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The Shark Deck. Jenny Mac with your Daily Company News. Tom Sagoura caught up with Muscle and Fitness and they talked workouts. Tom said, I was two hundred and fifty five pounds the special. I say it was two hundred forty five pounds, but I’m lying.
I was two fifty five. The truth is, I don’t think it was actually very cool, but I was just kind of going along with it. I was thirty four when that was happening. It’s not a good thing, and I was completely sedentary at that time. If you go back and watch his specials in twenty sixteen’s mostly Stories, you’ll notice that he appears a little fitter.
His shoulders look broader than in twenty eighteen. Disgraceful, he revealed he had lost more than fifty pounds. Sigura said, everybody has their own number that’s permissible, where like after that their alarms go off. The thing that I’ve learned is there’s no end number, and that’s what took me a long time to figure out. Even now I’m in the two hundred pound range, like I kind of fluctuated, say between one nine eight and two oh five.
You don’t get to a number and go We’re done. It’s a constant thing. As cliched as it sounds, it’s literally a lifestyle. Part of the problem was the schedule, often doing two shows in a single day. You’d find he and his crew reading junk food late at night.
Now they try to eat between shows rather than eat in the middle of the night. It’s a very four departure from the way we used to do it. He suggests washing out for super coffees. They’re like, man, I love this chocolate squirreled thing with like caramel and I don’t know something else in it. And it’s just like, wow, it’s so crazy.
What’s in it? And they’re like, yeah, that’s how I get my day started. And I’m like, holy cow, man, it’s like you eat a whole cake. Here’s Sigoura’s training split. While on tour, Monday, we do chest and back Tuesday forty five to sixty minutes exercise bike for cardio.
Wednesday heavy day legs, back and arms, squats, deadlifts Thursday, forty five to sixty minute jogger exercise bike, Friday arms core and mobility Saturday light cardio. When he’s home, he has his own gym set up with a pellets on dumbbells and kettlebells and a wall mounted tonal resistant machine. Of course, says I love it. Fatherly focused on Christa Stephano the Parents. Recently on his podcast Chrissy Kaos, the Stephanote talked about the half weekday mornings that come with having three kids.
We have the twelve year old waking up, lady’s gonna miss the bus. We have him, my eight year old waking up right on time. She doesn’t want to do anything, she doesn’t want to do her hair, she doesn’t want to eat. Then we have the two year old waking up who’s just being too a crazy, drunk, lunatic person yelling, screaming, wants to be held, wants to be put on the floor, and she bites. There’s a lot of chaos going on.
We start yelling at each other. You only get the kids spreading on the bus. It always turns negative, sending him out in the world on the bus. He realized responding to chaos with chaos wasn’t going to get a positive reaction. It said, hey, let’s use these moments of crisis to show the children how you react.
Her in a crisis because with children, they can’t really communicate. Their behavior is the language. How they’re behaving is what they’re telling you. So I’m like, Okay, they’re behaving in a way that maybe they’re hungry, maybe they have to use the bathroom, maybe they’re scared because they have a test. Whatever.
But he admits sometimes it doesn’t work. He said, for some reason today when I woke up, I was like f everything, and I went just back to doing what I did last month and went back to the old me. Jeff Foxworthy said, somebody asked him, what do you think about before you walk out on stage? And Jeff said, I’m always kind of reminding myself, Okay, everybody you’re looking at is going through something a physical struggle, a financial struggle, and emotional struggle. And so my whole life has just been be nice to people, be kind of people, because you don’t know their story, you don’t know what they’re dealing with.
I don’t think laughter makes people struggles go away, but laughter is like the release valve that keeps the boiler from exploding. Now, as much as any time in my career, I have more people coming back after show and going, oh my gosh, I can’t remember the last time I laugh like that, which for comics like the ultimate compliment, because you know, for just a little bit, you made them forget about all the bad stuff, you know, just for a little bit so correct or incorrect. I think it’s almost therapeutic these days. He found the two year pandemic break weird for me. I didn’t get up on stage for almost two years, and I just missed it every week.
I think my wife missed me doing it. After a while, She’s like, don’t we have somewhere to go to do a show. I’ve learned to still be very grateful to be doing it since we’ve been back, because I still love it. I mean, I always think I’m the luckiest guy in the world because I’ve made a living doing something I would have done for free. I just kept my mouth shut when they offer to pay me.
I can’t imagine not doing it. I know I probably don’t have many years left to do it, so I’m gonna shaate them while I’ve got them. Susie Eddie Azzard has announced an autumn tour offering revamped versions of the greatest hits of her thirty five years stand up career. Zard will revisit routines like Darth Vader and mister Stephen in the Death Star Canteen, the Monkey and the Tree from French Lessons, and the Pair that Never seemed to ripen Zord said, in the first thirty five years of my stand up career, I came up with many weird and crazy comedy stories. The ones I liked the best will be in my twenty twenty three live remixed tour.
