June 16, 2026

Nate Bargatze hiding he was at Trump’s White House UFC?, and Maron on Netflix Podcasts

Show Notes
Transcript

Johnny Mac recaps comedy news including Jimmy Kimmel’s Instagram birthday post for the U.S. president’s 80th, using a card resembling an alleged Trump note to Jeffrey Epstein, and a UFC event held on the White House lawn streamed on Paramount Plus, with Joe Rogan mocked for a short tie and celebrities like Nate Bargatze and Shane Gillis attending; Gillis is heard criticizing a UFC fighter’s comment about Michelle Obama. On the other “side,” Jay Leno’s Garage features former President Joe Biden driving his 1967 Corvette, discussing topics like NATO, national parks, Beau Biden, and ice cream while Leno praises Biden’s sharpness. Mac also critiques a James Corden/Sebastian Maniscalco bit, previews a planned Tonight Show Jimmy Fallon episode with the champion New York Knicks, shares Marc Maron’s complaints about Netflix “podcasts” and manosphere hosts, and disputes parts of Vulture’s negative review of Tony Hinchcliffe’s Netflix special.

00:13 Kimmel Birthday Jab
00:36 UFC at White House
01:11 Nate Bargatze Photo
02:02 Shane Gillis Reacts to UFC Obama comment
02:57 Biden on Lenos Garage
04:48 Sharpness and Age Talk
05:23 Corden Soccer Bit
07:15 Knicks Fallon Booking
07:56 Maron Slams Netflix Podcasts
09:37 Share the Show Warning
11:07 Tony Hinchcliffe Review

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Caalarogashark Media.

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Hey there, I'm Johnny Mack with your daily comedy news.

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Over the weekend, the presidents of the United States turned

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eighty years old, and Jimmy Kimmel wished the president a

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happy birthday. Over Instagram, Kimmell posted a birthday card that

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resembled a note that Trump had allegedly addressed to Jeffrey Epstein.

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Kimmel's card reads, Happy eightieth Donald A. Palla is a

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wonderful thing. Happy birthday, and may every day be another

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wonderful secret. The President spent part of his birthday at

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the UFC event on the White House lawn. That's a

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thing that happened in the United States of America. There

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was a UFC event on the White House lawn. You

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might not have seen it because it was on paramount.

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Plus it was a big celebration and we had to

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put it on a streaming service. So if you didn't

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see it, you may have missed Joe Rogan's tie. Whatever

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you think of Joe Rogan, he's terrible at ties. This

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tie came about three inches high of his belly button. Unlus,

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Joe Rogan thought he was at UFC nineteen seventy four.

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I don't know why his tie was so short. Now,

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some celebrities were there. The Daily Beast had the headline

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Emmy nominated comedian exposed as Maga at Trump's UFC fight.

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They tell us Nate Brighetzi, who has hosted Saturday Night

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Life twice, had largely escaped the limelight at the Dizzying

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spectacle at the White House on Sunday until Cheryl Hines,

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the wife of Health and Human Services Secretary at Robert F.

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Kennedy Junior, uploaded a snap of the trio together on Instagram,

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with Vice President J. D. Vance in the background. That's right,

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there's a photo you see Nate Brighetzi, the Secretary of

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Health and Human Services, and wife Cheryl Hines. Nate did

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not share this on his own Instagram, where he has

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three point one million followers. He also didn't mention it

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on Twitter. Didn't mention it at all. Nate, did you

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not have fun at the UFC event on the lawn

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of the White House celebrating the president's eighty five birthday?

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Seems like something you'd promote. Shane Gillis was at the event. Now.

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During the event, one of the UFC fighters made a

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horrible comments about Michelle Obama. I'm not going to share

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the comment with you. Shane Gillis said he didn't like it.

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Let's listen to the audio of Shane. I believe this

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is after the event. He's being bothered by the paparazzi.

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And as you can hear, Shane travels with with people.

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Now he's got people running interference for him. So if

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you think Shane Gillis is just like, you know, a

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goofy guy in a baseball hat showing up at an event,

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no no, no, no no, he's got people.

