Dead And Kind Of Famous Podcast: Weird, Wonderful, & Wild!

I love podcasts that take a genre or topic and bend it, twist it, and even improve on it by combining two disparate elements.

With the new independent podcast, Dead and Kind of Famous, the co-hosts have merged fame with anonymity and unshackled celebrity from legacy.

The podcast presents two friends (“one who’s a nobody and one who’s kinda famous”) who dive into the life stories of dead folks who enjoyed a touch or two of fame in their time and now reside permanently in Hollywood Forever Cemetery.

The show only began in October and has released two episodes so far, but those episodes are like a bumper car ride into death, celebrity, unsavory behavior, comic relief, descents into salty sarcasm, and wildly inappropriate wit.

Boil all these elements into excellent sound quality, comedic chops, and narrative acumen, and you receive an indie podcast that proves yet again that breaking the mold on any genre can make for a superb podcast.

The co-hosts are Courtney Blomquist and Marissa Rivera. Courtney explains how she met Marissa: “We met in kind of a funny way! I had been friends with Marissa’s now ex-husband since high school and had reached out to him when my now husband and I were considering moving to LA. And then he introduced me to his wife…