Speaker 1: Callaroga Shark Media.
Speaker 2: Hey there, I'm Johnny Mack with your daily comedy news.
Speaker 2: This is the final weekend where I can actually enjoy
Speaker 2: the summer before I start freaking out that summer's almost over.
Speaker 2: I know I'm a crazy person, but like today, I
Speaker 2: can go to the beach. We'll be like, gohs plenty
Speaker 2: of summer left. Starting next weekend, which toly nineteenth, I'll
Speaker 2: be like, oh, it's only two left in July. That's August,
Speaker 2: and I gotta start teaching again. That's limbord. Oh, I
Speaker 2: got I'm a crazy person. I'm good from like Memorial
Speaker 2: Day till today and then I got crazy. Naprigassy looks
Speaker 2: like he's jumping in another movie. Deadline reporting the Amazon
Speaker 2: MGM studios have acquired Fantasy Camp. Fantasy Camp follows a
Speaker 2: group of friends at a make or break moment in
Speaker 2: their lives, as they had to Dwyane Wade's Fantasy Camp
Speaker 2: in Miami to relive their basketball dreams. But what starts
Speaker 2: as fun becomes a battle for pride, purpose, and one
Speaker 2: last win. Is Kevin James not available? This sounds terrible anyway.
Speaker 2: Nprighassy is looking to star in it. With Nate Land
Speaker 2: Entertainment producing Nate Nate, Nate Nate. Don't mess it up.
Speaker 2: You got it going good. You gotta go do SNL
Speaker 2: once a year. Learn from Alaney, do sn OL once
Speaker 2: a year. To your Christmas special. Do stand up. You
Speaker 2: got it good. You're gonna mess it up here. I'm
Speaker 2: telling you, We're gonna come back in ten years and
Speaker 2: I'm gonna be doing a story going. Remember when Aprigatsy
Speaker 2: was going to build an amusement park in Nashville. I
Speaker 2: see this coming. You got it good, don't mess it up.
Speaker 2: Roywood Junior spoke to GQ. They were curious how Roy
Speaker 2: got the baseball bug. Roy said, f word, bro, that's
Speaker 2: a good question. When I was in Memphis, my mom
Speaker 2: put me in baseball and I took to it. I
Speaker 2: thought it was fun. I wasn't good at it. I
Speaker 2: was very terrible at it, but I liked it. Then
Speaker 2: we got to Birmingham in the fourth grade and I
Speaker 2: joined the Little League. It was with a lot of
Speaker 2: my classmates. I had the right coaches, and I became
Speaker 2: excited about it. At the same time, I was going
Speaker 2: after school care like I did in Memphis. I got
Speaker 2: to walk home, the Cubs came on at one or
Speaker 2: two in the afternoon. I would come home and sign
Speaker 2: to see that little last bit of the Cubs game.
Speaker 1: Bro.
Speaker 2: I'd sit there, no homework, no nothing, just sitting there
Speaker 2: with a Rice Crispy treat watching Andre Dawson. I just
Speaker 2: fell in love with it, man, right down to the
Speaker 2: broadcast teams and all that. And then I hit a
Speaker 2: second wave when I became a parent. Yeah, I remember
Speaker 2: when baseball. The Cubs were on everywhere, the Braves were
Speaker 2: on everywhere. There were day games. The World Series sometimes
Speaker 2: played in the afternoon, and kids could see it. They
Speaker 2: even chased me. I was a big baseball fan, and
Speaker 2: they just kept playing. Like remember the Cubs finally won
Speaker 2: the World Series, but there was a rain delay, and
Speaker 2: that happened at twelve thirty in the morning. I couldn't
Speaker 2: even bother to stay up for that. Now, you know
Speaker 2: what they should have done that night. They should have
Speaker 2: called a suspended game and then come back the next
Speaker 2: night to play the tenth inning in primetime at like
Speaker 2: eight Eastern with a Cub That would have done a
Speaker 2: monster rating. But baseball doesn't know how to market anyway.