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Listen you think, guys come on Shane Trump's job before.

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You what do you think of the cancel poultry? Guys

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got me on a couple But yeah, I didn't like that. Okay,

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why do you both sides of this thing? Johnny Mack? Okay,

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I will the worst person who ever lived. Jay Leno,

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he's a guest on his little television show. There the

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guest former President Joe Biden. That's right, Joe Biden and

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Joe Biden's nineteen sixty seven Corvette Stingray are on a

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very special edition of Jay Leno's garage. You'll find this

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on Jay Leno's YouTube channel. In it, we see Jay Leno,

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who stole the Tonight Show back from Conan O'Brien, driving

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around Los Angeles with the former president. Former President Biden

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told Deadline, Jay's been asking for years to drive my corvette,

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so I said, why the hell not. Jay and his

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team are the best, and we had a great time

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catching up while driving through the Angelus National Forest and

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the vet drove like a charm. The duo did talk

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about the current job holder. Biden reflected on his own

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tenure in the job and took a few swipes at

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the former host of The Apprentice, Joe. Biden said, he's

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cutting back on all the programs that have apprenticeships and

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create jobs. I see what you did there. Were told

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they were followed by Secret Service SUVs and police. Biden

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and Leno also ran fond the value of NATO natural parks,

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bo Biden's life and Death, being Designated Drivers, horsepower, Ronald

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Reagan's motorcycle, and ice cream. Yes. Former President Biden and

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former Tonight Show host Leno stopped by handles. Leno said,

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all right, so we went for ice cream. You know.

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We got there and a bunch of little kids waiting

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for ice cream, you know, And I said, anybody ever

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meet a president of the United States? No, well, this

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guy's president. I mean, it's just very funny. Yeah, eight

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nine year old kids, you know, so it's very funny

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watching him interact with the kids. They loved him. Jay

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Leno also had an in and out cookout truck on

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site at his Burbank garage to serve Joe Biden lunch

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during the visit. We are told Joe did pay for

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the kids ice creams as well as Jay Leno's ice cream.

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Leno said he was the old Joe, you know, every

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Handshakespere two hundred and fifty votes, that kind of thing,

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Shrere hands with everybody. Just congenial, just the nice guy.

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Now they got into the topic of how sharp and

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how old a president might be. You know, sometimes people

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would accuse a sitting president of falling asleep during meetings.

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That has happened on both sides. I remember one point,

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some people refer to Biden as sleepy Joe. Others are

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on Instagram every day catching the president blinking and saying

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he's falling asleep in meetings. Jay Leno said it's interesting

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because Joe was very very sharp. I thought maybe I'd

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have to talk in a slower voice, you know what

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I mean. But no, we just talked and he was

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funny and just making jokes and things like that. I

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think a year of relaxation and taking it easy, just

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being a normal guy was great for him. Really, it

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was the old Joe again. It was great to see him.

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Are you watching World Cup Soccer? Well, James Corden's got

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that show. What's it called again? A show after Soccer

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with James Cordon Pretty sure that's the name of the show.

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And on Friday night he had on Sebastian Maniscalco. And

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I'm going to play a clip for you, but let

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me set it up. Okay, So the bit here is

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Sebastian is making his way from the World Cup soccer

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game to James Corden's studio. We see Sebastian on his phone,

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but then we cut away to a helicopter shot and

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the helicopter is tracking Sebastian Maniscalco in a car that

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has the proper name of the show on top of

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the car. Now, I watched this and I'm like, that

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was really and I'm gonna play it for you in

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a second. But then I thought, if David Letterman, especially

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in the eighties, did this exact bit top to bottom. Hey, Sebastian,

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Maniscalco is there. Let's cut to the helicopter. Sebastian, can

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you wave out the window, we would have thought this

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was the greatest thing ever. There's something about David Letterman

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that would have made this exact word for word, letter

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for letter, second for second bit really cool. But the

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James Corden version is kind of limb.

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How you doing, Sebastian. I'm good.

