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The Shark Deck Johnny Mack with Your Daily Comedy News. Joe Rogan had Punky Johnson on his February seventh episode. They started talking music and the subject turned to Kanye West. Joe Rogan said, Kanye create some bangers, but he’s also said some crazy stuff about Hitler. Rogan added, I don’t think he’s a bad person.
I’m assuming he meant Kanye there, and I think Kanye the mistakes he’s made, he’s pretty honest about it. He’s mentally ill, and that mental illness allows him to have insane productivity with music. You can call it an illness or you can say instead, he’s got this gift. And this gift sometimes effing shoots off live rounds and all sorts of different directions. But what a Candy was produced some of the best effing music ever.
His mind is like a runaway train. The eddeas are coming in way fast. He’ll go from one idea of the next idea, and people say he’s rambling, But I’m like, buddy, is he or is he diffused with way more ideas than we are? You may or may not recall Kanye was on Alex Jones Info Wars on December first, Kanye said that he, Titler and Nazis had invented microphones and highways, quoting Kanye here, they did good things too. We’ve got to stop dissing the Nazis all the time, all right, Yeah, no, No, Daily Comedy News is officially anti Nazi.
EYSM. Sagora. There’s a segue, Johnny Mack, How have things changed food and workout wise since you first started comedy? This was a question asked to Tom Sigora by GQ. Sagoora said, It’s been a journey.
I’ve been a comic for twenty years now, and I think I’ve done everything wrong you can do, but I’ve kind of morphed into doing everything right you can do. You learn that a heavy touring schedule could break you down in many ways, and if you don’t take care of yourself physically, everything else kind of goes with it. When I was starting as a club act, I’d fly in and stay up in the hotel or the comedy condo until four am, and then wake up at like noon, eat some bs like fries and a burger, then try to nap and go the club and eat like crappy mozzarella sticks or something. Been there, done that, You’re in the cycle of doing that, And of course I was gaining weight. Been there, done that, and I was feeling worse physically and mentally.
I didn’t really start to prioritize health again until my first son was born at the end of twenty fifteen. Took a little while, but I started a tour and I would go to cardio and I’d feel better if I did elliptical or something. What I realized is between twenty seventeen and twenty nineteen, I’d gained twenty bands. Again, I didn’t feel like I was living that mindlessly. I didn’t think I was being reckless, but it was really because I was just not dialing in onto tails.
So this time, when I saw what tour is coming up and now heavy and daunting, the whole schedule was I just needed to go through it physically in a healthy way. Tom now brings a trainer on tour. He said, there was a trainer I’ve known for a few years and work with Sean Nicks, and I was like, I want you to come with me. I’m lucky because he’s actually a legit professional photographer, so he’s my photographer on Tour two. That’s awesome.
It’s great to have somebody like him. We’re similar in age, similar in build, and I have this living example of how to do it right. We kind of like the same foods and we like the same types of workouts. Like I got up by a yogurt with mixed berries. We also do omelets with tomatoes and mushrooms, a little bacon, no cheese.
We make protein shakes orl of meal bars. Sometimes we basically eat the same thing. I’m weighing the lowest I’ve weighed in almost twenty years. And it’s not even because I’m like, ah, I gotta weigh this much. It’s literally happening because I’m just living like this.
My portions have started to decrease, and I’m not hungry. It’s just that I realized how much I was overeating. I must have been overeating just every day. Sometimes now I’ll order a seven or eight ounce filet and I won’t finish it, and it’s because I’m not hungry. I will jump in there.
So last year, when I was training for the marathon, I eventually pulled out. Long story short, but I’m planning on doing it this year. We’ll talk about this some other time, and I want to block down on that. But I was telling people, like, you’re losing weight, and I’m like, I’m just not hungry from the running. I just was less hungry, and I was having salads and smoothies and I was just good.
I wasn’t on a food crusade. I wasn’t dieting. I wasn’t like I must eat salads and smoothies. That was just all I wanted. And when I wasn’t hungry, I didn’t eat.
Dropped twenty pounds. Was great. You know what happens when he stopped training? You put ten pounds back on? Oh, well, net minus ten.
But I am planning and doing the race in November. We’ll talk about that some other time. Tom Segura, what kind of workouts are you doing? He said, When we’re on the road, we work out every day. Yesterday we did a boxing workout.
He brought mits. We have gloves on the bus. We lift probably four or five days a week. If we don’t lift, we try to do heavier cardio. A lot of the things are contingent upon the type of gym we encounter.
This hotel right now has some dumbbells, a couple of machines, and some cardio stuff. So our workout cater state equipment that exists. That’s interesting. We were in a place a few weeks ago they had one of these elaborate gyms that had squat racks and full gym equipment. Whenever we encounter those, we incorporate heavier lifting.
We do squats, deadlifts, bench presses, and inclines, but when we do with barbells, you realize the difference between lifting with barbells as opposed to just cables and dumbells. One more question, do you cook on the bus? Tom? We don’t really cook on the bus. Sometimes we’ll do oatmeal with banana and we’ll put protein powder into it, or we’ll do protein shakes on the bus.
