Review: Beautiful Dogs, Shane Gillis

[00:00:08] Speaker A: Well, it's. It's not bad. It's not what. I remember this Celeste from when I was a kid. It's a different taste. [00:00:15] Speaker B: Is that one of the actual dollars? $25 is. Or have they jacked it? [00:00:20] Speaker A: No, this is a $25. But you gotta look. I was looking at the receipts. I walked out of there because I got a couple other things for my kids and stuff hit me for like 30 bucks. I was like, what the fuck? What did I just get in there? 30 bucks. They're sneaky. Now it's not just a $25. A lot of the shit is a $50. [00:00:35] Speaker B: Yep. The chocolate all went up to the full. Chocky bars all went up to $1.50. Which to be honest, Jewel can beat that a lot of times now. Yeah. And then they're doing all these $3 things in the hardware section and $5 feel right. [00:00:52] Speaker A: Yeah. It's a bait and switch. [00:00:54] Speaker B: Talking a dollar store. So as it's present giving week. [00:00:57] Speaker A: Oh. [00:00:58] Speaker B: So I was extremely excited to find in the men's deodorant section of the Dollar Tree of the Dollar Street a coconut. Coconut scented. [00:01:12] Speaker A: Whoa. [00:01:13] Speaker B: And I bought literally everything they had because I love coconut scent. But I thought, you know, as a fun thing, you know, you know how women synchronize menstrual cycles as a, as a. As a thing they do. We could always. All three of us have to wear the same deodorant when we do this. This thing. And what is the picture on the front remind you? [00:01:37] Speaker A: Nick Offerman. That's him. [00:01:39] Speaker B: No, I don't think Offerman, but it's. It's. To me, it's the animator from Bob's Burger. Because when I first saw it, I thought, oh, it's a Bob's Burger, like, weird tie in thing. Yeah. [00:01:52] Speaker A: It looks like that animation, but it also looks like a brand of shit that's out there. Sasquatch or something like that. Or doctors that has a character like this. Just knockoff of that. [00:02:03] Speaker C: It's vegan. [00:02:04] Speaker B: It is. [00:02:04] Speaker C: Yeah. So you can eat it if you want. [00:02:07] Speaker A: All right, I can eat it. [00:02:08] Speaker C: It's edible. Vegan. Right on the front there. [00:02:11] Speaker B: What's this thing with no aluminium in deodorant? No. What is it? [00:02:16] Speaker A: You mean aluminum? [00:02:17] Speaker C: It's supposed to seep into your skin through your armpits and so people don't want to wear aluminum deodorant. [00:02:25] Speaker B: Hey, I'll be metal. Be partially metal. Stronger. Stronger and bigger. [00:02:29] Speaker A: But how did you say that? Aluminum? [00:02:31] Speaker B: Yeah, because that's what it is in the periodic table. [00:02:34] Speaker A: Aluminum. [00:02:34] Speaker C: Even though there's no iodine. [00:02:35] Speaker A: Have you ever heard aluminum? [00:02:38] Speaker B: That's the oldest one in the book. [00:02:40] Speaker C: I feel like this is low hanging fruit. [00:02:42] Speaker B: Yeah. I think this is like a family guy type material. [00:02:48] Speaker C: Yeah. I just started ignoring it a long time ago. It's not worth it. [00:02:51] Speaker A: What? [00:02:52] Speaker C: Just the aluminium thing. [00:02:53] Speaker A: No, I never heard that before. [00:02:54] Speaker C: Oh, really? This is the first. Come on. [00:02:56] Speaker B: No. [00:02:57] Speaker C: You've lived your whole life on this earth without hearing anybody say aluminium. [00:03:01] Speaker A: Never in my life. [00:03:02] Speaker B: One of the most common, like what British people say, it's like up there with lift and chesterfield, blah, blah, blah. [00:03:10] Speaker A: And pram. [00:03:11] Speaker B: Yeah, all of that. [00:03:12] Speaker C: Yeah. Pram. I like that one. I like. I like those toys out the pram. [00:03:15] Speaker B: But yeah, that's up there. That's. That's one of the first ones that comes out, right? [00:03:19] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah, that's one of the first ones. You. You notice when you're a kid, you're like, wait a second, what? [00:03:24] Speaker B: Now when you're in chemistry as a kid, you're doing the periodic table and you're doing all the metals. [00:03:31] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:03:32] Speaker B: You're doing sodium, potassium. [00:03:35] Speaker A: You know, potassium's not a metal. [00:03:38] Speaker B: Yeah, it is. Technically, it is part of that branch. [00:03:41] Speaker A: So there's metal and bananas. [00:03:43] Speaker B: I don't know. But anyway. [00:03:45] Speaker C: What about iron? [00:03:46] Speaker B: But anyway, when you're doing the periodic table with all the. With the ions, does the American periodic table literally go, you know, sodium, calcium, potassium, aluminum? [00:04:00] Speaker C: No, no, it's sodium, potassium. Aluminum. [00:04:03] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:04:04] Speaker A: Aluminum. [00:04:05] Speaker C: Yeah. Aluminum, yeah. [00:04:07] Speaker B: So you do all the. You do all of the other elements? [00:04:11] Speaker C: Yeah. There's no ium at the end of aluminum in. [00:04:14] Speaker A: Oh, it's ium. [00:04:16] Speaker C: Well, I'm assuming in British aluminium periodic tables, it's spelled differently. Right. You're not just adding the I in there? [00:04:22] Speaker A: I don't think there's an I in there. [00:04:24] Speaker C: In ours. There is. [00:04:25] Speaker A: Well, it says right here. Aluminum. No, I. Aluminum. [00:04:30] Speaker B: Yeah, I know. [00:04:30] Speaker C: American brand. [00:04:31] Speaker B: I'm very aware of that. [00:04:34] Speaker A: We're talking about. [00:04:35] Speaker B: The point I'm trying to make is aluminium is there in the periodic table, in the list of metals. [00:04:44] Speaker A: Yes. [00:04:45] Speaker B: Does the American periodic table that you are taught in chemistry literally go, what the man who's in professional education. [00:04:54] Speaker A: Yeah, but Adam don't teach chemistry. So if you, if you're. If you teach, you should know the periodic table regardless of what you teach. [00:05:02] Speaker B: That's like the most basic thing in science. [00:05:05] Speaker C: Basic elements. [00:05:06] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:05:06] Speaker A: I don't know anything about it. I cheated in chemistry in high school. Off Chad Harrington. He let me cheat. He moved his elbow so I could see all the answers. I wouldn't have passed otherwise. [00:05:16] Speaker B: Huh. Anyway, I gotta shut up for 10 minutes. I was so depressed after last week's episode. Why? [00:05:21] Speaker A: Because you talked a lot? [00:05:22] Speaker B: Yeah, because of all the talking. [00:05:23] Speaker A: Really? What did you talk about? [00:05:24] Speaker B: I don't remember. Who was it? [00:05:28] Speaker C: Oh, it was. Wait, last week wasn't last week? [00:05:32] Speaker A: Yeah, we did Marcelo Hernandez. [00:05:35] Speaker C: Oh, yeah, that's right. Yeah. [00:05:36] Speaker A: And you talked a lot. Well, I'll. I'll say something then while you're. [00:05:43] Speaker B: I'm going to go into a. Into a trance like mode. [00:05:46] Speaker A: These noodles are fantastic. I don't think I've ever had. Have had ramen. [00:05:50] Speaker C: Like a little brick. Yeah, these are better. [00:05:53] Speaker A: Oh yeah, dude. [00:05:55] Speaker B: Oh yeah. Cuz you can't put it in. You're a vegetarian, so you put a. [00:05:58] Speaker A: Little bit in like chicken dust, like flavoring. There's no real chicken. [00:06:04] Speaker C: No, this is chemicals. [00:06:05] Speaker A: Chemicals. [00:06:06] Speaker C: But you know what those are good for? If you have yourself a go bag. You know how some people have a. [00:06:11] Speaker A: Go bag for the apocalypse? [00:06:13] Speaker C: Yeah. In case they have to survive on their own. If you don't use those little packets, put them in your go bag because they are good to provide you with sodium and electrolytes when you're out there. A lot of sodium. [00:06:24] Speaker B: A year's supply of sodium in every packet. [00:06:27] Speaker C: So a little bit will go far away and. And you need sodium, you know, and it's hard to find out there in the. In the woods. It's hard to find a salt lick out in the woods. [00:06:37] Speaker A: Where would you find salt in the natural world? In rock. [00:06:41] Speaker C: Right. [00:06:41] Speaker A: Like in rock salt mines. [00:06:43] Speaker B: Yeah, the salt mine by the sea. [00:06:45] Speaker A: Yeah. Oh, yeah, the ocean. [00:06:48] Speaker B: When they sent the, like, what they call the desert rats. The. The desert army for England, they literally had to like, you know, have a salt pill every. Can you imagine trying to get that. [00:06:58] Speaker C: Down when you just drink it with water? [00:07:01] Speaker B: Toss it. Have you tried salt water, though? That's quite foul. [00:07:05] Speaker C: No, but wouldn't you just put the pill on your tongue? Why do you need a salt pill? [00:07:11] Speaker B: Because you sweat. Yeah. You sweat so much salt out in the desert. [00:07:16] Speaker C: What are water. [00:07:17] Speaker A: You know when a woman takes water pills? [00:07:19] Speaker C: No, I've never heard of that in my life. [00:07:21] Speaker B: Never. [00:07:23] Speaker C: Are you making that up? [00:07:24] Speaker A: No. [00:07:24] Speaker C: Why? [00:07:25] Speaker A: Women who are trying to lose weight, they'll say, I'm taking water pills. [00:07:29] Speaker C: What? [00:07:29] Speaker B: Well, you drink water if you want to lose weight because what, half the time you're hungry, you're really just thirsty. So that's why I was drinking 2 liters of water a day. [00:07:40] Speaker A: You do? I have. I can't get enough water down. [00:07:42] Speaker B: I'm still a fat bastard, so. I don't know. [00:07:44] Speaker A: I think you look good. [00:07:47] Speaker B: Yeah. Water. You were just meant to drink. Well, I start the day with five cups of water. I can't just try. [00:07:56] Speaker A: If I didn't know I had to drink it like you're supposed to drink water, I wouldn't touch it all day. [00:08:00] Speaker C: Oh, really? [00:08:01] Speaker A: No, I wouldn't. [00:08:02] Speaker C: I don't care. [00:08:03] Speaker A: I don't. I don't think about it. I don't want it. I go through coffee, soda. [00:08:07] Speaker C: Nothing's better than when you just realize that you've been very thirsty and you haven't had water in a while and you have that whole thermos full and it's just the whole thing. Oh, no better feeling in the world. [00:08:17] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:08:18] Speaker C: Really taste it. Oh, my. Yeah, like halfway through you're like, oh my God, I needed this so bad and I had no idea. Insatiable. [00:08:27] Speaker A: We're into some hard hitting science on the show. [00:08:30] Speaker C: Like, this is different. This is different for us. Yeah. [00:08:32] Speaker A: Neil DeGrasse Tyson level stuff. Talked about. [00:08:35] Speaker C: We haven't even talked about Mariano's breakfast yet. [00:08:39] Speaker A: No, we're not going to. [00:08:40] Speaker C: No. Because Mark's in a trance. [00:08:41] Speaker A: What did you eat already that you didn't want? The nice buffet that I brought. [00:08:47] Speaker B: In a cruel twist of irony. I ate healthy today. [00:08:51] Speaker A: I wanted to eat healthy and now look at what I'm doing. Oh, those look like vegetables. [00:08:56] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:08:56] Speaker A: What are those? Beets. [00:08:58] Speaker B: Beets? Carrot, cucumber. [00:09:02] Speaker A: You're on one right now. [00:09:03] Speaker