Speaker 1: Calaroga Shark Media. Hey there, I'm Johnny Mack with your
Speaker 1: daily comedy news GQS. Mark maron if he's sad about
Speaker 1: WTF ending, Is it like reading his own obituary? Maren said, no,
Speaker 1: I haven't gotten the sense of obituary dying or reconsidering.
Speaker 1: That hasn't happened, but not unlike the way to do comedy,
Speaker 1: the way to the podcast is I'm all in and
Speaker 1: pretty wide open and trying to sort through my own
Speaker 1: feelings about everything, and also very aware of the weight
Speaker 1: of expectation and people's need for my companionship at point
Speaker 1: of view in their lives. And after sixteen years of that,
Speaker 1: I'm a little depleted, and I do think there's some
Speaker 1: things about me that have changed. There's also the climate
Speaker 1: of where media's at now. And he did this before
Speaker 1: colber Gate where it becomes I don't know if it's
Speaker 1: diminishing returns or just sort of a psychological and emotional exhaustion.
Speaker 1: But no, Look, I don't know what my public profile,
Speaker 1: my brand, or whatever words people apply to a public
Speaker 1: person is going to be after the podcast ends, in
Speaker 1: terms of not being out there twice a week, you know,
Speaker 1: bleeding but Brendan and I have done a very specific
Speaker 1: thing for a long time that's never diminished in quality
Speaker 1: and has never been other than what we want it
Speaker 1: to be. And it's created a space not just for us,
Speaker 1: but for many podcasters, or created a template and put
Speaker 1: the medium on the map, and we see it as
Speaker 1: a finished thing in a lot of ways. He's a
Speaker 1: very specific type of audio producer and engineer, and I
Speaker 1: do what I do. The partnership has been equal. We're workers,
Speaker 1: and we've done a great thing, and there's no reason
Speaker 1: to keep dumping it out there if it just becomes
Speaker 1: something we feel like we have to do because we
Speaker 1: don't know anything else. Right, Mark, what should we do
Speaker 1: without you? He said, yeah, I mean have the conversation
Speaker 1: with your friends. You know, these conversations have been important
Speaker 1: to me personally. I really really am totally aware of
Speaker 1: the fact that we're on Mike's, my guests aren't, and
Speaker 1: the conversations we ever thorough and intimate. I really really
Speaker 1: am totally aware of the fact that we're on Mikes,
Speaker 1: my guests aren't, and the conversations we ever thorough and intimate.
Speaker 1: And I think that's something that human beings should do
Speaker 1: more in their lives because it's important. We're all on zoom,
Speaker 1: We're all locked in our phones in different states of
Speaker 1: panic or minor relation at times, and I think that
Speaker 1: disconnects from humans. It's a big problem. There's no flesh
Speaker 1: and blood community undertaking in most people's lives other than work,
Speaker 1: whatever the day to day is. And one of things
Speaker 1: that drove me to the podcast in journals, I've always
Speaker 1: been that person when I was a young comic wondering
Speaker 1: around New York, frustrated I couldn't get on stage, kind
Speaker 1: of sweating it out with mynok and having days and
Speaker 1: nights open because I didn't see any other thing for
Speaker 1: me to do. I really used to make the rounds.
Speaker 1: I used to go to a couple guitar shows. They
Speaker 1: used to go to a couple guitar stores, and go
Speaker 1: to bookstores and go to record stores. And'd go there
Speaker 1: and talk to the guys who are working there and
Speaker 1: talk about the things that interested me. If people could
Speaker 1: teach me something over like minded. It was always part
Speaker 1: of my life, and it was important part of my life.
Speaker 1: I mean, if I have one fear about the podcast
Speaker 1: being over, it said, I'm gonna have to put more
Speaker 1: effort and expanding my personal social circles. I can continue
Speaker 1: having these conversations that are enlightening and also get me
Speaker 1: out of myself and into somebody else's life. So I'd
Speaker 1: say that people who listen to try to make that
Speaker 1: an important part of their life, as it's what makes
Speaker 1: us human. Good stuff there, Happy Gilmore to Director Kyle
Speaker 1: Knuachek spoke to CBR dot com about what other Adam
Speaker 1: Sandler films could benefit from having a sequel. Ah. I mean,
Speaker 1: I wish we could get a sequel to Uncut Gems,
Speaker 1: but if you've seen Uncut Gems, so that would be
Speaker 1: hard to do. Maybe we could get a prequel to
Speaker 1: Uncut Gems. Knew a check said, here's one thing I
Speaker 1: think would be interesting now because Sandler was always doing
Speaker 1: the little nikky voice on set, so just hearing it,
Speaker 1: I was like, I bet that would be excellent now too. No,
Speaker 1: it wouldn't. I bet we could do something really crazy
Speaker 1: with Little Nicky, please, don't. I think there's something like,
Speaker 1: you know, Happy Gilmour is grounded and he's able to
Speaker 1: comment on the world in this movie and kind of
Speaker 1: send its themes out. But I feel like Little Nicky
Speaker 1: in the Fantastic Realm would really be able to call
Speaker 1: attention to some crazy stuff going on in the world
Speaker 1: right now, Please don't you may remember The two thousand
Speaker 1: film starred Adam Sandler as the son of Satan. CBR
Speaker 1: points out the film was not met with strong reviews,
Speaker 1: and it scored a twenty two percent on Rotten Tomatoes.
