WEBVTT 1 00:00:03.200 --> 00:00:11.560 Caloroga Shark Media. Do me a favor. If this is the first time 2 00:00:11.560 --> 00:00:16.280 you're hearing this podcast, listen to any other episode. Hi, I'm Johnny 3 00:00:16.280 --> 00:00:19.879 Mack with your daily comedy news, and this one's for me. Sometimes they 4 00:00:19.920 --> 00:00:22.839 just need to talk to the audience. You can hear my voice. So 5 00:00:22.879 --> 00:00:26.280 I went to see The Stones Thursday night, right, and again, if 6 00:00:26.280 --> 00:00:28.480 this is your first time with the show, this is totally self indulgent, 7 00:00:28.519 --> 00:00:32.479 go find a different episode. So I headed out to The Stones and bark 8 00:00:32.560 --> 00:00:35.600 the car and I was sitting there with my buddy Glenn, and we had 9 00:00:35.640 --> 00:00:38.799 gotten Chipotle and we're eating our burritos and you know, nice enough night. 10 00:00:38.840 --> 00:00:42.200 And I take a selfie of us, go to send it to my wife. 11 00:00:42.359 --> 00:00:47.159 Worlds at Tamos tailgate and I see two miss calls, a voicemail and 12 00:00:47.200 --> 00:00:49.960 a text that says call me now. That's never good, right, And 13 00:00:50.159 --> 00:00:56.759 nope, it was not good. Just took another stomach punch, some more 14 00:00:56.840 --> 00:00:59.560 terrible news. But you know, we were at the show and there was 15 00:00:59.600 --> 00:01:02.399 nothing to be done. And I don't have a time machine. So Glenn 16 00:01:02.439 --> 00:01:06.439 and I saw The Rolling Stones. I'll have it in substack on Monday, 17 00:01:06.519 --> 00:01:10.359 that's my free newsletter where I talk about the media. So if you want 18 00:01:10.400 --> 00:01:12.879 to get a full review of the show, that'll be in the sub stack. 19 00:01:12.920 --> 00:01:15.840 You can hear. I can't even form a sentence today. I think 20 00:01:17.159 --> 00:01:19.719 they were really good. It was one of those things where I was not 21 00:01:19.959 --> 00:01:23.239 good company. Glenn understood. But I'm sitting there and I'm half thinking about 22 00:01:23.280 --> 00:01:26.519 the phone call for my wife, and I'm half enjoying the Stones, and 23 00:01:26.560 --> 00:01:27.439 I'm like, you know, kind of out of it, and then like, 24 00:01:27.439 --> 00:01:30.640 oh wow, this sounds really good. I really like the song Miss 25 00:01:30.680 --> 00:01:33.920 You. But what this conversation gonna be when I get home. So that's 26 00:01:33.959 --> 00:01:37.680 where I am today. But I just want to tell you the Stones I 27 00:01:37.719 --> 00:01:40.280 think they were pretty good, but I'm not sure because I was out of 28 00:01:40.280 --> 00:01:44.799 it. The other thing affecting me today is Morgan Spurlock passed away. Now, 29 00:01:44.840 --> 00:01:51.519 I worked with Morgan, and I'm trying to explain the Morgan Spurlock I 30 00:01:51.799 --> 00:01:56.840 worked with circa I don't know, twenty fifteen, sixteen seventeen, somewhere in 31 00:01:56.840 --> 00:02:00.359 that range. Yeah, somewhere in that range. Was like a really cool, 32 00:02:00.560 --> 00:02:05.400 thoughtful guy. He passed away on Thursday in upstate New York complications from 33 00:02:05.439 --> 00:02:08.199 cancer. He was fifty three. I'm fifty four. We did a podcast 34 00:02:08.280 --> 00:02:13.960 with him. It was a weekly news recap show, A really good idea. 35 00:02:14.000 --> 00:02:16.800 I think maybe we tried it a little too early in podcasting's growth curve. 