B: No, I went into Mariano's really quickly as I went from. [00:09:07] Speaker C: You don't go there. [00:09:09] Speaker B: Well, I do if I want to go posh. [00:09:12] Speaker A: Posh boxing. [00:09:13] Speaker B: Yep. And I went in for that. They have a very nice buffet. They have like rib tips. And you know, I try and get there as early as possible before Lane Tech get in there and sneeze over everything and you know, the germy bastards that they are. But I got too early today so I had to go to plan B. So I hit the salad bar and I found a two dollar package of Mexican chicken that had been reduced from reduced price. [00:09:43] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:09:43] Speaker B: So two dollar, boom. Three dollars, two and a half dollars of salad. [00:09:49] Speaker A: So you got the salad bar and then you took the reduced chicken, put it on top of there. Why is it Mexican chicken? [00:09:55] Speaker B: I don't know. That was just the one that was on sale. [00:09:57] Speaker A: It didn't say Mexican chicken. [00:09:59] Speaker B: It said Paulo de Cassada or something. I don't know. [00:10:04] Speaker C: Polo. Polo. [00:10:06] Speaker A: Did you come into some money in the past week? [00:10:08] Speaker B: No. [00:10:09] Speaker A: It has you wandering around Mariano's. [00:10:12] Speaker B: I still came in under five. [00:10:14] Speaker A: Under five for that? [00:10:15] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:10:16] Speaker A: Those salad bar prices, the weight, it's like you can barely put anything in there. [00:10:19] Speaker C: And 10 bucks, just make them at home for a dollar. [00:10:24] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:10:25] Speaker B: I must admit, the only drawback is two plastic tubs. [00:10:30] Speaker A: You don't like getting the plastic. [00:10:32] Speaker B: When are we gonna get past this old plastic? [00:10:34] Speaker A: I don't know. It's a plastic world. Well, you're getting the plastic every time you eat one of these yakisobas. [00:10:40] Speaker B: I know. And that's the drawback. Yeah. [00:10:43] Speaker A: Should make your own noodles. Egg and flour. [00:10:46] Speaker B: Yeah. A little broth spend. Broth of a boy. [00:10:50] Speaker A: Yeah. Here we go. Broth is a secret word. It's got to be said once a show. All right, well, let's get into the weekend because I want to know how your show was. I want. I can't wait to tell you about what a night we had out at the Improv in Schomburg on Saturday night at the Late show with the legendary comedian T.J. miller, who was amazing. And legendary comedian C.J. sullivan, and legendary comedian Sean Flannery. And legendary comedian and host Mark. I don't know. African American fella, 40 years old, just had a. Had a baby. You know him? He was the mc. [00:11:31] Speaker C: Oh, really? You know what I'm talking about. [00:11:32] Speaker B: Not Mark Hurst. But he's not 40. [00:11:34] Speaker A: He said he was 40 on stage. [00:11:36] Speaker C: Who am I thinking of, though? [00:11:37] Speaker A: Maybe he's not. But he just had a baby Sunday. [00:11:40] Speaker C: I don't think the one. The Mark I'm thinking about, I don't think is 40 either, but he could be, who knows? [00:11:45] Speaker A: Flannery lined him up, I think. [00:11:48] Speaker C: Mark Laval. [00:11:49] Speaker A: Yeah, that sounds maybe, right. [00:11:50] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:11:51] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, yeah. [00:11:51] Speaker C: Okay. Yeah, that could be it. [00:11:53] Speaker A: They wanted. TJ and CJ wanted a. [00:11:56] Speaker B: No women. [00:11:57] Speaker A: No women. No, I'm not saying that they wanted a host or an emcee. That was not going to be annoying. In the green room, that was their only thing. They didn't care if the guy had a good act or not. They just didn't want him to be annoying while they were in the green room. [00:12:11] Speaker B: I suppose when you're in a room with a bunch of seasoned comedians and you're a young comedian, you're probably just trying to tap dance. [00:12:18] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:12:19] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. I gotta be funny like these guys, right? [00:12:22] Speaker A: They didn't want that. [00:12:22] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. [00:12:24] Speaker A: But what a show. I'd never been to the Schomburg if prop. [00:12:26] Speaker B: Have you? [00:12:27] Speaker C: No. [00:12:27] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. So TJ and Judah Friedland are there. [00:12:31] Speaker A: They were together? [00:12:32] Speaker B: No, no, Just separate incidents. [00:12:35] Speaker A: Not a bad space. I mean, it is at the mall, you know, so you got that. You know, you don't really. [00:12:40] Speaker B: Terrible. [00:12:41] Speaker A: But what about the room itself? Big, cavernous. [00:12:44] Speaker B: I like the retro Frank Sinatra. Little teared. I do like that. I like it. I like it more aesthetically, though. I don't think it's good for comedy. [00:12:56] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:12:57] Speaker B: Was they. They. The famous thing with the improv is was it curtained? Had they curtained off half of it? [00:13:05] Speaker A: What do you mean? [00:13:05] Speaker B: Or was it fully packed? [00:13:07] Speaker A: Fully back. [00:13:08] Speaker B: Okay. There's a high balcony. [00:13:10] Speaker A: Yeah, that's where we were in the high balcony. [00:13:11] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. Sometimes they'll curtain that off. Yeah. [00:13:15] Speaker A: Oh, okay. [00:13:16] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, yeah. [00:13:17] Speaker A: Makes sense. Yeah. I wanted you to come. You. You couldn't because you had to work. You couldn't find anyone take your shift? [00:13:24] Speaker B: Nope. [00:13:24] Speaker C: No. [00:13:25] Speaker A: Lawler wasn't available? [00:13:26] Speaker B: Nope. Lawler had done Friday, so that's why I was nailed to the Saturday. [00:13:31] Speaker A: Were you here with him on Saturday? [00:13:32] Speaker C: Nope. [00:13:33] Speaker A: No, he wasn't. [00:13:34] Speaker C: Where were you? I don't remember. [00:13:35] Speaker A: Oh, I should have called you. [00:13:36] Speaker B: Yeah, you called in, though. [00:13:38] Speaker A: You called in. [00:13:40] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:13:40] Speaker A: Not feeling well today, Mark. [00:13:41] Speaker B: No, no, you called in on the way back from somewhere because of the snowstorm. [00:13:45] Speaker C: Oh, yeah, that's right. That's right, that's right. Yeah. I was out with a friend that was moving. Yeah, he's moving on. Sunday came up suddenly. He bought a school in Nashville. School of Rock franchise. [00:13:55] Speaker A: Really? Yeah. [00:13:56] Speaker C: And the hammer is going to drop any day. He was going to be out of here. We used to teach with each other a long time ago. And yeah, finally Saturday, he said, hey, I'm leaving tomorrow. You want to get some dinner? I said, yeah, for sure. [00:14:08] Speaker A: So did you teach at School of Rock? [00:14:10] Speaker C: I did, yeah. Yeah. Elmhurst and Hinsdale. [00:14:15] Speaker A: Cool. [00:14:16] Speaker C: Yeah. We used to ride the same train together, so. [00:14:19] Speaker A: Well, I brought my boys, my sons, my young. My young sons, young son. They love comedy and they love cj. [00:14:33] Speaker B: I was gonna say, they must have been thrilled to go backstage. [00:14:36] Speaker A: Oh, my God. So, yeah, that was a big thrill. We go backstage in after the show and we just hung out in there for an hour with tj and he was super cool with the kids and CJ and the guys. [00:14:49] Speaker B: It was. [00:14:49] Speaker A: Yeah, it was a thrill for them. You know, they felt like they were with and he is. He is a celebrity. Right. He's been in movies. Yeah, right. So that was like their first touch with, you know, Hollywood stardom. Yeah. And T.J. was great. He gave. He. He makes all these foods. Hot sauce, the hot sauce. He loaded them up with hot sauces, peanut butters, all kinds of. [00:15:10] Speaker C: It's good hot sauce, too. I've had. [00:15:13] Speaker A: I haven't had the hot sauce yet. The peanut butter had this, like, Rice Krispy stuff and toffee, and it was like candy. [00:15:17] Speaker C: Really? [00:15:19] Speaker A: Yeah. Couldn't stop eating. [00:15:20] Speaker B: It's like Snickers. [00:15:20] Speaker A: Yeah, it was like. And CJ killed. And TJ was great. I don't think I'd seen. I'd seen his special years ago, whatever that was, but I hadn't really seen him live, I don't think, since Lions Den or something. He's great. He does a lot of improv. He just improvises a lot of it, which I love. There are good comedians out there doing, you know, improvisational stand up, working without a net. So I thought he was awesome. It was. It was very cool. So tell me about your night with James A. Castor. [00:15:56] Speaker B: Oh, it started with James. Started off with a posh boxing meal. [00:16:00] Speaker A: Oh, you and the missus. [00:16:02] Speaker B: Yeah, I had a gift certificate from someone, so I treated the missus to a real meal. [00:16:07] Speaker C: Where? [00:16:08] Speaker B: A place called Beatrix. [00:16:10] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. They get a couple of those. [00:16:12] Speaker B: Yeah, there's a few of them. So that was nice. And because it was Chicago Restaurant week, I went all in on the. You know, when you get the. [00:16:21] Speaker A: The. [00:16:21] Speaker B: The opener, the main course, the dessert, and blah, blah, blah. [00:16:26] Speaker A: You get that because of restaurant week? [00:16:28] Speaker B: Yeah, because it's like 40 bucks for. [00:16:30] Speaker A: Oh, it's like a prefix menu. [00:16:31] Speaker C: They give you the 40 version of it. [00:16:33] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:16:34] Speaker C: Usually pre made. [00:16:36] Speaker B: Yep. So we had that. And then Acaster was phenomenal. I mean, it's like, it's weird. I know I've said this before, but I am, I think it bears saying repeatedly, I have dwelled exclusively in the gutter of comedy for 25 years now, looking up at the stars. And we had James Acaster at the place over by Wrigley Field. And it was clear this guy is a talent. But to see the Chicago theater, like, packed with people who are just like, God, I've been dying to see this guy. [00:17:16] Speaker A: Could feel it in the air, the. [00:17:17] Speaker B: Yeah, like excitement. I was like, God, when do I get. When can I get a taste of this. This action? [00:17:23] Speaker A: Like, here, have that kind of just. [00:17:25] Speaker B: The success and the. The. I don't know, every time I come in, I feel like we're like, we're almost just beating people into submission. Like we're just going to keep doing these until you. Whereas when you go to somewhere like that, you're like, oh, this is, this is people who are excited to be here. They know this person. They. They're expecting magic. [00:17:51] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:17:52] Speaker B: And stuff. And not that I'm saying our shows here aren't bad or anything, but to me it's more of a mechanical like, oh, we're doing comedy this week, you know, and when we're. [00:18:04] Speaker A: Every week would have been. [00:18:05] Speaker B: No, no, no. The people coming. Oh, there's not like this rock star excitement about it. [00:18:12] Speaker A: Yeah, but do you think there's that rock star excitement at the Improv or Zany's or these places? I guess