Speaker 1: It bombed in theaters. It was even nominated for Razzies,
Speaker 1: including Worst Actor for Adam Sandler, shocking Michael Paylan from
Speaker 1: Monty Python's Boke to SGA mag Could the Pythons get
Speaker 1: back together? Michael Payland said, occasionally their ideas for getting together,
Speaker 1: but now there's only four of us left, and people
Speaker 1: do their own things. Eric Idol's very much taken up
Speaker 1: the American way of life. John Clees is doing well
Speaker 1: with Faulty Towers in the West End, so he's fine.
Speaker 1: Terry Gilliam I'm seeing tomorrow. He lives up the road.
Speaker 1: He's always got a major film on the go, which
Speaker 1: he says has been messed up by some so and
Speaker 1: so that's how I know he's happy. Graham Chapman and
Speaker 1: Terry Jones have passed away. There have been rumors of
Speaker 1: a new stage version of Life of Brian. Michael says, yeah,
Speaker 1: that is potential, but I don't know where that's got to.
Speaker 1: I think what Python produced is what we produced when
Speaker 1: we were all together, and when Graham was around. He
Speaker 1: was brilliant as the central character in Life of Brian.
Speaker 1: Said to do something else without that aspect of it
Speaker 1: doesn't seem to me quite right. It's like a table
Speaker 1: with four legs, one of which is missing. It's still
Speaker 1: just about usable, but it's not very stable. Taylor Thomlinson
Speaker 1: spoke to the Times of London. Taylor's on the road
Speaker 1: until January, and then she says, this is honestly the
Speaker 1: first time in a while, and I think it's because
Speaker 1: I'm a bit burnt out that I don't really know
Speaker 1: where to go from here. I think I need to
Speaker 1: live a little bit of life and there's something to
Speaker 1: talk about. She has a book coming out late next
Speaker 1: year about things she's changed her mind about, including marriage.
Speaker 1: Taylor says, I really wanted to be married when I
Speaker 1: was younger. If I'd met someone who said I don't
Speaker 1: want to get married, I would have stopped dating them.
Speaker 1: I think I still wanted to hold onto this image
Speaker 1: of an ideal woman with a church upbringing. Now I'm
Speaker 1: not sure if I ever want to get married. I
Speaker 1: don't really care what people are saying about me, and
Speaker 1: I forgive myself more than I used to. It was
Speaker 1: really hard on myself for every little mistake and knowing
Speaker 1: that a certain job or level of success or relationship
Speaker 1: isn't going to fix you. You're your own responsibility. That's
Speaker 1: where I've got to. Most of my goals are personal
Speaker 1: and not professional, which is a nice change. I could
Speaker 1: do a whole hour and how I used to want
Speaker 1: to be a comedian and now I want to be
Speaker 1: a human being. John Goodman told The Daily Beast he
Speaker 1: hasn't spoken to former co star Roseanne Barr in a
Speaker 1: few years, and she probably doesn't want to hear from him. Apparently,
Speaker 1: Roseanne is not easy to work with. Goodman said she
Speaker 1: was a force of nature when it came to getting
Speaker 1: what she wanted. We were work friends. The Guardian had
Speaker 1: a fun anecdote from Robin Williams. They write for a
Speaker 1: year from nineteen eighty to nineteen eighty one. The comic
Speaker 1: strip was the hippest and hottest comedy night in town.
