Speaker 1: Kalaroga Shark Media.
Speaker 2: Hey the Aaron Johnny Mack with another commentary episode. I'm
Speaker 2: not gonna start doing this every day. I just had
Speaker 2: two things on my mind yesterday afternoon. I dropped one
Speaker 2: about Howard Stern. Today is about Mark Maren and I've
Speaker 2: become just fascinated on comedy threads. It's like people discovered
Speaker 2: Mark Maron exists. He's the talk of Threads. You know,
Speaker 2: he's been around. He's had a podcast for sixteen years.
Speaker 2: You could have listened. One of the interesting side effects
Speaker 2: of all this says people are rallying behind Mark Maren.
Speaker 2: I keep seeing tweets like this one. You like Mark Maron,
Speaker 2: now good, It's deserved, but rewatch them. Jen Kirkman, she
Speaker 2: was basically blackballed for saying the same stuff over the years.
Speaker 2: Another one, Mark Maron is great for calling out Edge Lord's,
Speaker 2: but Jen Kirkman deserves way more credit. I mean fine.
Speaker 2: I know personally, I did a Jen Kirkman c K
Speaker 2: story once and she blocked me. So I don't know
Speaker 2: w come out. Bell has a substack. He wrote, there's
Speaker 2: a new comedy sheriff in town. If you're a comic,
Speaker 2: Mark Maron needs to know if you've been in the
Speaker 2: vicinity of Donald Trump love it. Bell writes about the
Speaker 2: bit from Maren's current special about if Theovonne had hitler
Speaker 2: On as a guest. I don't know if you've seen
Speaker 2: the special yet. It is fantastic. Bell writes, that's what
Speaker 2: I thought. This is it the resistance against fascist comedy
Speaker 2: finally goes mainstream. And it's true. I've seen other like
Speaker 2: minded comics aka comics with minds celebrate Maren's bit about THEO.
Speaker 2: As I type this, Mark Maren is a trending topic
Speaker 2: on threads. Yes he is, he has been. Let me
Speaker 2: just see what's going on right now. I'm gonna just
Speaker 2: search Mark Maron and see what people are saying here
Speaker 2: in top all right, just to bring this all together.
Speaker 2: And again, no script today, I'm just talking off the
Speaker 2: top of my head. Somebody named Sean Ryan Shark came
Speaker 2: at Jen Kirkman and wrote, thrilled you could make one
Speaker 2: of the most important moments in social media history about yourself,
Speaker 2: whoever you are. Jen Kirkman wrote back, yes on my page,
Speaker 2: what a sin, sir. Please go back to your male
Speaker 2: lonely epidemic. You do not have the critical thinking skills
Speaker 2: for my post. Mark is a friend of mine and
Speaker 2: he would agree with me not you enjoy your weekend,
Speaker 2: whoever you are. Apparently my post is doing well where
Speaker 2: I wrote It's a shame Mark Maron only started podcasting
Speaker 2: last week. People seem to like what the guy has
Speaker 2: to say. If you're on threads, I'm at Daily Comedy News,
Speaker 2: Jen Kirkman again. Sorry, I'm all over the place again.
Speaker 2: No script today? Was I blackballed? I don't want to
Speaker 2: spread false things. Maybe definitely harassed into PTSD better now
Speaker 2: and I've learned how to talk stuff online and make
Speaker 2: it fun. I honestly think I was mostly just ignored.
Speaker 2: But I do think Mark makes a bigger impact because
Speaker 2: he's more in the clubs with those guys. I always
Speaker 2: avoided them, so no one wants to hear from the
Speaker 2: chick who never occupied the same literal space. Mark Maron
Speaker 2: has a pretty big podcast and he's out promoting a
Speaker 2: product on HBO. That's why people are paying attention. Sean
Speaker 2: of Killy Posts. Mark Marin is arguably the inventor of
Speaker 2: comedian interview podcast and the dude going scorched earth on
Speaker 2: a lot of the people he influenced, but who've used
Speaker 2: the medium in the worst hackish way on the way
Speaker 2: out is kind of awesome. Jennifer right, smart man is right.