there kind of was. [00:18:19] Speaker B: No, they're just, they're like us, they're just functional. To go into a place like the Chicago theater that's rammed with expectations. A big night, and it's like, God, if everyone's paid 80 bucks and there's what, 2,000, like, this is more money than it takes us two months to earn just sitting here, right here and stuff. Not that money is everything, but it's just that, that whole smell of success. [00:18:47] Speaker A: Ah. [00:18:48] Speaker B: But anyway, James Acaster was goddamn unbelievable. He. I was worried that it was going to be like a three hour marathon. Yeah. [00:18:56] Speaker A: Like the special. Like the two are special. [00:18:58] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. But he just came out, he announced himself as Britain's premier James Acaster tribute act. Then came out, parodied himself for about five minutes and then kind of went into the whole meta thing that he always does and he, he broke down his own act saying why it wasn't good and where the weaknesses were and blah, blah, blah. Because he, he kind of Stuart Lee. [00:19:25] Speaker A: Ish in that sense. Self reflective. [00:19:27] Speaker B: Yeah. So he, he basically claimed to be not James Acaster, but a J as a tribute act that was pissed off at having to be James A. [00:19:37] Speaker A: He did this the whole time? The whole show. [00:19:39] Speaker B: Oh, goddamn thing. [00:19:40] Speaker A: Wow. [00:19:40] Speaker B: But he kind of very meta. Yeah, yeah. He kind of went meta with it and then he did. He did this one story that was phenomenal where he's talking about the perils of being a tribute act and how AI had ruined it because now AI can just simulate everything. [00:19:56] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:19:57] Speaker B: And then he did this thing about how ABBA in Europe, ABBA has this hologram experience that tours. Yeah, yeah. Called Whatever it Is. And he goes, there's this group called Bjorn Again who are the most famous, like ABBA tribute act. And how they just. This whole story about how Bjorn again go to abba's house where Aber all still live together to kill them for ruining their career as a tribute act. And when they go to kill and he just. This whole thing about they're standing over the beds of ABBA and they're all going to kill the one they are, because it wouldn't make any sense. And he goes. And they go to strangle them, but their hands go through because it's the holograms and the real ABBA is hiding behind a curtain, right? Because they know that they're going to come to murder them and then they jump out and then they murder the beyond again. And. But then they realize, oh, crap, like, if people are gonna come looking for these guys and work out, we murder them. So now we're gonna have to fulfill all of their tour dates. So now the. The ABBA tribute band is being. Is fulfilled by the real one. Blah, blah. I mean, it's just like a magnificent. Like a brilliant, you know, just like a thing that spin and you're not meant to record. So everyone. The. The thousands of listeners, you gotta forget I just said that. [00:21:25] Speaker A: Oh, because you couldn't record there, you had to drop your phone or something. Or you just. [00:21:28] Speaker B: You didn't have to drop. You just said, they don't really do. [00:21:30] Speaker A: That anymore, do they? [00:21:31] Speaker C: Like when you go to shows, you drop the phone only once. Has it ever happened? No, Maybe twice. But one time was at the United center. And I mean, there's like 20,000 people there. I went with it. It was for Bill Burr, Nate Craig. Was there some other people Craig opened? Yeah, yeah. And so I went with a buddy of mine and they're like, yeah, we got to put your phones in these pouches. And they snapped it shut and they said, just come back. We have the tool to un. You know, you can't get it open yourself. We have the tool to open it for you when the show's over. I said, fine, yeah, no problem. And we watched the whole show and we're leaving and I realized, like, we're ready to go. Like, you know, we've already been here for hours and there's this bottleneck of people just like, waiting their phones out. Yeah, there's only like one person with the tool, like, on every floor. And I'm like, this is going to take for fucking ever. So we're walking down the back stairway. I said, just, no, I just pulled really hard on mine and finally Snapped. It snapped open. And I said, give me yours. And I snapped his open too. I gave him his phone, I took the two pouches, I tossed him in a dumpster. [00:22:29] Speaker B: I wonder if anyone thought, why don't I just take two phones? [00:22:33] Speaker C: I always think that too. How do they know? Yeah. Or what if you bring two phones? [00:22:37] Speaker A: What if in the bag you still gotta get it out? You're just gonna give it away? [00:22:42] Speaker B: No. You're gonna record with the non fake. [00:22:44] Speaker C: Yeah, with a non fake one to record. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then when you get home, you could always get some bolt cutters or something, get your other phone out of there. But. Yeah. Or why not just say, I don't have a phone. [00:22:54] Speaker A: Yeah, you could, right? [00:22:54] Speaker B: No. [00:22:55] Speaker C: Right? Yeah. I mean, even me, I got this flip phone. This happens to me at restaurants all the time. They'd be like, scan the QR code. I'm like, okay. [00:23:02] Speaker A: How are they amazed when you pull out the flip phone? [00:23:05] Speaker C: Yeah, I'm just like, I don't have a smartphone on me. [00:23:08] Speaker A: How's it going in week two with that? [00:23:10] Speaker C: It's getting better. Yeah. Get more used to it. Yeah, yeah, it's. It's been okay. [00:23:14] Speaker A: Are you feeling like you have more time and less distracted? [00:23:16] Speaker C: Yeah, definitely. 100%. Yeah. I'm not like, like reporting on every little thing I do, every minute detail of my day to somebody, you know, I'm not getting everybody else's. I'm not constantly looking at it. I'm not going to like, get my phone out to call one person, see a notification about something else, check in on that, completely forget to call the person, put my phone back away, walk away and go, oh, my God, I forgot. [00:23:36] Speaker A: You're more present, you're more in the moment. Right? Yeah. You think you'll stay with it? [00:23:40] Speaker C: I think so. [00:23:41] Speaker A: Really? [00:23:41] Speaker C: Yeah. I don't see why I should go back now at this point. [00:23:46] Speaker A: All right, so Acaster was great. You, you love the show. Heather enjoyed it. [00:23:50] Speaker B: It's only 70 minutes. [00:23:52] Speaker A: 70 minutes you were out of there. [00:23:53] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:23:54] Speaker A: Who opened? Any openers? [00:23:56] Speaker B: He introduces himself. [00:23:58] Speaker A: Okay. [00:23:59] Speaker B: It's funny because when we had him come to the lodge, he was. Did I already say this? He was hyper specific about it's going to be my. [00:24:08] Speaker A: Did he have a rider what he wanted in the dressing room? [00:24:11] Speaker B: Yeah, no, no, not so much that what was funny is he. He went to DiGiorno's or somewhere. No, no, that. What's the famous pizza place? [00:24:20] Speaker C: Giordano's. [00:24:20] Speaker B: Giordano's. And then he got the shits from it. So he had to spend most of the pre show shitting. Yeah. In. In the thing. And then the only problem was, was the toilet is out in the corridor. So he had to keep going past. [00:24:33] Speaker A: Oh, seeing all the fans. [00:24:34] Speaker B: Yeah. Seeing all these fans. Toilet sprints to the toilet to lay some cable was not good. He was not happy about that. And then he had this rider that it had to be his specific music played. And so his agent said, don't worry, he'll give you a phone or an iPad, ipod to play it. And I thought, you know what? We're getting people who've never been to the Lincoln Lodge before. I'm going to do my amusing video color, you know, my amusing video clips that we play. [00:25:04] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:25:05] Speaker B: And I thought this could be risky. You know, he's hyper specific. [00:25:09] Speaker A: That. [00:25:09] Speaker B: Yeah, I thought it. He's not gonna see it because he's. He's not coming. [00:25:13] Speaker C: Not out there. [00:25:13] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:25:14] Speaker B: So I played him anyway. And then when he talked to someone in the audience, the person in the audience goes, those clips that were before the show were hilarious. And my face just was like, they. [00:25:28] Speaker A: Clips of him? [00:25:29] Speaker B: No, no, no clip, like funny. Yeah. And he goes, what funny clips? And the woman's like, the funny clips with the. The stuff and whatever. They were really funny. [00:25:38] Speaker A: They were his. [00:25:39] Speaker B: Yeah. And he's. He's just like. I could tell on stage. Yeah. His brain signed like clips. [00:25:46] Speaker C: What? [00:25:47] Speaker B: And I thought, oh, man, this is going to end badly at the end of this. But he got away with it. Something else happened that distracted him. [00:25:55] Speaker A: So for this show, you didn't reach out to him and say, hey, I'm coming to the show or anything? No. [00:25:59] Speaker B: No one gives a toss about old Marky boy. [00:26:02] Speaker A: I don't think so. I don't think that's true at all. [00:26:05] Speaker B: I don't know. But yeah, it was very good. And it was. He just hit himself. Extremely appreciative, you know, hyped crowd. The funny thing is Heather missed the first two minutes, you know, because there's always a big cue for the women's bog and that. That it's a bog toilet. [00:26:23] Speaker A: Never heard that. [00:26:24] Speaker B: The British talk. The first two minutes was absolutely critical because that's when he said he was a tribute act and it was. Yeah. So then he goes down this whole like meta rabbit hole. And she said she spent first half hour sitting there going, what? What? I don't get this. Like, what are you saying? Because she missed that. Absolutely. Key piece of information. [00:26:49] Speaker A: Lesson learned. He'll be in the bog at the. [00:26:51] Speaker C: Beginning of any show means a lot of other people did too. There was a line, you know, at that time because he, he. He had been dozens of confused people. [00:26:58] Speaker B: Yeah, he had a name like he called himself the name that he'd introd. So she kept going, who's this Chris Simpson guy? Like when he was talking. Oh, dear. [00:27:12] Speaker A: Well, I know nothing of this man's act and I hope you choose him next time when you have your opportunity to choose who's choosing today. [00:27:21] Speaker C: It's. It's you. It is me. [00:27:22] Speaker A: Yeah. Okay. And we'll get to that. [00:27:23] Speaker C: It is I. [00:27:25] Speaker A: All right, well, we had a good weekend. [00:27:27] Speaker C: What? What? [00:27:27] Speaker A: Anything else? You know, Super Bowl. I'm waiting for you guys to say. [00:27:32] Speaker C: Sorry your team lost. [00:27:33] Speaker A: Mark texting me throughout the game that how bad the team is always nice. [00:27:37] Speaker B: That was so boring. I kind of hold you responsible for how boring that game was. [00:27:43] Speaker A: How am I responsible? [00:27:44] Speaker B: Because you're a New England Patriots fan. You. You could have interviewed. [00:27:49] Speaker A: Yeah, it was an awful game. Objectively. Awful. [00:27:53] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:27:53] Speaker