Speaker 1: The bouncers had a rule. If you reaked of after shave,
Speaker 1: you were sent to the strip show. If you spelled
Speaker 1: of beer, they went to the comedy show. Robin Williams
Speaker 1: came in and de managed to perform to impress his
Speaker 1: guest David Bowie. He was offered fifteen minutes. Robin said,
Speaker 1: I told David Bowie d do an hour. The guy
Speaker 1: running the place said you can't. Robin Williams said, I'll
Speaker 1: buy the club. Robin was told we don't own it.
Speaker 1: It belongs to a bouffont haired pornographer. De Montreal Comedy
Speaker 1: Festival wraps up today six o'clock. Jerry D tapes a
Speaker 1: Netflix special seven o'clock, Danny Boy, Leslie Lao at seven,
Speaker 1: drop Out, Improv at seven thirty. Sunday Night Improv at eight,
Speaker 1: Jerry D again, another Netflix taping at eight thirty. Matthew Brossard,
Speaker 1: who's been a guest of the show and a former
Speaker 1: Great New Face at nine. So if we were up
Speaker 1: there tonight, I don't know, Leslie Loud seven and Brizard
Speaker 1: at nine because we could see Jerry D when he's
Speaker 1: on Netflix on Gossip Corner. Daniel Tosh was in Kansas
Speaker 1: City somewhat recently. He apparently enjoyed eating at barbecue restaurant
Speaker 1: Q thirty nine. He said it was great, but lamented
Speaker 1: the fact that they were out of sausage ashett. He
Speaker 1: stated the Crossroads Hotel for one night and gave props
Speaker 1: to x R, one of the restaurants inside the hotel.
Speaker 1: He said the pizzas were delicious, but the charred cucumber
Speaker 1: salad stole the show. Dave Thomas recent returned from a
Speaker 1: ten day trip to Ukraine to raise awareness for the
Speaker 1: Ukrainian Freedom Fund, a charity this applies non lethal equipment
Speaker 1: and training to Ukrainians. Dave Thomas from SCTV is seventy
Speaker 1: six now. He told the Globe and Mail, you can't
Speaker 1: fly to Ukraine. I took a Turkish Airlines flight from
Speaker 1: la to Istanbul, which took fourteen hours. Then I took
Speaker 1: a connecting flight to Moldova, south of Ukraine. From there
Speaker 1: was an eight hour ride with an Army security official
Speaker 1: through Ukraine. It was a pretty hairy ride. We were
Speaker 1: dodging automobile debris on the road from previous drone strikes.
Speaker 1: We had to travel at night because the strikes were
Speaker 1: during the day. I later met a communications officer who
Speaker 1: said his personal car was attacked when he was off duty.
Speaker 1: They were stalking him because he was a valuable piece
Speaker 1: in the military command chain. The Russians used social media
Speaker 1: and all sorts of tracking methods. It's a different kind
Speaker 1: of war going on, Dave Thomas says Kiev. We got
Speaker 1: there in the morning, it looked like a normal European city,
Speaker 1: business as usual. People sat in cafes drinking lattes. Students
Speaker 1: were lyned up outside of the university. During the day, it
Speaker 1: was difficult for me to imagine there was a war
Speaker 1: going on. But at night, that's when you know. Explosions
Speaker 1: rock my hotel. I'm seventy six years old. I feel
Speaker 1: like I have to do something with my life before
Speaker 1: I died. O has some value. I've made some people laugh.
Speaker 1: I guess that's great, but I felt I should do
Speaker 1: something more. I learned a lot about people. Maybe they'll
Speaker 1: be increase in donations in Canada, which would be great.
Speaker 1: They're giving medical supplies and teaching field triage. They have
Speaker 1: evacuation teams that go behind enemy lines to rescue Ukrainian
Speaker 1: people were trapped there, including women and children. He accompanied
Speaker 1: those teams and said the Russians were shooting at us.
Speaker 1: Drones are the weapons of choice now. Ukrainian soldiers told
Speaker 1: me how difficult they are to shoot down. They're almost
Speaker 1: like model airplanes. I saw one Russian drone hanging in
Speaker 1: a bar. It doesn't look threatening at all, and yet
Speaker 1: they carry ordinance. Did he visit any comedy clubs in context?
Speaker 1: That's not an absurd question, I'm exerting from the article.
Speaker 1: Dave said, yeah, I spoke with stand ups. I wanted
Speaker 1: to know what Ukrainians were laughing at. What I found
Speaker 1: was that it wasn't Trump or Putin or political jokes.
Speaker 1: It's dating, lifestyle jokes. They want to laugh at normal things.
Speaker 1: The war is off topic. Nobody thinks the war is funny.
Speaker 1: There's nothing funny about it. And that is your comedy
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