Speaker 1: Callaroga Shark Media.
Speaker 2: Hey, I'm Jennie mac with your daily comedy news. Now
Speaker 2: I'm recording Sunday and Money back to back. So I
Speaker 2: just in my life thirty seconds ago did that list
Speaker 2: of the funniest women comedian? How is Nicky Glazer not
Speaker 2: on that list? She's like the ind comic right now.
Speaker 2: I feel like she should be on the list. When
Speaker 2: was that list from? And case you missed it. At
Speaker 2: the end of yesterday's podcast, I dove in on an
Speaker 2: article from Vogue that was called twenty of the Funniest
Speaker 2: female Comedians of All Time from March of twenty twenty five,
Speaker 2: So I'm thinking about that more. I mean, the list
Speaker 2: was okay, but should Nicky be on it? It's our silverman.
Speaker 2: Do we want to go down the SNL rabbit hole?
Speaker 2: I mean, Kate McKinnon's pretty funny, Amy Polar, Tina Fey, No, yes,
Speaker 2: Allen was a pretty good stand up, Sandra Bernhard is
Speaker 2: a pretty good stand up. Taylor Thompson's pretty funny. So
Speaker 2: I don't know. It's an odd tide list anyway. That
Speaker 2: was at the end of yesterday's show. It continues to
Speaker 2: be slow on these parts and you know, I was
Speaker 2: trying and lead off with a big name comedian in
Speaker 2: the A block because it allows me to throw a
Speaker 2: big name comedian into the episode title and then hopefully
Speaker 2: I get some drive by people sampling the show. That's
Speaker 2: how this works being transparent here. I got pretty far
Speaker 2: deep into the script today and I was like, I
Speaker 2: don't have something for the A block. So I typed
Speaker 2: Joe and Rogan into Google and found this article from
Speaker 2: Newsweek which asks is Joe Rogan losing his mojo? I'm
Speaker 2: gonna answer no, but they say. Spotify charts show that
Speaker 2: Rogan's podcast dropped from its usual top position to second
Speaker 2: place in January, overtaken by The Sean Ryan Show. It
Speaker 2: fell again to third place in February, behind Fall of
Speaker 2: Civilizations and The Midas Touched Podcast, before reclaiming second place,
Speaker 2: this time to Amy Poehler's news show Good. Hang, okay,
Speaker 2: let me explain podcast charts to you. I'll start with
Speaker 2: the Apple podcast charts because I'm more familiar with how
Speaker 2: they work. There's a recency bias based upon how many
Speaker 2: people have subscribed recently. So, for example, if you can
Speaker 2: get two thousand of your friends to suddenly subscribe on
Speaker 2: this podcast in the next hour, I will have the
Speaker 2: number one podcast in the country for at least a
Speaker 2: short while. Now, as you guys accelerate me to number one,
Speaker 2: what will happen is other people will go what's this
Speaker 2: and hit subscribe or follow on Apple Podcasts the nomenclature,
Speaker 2: and then my podcast will stay high up in the
Speaker 2: charts for a bit and hopefully a bunch of people
Speaker 2: stick around, and then suddenly I'll have a top two
Speaker 2: hundred podcast. That's how that works. So sometimes if you
Speaker 2: look at the charts at like weird times, like go
Speaker 2: on at like Sunday morning at like seven am, and
Speaker 2: you'll see something random at number one, and people know
Speaker 2: how the system works and they'll game it and people
Speaker 2: will get a flurry of subscribers, and some people known
Speaker 2: to pay people to hit subscribe. So I think with
Speaker 2: the charts you kind of have to look long term,
Speaker 2: and you know, Rogan's always there at the top. So
Speaker 2: the recency bias is part of it. There's total downloads,
Speaker 2: how much of an episode people consume, all that goes
Speaker 2: into it, but the big factor is recent downloads. Anybody
Speaker 2: in the industry will tell you that Joe Rogan is
Speaker 2: number one by a lot. It's not close. I'm not
Speaker 2: saying if you don't look at the charts like I'll
Speaker 2: look right now as I record this on Friday, So
Speaker 2: right now, Apple has it Polar, Mel Robbins, Rogan, And
Speaker 2: I'm not saying Polar is not super popular. I am
Speaker 2: not saying Mel Robins is super popular. What I am
Speaker 2: saying is no, Joe Rogan hasn't lost his mojo. The
Speaker 2: Spotify charts, I don't know exactly how they work. I
Speaker 2: assume they're similar. But also understand, despite what you read,
Speaker 2: most podcasts audio podcasts are consumed on Apple Podcasts, and
Speaker 2: Spotify is number two, and the Spotify charts can be
Speaker 2: a little wonky, and Spotify tends to promote their own things.
