WEBVTT 1 00:00:03.160 --> 00:00:12.119 Callaroga Shark Media. Hey, I'm Johnny Mack with your daily 2 00:00:12.160 --> 00:00:14.759 comedy news, daily briefing on stand up comedy, comedians and 3 00:00:14.839 --> 00:00:17.480 the comedy industry. A sentence the algorithm love, so I 4 00:00:17.600 --> 00:00:20.399 keep saying it. The Oscars are tomorrow night. They will 5 00:00:20.440 --> 00:00:23.760 be hosted by Conan O'Brien for the second year in 6 00:00:23.800 --> 00:00:26.320 a row. Conan said, it's not just about being funny 7 00:00:26.359 --> 00:00:29.000 moments a moment, it's also about acknowledging what there is 8 00:00:29.039 --> 00:00:31.359 in a larger sense. As the host, I'm sort of 9 00:00:31.359 --> 00:00:33.560 the human avatar or whatever. I'm the entryway for the 10 00:00:33.560 --> 00:00:35.759 person watching at home, the person the audience member can 11 00:00:35.799 --> 00:00:38.399 relate to. I've been working for a really long time 12 00:00:38.439 --> 00:00:40.359 on material for the show with my writers, and it's 13 00:00:40.399 --> 00:00:43.079 still evolving. Because we live in a very fast paced world. 14 00:00:43.679 --> 00:00:46.000 Jokes we thought of two months ago are relevant now. 15 00:00:46.079 --> 00:00:47.679 There might be things that happened this week that will 16 00:00:47.679 --> 00:00:50.240 find their way into the show. He recalled last year 17 00:00:50.320 --> 00:00:53.280 there were a lot of challenges. The LA wildfires had 18 00:00:53.320 --> 00:00:55.600 him working well displaced. Conan said, so this year, I 19 00:00:55.640 --> 00:00:57.119 get to wake up in the morning in my own room, 20 00:00:57.159 --> 00:00:59.200 which sounds like a small thing, but it's a huge thing. 21 00:01:00.000 --> 00:01:01.880 So this year, all the movies are so different, they're 22 00:01:01.880 --> 00:01:05.040 also vibrant. There's so many different voices, so much artistry 23 00:01:05.040 --> 00:01:06.640 went into them. I think it's one of the best 24 00:01:06.680 --> 00:01:09.280 film years that we've had in memory. As for a hosting, 25 00:01:09.359 --> 00:01:11.959 he doesn't see the job being punchlines all the time. 26 00:01:12.200 --> 00:01:15.079 He explains, it's not necessarily about being one hundred percent 27 00:01:15.079 --> 00:01:17.159 funny all the time. Sometimes there are moments where it's 28 00:01:17.200 --> 00:01:19.000 my job to move us along to the next moment. 29 00:01:19.519 --> 00:01:21.200 He and the team talk a lot about prep and 30 00:01:21.200 --> 00:01:24.680 design and getting everything just a certain way and practice practice, practice, 31 00:01:24.680 --> 00:01:27.079 But when this show happens, it's an organic thing that's 32 00:01:27.159 --> 00:01:29.840 unfolding in real time. The show will be a living organism, 33 00:01:29.920 --> 00:01:33.680 for better or worse. Conin did several interviews during the week. 34 00:01:33.719 --> 00:01:36.519 When with The La Times, they talked about the elephant 35 00:01:36.519 --> 00:01:38.599 in the room, which is the ongoing war in Iran, 36 00:01:39.159 --> 00:01:41.439 Conan said, my job is to always try and hit 37 00:01:41.480 --> 00:01:44.439 this very very thin line between entertaining people and also 38 00:01:44.480 --> 00:01:46.799 acknowledging some of the realities. It's a dance that goes 39 00:01:46.840 --> 00:01:50.000 on up until the show begins. Between us, and he 40 00:01:50.120 --> 00:01:54.319 referenced his executive producers. We'll find the right tone. Conan 41 00:01:54.519 --> 00:01:57.920 recalled when Johnny Carson hosted the Oscars during the Iran 42 00:01:57.959 --> 00:02:01.719 hostage crisis. When I was a boy, Johnny