocks for millennia and that the wheel is older than we think. Johnny reasons that it’s more likely that aliens are giants than they would be very tiny, and states his preference that any aliens who contact us should be sexually attractive.
Mar 01, 202246:56
Mofongo For My Fungo

Mofongo For My Fungo

The season premiere of After Later finds our heroes back to the sea, cutting hair in San Juan Puerto Rico and talking time travel and written language and PANSPERMIA as usual. Things have never been better!
Jan 06, 202201:00:35
Faith is a Valve

Faith is a Valve

From the vault, Tommy and John have a random conversation about kids not knowing how to be kids and then religion and magic. Should be a chill listen.

Sep 10, 202153:08
Open Kimono 3: Unknown Rider

Open Kimono 3: Unknown Rider

In the 3rd and final installment of our Open Kimono series, Lt. Cmdr. Dan "DICEMAN" Drake talks us through first encounters with other interplanetary civilizations and that's not even the weirdest part. It ends with a Kurt Russell UFO sighting!
Aug 12, 202101:15:30
Brian Malow and The Music of Queen

Brian Malow and The Music of Queen

In the vacuum of space, nobody can hear you scream...but you can still hear Brian Malow.
Aug 06, 202101:15:43
That Post Show Feeling

That Post Show Feeling

Tommy and John recorded the drive home after a fun night of comedy.

Jul 26, 202139:43
Brian Malow and The Inverse Square Law

Brian Malow and The Inverse Square Law

Brian Malow claims to be Earth's Premier Science Comedian, and we have no doubt that he is, at least in English. But does this title imply that that other civilizations have their own Premier Science Comedians? And if so, how would Earth's Premier Science Comedian match up by comparison?

Jul 23, 202101:08:04
Panspermia

Panspermia

Tommy woke up feeling frisky so he calls John to talk about a weird text he sent about aliens dumping water on Earth. Of course things went left from there, as the conversation goes from the oldest story on Earth to Ice Ages to video games to meteors full of space turds to Kevin Costner and german rocket scientists to the Gasol brothers. It makes sense when you listen to it.
Jul 20, 202159:46
Open Kimono 2: The God Spot

Open Kimono 2: The God Spot

Lt. Cmdr. Dan "DICEMAN" Drake returns to talk more about his experiences as a naval aviator dealing with UFO's and UAV's. Dan speculates on the nature of man's place in the universe, what first contacts would look like and so much else good stuff on hieroglphs and the Nazca lines. #UFO #interdimensionaltravel #aliencivilizations #Mars
Jul 15, 202101:08:28
When Science and Religion Agree

When Science and Religion Agree

Tommy and John interview Michael Comeaux (@apocalypsehowl on IG) about his comic book series Monomania and how the pandemic made him start living life as his true self, a follower of Bigfoot. #bigfoot #yeti #meatsuit #onlyonefoot #timetravel #interdimensionalbeings
Jul 08, 202101:28:25
Open Kimono

Open Kimono

John and Tommy have a serious conversation with Tommy's older brother, Naval aviator Lt. Commander Dan Drake. Dan was stationed near San Diego during the famous 2004 USS Nimitz UFO sighting, which is the current declassified video release of the "40 Foot long Tic-Tacs." Dan gives us his expert opinion and perspective on these sightings, the avionic feats displayed by the unknown rider and the possibilities of Earth-made air travel. Then he gives us the first public disclosure of two of his very own UFO encounters; getting thumped by a large ball of light off the California coast, and an encounter with a buzzing blue ball in the Indian Ocean during the Second Gulf War. This is an action packed hour plus of real info from a man who knows his stuff. #NavyUFO #tictacufo #USSNIMITZ2004 #40footTicTacs #declassifiedUFO
Jun 30, 202101:07:21
Dry Mouth Counties

Dry Mouth Counties

John Wessling and Tommy Drake try Delta 8 for the first time ever, give a detailed product review and demonstration. Quantum entanglement is discussed and Tommy gives John a virtual interview for a SNL writing job. It goes poorly.
Jun 24, 202153:08
Pinche Trevor

Pinche Trevor

John Wessling and Tommy Drake settle in to their second episode together and tackle some of the world’s biggest mysteries…like why is the left screw on all John’s toilets coming loose? Seriously, it’s maddening.
Jun 16, 202101:05:37