Speaker 1: Callaroga Shark Media. Hey there, I'm Johnnie Mac with your
Speaker 1: daily comedy news. My son graduates college today, So both
Speaker 1: today and tomorrow are pre tapes that I did about
Speaker 1: a week ago so that I could be with the
Speaker 1: family today. I'm sure you can understand. Bill Burr spoke
Speaker 1: to The New Yorker. Bill said, there was a thing
Speaker 1: for a while while we're holding comedians accountable for what
Speaker 1: they were saying, like we were these wizards like would
Speaker 1: go on stage and say something, and then suddenly people
Speaker 1: thought that and then meanwhile corporate America could be as
Speaker 1: effed up as they want to be. Then Burr asked
Speaker 1: the interviewer, are you homophobic? The interviewer said no. Burr said,
Speaker 1: all right, what joke can I tell that would make
Speaker 1: you homophobic? Is there a joke? How does that joke go?
Speaker 1: The New Yorker said, I mean, I agree with that
Speaker 1: up to a point. But I just wrote this piece
Speaker 1: about how parasocial relationships. Burr cuts in the article says,
Speaker 1: with visceral disdain parasocial relationships. Who's going to say that now?
Speaker 1: Is that a same term parasocial? That sounds like some
Speaker 1: bs to censor comedian and blame the ills of society
Speaker 1: on a comedian rather than the people that are actually
Speaker 1: making the efing laws. I'm not running into a box store,
Speaker 1: I'm not hiring people. I'm not trying to poison the
Speaker 1: fing a food supply New Yorker. As a journalist, if
Speaker 1: I say I just wrote a bunch of stuff down
Speaker 1: and you don't have to listen to me, that wouldn't fly.
Speaker 1: I have to take responsibility for what I'm saying. Bur.
Speaker 1: Journalism is not stand up comedy. We're not in the
Speaker 1: same world, New Yorker. So what do you think your
Speaker 1: responsibility is? Bur? My responsibility is to make you laugh.
Speaker 1: And if I'm being malicious, people know. People know if
Speaker 1: you mean it or not. So what people did you? People?
Speaker 1: You journalists for a while, they're not even because you
Speaker 1: gave an f just because it was a hot story.
Speaker 1: All of a sudden, you'd finish your act and somebody'd
Speaker 1: be like, I want to talk about some of the
Speaker 1: statements you made, statements I was up there telling jokes,
Speaker 1: or it continues. I've had people who have said fed
Speaker 1: up stuff about me on the internet and then they
Speaker 1: come up to me and they're like, Hey, Bill, how's
Speaker 1: your family, and I want to be like, you don't
Speaker 1: give an f about my family, but I can't because
Speaker 1: they're a white woman, and I can't say anything. Oh
Speaker 1: my god, when a white woman complains, people listen. So
Speaker 1: I'm just cordial and those are liberals, dude and burst?
Speaker 1: Are we only going to talk about this because I
Speaker 1: don't want to be this like political ideology. Guy Bert
Speaker 1: was there to talk about Glengarry Glenn Ross. Really good
Speaker 1: piece in the New Yorker. It's behind a paywall, but
Speaker 1: if you're good at the Internet, you can figure it out.
Speaker 1: Nate PERGATSI, you talked to USA Today last week. They
Speaker 1: described the scene as Nate is at the fundraiser for
Speaker 1: the Barbara Bush Houston Literacy Foundation. Nate gets up. He
Speaker 1: jokes he has a sustain for reading because every book
Speaker 1: is just the most words. We're told he's wearing a
Speaker 1: black tracksuit on zip to reveal a casual white T
Speaker 1: shirt and sneakers, and he opens up with I didn't
Speaker 1: know you all wore suits. My business casual is different
Speaker 1: than your business casual. It's the most ties I've ever
Speaker 1: seen in my life. That's a good way to warm
Speaker 1: up the crowd. I like it, He apologizes to the attendants.
Speaker 1: Reading is a hard thing. I really want to do it.
Speaker 1: I love the idea of it. He talked about his
Speaker 1: new book and said, We're not a book that's better
Speaker 1: than anybody. We're just one that sits there and it's
Speaker 1: a fun read. And then after us you go back
Speaker 1: to the books that they are actually going to learn
Speaker 1: something from. Nate looked back on the days of starting
Speaker 1: out and said, started in New York, I'd stand on
Speaker 1: the corner handing out flyers, and I would get stage
Speaker 1: time if you could bring people into the show. Yeah,
Speaker 1: if you've ever been to New York City, I feel
Speaker 1: bad for those people doing that. You see them all
Speaker 1: the time in the Times Square area. It is awful,
Speaker 1: and Nate said, I didn't imagine it to be the
Speaker 1: level that it's gotten, meaning his career being really huge,
Speaker 1: specifically playing in front of nineteen thousand people at the
Speaker 1: Bridgetone Arena. It's kind of weird because you hit a
Speaker 1: moment with this thing that's been driving me for twenty years,
Speaker 1: and I've got to think about what the next thing's
Speaker 1: going to drive you. That's where the Nate Land Company
Speaker 1: and all the other stuff came in. As he said
Speaker 1: in a few other interviews, he thought about, you know,
Speaker 1: maybe not being a clean stand up. There were times
Speaker 1: and you'd feel like, all right, if I went another route,
Speaker 1: maybe I'd get to jump up. But fortunately I always
Speaker 1: tell myself, no, stay the course and just trust that
Speaker 1: it's going to work out. And then he once again
Speaker 1: in this interview, floated that he's going to do two
Speaker 1: more tours. Osco at Costco is part of a New
Speaker 1: York Times series where Asian American comedians talked about people
Speaker 1: they really dug Osco talked about Tignatour and said she's
Speaker 1: a friend now, but before that it was a comedy
Speaker 1: idol of mine. She directed my first HBO specialty Intruder.