C: Right. It was just a boring game. It was just boring. Just field goals. Every time. Field goals. [00:27:57] Speaker A: Yeah. No action. [00:27:59] Speaker B: Really? [00:28:00] Speaker A: No action. [00:28:00] Speaker C: Plural. Field goals. Following. [00:28:02] Speaker B: I mean like the Patriots had those two like out of nowhere touchdowns. But I mean, you think about it, right? If they end have coughed up the one touchdown and then they got their touchdown, they would have been five. [00:28:20] Speaker A: They could have been in it many different. [00:28:21] Speaker C: There was a moment where. Yeah, I was thinking, hey, all right, it's still a game. You know, I was trying to reassure some of my Patriots fans friends. [00:28:28] Speaker A: Oh, that's. I say you're reassuring your. Your friends from him. I'm getting just, you know, dirt thrown in the eye. [00:28:34] Speaker C: Yeah, well, they made. [00:28:34] Speaker A: During the game. That's not nice. [00:28:36] Speaker C: They made all. [00:28:37] Speaker A: A 12 year old would do that. [00:28:38] Speaker B: But you did wear. He. You did wear the Bills. [00:28:41] Speaker C: I did wear my Bills shirt, yes. Nobody. Nobody gave a. Nobody even cared. Nobody even said anything about it. Nobody asked me why. I know. Nobody asked me. Nobody. [00:28:51] Speaker A: You were wanting them to like, ask me about my bills. [00:28:53] Speaker C: They noticed. Yeah. [00:28:55] Speaker B: It's not even a modern one. It's like 1988. You think that would pique their interest? Why the hell have you got a 1988 one? [00:29:04] Speaker C: No, they got their phones in their hands. [00:29:06] Speaker A: That's the thing. [00:29:07] Speaker C: When you hang out with comics a lot of times you don't really have to worry about what you're saying too much because they're only going to listen to the first three words anyway before they're looking at their phone and they're not listening to anything you're saying. Anyway. [00:29:17] Speaker A: They don't care. Completely self absorbed. [00:29:20] Speaker C: No idea what's going on. [00:29:21] Speaker A: Yeah. Even when you're talking now? I'm just thinking. [00:29:23] Speaker C: Right, you're thinking about what you're gonna say next. [00:29:26] Speaker A: Paying attention at all. Well, that was disappointing. But not all was bad. On Super Bowl Sundays, I spent the entire day before kickoff at the Russian bathhouse, naked. [00:29:38] Speaker C: Oh, nice. Which one? [00:29:40] Speaker A: Sweating with My Children. The Red Square. I don't think it's called that anymore. But the one on Division. [00:29:47] Speaker C: Okay. Yeah, I've been wanting to go. The one on Cicero. [00:29:50] Speaker A: That's a good one. Is it Sweat Lodge? Yeah, it's very good. You ever go to the Russian bath? Yeah. No. [00:29:55] Speaker B: No. [00:29:55] Speaker A: Have you been to. [00:29:56] Speaker C: No, I want to. I've, like. I've meant to go dozens of times and just haven't. It's right up the street from me. [00:30:02] Speaker A: You're over there. [00:30:02] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:30:03] Speaker B: I'm not that comfortable with my own nudity, let alone. [00:30:06] Speaker A: Well, you don't have to have your hog out or anything. You can wrap it up, you know. Some guys wear bathing suits. My kids are in there. It's a little awkward with the kids, you know. [00:30:14] Speaker C: Sure. [00:30:16] Speaker A: But they like it. [00:30:17] Speaker B: Yeah. Is it like you imagine it's going to be like it is in, like, where they go to the bathhouse in Blues Brothers. [00:30:23] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:30:24] Speaker B: Like a bunch of hairy old men. Yeah. Sitting there with towels. Yeah. I can't believe they let them smoke a cigar in the back. [00:30:31] Speaker A: No, they don't smoke in there, but yeah, there's a lot of nudity. There's a lot of men doing, like, hitting each other with leaves and branches and stuff like that and like soaping each other's asses up. [00:30:44] Speaker B: It's very homoerotic that deals going down. The deal probably. [00:30:49] Speaker A: I'm not aware. [00:30:50] Speaker B: People. [00:30:51] Speaker A: Yeah. I don't know. Yeah. A lot of Russian mob in there. [00:30:54] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:30:55] Speaker C: My good friend John Becker has this hilarious story. He went to Japan and he went to some sort of, like, bath house like that. Right. And he's a very tall white guy with a big red beard. So he's already getting a lot of looks as he's walking around in there. A lot of people. A lot of people paying attention to him. And he gets to the end and there's all these, like, little baths that you're supposed to get in, like individual baths, you know? And like, they have, like. They have Japanese writing, but also symbols for people that don't read Japanese, you know. And this one, it's kind of ambiguous as to what it is. And he's noticing nobody's really getting in it, so he figures he'll give it a try. So he gets in it and he noticed this guy kind of hurts, you know, he's thinking, like, this is weird now everybody's really paying attention to him. And it turns out in this particular bath, there's an electric current going through the water. [00:31:40] Speaker B: What? [00:31:41] Speaker C: And so it's like, for, like the true. Like, badasses, who knows, you know? But like nobody. Not like even like the old men that go all the time. They were looking at him like, you are out of your mind if you're getting that bad. [00:31:52] Speaker B: It's for muscle damage. [00:31:53] Speaker C: It's gotta be right. He said he spent like half an hour in there. [00:31:57] Speaker A: You can do the same thing if you want it. [00:31:58] Speaker C: Oh, me? [00:31:59] Speaker A: Draw yourself a bath, and then while you're in it, you drop a toaster in it. You'll get the same kind of current. Try it, Mark, you get home. [00:32:07] Speaker C: Or a hairdryer. Like that movie. What, drop a hairdryer? Yeah. [00:32:13] Speaker A: Well, yeah, the. The. You know, I've been to the King Spa out in Niles. Have you been there? [00:32:18] Speaker C: No. Oh, you and the Mrs. [00:32:20] Speaker A: Both your Mrs. Yeah. It's a. It's a co ed experience there. Like, unlike the Russian bath. And it's bizarre. It's a bizarre thing. They make you get nude. [00:32:30] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:32:30] Speaker A: Like, you to enter the spot, you have to go through this bath part where tubs. And you've got to be nude. You can't wear any kind of suit or anything. Kind of COVID No. [00:32:39] Speaker C: You can't wear a tuxedo. [00:32:40] Speaker A: No. Can't wear anything. Covers your genitalia. They want your genitalia out. [00:32:45] Speaker B: Oh, God. [00:32:45] Speaker C: And you're all just walking around with each other. [00:32:48] Speaker A: Yep. [00:32:48] Speaker C: Wow. [00:32:49] Speaker A: Yep. [00:32:51] Speaker B: Bizarre. [00:32:52] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:32:52] Speaker B: You know, in post war England, no one had. Generally had an indoor toilet or. [00:33:01] Speaker A: Post war. [00:33:02] Speaker B: Yeah. And so they had bath places basically, on High street, where you just went to have a bath. [00:33:09] Speaker A: Why didn't people have indoor plumbing? Because the place was so torn up from the war. [00:33:13] Speaker C: Bomb to hell. [00:33:14] Speaker A: Bomb to hell. [00:33:15] Speaker B: That way. Yeah. And it was a generally poor country anyway. [00:33:18] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:33:19] Speaker B: Yeah. So I remember my nana not having an indoor toilet. We had to go to the end of the garden. Donnie. But anyway, they used to have places that. Where you just went for a bath. [00:33:29] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:33:30] Speaker B: I'm like, I wonder if you could do that. Like, that's work. [00:33:32] Speaker C: Now, this Japanese place that's what this was. Because when he was checking into his Airbnb or whatever, there's a little pamphlet. They're like, if he noticed, like, there's no. Like, there's no way to take a shower here. You know, he's like. But he looked. He figured it out. He's like, oh, everyone. So, like, the whole town was there just, like, getting their bath for the day. [00:33:48] Speaker B: I bet. I bet it's because in Japan, the houses are so small because of, you know, space. They're like, we can't have a whole goddamn room just to put this thing in. [00:33:59] Speaker C: Never mind the plumbing and all the infrastructure. [00:34:02] Speaker A: Sort of unrelated. But do you know they have a thing in Chicago where it's like a traveling bath or it's a. It's like a. Showers on wheels for, like, people in the community who don't, you know, have their own house. Yeah, they can go in there, and it's like a. A trailer truck that they shower in. And so that's pretty cool. They have that. [00:34:23] Speaker C: I was just at the. The. What do you call it? The Music Box. And they're adding another theater, I guess. Oh, yes. Oh, yes. [00:34:30] Speaker B: Do you know how much money they. [00:34:31] Speaker C: Got, given how much it was, like, from the city? [00:34:34] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. It's phenomenal. And obviously we're now vying for it. And I think Kelsey told me it was phenomenal amount of money. [00:34:45] Speaker C: We're talking millions. [00:34:46] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. [00:34:47] Speaker A: One point something, I think. Jesus. [00:34:49] Speaker B: Yeah, I guess I imagine what they're gonna give the. What's it up the road? [00:34:52] Speaker C: Turbo Taco. [00:34:54] Speaker B: Yeah, no, the one Congress. Congress. They're just voting on that. [00:34:59] Speaker C: Oh, are they? [00:35:00] Speaker B: Because I get the alderman's letter, and he said they're voting on whether to. [00:35:04] Speaker A: Give him the big, big bucks. [00:35:05] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:35:06] Speaker A: I'm surprised the city has that kind of money to throw around. [00:35:10] Speaker C: Yeah. But the Music Box has their restrooms out in a trailer in the back right now. Oh, really? Yeah, while they build the new space, because I guess they had to knock down some of their bathrooms or something. So they just got two. Yeah. Two trailers set up, and you just. You walk outside, and they got a little heater in the garden in the back area. But, you know, when you walk in and the bars to your left and the theaters are all in front of you. [00:35:29] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:35:30] Speaker C: You go to the bar area, you walk back through that hallway where there are two bathrooms where they used to be. Yeah, but those. Those are still there. But now there's a door beyond that that leads to the additional bathrooms that used to be on the other side of the building. [00:35:42] Speaker B: Yeah. And that's where they used to do the outdoor movies after co. Yeah. [00:35:47] Speaker C: Okay. [00:35:47] Speaker A: Yeah, they still did them this summer. [00:35:49] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:35:51] Speaker A: All right, well, we're here to talk about a comedian, are we not? [00:35:54] Speaker B: How many minutes are we at? [00:35:55] Speaker A: 50. [00:35:55] Speaker C: We're at 41. [00:35:57] Speaker B: And as we. I had to spend 10 minutes editing last week's episode. We all three of us made a faux pas that had to be edited out. [00:36:08] Speaker C: Really? [00:36:08] Speaker B: So we gotta watch our