Speaker 2: Comedy used to be observational, introspective, and rooted in real emotion,
Speaker 2: bringing relatability and catharsis to the masses. Now it's protein shakes,
Speaker 2: peacocking and prepubescent punchlines for clicks. Alice Waterland, comedian posted,
Speaker 2: don't get me wrong, I'm glad Mark is doing his
Speaker 2: thing with an A, but being vocal about this stuff
Speaker 2: has probably negatively affected my career and has certainly affected
Speaker 2: my mental health. And now everyone is having a much
Speaker 2: needed conversation we've been begging you to have because he
Speaker 2: brought it up. It's the way it works. I wouldn't
Speaker 2: change a thing I ever said or did anyway. W
Speaker 2: camal Bell posts Maren has specifically chosen comedy podcasts that
Speaker 2: are friendly with the Trumpedians. He then plays a clip
Speaker 2: from Bad Friends. I played that same clip on the
Speaker 2: main show the other day, but since I have it here,
Speaker 2: I will play it. He's talking about somebody in Austin.
Speaker 2: Some people think it's Joe Rogan.
Speaker 3: As he's running half the planet out of Texas.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's got a tight hold on the enlightened me, said.
Speaker 2: Dude, Maren's disdain.
Speaker 3: It's not a it's reasonable criticism, reasonable criticism. Ye, what
Speaker 3: do you think the Austin shelf life is going to be? Well,
Speaker 3: you don't know, Like I think that it's so effectively
Speaker 3: tribalized at this point it really comes down to material
Speaker 3: I mean, at what point, like, at what point it's
Speaker 3: like whatever they represented in terms of policy, and it's
Speaker 3: not a stretch.
Speaker 1: It's like they won trans people are frightened. They have
Speaker 1: no ability to get healthcare anymore, and they're afraid of
Speaker 1: being alive and have no freedom left. So that's done.
Speaker 1: When do you stop with the jokes unless you're a
Speaker 1: hack bell?
Speaker 2: Right, So, I'm old enough to remember the East Coast
Speaker 2: Rappers versus West Coast Rappers beef of the nineties. This
Speaker 2: feels like that, you know, I think he just kind
Speaker 2: of nailed it. Comedy comes in all forms, and some
Speaker 2: people like Maren, some people like Rogan. I like both.
Speaker 2: I'm also a free thinker. I listen to things and
Speaker 2: I go, huh interesting, where I go that's stupid? And
Speaker 2: I decide for myself personally, I thought Mark Marin Special
Speaker 2: was really funny. I thought the theo Vaughn Bitt was
Speaker 2: really good. As I've talked about guys like Andrew Schultz
Speaker 2: being like, I can't believe Trump lied. Yeah you think.
Speaker 2: I mean, I know, I'm supposed to go down in
Speaker 2: the middle myself and you're not. At l and A.
Speaker 2: People want to hear Schultz say that. I'm just like, really, dude,
Speaker 2: Bell writes, Maren is the perfect person to take on
Speaker 2: the Trump Medians and the entire Rogan sphere. No one
Speaker 2: can question Mark's comedy bonafides. He started a stand up
Speaker 2: career in the late eighties and he take no prisoners
Speaker 2: comedy scene of Boston. If Mark Maron wants to be
Speaker 2: the sheriff of America's twenty twenty five comedy scene, then
Speaker 2: we're lucky to have him. That's it, no real conclusion.
Speaker 2: I'm just fascinated by everyone just being like, oh, this
Speaker 2: Mark Myron guy has a lot to say, you think,
Speaker 2: uh yeah, And you know, Mark's wonderful. I'm going to
Speaker 2: miss his podcast. I'd love to get him as a
Speaker 2: guest someday that I have no chance right now. If
Speaker 2: he's doing the top shelves. But maybe you know, in
Speaker 2: eighteen months after he's been on a little while and
Speaker 2: he's doing something quiet, or maybe get down a movie
Speaker 2: junket or something. I would love to talk to him
Speaker 2: just in general what I would I didn't want to
Speaker 2: talk comedy with him. I've listened to him. I speak
Speaker 2: on his own podcast about living in Queens. That's what
Speaker 2: I want to talk to him about. I did throw
Speaker 2: deep one day. I have an old email from my days.
Speaker 2: It's sirious, and I just was like, hey, gonna take
Speaker 2: a shot here. I did not hear back. All right,
Speaker 2: that's a little extra commentary for today. Back in the
Speaker 2: Morning with a normal episode.