We have a blender. A lot of it is eating out, but we also got Piedmontese steaks. I don’t know what that is. Those really go to the house, but they make these really great beefsticks that are high quality. So we have a bunch of those.
Two with a lot of food. We just try to find the best place for dinner. And you’re basically on a rotation of chicken, salmon, and Steak Johnny Mack. You never mentioned Mark Maron. Hey, I think on Friday’s podcast, I actually did not mention Mark Maron.
So there, but today Mark Marin mentioned. Friday asked him, did you miss performing during Lockdown? Marin said, I didn’t miss comedy at all. I didn’t do any of those weird outdoor drive in zoom shows. I reel felt like maybe I’m over it, maybe I’m all better and I don’t need this anymore.
But as soon as other people started working their race was on. Friday asked him, after Rovie Wade was overturned, did you feel like you wanted to weigh in? Mark said, I needed to talk about abortion without sounding over the top lefty crazy. What I’m saying is practical. I don’t think it’s political.
It comes from personalizing the mail experience. You can make a joke about anything, But should you That’s up to you. Are there consequences to doing certain jokes? Yes? Is it worth the risk?
Again up to you. Should you respect other people? Of course? Does that mean you can’t do a joke about them? Not necessarily.
There are a lot of people who are ANTSI woken who believed that making jokes about marginalized people and using slang that is outdated just for effect. Is Sam and now pushing the line comedically that’s a cop out. Do you think he means Dave should hell there, I’m gonna go first, I do. They asked him about global warming and he said, what makes me optimistic is I still might be out of this world before he gets really horrible. Wow.
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You’ve heard the deal. I’m gonna take your money in the donus chain and all that. You’ve heard that rep before. Joel McHale, he’s got that new show Animal Control. Stop calling it animal cops, Johnny MC animal controls that right.
I don’t have notes in front of me. I think that’s right. He was doing some press for the show, spoke to the News Daily and he said, this is definitely a weird group. I was drawn to it because the characters are so darn well drawn, and it’s something we don’t really see, similar to how we never saw Community Colleges on TV. H Are you telling me the new show is Community esque?
I haven’t seen it yet. I’m recording this on Thursday. It is on my list of things to watch Friday nights. Plant watching that card. There’s two new shows on Apple.
I want to watch Big TV Night planned for Friday night. Joel, have you ever called animal control yourself? Joel said, honest truth, I’ve never called animal control, but I have captured two baby rattlesnakes, one of my old house and one of my neighbors across the street. I like snakes. My cousin grew up in Calabasas, California, would go in the desert and catch snakes, so all fear of snakes left.
They’re totally docile if they’re not hungry. He was asked if there were any real animals on set, and he said there was a real kangaroo, and we were obviously with the ostriches. Right. I did learn about ostriches teenage. Ostriches are like golden retrievers.
They’re very happy and really interested and they’ll just walk up to you and be like, hey, what are you doing. Let’s take a look at who’s playing the Vancouver Comedy Festival today. Let’s see seven o’clock, Pat Reagan, Ryan Hamilton at seven, JFL Showcase at seven. Sunday Nights, Stand Up Comedy seven thirty. Let’s see who’s there.
It’s a special edition of the weekly Sunday Showcase of the funniest comedians in Canada. No names that you are likely to know. Pete Holmes eight o’clock, Becky Robinson nine thirty, Ali Mkofski at nine thirty, another Showcase at nine thirty, and a second version of the stand Up Comedy Showcase at ten.
All right, let’s play this out for the early show.
Well, I’m gonna want to see Pete Holmes at eight. What do you say we hit the JFL Showcase at seven, we’ll leave early, we’ll walk on over to Pete Holmes at eight. Then for the late show we can do Sunday Night Stand up comedy. It’s local people and I always think that’s good to see when you go to these festivals. And with eight comedians on the bill, do to make for a nice night show and a serious topic here to end today’s show.
Comedian Ramesh Raganathan has admitted he has regularly thought about taking his own life due to a horrific voice in his head. He was on the Diary of a CEO podcast, Ramesha’s forty four, and he opened up and he said, I was thinking about taking my own life regularly, and I’d fantasize about it. I think that all comedians are wired slightly differently. They’ve had something happen to them that has made them an outsider in some way. We lived in a nice house, we had a nice car, all the stereotypical things that work success with then in a period of six months, it was a complete one eighty.
I’m addicted to doing stand up and it makes me better at everything. But I’ve got this inner voice that is horrific. It’ll say you’re not a very good dad, You’re not a very good husband. I had a run of about six panel shows. It was in a really bad place.
I turned up to each one of them with the steadfast belief that I was crappy at this. He was asked what happens when things go wrong on stage? He says, it’s horrible. The silence that never gets easier. Man, we learned from those gigs.
I just need to do the best I possibly can at this gig, not in control of anything that happens after that. Don’t think about this goal down the line and trying to get to do this thing brilliantly. And if you love what you do and you do that, you’re on a good path. If you need someone to talk to, The nine eight eight Suicide and Crisis Lifeline is the United States based suicide prevention network of over two hundred plus crisis centers. They provide twenty four seventh service via it’s whole free hotline just down nine eight eight nine eight eight, available to anyone in crisis or emotional distress.
That’s your comedy news for today, See you tomorrow.
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