P's and Q's. [00:36:10] Speaker C: I've already said six offensive things. [00:36:12] Speaker B: I'm not. I'm not spending 10 minutes editing this. [00:36:15] Speaker A: All right. No, no, you know, let it rip. Let it rip. All right. Mark last week had had trouble choosing between three comedians. He was gonna either choose Kevin Hart, Taylor Tomlinson, or Shane Gillis. And after much consternation. Is that the right word? Deliberation. He chose Shane Gillis. And when we walked out of here, Christian and I had a little sidebar, like, who did you want. Want him to choose? I'm glad he chose Gillis. I don't want to see here. Have to watch Kevin Hart or whatever. So we were both glad you chose Shane Gillis. [00:36:48] Speaker C: The other one, though, Taylor Tom. That one. I wasn't objected to. Kevin Hart. I don't want to watch. [00:36:53] Speaker A: Yeah, we don't want to watch Kevin Hart. Why would we even think about Kevin Hart? [00:36:56] Speaker B: Because I was just like, there's. There's people who are mega stars in comedy. I haven't even seen one joke from them. [00:37:02] Speaker C: I can see. I can see a picture. [00:37:05] Speaker A: You've never seen his act before? [00:37:06] Speaker B: Never seen one joke from Kevin Hart. [00:37:09] Speaker C: I've only seen his commercials. [00:37:10] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, you've seen enough. You've seen him like Lou Rawls. Once you hear Lou, you hear it all. You've heard it all. Yeah, no, he's, you know, whatever. But I'm glad you chose Shane Gillis because I've been wanting to see this fella, hear all about him, and seen him on Saturday Night Live host, and he was awesome on Saturday Night Live as a host. And so I was really excited to see this special from 2023. [00:37:37] Speaker B: You know what? I'm not sure it is from 2023. No, it is what it said. But he was talking 2020, 2021. [00:37:45] Speaker C: It seemed like it. Yeah. [00:37:47] Speaker A: Well, he was talking when Trump was no longer in office, so it was when Biden was in office, and he's saying how much he missed Trump, so I guess so. [00:37:55] Speaker C: It was still makes sense. [00:37:56] Speaker A: 2023, Trump wasn't back in office yet. [00:37:58] Speaker B: I thought he was talking about the. He said the debates are going on right now and they had to be. [00:38:05] Speaker C: I don't think, I think, I don't. [00:38:07] Speaker A: Think I see, I think going on right now. [00:38:09] Speaker C: Right. I think I see what you're. Yeah, because I thought the same thing. I thought, oh, this is right about that time. But I don't think he actually said right now. This just happened, you know, I think he might have been talking about something that happened years ago. [00:38:22] Speaker A: Yeah, no, he was talking about how great Trump is in the debates in general. [00:38:25] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:38:28] Speaker A: So is this the most recent? Was this the. [00:38:32] Speaker B: I don't know. This just happened to be the first one that. [00:38:34] Speaker A: I think he may have something else and I think he's on tour. You know, when I drive by the Unite Center. No, he's coming there too soon. [00:38:41] Speaker B: Nick Mullen said the part of the reason this popped into my head is Nick Mullen said, oh, I was just at Madison Square Garden. Where with. Yeah, because he's mates with this guy. [00:38:52] Speaker C: Okay. [00:38:53] Speaker B: He said the week before he'd been at Madison Square Garden to see him. [00:38:56] Speaker A: When was Mullen. Was that last week? [00:38:58] Speaker B: No, last weekend before. [00:38:59] Speaker A: I missed that. I wanted to go see that. So 2023, pre Trump's second term. [00:39:09] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:39:09] Speaker A: He's in Virginia, of all places. I did the first stand up special I can ever remember being in Virginia. Where in Virginia? I don't know. Look like a small, kind of. [00:39:18] Speaker B: Didn't look it up venue. Looked a nice modern venue, though. [00:39:22] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:39:23] Speaker B: See the. Did you see the boxes? [00:39:25] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. What did you think of the intro? It was just him off stage, just standing there as they introduce him. He looks nervous. Did you notice that? I thought he looked very nervous before going on. [00:39:39] Speaker B: Now the intro kind of skated by me. [00:39:41] Speaker A: Yeah. It wasn't much of anything. [00:39:43] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah. It was just him standing there. I didn't think he looked nervous. [00:39:45] Speaker A: You didn't think so? [00:39:46] Speaker C: No, I thought, I thought he was just kind of like looked excited. [00:39:48] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. He comes on and he goes right into his act. No, no foreplay, nothing. Just right into the jokes about traveling. Other countries suck. Now, what I'd known about him was that he was controversial. He had said some either misogynistic things, some things about gays or different races that had kind of gotten him, I don't want to say blackballed, but got him fired from Saturday Night Live. Something along those lines got him fired as a writer from Saturday Night Live or cast member. I don't remember. [00:40:20] Speaker B: So I looked at it because you said, he's a MAGA guy. And I was like, wow. So I Wiki'd it before watching it, and it said he isn't really right wing, but he's got that rep now because he doesn't really care for political correctness. So I said, if you actually analyze the content, it's essentially left lean in. But he's got Todd with the right brush because he won't play the PC game. [00:40:46] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah. And so I went in with that feeling like, this guy's maga. This guy's right wing. And I don't want to say not wanting to like it, but then he goes into the material. I don't say he's. He's bashing gays and calling people with down syndrome retards and blacks. But it's pretty. Pretty right? Heavy. As he comes out of the gate, right? Like, in terms of, like, punching down a little bit. [00:41:14] Speaker C: If you're looking at it as black and white, if you're looking at it as, like, this is exactly who's it. This guy is. You know, if you're not looking at any of the parody behind, like, he. [00:41:22] Speaker A: Just said, like Mark just said, if you're not really analyzing the content, really looking at it critically, then it would just, you know, just appears that he's like an Andrew Santino. [00:41:32] Speaker C: If you read this on it, like a piece of paper, if you read what he said, it would have a whole different. [00:41:37] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:41:38] Speaker B: Out of the gate, he's like, I tell. When I'm in foreign lands, I tell him we're number one. And this is all. Yeah, like, Kid Rock coming out. I know. I was like, this is not gonna go well. Right. [00:41:49] Speaker C: But then you can tell immediately that he's kidding. Right? You know, like. Like, sure, he's saying this, and, like, he knows it's gonna get a laugh, but he doesn't actually believe America's number one. He is not actually that guy that does that. He's making fun of that kind of person that he's. [00:42:06] Speaker B: He is hard to read, though. He's like, it is. The whole time through this special, I was like, is this a parody? Is this real? Is this, like, some really clever, pandering but mocking thing going on here? Because the whole time, you just. He's, like, floating over the line. [00:42:28] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:42:29] Speaker A: Yeah. My wife would call it truth in jest. Say that's his truth and just. He really means it, but he's just joking it. Joking it away. But that's what he Means. And I would probably say that's true here. Right. [00:42:39] Speaker B: I mean, it's like when he goes, oh, you know, I went to what he was talking about going to England in Australia and there's no black people there. Which a is wrong. But then he made a joke about. Yeah. And that's. You want to go there, don't you, people, you know, to his audience. And I was like, does he mean this or is he just joking that a switch went off in people's head and he caught him out? Like, I don't know. [00:43:04] Speaker A: It reminds me of Trump himself. [00:43:06] Speaker C: Right. [00:43:08] Speaker A: I don't think Trump is necessarily, you know, it's hardcore racist that he comes off as. But like in the past week when he put out that whether he did or not, that cartoon with the Obamas is, you know, in the jungle apes or whatever, he's like Gillis. I think he's playing to his audience. Right. Trump's audience is racist for sure. And I would guess the same for Gillis and his fans. They are that and he is some of that maybe like Trump is. But I don't think he's all the way. But he's, you know, he's, he's playing to their liking. [00:43:42] Speaker B: Well, his ending bit is about turning conservative. [00:43:46] Speaker A: Yeah, he does talk about that. [00:43:47] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:43:49] Speaker A: And, God, I mean, I want to get to it later, but, like, that's the best Trump impression I've ever seen. [00:43:54] Speaker B: I do. [00:43:55] Speaker A: It's way better than the guy on Saturday Live that's doing Trump. It was incredible. [00:43:58] Speaker B: That is dead on impression. [00:44:00] Speaker A: Dead on and almost effortless. He can just break into it at any time and in and out of it. Like, you know, he could do it all day. [00:44:06] Speaker C: When, when I started watching this one, I, I realized, actually while I was searching for this one, I have seen one of his specials before. I saw the Live in Austin special. And in that special, he says, he's like, he does a Trump impression. He says, you guys, like, anyone can do it. It's not that hard. All you have to really do is just say something. Like, you just have to say something about somebody and then talk about you saying it. You know, you'd be like, like, Bill over here has got a great hat. You know, he walked in, I said to myself, that guy's got a great hat. You know, of course, his voice and everything. [00:44:38] Speaker A: He's got a great hat. [00:44:39] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah. [00:44:40] Speaker B: So that's the language part of it. [00:44:42] Speaker C: That's the language part of it. [00:44:43] Speaker B: He's got. [00:44:43] Speaker C: He's got. Yeah. And which I'm not going to attempt. [00:44:46] Speaker B: He's got the voice and the K. I mean, if you don't see it's him, you could almost go, that is Trump talking. [00:44:52] Speaker A: Well, lots of people have the voice and the cadence. [00:44:54] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, yeah, but he has the. [00:44:55] Speaker A: Voice and the cadence. And what you're saying, Christian, that he. [00:44:57] Speaker B: He can. [00:44:58] Speaker A: What he's saying is exactly the things that Trump says. [00:45:01] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:45:01] Speaker A: The content is exactly like him. He's nailed it. It's about, honestly, the best I've ever seen. Okay, so, yeah. So he starts off with this kind of material about guns and, you know, mass shootings and American number one. Other countries suck. And I'm like, oof. This is. This is more MAGA than I even thought. Right. But then as this goes on, right, Then I start to think, like, well, maybe, you know, he is liberal at heart or more liberal at heart, or he