Review: Domestic Shorthair, Todd Barry

Episode 28 April 08, 2026 01:19:38
Review: Domestic Shorthair, Todd Barry
Isn't That Special
Review: Domestic Shorthair, Todd Barry

Apr 08 2026 | 01:19:38

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The always contentious subject of Apple Cider Vinegar kicks us off with discussions of service dogs and AARP membership to add further spice. This week's comedy 'review' is of the 2023 special Domestic Shorthair by Todd Barry. Currently available on Tubi or Youtube: Domestic Shorthair  .You should watch it before listening to the review. 

Theme music: El Cha Cha Man by Juanitos. Juanitos, led by Juan Naveira, is the single French rock'n'roll and soul band mixing latin soul, exotica, acid jazz, punk, vocal pop and sometimes reggae roots in the Jackie Mittoo style. They are very good.

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[00:00:09] Speaker A: Steve Gutenberg's whole career was Police Academy and Cocoon. Nothing else. [00:00:13] Speaker B: Well, Three Men and a Baby. [00:00:15] Speaker A: Oh, is he in that? [00:00:16] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, he's one of the three men. Three handsome men. [00:00:20] Speaker A: Did I tell you when I went to the. That downstairs comedy, the famous downstairs comedy club in New York, you know, the comedy seller. Yeah. Whatever it is. I must have told you this story. [00:00:32] Speaker B: Go ahead though. [00:00:34] Speaker A: Tom Hulse was there. [00:00:36] Speaker B: As a performer? [00:00:37] Speaker A: No, as a. Just sitting in the audience, like right next to the stage. Just not like. He wasn't like people going up to him. He just sat there. [00:00:45] Speaker B: He wasn't dressed as Amadeus. No. [00:00:47] Speaker A: Or anything. And virtually every performer that came up kind of would. Would look, you know, look around the crowd and then you could see them going. Is that who I think it is? Like every fucking performer. [00:01:03] Speaker B: He's a mysterious one. I mean, in terms of Hollywood, I mean, he didn't do much. [00:01:07] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:01:07] Speaker B: What he did was great, but not good looking. [00:01:09] Speaker A: So he's not your leading man. But yeah, it was weird. [00:01:15] Speaker B: He's still alive. I imagine. [00:01:16] Speaker A: Him and Gutenberg, I kind of mix up. [00:01:19] Speaker B: You think of them as contemporaries. I think they fought for some of the same roles probably, but. What? But, but Tom Holtz just dropped off the planet. Gutenberg petered around. Still around. I'm sure he's working on some. Some show, some cable. Sure. Streaming show he's probably involved in. How are you doing there? Good. Yeah. You got your Chicago dogs? [00:01:43] Speaker C: Yep. Baseball season. [00:01:45] Speaker B: When we gonna get out to a dogs game? [00:01:47] Speaker C: Yeah, definitely. [00:01:48] Speaker B: Okay. [00:01:49] Speaker C: I love them. We'll go to Wiener Wednesdays. Well, you won't eat a hot dog, I guess, but you could eat the bun. [00:01:57] Speaker A: Surely they do a vegetarian dog to make it inclusive. [00:02:01] Speaker C: Not for a dollar. Well, maybe they'll give you the bun for 50 cents. Like that Chris Rock bit that he used to do. [00:02:08] Speaker B: What you mean from New Jack City? How about you put it just in my hand? [00:02:12] Speaker C: Exactly. [00:02:15] Speaker B: You know, Nathan's. I had a Nathan's plant based dog over the weekend. [00:02:20] Speaker C: How was it? [00:02:21] Speaker B: Very good. [00:02:21] Speaker C: Yeah, like stuff like that. The plant based, like hot dogs, chicken nuggets, you know, anything that's like. It doesn't have to be meat to taste how it does it. They're better, you feel better, they taste better. The texture is better. [00:02:34] Speaker B: They don't taste better. [00:02:35] Speaker C: They don't taste better. [00:02:36] Speaker B: The dog doesn't. But you. They should be able to replicate a hot dog easily. [00:02:41] Speaker C: You ever had a sound before when you ate meat? Did you ever have a salons Buffalo? A Salads hot dog from Buffalo. They do sell them in Chicago at like the fancy. [00:02:50] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:02:50] Speaker C: Salons spell it. S A H L E N S. That's the popular hot dog in Buffalo, New York. [00:02:58] Speaker B: Natural casing. [00:02:59] Speaker C: Oh, my God, they're so good. [00:03:00] Speaker B: Is it a natural casing? [00:03:02] Speaker C: I believe so. [00:03:03] Speaker B: You'd know it. Snap. [00:03:04] Speaker C: Yes. Right? Yeah. And you put them on the charcoal grill and they get nice and black and then they crack. They crack and like case. [00:03:12] Speaker B: Yes. Yeah. Yeah. It's like, it's like a tied off concept. [00:03:14] Speaker C: Yeah, they're the best. I bring them back every time I go visit Buffalo to see my fam. I'll bring back a bunch of hot dogs and other Buffalo fair. [00:03:24] Speaker B: How do you keep them cold? [00:03:26] Speaker C: Take the train. [00:03:27] Speaker B: Right? [00:03:27] Speaker C: Yeah. And it's hot dogs. [00:03:29] Speaker B: Who cares? You're not worried about them. [00:03:30] Speaker C: They're packed with salt. [00:03:31] Speaker B: How long does. You would know this. I'm turning to Mark because although you seem knowledgeable on hot dogs, I feel [00:03:36] Speaker C: like I am now. [00:03:37] Speaker B: There's an authority on hot dogs. [00:03:39] Speaker C: Oh, it's marked. [00:03:40] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:03:41] Speaker C: On dollar hot dogs at least. [00:03:42] Speaker A: Yeah. Low end. [00:03:44] Speaker B: Low end hot dogs. [00:03:45] Speaker A: If you. [00:03:46] Speaker B: How long does a hot dog keep in an opened. Opened wrapper in the refrigerator? Like if you open a two of them and then there are two more in there, how long will that last? Okay. [00:03:58] Speaker C: You mean like the plastic? [00:03:59] Speaker B: Yeah, you folded the plastic, but it's open. [00:04:03] Speaker C: Put a rubber band around it. [00:04:04] Speaker A: Yep. [00:04:04] Speaker B: Of course. [00:04:05] Speaker C: Stay forever. [00:04:06] Speaker B: Forever. [00:04:06] Speaker C: Ever. [00:04:07] Speaker B: I don't know. They're very slimy. When I took them out the other day and made them for my boy, but I wasn't eating them, so I right up. Go ahead and eat this. [00:04:14] Speaker A: I don't. I never get to keep stuff as long as I would like to because the missus is just like. That's been in there three days out. [00:04:22] Speaker B: Yeah. I imagine you keep stuff way. [00:04:24] Speaker A: Yeah, I'd keep it way longer if she wasn't around throwing it out before I could eat it. [00:04:29] Speaker B: What about like say, sour cream or something like that? And you open it and it's. It's tinting with the mold. Right. Like you can see the. Where it's coming in. Will you just scrape that away or knock that away and eat. Eat the rest of it. [00:04:40] Speaker A: The older I get, the less inclined. [00:04:42] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:04:42] Speaker A: I'll tell you a story about eating stuff. When we went to Thailand, right. [00:04:48] Speaker B: I liked. I like where this is going. [00:04:50] Speaker A: When we went. When we went to Thailand, obviously you're in a different culture, a whole different. [00:04:54] Speaker B: Yes. You went there to for sex. A sex tourism vacation. [00:04:58] Speaker A: Okay, go ahead. [00:04:59] Speaker C: And that was a different trip. [00:05:01] Speaker A: You know, you go. You go in by the streets of Bangkok and you see, you know, fried crickets, grasshoppers. [00:05:06] Speaker B: Really? [00:05:07] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, Yeah. [00:05:09] Speaker B: I wonder if I could eat that. [00:05:11] Speaker A: I think, you know, they're high in protein insects. But you've seen snow piss. [00:05:14] Speaker C: But they're meat. [00:05:15] Speaker A: We're all gonna end up. You've not seen snow piss? [00:05:18] Speaker B: It came up before, but. And then we talked about snow patrol and I don't know. [00:05:22] Speaker A: Anyway, obviously in Thailand, things are a little more loosey goosey vis our. Vis. The. The. The hygiene etc. And you would literally just see cockroaches, like, everywhere. And one morning I went down to breakfast and they always had, like, the chafing dishes full of the shite. And there was a dead cockroach in the scrambled egg one. And I just looked at it for free. Yeah. And I just thought, you know what? I'll just eat around it. Yeah. I just took some of the scrambled egg touching the roach. [00:05:58] Speaker B: What is the big fear of cockroaches? They say, like, oh, there's cockroach. Obviously it's a sign of filth. But is there something to worry about in terms of infection or disease with a cockroach? Like, could you get something. [00:06:10] Speaker C: So I've never heard disease from it. No, it's not like rats. [00:06:14] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:06:14] Speaker B: Yeah. Well, rats would. Would be an indicator of what? [00:06:18] Speaker C: The plague. [00:06:19] Speaker B: The plague. The plague, Right. Yeah. Black Death. Yeah, I think Black Death will come back. [00:06:24] Speaker C: Sure. [00:06:25] Speaker A: It was in India about Black Death. I don't know. Black Death, Plague. [00:06:30] Speaker B: The plague. [00:06:31] Speaker A: My mate worked for Rolls Royce and he was flying out to India and two days before, they were like, yeah, there's plague in Calcutta or whatever vintage place. [00:06:42] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:06:43] Speaker A: We were just taking the piss out of him, like, come back with a plague, mate. [00:06:49] Speaker B: Imagine, you know. Well, anyway, we're gonna go down the road. We gotta keep disease. [00:06:53] Speaker A: We gotta keep this tight, right? [00:06:55] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, you got some kind of problem. [00:06:56] Speaker C: That doesn't mean we hit. No, I don't have a problem. I have to go. I have to hit the road to go to a gig. But I've got. I have budgeted my time well, so we don't have to. [00:07:04] Speaker A: 35 minutes. [00:07:05] Speaker C: We started on time. We're good. [00:07:06] Speaker A: 35 minutes of him complaining about cell phones. [00:07:10] Speaker C: We'll get to that. [00:07:11] Speaker B: I do want to talk. [00:07:12] Speaker A: And then five minutes of special review. [00:07:15] Speaker B: We usually talk about what you ate. Right. I had porridge this morning. Let's get that out of the way. [00:07:20] Speaker C: Oh, you did? [00:07:21] Speaker B: I think I'm eating porridge like Mark. [00:07:23] Speaker C: Yeah, right. That's what I. Where'd you get porridge? [00:07:25] Speaker B: I just made Quaker oats, and I was calling it porridge. [00:07:28] Speaker A: Yeah, that makes sense, because that's what it is. [00:07:31] Speaker B: That's what it is. Even though it doesn't say that on the box. [00:07:33] Speaker C: You want to guess what I had for breakfast? [00:07:35] Speaker A: Yeah, you had mung bean salad. [00:07:39] Speaker C: Holy. Were you at my apartment this morning? How did you know that? [00:07:42] Speaker B: You eat mung bean? I thought I was excited for it. [00:07:46] Speaker C: I've never seen a mung bean in my life. [00:07:48] Speaker B: Yeah, you probably had a. I'm thinking today some kind of biscuit sandwich. Breakfast sandwich. [00:07:55] Speaker C: Oh, no, I'm a man of habit. [00:07:58] Speaker B: Oh, wait, wait. You had your salad. [00:08:00] Speaker C: I had my kale salad. [00:08:01] Speaker B: Yes. Yeah, I had a salad last week for breakfast for the first time ever. [00:08:04] Speaker C: Right. And was it kale or not? [00:08:06] Speaker B: No, it was just a romaine. [00:08:08] Speaker C: It was an iceberg. Was it? Okay, romaine's good enough. [00:08:10] Speaker B: And you'll appreciate this. Yeah, it was romaine. I had made it the night before for my family, and they didn't need it. And so, you know, it's not going to keep very long. It was undressed. So the next morning, I was sitting there looking. I don't want to throw it out. I was like, I'm going to eat this for breakfast. Like, Christian never would it. If weren't for you, I never would have done that. Really changed my life. [00:08:28] Speaker C: It's pretty nice, isn't it? You feel good after. [00:08:30] Speaker B: I don't want. I don't want vinegar, you know, like in the morning. [00:08:34] Speaker C: Oh, really? [00:08:35] Speaker B: Yeah. I don't want. [00:08:35] Speaker C: See, the first thing I do every morning is I take a shot of apple cider vinegar. [00:08:40] Speaker B: I heard that's good, but I heard that's also maybe not good for you. It's like you not to do that very often or even ever, really. Yeah. Because I heard. [00:08:50] Speaker C: I only heard the first part of that. That is good. [00:08:52] Speaker B: No, vinegar is. Is good. Great for you. Yeah. Don't ask me. [00:08:57] Speaker C: It is for your