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A comedy fiction podcast from Ben Harrison (The Greatest Generation) and Dan Kennedy (McSweeney's, founding host of The Moth Podcast ). Someone drinking at Casa Vega described the show as, "It's like Alan Partridge but at a 90's alternative rock station. Or like Comedy Bang Bang, but 90's radio." That person was killed by shadowy members of a nautically themed gang. Here's how we describe KPODD 101.3 since we're still living: Two L.A. morning radio DJs return to the airwaves in the 1990s after being suspended and sent to rehab. Machine Bolt and Él Farto are on a savage journey to better living. The mics are always on a little too early and each episode starts with the accidentally aired unvarnished small talk that lurks behind their positivity personas. The oddest characters invade their lives, and the occasional mysterious rips in the space-time continuum add a note of science fiction weird to the morning drive. You may have questions: Are they the only ones trapped in the 90s? Why did a giant python constrict the HR lady's Chihuahua? Why does this version of reality include the SeVan® conversion kit that turns most economy sedans into custom vans by appearance at most angles? Is Station Manager Gene from the future? Why does Producer Lynn dress like Kurt Cobain if he hosted a bird watching show on NPR? Start with a recent episode. Then jump around. Because there's no right way to travel back or forward in time. Everyone knows that. Right?

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Check latest episodes from KPODD 101.3 podcast

Black and White Flat Screen (with Mike Sacks!)

2022/06/23

Él Farto and Machine Bolt have an announcement. Super Caller Mike is milking a venomous spider into thimbles and condoms after the spider was smuggled to him in a Band Aid box. The competition is out of their coma and you’ll never guess what jump-started them. Plus: Listener Review! Also: The phone line is sponsored by Fruitopia® and everyone in the world is filled with deep regret and painful awareness with regard to this. God save us all.

No More Mister Nice Hosts

2022/06/16

Radio consultants Genevieve Haas and Andrew Walsh, hired by Gene to whip the morning show into shape, give on-air advice to Machine Bolt and Él Farto on how to get jiggy with it and bring the ratings fight to Chudd and Carl (still in comas). Get your whips and your latex, and tune in for weather, listener calls, and some deeply inside-baseball radio strategy on this morning’s broadcast!

To Kill A Rocktober

2022/06/09

There’s never been a better time to buy a Toyota, but time is a construct. Rocktober came in without warning and is winding down with a certain flair as Machine Bolt and Él Farto wade into a swag swamp of Bacardi guitars and KPODD T-shirts! Heavy Kevy calls in! New details emerge about Chudd Cuddler and Carl Cannibal’s dirt bike crash in Elsinore! Machine Bolt and Él Farto hover near number two in the ratings while Chudd and Carl hover near death in comas! The phrase that truly pays: As long as you’re free from fear and the tyranny of your brain, you’re truly free and you’ll be fine!

It Never Rains On Your Phonebook In LA

2022/06/02

Call 818-85-FARTO and tell us all your thoughts on ROCKTOBER! Él Farto and Machine Bolt (real names) have been accused of stealing their format from a competing morning team, and they start the broadcast getting a lot off their chests about that. The new AlternativeRockMobile™ has been christened, and is out there on the 405 this morning! If you’re a lucky listener with the KPODD bumper sticker you could get a free guitar! Tune in to this morning’s broadcast for a sad update on local radio heroes Chud Cuddler and Cannibal Carl, plus some static the guys are having with Anthony Loud’s sidekick Stump.

Try to Bite Death's Fingers

2022/05/26

Consider that forgetting your dreams each morning may be the key to happiness. While you're doing that, Whiskey Dick is writing a hard-hitting prison memoir about his time (3 days) in prison (County lock-up), and Él Farto and Machine Bolt are giving you hacks to make people like you instantly. Plus! More unvarnished truths are spoken while Lynn is out of the room, women and drugs and fake fame on the tuba player scene, and the most dangerous live remote in the 818 is happening Friday and it will be 60 below zero Fahrenheit. We're Sorry We Tried to Hire Your Baby®

The Honored Dead and The Dick in the Clink

2022/05/19

October 1st 1998 is another day full of excitement and chill vibes for Machine Bolt and Él Farto, who are down one Morning Zoo Butt Nugget after a riot broke out at that vegan restaurant. They take a moment this episode to reflect on some of the morning FM broadcasters who blazed the trail that the third most popular morning team in LA is honored to walk. That plus weather, snake attacks and dogs!

Two Sneezes and Jesus

2022/05/12

Él Farto and Machine Bolt definitely are not aware of 17th century Dutch philosopher Baruch Spinoza. They have, however, come into a bit of a windfall and upgraded at The Oakwood. Mike’s having Black Feather meetings at the new apartment, Tim from Tower is on the line this morning, plus things go sideways at Seth’s Bar and Grill and Whiskey lands in the slammer. Epic!