Legendary punk rock label Kill rock Stars has announced the relaunch of Kill rock Stars comedy. Pap Johnson’s album Simeless will come out Friday, August eleventh. Kill rock Stars has previously released albums by folks like w Kmanbell, Cameron Esposito, Harry Knobolo, Kurt Brunoller, Ian Carmel, Emily Heller, and Moore. That’s a great list, one of the suits over there says, Kill rock Stars is comedy. We started as a spoken word label and expanding to comedy was a natural move.
Comedy is the new punk rock and this excellent, hilarious Pap Johnson release marks the official reboot of our comedy program On Sinless. Oakland native Pap Johnson shares with you his uniquely hilarious perspective on life, death, race, social grace’s parenting, sex, relationships, and more. What We Do in the Shadows is back and Mark Proach, who plays the Energy Vampire well. He says, despite the series getting awards and nominations, he still makes more money off with his limited run on the Office than he does on a series that he’s in every episode of for five years. He told The Ramp, I make more from one season of guest starring on the Office than I made for every season of Shadows combined.
He’s been in over forty episodes of What We Do in the Shadows as Colin Robinson, the Energy Vampire. On the Office, he played Nate for nineteen episodes. Two of his co stars, Howrvey Gee and Kristin Shall, have echoed his concerns, emphasizing how actors are treated pretty poorly. Kristen said they don’t make enough money to have a living. The residuals on streaming are almost non existent, if at all.
I’ve definitely noticed it from doing voice over work in different things. If it’s a streamer, you get paid for the day, even if it’s a hit show. That’s not how people can make a living, and they shouldn’t have to. Kristen Shall described the current audition process, which requires performers to put themselves on tape like twenty times. She called it a full time job.
This started during COVID when everyone was social distancing. I know personally he’s some artists fund It’s just easier to do it from home. But then you get to do twenty revisions. Kristen said, just consider the norm because actors will do it. Hi.
I’m Mark Francis, an host of a new podcast, The Messy Effect. Join us as we take you into the exciting new world of Argentine soccer phenomenon Lionel Messi and his new life at Into Miami will bring you into the glitz, the glamor, the star started events along with the exciting journey to a new world of US soccer and international football with news and stories three times a week. Coming on for the ride as Messy Miami, a major League soccer experience the journey of a lifetime. Get The Messy Effect wherever you get you a podcast. The National Comedy Center in Jamestown, of York is getting ready to celebrate the thirty first Lucille Ball Festival August two through the sixth.
Pretty Good headliners too Gabriel Iglesias August third, Taylor Tomlinson August fourth. This year the festival’s comedy late night events at the Tropicana Club above the Lucy Desi Museum. That’s all fun. We’ll feature a variety of comedians performing new and edgier material. Free screening of classic I Love Lucy episodes on the outdoor jumbo screens, Lucytown tours and Lucy Legacy tribute events.
All the information on Comedy center dot org. Slash Festival. The New York Times profiled Comedy Bites. Who’s a group of comedians who call themselves an AI comedy collective. They’re going to perform at Crystal Lake that’s a barn, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, on July nineteenth.
What’s the format of the show. This is a lot of fun. In Round one, humans roast machines, machines roast humans. Round two humans verse specific AI celebrity and vice versa. Round three human versus an AI version of the human himself or herself.
One of the founders, Aaron Staple, said, I’m proud to say I successfully beat the AI. All three rounds. Battling myself was actually the hardest. The celebrity guest I had was Elizabeth Holmes. I work and tech myself during the day and kind of obsessed over the whole Theano story.
So it was really fun to be able to battle. Why was it hard to battle yourself? It got more personal than I thought, not in a bad way, but I wasn’t expecting it to be so pointed. There was a lot of like, your code isn’t even that good, and I’m like, oh man, that was spicy. And from the mirror a list of some license plates that have been deemed too rude or too controversial for your personalized plate.
I’ll read the number letter combinations and you can figure out what they are. All of these have seventy three as placeholders in the middle of it. Factor that in as you listen to me, read you alpha numeric combinations, So on the band list or as seventy three h O, L B U seventy three SHT and EA seventy three tc K. That last one made Johnny mc laugh. You cannot have EA seventy three poo and you cannot have t T seventy three TTS.
That is your comedy news for today. Follow the show for free on APPA, podcast, Spotify, ut, wherever you get your shows. See tomorrow. Hi, I’m Mark Francis and host of a new podcast, The Messy Effect. Join us as we take you into the exciting new world of Argentine soccer phenomenon Lionel Messi and his new life at Into Miami will bring you into the glitz, the glamor, the star started events along with the exciting journey to a new world of US soccer and international football with news and stories three times a week.
Come along for the ride as Messy Miami and Major League Soccer experience the journey of a lifetime. Get The Messy Effect wherever you get your podcasts.