Carson parodied 43 00:02:01.879 --> 00:02:04.680 ABC's Nightline with the joke It's Day four hundred and 44 00:02:04.680 --> 00:02:06.719 forty four of the Oscars. Conan said, it was such 45 00:02:06.760 --> 00:02:09.199 a funny, topical joke that touched on something everybody was 46 00:02:09.199 --> 00:02:11.120 thinking about and at the same time got a big 47 00:02:11.199 --> 00:02:13.879 laugh and was unifying, and that was meaningful to me. Now, 48 00:02:13.879 --> 00:02:18.400 what about the rumored safety threats. One of the showrunners said, 49 00:02:18.439 --> 00:02:20.479 every year we monitor what's going on in the world. 50 00:02:21.080 --> 00:02:23.479 They have the support of the FBI and the LAPD. 51 00:02:23.879 --> 00:02:26.159 The show runner said, this show has to run like clockwork. 52 00:02:26.439 --> 00:02:28.680 Everyone is coming on the show that is witnessing the show, 53 00:02:28.840 --> 00:02:30.719 even a fan of the show. They're standing on the barricades. 54 00:02:30.759 --> 00:02:33.240 Who want everybody to feel safe and protected and welcome. 55 00:02:33.719 --> 00:02:36.560 On Late Night or Bill Carter spoke with Conan. You 56 00:02:36.560 --> 00:02:39.240 can listen to that entire interview on the Late Night 57 00:02:39.319 --> 00:02:43.159 or Podcast Feed Wednesday's episode the Bill Carter Interview. Conan O'Brien, 58 00:02:43.199 --> 00:02:44.960 I just added that to my cue. Let's see how 59 00:02:45.000 --> 00:02:47.599 absurd my cue is. Right now, this is a real number. 60 00:02:47.960 --> 00:02:50.000 If you follow me on LinkedIn and or the substack. 61 00:02:50.039 --> 00:02:52.800 I've been mentioning, this is a real number. Okay, Right 62 00:02:52.840 --> 00:02:55.960 now I have two hundred and sixty nine episodes of 63 00:02:56.000 --> 00:02:59.840 podcasts downloaded to my phone. That would take two hundred 64 00:03:00.039 --> 00:03:02.199 ninety hours and twenty eight minutes to listen to all 65 00:03:02.240 --> 00:03:06.039 of them. However, it's getting warmer out. Johnny Mack will 66 00:03:06.039 --> 00:03:07.840 either walk the dog or sit out in the yard, 67 00:03:07.960 --> 00:03:09.800 or fall asleep in the art, or sit on a beach, 68 00:03:09.960 --> 00:03:12.400 or sit up at the new summer place that I bought. 69 00:03:12.439 --> 00:03:14.360 So don't worry that number is going to get lower. 70 00:03:14.639 --> 00:03:17.560 I'll eventually listen to Bill Carter and Cone and I digress. 71 00:03:18.240 --> 00:03:21.240 Carter asked, is it true that the Motion Picture Academy 72 00:03:21.280 --> 00:03:24.120 asked Conan to come back before he even left the 73 00:03:24.120 --> 00:03:26.599 stage last year? Conan said, not quite, but it was 74 00:03:26.639 --> 00:03:30.199 pretty quick. He talked about being a complete unknown back 75 00:03:30.199 --> 00:03:32.080 when he took over for David Letterman. He said, now 76 00:03:32.159 --> 00:03:33.599 we live in an arrow where there's no such thing 77 00:03:33.639 --> 00:03:35.639 as a complete unknown. Anyone like me starting out today 78 00:03:35.680 --> 00:03:38.840 would have six hundred hours of YouTube clips. Conan described 79 00:03:38.879 --> 00:03:41.159 his resume back then. He said, a writer, but he's 80 00:03:41.159 --> 00:03:43.960 got an interesting vibe. Will there be a cold open 81 00:03:44.000 --> 00:03:46.560 on the Oscar? Conan said, you can expect some things. 