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I think I'm gonna make it. I don't know what

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this la traffic, although I think we hit a We're

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on an open road here, so yeah, I'm common. So

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save the seat for a dream some soccer we will.

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Hey, Sebastian, see if you can, if you can still

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hear me, lean out of the car window and give

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the helicopter a wave.

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Can you do that for me?

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Seevie, there's a helicopter above you right now.

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See hang gout, I'm outside. Hang on, we've got some trains.

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Come on his right. He's on his right. Let's say

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sit in sebus. Now. This next story came together pretty quickly,

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or I would have told you about it. The world

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champion New York Knicks we're scheduled to be the guests

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on last night's tonight show starring Jimmy Fallon. Fallen was

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seen at a couple games. Fallon said a booking fifty

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three years in the making. The episode was scheduled to

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feature head coach Mike Brown, NBA Finals MVP, Jalen Brunson,

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Karl Anthony Towns you know him as Cat, Josh Hart

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og Ananobi, Michael Bridges, and the entire Knicks team, including

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my favorite Jordan Clarkson. The plan was for Fallon's entire

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audience at thirty Rock to be comprised of diehard Knicks fans,

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so this will give us something to talk about tomorrow.

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Mark Marin was on Kara Swisher's podcast He's Not I'm

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a big fan of the Netflix thing. Now Netflix thinks

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that Netflix is airing podcast but they're not. Netflix is

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airing cheaply produced television shows, and Mark Maron had some

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thoughts about that. Heag'e John editing the show. I forgot

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to mention I made many edits to Mark Maron here

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for language.

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When I saw, you know, podcasts on the menu of

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Netflix I'm like, it's over, you know, you know, with

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the bar has been lowered to such a degree that

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people will sit at home and watch people on Zoom

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with half their face covered up by a sure sm seven.

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It's like, what is wrong with people?

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Like?

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Do they not have any friends? Do they are they

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not curious about anything? Do they not use their brain anymore?

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They can't think they got to have three idiots to

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entertain them. I mean, it's like a world of drive

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time radio.

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It's the worst, right, So why do you think it's popular? Huh?

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Why do you think it's popular?

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Because people are lazy and they'll adapt to anything, and

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they're lonely, and they want to have parasocial relationships with

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people they feel that they're like, which means usually amateurs.

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Mark Maron started to talk about the Manisphere podcasters. He said,

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I knew them before there was a Manisphere. I knew

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them as comics. I knew Rogan when he started in Boston.

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I've known these guys were somewhat of a weird tribe

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in community. So it gets a point where in politics

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are what they are. I'm team Left. I'm not going

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to make all the games right, but I'm team left

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going down to fight that. So, like with the THEO

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vonn thing, that's a joke, and it's a good joke

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to do. THEO interviewing Hitler's hilarious, and I got to

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a place where that joke wheer, I'm like, how could

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THEO get mad at me for this? It's funny. Cara

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Swisher was curious, did they get mad at him? Maren said, well,

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Joe said he got mad at me. I don't know,

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all right, guys, So I've been warning you. You think

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I'm messing around here. I went to share Alytics, and

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I know that some of you didn't share the show. Now,

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if you shared the show, why don't you hit thirty

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seconds skip like three times? But the rest of you,

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you're gonna be punished because it's June and we're sharing

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the show with a friend. We're growing the show. So

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unless I see double the numbers, I know that some

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of you haven't done it. So your phone in your

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hand right now, push the share button, then send it

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to somebody and be like, hey, there's this weird guy

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and he keeps starting to play Nicki Glazer music. If

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I don't do this, I mean the next step is

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I'm going to escalate. I'm going to come to your

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house and sit across the street in a transam with

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a boombox, and I'm gonna play Nicki Glazer song over

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and over until you share the show. So here is

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your daily punishment for not sharing the show on Netflix,

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Ladies and gentlemen, Nicki Glazer singing.

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Ah read comment.

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A little strange man poison my day.

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It's not in common.

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It's garning old look in my age. Okay, none of

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us want that, right, you don't want that, so share

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the show. Also, also follow the show on Spotify and

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turn on notifications if you need something to watch Tonight

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Blotnick's What's Her Secrets if you need something to listen to.

