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The Honest Ignorance Podcast is hosted by comedian Matt Cole. He brings in guest each week (mainly other comedians) that live life outside of the norm, or at least his daily "normal". To ask them some ignorant questions in hopes of having a honest and funny dialog while also educating himself and others to whatever the "ignorance" might be.
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Matt Cole makes unfamiliar experiences approachable by asking blunt questions and letting comedian guests supply the detail, corrections and punchlines.
Matt Cole turns openly uninformed questions into loose, revealing Comedy Interviews. He asks guests to explain experiences outside his own, then follows their answers wherever they lead.
Matt Cole asks how blind chess works, so your awkward questions feel slightly less lonely.
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A messy recovery conversation that keeps its best moments tied to real wreckage.
Matt Cole brings Honest Ignorance to Hollywood for a conversation with Craig Conant that stays close to the mess: a better-part-of-a-decade run of drug use, the arrests that followed, and the shift into sobriety.
A noisy road recording, but a blunt talk about mental holds, meds, and how the process actually plays out.
Matt Cole spends the episode with comedy buddy Tom Goss in a conversation that does not shy away from seven years of being in and out of mental institutions.
A blunt comic interview that turns awkward questions into real detail.
Matt Cole brings Honest Ignorance to Pico Rivera for a comic conversation with Des Delgadillo, better known as Des the Blind Guy. The premise is exactly what it sounds like: Matt asks blunt, sometimes ignorant questions in hopes of landing a laugh and learning something.
A first attempt that pairs blunt curiosity with grim, personal fallout.
Matt Cole opens Honest Ignorance by framing the show around admitting not knowing and asking honest, funny questions of guests who live outside his norm.
A stranger calls. Chris Gethard listens. Anything can surface.
Quincy Johnson II says stand-up has no blueprint: the only method is getting onstage and doing it.
Matt Cole drives to Hollywood to sit with Craig Philip Conant, also known as the ever-gassiest Craig Conant.
Matt Cole opens by grumbling about the road noise from the drive back from San Diego, where he and Tom Goss had been hitting a few mics.
Matt Cole opens Honest Ignorance by saying he likes guests whose lives sit outside his everyday normal.
Matt Cole opens Honest Ignorance by saying he started it because he feels himself, and people generally, getting more ignorant about the world around them.