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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mack with a very busy Saturday, especially in the summer and double especially after it had been a slow week and a half. There are a lot of stuff today. Let’s start with Conan O’Brien. On his podcast, he got into politic and started talking about ice with guest Diego Luna.
Conan said, I have empathy because if you’re paying attention, you understand that it feels like eighty percent of what’s getting done here to sustain our lives and our culture and our communities coming from south of the border. They’re doing all the work. Everybody I work with, everybody who works with me, everybody who helps me in any way or helps with my family in any way, with everything that needs to be done in every way. Every day I’m working with people who are from Mexico or Central America or South America. They are the community.
In Los Angeles, a social media influencer, The Liver King, was arrested for making terroristic threats. The liver King, real name Brian Johnson, apparently posted some videos. In one of them, he said, Joe Rogan, I’m calling you out out. The liver King has two point nine million Instagram followers apparently posted a series of videos calling Rogan out. The police put out a statement.
The police said detectives reviewed the posts and observed that the Liver King was traveling to Austin while continuing to make threatening statements. Detectives contacted mister Rogan, who stated he had never had any interaction with the Liver King and considered the post to be threatening. Based on this information, detectives obtained an arrest warrant for the Liver King on a charge of terroristic threat. In a June twenty third video, the Liver King said Joe Rogan, I’m calling you out. My name’s liver King.
Man and man, I’m picking a fight with you. I have no training in jiu jitsu. You’re a black belt. You should dismantle me. But I’m picking a fight with you.
Your rules. I’ll cut weight. I’ll come to you whenever you’re ready, whenever you’re ready to go. On June twenty fourth, a video said, we have real tension, Joe Rogan. We don’t have to make videos to pretend anymore.
All of this is happening. We’re coming to you. I’ve challenged you, man and man to a fight honorable. You can hold the hand of somebody that you love, because what happens next to you, you need to remember that feeling. You’re going to need something more than what you did to give you something to fight for.
Because I have my family to fight for and that I’ll die for them. And you’re a black belt, but you’ve never come across something like this. This is really scary. I don’t even want to read the rest of it. It gets even worse.
In my opinion, the man had checked into and the details of everything the Four Seasons hotel in downtown Austin. The Liver King is apparently famous on social media for what he calls a quote ancestral lifestyle that is driven largely by his consumption of raw meat. There’s a Netflix documentary Untold the Liver King that came out in May, and apparently back in twenty twenty two, on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast, Rogan made fun of the dude’s bulked out physique, and then apparently after that, emails between the Liver King and a doctor were leaked and the Liver King was quote forced to admit that he had regularly spent eleven thousand dollars per month on performance enhancing drugs. Yikes. In other Joe Rogan news, he had Bernie Sanders on this week.
Now, the narrative since the election has been the left needs their own Joe Rogan, but the left has forgotten the Joe Rogan of the left was Joe Rogan. I mean, he was on board until he wasn’t. And he’s had Bernie on in the past. Well, this week Bernie was on the Joe Rogan Experience. So the Joe Rogan of the left apparently is Joe Rogan, and the Joe Rogan of the right is apparently Joe Rogan.
Oh is an okay interview? I checked it out. I’ve not yet had a chance to listen to Jim Norton on the Joe Rogan Experience, but Jim Norton tweeted, I had a great time with Joe Rogan. The episode is up now. Life is about change, but having a twenty year gig end always brings a lot of uncertainty with it.
I assume there Norton is referring to his time at Serious XAM. He was the quote unquote third cheer and the Opien Anthony Show for years and then had his own show after Opien Anthony kind of blew up as the phrase I would use. So there was Jim and Sam for I guess another ten years after that. Wow, Norton had a twenty year radio career and in my head, he’s new at it. Norton Street continues, Joe has been a true friend in what has been an unpredictable time in my career, and it’s very appreciated.
I’ve worked with Jim in the radio industry and podcasting industry a few times. He is a good dude. But the real big news today, and boy, I am so excited. Adam Sandler has announced a thirty city North American fall tour. I’m online right now as you’re listening.
I’m at a whiz in the Bronx trying to get tickets to Adam Sandler. That’s a joke for you old people. You see, younglings, we didn’t always have apps. We used to have to go to a record store and line up overnight and sleep out overnight. Like if you wanted to see Bruce Springsteen in nineteen eighty four, you’re camping out overnight, and what you would do is you would try and go to a neighborhood where you didn’t think there were a lot of fans of the particular band that you’re into.
So, for example, say Bruce Springsteen, I live in New Jersey right now. It would be dumb to stand in front of a record store New Jersey to get Springsteen tickets. But maybe you go, I don’t know Canada, and you could probably get tickets pretty easily. We used to do that sort of thing. I digress.