36 00:02:17.479 --> 00:02:21.800 It was a show that deserved a lot better. I don't even know 37 00:02:21.840 --> 00:02:23.719 if it's still up. Let me look, yeah, I don't see it. 38 00:02:23.800 --> 00:02:28.319 My old company may possibly have taken it down. Let me read from 39 00:02:28.319 --> 00:02:30.000 his obituary and variety. This is where it gets a little complicated. In 40 00:02:30.039 --> 00:02:34.800 December twenty seventeen, as the me too movement continued to gain traction, Spurlock 41 00:02:34.879 --> 00:02:37.919 wrote in a lengthy social media post saying he was part of the problem. 42 00:02:38.520 --> 00:02:42.240 In the post, he admitted to serial infidelities and said he had settled an 43 00:02:42.280 --> 00:02:45.560 allegation of sexual harassment from a former assistant. He also said he had been 44 00:02:45.560 --> 00:02:50.199 accused of rape and college. The post effectively ended as Spurlock's documentary career, 45 00:02:50.560 --> 00:02:53.879 as Spurlock stepped down from Warrior Poets shortly after. If I remember correctly, 46 00:02:53.919 --> 00:02:59.439 he stepped down at the Christmas party that year. Yeah, December twenty seventeen, 47 00:03:00.120 --> 00:03:02.319 he had a lengthy lunch with him on the other side of that, 48 00:03:04.319 --> 00:03:07.080 I don't know what happened or didn't happen. I can tell you he was 49 00:03:07.159 --> 00:03:09.639 quite remorseful about everything, and I found it would be a very thoughtful person. 50 00:03:10.319 --> 00:03:14.520 Again, I don't know what happened, and if something horrible happened, 51 00:03:14.520 --> 00:03:16.199 I'm not here to defend it. I'm just telling you at lunch, the 52 00:03:16.199 --> 00:03:21.039 guy I worked with found to be cool. I found'll be thoughtful. But 53 00:03:21.080 --> 00:03:23.000 he canceled himself for a reason, So I don't know. So all that's 54 00:03:23.039 --> 00:03:25.639 kind of on my mind today. Also, out of that podcast that I 55 00:03:25.680 --> 00:03:30.560 worked with Morgan on, That's how I know Tim Dylan. He was one 56 00:03:30.599 --> 00:03:32.840 of the frequent collaborators on the show, and you know, at that time, 57 00:03:32.840 --> 00:03:35.479 I'm like, I don't know who this guy is, and he would 58 00:03:35.639 --> 00:03:38.599 crush every time he came on. So, you know, I often think 59 00:03:38.639 --> 00:03:42.120 of Morgan when I think of Tim, and just when I heard this news 60 00:03:42.120 --> 00:03:45.840 on Friday, I was just absolutely stunned. All right, let me see 61 00:03:45.840 --> 00:03:50.000 if I can find my fastball here. I also, personally, I need 62 00:03:50.039 --> 00:03:53.599 a couple of days off. It's been quite a stretch. I'm hoping to 63 00:03:53.639 --> 00:03:57.400 take Memorial Day weekend and just sit on the deck and listen to music and 64 00:03:57.400 --> 00:04:00.560 play video games and gonna watch Dune and stuff. I need to turn my 65 00:04:00.560 --> 00:04:02.879 brain off for a couple of days. So my goal here is to immediately 66 00:04:02.960 --> 00:04:06.759 find my fastball and then record a bunch of these and give myself a couple 67 00:04:06.719 --> 00:04:10.080 of days off. So thank you for that self indulgence here in the first 68 00:04:10.080 --> 00:04:14.080 five minutes. Again, if this is your first time listening, that's not 69 00:04:14.159 --> 00:04:15.120 normally what you get here. Right. Let me see if I can find 70 00:04:15.160 --> 00:04:18.800 my upbeat delivery, because our top story today, all right, let me 71 00:04:18.800 --> 00:04:23.120 find it. In three to one Dave Chappelle and the News. He was 72 00:04:23.160 --> 00:04:26.639 performing at Abu Dhabi Comedy Week and as part of his set, he said, 73 00:04:26.639 --> 00:04:29.879 a genocide is striking the Gaza Strip, all right, So that's going 74 00:04:29.920 --> 00:04:33.240 to make huge news. As I record Friday around lunchtime, this story just 75 00:04:33.480 --> 00:04:39.000 starting to bubble up. Chappelle's comments get complicated. Abu Dhabi has maintained its 76 00:04:39.000 --> 00:04:43.920 diplomatic relations with Israel, although it has increasingly criticized Israel's conduct in the Seven 77 00:04:43.959 --> 00:04:47.480 month war. Meanwhile, pro Palestinian marches have swept across the Middle East since 78 00:04:47.480 --> 00:04:53.720 the war began, before Dave came on stage. DJ Trauma played the song 79 00:04:53.800 --> 00:04:58.759 My Blood Is Palestinian by Palestinian singer Mohammed Asaf. Now, no footage of 80 00:04:58.759 --> 00:05:00.160 this show yet, as it was one of those the Yonder Pouch shows. 81 00:05:00.600 --> 00:05:03.319 Keep an eye on that one. All right, I need a laugh. 82 00:05:03.800 --> 00:05:06.720 I'm going totally out of sequence here. Did you see what happened on Wheel 83 00:05:06.720 --> 00:05:10.519 of Fortune? Here? Listen to this, let's do it. Our first 84 00:05:10.560 --> 00:05:15.639 toss up is worth one thousand dollars. Category is phrase and off and golf. 85 00:05:23.519 --> 00:05:33.839 Tomorrow's right in the butt? What no blake that says the best? 86 00:05:34.040 --> 00:05:38.120 Yeah, that's that's it, I think. Yeah, I've got to also 87 00:05:39.279 --> 00:05:42.639 late night with a couple of random jokes. Jimmy Fallon pointing out that it's 88 00:05:42.680 --> 00:05:45.680 Fleet Week in New York City. If you're in Manhattan this weekend, you'll 89 00:05:45.680 --> 00:05:48.480 see a lot of sailors. Usually sailors are in shape and look good in 90 00:05:48.519 --> 00:05:51.040 a uniform. I'm a straight mail but I understand why, you know, 91 00:05:51.079 --> 00:05:55.120 some people would be like, hey check that out. Fallon said, of 92 00:05:55.120 --> 00:05:57.360 course, Fleet Week kicked off here in New York City with the braid of 93 00:05:57.399 --> 00:06:00.279 ships, and it ends Tuesday when all the bartenders wave away flag. Fallon 94 00:06:00.319 --> 00:06:03.720 again. He talked about there's a new airline, bark air is for dogs. 95 00:06:03.759 --> 00:06:08.000 I talked about this on the other podcast I host five good news stories. 96 00:06:08.519 --> 00:06:12.040 The short version is dog Airline. Okay, you get the setup there. 97 00:06:12.720 --> 00:06:15.199 Fallon said, the flights take a little longer because the plane has to 98 00:06:15.199 --> 00:06:18.759 do three circles before it lands. New topic, Colbert talking about a Trump 99 00:06:18.800 --> 00:06:24.079 aid task with printing out copies of flattering articles for Trump. Colbert said, 100 00:06:24.120 --> 00:06:27.160 when she really needs his attention, she prints those on a slice of baloney. 101 00:06:27.480 --> 00:06:30.959 N silly joke. Another silly joke from Colbert unified Reich is the most 102 00:06:31.040 --> 00:06:35.560 fascist presidential ad since Dwight Eisenhower's. I like Reich, just a silly joke, 103 00:06:35.680 --> 00:06:40.279 joke. I love joke jokes. The New York Times as an article 104 00:06:40.399 --> 00:06:44.240 on what comedy specials you should watch this weekend, and I figure I better 105 00:06:44.279 --> 00:06:46.680 do this one today. Right is by Jason Zinnemann. I respect his work 106 00:06:46.680 --> 00:06:50.680 a lot. He recommends Nicky Glazers, Someday You'll die. I didn't feel 107 00:06:50.720 --> 00:06:56.199 it at all. I understand that's an unpopular opinion, but didn't feel it 108 00:06:56.240 --> 00:07:00.160 at all. Nathan McIntosh on his list Down with Tech. I'm not familiar 109 00:07:00.240 --> 00:07:04.519 with this one. Let's see Down with Tech. Self produced focuses Nathan's populist 110 00:07:04.560 --> 00:07:09.600 fury on the tech oligarchs with how much are attention we've conceded to their whims? 