Speaker 2: For example, Amy Poehler's for The Ringer, which is owned
Speaker 2: by Spotify. Again, not saying Gami Polar's not good, not
Speaker 2: saying Amy Polers not number one on the Apple podcast
Speaker 2: which Spotify does not owner control. But you know that
Speaker 2: kind of thing factors into it, so don't oversteer it
Speaker 2: to the charts. Joe Rogan had fifty one and a
Speaker 2: half million downloads in February. Now let me walk you
Speaker 2: through some numbers in podcasting, a live read, you know,
Speaker 2: a host read you hear me? Do those sometimes for
Speaker 2: the gambling website is sold on a CPM model. Let's
Speaker 2: do lazy math. Say you get twenty dollars for CPM.
Speaker 2: These days, you'll get more like twenty three twenty four.
Speaker 2: If somebody wants to be in a premium environment, they'll
Speaker 2: get more. But let's do lazy math. So at twenty
Speaker 2: dollars CPM means if I want to reach one thousand
Speaker 2: listeners and ad would cost me twenty dollars. Okay, So
Speaker 2: by my account, Rogan had sixteen episodes STROP in February,
Speaker 2: and we'll accept the fifty one and a half million
Speaker 2: downloads number, and we'll accept my made up twenty dollars CPM.
Speaker 2: Fifty one and a half million downloads across sixteen episodes
Speaker 2: means three point two million people downloading each episode. At
Speaker 2: a twenty dollars CPM, that would mean each live read
Speaker 2: is sixty four thousand dollars. If he runs three per episode,
Speaker 2: that would be one hundred and ninety three thousand dollars
Speaker 2: per episode. And if you do that sixteen times, just
Speaker 2: in commercials, the show would gross three million dollars. Now
Speaker 2: we do that twelve months a year, that's thirty six
Speaker 2: million dollars a year. And I'm going to guess the
Speaker 2: numbers are higher because Joe Rogan was reportedly paid one
Speaker 2: hundred million, So my CPMs may be low. There may
Speaker 2: be more than three commercial per hour. I haven't listened,
Speaker 2: but just to give you a sense of is Joe
Speaker 2: Rogan struggling? Now? Matt Rife is going to be on
Speaker 2: the Discovery Channel's Ghost Adventures. Yeah, Wednesday, ten pm Eastern. Yeah,
Speaker 2: we'll have to pick between Ghost Adventures or Malany, Which
Speaker 2: will you pick? The Ghost Adventures crew head to Nevada
Speaker 2: to investigate the recently shuttered Whiskey Pete's Hotel and Casino,
Speaker 2: a sprawling historic property marked by murder, mystery, and unexplained activity,
Speaker 2: and is believed to be haunted by the notorious bootlegger
Speaker 2: for which it's named Whiskey Pete. Joined by special guest investigator,
Speaker 2: comedian and paranormal officionado Matt Rife, the team is immediately
Speaker 2: affected by the dark energy and ominous activity within the buildings.
Speaker 2: Sounds scary. Shehan Wang was one to get public broadcastings
Speaker 2: Where We Live podcast. They were curious how important it
Speaker 2: is to have friends like Ali Wong to go through
Speaker 2: the journey with the journey of comedy. Shang said, I
Speaker 2: think it's tough for immigrant kids to be doing stuff
Speaker 2: like this. I mean it might be a little different now,
Speaker 2: but I think pursuing a craft like this can be
Speaker 2: full of potholes and doubts and bumps on the road,
Speaker 2: you know. So when we have friends that do it
Speaker 2: together with it makes all the difference. You know, little community,
Speaker 2: it really helps a lot. It's kind of the whole
Speaker 2: reason you do it because at the beginning it all
Speaker 2: seems like what's the point. You know, you're just doing
Speaker 2: open mics at random places, from like empty rooms to
Speaker 2: launder mats, wherever you can put a microphone on a speaker.
