The Tim Andrews Popcast

#153 - Author & Comedian Trey Toler

Trey Toler has lived enough lives to fill a book – which is exactly what he did. He spent his teens as an unlikely caregiver, navigating medical crises and adult responsibility before most kids had a driver's license. In his twenties, he found his footing on stage as a stand-up comedian, performing regularly at Atlanta's Laughing Skull Lounge and eventually running the shows there, along the way earning the mentorship of Margaret Cho and an internship at Turner Broadcasting's Adult Swim. He traded the mic for a career in media and advertising, where he discovered the same instincts that made him good onstage—reading a room, finding the truth that connects—made him good in recruiting and sales too. " Good Damage is the debut memoir from Trey Toler about the messy, unscripted "after. “ After the illness, the loss, the burnout, and the exhausting performance of recovery. The story begins with a Southern childhood governed by rules no one explains: sunscreen and flip flops are gay, and umbrellas are for women. Trey comes of age as the boy who could never quite get those rules right, raised in a church where the preacher says homosexual the way you say abomination (slow, careful, like the word itself could spread). At the heart of the story is his mother—her fierce beauty, her harrowing brain surgery, and her eventual absence. Trey explores the deafening silence that follows when the person who made the world feel safe is gone, and the strange, delayed grief that refuses to arrive—or leave—on schedule." https://ripples.media/books/good-damage/ Find him on Instagram and TikTok at @Toler_the_Trey and on Substack at @TreyToler1.

#152 - Actor Vivian Bang + Rocsi Diaz and The Miz

Actor Vivian Bang talks about her play Detroit and Rocsi & The Miz talk about the return of American Gladiators.

151 - BBQ Brawl Contestant Dakari Akorede

This episode fires up the grill with the new season of BBQ Brawl, where team captains Bobby Flay, Maneet Chauhan and Brooke Williamson lead elite pitmasters in a battle for the title of Master of ‘Cue. My guest is Atlanta’s own Dakari Akorede — Chicago-born, Atlanta-based, and the pitmaster behind Chicageaux BBQ Company, blending South Side tradition, live-fire discipline and bold flavor. By day he runs multimillion-dollar operations as a senior executive, and off the clock he’s an award-winning barbecue competitor bringing real smoke and no shortcuts to the ranch. Dakari joins me to talk about representing Atlanta on BBQ Brawl.

#150 - Marc Provissiero and Greg Russ

This week I welcome Marc Provissiero, a longtime entertainment manager and producer, and one of the founding partners of Odenkirk Provissiero Entertainment, where they represent a wide range of film and TV talent. He’s been behind projects like No Hard Feelings, Nobody, and the Hulu series Pen15. Normal is a 2025 action movie directed by Ben Wheatley and written by Derek Kolstad, who came up with the story along with Bob Odenkirk. Odenkirk also stars in it, alongside Henry Winkler and Lena Headey. The movie first showed up at the Midnight Madness section of the Toronto International Film Festival on September 7, 2025, and then hit theaters in the U.S. on April 17, 2026 through Magnolia Pictures. Later on, Greg Russ joins me from NYC to talk sound design, off-Broadway & more. https://www.normalthemovie.com/

#149 - Kevn Kinney & Anna Jensen

I had a great chat with Kevn Kinney of Drivin n Cryin & artist Anna Jensen about Let’s Go Dancing, a 4 LP project turning Kevn’s songs into paintings, tribute albums, and the single “Mirror Mirror,” from the upcoming Drivin n Cryin album: Crushing Flowers. Tasty Goody Records https://www.tastygoodyrecords.com/ Anna Jensen https://annajensenart.com/home.html Drivin n Cryin https://www.drivinncryin.com/