Speaker 2: I digress. GQ was curious, what's the scouting report on
Speaker 2: roy Wood junior. Royce said, great locker room guy, lot
Speaker 2: of heart, first baseman. They can't hit for Bauer, but
Speaker 2: will ouhustle anyone on the field. Fairly slow, excellent glove man.
Speaker 2: The ball wasn't getting past me. I could, scoop. I
Speaker 2: could do all that on my best day. I'd be
Speaker 2: a late inning defensive replacement when we're defending a one
Speaker 2: run lead in September during a Pennant race. I'm defensively dominant,
Speaker 2: but a liability at the plate. Sounds like the eighty
Speaker 2: six Red Sox could have used him too soon. GQ
Speaker 2: was curious, could you play corner outfield if you need to?
Speaker 2: Roy said, I don't know, man, I'm not getting a
Speaker 2: no gappers, I don't have the wheels, and my horse
Speaker 2: can't get there. I thought this was interesting. He says,
Speaker 2: my son's not playing organized baseball. I'm not forcing him
Speaker 2: in any sports, but we do a little bit of
Speaker 2: batting practice, playing catch. But to me right now, baseball,
Speaker 2: much like chess and legos, is a tool to teach
Speaker 2: what I believe is very pertinent life lessons. The main
Speaker 2: one in baseball is the idea that you can't do
Speaker 2: it alone. But a lot of time it's just up
Speaker 2: to you, and sometimes you're just gonna suck. Sometimes that
Speaker 2: picture your face is going to be way better than
Speaker 2: you and there's nothing to get you about it.
Speaker 1: Ah.
Speaker 2: I wish I were in LA this weekend. I have
Speaker 2: some family out there and they're not out there this weekend.
Speaker 2: If I were, it, head over to LA Live for
Speaker 2: Belly Laughs. Belly Laughs is celebrating Asian American culture by
Speaker 2: combining food and comedy. Take a look at the lineup
Speaker 2: in a second, but they liners include Hassan Minhaj coming
Speaker 2: on on Jehannny Margaret Show, Joe Kimbooster, and Cherry Kola.
Speaker 2: More than thirty comedians, three stages, two days. But there's
Speaker 2: also a food lineup featuring food from twenty restaurants across LA.
Speaker 2: Remember during the pandemic, when you know there wasn't anything
Speaker 2: to talk about, and I'd wind up going on these
Speaker 2: deep dive reading menus to you. Remember I used to
Speaker 2: do that sometimes. That was because George Lopez opened to
Speaker 2: George Lopez Tacos. I remember George Lopez Tacos. He was
Speaker 2: all in about that and I kind of forgot about it.
Speaker 2: I don't even think the url is still alive. I
Speaker 2: think I checked this one other time. Let me do
Speaker 2: that now, George Lopez Tacos. It's coming up on next bite.
Speaker 2: Let me click. That's taking me to visit the restaurant website. Yeah,
Speaker 2: now this is taking me to Somebody has gotten a
Speaker 2: hold of Lopez Tacos dot com. And apparently the text
Speaker 2: on the website is in Thai. I had to throw
Speaker 2: it into Google Translate to see what it even says.
