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The Laughing Heart--a podcast with Errol Strider

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The Laughing Heart--a podcast with Errol Strider
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Errol Strider

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The Laughing Heart--a podcast
Humor, story, and spoken word for insight, inspiration, and connection

Hosted by Errol Strider, poet, performer, and non-prophet.

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9:29 pm CT
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Talk Show Program Archives

The Laughing Heart, April 26, 2026 The Art of a Laughing Heart, Navigating 50 Years of Partnership and Marriage
The Laughing Heart, April 19, 2026 Flow Podcast the One, Mastering the Flow and Navigating the Flow
The Laughing Heart, April 12, 2026 Navigating The Great Puzzle Of Existence, Exploring Life, Love, and Spirit
Errol Strider
Los Gatos
CAUSA
Occupation:
Actor, Performing Artist, Playwright, Author, Illustrator, Teacher, Dancer, Hypnotherapist, Workshop Facilitator, Spiritual Educator, Talk Show Host
Biography:

Errol Strider has been an actor,  dancer, poet and playwright, apartment house manager in San Francisco and president of the AEPi pledge class at the University of Missouri.

He was secretary to a Lady Presbyterian Minister at the International  Museum of EroticArt.

He danced a week at the Yiddish American VAudeville Theater in Miami beach, Florida.

He danced the part or Jesus for the Franciscan Sisters of the Perpetual Adoration.

He's had 3 hernia operations.

Taught acting, dance and theater history at the U. of Miami

Was artistic  director of 3 theater companies.

Was featured on "Wait Wait Don't Tell Me" for covering his genitals with a fanny pack.

Spent a year walking the streets of San Francisco making soulful contact with at least 15 strangers a day--and wasn't arrested

Nine years living at a clothing optional retreat in Northern CA so he didn't have to decide what to wear everyday.

Went to 2 women's colleges, but was only thrown out of one of them because of a sex scandal.

Has written and performed many philosophical, satirical and metaphysical sketches and performed them for thousands of people from a wide variety of groups.

Co-write and co-starred in the national tour of "Family Baggage"-a recovery show.

Spent nine years as a hypnotherapist traveling the country doing seminars for people to lose weight and quit smoking.

Has been married to the most esteemed and gorgeous Rochelle Strider for 45 years who considers him a bonafide idiot savant.(but who's counting)

Raised two sons with Rochelle.

Written and performed numerous comedy sketches.

Though tempted, steadfastly refuses to take himself seriously...even when he's depressed 

Has cultivated a dynamic faith.

A Jewish boy who discovered another Jewish boy-Jeshua Ben Joseph--and became life-long friends.

Lived so far out of the spiritual box that his Jewish mother said, "please, just be an actor."

Had his mid-life crisis at age 23 when he was in an intimate relationship with a woman who was 15 years his senior and who had 5 boys from a previous marriage.

Worked at a mental health ward in Marin County--where he felt really at home...

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Feedback:

What a great show tonight - very moving and real - Rochelle's skit about being a child brought tears to my eyes - now I know what the "laughing heart" means. Sometimes I'm floored by "your naked truth" - keep the topics coming . . .

Feedback:

You guys are so different - I've never heard anything like it before on
radio.  Do you write your own skits? And if you do, how do you come up with
these ideas together?! Really terrific - almost like a Beckett play - kind of
modern day "existential" stuff. . . comedy and truth.  Are we all just still
waiting for Godot? You seem to break down the illusory patterns that appear
to give us security. Bravo!

Feedback:

Congrats!!!  That was a really good show you and Rochelle put on last Tuesday!  And, that sketch in the Feelings Shop was priceless -- really well done.  In fact, is there a way you could make a clip of just the sketch -- and post it on your web site -- as an intro to the fun from your show???