gut, for your digestive system. Yeah, it's the same thing. [00:09:00] Speaker B: Yeah. But I don't. I think the. The concentration. [00:09:04] Speaker A: Is it bad for your teeth or something? [00:09:05] Speaker B: Then you have to. I'll get back to you. Like I tell my students. I'll get back to you on that one. [00:09:10] Speaker A: It's weird how we have certain things in the. More. Like, you could. You can eat. You could say, eat some spaghetti. Bolognese. Right now. And you be, oh, yeah, fine. But if I said to you, 8am Eat this spaghetti bolognese now. Because it's like when I first came to America, I remember looking at people going, God, these hogs eating donuts in the morning. [00:09:33] Speaker B: Like, donut being a dessert to you. [00:09:36] Speaker A: Yeah. Like who Jeff eats a donut? [00:09:38] Speaker C: I don't know anybody that eats donuts in the morning. I don't know a single American. [00:09:42] Speaker A: Ever worked in an office and come in and there's a box of donuts, [00:09:47] Speaker C: sit in a chair all day. See, I've never worked in an. I don't work around these people. [00:09:50] Speaker B: But come on, you know, you live in America. You know that people. [00:09:54] Speaker C: It's like a treat, I guess, like. But it would be a weird thing, coffee and a donut to have for breakfast. I just, I mean, that's always seemed like a myth to me. That was just like a fable. [00:10:04] Speaker A: Dunkin Pie. You've driven past dunkin donuts at 8am it's lines around the block. [00:10:09] Speaker B: Yeah. Canadians. You should know this. Timmy Horton's up there. Like, [00:10:15] Speaker C: you get bagels over at Tim Hortons. [00:10:17] Speaker B: Well, if you get donuts as well, you could. [00:10:19] Speaker C: But I don't know. [00:10:22] Speaker A: So weird. [00:10:23] Speaker C: It is weird. It's not right. Nobody should be doing that. [00:10:25] Speaker B: Well, that's an example of a social construction, right. Where this is okay to eat for breakfast. This is, what are you doing? [00:10:32] Speaker C: But it's also, it's because it's the first meal you've had in eight hours, you know, so you have to, you can't just put spaghetti bolognese into your system first. That's too much, too heavy. You have to ramp up to that throughout the day. [00:10:44] Speaker B: Yeah, well, I don't know. I mean, they say you should eat your heartiest meal of the day when you know this in the middle of the day. [00:10:50] Speaker C: Right, Right. [00:10:50] Speaker B: Yeah, it should be your heartiest. [00:10:52] Speaker C: That's typically. [00:10:53] Speaker B: Yeah, you're most filling. [00:10:54] Speaker C: Right. Then you're good for the rest of the day. Something light later and. [00:10:57] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:10:58] Speaker C: Ready to crash out by 10? [00:11:00] Speaker B: Yeah. I've been trying to eat, not eat past 8. [00:11:03] Speaker C: Do you find that difficult? That's good. [00:11:05] Speaker A: I'm in that mode. [00:11:06] Speaker C: I, I try that and when I fail, I try to do things like eat mango slices and stuff like that. Stuff that's very easily digestible. [00:11:14] Speaker A: You could walk it off as well. That's like, I, I, I went abroad one time. You know, when you go abroad, you kind of get messed up. [00:11:22] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:11:22] Speaker A: And I went to a Bloody. Oh, God. I went to a tapas place, which is always a mistake. Had all the spicy shite, but, you know, I'm off at that point. I couldn't sleep or wink. I felt like hell because of the spicing, because of the disconnect of the. [00:11:41] Speaker B: Oh, you went late. [00:11:42] Speaker A: Yeah, but I mean, it wasn't late for where I was. Right. You know, I'm all, oh, because you were lagged. Yeah, lagged. And it's just discombobulated. Yeah. [00:11:53] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:11:53] Speaker C: I took an Ambien one time, and I was worried. I was thinking, like, well, I've heard people do some crazy stuff, you know, like, remember when Barr tweeted out all that racist. [00:12:02] Speaker B: Oh, that was an Ambien tweet. [00:12:03] Speaker C: Yeah. So I'm like, well, I mean, I followed the instructions that my doctor gave me. You know, she said, just, you know, have it with some water, like an hour before bed, but don't drink too much water because you don't want to get up, you know, in the middle of the night. And I had gotten up in the middle of the night, and I don't remember it, And I was curious as what I would do if that happened. And now I know. I went out and I ate a bunch of vegetables in my. [00:12:23] Speaker B: In your ambient stupor. [00:12:25] Speaker C: I woke up with just kind of like, you know, like a cucumber in my tooth. Like, what the hell? [00:12:28] Speaker B: You didn't remember I went out? [00:12:29] Speaker C: No. No recollection at all. And on my counter, there was just open containers of vegetables all over the place. I'd had a snack fest. [00:12:36] Speaker B: I can't believe that they prescribed that drug. [00:12:38] Speaker C: As dangerous as it is, it's nuts [00:12:42] Speaker B: the way some people react to it. [00:12:43] Speaker C: Right. [00:12:44] Speaker B: You must have to sign a waiver. Right? When you. [00:12:46] Speaker C: I just accept that person. All I said was, I. I was like, I. I said, I need something to help me sleep on. Like, some nights, if I know I have a lot, the next day, it's really hard to fall. I can't get my mind to settle down. And I was just looking for Xanax or something simple like that. And she said, I'll give you Ambien. [00:13:00] Speaker B: I said, all right. You know, I was thinking about going to my doctor for not a prescription, but getting one of those notes from them so I can make my dog a service dog, you know, or my dogs just throw that jacket on them, that service dog jacket, so I can bring it to the movies. I can bring them to the movies. [00:13:16] Speaker C: Yeah, just get the jacket. No one's gonna Check. Just make a fake. [00:13:18] Speaker B: Yeah, you're right. No one's gonna check. [00:13:19] Speaker C: Make fake documentation. [00:13:20] Speaker B: Can you get that jacket on Amazon that says service dog? [00:13:22] Speaker C: Yeah, I've managed bars before where people have brought in service dogs and we didn't allow. Like, we kind of had, like, a tight thing about it, you know, like, [00:13:29] Speaker B: what are you gonna say? [00:13:30] Speaker C: Well, yeah, exactly. And all they do is they show me a piece of paper. I'm not like, I don't know if this is real or not. I just read it. [00:13:35] Speaker B: They could have printed it on their computer. [00:13:37] Speaker C: It's just like somebody showing their ID at a bar. Like, if you're confident enough, I'm gonna go, okay. You know, this might be. This might not. [00:13:42] Speaker A: How are you gonna pretend to be visually impaired the whole time? [00:13:45] Speaker B: No, they're not. For visual impairment, you can do good for almost anything. It is one. But most people have them for anxiety. [00:13:51] Speaker C: Yeah, that's what all that. [00:13:52] Speaker A: No, you can. You can tell someone to sod off with that. [00:13:55] Speaker B: Yeah, well, you tell them to sod off. [00:13:57] Speaker C: Yeah, that's more of a risk. [00:13:59] Speaker B: Not in an airport. You can't say sod off. [00:14:03] Speaker A: You can. I mean, I think the airline has to pre approve you taking it on. But I've looked into this because we have people occasionally email us, say, can I bring my service dog? What? It's not a service dog. Is. Is for visually impaired people. It's a comfort animal, whatever you want to call it. [00:14:26] Speaker B: The jacket says service dog on it. [00:14:28] Speaker C: Well, it's more of a vest that doesn't have sleeves. [00:14:33] Speaker B: It's actually more of like a. [00:14:34] Speaker C: It's a muscle shirt. [00:14:36] Speaker A: There's some wacky rules around it because you not technically allowed to say to somebody, is that a Sir, is that a service dog? You can't. [00:14:47] Speaker C: But you can say, sawed off with that. [00:14:49] Speaker A: But you can say to them, do you need that dog for visual impairment or whatever? And they have to say, yes, that's what it's for. [00:14:59] Speaker C: I'd say, okay, good enough. [00:15:00] Speaker B: Yeah, see you. So you won't allow. [00:15:04] Speaker A: No. [00:15:05] Speaker B: You won't allow service dogs in here unless it's for visual impairment. [00:15:08] Speaker A: Exactly. [00:15:08] Speaker C: I encourage dogs to come in. I say, bring your dogs. Bring all the dogs you got. [00:15:13] Speaker B: I've told people, what if it's for hearing impairment? Couldn't you need a dog for that as well? Would you be against that? You're gonna. You're gonna get the deaf community. [00:15:23] Speaker A: You know, I am looking into what's. It loops. Because someone did ask about that. [00:15:29] Speaker B: Oh, hearing Loops. [00:15:30] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:15:31] Speaker C: Oh, that's a good. [00:15:32] Speaker A: There's a myriad solutions to it. [00:15:35] Speaker B: Is this joint ADA compliant? Yes, because it's all ground level. [00:15:39] Speaker C: We can get those horns that Beethoven used, you know, that you hold up to your ear. [00:15:44] Speaker B: Yeah. Like the. [00:15:45] Speaker C: The cones, actually. [00:15:47] Speaker A: I mean, the ADA compliance is a bit of. A. Bit of a ball ache. Not that we're against it, but, you [00:15:53] Speaker B: know, for the record, we're not against it. [00:15:55] Speaker A: Like, if someone specifically says to you, I need signing for this show. [00:16:00] Speaker B: Right. [00:16:01] Speaker A: I think there's rule, you know, they have to give you X amount of signing. Yeah, yeah. And. And we went to a couple of signing services and they were just taking the piss. [00:16:10] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:16:10] Speaker B: Expensive. [00:16:11] Speaker C: Yeah, they're like three grand for an hour. [00:16:13] Speaker A: It was ridiculous. [00:16:14] Speaker B: So you've had to bring in signers before. [00:16:16] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:16:17] Speaker B: And you just got to eat that. [00:16:19] Speaker A: Yeah. Oof. [00:16:21] Speaker C: It'd be cheaper to learn how to sign and do it. [00:16:22] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, you got to take a class. [00:16:24] Speaker A: No, no, we now have a list because, you know, there's the deaf magicians. [00:16:30] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:16:31] Speaker A: And we have more like a. So this was just going to a service and saying, we need. You know, and they were like, well, you can't just have one sign. You need to. Because they take. [00:16:41] Speaker B: Yeah. Take a God. [00:16:43] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:16:43] Speaker C: You got to make sure they don't sign how the trick was done. [00:16:46] Speaker A: No, just. It was just like, this is taking the sailor. [00:16:50] Speaker B: We're gonna need a sign. Or somebody calls up. Yeah, that show just got canceled. Sorry. [00:16:56] Speaker A: No, because then we'd be in trouble. [00:16:58] Speaker B: Sure. Yeah. Yeah. [00:17:01] Speaker A: Just to be clear, full compliance. [00:17:04] Speaker B: Yes, Full compliance at all times. What about the. [00:17:07] Speaker A: Noting our unique challenges as a nonprofit without infinite resource. [00:17:12] Speaker B: What about the bog? Is the bog ADA compliant? You get a bar in there I can hold on to? [00:17:18] Speaker C: Oh, yeah, there are. There are bars. [00:17:20] Speaker A: Yep. [00:17:20] Speaker B: In the bog. Yep, yep. [00:17:22] Speaker C: I hang on to them for fun. I just. Yeah, why not? [00:17:24] Speaker B: When you're really grunting one out. Yeah, they're kind of. I don't remember, like behind you like this, right? [00:17:29] Speaker C: No, there's one on the side. Yeah, right in front of you. Swing around on it. [00:17:33] Speaker B: You got an ADA compliant piss splash. Cuz. Have you tested if somebody's sitting down with the. The splash? [00:17:39] Speaker A: Actually, someone who's in the face. Someone who's doing our maintenance moved the side piss splash. Do you remember? She put it. She put it on the floor. No, when it got ripped off the first time, she remounted it on the floor and I said, it can't go there. That's not ada. [00:17:56] Speaker B: Maybe I'll have Begain come in and take a look at the ADA compliance situation. I don't know if that's an area of expertise, but if you are in the. In the market for a new home or home remodel, check out Begain Construction. They'll bring in all the high end stuff. Is he 0viking? [00:18:14] Speaker C: What, he's back to sponsoring us again? [00:18:16] Speaker B: Yeah, back. [00:18:17] Speaker C: Oh, this is a roller coaster. [00:18:19] Speaker A: What are we on the. Is this your pre show agenda? Because I remembered. [00:18:22] Speaker B: No, I