Speaker 2: And apparently what it says on Lopez Tacos dot com
Speaker 2: in Thai language translated to English. Driving on the road today,
Speaker 2: no matter how careful drivers are, how much they prevent
Speaker 2: accidents or unexpected events, even though it's a good thing,
Speaker 2: there's still a chance that accidents are unexpected events will
Speaker 2: happen as usual because they may come from fellow road
Speaker 2: users or events that you cannot control. So George Lopez
Speaker 2: is so far in on Lopez Tacos that he didn't
Speaker 2: even bother to keep the url. Apparently, I digress. Johnny
Speaker 2: macbot here, John forgot to record the lineups. Forgive my pronunciations,
Speaker 2: after all, I'm an Ai Today, Hassan Minhaj Kumeil Nanjianni,
Speaker 2: Zarna garg Nimesh Patel, Johnny Park, Andrea Jin, Jason Chenni,
Speaker 2: Irene Two, Dylan Adler, Kieran Diol, Sabrina Wu, James, Tom Tien, Tron,
Speaker 2: Robin Tran, Tatiana Gucci and Di Loo. Tomorrow Hassan minhadj
Speaker 2: Margaret Cho, Bobby Lee, Joel Kim Booster, Hari Kondabolu, as
Speaker 2: If Ali, Joe Wong, Jenny Yang, Helen Hong, Fumi abe
Speaker 2: is My Alutfee, Aaron chen Nori Reid, Paula Gatta, Beautie
Speaker 2: shit Yarma, and Vicky Wang. Now back to human Johnny
Speaker 2: mack el eight Simes caught up with Kamail nan Gianni
Speaker 2: about the Belly Laughs Festival. He's happy returning to stand
Speaker 2: up after doing some films. He said, I miss being
Speaker 2: good at something I wasn't good at anymore. I used
Speaker 2: to have so much confidence in this. Now it feels
Speaker 2: like I'm a different person, and so in the strikes,
Speaker 2: the Hollywood strikes, I was like, I want to try
Speaker 2: and see if I still love it. Cherry Cola says,
Speaker 2: I find being a stand up comedian as a superpower
Speaker 2: stepping on to a set for sure. I think because
Speaker 2: we're good at crowd work. We have a quickness that
Speaker 2: on every actor has. Cherry Cola says that after being
Speaker 2: the subject of racial jokes for decades, the best way
Speaker 2: to counteract the sting of the stereotypes is for Asian
Speaker 2: comedians to write jokes about their cultures that help their
Speaker 2: communities laugh. She says, I don't know if it's just
Speaker 2: society trying to define us or put us in a box,
Speaker 2: but it's almost like we just recently got permissional laugh
Speaker 2: at ourselves because we've been the punchline for years in
Speaker 2: the media, and now it's a chance to exale because
Speaker 2: this is a safe space. It's kind of what Belly
Speaker 2: Laughs is giving. Johnny Mack, you never mentioned Pete Davidson.
Speaker 2: I know well. The UK festival fright Fest has revealed
Speaker 2: its twenty twenty five lineup. The event will open with
Speaker 2: the Pete Davidson horror film The Home Freight Fest August
Speaker 2: twenty first through the twenty fifth. Vulture has some spoilers
Speaker 2: for the plots for the rest of the season of
Speaker 2: It's Always Sonny in Philadelphia, So if you don't want
Speaker 2: to know what's coming Skip ahead. I can probably do
Speaker 2: this in under a minute, so I want you to
Speaker 2: hit skip skip anyway. The rest of the season, according
Speaker 2: to Vulture, includes the Gang seriously engineering strangers, objectifying women,
Speaker 2: hosting an orgy, breaking up a happy family, and harassing
Speaker 2: Cricket and the waitress. And later in the season It's
Speaker 2: always Sunny. We'll cross over with The Golden Bachelor. Broadway
Speaker 2: World reported on a cast and call for an off
Speaker 2: Broadway show called Not Ready for Prime Time. This set
Speaker 2: backstage at SNL's early days. That sounds pretty cool. The
Speaker 2: SNL movie it was really good. The production self describes
Speaker 2: as a play about an American institution run by people
Speaker 2: who belong in an institution. They're looking for people to
Speaker 2: play Lorne Michaels, Dan Ackroyd, John Belushy, Chevy Chase, Jean Curtin,
Speaker 2: Garrett Morris, Bill Murray, Lorraine Newman, and Gilda Radner. Late
Speaker 2: Nighter points out since Bill Murray is a character in
Speaker 2: this that it will take place in a bigger timeline
Speaker 2: than the Saturday Night movie did. Broadway World says Not
Speaker 2: Ready for Prime Time will debut October fifth, scheduled for
Speaker 2: a limited run through December fourteenth at a yet to
Speaker 2: be announced theater. Staying with SNL. Apparently people are making
Speaker 2: SNL Lego. There's a website called Lego Ideas. On it
Speaker 2: you can pitch potential Lego sets that are voted on
Speaker 2: by Lego officionados, and sometimes Lego makes one. A new
Speaker 2: submission is called Live from New York It's Saturday Night.
