Speaker 1: Calaroga Shark Media. Hey there, I'm Johnny Mack with your
Speaker 1: daily Common You news. Tim Dillon's from Long Island. I'm
Speaker 1: from Queens lived on Long Island for seven years. I
Speaker 1: understand Tim Dillon and he used to listen to conservative
Speaker 1: talk radio. I've heard him talk about it on his podcast.
Speaker 1: He probably listened to some things that I produced back
Speaker 1: in the day. Don't try and put me in a corner.
Speaker 1: I've worked on both the Bob Grant radio show in
Speaker 1: New York City and on Pots of America, so you
Speaker 1: don't know where I stand. Although if you pay attention,
Speaker 1: you'll know when I think certain people are ridiculous. I'll
Speaker 1: leave it at that. Send your letters to Johnny Mack anyway.
Speaker 1: Tim Dylan was on Hot Ones. He believes Long Island's
Speaker 1: greatest contribution to the American culinary scene is the bacon,
Speaker 1: egg and cheese sandwich. Two eggs over medium bacon, American cheese, salt, pepper,
Speaker 1: and ketchup on a roll. And you eat that in
Speaker 1: the morning around one thirty PM. Think about it to
Speaker 1: coach your stomach. It absorbs that anxiety that would either
Speaker 1: push you to the gym or do a job or
Speaker 1: in a good relationship or in a jog, an anxiety
Speaker 1: would push you to become a better person. You can
Speaker 1: actually absorb all that with the sandwich and then go
Speaker 1: right back to bed. Yeah. I used to like my
Speaker 1: mop up food. Two in the morning. There was a
Speaker 1: bagel store in Sunnyside, Queens and I'd go get two
Speaker 1: bagels onion bagels, probably with butter. I would actually get
Speaker 1: off the subway stop stop before where I lived, so
Speaker 1: I could get the two bagels and eat the two
Speaker 1: bagels while walking home and just kind of like the
Speaker 1: fresh air and the calories and the fat, and you know,
Speaker 1: in the cold especially, you'd feel a little more awake
Speaker 1: when you got home. Shake off some of those Bruce Kis.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. Yeah, Jim Dilan said, long Ah,
Speaker 1: there's a place of comfort like the suburbs. The food
Speaker 1: is bad, people would riot. There's nothing else. There's no culture,
Speaker 1: there's no real intelligence, nothing is really interesting. There's no
Speaker 1: sense of history or community or family. There's no real athletics.
Speaker 1: I know, we used to have the Islanders. It was great.
Speaker 1: I used to leave my house and be in an
Speaker 1: Islanders game in like twelve minutes. Was amazing. It's not
Speaker 1: especially pretty. I'll disagree with that. There's no national or
Speaker 1: local meaning or feeling of purpose. It's kind of a
Speaker 1: vacant landscape of nothing, a suburban indianess that closets you
Speaker 1: until you finally fill yourself in with bagels and nyochi
Speaker 1: or fentanyl. The conversation turned to Tim Dillon special This
Speaker 1: is Your Country that was the Jerry Springer type special,
Speaker 1: and said, you know who didn't like it as much? Netflix? Now,
Speaker 1: I'm kidding. They're great people there. We love them, but
Speaker 1: they don't love talk formats, and I think they were
Speaker 1: nervous about it. I think we all need daytime trash
Speaker 1: TV that's not hyper political. I think we all need
Speaker 1: to coalesce around realizing that we're all garbage people and
Speaker 1: exploiting that. Nobody was talking about tariffs on Ricky Lake.
Speaker 1: That's what I remember was great about the nineties. People
Speaker 1: just want to do as much damage to each other
Speaker 1: as they good for entertainment value, and that's what I
Speaker 1: was trying to do. So were we now in the
Speaker 1: era of establishment? Tim Dillon? Do I no longer have
Speaker 1: to say I really liked to podcast, But someday when
Speaker 1: he cancels himself, I'm gonna disavow and say I never
Speaker 1: told you that. Is he now part of the club.