don't have any agenda other than. [00:18:24] Speaker A: Well, remember this time I do. [00:18:26] Speaker B: I do want to tell you a little bit about. Not a little. I don't need to tell you anything about it. But I did bring you some gifts. You know, I was out of town, I was flying on an airplane. [00:18:33] Speaker C: Where'd you go? [00:18:34] Speaker B: What about south? [00:18:35] Speaker A: Do you have a cancer update? [00:18:37] Speaker C: Oh, yeah. [00:18:37] Speaker B: Oh, thank you for asking. I didn't think. [00:18:39] Speaker C: Let's bring it down for a little while. [00:18:41] Speaker B: Let's take it down. As you remember from last week, my inion gap levels were out of whack. I subsequently got more test results, also abnormal. I don't want to go into all the details of them, but Dr. John Lee, who has opened a new practice of his own over on diversity, the Lincoln Park. Lincoln park something. Lincoln Health Wellness. Dr. John Lee, if you're looking for him in this phone book, it's Q. Jung Lee. It says Korean surname. He'd love to have you come in. He takes all kinds of insurance. I don't know if he takes the Blue Cross HMO though, so you need to call ahead. [00:19:21] Speaker A: Well, I'm on Medicaid. [00:19:23] Speaker B: Yeah, you're on Medicaid already? No, you can't be on Medicaid. Yeah, I am. How. You're not old enough. Yes, you're on some kind of disability for. [00:19:31] Speaker A: I got. I got my taxes done yesterday by aarp. [00:19:37] Speaker B: For real? [00:19:37] Speaker A: For real. [00:19:38] Speaker C: How much was it free? [00:19:40] Speaker B: Cuz you're. [00:19:40] Speaker C: They'll do your taxes. [00:19:41] Speaker A: Cuz I'm over 50 and over down to the bones in my ass. [00:19:46] Speaker C: You can get AARP at any age. Did you know that? I had it for a little while. [00:19:49] Speaker A: No, you get it over 50 for sure. [00:19:51] Speaker C: Yeah, but you can get it at any age. I had it. [00:19:53] Speaker B: You had aarp? [00:19:54] Speaker A: What? [00:19:55] Speaker C: Just the membership. [00:19:58] Speaker A: Just for the magazine. [00:19:59] Speaker B: You can get it. Yeah, magazine. [00:20:00] Speaker A: If you want [00:20:04] Speaker C: discounts on hotels if you don't want to stay at a bad Hotel. [00:20:08] Speaker A: Anyway, AALP did my taxes because I'm over 50 and I didn't Earn anything. [00:20:14] Speaker B: I don't understand how AARP does tech. They put you in touch with the tax person. That. And they're paying. [00:20:19] Speaker A: No, no, You. You go because you're a member. No, my missus is, but she got the alert and we just went to a Park District building. [00:20:27] Speaker B: Jesus Christ. [00:20:28] Speaker A: Handed the over, came back an hour. [00:20:30] Speaker B: Yeah, not this joint. Jesus. [00:20:32] Speaker A: No, they couldn't handle that. No, they wouldn't do it. No. [00:20:37] Speaker B: Anyway, I got a lot of abnormal results. Dr. Lee said, you know, don't worry about it. We'll retest in three months. He thinks it has to do with supplements. I don't take a lot of supplements, but I do take B12, a little magnesium, [00:20:52] Speaker A: take the B52s. Love shackles. [00:21:02] Speaker B: And now you've got a sling blade. No, I don't. [00:21:05] Speaker A: Now you've got GIRP as well. [00:21:06] Speaker B: You got. Girl, I haven't heard it yet. [00:21:08] Speaker A: Caught GIRP off the old lady. [00:21:10] Speaker B: All right. So I went down to Miami beach, and that's what made me think of the service animal. Because as we were walking through the terminal in Miami, as we come back last night, this woman was walking with a service dog. And it was a Great Dane. Can you fucking. [00:21:26] Speaker C: Because that's insane. [00:21:27] Speaker B: It was like a horse coming down. [00:21:28] Speaker C: Yeah, those are the biggest dog in the world. [00:21:30] Speaker B: It's the biggest dog in the world. And I. My kids, like, couldn't. Jaw drop. [00:21:34] Speaker A: Taken on a plane. [00:21:36] Speaker C: On a plane. [00:21:37] Speaker B: Walking through the terminal. [00:21:38] Speaker C: Marmaduke on a plane. [00:21:39] Speaker B: Marmaduke. And I. And I go like, Jesus, how the hell they gonna get that thing in a seat, right? And this fella was walking next to me. We're walking to the gate, he goes. And he worked either at the airport or for. He goes. That American Airlines gonna get their money for that? They gotta. She gonna have to buy a whole row. [00:21:56] Speaker C: No way. They put the name Andy, but they put the dog. [00:22:02] Speaker A: What? [00:22:03] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:22:03] Speaker C: What if the dog acts up, makes a mess? [00:22:06] Speaker B: Don't know. But she has a whole row for [00:22:08] Speaker A: that thing goes ballistic. [00:22:10] Speaker C: That's worse than a baby. [00:22:11] Speaker A: He's gonna take a Great Dane down, right? [00:22:13] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:22:14] Speaker A: Everyone crammed in the air marshal, they [00:22:17] Speaker B: might have to have it. Yeah, they would have to have an air marshal put that thing down. [00:22:20] Speaker A: Anyway, world's gone mad. [00:22:23] Speaker B: Yep. So Miami Beach. Wow. That was a whole. Never been there before. [00:22:28] Speaker A: But do you go on any panty raids and do you hijinks? [00:22:35] Speaker B: What is a panty raid? You'd have to dig deep into the crevice of a woman to get those panties because it is butt floss USA down there. [00:22:43] Speaker C: Is it still. [00:22:44] Speaker B: Oh, butt floss. Everyone is wearing this butt floss. Or tea back, if you will. [00:22:50] Speaker A: Teabags. [00:22:51] Speaker B: Tea back. Like it looks like a t. A whale's tail. Yeah, right. [00:22:55] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:22:56] Speaker B: Older women and, you know, sad to see the. The younger gals wearing the. Not, you know, the underage high school girls wearing these tea backs. And even women who don't have the body. Not that there's any body suited for a tea back. I don't. It's too revealing. Women who shouldn't be wearing a teaback in. In most dependent. They're. They feel forced to wear the teaback. [00:23:20] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:23:20] Speaker B: And not only that, because I. I feel like there's a heavy homosexual community down there. Many men were wearing teaback. [00:23:29] Speaker A: Oh, Jesus. [00:23:30] Speaker B: And teabag, if you will, because it was a teaback in the back. And then it was like a. I don't know what you would call it. It was just a pouch. [00:23:39] Speaker A: Second scrotum. [00:23:40] Speaker B: It was like a second scrotum. It was as little as you could put on a penis just to cover. It was like a. Yeah, like, it was like a little jewel bag. [00:23:48] Speaker A: Do you remember when Sasha Baron Cohen first did the Mankini thing? And he looked around, freaking out. [00:23:57] Speaker B: So it's just too. It was too revealing. It's not for families down there. I'll tell you. [00:24:01] Speaker C: I just remembered. I was gonna get a. A sound effects app. This would have been. It would have been perfect. [00:24:06] Speaker B: Yeah, we need that. [00:24:06] Speaker C: We need drives. [00:24:07] Speaker B: Can we get that? Yeah. Hook it up to the board. [00:24:09] Speaker C: I was just gonna put it on my phone and just hold it up to the microphone. [00:24:12] Speaker A: No, you can hook it up to the board. [00:24:13] Speaker C: Oh, that's right. I was. I was gonna hook up to the board right here. That was my second idea. Thanks for reminding me of that. [00:24:18] Speaker B: I'll pay for it. All right, so here's what. [00:24:19] Speaker C: No, it's. It's. We already got everything. You don't even need your money. [00:24:22] Speaker B: Okay? I got you two. I got you for the. For your refrigerator. This is a big saying down there. I don't know why it says I'm in Miami. [00:24:33] Speaker A: I. I don't know. I spurned the B word. That's gonna go crush. I'm not having the B word. [00:24:39] Speaker C: Really? [00:24:39] Speaker B: My house, ironically, though. [00:24:41] Speaker A: I know, I know. Everyone always want to say, but anything [00:24:44] Speaker B: about the C word. [00:24:45] Speaker A: I know. [00:24:45] Speaker B: Okay. I guess he. He refuses the I'm in Miami look. We could put it up in here. If there's any. [00:24:51] Speaker A: Any metal put it on that door. The doors. [00:24:53] Speaker B: Put it on the door. But. All right, Christian. [00:24:55] Speaker C: Ready? [00:24:55] Speaker B: Catch. Here we go. It's kind of heavy. It's high end. [00:24:58] Speaker A: Yeah. Everyone always says you've got. You're like a foul mouth gutter snipe. [00:25:02] Speaker B: You. Are you. [00:25:04] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:25:05] Speaker B: And. But you won't say B. Yeah. Oh, we could put all kinds of magnets on that door. That's a. That's a metal door. [00:25:10] Speaker A: I never say B. Yeah. [00:25:12] Speaker B: Which is why when somebody said be in here about Ellen DeGeneres. [00:25:16] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:25:16] Speaker B: Quick to get that off. All right. And for you, sir. You're getting a beach patrol Miami keychain. I don't know if you notice this. It's in the shape of a flip flop. Beach patrol. It's got a little Miami beach sand in there for you to maybe for like a, you know, a basement door. Like, it's like, what? This is a question that's for you now, because you deflected that. Yeah. [00:25:39] Speaker C: You didn't want the Miami. [00:25:40] Speaker B: And. But you're each getting. And this I think you'll appreciate. I did a little snorkeling down there. I went to Walgreens and bought swim mask for myself and my children. $8.99. I returned one of them. You'd appreciate that. Said it was defective. It wasn't, but I. It was a piece of uhhuh. And did a little snorkeling and saw some fish and got a couple pieces of coral. One for you from my. Some Miami beach coral. [00:26:09] Speaker A: What? [00:26:09] Speaker B: Yes. He gets one, too. And you get a piece of coral. All right. [00:26:13] Speaker A: I'm going to drill it and put it on a little leather. Leather. [00:26:16] Speaker B: Oh, that's. [00:26:17] Speaker C: That's crafty. [00:26:17] Speaker B: Oh, that would be awesome looking. [00:26:19] Speaker C: Oh, this is nice. [00:26:20] Speaker B: I like this coral. Straight out of the Atlantic. [00:26:22] Speaker C: Isn't it illegal to. [00:26:23] Speaker A: Yes. [00:26:24] Speaker B: Is it to take coral to transport it. Oh, I didn't know that. [00:26:28] Speaker C: Oh, we can cut this out. [00:26:30] Speaker B: Take this out. [00:26:32] Speaker A: Present section. [00:26:33] Speaker B: I didn't know. [00:26:34] Speaker C: I didn't bring any presents. [00:26:35] Speaker B: Where did you go last week? Olive Garden. [00:26:37] Speaker A: You know damn well where I went last Saturday. [00:26:40] Speaker B: Oh, that's right. We forgot to talk about that. Well, I've been texting you, and you wouldn't answer my question. Oh, my. [00:26:47] Speaker A: So I went to. [00:26:48] Speaker B: Oh, this is great. [00:26:50] Speaker A: Well, that's not the present. [00:26:53] Speaker B: Oh, it looked like a postcard. [00:26:54] Speaker A: So the whole thing on cinema. At the cinema. Whatever it's called. It felt like being at a wedding where everyone's family and knows each other, but you don't know Anyone? [00:27:07] Speaker B: It's like Tony and Tina's wedding. [00:27:09] Speaker A: No, no, no. It was just this cult of people that love these guys shared for every obscure reference, every. [00:27:18] Speaker B: Know anything. [00:27:19] Speaker A: I didn't know anything. I mean, I watched, like, you told me, watch a bit of it. So I just watched maybe 20 minutes of, like, different film reviews, but there's a whole, like, thing around it. Right. So what they, you know, Neil Greg Turkington would say something like. Yeah, it's part of the Victorville film archives. And everyone. Everyone just goes ballistic. And me and my lady just sitting there going, that's evidently very funny. You know, and then someone. A martyr. They were just. They were just throwing all these things and people are just freaking out, like, it's a rock concert. And. And it, like, it still was funny. [00:27:58] Speaker B: Where did you get this stuff? They had a merch tent. [00:28:00] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:28:01] Speaker B: Oh, my God, look at this. [00:28:02] Speaker C: What does it say? [00:28:03] Speaker B: You blew a wad at the merch tent. I. That's too. [00:28:06] Speaker C: That's like. That's like 20 hot dogs. [00:28:07] Speaker A: You. So I could not suss out your size. [00:28:12] Speaker C: What does it say? [00:28:13] Speaker A: You're very gaunt and kind of drawn. [00:28:16] Speaker B: That's so. [00:28:17] Speaker A: I'm like. I'm like, is he a medium or a large? And I went with medium. [00:28:21] Speaker C: Very abnormal. [00:28:23] Speaker A: If you've