Adam Sandler sets thirty city North American Fall tour, including a stop at Madison Square Garden. I’m gonna before I tell you the story. And I shared this in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News podcast group. People you gotta pay attention. I mean, somebody just spit out a line.
They wrote. Critically acclaimed comedian now Adam Sandler, super successful, super rich. People love him, but he is not critically acclaimed. Critics do not go see Adam Sandler movies and be like, you know, that was really good.
And then I saw a different post that said something like, I don’t know movie …
Yeah. Absolutely, he definitely has popular movies. He just doesn’t have good movies, except of course, the ones with Drew Barrymore, uncut gems, the one with the space Alien, and the basketball one. Those are the five good Adam Sadlor movies. And look, if you’ve been listening to this show since I started it, I’m up to five good Adam Sandler movies.
Now there was a time when there were only two, both of which starred Drew Barrymore. I digress again Adam Saylor thirty City Faults or Across America. It kicks off September fifth in Jacksonville, I’m sorry, guys, and then eventually make his way to New York, Toronto, Chicago, Indianapolis, Omaha, and Seattle. The swer is called Adam Sandler. You’re my best friend, and don’t forget.
We’re less than a month away now from Happy Gilmour to streaming on Netflix. That’s out July twenty fifth, So we’re gonna be talking about Adam Sandler a lot. Nothing excites me more than that. Rain Wilson was on the Good Guys podcast hosted by Josh Peck and Ben Soper. Rain was talking about when Steve Carell left the office.
Wilson said, when Steve left then it was a little bit chaotic of trying to figure out the tone of the show and who’s the lead and how are we telling the stories without you know, the comic engine of the show, which is Michael Scott. Well, what they did was they took, in my opinion, some scripts that said Michael, crossed it out and wrote Andy. That’s basically what they did for at least half a season. I liked the Robert California stuff. Not everybody does, but the Andy character went from being a likable third banana to like awful.
To this day, if I see ed Helms in anything, I run away. What they should have done is promoted Jim to boss and flip the dynamic and then kind of made it like, now Jim has to be the grown up and he has to deal with the crazies. That’s where the humor could have come from. But again, I’m not a famous hitcom writer. I’m a dude in a basement hosting a podcast.
Patton Oswalt has joked that his daughter is lethally adventurous after she went swimming with sharks, pat And told Kimmel she’ll always run towards the most dangerous things she can find. Last week, she went swimming with sharks off Hawaii in a cage sent me footage like I’m swimming with sharks, dad, and I’m like, I don’t know if you’re my daughter, because that is so terrifying. If you’re in New Jersey today and you’re not online at the Whiz trying to get Adam Sandler tickets, you might see Kevin Hart. His crew is out and about around Hoboken in Jersey City. They are filming seventy two hours.
Seventy two hours stars Kevin Hart as an older man who tries to rekindle his career by joining a three day bachelor party after he gets accidentally added to a group chat among some much younger friends. I have an idea for a Kevin Hart movie, an older man who tries to rekindle his career by doing a podcast in the basement. That could work anyway. It is believed Kevin will be in Hoboken. People are seeing signs around tenth and Washington Streets that suggest the cast will be there on Saturday.
Movie crews have made use of the Elks Lodge in that area in the past, and somebody even saw a fake subway station. Very interesting. All right, quick time out here A little behind the scenes. So in the first half there I dropped like three or four stories. Now I am thrilled that there’s a busy Saturday, especially this time of year.
But I’m looking ahead and a week from now is July fourth weekend, and having done this podcast for several years now, the week after July fourth, there’s just a dearth of stuff. So as I was recording, and I’m always looking at the clock, because you know, I try and make these shows like twelve fifteen minutes long, unless like Dave Chappelle goes on a rant and now I’ll hit twenty something. So I was editing on the fly because I do want to squirrel away stories in case I need them. Like last week was pretty slow until it wasn’t, and I’m a little afraid that July fourth weekend, but today is strong enough that I can bump stuff. Vulture.
I think it was wrote about some parody songs, one in particular called bomb Iran. Now bomb Iran is based on the Beach Boys song Barbara Ann do It in your Head. It works. I played the song on YouTube. There’s a version of bomb Iran, and boy it’s as catchy as the original.
Vulture share that In April of two thousand and seven, John McCain was on stage at a primary campaign stop, blew his nose and fielded a question about sending an airmail message to the real problem in the Middle East Iran. I’ve been saying Iran like I’m from Queen’s Iran. Plus bomb Iran is more like Barbara Ann. Bomb Iran doesn’t quite work anyway. McCain considered the attendees proposal and then launched into a rendition of quote that old Beach Boys song Bomb Iran, and he’s sang bomb bomb bomb bomb bomb Iran.