Speaker 1: I think he's part of the club. He's getting on
Speaker 1: cable networks hot ones is a lot more mainstream than
Speaker 1: you'd think, like a lot more, Tim. I think you're
Speaker 1: now establishment, Tim Dillon over there with your friend establishment,
Speaker 1: theo vant who's interviewing the vice president. What has happened
Speaker 1: all you rebel outsiders? You lived long enough and the
Speaker 1: establishment brought you in and you didn't even realize it.
Speaker 1: Tim Dillon also defended whole milk, saying whole milk from
Speaker 1: America's heartland, dairy farmers with whatever needs to be in it,
Speaker 1: whatever hormones are in it, need to be in it.
Speaker 1: Hands off rfk. I'll have my milk the way I
Speaker 1: like it, genetically engineered. He also shared what he thinks
Speaker 1: is the most influential fast food item, the mcgriddle, because
Speaker 1: the mcgriddle married the sweet and savory in a way
Speaker 1: that now everybody does it, so media pick up on
Speaker 1: something Mark Maron wrote. He put out a blog post
Speaker 1: that's similar to his comments from last week when he
Speaker 1: said he was ending the podcast The headline now is
Speaker 1: simplifying it. Maren has Rogan regret basically the blog post.
Speaker 1: Mark Maron writes, we weren't the first, but in terms
Speaker 1: of making it a viable medium, we were certainly one
Speaker 1: of the ogs. We changed the world. Literally, we showed
Speaker 1: the world was now possible to create a specific type
Speaker 1: of show on one's own terms. We helped unleash an
Speaker 1: exciting type of delivery system for pure self expression. Sadly,
Speaker 1: on some level, we also unleashed a format that's been
Speaker 1: used for dubious means, propaganda and pure evil. But hey,
Speaker 1: it's not the atomic bomb. On a recent WTF, Mark said,
Speaker 1: it's just interesting to me in the big picture of
Speaker 1: what's happening and what the medium is unleashed, that me
Speaker 1: and Joe Rogan were both in the system, two ends
Speaker 1: of the spectrum of podcasting coming from the same source,
Speaker 1: and a now truly apocalyptic landscape. In October of twenty four,
Speaker 1: Maren said podcasts have become a medium that normalizes fascism.
Speaker 1: He called out quote comedians with podcasts for having shameless
Speaker 1: self proclaimed white supremacists and fascists on their show. All
Speaker 1: it does is humanize and normalize fascism. When someone uses
Speaker 1: their platform for that reason, they're facilitating anti American sentiment
Speaker 1: and promoting violent autocracy. Maren didn't call out anyone by name,
Speaker 1: but those words came three days after Rogan had released
Speaker 1: an episode with Donald Trump. By the way, uh Trump
Speaker 1: with Bono really enjoyed it. I'm a huge G two fan.
Speaker 1: You can profile me. I'm fifty five years old from Queens,
Speaker 1: New York, and my last name is mc dermott. Of
Speaker 1: course I like you too, and it was very good,
Speaker 1: Maren wrote last October, and this is timely. I don't
Speaker 1: know if you're paying attention to the news this week.
Speaker 1: Are you going to the parades Saturday? Yeah? That looked
Speaker 1: that up, Maren said. Fascism is good for business, if
Speaker 1: you tell the line. Popular podcast became tribal and divisive
Speaker 1: years ago. Now they might be in the position to
Speaker 1: become part of the media oligarchy under the new anti
Speaker 1: democratic government. All right, it's so Senil learns to me,
Speaker 1: Mark Marion, Joe Rogan and whoever else. So Tim Dillon
Speaker 1: to send him a letter. Eliza Selessenger has been doing
Speaker 1: a lot of press and I don't know why. Actually
Speaker 1: I do know why. I have. There seems to be
Speaker 1: some sort of pr campaign to get her an Emmy nomination.