Speaker 1: She's unapologetically herself as a comedian in person, an artist
Speaker 1: super deadpan, and her joke no Moleste plays on linguistics
Speaker 1: and uses that as tangient Osco explains, a lot of
Speaker 1: Americans only know one language, English, so the idea of
Speaker 1: hearing the word moleste is like, oh, it sounds like
Speaker 1: something that would have a negative connotation. She does the
Speaker 1: classic if this then what set up in stand up comedy?
Speaker 1: That structure only works when you continue building out the
Speaker 1: bigger picture and go further, and she does that really well.
Speaker 1: I think about that joke a lot because it's so simple.
Speaker 1: It's not over explaining a situation. It's trusting that all
Speaker 1: humans communicate similarly, and then we all have the ability
Speaker 1: to see of the absurd in situations. That's what I
Speaker 1: love about it. She plays at the height of people's intelligence. Moa.
Speaker 1: Mayer spoke to The Houston Chronicle about coming to the
Speaker 1: States and said, there is an adjustment period. You can't
Speaker 1: just land and feel at home right away, a massive
Speaker 1: adjustment to the geography, the buildings, the people, everything. I
Speaker 1: landed here a few days before Halloween. I didn't even
Speaker 1: know what the hell Halloween was. Then two days later
Speaker 1: everyone's naked and crazy and there's blood everywhere. Is beyond
Speaker 1: shocking and terrifying. It was a lot emotionally. I didn't
Speaker 1: have my mom or dad with me. It was just
Speaker 1: my sister and my brother. Was really tough for a while.
Speaker 1: Where a parent's going to be okay. I left right
Speaker 1: before the oil fields were set ablaze. They wanted to
Speaker 1: protect me and get me out of there, but I
Speaker 1: almost wished I didn't leave. I wanted to stay with
Speaker 1: my mother and help as much as possible. Zarna garg
Speaker 1: I told a story on Fox News is Brian kill
Speaker 1: MEA's show about how her father had set her up
Speaker 1: for an arranged marriage, and at fourteen years old, Zarna
Speaker 1: made the decision, no, Zarn, it's old, Brian. My dad
Speaker 1: was like, listen, if you don't want to get married,
Speaker 1: you can't live here. He thought he would scare me
Speaker 1: to submission. And I thought he'd come around. I thought
Speaker 1: he's riddled with grief because his wife just died, my mom,
Speaker 1: and then he's going to come around. This is all
Speaker 1: going to be okay. We're basically in a face off.
Speaker 1: She wound up couch surfing for two years. I showed
Speaker 1: up on my friend's house and after day and my
Speaker 1: friend's mom was like, you should go back. And that's
Speaker 1: when it hit me like, oh my god, I have
Speaker 1: nowhere to go, and was almost two years of where
Speaker 1: can I go? Tonight. Zarna says her father was coming
Speaker 1: from a good place. I know it feels shocking here
Speaker 1: in America, but what he remembers is that I walked
Speaker 1: away from a guaranteed life that he was going to
Speaker 1: set up for me. He wasn't a bad guy, to
Speaker 1: be clear, he wasn't. He came from a good place.
Speaker 1: I have three siblings who were arranged. My sister was
Speaker 1: arranged and is deliriously happy and successful. TJ. Miller is
Speaker 1: really into bitcoin. He says, eventually there will be a
Speaker 1: movie about the bitcoin revolution, and it will be interesting
Speaker 1: because the revolution didn't happen all at once. According to TJ,
Speaker 1: it takes only a little over two full days to
Speaker 1: get the average person up to speed on bitcoin. He
Speaker 1: was asked why more celebrities aren't bitcoiners. DJ says most
Speaker 1: people refuse to sit down and study. Again. He was
Speaker 1: on Coin Stories and told host Natalie Brunell it's really
Speaker 1: hard to get people to study after they graduate from
Speaker 1: any level. According to TJ, it will take you about
Speaker 1: fifty hours of study to truly understand bitcoin. So by
Speaker 1: two days, he means two full days. See, I thought
Speaker 1: he meant, like, you know, two days in a row,
Speaker 1: No fifty hours. So to say somebody, it's going to
Speaker 1: take fifty hours feet to understand this, They're like, I
Speaker 1: don't want to. They can't even watch a netfl series,
Speaker 1: they can't even watch White Lotus because it takes seven hours.
Speaker 1: Miller introduces himself as the only celebrity that is a bitcoiner.
Speaker 1: I can't really think of anyone else you can tell,
Speaker 1: and I'm passionate about it. So what I'd like to
Speaker 1: be able to do is be somebody that helps bring
Speaker 1: cultural awareness, spread awareness, and just be a trusting name
Speaker 1: and face in the bitcoin community that hopefully will bring
Speaker 1: more people to it. And that is your comedy news
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