Call them raunchy, call them crass, but in the world of podcasting Keith and The Girl–already veterans of the medium with five years and over 1,100 episodes under their belt–take their work seriously. It should be no surprise that they pulled out all the stops to promote their upcoming book What Do We Do Now? with a record-setting 75-hour marathon podcast.
With a parade of guests including comedians, musicians and a close-knit circle of friends, the show began streaming live over the Internet on Sunday, February 28 with non-stop candid conversation and laughs about every topic under the sun, from the virtues of music on vinyl to tips on how to properly fill out an online dating profile (hint: never volunteer that you love washing dishes) to the trials and tribulations of life as a stand-up comic. And without any air of pretense or melodrama, hosts Keith and Chemda manage to keep the adults-only chatter grounded in those sometimes hard to swallow truths about family, sex and interpersonal relationships that we all struggle with.
Which brings us back to What Do We Do Now?, a book that poses all manner of questions on those topics no matter how frank or embarrassing they might be. Never ones to mince words, Keith and Chemda and take turns answering each question with their own sensibilities, often giving different ways solutions to the same problem. Sometimes laugh out loud funny, sometimes intimate and serious-minded, these two have no problem cutting through the bullshit to make for a self-help book that never really feels like a self-help book. They say there are no dumb questions but only dumb answers? Not in this book; all smart answers here, friends. Dumb questions? You’ll have to decide that one for yourself.
Pre-orders for What Do We Do Now? are available online, and if you hurry, you can still catch the live 75-hour podcast before it ends at 9 PM ET today.
UPDATE: The live stream went dark after a reported Time Warner outage. According to this post to Keith’s Twitter, the show is still going as planned and being recorded. Live stream should be back up soon. In the meantime, there are those 1,136 episodes…
UPDATE 2: The live stream is back up again. Tune in here.
