The Connor Larsen Show
Comedian Connor Larsen gets deep into whatever he's into that week and then talks about the most interesting parts to you. Each week on The Connor Larsen Show, Connor picks a topic that caught his attention — why ads have gotten so strange, a sci-fi novel that accidentally predicted the future, human behavior that makes no sense — and digs in until he finds the weird and funny parts.
Episodes
13 episodes
All Your Favorite Landmarks Are Built on Swamps
I knew nothing about "land reclamation" two weeks ago. Turns out we've been quietly MAKING land — out of swamps, mudflats, and open ocean — for centuries. The Lincoln Memorial, Ellis Island, LaGuardia, and roughly a third of Manhattan are all b...
What I'm Growing, Pt. 2: Tomato Conspiracy | The Connor Larsen Show Ep. 12
This weeks episode is the 2nd half of what im growing in the garden, how europeans were terrified of tomatoes, the three sister, seed saver exchanges, why the intentionally make food taste worse for the supermarket and how its not as crazy you ...
EP 011 — "WHAT I'M GROWING (PART 1)"
It's mid-June in Nashville, my garden is finally cashing in on all the spring prep — this week i did a deep dive on everything I'm currently growing. A lot of fun stuff in here. Flowers people look down on for being too easy. The strawberry tha...
LAWNS Why Your Lawn Makes No Sense | Connor Larsen Show Episode 10
I love mowing the lawn but I also think the lawn is completely insane so i did some research and its actually way crazier. The lawn we know started as a rich-guy flex then became a great place for bio warfare chemicals to have second acts plus ...
EXCAVATION: THE WAR ON DIRT - The Connor Larsen Show Episode 9
I tried to dig out all the big old shrubs and stumps in my backyard, got poison ivy, and spent two full days using the wrong shovel before a friend handed me a pick and changed my life. Which got me thinking: I can't be the first guy to stand i...
COMEDY PT 2 : German Tourists, Casino Thanksgivings & David Copperfield's Island | The Connor Larsen Show Episode 8
I taped my special this week and didnt have time for a proper deep dive but i got some good ones coming up! Instead of a deep dive im doing more yapping about comedy and how crazy but also great it is.A lot of fun stuff in this one, casi...
COMEDY : 10 Years Doing Standup | The Connor Larsen Show Episode 7
When i started comedy i lived on a 16-foot sailboat in Toronto with a pee bucket and a spider problem, trying to figure out how to do stand-up. This month is very hectic so no deep dive this wee — just fun stories from my 10 years doing comedy....
CRAIGSLIST : Why Craigslist Represents The Internet You Actually Want | Connor Larsen Show Episode 6
HERE IS THE CORRECT EPISODE 6 AUDIO LINK. I accidentally uploaded episode 5. Thank you Nick for noticing and sending me a DM. thanks everybody for listeningConnor's favorite website on the internet is Craigslist — it's ugly, it's be...
BEES : Why Every Civilization That Ever Existed Loved Bees | The Connor Larsen Show #5
Bees good, wasps bad — that was genuinely all Connor knew going in. What he found was that every civilization in history, independently and without talking to each other has been obsessed with these little creatures. The Egyptians. The Romans. ...
Invasive Species and how bad trees are like Jurassic Park | Connor Larsen Show Episode 4
This week Connor digs into the invasive plants, especially the ones in Tennessee — and how almost every one of them got here because some guy went "this'll be great" and the government paid for it.In this episode: - Why kudzu is the Kard...
Why I Torched My Wife's Garden Bed | Connor Larsen Show Episode 3
I charred a garden bed i built for my wife with a Japanese technique called yakisugi. This episode i got very into old preservation techniques and learned cool stuff about ancient Tokyo's firesfighters, an 800 year old korean book, Venice's woo...
Mark Zuckerberg Named His Company After a Book About a Guy in a Storage Unit
In 1992, Neal Stephenson wrote a novel about a broke pizza delivery guy living in a storage unit inside a world run by corporations — and Silicon valley was like awesome lets do that. This episode is about the book Snow Crash and how it predict...