82 00:03:46.639 --> 00:03:48.319 We have more than one thing. We have some pieces 83 00:03:48.319 --> 00:03:50.639 I really like. We have some live things I'm really 84 00:03:50.680 --> 00:03:53.800 excited about. Very vague, Conan said, what I love most 85 00:03:53.840 --> 00:03:55.919 is the process. I love hanging around the writer's room 86 00:03:55.960 --> 00:03:57.599 in my post late night life. The two things I've 87 00:03:57.639 --> 00:03:59.759 missed most are having a writer's room and having a band. 88 00:04:00.319 --> 00:04:02.680 When first asked to host the Oscars last year, Conan said, 89 00:04:02.680 --> 00:04:04.800 I was intrigued right away. I had done award shows 90 00:04:04.840 --> 00:04:06.439 in the past. I like the format. I like being 91 00:04:06.439 --> 00:04:08.240 out in front of people. I like the feeling of 92 00:04:08.280 --> 00:04:10.400 ceremony because you can kind of play against it. So 93 00:04:10.439 --> 00:04:12.080 when they asked, yeah, I have to try this, I'm 94 00:04:12.080 --> 00:04:13.639 curious about it. I know it's a lot of work 95 00:04:13.680 --> 00:04:15.599 and I'm gonna put myself through some misery, but let's 96 00:04:15.599 --> 00:04:18.120 do it. And as for the second ask, yeah, I 97 00:04:18.199 --> 00:04:19.600 like to try that again. I had such a good 98 00:04:19.600 --> 00:04:21.680 time the first time. I'm glad I did it. They 99 00:04:21.680 --> 00:04:24.279 talked about it being a tough room. ConA explained, the 100 00:04:24.279 --> 00:04:26.240 people in the room, you're literally the last thing they're 101 00:04:26.240 --> 00:04:28.879 thinking about say his barometer. If I'm having a good 102 00:04:28.920 --> 00:04:30.279 time and feeling the flow of it all and I'm 103 00:04:30.279 --> 00:04:32.560 making myself laugh ninety nine percent of the time, it 104 00:04:32.600 --> 00:04:35.800 means it went well. I call that the hallway ratings. 105 00:04:36.000 --> 00:04:38.000 I used to talk about this. It's serious a lot. 106 00:04:38.279 --> 00:04:40.600 If I was walking down the hall and feeling good 107 00:04:40.600 --> 00:04:42.600 about a show and people stopped me in the hallway 108 00:04:42.639 --> 00:04:44.439 to talk about what they had just heard on the radio, 109 00:04:44.480 --> 00:04:46.759 That's how I knew we had a good show. And 110 00:04:46.920 --> 00:04:49.360 like this show here. You know, you do it every day. 111 00:04:49.560 --> 00:04:52.240 Some episodes are better than others. Be realistic. You know. 112 00:04:52.639 --> 00:04:55.600 Some days I find a muse and the episode is 113 00:04:55.600 --> 00:04:58.040 a little more fun. Sometimes I'm just going through the headline. 114 00:04:58.040 --> 00:04:59.959 Some days there's nothing to work with. Some days I've 115 00:05:00.040 --> 00:05:02.160 find inspiration on the fly, so I know what Conan 116 00:05:02.279 --> 00:05:05.560 is saying. Conan says it's even better if something unexpected 117 00:05:05.639 --> 00:05:08.120 comes up during the show. It's a little like Olympic diving. 118 00:05:08.160 --> 00:05:10.279 You get grated on the difficulty if something just happened, 119 00:05:10.279 --> 00:05:11.879 people are looking for the host to guide them through that. 120 00:05:11.920 --> 00:05:13.360 If you could do it in a funny way, the 121 00:05:13.360 --> 00:05:15.800 potential payoff is much greater than anything you thought of 122 00:05:15.839 --> 00:05:18.560 three months ago. Does Conan miss standing in front of 123 00:05:18.600 --> 00:05:21.680 an audience daily? Hmm, he says, no, I do not. 124 00:05:21.959 --> 00:05:23.800 You get one life. I spent a long chunk of 125 00:05:23.839 --> 00:05:25.839 my life doing that. I really enjoyed it. It was thrilling, 126 00:05:26.120 --> 00:05:27.920 and now I like trying out all these other things. 