Aug. 24, 2026

DCN Live in the Rain - Dane Cook’s Brother, Seth Meyers’ Break, Jay Leno’s Hustle & Weird Al Tiny Desk

Show Notes
Transcript

Recording poolside as the rain pours, the host shares a comedic interaction with AI while trying to understand why Dane Cook’s brother is named Darryl McCauley; after giving incorrect explanations, the AI admits the mistake and clarifies they are half-brothers with different fathers and a shared mother, Donna Jean Ford. The host reiterates a desire to “make 12:30 great again,” arguing NBC should replace Seth Meyers with Chris Fleming, noting Meyers is taking seven weeks off and has launched a YouTube video podcast of “A Closer Look.” A Jay Leno anecdote follows: at a 2026 Burbank International Film Festival dinner for his Vanguard Award, Leno insisted the presentation happen before dinner because he had a 7:30 gig at Flappers. The episode ends with notes on Weird Al’s NPR Tiny Desk appearances, including his 2010 set.

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This, friends, is why we do the show cool Side

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when we can, because sometimes it rains. I'm in a

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silly mood today. So I was putting together the regular

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audio show. I was doing the Dane Cook story and

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I noticed, like, his brother's name is Daryl McCauley, and

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I was wondering, Hm, why is Dane Cook's brother's name McCaulay.

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I'm like, Dane Cook. That sounds like a stage name,

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like Johnny Mack. Like maybe Dane is using a fake name.

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It show business. That works, So I asked Ai, Now

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this is where it gets fun. So AI says, yes,

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Dane Cook is his real name. His full name is

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Dame Jeffrey Cook born March eighteenth, nineteen seventy two in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Okay,

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fair enough, So I said, why is his brother McCauley

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And AI said, because McCauley is his brother's first name,

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not his last name. Huh, his name's Daryl McCauley. So

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I asked, hey, hey, hi, and it said no, his

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full name is Daryl McCauley Cook. He went professionally by

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Daryl McCaulay, using his middle name as his surname. And

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I went yeah, because that doesn't make sense. Damee Cook's

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name is Dane Cook, but Darryl Cook is going by

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Daryl McCauley. Why so I question that, I asked the AI.

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Is that right? Yeah? I said, no, you Coby. This

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is a verbatim from the AI. No, you Coby. My

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previous answer was wrong. I checked it. Why did you

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tell me that Deane Cook is Dan Jeffrey Cook. His

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older half brother is Darryl McCauley, oh icee, And then

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the I explained they have different fathers, oh Ice. They

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shared a mother, Donna Jean Ford, but McCauley had a

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different father, presumably mister McCauley. Now, regular listeners to the

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audio podcast know that I want to make twelve thirty

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great again. The President of the United States and I

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don't agree on all the issues, but one issue we

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agree on is that twelve thirty could be better. And

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in the great tradition of David Letterman and Conan O'Brien,

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I want twelve thirty on NBCD be hosted by Chris

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Fleming and not Seth Myers. Seth Myers is currently taking

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seven weeks off from his show, which isn't insanely a

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long amount of time, and apparently Seth agrees because he

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has started a podcast. It's a video podcast of the

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A Closer Look segment and you'll find that on YouTube.

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I hope it takes off and Seth Myers becomes a

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YouTuber and then we can give twelve thirty to Chris Fleming.

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Funny Jay Leno story. The guy likes to work, so

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he was given the Vanguard Award at the twenty twenty

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six at Burbank International Film Festival thingy. The plan was, okay,

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we'll have a dinner for Jay Leno, and as one

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does it, at dinner, you eat dinner, and then we'll

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do an hour presentation of Jay Leno's career. And then

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Jay said, hey, guys, I got a gig at seven thirty.

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Could we do the presentation first, then the dinner. So

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Jay got his award and then they had salad and

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dinner afterwards. And this is true because Jay was doing

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a seven thirty show at Flappers, which just that Jay

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had a show at Flappers sounds like a Jay Lettle joke,

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but that's an actual club in Burbank, I think, so,

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I hope you enjoyed your salad, and I gotta check

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this out. Weird that was on the NPR Tiny Desk podcast.

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When I saw it, I thought this was old news

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because he had been on in Let me check my

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notes here. Oh the rain is really coming down. Now,

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let's see what's going on. Did you hear that in Acorn?

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Just hit my umbrella? Here Weird Owls on NPR, and

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there's Augusted Wind. This is fun weird als on. I

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love this. I'm so distracted right now. Let me shut

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the laptop before this stupid bit costs me two thousand

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dollars at a new MacBook. Weird Owls on the Tiny

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Desk concert in twenty ten, and from memory, let me

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tell you what he did. He did whatever his parody

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of the Backstreet Boys song is, and he did the

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saga begins, which is the Star Wars song from American Pie.

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So that's it. From under the Umbrella in the Pouring Rain,

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this is why we do the show pool Side on

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the nice days. But I guess we can also do

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the show pool Side in the Pouring Rain back in

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the morning with a regular episode. And let's take a

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look at the rain as we check out here