Speaker 1: That seems to be what's going on. I'll talk more
Speaker 1: about that tomorrow because I saw a note in Billboard
Speaker 1: that pretty much said as much. But Eliza has been
Speaker 1: doing a lot of press, which is well, I just
Speaker 1: said what she said. You certainly don't know when a
Speaker 1: joke or new hour is done. This was in a
Speaker 1: sit down chat for deadlines at Prime Experience. But Eliza says,
Speaker 1: but you have to tape it at some point, and
Speaker 1: then the heartbreaking part is the next week when you
Speaker 1: go on tour, continue touring to find all these things
Speaker 1: you should have said. It's almost like you have to
Speaker 1: tape an hour to know how much better your hour
Speaker 1: could be. That's interesting. I truly believe stand up and
Speaker 1: I hate I'm saying this is like a bottle of
Speaker 1: wine and I think I'm stealing it from Sideways. But
Speaker 1: it's an ever evolving thing. Her latest hour is titled
Speaker 1: A Different Animal. She says there's forty five minutes of
Speaker 1: material that never made the final cut. I believe an
Speaker 1: audience deserves a polished product, and people should expect that
Speaker 1: from Stand Up comedy. Also, this is corny. The title
Speaker 1: isn't just a nod. Remember, the title is a different animal.
Speaker 1: The title isn't just a nod to her creative evolution.
Speaker 1: It's also an acknowledgment of the fact that what she
Speaker 1: delivers with both her material and her delivery is unique.
Speaker 1: Eliza says, I'm a different animal now than when I
Speaker 1: started comedy. Material is different, and I'm a different person
Speaker 1: than I was when I started writing, a different animal.
Speaker 1: So I think it really speaks to the idea that
Speaker 1: what you get when you watch my stand up something
Speaker 1: completely different than people expect from comedy as a genre,
Speaker 1: or from me from what you've seen before. My former
Speaker 1: coworker Jamie Fox says he wants to mix comedy with
Speaker 1: quote funny church stuff and is creating an experience that
Speaker 1: celebrates both his humor and his spiritual roots. Fox went
Speaker 1: on Instagram and a video. He said, I got some
Speaker 1: funny stuff that I want to do. I'm a church boy,
Speaker 1: so I want to do some funny church stuff. So
Speaker 1: when I come to your city, I need you all
Speaker 1: to pull up on me and play along. He's searching
Speaker 1: for gospel choirs in every city to join his upcoming tour,
Speaker 1: so rather than a house band of sorts, so it
Speaker 1: would be a local choir. Fox has yet to share
Speaker 1: official guidelines on how this works yet, but he wants
Speaker 1: a different gospel choir in each city. Bert Krascher was
Speaker 1: on the Drop a Pin show and he proclaimed which
Speaker 1: of the American states is the best? Are you ready?
Speaker 1: What's your guess? Bert Krescher proclaimed that Ohio is the
Speaker 1: greatest state of America has to offer. Not only does
Speaker 1: he love the quote big cities, but he thinks that
Speaker 1: people are very understanding as opposed to other states. But
Speaker 1: it said, I think Ohio is the greatest state in
Speaker 1: the Union. I argue that because I've traveled everywhere. Its
Speaker 1: topography is gorgeous. It's the perfect political place to be
Speaker 1: where they get your personality. They welcome everyone, but they're
Speaker 1: not lunatics. You get weather, you get on the water.
Speaker 1: No state has the big cities that Ohio has. I
Speaker 1: think it's the best state in the Union. Yeah, I mean, okay, weather, water, sure,
Speaker 1: No state has the big cities that Ohio has. No California, Texas,
Speaker 1: nobody's big cities like anything else. This got mixed responses
Speaker 1: on social media and from some losers recording a podcast
Speaker 1: in their basement. One social media user said, horrible take.
Speaker 1: It's Wisconsin going away. The Great American Comedy Festival is back.
Speaker 1: The headliner Yakov Smirnoff. Yakov's been doing some press this week.
Speaker 1: He was going to do Fellon. That may have happened
Speaker 1: by now, but he's the headliner on Saturday. James Austin
Speaker 1: Johnson headlines Friday Night. Part of the Great American Comedy
Speaker 1: Festival is honoring Johnny Carson, who would have turned one
Speaker 1: hundred this year. Festival executive director Pat Jensen said, Johnny
Speaker 1: Carson was a comedy legend, and certainly SNL isn't that
Speaker 1: same pantheon. If a member of the current SNL cast
Speaker 1: during the same year that we recognize Johnny's one hundredth birthday,
Speaker 1: just feels so perfect. I heard me drop the g
Speaker 1: in that sentence. The Queen's Accent's coming out today. I
Speaker 1: heard it. I'm leaving it in Hit your ten second,
Speaker 1: rewind it happening during the word during. The festival kicks
Speaker 1: off tonight with the traditional family comedy Magic Show. The
Speaker 1: festival opened in two thousand and eight to honor the
Speaker 1: legacy of Johnny Carson. The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Speaker 1: is launching its own book club, and I know you're thinking, wow,
Speaker 1: that sounds really cool, and I'm with you, Yeah, really cool.