got shoulders, it's probably not going to work. [00:28:25] Speaker B: It. Well, this is the story of my life. I've been caught between a medium and a large my whole life. It just depends on what I ate that day. [00:28:32] Speaker A: Because I. Because I was thinking about what. I know his face is almost painful. [00:28:40] Speaker B: That's really cool, but. Oh, dude, thank you. This is an amazing merch T shirt from the. From the tour. That is incredible. It's a really nice T shirt. I love that. [00:28:50] Speaker A: Well, I thought, well, you can give it to one of you. Your lads. If it's too. [00:28:55] Speaker B: Too small, I'm getting in that. It won't be too small because it [00:28:58] Speaker C: looks like it'll fit. [00:28:59] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:29:00] Speaker C: I can tell by trying to. [00:29:01] Speaker A: Trying to realize what body type he was. I was like, I've only really ever seen him sitting in that massive jacket. That's right, because you refuse to, like, take your coat off normally. [00:29:11] Speaker B: I have anemia. It's one of my issues. That is so nice. Thank you. And I'm so sorry that I messed up the date. Oh. I kept saying it was Friday and you guys would have went together and had a blast, and then you thankfully caught it. That's happened to me a couple times where I go to a show and I had the wrong Friday and Saturday type of thing. So sorry you couldn't make that. [00:29:31] Speaker C: Yeah, it's okay. [00:29:32] Speaker B: Things happen. [00:29:34] Speaker A: But yeah, there was that merch. Their merch was doing big business. [00:29:38] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:29:38] Speaker A: They had this doodle dots tote bag that all the women were just patch it. And then on the way into the merch thing, they had like props that they'd used during the show. So everyone's posing next to like this huge, it looked like Big Bird costume. I just couldn't be asked to take a picture of it. [00:30:02] Speaker B: So not knowing a lot about it, being a super fan, like it seems like everybody else. Were you able to enjoy it? Was it at all amusing and entertaining? Were they funny or was it just like all lost on you? [00:30:13] Speaker A: It wasn't all lost. I mean they started off with this. They were very clear that you shouldn't document the evening in any way shape. [00:30:23] Speaker B: Yeah, I saw that email. I think I sent you that email. [00:30:24] Speaker A: And they started off. [00:30:26] Speaker B: They didn't take your phones. [00:30:28] Speaker A: No. [00:30:28] Speaker B: We talked about you busting the phone bags open. [00:30:32] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:30:32] Speaker A: I think most of the people in there would have been respectful of it because they probably realized like all the people who are gonna see this show after me there is insane about it as I am. [00:30:42] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:30:42] Speaker A: And it would kind of ruin it for them. So they did some set bits. They had this like ridiculously half assed animatronic. It was just. It was like a, like a, you know, what's it dummy. A show dummy on a little remote control car. And they did the History of Film with Humphrey Bogart, you know, and. And it was like purposely inept, you know. [00:31:07] Speaker B: Yeah. It's all about. [00:31:08] Speaker A: It's great. All that. And then they. The funniest bit was when they. The guys like ladies and gentlemen, Greg Turkington and Tony Amato or whatever is new Amato. And then they walked out. Everyone just leaps to their feet and is going but hey. And then they like waved and then just walked straight off. And then they like killed the thing on this, which. That's something I've often thought about, like would be a funny thing. [00:31:31] Speaker B: That was at the intro. [00:31:33] Speaker A: That was the intro. [00:31:34] Speaker B: Hello, good night type of thing. [00:31:35] Speaker A: Yeah. And then they both came back on at different times doing different things. It's mainly Heidecker stuff going on. [00:31:44] Speaker B: Did Hamburger come out? Did he throw that on at all? [00:31:47] Speaker A: Hamburger came out to do like movie reviews. [00:31:50] Speaker B: He did, yeah. He's great. That's great. And obviously never gets old. [00:31:53] Speaker A: Everything is five tubs sort of thing. And then he did this really funny segment, which I wish I'd have known about, where people were bringing VHS tapes and leaving them at the merch stand. And then they picked, like three or four of them to. To appraise for value. [00:32:12] Speaker B: Oh, on stage. [00:32:13] Speaker A: Yeah. So they would pull up who. Hey, who left this? [00:32:16] Speaker B: You know, they always would be like, the home video of the week is always a VHS tape. Yeah, yeah. [00:32:21] Speaker A: So Neil, like Greg Turkinson would say, who. Who brought, like. I can't remember what. They were like, oh, God, three or something. [00:32:30] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:32:31] Speaker A: And then they would. The person would run up. [00:32:32] Speaker B: Oh, they get him up on stage [00:32:33] Speaker A: and then he would. [00:32:34] Speaker B: That's a great idea. You probably would have got yourself up there because you have so much obscure shit. [00:32:37] Speaker A: If I'd have known to take like, a VHS tape, I think I would have been on there. Yeah, for sure. [00:32:43] Speaker B: What would you have brought? In hindsight, you must have. Could have brought. [00:32:46] Speaker A: Yeah, I was thinking about it. I was thinking about it. [00:32:49] Speaker B: They keep it or they probably let you take it back right now. [00:32:51] Speaker A: The guy. What. There was one, like, hide it. There was this bit where Heidecker's character was like, we're not doing film anymore. Film's dead. Blah, blah. And some woman had a tape of some guy had like a Phantom Menace first edition tape. And then, you know, like, this was the first. [00:33:11] Speaker B: They make editions of VHS tapes. [00:33:13] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, yeah. [00:33:13] Speaker B: Really? [00:33:14] Speaker A: Like, first edition. Star wars is obviously like a holy grail. [00:33:17] Speaker B: Dude, I have a beta. Star Wars. Betamax. [00:33:19] Speaker A: Yeah, you might get some dosh for that. But what was the one. The only problem with Star wars is they sold 87 million copies. So it's like, what was the one? Anyways, this woman had one, and Heidecker just grabs it and just starts ripping the tape out like this. We're not doing movie anymore. It's pointless or whatever. And everyone's booing. I don't know if they told her he was gonna do that, but. [00:33:45] Speaker B: Yeah. So did you make a night of it? Did you guys go out to eat? Heather? No, I like the shout now. [00:33:50] Speaker A: No, because we had all. [00:33:51] Speaker B: You haven't been. [00:33:52] Speaker A: We had tons of leftovers. [00:33:54] Speaker B: You did, right? It's you. [00:33:56] Speaker C: I haven't been there. Right? [00:33:57] Speaker A: It is good. It is. That little section's got a load of good, good eating stuff. [00:34:02] Speaker B: Well, the next time I can't use tickets to a nice show, they're going to you, friend. [00:34:06] Speaker C: Well, thank you. [00:34:08] Speaker B: And I'll give you the wrong date. And then they'll go, well, thank you. Those are super sweet. Gets look at this picture. [00:34:15] Speaker A: So are you all in on it? You know, all these references? [00:34:18] Speaker B: No, sorry. I was like Letterman there, throwing the card. [00:34:22] Speaker C: Yeah, it was. [00:34:25] Speaker B: I've watched a couple and I loved it. It's. But I don't even have time to sit and watch all these, so I've seen. Yeah, I've seen some of them. [00:34:31] Speaker A: The joke is like, Greg Turkington runs the Victorville film archives and collects all these tapes. [00:34:37] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. Yep. [00:34:39] Speaker C: And is this the guy from Tim and Eric? [00:34:41] Speaker B: That is Tim, yeah. [00:34:42] Speaker A: Oh, that's Tim. [00:34:43] Speaker B: And that's Neil Hamburger. But does he look kind of like Geary? Right. [00:34:46] Speaker C: Which one? [00:34:46] Speaker B: The guy in the bottom right corner. No, no, I don't think so. [00:34:51] Speaker A: I. You know, I had a haircut yesterday. [00:34:53] Speaker B: I know. [00:34:54] Speaker A: I caught myself. I caught myself in the mirror. I look. I thought you look like K.D. lang. He's like, my hat. You know how she has the little light, the. The fat toppy pop off. [00:35:06] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:35:06] Speaker A: When I come back, my hair was wet and it kind of stood up and I looked in the mirror and I was like, two chins. I was like, you KD Lang. [00:35:16] Speaker B: But anyway, never a good look for a man. [00:35:18] Speaker A: No, you keep. Great, great look for her. But anyway, put that up in the back. [00:35:23] Speaker C: Oh, okay. Not as good as I did. It was almost as good. [00:35:26] Speaker B: Cork board. [00:35:27] Speaker A: But I've been to Victorville, interestingly. [00:35:30] Speaker C: Really? [00:35:31] Speaker B: Where is it? [00:35:31] Speaker A: It's like in the high desert between la and if you go. If you drive from LA to Vegas, you go through Victorville. [00:35:44] Speaker B: I figured it was fictitious. All right, well, did you get any ideas for our show that you could steal from them? [00:35:51] Speaker A: Yeah. Here's what we need to do to make this podcast a success. [00:35:54] Speaker B: Yes. [00:35:54] Speaker A: We both need to. [00:35:55] Speaker B: Research is a write up. I'm writing this off. [00:35:57] Speaker A: We need to have very successful careers in comedy. Then we start this as a spin off and tap into the already massive followings that we have. [00:36:07] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:36:08] Speaker A: For our work. [00:36:08] Speaker C: I've been saying it. [00:36:09] Speaker A: And then. So I'm planning to become a rock star next week. [00:36:14] Speaker B: Oh. [00:36:15] Speaker A: And then that way when we restart the podcast, I'll have this huge fan base. [00:36:20] Speaker B: Well, I don't think we. I think we keep the podcast going. But I think you're right. I think your point is a good one. We need. Well, Christian's got a thriving musical career. [00:36:27] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:36:28] Speaker B: Right. Musical comedy. Chris, he's good. He's out there. He's. He's out there promoting his product. [00:36:34] Speaker C: And I just spend so much time. I spend so much time on this podcast. That I. I can't get my rock star career off the ground. [00:36:40] Speaker B: It's holding you down. [00:36:41] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:36:41] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:36:41] Speaker A: Well, I'll go into film then. [00:36:43] Speaker B: No, no, no. [00:36:43] Speaker A: We've already got music. [00:36:44] Speaker B: Since it's about comedy, we. I think. And I think this for you too. I think we all need to start hitting the open mics and starting doing comedy. [00:36:52] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:36:53] Speaker B: You know, how can we talk about it if we're not doing it? [00:36:56] Speaker C: I've got it. [00:36:57] Speaker B: What do we know about it if we don't do it? You got it. You got a 10 minute sizzle. [00:37:02] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah, I do. [00:37:05] Speaker B: I think we got to start doing open. We'll do the open mic here. Yeah, we'll basically run it. Right. Why don't you run an open mic? You be the host. That would be amazing if you brought back an open mic and you. And you run the open mic like the red line, but here on a certain night, like the old days, it'll bring. It'll bring all the heads out of the woodwork. [00:37:26] Speaker A: Foster, Khalil, the heads can stay in. [00:37:28] Speaker B: Oh, no, we gotta get them back. If they find out you're running a mic again, they'll all come back. Could we do that? [00:37:35] Speaker A: I tell you something. I looked, and then you can hand [00:37:37] Speaker B: it to me and I'll run it in. [00:37:38] Speaker A: I looked at our analytics and we are tail spinning. [00:37:41] Speaker B: Oh, we are. [00:37:42] Speaker A: Yeah. Not that we haven't. We're coming down from a great height to begin with. [00:37:45] Speaker B: Oh, no. [00:37:46] Speaker A: We are tail spinning. [00:37:47] Speaker B: Where did you see the engines blow out? On what episode? [00:37:51] Speaker A: Know, it's funny. You know what our peak episode was? [00:37:53] Speaker B: You talked about that. [00:37:54] Speaker C: Yeah, the. What's his name? [00:37:56] Speaker A: Marello. [00:37:57] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah. [00:37:58] Speaker A: And it's just been a tail spin [00:37:59] Speaker B: since maybe because that, like, is hot right