is somewhat in the middle. He comes more to the middle as the set goes on. And then when he gets away from some of that stuff, like the, you know, the political stuff. [00:45:43] Speaker B: Right. [00:45:43] Speaker A: Because he does quite a bit of it in the racial stuff. And when he starts talking about relationships, then he's. Then I'm starring everything. He's hitting the sweet spot, like, following that Navy seal, you know, into bed. Right. Like, this is brilliant. I thought he did the. The dirty stuff was amazing. And I like. And I do like that stuff, but, like, I thought he did that. Amazing. [00:46:11] Speaker B: He lost me a little bit. The. The thing that I. He really just got the dirty bit. I was not. I was like, ah, come on. Like, I'm not digging this at all. [00:46:23] Speaker A: The dirty stuff. [00:46:23] Speaker B: Like, when he just got really dirty. [00:46:26] Speaker A: I mean, about the squirting. [00:46:27] Speaker B: Squirting and coming in the woman's face and blah, blah, blah. Yeah. I'm too old for this now. Like. [00:46:33] Speaker A: Okay. [00:46:34] Speaker B: But I'm not gonna say it was. It wasn't gratuitous. It's just not for me. [00:46:38] Speaker A: No. Because it. It wasn't. He did dirty for a little bit of time, and then he got out of it. Right. It shows his range. [00:46:46] Speaker B: And is this the thing now? The whole. Women don't want to be here. [00:46:53] Speaker A: Wrote that down. Stuart Lee ripoff. [00:46:55] Speaker B: And. And then we had. Kyle was doing. [00:46:57] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:46:58] Speaker B: At the Mullen thing. I was like, is this just a whole movement now? Kyle who. [00:47:02] Speaker C: No, I think it's just coincidence. I think it's just. [00:47:05] Speaker B: I was like, that guy. What, is this gonna be a standalone? Yeah, yeah, yeah. [00:47:10] Speaker A: He went up at the Mullen thing. [00:47:11] Speaker B: Yeah. And it's the same thing. Like, Mullen is a very sort of bro. Ish comedian. And he said, there's a lot of women in here who don't want to be. Yeah, like. And I was like. Because I turned to him, I go, that's the Stuart Lee bit. [00:47:24] Speaker A: Like, that's exactly what I thought when he said that too. They got dragged. [00:47:28] Speaker C: I think it's linear thinking, you know. [00:47:31] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:47:31] Speaker C: Like, Stuart Lee might have. He might have been the first person to maybe say it out loud, you know, in that sort of like in front of a whole bunch of people while I was recording. But I'm sure there's. Especially now when people have a podcast and stuff like that. You're like half. You don't want to be here. I know that. [00:47:45] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, yeah. [00:47:50] Speaker A: So what about the George Washington bit? Did you like that? [00:47:52] Speaker B: That was. Yes, that was awesome. [00:47:55] Speaker C: That was incredible. Yeah. [00:47:58] Speaker A: Visiting Mount Vernon. Just the visual of George Washington, this big six foot two redhead, fighting the British. Like. [00:48:08] Speaker B: Yeah, it was great. The one observation I have is I hate this. This both hands over and the mug that go like the. Am I joking? He keeps doing that. Yeah, but am I joking? [00:48:21] Speaker A: Yeah, he's smiling, laughing at his jokes throughout. He's doing that. [00:48:25] Speaker B: He keeps clasping his hands like this. [00:48:28] Speaker A: Well, that's how he holds the mic. [00:48:29] Speaker B: Yeah, I know that. [00:48:30] Speaker A: Right. Could you think of anyone that holds the mic like that? [00:48:32] Speaker B: There is someone. And the whole time I'm thinking, who do I know who does that? [00:48:36] Speaker A: Well, I think. I think Beth Stelling holds the mic like that too. [00:48:40] Speaker B: Might. Yeah, maybe It's a common thing. And I just this. [00:48:43] Speaker A: I can't remember anyone other than her, I think, and I'm not even sure that she does it. Holds the mic quite like that. [00:48:49] Speaker B: I mean, he would hold it in his left hand and then he would. His right hand would be. But then he. The right hand would always come back. [00:48:56] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:48:57] Speaker B: To rest. [00:48:57] Speaker A: Yep. Yeah. [00:48:59] Speaker C: And he would scratch his shoulder a lot. You notice that you tug in his shirt a little bit. [00:49:03] Speaker B: Yeah, I think it was too tight, though. It looked a bit. A bit tight on him. [00:49:09] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:49:09] Speaker A: He's pulling it off his belly a little bit. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He did do a lot of that. Where he holds the mike mill and his hands come out like this. His hands come out like this. And at first I didn't like it. And at first I thought, this guy doesn't seem very good. Just from, you know, a comedian's like, craft perspective. Not that I'm any kind of authority on it, but then I thought this is just. This is all his. It's unique to him. His delivery, his casualness. I just thought was. Was awesome. Like, he was, you know, he wasn't trying to fit any kind of mold of how he should perform or how he should deliver the jokes that were just completely. I don't know if it's honest, but it was completely his own. I thought it was great. [00:49:52] Speaker B: I like the bit. If you see this joke, then I want an argument. But I didn't get the joke that he. [00:49:57] Speaker A: Then I didn't get the joke either, really. [00:49:59] Speaker B: There was one word that, you know. [00:50:01] Speaker A: What we're talking about. [00:50:02] Speaker C: Yeah. What was the joke, though? [00:50:04] Speaker B: I was hoping one of you two would explain it to me because I was so wrapped up in that this is going to be an amazingly offensive joke that he did it. And I never got the joke. [00:50:16] Speaker A: Yeah, I don't remember it, and I don't have it written down either. But I did. I did kind of, like, figure it out. And then I was like, well, it's not that funny. [00:50:24] Speaker C: Yeah, it's. It's. That's the thing. Yeah. It wasn't really that funny of a joke. It was just. [00:50:28] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:50:29] Speaker C: Like, I think the joke was more. Is the joke gonna be in here? But, yeah. [00:50:33] Speaker A: And if it's in here. [00:50:34] Speaker C: Right. And. But then everybody laughed so hard at it. He immediately said he had won the argument. I thought he meant, like, with the, you know, executive producers later on or whoever. Yeah. You know, or Netflix, but, you know, whoever, like, keeping it. But yeah, but how could he know he won the argument just because everybody laughed, you know, that. That doesn't particularly mean you won the argument. [00:50:54] Speaker B: Yeah, well, maybe he meant if everyone laughed really hard, then not being right. [00:50:58] Speaker C: Exactly. [00:50:58] Speaker B: But you just. So you just delivered the win. [00:51:03] Speaker A: So one of the things I was thinking about during the special was not how I feel about it, but how would someone that's black gay has some kind of mental challenge feel watching this? Right. Would they be offended? I'm not easily offended. Right. Although as he came out, I was like, oh, but I think I see his true colors as the. The set goes on. But how would somebody in one of. [00:51:31] Speaker B: Those groups feel funny? Because I was thinking that as well. [00:51:33] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:51:34] Speaker A: Like, would you be really offended or turned off by this guy? [00:51:37] Speaker B: I think. I think that I was expressing an opinion here would be offensive in and of itself, but I'm going to do it anyway. I think a black guy would probably not be offended by him, but maybe a black woman would. I don't know that was this. Because I was thinking exactly the same thing as you. I was thinking, yeah, how's this going to go? [00:52:07] Speaker A: Yeah, he's definitely coming from the good old boy network vantage point here. Right. Like, and the things he says about black guys aren't that offensive. Like, they have big penises or whatever. And my favorite joke of all the jokes was how women aren't threatened by. By his penis or whatever, unless he's in a parking lot. [00:52:32] Speaker B: Right. [00:52:32] Speaker A: And hiding behind a pillar. And he did like a. You know. Yeah, thanks. And he's holding a GameStop bag. [00:52:42] Speaker B: Amazing. [00:52:42] Speaker A: Yeah. Holding a GameStop bag in a fucking parking lot. So I didn't think that those things were necessarily offensive, but I think more so towards gays, I think it was a little bit more offensive. And he gives himself license to talk about people with down syndrome because he has a family member, Uncle Donnie, which was funny jokes. But like you said earlier, he's really just floating over the line and back and forth. And maybe that's, you know, where a lot of people find good comedy. Lace is right over that line, and you go back and you go forth. We've had other comedians who did that. I can't remember exactly who did that. Whereas some comedians, like Chappelle, they just blast over the line and they're like, fucking deal with it. I'm doing it. And, you know, you can like it or not. [00:53:31] Speaker B: I have $50 million deal. I don't have to worry about what you think. [00:53:35] Speaker A: Yeah. And other comedians, they don't even go near the line. Right. They stay well behind it. Here he is floating over the dmz, right? Back and forth, you know, the whole time. Sort of brave, I guess, in a way. [00:53:49] Speaker C: I think, to answer your question about who I think would be offended or not, he kind of talks in a way that you hear comedians talk to other comedians when they're all in the room together. Like when they're in the green room before. Yeah, yeah. Sitting at the bar, you know, when it is black, white, gay, straight, like, whoever's there, like, everyone's joking with each other. And it seems like he's just kind of figured out, like, these things have made everybody laugh, you know, no matter what their background is. Like, in my circle of people that I know, these have made everybody I know laugh. Therefore, it makes the common people laugh. And I can then craft this whole show around that. [00:54:29] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:54:29] Speaker C: So I think just from that vantage point, I'm sure there. There are plenty of people, I'm sure, that have been offended by his Material. But I think the people that haven't may have figured out that this guy's. This guy's coming from a place of just kind of like we're all just shooting the shit here. Yeah, that's the impression that I got. [00:54:48] Speaker A: Yeah. And that, you know, he's just trying to find what's funny. But he's not who I'm trying to think of a comedian who is equal opportunity, taking shots at everybody. He's not really taking shots at everybody. [00:54:59] Speaker C: No. [00:54:59] Speaker A: He's taking shots at marginalized groups. [00:55:01] Speaker C: Right. [00:55:02] Speaker A: And I haven't liked that with, you know, the string of comedians that we looked at for a while there with Santino and. [00:55:09] Speaker B: No, he does. Do you know white men are idiots bits, though. Yeah, I think. [00:55:14] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah. [00:55:16] Speaker B: And he talked, you know, with the whole Washington thing, he's talking about. Yeah. I feel like a piece of shit, you know, because