127 00:05:28.560 --> 00:05:30.000 I thought I would miss it, but I do not. 128 00:05:30.839 --> 00:05:33.000 As for a late night, he said, my assumption has 129 00:05:33.040 --> 00:05:36.240 been that it's gonna morph as everything does. Now. People 130 00:05:36.279 --> 00:05:38.360 are watching their favorite comedian who no one else in 131 00:05:38.360 --> 00:05:40.839 the room has heard of. Had he worked Linden Late 132 00:05:40.920 --> 00:05:42.639 Night in the fifties or sixties, I would have left 133 00:05:42.639 --> 00:05:44.839 after the tonight show and you wouldn't have heard from me. Again. 134 00:05:45.519 --> 00:05:48.920 Would Conan consider hosting SNL asked Bill Carter, And again 135 00:05:48.959 --> 00:05:51.519 you can hear that whole interview on Late Nighter. Conan said, 136 00:05:51.519 --> 00:05:53.480 good question. I never want to be that guy comes 137 00:05:53.560 --> 00:05:55.240 back and says, hey, this is my old high school. 138 00:05:55.240 --> 00:05:57.000 I used to go here. Hey kids, I'm groovy. But 139 00:05:57.160 --> 00:05:58.759 never say never. If it came up, it could be 140 00:05:58.759 --> 00:06:00.759 exciting to try. I'm not banking on it, certainly not 141 00:06:00.839 --> 00:06:03.879 asking for it. Conan got a big cover piece in 142 00:06:04.000 --> 00:06:07.560 the Hollywood Reporter under the headline, Conan O'Brien just can't 143 00:06:07.560 --> 00:06:10.759 help himself. Conan said, we work in an industry where 144 00:06:10.759 --> 00:06:14.240 everyone's constantly hyper analyzing where they are on a certain scale. 145 00:06:14.279 --> 00:06:15.519 All I can say is I get to do the 146 00:06:15.560 --> 00:06:17.360 thing that, for better or worse, I was put here 147 00:06:17.399 --> 00:06:20.199 to do. The article quotes John mulaney, who said, I 148 00:06:20.240 --> 00:06:21.800 don't watch a lot of these things, but I just 149 00:06:21.920 --> 00:06:25.000 remember thinking, is this the greatest Oscars ever? Conan is 150 00:06:25.000 --> 00:06:27.839 a true artist and an incredible broadcaster. He's also got 151 00:06:27.920 --> 00:06:30.800 one thing you cannot fake and can't only earn, which 152 00:06:30.839 --> 00:06:34.120 is stature. Jeff Ross is quoted he had told Conan 153 00:06:34.120 --> 00:06:36.040 when the first offer came in. I told him you 154 00:06:36.040 --> 00:06:37.759 don't need to do this. You've got nothing to prove. 155 00:06:37.879 --> 00:06:39.639 When we quit late night, the goal will only do 156 00:06:39.759 --> 00:06:41.759 things that are fun, things we want to do well. 157 00:06:41.759 --> 00:06:44.319 This is what Conan wants to do. This is interesting. 158 00:06:44.600 --> 00:06:47.560 Mike Sweeney was Conan's head writer and says, if anybody 159 00:06:47.600 --> 00:06:50.439 knows O'Brien's tail when an idea tanks, it's him. Sweeney 160 00:06:50.480 --> 00:06:53.160 explains his tell his tail is that he mocks at 161 00:06:53.199 --> 00:06:56.199 mercilesly for at least five minutes. He's most delighted in rehearsal. 162 00:06:56.199 --> 00:06:58.079 When things go wrong or they're just bad. It's like 163 00:06:58.120 --> 00:07:00.600 delivering fresh meat to lines gauge. If it's your bit 164 00:07:00.639 --> 00:07:03.399 that's getting eviscerated, you're laughing as hard as anyone. You 165 00:07:03.439 --> 00:07:05.279 may be curious, how much do you get paid to 166 00:07:05.279 --> 00:07:07.560 host the OSCAR? Is not all that much in the 167 00:07:07.720 --> 00:07:10.680 scheme of things. A twenty thirteen article in The Hollowod 168 00:07:10.680 --> 00:07:15.480 Reporter suggested a number between fifteen and twenty five thousand dollars. 169 00:07:15.519 --> 00:07:18.519 Seven years ago, Jimmy Kimmel said I got paid fifteen 170 00:07:18.600 --> 00:07:21.759 thousand dollars to host the OSCAR. Wanda Psyke said hosting 171 00:07:21.839 --> 00:07:25.279 the twenty twenty two ceremony actually left her out of pocket. 