now. People might have found it somehow. All right, well, don't. Don't bring us down with it. Today's comedian, Anything else for your agenda? [00:38:10] Speaker A: Yeah, okay, okay, okay. [00:38:12] Speaker B: I love that he's. [00:38:13] Speaker A: There you go. Tail spinning. Listenership. Done. [00:38:16] Speaker B: Done. No antidote for that, but go ahead. Yeah, maybe more. Maybe the. Hold on before you move on to the next. This is like. Pardon your interruption. Before we move on next. Maybe if. If the spike was from Marcel. We need to. To, you know, tap into the Zeitgeist and find out who are the comedians that are going to spike our numbers. Right. You got to get in, get into the. [00:38:37] Speaker A: Well, you guys keep picking specials from 1986. [00:38:43] Speaker B: Comedians that are dead. Yeah, right, right. [00:38:46] Speaker A: Well, this guy's not exactly WC Fields retrospective. Next Week really get the kids interested. [00:38:53] Speaker B: Yeah, well, I don't know what Todd Berry is actually, you know, at least that special. [00:38:59] Speaker A: At least a special from 2023. [00:39:02] Speaker B: Yeah, well, we don't need to do [00:39:04] Speaker C: any of that with your rock star career about to take off the way it is. [00:39:07] Speaker A: I'm not. If you. If you've got Rockstar covered. I'm going into film. [00:39:10] Speaker C: You're going into film? [00:39:11] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:39:12] Speaker B: You're gonna make films? [00:39:13] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:39:13] Speaker C: Can I be in documentaries? [00:39:15] Speaker B: That'd be awesome. [00:39:16] Speaker A: No, I'm not making them. I'm gonna star in them. [00:39:18] Speaker B: Oh, I would like to do that too. We go for auditions, for acting gigs and good head shots. [00:39:23] Speaker C: Bill's about to get his comedy career back off the ground by doing the cabaret show with Borky and I. Yeah, [00:39:28] Speaker B: I gotta get a couple. I gotta get a couple nights under my. [00:39:32] Speaker C: That'll put you on the map right there. [00:39:33] Speaker B: So the last. That's why I was doing the Sling Blade. The last one of the last things I did in comedy was I was taking around the Sling Blade act. I was doing. I was doing the whole monologue and I It up from Sling Blade, you know, at the beginning of the movie where he talks about killing. Yeah. His mother and her lover. [00:39:49] Speaker A: And that was probably 10 years after the film came out. [00:39:52] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, yeah. I did it at Will's Northwoods and I sat in a chair and like, just rubbed my hands like. Billy Bob was like, I guess you didn't know my mind that in the middle of like a stand up thing and did not go over. [00:40:06] Speaker C: Can you do Al Pacino from Scent of a Woman? [00:40:09] Speaker B: I don't. I don't do Al Pacino, but, you know, I could probably work on it. [00:40:14] Speaker A: I had that. That. Who are you? Remember when people used to do sound boards, Phone calls? Yeah, There was one. There was a Pacino soundboard prank, and that was a hooah. Like the guy would call people and just keep going and they'd be like, who is this? [00:40:34] Speaker B: That's a great drop. The who I drop. [00:40:36] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:40:36] Speaker B: If we can plug your phone into that, you can take. You can do these drops, right? Yeah. And we can take calls on there through the phone. [00:40:44] Speaker C: Yeah, I guess so. Why not? Sure. [00:40:45] Speaker B: All right. That'd be good. I think we need some call. [00:40:48] Speaker C: Yeah, let's do that. We'll get some call ins. [00:40:50] Speaker B: Let's work on that. [00:40:50] Speaker C: All right. We'll do it next time anyway. [00:40:52] Speaker A: Kind of finish my agenda. [00:40:53] Speaker B: Yes, yes, yes. Do you have an agenda too? Are we ever gonna get out of Here. [00:40:57] Speaker A: I would like to every episode run a disclaimer because I feel like when I first set out on this, I wanted to point out the pointlessness of this exercise every episode. So I would like a standard disclaimer to be read by you as the host of the show with the top of the show at the top of the show. [00:41:18] Speaker B: Kind of like the thing you have in the. Before the show. [00:41:22] Speaker A: Yeah, exactly. Yeah. But a disclaimer to just say we all acknowledge the pointlessness of what we're doing. [00:41:28] Speaker B: Okay, I like that. [00:41:29] Speaker A: The invalidity of any opinions expressed. [00:41:34] Speaker B: Yes, yes, we do need a disclaimer. [00:41:36] Speaker C: I don't agree. My opinion is so. [00:41:38] Speaker B: Well, we can put that in. You want your. You want your opinion on the record, but the right. [00:41:42] Speaker C: Just say the gold standard. [00:41:44] Speaker A: Just say Mark's opinion is in. [00:41:47] Speaker C: No, I was joking. [00:41:49] Speaker B: You know what? Maybe we ought to write our own little line for. [00:41:52] Speaker A: Because you're gonna have to read it. But I would like to. I'd like to bring up that we should. [00:41:55] Speaker B: I love it. Next week. You better have it ready. [00:41:58] Speaker C: Can you do a lot of swearing when you talk about me? Just. Just swear for no reason at all. It's gratuitous. [00:42:04] Speaker B: For yours. [00:42:05] Speaker A: Yeah, mine. [00:42:07] Speaker C: Okay. [00:42:07] Speaker B: I guess you gotta have input in the disclaimer. We all have to have input. [00:42:11] Speaker C: I called it. [00:42:12] Speaker B: And we'll read it every episode. Yeah, It'll be as is. Is well known or familiar as the. The great theme song we have [00:42:22] Speaker A: be like the NFL broadcast. [00:42:23] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, yeah. This is not. This is a trademark or whatever. I love that idea. [00:42:28] Speaker A: All right, that's the end of my agenda. [00:42:30] Speaker B: Okay, Any. Do you have any sundry items? No, no. You got a big gig tonight. Let's plug that so that. Two weeks, three weeks. [00:42:38] Speaker C: Yeah. If anybody was in McHenry. [00:42:40] Speaker B: What's the name of the joint you're performing tonight? [00:42:42] Speaker C: The Vixen. [00:42:43] Speaker B: The Vixen? This is a strip club? [00:42:45] Speaker C: Maybe. [00:42:45] Speaker B: Sounds like it. [00:42:46] Speaker C: I'm about to find out. [00:42:47] Speaker B: Vixen video. I don't know if you're familiar with them. They make adult film. [00:42:51] Speaker C: Oh, that's vivid. I don't know what I'm in for. [00:42:56] Speaker B: You guys watch a lot of adult films. Let's go off on 20 minutes on adult films. [00:43:02] Speaker A: Vivid. Did that thing with. With the blurred. [00:43:05] Speaker B: They did something with Blurreds? Yeah, the porno. [00:43:08] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:43:09] Speaker B: Really? Speaking of blurreds. Bargatts, my wife texted me from the grocery store. She's listening to some podcasts with Bargazzi on it. She's like, bill, did you Know Bar Nate Bargazi, knows TJ and Kumail and, you know, certain. Rattling off all the Pete Holmes and all these guys. I was like, yeah, I think so. I think he was around at the time. But he's. He's crediting all them as being his contemporaries from Chicago. He's, like, shouting them out. And I was like, well, Mark kind of remembers him, but I. I don't remember him from back then. [00:43:41] Speaker A: That doesn't seem right. [00:43:43] Speaker B: Well, you said he was here. [00:43:45] Speaker A: He was here, but he was doing Dave Odd shows. How did he. [00:43:48] Speaker B: Did he ever do the Garage Baretti? Never. You sure? [00:43:51] Speaker A: Absolutely. [00:43:52] Speaker B: Do you have records of everybody that perform? Yep. That's smart. I was going to. I forgot to do it. But I'm going to bring in additions of the zine from back then, you know, where we had, like, spotlight on Camail. [00:44:04] Speaker A: I. I gave it to you, right? [00:44:05] Speaker B: No, I've got. I know you didn't give to me 90 minutes. We're at 90 minutes. [00:44:09] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:44:10] Speaker A: Well, let's. [00:44:11] Speaker B: Let's get into. Oh, geez, you're depressed. [00:44:15] Speaker A: No, carry on. [00:44:17] Speaker B: Okay, let's get into today's comedian, Mr. Todd Berry. Not to be confused with Todd Glass or John Barry or Todd Glover. Those are all different comedians in Todd Barry. But if you've been following comedy since the mid-90s, you would naturally confuse Todd Berry with toddlers. Todd Glover and John Barry. And who was the other one? [00:44:41] Speaker C: Todd Glass. [00:44:42] Speaker B: Todd Glass. Is there a Todd Glass? [00:44:43] Speaker C: I don't know who any of these guys are. [00:44:45] Speaker B: Or Brian Regan. [00:44:46] Speaker A: Todd Glass famously came out of the closet on. On Marin's thing. [00:44:51] Speaker B: Right? I don't know. [00:44:52] Speaker A: Todd Glass is a highly respected amongst other comedians, comedian. [00:44:57] Speaker B: See, I confuse him with Todd Barry. And then there's another guy that was in Jerry Maguire. Remember the babysitter in Jerry Maguire? [00:45:06] Speaker C: I never saw it. [00:45:06] Speaker B: What? That looks just like Todd Berry, but is, you know, not the comedian that Todd Berry is. So Todd Berry's domestic short hair. My mic isn't working. [00:45:21] Speaker C: I didn't say that. [00:45:22] Speaker B: Why are you holding up a card that says Mike? [00:45:24] Speaker C: Oh, I didn't realize it said Mike on the other side. I was just holding this. Oh, these are the times the mic is. [00:45:29] Speaker B: Is. [00:45:30] Speaker C: I don't know who wrote this. [00:45:31] Speaker B: Tell me to talk into the mic. [00:45:32] Speaker C: Yeah, sure. Why not? [00:45:37] Speaker B: Really throwing me off my game here. You're looking at. [00:45:40] Speaker C: I was as confused as you were. [00:45:42] Speaker B: Yeah. You took the price off or did I take the price off? 3.99. I feel bad because I brought you these. I Brought you a piece of coral from the ocean and these in the keychain. And then you got me this T shirt in the hat. And that's you way out. [00:45:58] Speaker C: I didn't get you anything. So it kind of balances out. [00:46:00] Speaker B: Thank you. [00:46:01] Speaker C: Yeah, no problem. [00:46:01] Speaker A: Thank you. [00:46:05] Speaker B: All right. Well, Todd Berry, you picked him, one [00:46:07] Speaker A: of the all time greats. [00:46:08] Speaker B: You think of him as one of the all time greats. You love Todd Berry. Yep. When he comes on the camera in, I see him and then I know who he is because I've seen him before. But I immediately reminded of a squinty John Roy. No you see a squinty John Roy at all. Maybe it's just the bald pate. [00:46:27] Speaker A: Yeah, he's not even full on. Bald Todd Barry. So he's bald, not full on. He has the. [00:46:33] Speaker B: He's got the wrapper on. [00:46:35] Speaker C: Nobody ever loses that, though. [00:46:37] Speaker B: They don't. [00:46:38] Speaker C: No, they just shave. They shave it off. [00:46:40] Speaker B: Yeah. Like Jeff Bezos. [00:46:41] Speaker C: Yeah. Or like Bill Burr. [00:46:42] Speaker B: If I was bald, I would keep that and let it grow. Not significantly, but I'd let it. Leave it. You know, I'd leave it normal. [00:46:49] Speaker C: That's the Gallagher, like the. [00:46:51] Speaker B: No, no, he's long hair. [00:46:53] Speaker C: Well, that's what let it grow means, isn't it? [00:46:55] Speaker A: What's the guy's name? Lynn Lithgow. Lithgow. [00:46:59] Speaker B: John. Look, he's got a. But he's bald. [00:47:03] Speaker A: Yeah. Now he has got the thing. And then. Who was the dad? Who was the dad? Who was the dad on in jail, on Arrested. [00:47:11] Speaker C: Jeffrey Tambor. [00:47:12] Speaker B: Jeffrey Tambor. [00:47:14] Speaker A: He's got that classic. [00:47:15] Speaker B: Yes, he's got the classic. I would keep that. I wouldn't do the full shape. [00:47:20] Speaker A: You would go Tambor. [00:47:21] Speaker B: I'd go Tambor. Yeah. I wouldn't go Larry David like a Harpo Marx. [00:47:26] Speaker C: Jeffrey Tambor also played the guy on Larry Sanders show, right? [00:47:29] Speaker B: Yes. [00:47:29] Speaker C: Hey do. [00:47:30] Speaker B: Yes, he was the co host on Larry Sanders. Okay. So he comes on and immediately I. I'm looking at the thing and, you know, I'm like, I'm. This looks familiar. This set, this where he is. And I was like, I wonder if that's the den. Sure enough. [00:47:46] Speaker C: Sure enough. It looked good. [00:47:47] Speaker B: Now I'm surprised you picked. [00:47:49] Speaker A: Yeah, I surprised myself. [00:47:52] Speaker B: Did you know it was at the den? [00:47:53] Speaker A: No, I didn't like. [00:47:55] Speaker B: God damn. [00:47:55] Speaker A: Yep. I would have never picked it. [00:47:57] Speaker B: Yeah, I figured. I was like, I can't believe you picked this. [00:48:00] Speaker A: Now. Now I got to watch it