Speaker 1: Stephen Colbert jumped on the social media and said, we'll
Speaker 1: be highlighting wonderful books that are worth your time that
Speaker 1: you're not putting into watching this show. The first book
Speaker 1: in the super Cool Late Show book Club is called Orbital.
Speaker 1: That's a twenty twenty three sci fi novel. Colbert says
Speaker 1: Orbital is a beautiful novel about six astronauts on the
Speaker 1: International Space Station going about their daily tasks and pondering
Speaker 1: the meaning of life. It won the book a Prize,
Speaker 1: and it won the even more prestigious prize of being
Speaker 1: my first book club pick that actually sounds like a
Speaker 1: book I would like after I've totally made fun of
Speaker 1: the book club, but come on, Late Show book Club.
Speaker 1: Jacob Samuel has an album out today. He spoke to
Speaker 1: streight dot com. He said one of the problems he
Speaker 1: had breaking into comedy is I'm not a good storyteller.
Speaker 1: I was never a naturally charismatic, schmoozy guy. I always thought,
Speaker 1: don't want to do comedy writing. I didn't really want
Speaker 1: to perform, but then you realize that to even start
Speaker 1: down that path, you need to be performing if you
Speaker 1: want to make inroads in the comedy communities. His style
Speaker 1: is observations of modern day life and quick hits of
Speaker 1: twelve to fifteen seconds. He says, I love that joke
Speaker 1: structure where he had a little clue and then some
Speaker 1: people get it, then more people get it, and you're
Speaker 1: bringing everyone in slowly. An example which I'm sure he
Speaker 1: told better than I will. It's about dating apps. He said.
Speaker 1: I'd see some women write in the profile, I just
Speaker 1: love life, and that's great because that tells me you
Speaker 1: have zero life experience. Another I'm a jazz lover, and
Speaker 1: I don't mean I love jazz, I mean I make
Speaker 1: love like jazz, because the way I make love is
Speaker 1: not very popular. That's a good joke. His first album,
Speaker 1: Horsepower forty five minutes, when the twenty twenty one Juno
Speaker 1: Award for Comedy Album of the Year. This new one
Speaker 1: is called Big Time. He says, sometimes you put in
Speaker 1: a lot of work and it results in nothing. He
Speaker 1: told a story I had to cut a joke on
Speaker 1: my special that I've been doing for five years because
Speaker 1: the week after I recorded the special, Nate Bergetzi he
Speaker 1: came up with the same joke on the fly on
Speaker 1: his podcast. It wasn't the exact same wording. I think
Speaker 1: mine was better because I had worked on it, but
Speaker 1: he figured out the same concepts. I'm like, wow, I
Speaker 1: can't put that out there because the hottest community in
Speaker 1: the world just did it, and who's gonna believe me?
Speaker 1: That sucks? He says. One of my favorite jokes in
Speaker 1: this specials It's one of the first jokes I wrote
Speaker 1: to rebuild my act. I dropped it for a while
Speaker 1: because the wording was a bit clunky. Then I posted
Speaker 1: on social media. Did really well. The joke is about
Speaker 1: the Honda Odyssey. It's a weird name for a vehicle
Speaker 1: because if you know anything about the Odyssey, you know
Speaker 1: it didn't go well. That's funny too. Big Talk is
Speaker 1: the name of the special, and he is Jacob Samuel.
Speaker 1: It all sounds pretty good and congratulations to Nina Yankovic
Speaker 1: on graduating college. Her dad Al went on Instagram to
Speaker 1: announce that Nina had graduated from college. Al posted a
Speaker 1: photo of him and Nina, saying, my daughter Nina graduated
Speaker 1: from college today. Sorry, this is the most recent picture
Speaker 1: I could find of her. It was, of course, a
Speaker 1: picture of them at the graduation. That's your comedy news
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