Speaker 2: It's actually the second Saturday Night Live themed Lego. This
Speaker 2: new design includes seven Lego minifigures representing the original cast
Speaker 2: from nineteen seventy five. The creator says a detachable staircase
Speaker 2: could be used to pose your minifigures, as in the
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Speaker 2: stick around for this interview our sister.
Speaker 3: I'm going to bring forward and yours and give it
Speaker 3: to you now. And he said, oh wow, that's that's great.
Speaker 3: Thank you. That's so generous of you, Carl. That's great.
Speaker 3: But his wife, my sister in law, went ballistic. She said,
Speaker 3: this is too much money, this is wrong. I don't
Speaker 3: want anything to do with and stormed out of the room.
Speaker 3: And I thought, well that's not what I expected. Oh
Speaker 3: my god. So I realized from that that this was
Speaker 3: not an easy thing to do. So I learned a
Speaker 3: lesson from that, and I knew that I had to
Speaker 3: do this authentically. I had to do it right, otherwise
Speaker 3: it was not.
Speaker 1: Going to work.
Speaker 3: So that happened. And then the third thing that happened
Speaker 3: was that I was looking at my financial statements and
Speaker 3: I had more money ain't there than I was really using.
Speaker 3: It was sitting there. I mean, it was growing, making
Speaker 3: profits and so forth, but it wasn't being used. I
Speaker 3: wasn't using it for me. I wasn't using it for
Speaker 3: things that I really cared about, not for my people.
Speaker 3: So I thought, well, if I have all this money, now,
Speaker 3: why should I wait until I die? Why don't I
Speaker 3: bring it forward? And then, you know, it was a
Speaker 3: long process for me to come around to that, but
Speaker 3: that's what finally started this, and I said, well, I'll
Speaker 3: do it.
Speaker 1: Now. Let's back up just a bit. Tell us a
Speaker 1: little bit about your new book. What is the Happiness Experiment.
Speaker 3: Well, this is a recording of the real events with
Speaker 3: real people who I decided that I would bring forward
Speaker 3: the inheritance the money I had for them in my
Speaker 3: will and made it a prequest. So it was a
Speaker 3: chunk of money that they were going to get. Well,
Speaker 3: they were still young enough to enjoy it, and I
Speaker 3: was still alive to see it happening. So I saw
Speaker 3: what they were doing. So when I sat down with them,
Speaker 3: I talked about money and happiness and how one can cognect.
Speaker 3: And I said, look, I'm going to bring this forward
Speaker 3: to give it to you, but what I want from
Speaker 3: you is a plan so you use this money, so
Speaker 3: it's really a big benefit for you. I don't want
Speaker 3: this to overwhelm you. And they said what kind of plan?
Speaker 3: I said, I want a happiness plan, and they said,
Speaker 3: a happiness plan?
Speaker 1: What's that?
Speaker 3: So so you know, nobody has seems to have a
Speaker 3: happiness plan, but the most important plans you can get
Speaker 3: and it doesn't have to be very complex. What is
Speaker 3: it that makes you happy? What values do you want
Speaker 3: to pursue? You know, what goals and dreams do you have,
Speaker 3: and you can pursue them. And so I got them
Speaker 3: to write a happiness plan. And then when I saw
Speaker 3: the plan, I gave them all the money all at
Speaker 3: one time, and so then they took it and I
Speaker 3: watched them with their plan. I saw all their plans,
Speaker 3: what they did, and how they became happier. And so
Speaker 3: you know, that had to be written about so because
Speaker 3: I wanted other people to see what they did so
Speaker 3: that they too could do the same thing.
Speaker 1: Which prequest is the most unique one you've come across.