I'm listening to this, and so I don't think he's. He's punching up and down, which I guess is like, what do you do when someone's punching up and punching down? It's hard. Yeah. You can't. To go after him. [00:55:38] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah. I didn't feel like he was punching all around as much as some, you know, some others, but. But, yeah, you're right. He did take shots at it in his own white. [00:55:51] Speaker B: Yeah. White people aren't cool. [00:55:53] Speaker A: Shortcomings. Yeah. Yeah. Which is like. Yeah, they're not cool. Yeah. That's why. I mean, it's kind of almost gratuitous punching. They're not real punches. You know what I mean? [00:56:03] Speaker B: Yeah. No, no. [00:56:04] Speaker A: Whereas the other ones feel more real. [00:56:05] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:56:09] Speaker A: But. Yeah, so I think he shows great range in terms of the material. I think the material he did was, though, at times offensive and uncomfortable for some, maybe even me, at times was more middle of the road. Right. So I'm interested. To think. Just think. To see what you guys think in the end, whether you really liked it or not. [00:56:40] Speaker C: Is that what we're doing now? [00:56:43] Speaker B: Are we going on to the. The judge? We're going on to the judgment. [00:56:47] Speaker A: Well, I'm. Look, I don't. I mean, I don't. There's nothing else. [00:56:50] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:56:51] Speaker A: You know that. You know that I can see the needs churning out here. So. Yeah, I mean, I'm almost. I've been wishy washy about how I feel about a special or whatever, but I'm wishy washy about how I feel about this guy. [00:57:11] Speaker C: Right. [00:57:11] Speaker A: And I don't. And I've never been, like, in A position of being. Like. I don't necessarily want to say this. [00:57:18] Speaker C: Right. [00:57:19] Speaker A: In terms of what I. Whether I like him or not. Like, he's. All right, I'll go first. It was your special. You can go last. What do we. What's the rating scale? [00:57:31] Speaker C: How many coughs? [00:57:33] Speaker A: How many what? [00:57:34] Speaker C: Coughs. He talks about coughing during sex. How many T shirts. [00:57:38] Speaker A: That was so good. [00:57:39] Speaker C: Like, yeah, I like the callback to that. [00:57:41] Speaker A: His material about, you know, making love and breathing in her ear and belly to belly sound and all that stuff was to me so good. How many coughs? How many. How many squirts? How many. Beautiful dogs? That was the name of the special. [00:58:03] Speaker B: Calling back to the name of the special. [00:58:05] Speaker A: I thought that was really good how he. He ended with the name of the special. [00:58:09] Speaker B: Right. [00:58:10] Speaker A: Usually it's in there somewhere. [00:58:11] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:58:12] Speaker A: But it kind of ends with the. Because you're like, why is this called Beautiful Dog? [00:58:15] Speaker C: Yeah, right. [00:58:16] Speaker A: The Beautiful Dogs. [00:58:17] Speaker C: That was so good. [00:58:18] Speaker A: That was so good. [00:58:19] Speaker B: Why don't we do it on a scale of small dog to large dog then? So the larger the dog breed, the more you like. [00:58:27] Speaker A: Did he do a bit about that? [00:58:29] Speaker B: No, but I'm just trying to tie your dogs in. [00:58:31] Speaker A: Okay. All right, I'm gonna give this. Out of four dogs. [00:58:37] Speaker C: Large. [00:58:38] Speaker B: We're just doing. Counting dogs. [00:58:40] Speaker A: Yeah. Four dogs out of four dogs. I'm gonna give it three dogs. Three dogs and one little dog. So like three and a half dogs. Three. Three and a half. I just. [00:58:53] Speaker B: Three and a half dog night, as it were. [00:58:56] Speaker A: Yeah. I think this guy's very original. [00:59:00] Speaker C: I got it. [00:59:02] Speaker A: Not just material, but in how he. How he delivers and. [00:59:06] Speaker C: And. [00:59:08] Speaker A: Yeah. Why? I feel dirty saying it. Or ashamed. [00:59:11] Speaker C: Like, I feel like I can tell you you won't even look up from the ground. Yeah. [00:59:15] Speaker A: Like I feel ashamed. Like I'm. I'm admitting to being a racist or something by liking Shane Gillis. But I just. I really think he's funny. That's the set. I just think he's funny. And yes, he is at times offensive, but it's funny. [00:59:36] Speaker C: Wasn't our rating system last week out of dogs too? [00:59:40] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, it was. Because he said dog, dog. We need a new one then. How many GameStop bags? [00:59:47] Speaker C: How many GameStop bags? That's two bags. I was also gonna do half a dog, and I was gonna this time say the front half of the dog. [00:59:53] Speaker A: Say whatever you want. [00:59:54] Speaker C: Last time I said it. The back half. [00:59:55] Speaker A: No, I'm giving it. I'm giving it. Not our highest marks, but yeah. I really enjoyed it. [01:00:00] Speaker C: And, yeah, I laughed out loud. Kind of gonna just second you on that the whole time. I like. [01:00:07] Speaker A: He. [01:00:08] Speaker C: He had me. This was a very high laugh ratio for me. This special. [01:00:11] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:00:12] Speaker C: Simply not even necessarily because of the material itself. Definitely because of the material, but. Or the joke writing. But also it just reminded me so much of some of the people that I hang out with in the way that they talk. Like, I was talking about the comics, you know, like, in the green room or whatever, or like, sitting around here. When I used to work open mic nights, the comics that would sit around at the bar and just, like, you know, after their open mics and just talk, you know, and try to make each other laugh. He was very much. That sort of cadence and that sort of thing, you know, I'm all in that. You know, I'll listen. It's like talking to a buddy, you know, See how I give it three and a half gamestop bags. [01:00:48] Speaker A: Okay. [01:00:48] Speaker C: And the last bag is the bottom half so that your package still stays in. It's not the top, so that it falls out. [01:00:54] Speaker A: Okay. Thank you for clarifying that. So far, our periods are aligned or deodorants are aligned. [01:01:02] Speaker C: We've got our coconuts in a row. [01:01:04] Speaker A: Lined up with three and a half. Yeah. [01:01:07] Speaker B: So I'm gonna be honest, I'm struggling to still now decide what I think of it. [01:01:12] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:01:13] Speaker B: I just can't decide whether I. I know that I laughed big time at some times. Yeah. [01:01:19] Speaker A: But why does it feel wrong? I don't know the Christian Express that. [01:01:22] Speaker B: But it feels. [01:01:23] Speaker A: Something feels off. [01:01:26] Speaker B: I think it's like, you know, we live in this binary world now. Right. It is either bad or it's God. Yeah. And with him, we all have the same feeling of, like, yeah, there was some bits here. There was some. There was some. There was some kibble in the bits, as it were. Like. And when I'd finished watching it, I was almost going, what the. What do I think of that? [01:01:51] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:01:51] Speaker B: So I'm the same as you. I mean, I'm just gonna say three out of four bags because I laughed enough and there wasn't in the. This thing isn't flawed enough to say it isn't good. [01:02:04] Speaker A: No, but just from a. So just from a craft perspective, just looking at a comedian's craft, where would you rate that? Forget the material as much as you can. I know it's hard to do that. [01:02:14] Speaker B: But craft wise, he's immaculate. He knows he. [01:02:17] Speaker A: But he's not, like, tight. It's not a tight. He's kind of. [01:02:21] Speaker B: No, but it isn't about sloppy. It isn't about being tight. It's about being on your own frequency. [01:02:28] Speaker A: Yeah, that he is. [01:02:29] Speaker C: Speaking of which, and not to interrupt your voting, but he did improvise for a little while there, didn't he? I forgot to bring this up before he. He like kind of went off. He. He thought of something mid joke and went off on that for a little while and kind of improvised this whole scene of, of whatever. Like whatever path he was going down. And everybody then was realizing, oh, this isn't part of the routine tonight. Like, this is. [01:02:51] Speaker A: Was it when somebody yelled out Nazis or something when he, he was talking about. [01:02:55] Speaker C: I don't think I heard somebody yell out Nazis. But no, it was something about. It was, it was about, oh, that's what we should do, dude. We should have somebody. We should have somebody on like SEAL Team six just go in and jerk somebody off. And then it was the whole thing about like getting jerked off in your bed and then flying off and the guy being like, hey, you made me. [01:03:12] Speaker A: Yeah, that was great. [01:03:13] Speaker C: Come. That whole thing, I think, was improvised. [01:03:15] Speaker A: You think so? [01:03:16] Speaker C: Yeah, because he. I think he just on the spot thought of it and just like, you know, went through the whole scene and was like, all right, anyway, back to what I was saying. [01:03:25] Speaker B: A really good comedian could make that seem improvised. [01:03:28] Speaker C: Yeah, that's what I mean. I think he was like, he, he has the chops. He just like right there, live on the same. [01:03:32] Speaker B: He. He could have been doing that night. [01:03:34] Speaker C: I understand that. Yeah. Like, yeah, he could have been faking the improvisation. Yeah, I just. I don't know. I. I thought at first. I thought at first he was faking the improvisation. And at the end I was convinced that he wasn't. [01:03:44] Speaker B: Okay. [01:03:46] Speaker A: I remember the bit I thought was improvised when he was talking about armies being gay and how much scarier would be if Vikings were gay or whatever. And somebody goes, you're Nazis. And then he said, Nazis. Yeah, yeah. As if, you know, they would be even more sharp dressed or something. Yeah, but I didn't think, I didn't. [01:04:06] Speaker C: I didn't know that somebody yelled Nazis at that point. Yeah, I didn't hear that. [01:04:09] Speaker B: And someone yelled nerd when he was talking about. Yeah, history as well. [01:04:13] Speaker C: Right. [01:04:14] Speaker B: But he didn't really run with that. So anyway, three out of four. It's just. It's weird. It's weird to watch something and still think you don't know how you feel about it. [01:04:24] Speaker A: Yeah, well, I mean, in, in other Art. You feel that way sometimes, don't you, when you watch a movie, you're like, yeah, I don't know. That something. I don't know how I feel about that movie. Don't you? [01:04:32] Speaker B: I don't have that sort of breadth of character to be like that. [01:04:37] Speaker A: Okay. [01:04:37] Speaker B: I'm very binary. Yeah. [01:04:40] Speaker C: I knew exactly how I felt when it ended. That was a great special. I left really hard. [01:04:45] Speaker A: Yeah. I felt like that was really good, and he's really good, and I felt bad about. [01:04:52] Speaker B: I remember when we were coming up on the scene and there were a couple of comedians who I detested, who. I don't want to get into that, but they had really good material. And I used to hate myself for liking their jokes. [01:05:07] Speaker A: Because you couldn't stand them. [01:05:09] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. Did you ever have. No, because