seething. Seething with. [00:48:06] Speaker B: Pick it apart, then pick apart what? You know the lighting, the staging, the how, the acoustics, all. It doesn't work. None of it works. [00:48:12] Speaker A: But it's. It's going to sound bitchy. [00:48:14] Speaker C: I know. [00:48:15] Speaker B: Well, that's what we want to hear. I want to hear you about the look. [00:48:17] Speaker A: The look was okay. The sound was terrible to me. [00:48:21] Speaker B: Really? Yeah. I didn't know. [00:48:23] Speaker A: I mean, I was just like, oh, is that your subconscious telling you hate it? [00:48:28] Speaker B: Yes. [00:48:28] Speaker A: But I think the sound. I legitimately would like to know someone who knows good sound if they. [00:48:33] Speaker B: Well, he's sitting right there. This is a musician of the finest. [00:48:36] Speaker C: I don't know what was wrong with the sound. [00:48:38] Speaker B: I didn't notice. [00:48:40] Speaker C: It's just one guy talking to no microphone. How good can the sound be? [00:48:43] Speaker A: Not like it sounded echoey to me, but I could just. I'm gonna fess up and say, that could be my subconscious. [00:48:49] Speaker B: That's very big. That's big of you, Todd Berry. This is from When? What year? [00:48:54] Speaker A: 2023. [00:48:55] Speaker B: 2023. So that explains a lot of the COVID humor. Are you tired of the COVID humor now? I know you are. I am, and I know we all are. But are people still doing the COVID humor in the rooms? [00:49:09] Speaker C: I hope not. [00:49:10] Speaker A: Covid humor should have expired to 2021, right? [00:49:14] Speaker C: Yeah. I mean, it was played December at least a year. [00:49:17] Speaker A: December 31st. Should have been a moratorium. I don't. No more Kovids. [00:49:22] Speaker B: I don't. I don't feel that way. I think in. In this way that he does, like, go through all these things, but, like, Covid, it was the. For. For us, one of the biggest things of our life. Right. So it's never. It should never have to go away. You just have to do it different. [00:49:36] Speaker A: Where would you rate it in terms of that and September 11th? [00:49:41] Speaker B: Bigger. Like, is. [00:49:42] Speaker A: Which one's the biggest? [00:49:43] Speaker B: Bigger than nine? 11. Yeah. They're just different. They're apples and oranges. I'm not avoiding it. Although maybe I am. Like, I don't want to, you know, because you'll say, well, he thinks, you know, dirt on the grave of the 911 victims by picking Covid. [00:50:01] Speaker A: Well, they both have multiple victims, so. [00:50:05] Speaker B: Well, an acute event, right. That had obvious repercussions and a ripple effect. But Covid was a long, drawn out affair. [00:50:14] Speaker C: Right. [00:50:15] Speaker B: I'd say Covid's bigger because it was worldwide. [00:50:19] Speaker A: Do you ever think about this now? Someone who is 30 years old may not even have a recollection of September 11th. 30 years old. You could say to him, what about September 11th. [00:50:37] Speaker B: I was five. [00:50:38] Speaker A: Yeah. They go, I, I don't know. Yeah, that's, that's amazing to me. [00:50:42] Speaker B: Yeah, you can't even. You reference Muhammad Atta to them. They wouldn't even know who that is. [00:50:47] Speaker C: I don't know who that is. [00:50:48] Speaker B: What? [00:50:48] Speaker A: I bet Brian McGann can still reference Muhammad. He named his fantasy [00:50:58] Speaker B: Muhammad Atta. Yeah, that's poor taste. He's, you know, he's, he's a poor taste Brian. You don't know who Mohammed? [00:51:07] Speaker C: No clue. [00:51:08] Speaker B: He's the only one I can remember. He's one of the guys that flew the plane. He's, he was the master, not the mastermind, but he was the head of him over here. [00:51:15] Speaker C: I was definitely old enough to know. I just, I guess I just never heard it. [00:51:18] Speaker A: Yeah, [00:51:21] Speaker B: those guys love strip clubs. [00:51:23] Speaker A: Those guys have anyway. Comedy. [00:51:25] Speaker C: Yeah, they love strip clubs. [00:51:27] Speaker B: Those. Well, they all trained down in where my father and mother lived in Venice, Florida. They all learned to fly down there. And so lots of stories about them hanging out the strip clubs while they were learning to fly. Learning to fly. They should do a montage of learning to fly with Muhammad Atta down in Venice and then going to the strip clubs afterwards. [00:51:55] Speaker A: I wish I had mentioned it. [00:51:57] Speaker B: Ready to cut that out, but I ain't got wings. A lot of ts having just flown. You know, I was panicked about the TSA shit. Yeah. [00:52:09] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:52:10] Speaker B: I scooped up my kids on Friday and got them there five hours early to o'. Hare. How long it took to get through tsa. [00:52:16] Speaker C: How long? [00:52:18] Speaker B: Literally? This is not an exaggeration. Four minutes. [00:52:21] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:52:21] Speaker B: It was faster than any, any time I've ever traveled in my life, despite. So you got to wonder about that propaganda. Yeah. [00:52:29] Speaker C: Well, then it ends up costing you, you know, hundreds of dollars because you got to go sit somewhere. [00:52:33] Speaker B: Two meals in the airport, then. Yeah, exactly. [00:52:36] Speaker C: Fifty dollar hamburger. [00:52:37] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. So on the way back, they're like. Well, smaller airports are sending ice now and because they cross crowd control, it's too crazy. So we got, we got. I was like, we'll get there five hours early. We'll get there four hours early. To Miami International. You know how long it took me to get through Miami International? [00:52:54] Speaker C: Five minutes. [00:52:56] Speaker B: 12 minutes. No, no lines at all. [00:52:59] Speaker C: What the 50 hamburger? [00:53:02] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:53:03] Speaker C: Back to Todd Barry. [00:53:04] Speaker B: Yeah, no, I, I spent so much money on this trip on. Because you got to eat every meal out when you're on vacation with your kids. I'm so sick of watching them eat meals out chick and everything that I forbid any purchase at the airport and I made them bring a sandwich. [00:53:20] Speaker C: You can bring a sandwich? [00:53:21] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. Like that could be a bomb, right? [00:53:25] Speaker C: Man, I would have done that. [00:53:26] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:53:27] Speaker C: So many times. [00:53:27] Speaker B: You could bring a sandwich through, I guess. [00:53:29] Speaker C: Why not? [00:53:29] Speaker A: Yeah, I always bring sandwiches to the Apple. [00:53:32] Speaker B: But one time I brought a thing of spice from a restaurant I like. You know, they sell spices in their gift shop. And that, that brought out the bomb squad. It took me like an hour. They had to like feel my. Through my genitals and up into my buttocks crack. [00:53:45] Speaker A: So now you do it every time. [00:53:47] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:53:47] Speaker B: Yay. This is why you might. You might have it. You might have. Have the guts. [00:53:55] Speaker A: Anyway, did I tell you a story about my mate who had. He took his. He's from Australia so he could grow weed. The state. [00:54:02] Speaker B: You can grow weed in Australia? Always have been able to. Really. It's a penal colony. I would think it would have harsh [00:54:08] Speaker A: laws against such in South Australia. You always could. So he was a bit of a weed head. But he couldn't smoke it at all when he was in racing season, obviously getting tested all the time. So immediately, literally after his last race, fire up. And then he went back to Aussie. And obviously he's not dumb enough to take weed through the airport, but he had the little baggie that he kept it in, you know, with residue. Yeah, with residue on it. So he's standing there and the dogs start sniffing immediately. Just walk up and like sit. You know, they sit next. Service dog sits next to him. So the guy pulls him out of the line and he's like, hey. You know, the dog sort of said, but. And he just fessed up because, oh, I know why the dog like, you know, fingered me kind of thing. This bag is where I have kept weed, but there isn't any in it or whatever. So the guy's like, oh, okay, well, you know, that saves us a whole bunch of hassle. And then he goes when you fly in. And the guy. And my mate's like, oh, it's three hours, you know, I gotta. And he goes, can we borrow your bag for an hour? Because we're training some new dogs back in the. Back in the, you know, where they keep all the luggage and we haven't got anything that smells of weed, so can we borrow your bag? [00:55:23] Speaker B: Wow. [00:55:24] Speaker A: So he's took his bag for an hour, used it for, like training the new dogs. Anyway, that's an interesting anecdote. Shut up, Mark. [00:55:32] Speaker B: No, I love that aside. But your side leads to my side, then to his side and you know, we're not giving Todd Berry as do. [00:55:40] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, that's good. [00:55:41] Speaker B: Why did you pick Todd Berry? [00:55:44] Speaker A: You know what? I. I'd been on to be. I know we watched it on YouTube, but I'd been on to be just rando surfing, and all of a sudden there's a Todd Barry special. [00:55:54] Speaker B: This one or just. [00:55:54] Speaker A: Yeah, this one. [00:55:55] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:55:56] Speaker A: And I stumbled across it two or three times. So in the end I was like, okay, this is fate telling me, just do this. [00:56:03] Speaker B: Look at Todd Berry. Yep. But you've always been a fan of his. [00:56:07] Speaker A: Yeah, his, his. I have. I have. I kept. Kept very, very, very few comedy CDs when I had a mountain of them. And his classic Medium Energy is one of the best ones I've ever heard. [00:56:21] Speaker B: How would you describe his comedy to someone who has not heard him? [00:56:25] Speaker A: Kind of like mean and sarcastic, which is why I really like it. [00:56:28] Speaker B: Yeah. I don't find. I didn't find this mean. I haven't seen a lot of his comedy. [00:56:32] Speaker C: But do you think he softened up over the years? No. Did you think he was mean? [00:56:38] Speaker B: I think he was mean. [00:56:39] Speaker A: I think he's looking down on people. I mean, he's con. You know, his go to. His go to punchline. He's like, oh, yeah, that makes sense type thing, right? [00:56:50] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. Snide, maybe is a good word to describe him. He's snide. [00:56:54] Speaker A: Yep. [00:56:54] Speaker B: Smug. [00:56:56] Speaker A: Smug, yeah. All the things I like. [00:56:57] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. Maybe we see a pattern if we. We flesh out who's the comedians we've chosen over the. All these times, like, if there's a pattern there. How about you? Have you. Are you. Were you familiar with the stylings of Todd Berry? [00:57:13] Speaker C: Yes. [00:57:14] Speaker B: And how. [00:57:15] Speaker C: I'm good friends with somebody who's a big Todd Berry fan, and when they really got into Todd Berry, circa 2010, 11, they also exposed me to a lot of Todd Berry's material, and I. I did enjoy it. [00:57:28] Speaker B: So you. [00:57:28] Speaker C: You've always enjoyed him in the background? I never really, like, you know, searched him out, you know, but I always knew from what I saw, I like this guy. [00:57:36] Speaker B: Yeah. Had you seen him in any of these films that he. [00:57:39] Speaker C: Pooty Tang that he referenced? I've never seen Pooty Tang. [00:57:42] Speaker B: No. No, you've never. [00:57:44] Speaker A: I've never seen P. Five minutes into it. [00:57:47] Speaker B: Who else was in Pootie Tang? Who's the. The. Who was that a vehicle for? [00:57:51] Speaker A: It's weird. [00:57:52] Speaker B: Who's in that? [00:57:53] Speaker A: Louis CK Wrote it, which is bizarre. [00:57:57] Speaker B: Yeah, that's right. [00:57:58] Speaker A: That was his before he kind of obviously fell from grace. A lot of comedians talk about Pooty Tang. [00:58:04] Speaker B: Pooty Tang? Yeah, I've heard a reference, but yeah, [00:58:06] Speaker A: there's no one real famous in it. The wrestler. I definitely remember going, Jesus Christ. [00:58:11] Speaker B: That's Todd Barry because he worked at the supermarket. [00:58:14] Speaker C: Chris Rock was in. [00:58:15] Speaker B: It was in Pooty Tang. [00:58:16] Speaker C: Yeah. Wanda Sykes. [00:58:18] Speaker B: Who's the lead? Chris Rock? No, jb. [00:58:21] Speaker A: Smooth, really, But I think the lead. David Cross, the lead guy is kind of a like not anyone big. [00:58:29] Speaker B: Come on, Chris, who's the lead? [00:58:30] Speaker C: Chris, Chris, Chris. [00:58:34] Speaker B: You're kind of like a wellness. [00:58:35] Speaker C: Says Chris Rock. First. It actually it says Conan o' Brien too. But I mean, maybe he was a writer. He must have been a