Miller Morning Madhouse - A SoCool Podcast Joint
🎙️ Miller Morning Madhouse - A SoCool Podcast Production From the slightly warped minds behind The SoCool Podcast comes Miller Morning Madhouse — the unholy offspring of 1980s talk radio, Gen X nostalgia, and questionable life choices. Broadcasting straight from the SoCool Studios in Gary, Indiana, this is where chaos meets caffeine. It all began with The SoCool Podcast — an improv joint featuring Jerry Pancake, Christopher Robin, and the ever-sultry Yolo Monte Cristo, where two forty-something guys tried to stay cool with zero research and 100% attitude. That same spirit of reckless creativity lives on in the Madhouse, now starring Jerry Pancake, Josh Scramble, Jen Pancake, and Elizabeth Benedict — the wildest morning crew this side of Lake Michigan. Expect the familiar SoCool mix of improv comedy, fake commercials, nostalgic wormholes, and Miller Beach mayhem — now supercharged with local flavor, trivia battles, and unfiltered banter. It’s morning radio the SoCool way: louder, looser, and proudly sponsored by SoCoolShirts.com — Wear your weird. So have a Miller Pour or a Miller Lite, tune in, and join the crew as they carry the SoCool torch into a new generation of comedy, community, and glorious dysfunction. “All you guys do is sit up there and talk about how f*cking cool you are.” Yeah. That’s kind of the point. Buckle up, Miller. The madhouse doors are open. 🎧🔥
Episodes
🎁 Episode 25 – All the Presents… 🎁
The Miller Morning Madhouse Advent Calendar (The Whole Damn Thing)
This is it. The big one. The entire Advent Calendar… unwrapped, dumped on the floor, and re-assembled into one glorious, unhinged, 2½-hour episode of Miller Morning Madhouse madness.
Every bit. Every joke. Every musical moment. Every rant, laugh, argument, accidental insight, and festive derailment from December all packed...
Episode 24 – Caroling… Caroling…
The episode features two festive musical moments: “The 12 Days of Miller,” performed by Jerry Pancake, Jen Pancake, and Josh Scramble, followed by a joyful rendition of “Feliz Navidad” performed by the incredible folks from the Miller Community Theatre.
Somehow, in the middle of a board meeting, the theatre crew grabbed songbooks, found their harmonies, and generously took time out of...
Episode 23 – ’Twas 2 Nights Before Christmas… (Read by a Ghost)
On December 23rd, the Miller Morning Madhouse takes a quieter, creepier, and very local turn. Told in the spirit of ’Twas the Night Before Christmas and narrated from beyond the dunes by the ghost of Diana of the Dunes, this episode captures a perfect Miller Beach Christmas Eve.
From cars stuck in half-snow, half-sand… to Flamingo patrons holding drinks while ...
Episode 22 – “Looking Back and Road Trippin’”
The Miller Morning Madhouse crew looks back at their favorite moment of 2025—and unsurprisingly, Flamingo Fest and the legendary porta-potty broadcast steal the crown. Josh, Jerry & Jen revisit country songs, bullshit, drunken confusion, and the golden-shower chaos that changed the podcast forever.
The gang also talks future road trips, listener call-ins, QR code surprises, K...
🎄 Episode 21 – Hire Someone Else… Like a Clown… 🤡
The Miller Morning Madhouse Advent Calendar rolls on with Chad Bacon Burton in studio, talking Christmas music, holiday gigs, and why asking for Christmas songs might mean you should hire someone else. Things quickly derail into Bee Gees debates, Burl Ives nostalgia, and an unforgettable childhood story involving Killer Klowns from Outer Space… followed by an actual clown ...
🎄 Episode 20 – “It’s a Beautiful Pancake…”
The Advent Calendar rolls on with a surprisingly sweet opener as one of Miller’s own tiny children, Annie, kicks things off singing “We Wish You a Merry Christmas.” From there, Jerry, Jen, Josh, and guest Chad Burton spiral into a very honest (and very funny) debate about Christmas decorating — or more specifically, why Jen Pancake does not see the point of it at all.
The conversat...
🎙️ Episode 19: Opening Gifts and That Vintage Smell…
December 19 – Miller Morning Madhouse Advent Calendar
What starts as a simple holiday question — did you ever just grab a random gift from under the tree? — quickly derails into a full-blown nostalgia spiral. Jerry, Josh, Jen Pancake, and special guest Chad Burton unwrap memories of mislabeled presents, fake blender boxes, prank gifts gone wrong, encyclopedias th...
Episode 18: A Musical Gift from Chad…
Today’s Advent Calendar drop is something special. We’re thrilled to feature “Christmas Wish,” an original song written by Darren Locasto and Chad Burton, produced and arranged by Chad Burton, and performed by Brian Hemstock and Chad Burton.
Chad joined us in studio to add his own musical magic to the Miller Morning Madhouse Advent Calendar, and we couldn’t be more grateful for t...