Speaker 3: Well, it was a very very painful and sad story
Speaker 3: because two dear friends of mine had a beloved daughter
Speaker 3: and she was hit head on by a drunk driver
Speaker 3: and killed. She happened to be eight months pregnant at
Speaker 3: the time, so that killed the granddaughter too, and also
Speaker 3: their daughter. They were totally wiped out, devastated, and they
Speaker 3: died emotionally. They had decided that they could never be
Speaker 3: happy again. It would be wrong to be happy. They
Speaker 3: didn't deserve to be happy because their darling daughter had
Speaker 3: been killed. Tremendously painful, awful, awful story. So they were
Speaker 3: grieving six years later and I met with them and
Speaker 3: I told them how much they had added to my
Speaker 3: life and how much I was so grateful to them,
Speaker 3: and that I wanted to express the gratitude, and I
Speaker 3: put them in my will and they could accept that.
Speaker 3: And I said, but I want you to have it now,
Speaker 3: and they said, oh no, no, we can't accept it.
Speaker 3: They turned it down. They turned it down. Well, we
Speaker 3: worked and I said, look, I'm leaving it open. So
Speaker 3: several months later, I think his wife persuaded him to
Speaker 3: do it. Actually, you know, and you know, so they said, okay,
Speaker 3: we'll do it, because if we're going to wait until
Speaker 3: you die, why not do it now. And they did
Speaker 3: it and it wasn't the money. Interesting Now, they said,
Speaker 3: it was the coaching that made the big difference, that
Speaker 3: changed their mind set from being so negative. You know,
Speaker 3: we'll never be happy again. We don't deserve to be happy.
Speaker 3: And the coach turned there thinking that mindset around and said, look,
Speaker 3: you know it can be you can be happy again.
Speaker 3: And they started to get the mindset of happy people.
Speaker 3: And now you cannot believe what these people. They're traveling
Speaker 3: all over the world. They're in Tahiti right now. They
Speaker 3: climbed Killamungarrett. These people are loving life. And it was
Speaker 3: a major change that is one of the most heartfelt,
Speaker 3: wonderful results of the And in a sense, she said,
Speaker 3: the wife said, this prequest changed or saved my life
Speaker 3: because we were no longer living, we were dead, and
Speaker 3: this brought us back to life.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean dealing with grief and many of us
Speaker 1: have I have, you know, when you're in those depths.
Speaker 1: It's really it can be really difficult to find your
Speaker 1: way out of it. And you know, often it looks
Speaker 1: like there isn't a way out of it, and you know,
Speaker 1: sometimes you want to map right, and it looks like
Speaker 1: this concept could be a good map for you if
Speaker 1: it sounds like it was for these folks. I always
Speaker 1: like to end interviews by asking, is there anything that
Speaker 1: I didn't ask that I should have?
Speaker 3: How can my listeners benefit from this book? What should
Speaker 3: they do? What would be good for them? And so
Speaker 3: I'll answer that question. First off, think about happiness, Think
Speaker 3: about being happiness. Do you deserve to be happy? And
Speaker 3: you can be happy, but you have to make it
Speaker 3: as a choice. I'm going to increase my happiness just
Speaker 3: that if you make that realistically, I want to and
Speaker 3: I'm going to increase my happiness that choice, and then
Speaker 3: talk to people about it. Talk to a husband or
Speaker 3: wife or a girlfriend or a friend, a therapist or coach,
Speaker 3: talk to somebody about it and say, look, I'm made
Speaker 3: the decision that I want to be happier, and I'm
Speaker 3: like you to help me create a happiness plan and
Speaker 3: then work on it. And it's not that hard, but
Speaker 3: it is a but it is challenging, but it's a
Speaker 3: wonderful exercise. And if they do it, I guarantee they
Speaker 3: will increase their happiness. I guarantee it.
Speaker 1: Carl Barney is the author and the book is called
Speaker 1: The Happiness Experiments, A Revolutionary Way to Increase Happiness. Carl,
Speaker 1: where can people find the book?
Speaker 3: Wherever books are sold? And it's now available for pre
Speaker 3: order from Amazon, and they can go to the Happiness
Speaker 3: Experiment dot com and they can pre order it there,
Speaker 3: and I hope they will.
Speaker 1: Carl, thanks so much of the time. I really appreciate it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, thank you, Dan. It's been fun.