you pretty much. You were kind of snooty. You didn't really hang with the lower echelons like I did. You pretty much decided, I like this person. They're on the. They're in the circle. As I. That's how I remember you being. [01:05:27] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:05:27] Speaker A: I don't remember me being that way. Yeah, I think so. Well, not. Yeah, not. You said you liked the. The material, but not the person. Yeah, yeah, I like the. See, for me, it was kind of the opposite. I like the person. [01:05:41] Speaker C: Right. [01:05:41] Speaker A: And anybody don't like their material. And I felt bad, like. [01:05:44] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:05:45] Speaker A: You know, not being able to say anything nice about their material. [01:05:47] Speaker C: But. [01:05:50] Speaker A: Yeah, but I just wish. I wish we knew watching these specials or watching these comedians, what's improvised and what's not. If there was a way to filter that out. Because I would be so impressed with the comedians that improvise. Right. That was my thing. I just didn't like guys who churned out the same bits all the time. [01:06:07] Speaker B: I don't think there is that much improvised in him because. And we can ask Beth Sterling if we can get her in the studio. [01:06:13] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. Actual comedians. [01:06:16] Speaker B: When Netflix pays you $10 million for a special, they don't go, film whatever you want and give us it. And they go, you tell us what this special is gonna be. And then. And they hold you. [01:06:33] Speaker A: What do you mean? They want in the jokes in advance and everything, really. [01:06:36] Speaker C: But don't you think. [01:06:36] Speaker B: Don't you remember, like, what it used to be? [01:06:38] Speaker A: Because it's like a script in a movie, right? You want to see the fucking script? [01:06:41] Speaker B: Do you remember what people used to. About when they went on Letterman and stuff? They literally had to. When they auditioned for Letterman, you know, a comedian who's in. They had to deliver the same set like four or five times to all these different levels of management. And they would say, that is exactly what you're going to do when you're on this show. No deviation, no improvisation. You got to tell me, if Netflix is giving you 5 million, 10 million, whatever they're giving Shane Gillis, they ain't gonna say, we want to know exactly what it is. [01:07:15] Speaker C: Don't you think there's a huge difference there? That, like Letterman or something like that. I mean that's, you know, NBC and also live tv, you know, and it's a, it's a, it's a small five minute sort of thing, you know, so like it has to be curated perfectly. Whereas this is being filmed over the course of maybe a few nights, you know. And if something's improvised along the way and it goes well, don't you think Netflix will say, well, yeah, we don't need to edit that out. [01:07:38] Speaker A: They probably have final cut. [01:07:39] Speaker C: But. Right. Yeah, they're, it's, it's an hour long special too. You know, it's not like everything is so dialed into the second. We're has to be, you know, we. [01:07:49] Speaker B: Know enough people to ask this question. [01:07:51] Speaker C: And not let's do it. [01:07:53] Speaker A: Yeah, but we're just talking about filmed specials on Netflix because when I saw TJ this weekend, I was talking to cj, I go, that was, that was really good. Like it seemed like a lot of that improvised. How much is that of that is improvised? He said 50% probably. [01:08:10] Speaker B: Yeah, that's. [01:08:11] Speaker A: To me, that's, that's awesome. When you got a guy that's fresh, he's, he's shooting from the hip, you know, and, but he's doing his material. That's, that's the kind of comedy that I love, you know. [01:08:21] Speaker B: No, I'm not arguing it isn't good. I'm saying TV people do not. [01:08:26] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, yeah. [01:08:28] Speaker B: You worked in tv, you should know. [01:08:30] Speaker A: Not that. And not in the production level programming. [01:08:35] Speaker B: As a programmer, TV is hyper, hyper conservative. They don't want any risk. [01:08:42] Speaker A: Well, Netflix putting out that Dave Chappelle shit with all the trans material. [01:08:46] Speaker B: Yeah, they buy that. Chappelle's got them by the Jaffers. Yeah, right, the Jaffers. He's. You're not going to, he probably negotiated with them to say you're going to put out whatever I create, no matter what. Yeah. And they, they, then they're playing. [01:09:07] Speaker A: Well, he wouldn't have that kind of power. [01:09:09] Speaker B: Of course he would. [01:09:11] Speaker A: Ted Sarandos he's not letting you know Chappelle call all the shots. [01:09:17] Speaker B: I think at Chappelle level, at Shane Gillis level. You think so they probably have the power to say, well, now I'm contradicting myself because I just consider. I don't think Shane Gillis at this point has that power. [01:09:33] Speaker A: Chappelle does. [01:09:34] Speaker B: Chappelle does. [01:09:35] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:09:36] Speaker B: Because who would have. [01:09:37] Speaker A: You could take a dump in a box for 40 minutes and they'd put that out there. [01:09:41] Speaker B: He still has the biggest ever deal. Right. Whatever it was. [01:09:44] Speaker A: Yeah. I don't know. [01:09:46] Speaker B: Be interesting to know who has the power to say, you're gonna put out whatever I give you. [01:09:51] Speaker C: Yeah, but that's also very different than improvise. Improvising something and then Netflix saying that was worth putting in. You know, that's a very different decision. [01:09:59] Speaker B: Yeah, I don't know. All right. [01:10:02] Speaker A: All right. Well, speaking of programming, what is Christian programming for us next week? [01:10:08] Speaker C: Yeah, I've got a listener recommendation. [01:10:11] Speaker A: Who's the listener? [01:10:12] Speaker C: The listener is Mr. Kyle Scanlon. [01:10:15] Speaker A: The Scan Man's listening. [01:10:16] Speaker C: So, Mark, you may. You may have already heard of the pick. I have. This week it is the. The 2006 Zach Galifianakis live at the Purple Onion. [01:10:30] Speaker A: 2006. [01:10:31] Speaker C: 2006. This listener has made claims about its importance to alt comedy. I have not watched it. I'm just interested. This is one of those ones I'm interested to see on what we all think at the end. [01:10:43] Speaker B: Kyle Scanlon told me to put Rory Scoville in. I think he holds too much sway. [01:10:47] Speaker A: Oh, see? [01:10:48] Speaker B: Back. Even. Even for the fact that he's probably our only listener at this point. [01:10:52] Speaker A: No, no. [01:10:53] Speaker B: Between Kyle and your Mrs. They should basically program this. [01:10:57] Speaker A: No. And I'd like to acknowledge one of our great listeners. And back as sponsor began construction back. [01:11:06] Speaker B: On the Begain train. [01:11:07] Speaker C: Yep. [01:11:08] Speaker A: We had a little pow wow. He picked up the lunch at the Russian Bathhouse for everybody. And so he's back as a sponsor. [01:11:16] Speaker B: Paola. [01:11:17] Speaker A: Yeah, sorry. You guys aren't really getting anything yet. But if I get any more, I thought. [01:11:21] Speaker B: Actually I went. When I went in the bathroom, I thought, should I take a picture of the backsplash that I did? [01:11:27] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:11:27] Speaker B: And then you can take it. You can take it. And we can do a weekly segment. He'll probably look down the Begame Backsplash Weekly. [01:11:35] Speaker C: I don't know that. [01:11:36] Speaker A: No, no, no, no, no. He doesn't want to talk about the back. [01:11:38] Speaker C: Maybe he can review our backsplashes on his podcast. [01:11:41] Speaker A: Million Dollar Home. So he's doing million. $2 million. [01:11:44] Speaker C: Like Abba killing Abba. [01:11:45] Speaker A: No, no, backsplash stuff that we got. [01:11:48] Speaker B: In trouble with that Splash talk for a segment. [01:11:52] Speaker A: Yeah, I backsplashed. [01:11:53] Speaker B: Backsplash chat. Backsplash chat. [01:11:56] Speaker A: Back chat. [01:11:56] Speaker B: Back chat. Splash chat. [01:11:58] Speaker A: Splash chat. We'll do that after this. Splash chat. [01:12:04] Speaker C: Okay. [01:12:04] Speaker A: Well, I'm excited for Zach Alifanakis. Yeah. [01:12:07] Speaker C: I do want to apologize ahead of time. It is 90 minutes long, so you might want to watch it in two cities. I know. [01:12:12] Speaker A: I just found out we sent. Put it in the text, though, so I know exactly which one we're looking at. [01:12:15] Speaker C: I'll text you for my foot. [01:12:16] Speaker B: Actually, I think Kyler tried to get me to do that one as well, but I couldn't. I couldn't find it. I think we have the DVD in the basement. [01:12:23] Speaker A: Well, let's get the scan man in here. [01:12:24] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah, Maybe we can have him get the gunman in here. [01:12:27] Speaker A: We finally have a guest. He won't let any guests in here. [01:12:30] Speaker B: I thought we were going to try for noon. Yeah, this coming Saturday. [01:12:35] Speaker A: I'll be ready. [01:12:36] Speaker B: All right. We're gonna try, though. I'm not sure it's coming off. [01:12:40] Speaker A: Are we gonna tell her about the. That we reviewed her special? Have you already told her? [01:12:44] Speaker B: I already told her you did. [01:12:45] Speaker A: Did she listen to it? [01:12:46] Speaker B: I don't know. I highly doubt that, but. [01:12:50] Speaker A: Well, she'll be. She'll be flattered to know that we put her in, you know, the top three with that's not greats like Dave Chappelle and Adam Sandler. She bested them. [01:12:58] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:12:58] Speaker C: She gets a listen to the year in review. Oh, we are an hour and 18 minutes. [01:13:03] Speaker B: So I got a yank. 20 minutes of this. Which bit do I cut out? [01:13:07] Speaker A: Well, I don't know. [01:13:08] Speaker C: Just. How about the whole bit of us reviewing Shane Gillis? [01:13:11] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. Let's just leave all the shite in. [01:13:14] Speaker C: Leaving what you had for breakfast and. [01:13:16] Speaker B: We'Ll do two sentences on Shane Gillis. [01:13:19] Speaker A: You know what's cool that we didn't mention since we're so on and we're. We're going to an hour and a half today. The red solo cup. He carried on. Yeah. Wasn't that cool? Yeah, right. Like to, you know, is a. Well, it's like a connection with the common. [01:13:32] Speaker C: Very man of the people. [01:13:33] Speaker A: Man of the people. Red solo cup. [01:13:35] Speaker C: That's right. Great, Great song. [01:13:37] Speaker B: And also. [01:13:38] Speaker C: Oh yeah, Red solo cup. I'm surprised. I missed you. [01:13:41] Speaker B: And also the one. This is me, the one guy in the front row with the fluorescent T shirt. [01:13:46] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:13:46] Speaker B: Glowing. [01:13:47] Speaker A: Yeah, he loved it. [01:13:48] Speaker B: He was having a blast. God. Yeah, he was always that. Front row seats, fluorescent T shirt in the front row. Come on. [01:13:56] Speaker A: That whole front row was dying. I kept. Yeah, you know, they were loving it. [01:14:01] Speaker B: Yeah, they were loving it. [01:14:03] Speaker A: All right, we'll see you next week. [01:14:05] Speaker C: Ready? [01:14:09] Speaker B: Nice.