🎄 Episode 17: We’re Sorry, Chad…
What was supposed to be a festive, musical Advent episode turned into a full-blown basement disaster. When professional musician Chad Burton stopped by the Miller Morning Madhouse, our wildly unprepared setup (vintage mixer, mystery cords, and loose tinsel everywhere) quickly exposed the gap between “professional recording studio” and “guys who bought equipment because it had cool lights.”
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🎙️ Episode 16: “Oh Yeah…It’s Your Birthday…” (Dec 16) — The Josh Scramble Birthday Special!
It’s Josh Scramble’s actual birthday, so the Madhouse crew does what it does best: celebrates with love… and immediately turns it into a group therapy session for anyone born within blast radius of Christmas. Special guest local music legend Chad “Bacon” Burton drops into the (very mid) basement studio, roasts our setup wit...
🎙️ Episode 15: The Elf, Diddy, and Carlin…
Today’s Advent Calendar micro-dose dives into the unhinged world of Elf on the Shelf, where the gang debates why parents ever signed up for a nightly surveillance doll with a criminal imagination. Jerry dreams of staging his elf in scandalous “sugar” situations, Jen wants nothing to do with it, and Scramble wonders why this elf needs a full PR department on Facebook every ...
🎙️ Episode 14: Dreidel, Dreidel, Dreidel…
Today’s Advent Calendar micro-dose takes a wonderfully chaotic dive into Hanukkah — or rather, the version the three of you thought you understood growing up in Indiana. The gang reflects on how Adam Sandler’s “Hanukkah Song” was basically their first Judaism crash course, why none of them knew anyone lighting a menorah as kids, and how blue-and-white Christmas lights accid...
🎙️ Episode 13: This Playlist Could Cause a 72 Hour Hold…
In today’s festive meltdown, the gang dives headfirst into the emotional minefield that is Christmas music. Jen Pancake declares she hates Christmas and its soundtrack, Jerry passionately defends “Dominic the Donkey” and “I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas,” and Josh Scramble questions what the hell “Deck the Halls” even means and why anyone is still using h...
🎙️ Episode 12: O’Tannenbaum (AKA O’Fire Hazard)
Today’s micro-dose of festive chaos dives into the dangerous history of Christmas trees — real, fake, flammable, and always surrounded by a 1970s fog of cigarette smoke. Jerry recalls the Cutlass-topped tree deliveries of his childhood, Jen marvels that any houses survived the decade, and Scramble defends his family’s lifelong loyalty to fake trees.
This episode is pro...
🎙️ Episode 11 – It Was the Worst of Times...
From smoky polyester kid robes and creepy vibrating tennis statues to a Steelers jersey picked out by a random child, expired Chi-Chi’s gift cards, balsa-wood dinosaur “fun,” and cartons of Camels, Jerry, Jen & Scramble unwrap the absolute bottom-tier holiday gifts of their lives. Along the way they reminisce about flea markets, encyclopedias, and why no kid actually...
Episode 10 – It Was the Best of Times…
A micro-dose of smart-ass notes to listen while it snows.
December 10th brings a burst of Christmas nostalgia as Josh and Jerry share their best childhood gifts—bikes of every flavor, from neon-orange Huffys to yellow-fendered BMX dream machines. Jen remembers her pink Huffy and the day four-year-old her taught herself to ride by grabbing parked cars and hoping for the best.
Jerr...
Episode 9 – What Would Bob Barker Do?
A micro-dose of smart-ass holiday wisdom to listen to while it snows… or while you regret every Christmas gift you’ve ever bought.
In today’s festive rant, Josh Scramble unleashes on one of the great holiday crimes: buying a pet for Christmas. The gang breaks down why tiny bunnies turn into land piranhas, why children should not be trusted with anything that breathes, and why Flo...
Episode 8 – Nut Sack to Bunghole
A micro-dose of smart-ass notes to listen while it snows… and while LBJ gets fitted for trousers with more “presidential breathing room.”
Josh Scramble kicks off December 8th with a full rant about Christmas gift-giving: why he doesn’t do it, why adults should just buy their own crap, and why buying clothes for another human being is a guaranteed friendship-ending event. Jen defends h...
Episode 7 – The Trashy Sledding Hill…
A micro-dose of winter chaos, childhood stupidity, and the kind of “holiday magic” you only get when you grow up sledding on a hill decorated with leftover car parts and questionable life choices.
Jerry, Josh, and Jen take a downhill trip through their childhood sledding memories — from exploding inner tubes to metal-blade death sleds to the shocking revelation of what Pancake an...
🎙️ Episode 6: Jen Likes Pies…
The crew dives fork-first into the holiday season with a full spread of Thanksgiving and Christmas classics — turkey, ham, beef roasts, deviled eggs, fudge, lasagna, fruitcakes that go straight to the trash, and enough cream pies to send Jerry into a spiritual awakening.
Jen confesses to liking all the pies, Josh defends the honor of Mama Scramble’s donuts, and Jerry relives the trauma ...
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