writer. [00:58:41] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:58:42] Speaker C: David Cross must have been a writer. Oh, well, Chris Rock was Daddy Tang. Oh, no, but Lance. I don't know how to pronounce this. Lance Cruther, that was the lead he played. Pootie Tang. [00:58:58] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:58:59] Speaker B: I never heard of that guy. [00:59:00] Speaker C: Yeah, I have no idea what the movie is. [00:59:02] Speaker B: I think I got. I picked up a red tide down in Florida. You familiar with Red Tide, the Alabama football team? No, that's Crimson Tide. I wonder if that is. No, it's a. It's like a. The fish and the give you a cough. [00:59:16] Speaker C: Yeah, the. What is it that's in the water that turns red? [00:59:18] Speaker B: It's an algae. [00:59:19] Speaker C: Yeah, right. [00:59:20] Speaker B: Some kind. And it seems sort of water red and then everybody gets sick with a cough. [00:59:25] Speaker C: Flamingos are pink too, right? [00:59:26] Speaker B: Oh, I don't know. Interesting. [00:59:29] Speaker C: They're originally. They're born white. [00:59:32] Speaker A: Flamingos are pink because of their diet. [00:59:35] Speaker C: Yeah. They eat the algae. [00:59:37] Speaker B: Yeah. They eat the red tide. Red tide's bad. [00:59:39] Speaker C: You don't want. Well, not if you're a flamingo. It's good for you if you're a flamingo. It's like apple cider vinegar. [00:59:43] Speaker B: Kills tourists. Yeah, shrimp. Shrimp aren't red though, unless you cook them. [00:59:48] Speaker A: Red Tide would be a good comedian name Red coming to the stage. Red Tide. [00:59:53] Speaker B: Red Tide. [00:59:54] Speaker C: I'm gonna take that one. [00:59:57] Speaker B: Red Tide. Yeah, that's good. [00:59:58] Speaker C: I started telling people call me Red Tide. [01:00:02] Speaker B: You know, shrimp aren't red unless you cook them. [01:00:07] Speaker C: Or pink. [01:00:08] Speaker B: Oh, this. I got to tell you this. So I broke my four year vegan diet. [01:00:15] Speaker C: Oh, what'd you eat? An octopus? [01:00:18] Speaker B: No, I had stone crab. And here's how I justified. [01:00:21] Speaker C: That's a good way to break it. [01:00:22] Speaker B: You had stone crab. You know what stone crab is? No, not crab. It's not a King crab, Right. They're harvested by. They pull them out of it. They only get them down Florida, right. They pull them. Maybe you can get them out of place, pull them out of there and then they clip off the claw and then they throw them back and then the claw grows back in a year and a half or so. Right. So I justified it by saying, like, well, they're not killing these things, they're just taking a claw. And then my kid's like, but that's torturous. It must be so painful for the crab. But I ate three of those claws and felt horribly guilty. [01:00:58] Speaker A: I would think crabs have evolved to not feel pain at the removal of a thing because, yeah, they're gonna. The tide's gonna smash them against the rocks and blah, blah. Did you watch that documentary, the Octopus My Teeth? [01:01:10] Speaker B: Yes. And that. Yeah, that's what I was thinking about eating calamari. I was like, I can't eat calamari. That thing's basically a human being that [01:01:15] Speaker C: you know that a lot of calamari out there is actually pig intestines. [01:01:18] Speaker B: What? [01:01:19] Speaker C: Yeah, they. There's this huge bust 10, 15 years ago. Calamari that you're getting at restaurants was actually just chopped up pig intestines. They started testing everything, even like high end restaurants. [01:01:31] Speaker B: A lot of veal cutlet. If you get a veal cutlets. Pork. Pork cutlet. [01:01:36] Speaker A: The octopus just grew its tentacle back when the shark nicked it, right? [01:01:40] Speaker B: Yeah. They grow back. Yeah. Amazing. [01:01:43] Speaker A: It must be predisposed to not feeling pain. Pain in it. [01:01:47] Speaker C: Would you eat a lizard's tail? [01:01:49] Speaker B: Would I? [01:01:50] Speaker C: Yeah, because it grows back and they don't feel pain when they. [01:01:53] Speaker B: I don't want to say. [01:01:54] Speaker C: How would we know that? [01:01:55] Speaker B: Well, when you guys are talking. When you're talking about Thailand and crickets could. Could have vegetarian eat crickets. Probably not. They're alive, Right, Right. Or vegan. So anyway, I. I broke that because of my, you know, I had all those test results and I was like, maybe I got to start eating some regular. And then I felt horrible, guilty and it blasted the toilet out. The next. [01:02:13] Speaker C: I was going to ask, did it agree with you? [01:02:15] Speaker B: It ripped through me. Mud. I had mud. [01:02:18] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:02:20] Speaker A: Anyway, Todd Barry. [01:02:21] Speaker B: Yeah, back Todd Barry, domestic, short hair. How about the wrestler, though? That's a great movie. He was in the. He worked in the deli with him. He was the boss of the. Who was he in that movie? [01:02:34] Speaker A: I can't remember. [01:02:35] Speaker B: I think he worked in the Dell. I think he was the manager of the deli. After he cuts his hands, like he's like, what the man? It's like, you can't, you're crazy. Huh? [01:02:43] Speaker A: I don't, I just remember the shock of seeing him. [01:02:46] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:02:46] Speaker A: Why is he in this? What? [01:02:49] Speaker B: Any other credits to speak of, he probably would have told us. In the special he referenced. I do love that. I do love how he, you know, references his celebrity, if you want to even call it that throughout the thing. [01:03:01] Speaker A: Yeah, that was, to me, that was the comedy highlight of this special was where he would work in multiple like Pooty Tang references. [01:03:09] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:03:09] Speaker A: Ridiculing the, the tenuous nature of celebrity. Yep. [01:03:14] Speaker B: At least starts off with it with the girl scup it. That's a great bit. [01:03:17] Speaker A: Right. [01:03:17] Speaker B: Like she's signing autographs. He's like, you know, I'm asking because I actually am a celebrity. [01:03:22] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah. [01:03:25] Speaker B: Okay. [01:03:26] Speaker A: Is his posture weird to you? He seemed to be leaning back constantly. [01:03:30] Speaker B: I didn't notice, but I, first thing I noticed was how he holds the mic like he's Goblin Knob. [01:03:34] Speaker A: Like [01:03:37] Speaker B: that's how, you know, like I don't, you don't see a maybe we have talked about this, but I don't remember too many. Two hand comedians. [01:03:46] Speaker A: Yeah, right. [01:03:47] Speaker B: Like holding, like that. Did that bother you? Because you have some peccadillos about the way comedians hold mics. [01:03:53] Speaker A: Two handed is fine. That's just insurance. [01:03:56] Speaker B: Two handed, man. It's weird, you know, that's, yeah, it's good. [01:04:00] Speaker A: It's weird holding it like that. [01:04:03] Speaker B: You don't like the ice cream cone? The Jezelnick. [01:04:05] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:04:08] Speaker B: So he starts off, you know, in, and you know, I'm basically seeing, not seeing him for the first time, but I kind of know who he is, but I didn't really know it's comedy, you know, I'm not, I'm not bowled over. [01:04:20] Speaker A: Started off very weak. I, I, it was another one where I got five minutes in. I was like, oh yeah, I picked [01:04:27] Speaker B: it dud for the boys. [01:04:29] Speaker A: Yep. [01:04:31] Speaker B: He's kind of a lot of anecdotes, a lot of stories and anecdotes that are kind of funny. Seemingly, you know, true to life stuff taken from his life, I would think, with embellishments, I'm sure. But I, I do like, I didn't think I would like, but I do like the meta comedy that he does. He talks about his own celebrity. Here comes, he's, he's writing something down. It's going to be a card. [01:04:54] Speaker C: It's a secret. [01:04:57] Speaker B: 15 minutes left. [01:04:58] Speaker C: Oh, he's got on the SD car [01:04:59] Speaker B: to get on that. Oh, on the SD. [01:05:00] Speaker C: Yeah. We can't even go past. [01:05:02] Speaker B: Well, I don't think we have. I don't think we have 15 minutes of material here. But I do like it. I do. I don't know that I always like a meta comedian where he talks about the jokes like, I'm going to end that joke right there. Or. But I liked how he met it and I. I do like his crowd work. How he would, you know, very formally say, now it's time for crowd work. I like that. [01:05:25] Speaker A: Well, he famously did a crowd work only tour and like, before it was fashionable. [01:05:32] Speaker C: Give Rifing Instagram. [01:05:34] Speaker A: I give Tom Barry's Jew. He did it before it became this fashionable thing. [01:05:39] Speaker C: Really? [01:05:39] Speaker B: He would just do crowd work the whole time. [01:05:41] Speaker A: Well, he just did a tour specifically of it and released an album of [01:05:44] Speaker C: it with the crowd work that he was doing. He was talking to that woman who saw a bear in a car. [01:05:49] Speaker B: Right. [01:05:50] Speaker C: And I feel like he missed a really good opportunity later. Cuz he had a joke about a bear and he could have. [01:05:53] Speaker B: I know, I thought that too. I was like. [01:05:56] Speaker C: Right, exactly. [01:05:57] Speaker B: He had no callbacks. This is a no callback comedian. I do respect. [01:06:00] Speaker C: Except for Pooty Tang. [01:06:02] Speaker B: Yeah, I guess those are. Yeah. [01:06:06] Speaker C: Throughout. [01:06:07] Speaker B: I guess they are callbacks. [01:06:08] Speaker C: But what was the. What was the joke about adjusting the doctor? Adjusting his back? Everybody laughed. I didn't get it. [01:06:15] Speaker A: Because he was taking the piss out of chiropractic. [01:06:18] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:06:20] Speaker C: I don't understand. [01:06:21] Speaker B: So he was saying. What was the thing, the analogy or he was saying it was like. Do you remember? [01:06:27] Speaker A: No, I don't remember the analogy, but it was. I don't think it was an analogy bit. It was something like, oh, my. My doctor told me this. Then it was clearly some stupid quackery. Yeah. And then he said. Oh, did he tell you that while he was adjusting your back? Meaning. [01:06:47] Speaker C: Meaning that they're not real doctors. [01:06:49] Speaker A: It's a chiropractor. [01:06:50] Speaker C: All right, I get it. [01:06:51] Speaker B: Yeah. Okay. Yeah, well, that's the. But there was something before it. The thing I have written down is the. When he's in the. The cab or the Uber and the guy's like, I got a mask, but you're not gonna like it. Yeah, yeah. And it says, Biden is as useless as this mask. Then I have the chiropractor joke. But I don't know. How is it going with the note taking? You're taking notes or you were. [01:07:12] Speaker C: Yeah, I've got a few notes here. [01:07:13] Speaker B: You got Some drawings. [01:07:14] Speaker C: I drew Todd Berry. [01:07:15] Speaker B: I was gonna draw him. That's pretty good. I like the drawings. Yeah. I need to do more drawing. You've moved on to some kind of arp free wounded warrior. I've been on this whole. [01:07:25] Speaker A: I've been on this the whole. [01:07:26] Speaker B: Since the gold scene ran out. I don't know, I was. I was gonna watch this special on the plane on the way home on the phone, and I didn't have my. My paper and like, normal. And then I felt like I gotta. Every one of these is on an 8 and a half by 11 slip of paper folded in half. But I think whoever Christian picks next. And you are picking next. You know this. Oh, he knows. I would like to just watch it and no notes. Or maybe write down. I'm. I'm flowcharting this. I don't. What's the point? Right? Like, just enjoy it. I don't know that I can enjoy it if I'm not taking as much. Well, I have laughs. [01:08:05] Speaker A: I'm not incessantly scribbling. I just. I need something. I'm old. I gotta forget stuff. [01:08:12] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. I think if you got something noteworthy. I'm just writing everything down. Right. Like I'm a stenographer. [01:08:19] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:08:20] Speaker A: There's no point in doing it. [01:08:21] Speaker B: Comedy stenographer. [01:08:22] Speaker C: I try to keep my notes light. You know, Just a couple of things to remember. [01:08:26] Speaker B: Yeah, that's probably better. I'm gonna adjust there. But if anyone wants to know every single bit, I have it written down. [01:08:32] Speaker C: Just transcribe the entire special. [01:08:34] Speaker B: Well, I think when we started, we kind of did that. We kind of went through a lot of the bits, a lot of the set. But I think that's what people want. [01:08:40] Speaker C: That's why we're tailspinning. [01:08:41] Speaker B: I don't think that's what our audience wants to hear. [01:08:43] Speaker C: You know, we've gotten away. [01:08:45] Speaker B: Ratings are. Ratings are in the toilet. Right. [01:08:47] Speaker A: Walking off in droves. [01:08:48] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:08:49] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:08:50] Speaker B: Well, I'll tell you who. Who likes the program. Began construction for all your home remodel needs called Bill began. [01:08:57] Speaker A: Well, he should like it. Paying his. [01:08:59] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:08:59] Speaker A: Paying his bills. [01:09:00] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:09:01] Speaker B: His advertising nut the thousands of jobs [01:09:03] Speaker A: he's getting from it. [01:09:06] Speaker B: All right, well, I got it. Did you. Did you see any Mike Olson in here? I have a Mike Olson. Light bulb went off when he's doing the crowd work. He's like, hey, how you doing? Where are you from? He goes, it's time for crowd work. Hey, how you doing? Remember all season that bit like, hey, how you doing? Where do you work? Where are you from? Hey, how you doing? [01:09:27] Speaker C: Where do you work? [01:09:28] Speaker B: Where are you from? Like a crowd work robot. The thing that I took from this or the thing that really got me thinking deeply. 