172 00:07:25.319 --> 00:07:27.720 I find that hard to believe. But okay, by the way, 173 00:07:27.800 --> 00:07:30.000 remember twenty twenty two. Now, that was the year with 174 00:07:30.040 --> 00:07:33.480 the famous slap. Every time I see this sentence, it's 175 00:07:33.519 --> 00:07:36.000 just my brain fries your host that year Wanda Sykes, 176 00:07:36.079 --> 00:07:40.399 Regina Hall, and Amy Schumer. Amy Schumer hosted the Oscars. 177 00:07:40.639 --> 00:07:42.519 Let's just all ponder that for a second. I just 178 00:07:42.519 --> 00:07:44.279 wanted to just stop and think for a second. Now, 179 00:07:44.279 --> 00:07:46.439 if I said to you, hey, you know who's hosting 180 00:07:46.480 --> 00:07:49.639 the Oscars tomorrow, Amy Schumer, you'd be like what, wouldn't 181 00:07:49.680 --> 00:07:52.800 you wouldn't you be like what? Well? Twenty twenty two, 182 00:07:52.800 --> 00:07:55.040 Amy Schumer hosted the Oscars. That's the thing that happened. 183 00:07:55.439 --> 00:07:57.600 The New Yorker asked Conan O'Brien, it's a high risk, 184 00:07:57.680 --> 00:08:00.000 maybe even the low reward gig, isn't it? And Conah said, 185 00:08:00.079 --> 00:08:02.079 I choose not to see it this way. It was 186 00:08:02.120 --> 00:08:03.839 really fun. I grew up watching Bob Hope do it, 187 00:08:03.920 --> 00:08:05.600 Johnny Carson do it, so it's a very cool thing 188 00:08:05.639 --> 00:08:07.199 to be connected to. And as you know, I'm very 189 00:08:07.240 --> 00:08:08.879 interested in history, and this thing has been around for 190 00:08:08.879 --> 00:08:10.879 one hundred years, almost a hundred years, solet's have fun 191 00:08:10.920 --> 00:08:13.720 with it. That's my attitude. What I've learned myself over 192 00:08:13.759 --> 00:08:15.839 time is I can't fake enjoyment. I need to find 193 00:08:15.879 --> 00:08:17.600 ways to make sure that I'm having a lot of fun. 194 00:08:17.639 --> 00:08:19.639 I need to prepare. I mean, I'm a big preparation person. 195 00:08:19.639 --> 00:08:21.199 I work with this brilliant team of writers who are 196 00:08:21.240 --> 00:08:23.720 just downstairs from where I'm doing this podcast. I go 197 00:08:23.800 --> 00:08:25.720 down there, they're all around a long table and they're like, 198 00:08:25.759 --> 00:08:28.279 these premises are no good. Yeah, these premises are no good. 199 00:08:28.279 --> 00:08:30.519 We got to get the Glengarry premises, and I yell 200 00:08:30.519 --> 00:08:31.959 at them, I'm the Alec Bald when it comes in 201 00:08:31.959 --> 00:08:34.080 and gives that great speech upfront. I'm talking about the 202 00:08:34.120 --> 00:08:35.919 movie now. I think we all know that, not the play. 203 00:08:36.399 --> 00:08:38.279 They asked Conut about the slap and he said, well, 204 00:08:38.320 --> 00:08:40.639 you know, I don't want anyone to slap me. I'd 205 00:08:40.679 --> 00:08:42.440 like a streaker, you know what. I'd really like a 206 00:08:42.440 --> 00:08:45.000 streaker to slap me. That would just satisfy so many 207 00:08:45.080 --> 00:08:47.600 of my dormant Catholic hang ups. But it's a weird 208 00:08:47.679 --> 00:08:49.480 duality here. It's a weird thing. I like to plan 209 00:08:49.559 --> 00:08:51.159 and I like to prepare, and then I love when 210 00:08:51.200 --> 00:08:53.919 something goes off the rails. If accidentally a light falls, 211 00:08:53.919 --> 00:08:55.240 you can make a whole show about that, you know 212 00:08:55.279 --> 00:08:56.440 what I mean. And I don't know what it is 213 00:08:56.440 --> 00:08:58.799 about human beings, but they