Speaker 2: The whole way. There's always moments where you're gonna doubt yourself.
Speaker 2: That Jay Leno interview he gave to Graham Benzger, it
Speaker 2: continues to pay off if you're trying to fill your
Speaker 2: script for your daily coming to News podcast. Jay did
Speaker 2: not deny which Joe got under his skin. It is
Speaker 2: the one in Conan's Final Tonight Show monologue when Conan
Speaker 2: said much funnier than I will tell it. I just
Speaker 2: want to say to the kids out there watching, you
Speaker 2: can do anything you want in life, unless Jay Leto
Speaker 2: wants to do it too. That's a great joke I
Speaker 2: mentioned yesterday, trying to get a feel for is Jay
Speaker 2: let know a bad guy good guy? I think he's
Speaker 2: a good guy. I explained yesterday ConA thing aside a
Speaker 2: little more. This is from a different interview where Jay
Speaker 2: talking about his wife Mavis. Mavis has Alzheimer's disease. Jay says,
Speaker 2: I just try to get home every night. That's the
Speaker 2: only difference. The plane weights and I come right back.
Speaker 2: I used to stay out three or four days. I
Speaker 2: just stay out one day now two days. Most. I
Speaker 2: enjoy it. I like taking care of my wife. I
Speaker 2: don't mind it. It's not the greatest thing in the world,
Speaker 2: but it's okay. It's not like she's in any pain,
Speaker 2: screaming or anything. She smiles and I can see when
Speaker 2: she's pleased with something. You know, it is what it is.
Speaker 2: I'm glad it didn't happen when we were forty. You
Speaker 2: have forty good years and you have five. Kind of
Speaker 2: tricky ones, that's okay. Do I wish it never happened?
Speaker 2: Of course, You've got to find a humor in it.
Speaker 2: It's like a test. I'm glad I passed. I'm very
Speaker 2: comfortable with it. Jay has kept up his tradition of
Speaker 2: making Mavis dinner and then they watched TV together, although
Speaker 2: he says Mavis is almost totally bit written and she
Speaker 2: can't remember what happened from one episode to the next.
Speaker 2: Jay says, it's really the same thing. You just can't
Speaker 2: have a discussion or talk about things. Somehow, I've become
Speaker 2: the patriarch of the family. He pays eleven thousand dollars
Speaker 2: a month each for a brother in law and an
Speaker 2: uncle and nursing facilities. Those are real numbers. I had
Speaker 2: my mom in one, and not by choice. You know,
Speaker 2: that's something I would have never thought that I would
Speaker 2: have ever done. And you know, I like throws your
Speaker 2: curve and you wind up doing that. But yeah, it
Speaker 2: was twelve thousand dollars a month for us. Jay says,
Speaker 2: there's a lot of people affected by this. Technically I
Speaker 2: don't have to go out on the road, but to
Speaker 2: keep a sense of normalcy, he does. Leno says a
Speaker 2: nurse comes in twice a week to check her vitals,
Speaker 2: and a dentist has regular house calls to clean her teeth.
Speaker 2: Jay says, I don't know how people who are school
Speaker 2: teachers or policemen or nurses who have regular jobs do.
Speaker 2: And I'm glad I have the position I'm in so
Speaker 2: my lifestyle doesn't change dramatically. I don't have to get
Speaker 2: a reverse mortgage or anything like that. As for his
Speaker 2: recent incidents, you know there's the motorcycle accident, falling down
Speaker 2: a hill, whatever that was, Jay says, that's a great
Speaker 2: thing about being over forty. Once a man goes over forty,
Speaker 2: you can't teach him anything you never learned by your mistakes.
Speaker 2: All right, let's check in on the Sydney Comedy Festival.
Speaker 2: Lift pulled three comics once again and Alex Ward's show
Speaker 2: is called clip Clop. Don't stop the description Alex is
Speaker 2: really good at talking. She has to be because people
Speaker 2: want to do it with her all the time, strangers, neighbors,
Speaker 2: her parents, the gall the age says the show is
Speaker 2: studded with punchlines.
Speaker 3: Let's listen, okay, I want to talk about the social
Speaker 3: media ban on kids in Australia. It's very divisive. I've
Speaker 3: spoken to people who are for it, and I've spoken
Speaker 3: to people who are against it. Interestingly, I actually don't
Speaker 3: have an opinion on it because I don't have kids.