111 00:07:09.879 --> 00:07:12.079 All right, I'll try and file that in the back of my mind. 112 00:07:12.120 --> 00:07:14.480 I don't know how much comedy I'm in the mood for this weekend. 113 00:07:14.519 --> 00:07:16.000 I really think I need to watch like Dune. It just turned my brain 114 00:07:16.079 --> 00:07:19.360 off totally. Part of it is if I start watching comedy special, I 115 00:07:19.480 --> 00:07:23.800 start mentally hosting the show again, and like I said, I just need 116 00:07:24.319 --> 00:07:27.879 I need a little break, need a little break. Rachel Feinstein's Big Guy. 117 00:07:27.920 --> 00:07:30.759 I forgot that even came out here in this busy week that's on Netflix. 118 00:07:30.759 --> 00:07:33.959 I want to check that out. Neil Brennan's Crazy good, solid recommendation 119 00:07:34.040 --> 00:07:38.920 there. He's another one off the beaten path, Ian Abramson's The Heist. 120 00:07:39.439 --> 00:07:42.439 This one on YouTube. Jason writes, if you're a comedy fan with an 121 00:07:42.439 --> 00:07:46.399 experimental bent, give this Giddaly oddball performer a shot. He begins with a 122 00:07:46.399 --> 00:07:48.759 cinematic high scene and ends with a wild lark of a closure that no one 123 00:07:48.800 --> 00:07:53.439 will see coming sounds fun. All right, let me take the break here. 124 00:07:54.160 --> 00:07:57.000 This was all new. I threw out the first half of what was 125 00:07:57.000 --> 00:07:59.600 originally Saturday. I'll chop into pieces and I'll use it over the course of 126 00:07:59.600 --> 00:08:01.639 the weekend. And the second half you'll hear my normal delivery because I recorded 127 00:08:01.639 --> 00:08:05.759 a couple of days ago. Now, if you were listening last Sunday, 128 00:08:05.839 --> 00:08:09.360 you heard me say that, oh, I have a ton of leftovers. 129 00:08:09.439 --> 00:08:13.319 Maybe I will record a Memorial Day weekend. That's this part here. The 130 00:08:13.360 --> 00:08:16.920 Columbus Underground caught up with Bill Burr and they said, a few years ago 131 00:08:16.120 --> 00:08:20.800 Rolling Stone had you as seventeenth on their list of best stand up comedians of 132 00:08:20.839 --> 00:08:22.480 all time. You're in the same tier as Bill Hicks, Robin Williams, 133 00:08:22.519 --> 00:08:26.279 and Andy Kaufman. Thoughts persaid, you know, it's funny, bug me 134 00:08:26.319 --> 00:08:28.360 when I was left off it early on, or if there was someone I 135 00:08:28.399 --> 00:08:31.279 thought wasn't as good, just mentioned I wasn't, and then I just kind 136 00:08:31.279 --> 00:08:33.519 of realized somewhere along the line that I get this business to be on a 137 00:08:33.559 --> 00:08:37.240 list. So much of it was also if you had a hot career at 138 00:08:37.279 --> 00:08:39.519 the moment, or if you didn't, or who you knew all that stuff, 139 00:08:39.200 --> 00:08:41.600 just like the awards show, the effort, the promotion, the schmoozing, 140 00:08:41.639 --> 00:08:43.759 ah, the stuff you have to do just to get friggin nominated. 