instinctively know when something is 214 00:08:58.879 --> 00:09:00.840 real enough the moment, and then they say, you react 215 00:09:00.919 --> 00:09:02.559 in real time like a human being and make something 216 00:09:02.600 --> 00:09:04.279 funny out of it, and that has ten times the 217 00:09:04.320 --> 00:09:06.159 value of anything you could have written. So you have 218 00:09:06.200 --> 00:09:08.320 to be open for things to slightly go wrong, and 219 00:09:08.360 --> 00:09:11.000 it's fun and electrifying. My whole life has been prepared, 220 00:09:11.360 --> 00:09:13.200 but then, like any good quarterback, be ready for the 221 00:09:13.200 --> 00:09:15.320 whole play to fall apart and then wing it. The 222 00:09:15.360 --> 00:09:18.080 New Yorker asked Conan about the performance of it all 223 00:09:18.120 --> 00:09:20.559 being a heightened you. Now, I'm just a dude in 224 00:09:20.639 --> 00:09:23.120 the podcast. But this is how I teach this. I teach, 225 00:09:23.679 --> 00:09:27.039 you know, I've been a media executive for thirty something years, 226 00:09:27.080 --> 00:09:28.960 and I teach the college class and I always tell everybody, 227 00:09:29.000 --> 00:09:31.039 you have to be real, but you ramp u up 228 00:09:31.039 --> 00:09:33.200 to one hundred and five percent. And you know, I've 229 00:09:33.200 --> 00:09:37.039 talked about this candidly. John doesn't like Adam Sandlor movies. 230 00:09:37.559 --> 00:09:39.720 I don't find them funny, and I just go on 231 00:09:39.759 --> 00:09:42.360 with my life. But Johnny Mack, who records this podcast 232 00:09:42.399 --> 00:09:44.559 in the basement, as you know, Johnny Mack hates Adam 233 00:09:44.639 --> 00:09:47.240 Sailor movies and loses his mind and they even exist. 234 00:09:47.519 --> 00:09:50.039 You can even hear how it just changed my speaking delivery. 235 00:09:50.080 --> 00:09:52.559 You know, I'm getting more animated, so that that's the 236 00:09:52.679 --> 00:09:56.519 performance part of all this. Conan said, I'm always this guy. 237 00:09:56.559 --> 00:09:59.080 There's a heightened me, but it's really not that much different. 238 00:09:59.159 --> 00:10:00.759 I routinely would just t to people on the street, 239 00:10:00.799 --> 00:10:02.799 complete strangers, and then that will lead to me doing 240 00:10:02.840 --> 00:10:04.279 a bit and trying to get them into it, trying 241 00:10:04.320 --> 00:10:06.320 to do improv with random people on the street. And 242 00:10:06.360 --> 00:10:09.440 I've been maced. That's funny. Well it's not funny. But 243 00:10:09.600 --> 00:10:12.120 you know, wait, John, you're hanging yourself here, is it. 244 00:10:12.159 --> 00:10:15.840 Do you think it's funny that Conan O'Brien got mased? No, 245 00:10:16.200 --> 00:10:19.039 not at all, that's not funny. I was just laughing 246 00:10:19.080 --> 00:10:21.600 at the way I imagined Conan telling the story. But 247 00:10:21.639 --> 00:10:24.440 of course it would be horrible if someone maceed Conan O'Brien. 248 00:10:24.720 --> 00:10:27.159 Did I dig enough of a holy yet? Coda said, Yeah, 249 00:10:27.159 --> 00:10:28.559 there's a height in me, and there's a depressed me 250 00:10:28.600 --> 00:10:30.120 that just wants to crawl in a corner and read 251 00:10:30.120 --> 00:10:31.759 a book. But I have access to this guy a 252 00:10:31.799 --> 00:10:34.480 frightening amount of the time. My father, who was a 253 00:10:34.559 --> 00:10:37.240 very smart man and very analytical and a scientist, was 254 00:10:37.240 --> 00:10:38.879 looking at me once and he watched every late night 255 00:10:38.960 --> 00:10:41.240 show and he said, oh, I see you're making a 256 00:10:41.279 --> 00:10:43.360 