One Rung Shy of the Top of the Ladder

2022/05/05

It’s September 17, 1998 and Machine Bolt and Él Farto are consulting crystal balls, entertainment news reports and super callers during the 8 o’clock hour of the morning show today. Tune in so you don’t miss the latest from Crazy Sign Guy, a plea for information on the whereabouts of Bloodhound, and information about the first remote the KPODD morning show will be doing at a bar since the incident! Very little discussion of gangrenous wounds or animal inseminations gone wrong. Just some great, positive alternative rock vibes to start your day!

Ixnay on the Non Compos Mentis, Hombre!

2022/04/28

Fall takes its time finding The Southland, and Él Farto takes the high road about Machine Bolt selling his car while he was out of town. More rips in the space time continuum as the guys get to the bottom of this Wil Wheaton World Wide Web posting and a weird card from Lynn, plus: The struggle to find euphemisms! Crazy Sign Guy’s wisdom and insight! And remember: The harder you try to deny your true pants, the more humiliating they become. This episode is brought to you by Sevan II: The Big Picture® "Makes most economy sedans appear to be a van from most angles! Now with side panel murals!"

How to Save Yourself and Others?

2022/04/21

It's 09/03/98! Really just music from Matthew Sweet, Super Furry Animals, Hole — maybe an ad for SeVan II ®. Oh, and Él Farto calls in from the Airfone on his Continental Airlines flight. Definitely not a recon mission into a shadowy underworld. And no food-based vandalism. Pretty basic, really. Doesn’t end on a note of ominous struggle or anything.

America’s Nautically Themed Gang Problem

2022/04/14

It’s August 27th, 1998 and The Southland is seeing continuing showers as Él Farto continues bathing in sinks after hours at the WPODD offices and studios in Chicago. Things have gotten even stranger with Super Roommate Mike’s visit to his gang of seafaring outcasts, and Tim from Tower Sunset is in the land of the ice and snow where the midnight sun and the hot springs flow, or whatever they call Dublin. What the hell is going on with Lynn, and what’s the story on the weird wild card? The guys finally come down once and for all on Super Roommate Mike for having bobcat urine, shoulder-length cattle insemination gloves, and bulk bat guano sent to The Oakwood. Come on people, be adults.

It Never Rains, Man. It Pours.

2022/04/07

Good morning from 08/20/98 where life at The Oakwood is torn asunder. Machine Bolt tries to stay anchored in Van Nuys, Él Farto continues camping in an office, and Super Roommate Mike is still M.I.A. in Clearwater, Florida at the center for nautically themed occult gangs. Plus: listener calls! Brought to you by Blockbuster Video® See “Press Hard: The Dixon Ticonderoga Story” now available on home video.

Read KPODD 101.3 podcast reviews

4.9 out of 5

54 reviews

teaandtrost 2022/06/08

Good Mental Health

Machine Bolt and El Farto keep me company every morning on my drive. I am also a proud owner of (what used to be) a utilitarian economy sedan that LOO...

Gorth Gorndacker 2022/06/03

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danlibrarian 2022/04/28

Blastin in the Fiero all morning long!

I can’t stop with these guys. I listen while hucking newspapers out the windows on my six routes throughout the southland! Great talk and the best Cho...

donegal punk 2022/04/28

Sale at Tower this weekend

Hey guys I'm letting you know we're doing our famous LOCKED IN AT TOWER weekend where all the staff stay awake from midnight Friday until 8am Monday a...

RebelChevy09 2022/03/15

Number 3!

The only radio station I ever need to listen to again! I love listening to El Farto and Machine Bolt talk about anything and everything! Even while si...

@bodhilens 2022/02/17

EPIC!!!

I was lukewarm on KPOD when it began but it has steadily grown to number four in my southland! Cheers to no regrets and good mental health!

Nobody, Esq. 2022/01/25

I quite like this show.

Dear Ipodcasts: For several weeks, I have managed to get the reference librarian to load this interesting radio program off the modem and download o...

Michael Hoffman 2021/11/15

More fun than an Ojai Agave Bellini at Wasabi Mojave

Every morning while I brew my Yuban I tune in to Machine Bolt and El Farto. I came for the 101-minute chockablock with rock blocks, but I stay for the...

Deep Space SCV 2021/10/30

Fun throwback

Dan and Ben are funny while hitting the nostalgia nail on the head. I grew up in the valley listening to the shows they are riffing on and this now a ...

FlashDanz 2021/10/22

Blast From The Past

2 funny guys talking on the radio in the 90’s. All the best and worst of what I remembered. Thanks U-S

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