141 00:08:43.799 --> 00:08:46.919 I mean, it's Washington, d C. It's the same thing, like 142 00:08:46.919 --> 00:08:48.639 you're running for office. I don't pay too much attention to it, you 143 00:08:48.679 --> 00:08:52.000 know. It's like, look at that the list of top drummers and musicians, 144 00:08:52.039 --> 00:08:54.679 something I don't do, so I can have fund debates of like, 145 00:08:54.759 --> 00:08:56.200 dude, how can you put this drummer ahead of that drummer. I don't 146 00:08:56.200 --> 00:08:58.440 want to look at a list of something I'm doing because there always only somebody 147 00:08:58.480 --> 00:09:01.279 off it I feel strongly about. But the worst is it's just kind of 148 00:09:01.320 --> 00:09:03.360 a lazy list. If who's selling the most tickets and stuff. To be 149 00:09:03.399 --> 00:09:07.120 honest with you, that's how I made it on those lists, certainly because 150 00:09:07.120 --> 00:09:09.039 of my looks. Eventually you start selling tickets, someone goes, well, 151 00:09:09.080 --> 00:09:13.600 this guy's selling tickets, he'll bring eyeballs or he'll sell magazines. By the 152 00:09:13.600 --> 00:09:15.960 way, this is not meant to be a bilber impression. It's more of 153 00:09:16.000 --> 00:09:18.440 a vibe. Once you finally make it a list, then you gotta wonder 154 00:09:18.480 --> 00:09:20.840 how much of what's on there is true the fact because you know I played 155 00:09:20.879 --> 00:09:24.799 Madison Square Garden. If I did the exact same thing but only did it 156 00:09:24.799 --> 00:09:26.200 at Funnybone Clubs, why don't you even make the list that if I do? 157 00:09:26.240 --> 00:09:28.399 Where am I in a list? I mean, it's nice to be 158 00:09:28.440 --> 00:09:31.279 mentioned, but it's not something I hang my hat on or really start believing, 159 00:09:31.279 --> 00:09:33.120 like, Wow, I guess I'm on eleventh of all time or whatever 160 00:09:33.200 --> 00:09:35.840 the hell I have. That's hilarious. If you look at the people who 161 00:09:35.879 --> 00:09:39.000 are actually the reason the R form exists, there's about thirty people right there. 162 00:09:39.360 --> 00:09:41.559 I feel like you have to tell of like an Eddie Murphy or something 163 00:09:41.600 --> 00:09:43.840 like that. Maybe I don't know, but you look, I think wherever 164 00:09:43.840 --> 00:09:46.120 I am on those lists? Because it's twenty twenty four and I'm selling these 165 00:09:46.120 --> 00:09:48.360 tickets right now. Let's say twenty years from now, when I'm a senior 166 00:09:48.399 --> 00:09:52.159 sists and nobody gives a hoot about me, if I'm still making a list, 167 00:09:52.159 --> 00:09:54.039 and I'd be like, yeah, that's pretty good. That's all right. 168 00:09:54.519 --> 00:09:56.960 Let's see, since it is a holiday weekend, let's see if the 169 00:09:58.039 --> 00:10:01.840 list is around. By the way, someday I'm going to get the flu 170 00:10:03.039 --> 00:10:07.000 or something I have had for two three years. There's a couple safety episodes 171 00:10:07.039 --> 00:10:11.600 sitting on the back end in case I just can't speak or I've deep dove 172 00:10:11.679 --> 00:10:16.639 into these lists. They're gonna be pretty moldy by the time it actually runs. 173 00:10:16.000 --> 00:10:20.159 All right, I think this is the list, and I'm not sure 174 00:10:20.159 --> 00:10:22.879 when they made the list, but the list is something like this. Number 175 00:10:22.919 --> 00:10:26.840 one Richard Pryor to Carlin, three, Lenny Bruce four, Woody Allen, 176 00:10:28.000 --> 00:10:31.320 five, Chris Rock, Steve Martin, Rodney Cosby, Roseanne at nine, 177 00:10:31.360 --> 00:10:35.799 Come on stop Eddie Murphy, who again, I'm from the eighties. Love 178 00:10:35.879 --> 00:10:39.919 Eddie, But the more I pay attention, it's just a Richard Pryor