living off something that should have been treated. And he 257 00:10:43.440 --> 00:10:45.480 wasn't choking. He said, I see your synapses. Is the 258 00:10:45.559 --> 00:10:48.000 rhythm of your circulatory system, and then you found a 259 00:10:48.000 --> 00:10:52.720 way to be compensated, and I thought, thanks Dad, it's 260 00:10:52.759 --> 00:10:54.240 probably a good time to remind you. If you like 261 00:10:54.320 --> 00:10:57.000 this program without the commercial interruption, open up the Apple 262 00:10:57.039 --> 00:10:59.759 podcast app. There's a banner there it says uninterrupted listening. 263 00:11:00.039 --> 00:11:02.240 Click on that, and then for just five bucks a month, 264 00:11:02.320 --> 00:11:03.799 you get this show and a bunch of others on 265 00:11:03.840 --> 00:11:06.000 the network. I also host five Good News Stories, and 266 00:11:06.000 --> 00:11:07.720 I'm the writer on Palace Intrigue. We have a lot 267 00:11:07.720 --> 00:11:10.279 of fun making these things, but all those would be 268 00:11:10.440 --> 00:11:12.399 commercial free for just five bucks a month. It's a 269 00:11:12.440 --> 00:11:15.679 great way to support the show. South By Southwest Comedy 270 00:11:15.679 --> 00:11:17.960 tonight at seven o'clock at the Creek in the Cave. 271 00:11:18.120 --> 00:11:21.559 It is the Don't Tell Comedy all Stars in partnership 272 00:11:21.639 --> 00:11:24.480 with a sponsor name. Everything has to have a sponsor 273 00:11:24.600 --> 00:11:27.840 at south By Southwest. It's very corporate. I think the 274 00:11:27.840 --> 00:11:31.200 people that go there think it's really cool and like 275 00:11:31.240 --> 00:11:33.840 in a fun sense. It's not cool. It's very corporate. 276 00:11:33.879 --> 00:11:38.120 It's all about money. None of this is about art, 277 00:11:38.120 --> 00:11:39.559 none of it. None of it. None of it, none 278 00:11:39.559 --> 00:11:41.279 of it, none of it. Anyway, You Don't Tell Comedy 279 00:11:41.279 --> 00:11:47.080 all stars include Sophie Buttle, Paris Cichet, Chloe Radcliffe, Antonio Kareem, 280 00:11:47.120 --> 00:11:49.840 and Gavin Mattz. That's seven o'clock at the Creek in 281 00:11:49.879 --> 00:11:53.320 the Cave. At eight o'clock Esther's Folly's hosts Funny or 282 00:11:53.360 --> 00:11:56.519 Die Approved. Now who has Funnier Die approved? Funnier Die 283 00:11:56.519 --> 00:12:00.200 has approved. Pete Lee, Paris Cichet again, She's gonna all 284 00:12:00.200 --> 00:12:03.320 over town, Tone Bell, Alex English and Jared Freed. Then 285 00:12:03.360 --> 00:12:06.919 at ten o'clock at Esther's Folly's, The Stand presents Pete Lee, 286 00:12:06.960 --> 00:12:10.480 Devin Walker, Gavin Mattz and Jamore Neighbors. Then you can 287 00:12:10.559 --> 00:12:13.440 catch Devin Walker and Alex English at the Dead Show 288 00:12:13.480 --> 00:12:15.559 at eleven at the Creek in the Cave. That's your 289 00:12:15.679 --> 00:12:19.320 south By Southwest Comedy tonight. One thing I'm noticing in 290 00:12:19.399 --> 00:12:23.200 the past there have been like pretty shiny comedians at 291 00:12:23.240 --> 00:12:25.799 this thing. I don't see them this time unless they're 292 00:12:25.840 --> 00:12:28.240 all doing like podcasts, so they're not showing up on 293 00:12:28.279 --> 00:12:30.919 the comedy tab as I check on that. How about 294 00:12:30.919 --> 00:12:34.080 that south By Southwest again? Oscars tomorrow. Tomorrow will be 295 00:12:34.080 --> 00:12:38.399 a normal episode in Oscar's recap obviously on Monday morning, 296 00:12:38.480 --> 00:12:41.399 and then Monday at noon Eastern the results of comedy 297 00:12:41.480 --> 00:12:43.120 Survivor meets you back here in the morning.