Speaker 3: But what I do have is a mom who I
Speaker 3: just spent three weeks with. And I'm just throwing it
Speaker 3: out there. But if we're going to ban all people
Speaker 3: under sixteen, yeah, I think maybe we could look at
Speaker 3: some other age groups as well.
Speaker 2: I like her. I think that's fun enough for a
Speaker 2: little long to get to it, and I was going
Speaker 2: to play a little more, but it takes even longer
Speaker 2: to get to the second joke. But I wrote nice company,
Speaker 2: which for me, the comedy snob is a high compliment.
Speaker 2: I like her a lot. So that was Alex Ward.
Speaker 2: Next up, Emma Holland. Emma's show is called Don't Touch
Speaker 2: My Trinket. The Age gave it four stars. I think
Speaker 2: they do four out of four and said Holland is
Speaker 2: an expert at pulling out the rug from beneath her audiences.
Speaker 2: I like this clip a lot. Let me give you
Speaker 2: the visual here. She rides out onto the empty stage
Speaker 2: in a scooter like you know, the stand up scooters
Speaker 2: that the kids have today. And so she's on the
Speaker 2: scooter and she's wearing a helmet. Takes the helmet off,
Speaker 2: walks over to the microphone and we'll pick it up
Speaker 2: from there.
Speaker 1: Same one. He like Facebook, marketplace, A couple of fans
Speaker 1: down the front. What's the best thing you've ever found
Speaker 1: a marketplace?
Speaker 3: A pair of earmuffs?
Speaker 1: Pair of ear muffs, virgin, best thing I've ever found
Speaker 1: a marketplace. Get this for a deal? Thirty dollars for
Speaker 1: a treadmill. It's good, right, it's a good deal. Long
Speaker 1: story short. It was a belt sander and now I'm
Speaker 1: three centimeters shorter. But it lays I'm ripped. I'm trying
Speaker 1: to get massive. I'll fight you count spell Emma without Mma.
Speaker 2: I love her. I thought that was fantastic. Emma Holland
Speaker 2: next up. And I hope my pronunciation is close here.
Speaker 2: Hey Hwang Hay's show is called white Man's Burden. The
Speaker 2: description are you ready to learn how to be whiter?
Speaker 2: Don't worry, this is a safe space. Chinese superstar Hey Huang,
Speaker 2: We're turns and character as Christopher Rice in an outrageous
Speaker 2: satshire on white culture. The clip I have here is
Speaker 2: not from that show, but from a traditional stand up show.
Speaker 2: I found Hey to be very funny. I did have
Speaker 2: to skip the first ninety seconds because the punchlines for
Speaker 2: every joke in the first ninety involved F bombs, and
Speaker 2: if I take the F bomb out, the joke gets castrated.
Speaker 2: So I found a different chunk. So here is like
Speaker 2: two or three minutes into the set.
Speaker 4: Australia has so many different types of Chinese living here,
Speaker 4: and I'm a Chinese from a modern China's family. To
Speaker 4: be very specific, my family are I'm gonna use the
Speaker 4: sea word communist, not the ausy Sea word you guys expected. Yeah,
Speaker 4: if you go to my grandparents' house, you will literally
Speaker 4: see a lot of reflags. Like to my grandma, any
Speaker 4: flag that's not red is a red flag. I'm the
Speaker 4: product one child policy. Have you guys heard about this policy? Yeah,
Speaker 4: it's very brutal and heartless policy. But on the other hand,
Speaker 4: us survivors of one child policy, a lot of us
Speaker 4: are pretty spoiled. I mean my myth I'm doing this
Speaker 4: for a living and I don't have any other backup plans. Eventually,
Speaker 4: my parents have to support me because they don't have
Speaker 4: any other choice.
Speaker 2: Very very funny there, and that is your comedy news
Speaker 2: for today. Hopefully there'll be some sort of controversy, like,
Speaker 2: I don't know, David Letterin get into a fistfight with
Speaker 2: Jay Leto and cameras could catch it, or Dave Chappelle
Speaker 2: say something, Somebody do some controversy. I'm tired of the
Speaker 2: slow news days every day, all right, see tomorrow