cover 179 00:10:41.000 --> 00:10:43.000 band top to bottom. Now, if you're my age, we loved him. 180 00:10:43.360 --> 00:10:46.240 But it's a Richard Pryor cover album. So I don't know. I 181 00:10:46.279 --> 00:10:50.519 gotta move Eddy way down the list in these days. Carson Seinfeld, Robin 182 00:10:50.559 --> 00:10:56.039 Williams, Bob Newhart, Letterman, Ellen Rickles, Jonathan Winter's Hicks, Canison, 183 00:10:56.159 --> 00:11:00.240 Dennis Miller, Klein, Stephen Wright, Red Fox, Bob Hoe Open, 184 00:11:00.279 --> 00:11:03.200 twenty five, ver Mono, Leno, Jack, Benny Milton Burrole, 185 00:11:03.279 --> 00:11:05.519 Gary Shalaling, I'm just trying to get to Bill Burr. But maybe this 186 00:11:05.559 --> 00:11:09.480 list might be from like two thousand and four, George Burns, Albert Brooks, 187 00:11:09.480 --> 00:11:11.840 Handy Kaulfman, but He Hankett, Phillistiller, Jim Carrey, Martin, 188 00:11:11.919 --> 00:11:15.799 Lawrence, Bill Maher, Billy Crystal, mort Sahl, John Stewart, Flip 189 00:11:15.840 --> 00:11:18.759 Wilson. I mean John Stewart's great but best stand ups of all time John 190 00:11:18.759 --> 00:11:22.080 Stewart, number forty one, and number forty three is Dave Chappelle. Now, 191 00:11:22.080 --> 00:11:26.360 clearly, if you made that list today, there's no way that that's 192 00:11:26.399 --> 00:11:28.720 the rankings right, No way. And number forty six is Adam Sandler, 193 00:11:28.799 --> 00:11:33.960 so obviously the list is complete garbage. Sebastian Man of scalco I was talking 194 00:11:35.000 --> 00:11:37.039 about AI in comedy, said I don't know how it's gonna affect stand up 195 00:11:37.080 --> 00:11:39.519 comedy. Guess I really haven't seen that yet. I haven't really been on 196 00:11:39.519 --> 00:11:41.840 the pulse of things going oh wow. I mean my wife used it to 197 00:11:41.879 --> 00:11:45.480 redesign our kitchen, what our kitchen might look like if we remodeled it, 198 00:11:45.480 --> 00:11:48.399 which is cool to see. He said. He thinks live entertainment will always 199 00:11:48.399 --> 00:11:50.200 be around, but who knows. Twenty years from now, I might be 200 00:11:50.240 --> 00:11:52.519 talking to Union, might be going, wow, you never saw AI coming, 201 00:11:52.559 --> 00:11:54.759 and I'd be like, yeah, now I'm unemployed. Look, you're 202 00:11:54.759 --> 00:11:58.440 always gonna want to see the actual performer again. And I would to see 203 00:11:58.440 --> 00:12:01.879 The Rolling Stones a few days ago, and I have Rolling Stones DVDs. 204 00:12:03.000 --> 00:12:05.120 It's not the same. You want to be there, you'd be part of 205 00:12:05.159 --> 00:12:07.519 it. Can a AI write some stuff? Sure? It can write some 206 00:12:07.559 --> 00:12:11.720 stuff. Can it AI voice some stuff? I use AI to revoice a 207 00:12:11.759 --> 00:12:16.399 couple of my stumbles three four times a week, including this phrase right here. 208 00:12:16.960 --> 00:12:20.159 If I said welcome to the month of July and I meant to say 209 00:12:20.240 --> 00:12:22.519 June, I can replace the July with June and you won't notice, and 210 00:12:22.559 --> 00:12:24.759 I won't notice, and I'm me. But if I start to use a 211 00:12:24.799 --> 00:12:28.919 lot of AI, it falls apart. But that's as bad as the AI 212 00:12:30.039 --> 00:12:33.320 is ever going to get. So it should be pretty interesting as we head 213 00:12:33.320 --> 00:12:35.840 forward. And that's your comedy news for today. Enjoy the holiday weekend. 214 00:12:35.840 --> 00:12:39.799 I'll have episodes for you all through the weekend and meet you back here tomorrow.