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Deadline Means Business had this pretty good interview with Ari Shafir.

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Ari got into his breakup with Comedy Central. Now that

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episode is from April. I only got to it on

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Monday when it was beautiful out and I went for

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a run, And I am now learning on the fly

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that I didn't actually put anything in my script for

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the second half of the podcast, which means we're going

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to talk about Vulture's review of Tony Hinchcliff's show, which

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I thought I was gonna bump to tomorrow but apparently

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not Vulture Rights. Just to get this out of the way,

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anyone inclined to dislike Tony Hinchcliff's new Netflix special Man

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of the People, on principle, is not going to change

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their mind based on its material. While the comedian has

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amassed a huge fan base owing to his popular quasi

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he's accumulated an equally larger amount of haters because of

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controversial jokes he told It to Donald Trump rally in

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twenty twenty four and the Roast of Kevin Hart last month,

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and predictably, this new hour is full of similar button

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pushing provocations. To the extent that Man of the People

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has an organizing idea, it's that Hinchcliff has the right

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to be an equal opportunity offender because he is, as

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the specials title implies, a comedy version of the People's Champion.

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Mostly he dips in and out of CrowdWork to create

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the impression of the audience's perspective matters and that they're

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all enthusiastic participants in this performance. Unfortunately, this is not

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how his forays into the crowd play out. On four

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separate occasions, Hingecliff turns to an audience member of a

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particular demographic to reinforce a stereotype about them, and the

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audience member's response introduces nuance that undermines his premise. Even

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on a basic technical level, Hinchcliffe's crowd working directions fail

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to create the communal vibes after because the audience, despite

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playing such a prominent role in the special or not

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miked no I disagree with his next part. Midway through

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the special, Hinchcliffe calls on a Chinese member of the

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audience to help him reinforce a hack joke he's just

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told about Asian people being bad drivers. Tony asks her

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what kind of car she drives? The answer Honda Civic,

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what car she drove previously. That was a setup to

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imply a joke. Guy won't spoiler where we were heading.

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We find out it's her first how long she's had

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the Civic the answer since twenty seventeen, And whether she's

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ever been in a car accident. The answer is no.

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See Tony was a hope for a yes, and then

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he would have done a joke about Asian drivers. Vulture

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right stun that she's never total the car and doesn't

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fit into the box. His bit revolves around Hingecliff cuts

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his losses and says, you just stuffed up my joke

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and concedes it wasted two and a half minutes. That's

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what was funny about it. That the joke went nowhere.

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That's what was funny. Come on, Vulture. Vulture adds it

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a special so poorly executed from top to bottom, it's

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far from the most notable misfire. Guys, let me explain

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something to you. You hit play on a Tony Hingecliff

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thing on Netflix. What did you think you were getting? No? Seriously, seriously,

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I'm asking you, Vulture, what did you think was gonna happen?

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It's Tony Hingecliff, You hit play. What did you think

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was gonna happen? When you hit play on the next

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Sebastian Manascalco special? Do you think he's gonna like break

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down Israel verse Palestine in a meaningful way and hit

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Carlin level heights. Do you think he's going to do that?

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Or is he just gonna mug for the camera and

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do Italian restaurant jokes. What do you think Sebastian's gonna

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do the next time you hit play on a George

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Lopez special. What do you think George Lopez is gonna do?

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You think maybe perhaps he'll tell some jokes from a

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Mexican American perspective, jokes about family, maybe take some shots

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at some non Mexican descent Americans. You think Lopez is

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gonna do that? So don't be surprised when you hit

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play on a comedy special and you get what the

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person does. Maybe you don't like Tony Inchcliff, but to

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sit there and be stunned that this is what Tony

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Inchcliff does. I don't get it. That's your comedy news

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for today. Comments are open on Spotify. Comments are open

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to the Facebook group Daily Comedy News podcast group. Look Tony.

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Not the greatest thing I've ever watched. It's also not

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the worst thing I've watched this year. See you tomorrow.