He went viral bomb as cited it during two debates. McCain had decl he was joking. But the bomb Iran version goes back to the hostage crisis of nineteen seventy nine. If you’re old, you remember that quite well. If you throw the phrase into YouTube, it will come up.
And I happen to see this one before I even saw the bomb Iran story. But I was like, oh, this is some good pad out a summer Saturday episode kind of stuff. Billboard this week happened to write an article called Billboard’s Top fifteen musical comedians. Right now, let’s see who they are. I haven’t actually read it.
The first name that comes up is Bo Burnham, So I’m not sure you could easily say Bo Burnham’s number one from a popularity standpoint, or this might just be alphabetical, but Bo Burnham, okay? Cool? Next up j R. De Guzman, So we’ve gone B D and I doubt DeGuzman is the second most popular, So I think we’re going alphabetically here, Billboard writes. In another era, de Guzeman, whose sweet face provides cover for edge skirting comic songs about racial stereotypes, one called Asian Guys can Smash or el Sex of Christmas, the lyric at Deck the Halls with Fa La Latio, and ableism, a song apparently called Ampaty Girlfriend.
Anyway, it would be several seasons into a Network sitcom based on his life story. Francesca Duva not familiar trained as a musician. She graduated from the Peabody Conservatory at Johns Hopkins with a degree in music composition in twenty sixteen. She creates her own backing tracks for pieces that are less songs than many musicals in which she plays all the characters. Bridget Everetts is able to swing from intimate to over the top in a single breath.
Who Are Too Good for This World? HBO dramedy Somebody Somewhere set in Manhattan, Kansas, where she grew up, wrapped last year after three seasons of exploring the joys and sorrows. Kyle Gordon specializes in millennial song parodies. Tim Hidecker reasonably well known in the alt scene, Morgan, Jay, Lean and laid Back All the Way Back. Jay has made a specialty of autotune crowd work that is a pure joyed watch Mike in hand with the digital enhancement set all the Way to Travis Scott and has accompanist vamping, hushed R and B Chords works this way through the audience, poking at the usual topics in an auto tune falsetto.
This is a good list. Matteo Lane Sure we’re talking about Matteo a lot lately. Matteo is a trained opera singer with a six octave range. He says, I used to have whistle tones like Mariah Carey. They popped out of nowhere, but when you’re touring they come few and four between Ricky Lindhome.
You may know Lindholm is one half of Gorfunkel and Oats. Garfunkel and Otes are one of my faves. Oh CT I don’t know oct Billboard tells us this trio specializes in songs that push silliness towards the infinite. Don’t Touch My Clogs as an epic story that spans generations without ever straying from the instructions of the title. Dim Sun Paradise is the tale of a bus trip to Chinatown to find the Shangri Law where your taste buds burst like a distant star.
That sounds fun. Tim Platt, this is a long deep list Billboard. A mild mannered absurdist. I am not familiar with most of these artists. Actually, Platt promises jokes and songs and characters and stuff, all of which you delivered with trimming command from somewhere way out and left field.
His songs are rooted in the natural born surrealism of childhood. I’ll tell you somebody who has programmed a comedy radio for twenty something years now, the musical stuff usually doesn’t do well when you get metrics when I do play it on the Weekly Comedy Thing, which is the show I host on the Live One app which is a free app and the show is free. It’s like this except by talk a lot less and actually play bits, a weekly comedy thing on the Live one app. Check it out in new episodes every Sunday. Anyway, The metrics always show people tuning out during the musical stuff.
I usually put the musical stuff at the end. Mark rebela boy. This is long list known as loop Daddy. He shines and let him cook. Live streams which find him building ready for the floor.
Layers of beats and keyboard runs into the trancy funk, bluesy R and B electro house or spaced out hip hop tracks. I run out of air there It’s a long sentence and then ran rapping or singing on top of the results. Matt rogers, sure we know him from Las Culturistas. Read you that. Sure we know Reggie’s Reggie’s been around for a while.
The Wolves of Glendale not familiar. Keyboardist Tim McGovern describes the Wolves as a rock band trying to write the best songs we can about the dumbest things we can. That’s right up my alley. I will check this out. And the bro country stopper Ricky, a wage slave, tries to lastle some cowboy freedom by buying the horse in the song’s title, but he’s in over his head.
One of the rhymes is Ricky’s looking hungry, but I don’t know what he eats, so I make him ravioli and I pray he goes to sleep. I’m gonna totally check that out. That is the Wolves of Glendale and yep alphabetically. We have reached the end of the list, and that is your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program, please tell a friend about it.
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