1. I want to say this. I think you like him because he's a cat guy, right? [01:09:42] Speaker A: No, this cat. This is brand new. [01:09:43] Speaker B: You didn't know about his cat thing. [01:09:45] Speaker A: That's brand spanking. That was a shocker at the end there. [01:09:47] Speaker B: Yeah. Unless you have something else. I wanted to say this, and then I want to get to the ending, because I think the ending is really noteworthy. It's like he referenced comedy nerds. Remember he said something about comedy? He's like, the last thing I want is, like, you know, comedy nerds coming up to me. Ask me about Patton Oswalt's email. I want to make sure that we are never. I don't ever want to be a comedy nerd. Right. We're not comedy nerds, are we? No, you kind of are. [01:10:18] Speaker A: We're just doing a podcast about comedy. [01:10:20] Speaker C: I don't think we care enough about comedy to be considered a nerd. Yeah. [01:10:25] Speaker B: Because that's the last thing I want to be, is a comedy nerd. Like, sounds like the people at the Heidecker show. Comedy nerds. Right. Like, I want to enjoy comedy and not be a fanboy of comedy. Right. [01:10:38] Speaker A: But isn't that just a natural extension of liking it? [01:10:41] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:10:42] Speaker A: To be obsessed with it. [01:10:44] Speaker B: I'm not obsessed with it. Ten minutes till bedtime. So let's make sure that we were not, you know, this is. Let's make no mistake. This is not a comedy nerd podcast. Right. Yeah. You're looking at me blankly. [01:11:02] Speaker C: Well, I mean, I don't think so. I don't know. Maybe if comedy nerds listen to it, it is. [01:11:06] Speaker B: Yeah. I don't want comedy nerds to listen to this. I would actually take anybody listening to this. [01:11:12] Speaker C: I would take exceptions. Yeah. I don't want. [01:11:13] Speaker B: I don't want to interrupt any potential. [01:11:16] Speaker C: We're not going to publish this. [01:11:17] Speaker A: We're not going to be picky. [01:11:18] Speaker B: No, we're not going to be picky. But I just. As he referenced. I was like, wait a minute. Am I a comedy nerd? Are we comedy nerds? I don't. Don't ever want that. [01:11:27] Speaker C: We talk more about breakfast than we do about comedy. [01:11:29] Speaker B: Yeah, that's right. [01:11:30] Speaker A: Yeah. I think if we were comedy nerds, we'd be sitting around dissecting the jokes. Yeah. And just. Which we are sort of doing. But yeah, once a Week just to get me out of the house. [01:11:40] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:11:40] Speaker A: That's enough. [01:11:41] Speaker B: Yeah. We got to start bringing in somebody, preferably a woman, to be under the desk to knob you off. Like George Gaines in Police Academy. [01:11:53] Speaker A: Did we do that? Did we do that? [01:11:55] Speaker B: That'll get you out of the house? Yeah, I think so. Yeah. [01:11:57] Speaker A: So you're just doing it to bring it on? [01:11:59] Speaker B: Yeah. Bring it online. Yeah. You can get knobbed off under the table every week. How much would that cost? Is that in the. The budget? Have somebody under the. The table here? Knob mark could be free. Yeah, some. Some. Yeah. Epstein Island. Some people have referred to this whole wing lodge as Geary's Epstein Island. I'm not gonna say who, but maybe I'll find that you don't want. You don't want to be considered running. Running an Epstein island of comedy here. [01:12:34] Speaker C: You don't want that. [01:12:36] Speaker B: All right. [01:12:37] Speaker C: Worth avoiding the last bit. [01:12:40] Speaker A: The last what? [01:12:41] Speaker B: You got something? [01:12:42] Speaker A: Well, I never got to talk about my favorite bit. Oh, daddy will bank bankrupt the company is. I love that classic line. [01:12:50] Speaker B: Yep. [01:12:51] Speaker A: The kitten checking into a hotel because a kitten attacked me. [01:12:56] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:12:56] Speaker A: That was awesome. [01:12:58] Speaker B: You love kitten humor. Being a cat lover. [01:13:00] Speaker A: And then the. The best bit he did and she was the longest bit. A lot of it was hard to make notes about this because it's just skip. [01:13:09] Speaker B: Well, there are chunks. [01:13:10] Speaker A: There's only meat to get a hold of the ten thousand dollar what's it prize was the longest bit. [01:13:17] Speaker B: I love that. That was great, right? Like not knowing what to do with $10,000. Like, I'll get him to buy a house from. I'm like, yeah, you're not. [01:13:25] Speaker A: That was literally the longest bit. I bet if you sat down with a stopwatch, like a comedy nerd wouldn't. That was the longest bit, I gotta say. [01:13:33] Speaker B: Well, that was the. Maybe the longest. Yeah. Because it was one bit that was dragged out. But he had chunks, right. He did chunks about dating, he did chucks about health care, chunks about COVID chunks about cooking. And then he comes back and does more about cooking. So it wasn't like he did skip around a lot, traveling chunks, but then he'll just have, like, random jokes that have nothing to do with anything. [01:14:01] Speaker A: Do you remember the class? The definitive Todd Barry joke. We should bring that up. [01:14:07] Speaker B: I don't know what it is. What is it? [01:14:09] Speaker A: He made this joke. [01:14:10] Speaker B: Comedy nerd alert. [01:14:12] Speaker A: He made this joke and it actually got to the person he made the joke about. If I say that, then. [01:14:18] Speaker B: Well, that was in here. When he talks about. [01:14:20] Speaker A: No no, no, no, no. If I say the band name Fugazi, do you remember the joke now? [01:14:25] Speaker C: Nope. [01:14:26] Speaker A: Todd Barry had one of the greatest jokes ever. He goes, todd Barry is actually a drummer. Just F1. [01:14:32] Speaker C: Oh, really? [01:14:32] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:14:32] Speaker B: Oh yeah. [01:14:33] Speaker A: Like Fred Armisen and he can drum. [01:14:36] Speaker C: Or Bill Burr. [01:14:37] Speaker B: Bill Burr's a drummer? [01:14:38] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:14:39] Speaker B: No, he talked about, produced this, by the way. [01:14:41] Speaker A: He said, he said, I'm a big fan of this band Fugazi, which is a punk band. A really old punk band. He goes, they have a rule where they no show can cost more than $10 to get in. It's like a hard. Yeah, hard rule. [01:14:55] Speaker B: He goes, no wonder they're out of business. [01:14:57] Speaker A: Yeah, he is. He is. You got to think that one of the band, probably the drummer is like, hey guys, just an idea. Why don't we charge $11? And then I don't have to have a roommate when I'm 32 years old. That's right. And that's like a. Just, just definitively hilarious joke. Right. And the drummer from Fugazi was told this joke like so many times because people would just go on to him, [01:15:26] Speaker B: like, heard the joke. $11. Yeah. [01:15:32] Speaker A: But yeah, I love that. I love that anecdote that like it. I think eventually the drummer like in him met. [01:15:38] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:15:40] Speaker C: I'm surprised he didn't have a picture of him with the drummer. This. When he was doing his whole slideshow. [01:15:46] Speaker B: Well, how about the, the ending? Do you want to go through any more classic bits that you like? [01:15:50] Speaker A: No, no, no. [01:15:51] Speaker B: I thought he had some great bits in here. But the ending I love when a comedian ends with their best stuff. We've seen a lot of them just kind of go out with a whimper. But that. And you love the slideshow type of comedy, right? You do you offer it up here a lot. I thought that was awesome. Right. Like the pictures. There's so many great little jokes in there about the pictures. Like when he shows the picture of the. They keep showing the pictures of the ripped up couch. Right. You had to love that. And then he's like, and that's probably a million dollar contract sitting right there with a laser pointer. That was great. And then he brings in the celebrities. Just a great, great way to end it. I wouldn't want to see any kind of 45 minute slideshow comedy. That would be awful. But just a little, little touch of it there was really nice. [01:16:41] Speaker A: The, the only thing that annoyed me with that bit is he needed. He had, he had a mouse for advancing the slides. Yeah. He kept having. I Was like. That's a. That's a one device thing. [01:16:53] Speaker B: Yeah, the. [01:16:53] Speaker A: The. [01:16:54] Speaker B: The slide changer is a laser pointer. I know they have. [01:16:57] Speaker C: Right. [01:16:57] Speaker B: Teachers use those. [01:16:58] Speaker A: That's what happens when you go to a, quite frankly, amateurish venue. [01:17:01] Speaker B: Yeah. A place like the Den Comedy Club in Chicago. You know, they don't. They don't have the equipment that a [01:17:08] Speaker A: good venue would have a selection. Probably three. [01:17:11] Speaker B: Just. Yeah. [01:17:12] Speaker A: Three slide pointers sitting in a drawer in the tech room with built in lasers. [01:17:18] Speaker B: Lasers. Different ergonomic. [01:17:20] Speaker A: Ergonomic styles for their hand. [01:17:22] Speaker B: Different hands. [01:17:22] Speaker C: Yeah. What sort of venue comes to mind when you think of that place? [01:17:27] Speaker B: Well, it could be none other than the Lincoln Lodge, winner of Chicago's best stand up venue, 2026. What other standup venues are there? Zanies, of course. Course. [01:17:39] Speaker C: Laugh Factory. [01:17:40] Speaker B: Laugh Factory. Not the best theater. The Den theater. Not the best ling. Watch. The best. [01:17:46] Speaker C: The best. Y. Number one. [01:17:47] Speaker B: The best. All right. Since it was your pick and you've had some weird rating scales. Oh, last. Remember last week's dog? One medium dog, small dog or Marmaduke. Shelty. [01:18:01] Speaker A: Yep. [01:18:03] Speaker B: We like to try and tie it into the. Can you tie in a rating scale to Todd Berry's act today? [01:18:08] Speaker A: No, I can't. [01:18:09] Speaker B: Okay, I'll help you then. Your Christian cat. [01:18:12] Speaker A: Number of cats. [01:18:13] Speaker B: Okay. [01:18:14] Speaker C: Number of cats out of how many [01:18:16] Speaker B: cats are we doing different sized cats? [01:18:18] Speaker A: No, no, just do. Running out of. We're running out of this space rapidly. [01:18:24] Speaker B: It's two minutes. [01:18:25] Speaker A: Yep. [01:18:25] Speaker B: To the gong. [01:18:26] Speaker A: Let's get it in. Four cats out of. [01:18:29] Speaker C: Out of four. [01:18:30] Speaker A: Four out of five out of five. [01:18:31] Speaker B: Four out of five cats. You go [01:18:36] Speaker C: two and a half cats out of five. [01:18:38] Speaker B: Wow. [01:18:39] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:18:39] Speaker B: You're shitting. [01:18:39] Speaker C: It's just I didn't really like the special, but I like Todd Berry, you know, But. But the half cat is the front half of the cat. Mildly front. [01:18:47] Speaker B: Okay, Front half the cat. I give it 3 cats out of 5. Mildly amusing. Enjoyed it. Mildly amusing. Not gonna break the mold. [01:18:59] Speaker A: Who's next? [01:19:00] Speaker C: All right, next up we have a special from 2010. It is Bill Burrs. [01:19:06] Speaker B: Go Bill Burr. We haven't heard him. He was a producer of this special. [01:19:11] Speaker C: This special. He's mentioned multiple times in this episode of our podcast. And he was also mentioned in Todd Berry's special himself. [01:19:18] Speaker B: Takashi, take us out. All right, there we go. We got in. We're right in. Under those. As dawn is one.

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