Reviews: What Now? with Trevor Noah and Sam Altman AND Senses Working Overtime with David Cross and Bob Odenkirk

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Callaroga Shark Media. Hello, I'm
Johnny Mack with your daily comedy news.

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I just got out of the car
where I was listening to podcasts. I

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checked out David Cross's since is working
over time with guest Bob Odenkirk, and

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I was terribly disappointed. I like
David Cross a lot so far, not

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the best podcast host you've ever heard. I am a professional podcaster with thirty

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years of broadcast experience, so I'll
share some actual notes. One of the

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notes I would say as a program
director is the show's turned inward and I'll

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compare it to something else. On
the second but he starts talking to odin

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Kirk and they're riffing with each other
and making each other crack up. But

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they're in their own room. They're
not including the audience. You feel a

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little left out. They're also using
verbal shortcuts where they know what they're talking

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about and you might not. Now. What's interesting to me is Cross suggests

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that other people have sat in the
chair before, so this is not the

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first recording, which makes me think
they said, oh, let's lead with

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the Bob Odenkirk episode. That's worrisome
as well. The other thing is across

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the show doesn't sound good. I
don't know if they recorded in a big,

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empty room across his mic doesn't sound
right. I add processing on this

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show to give my voice a little
heft. If you meet me in real

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life, I'm a little less basy
than what you're hearing. Now. There

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are things you can do, guys. I will give it another shot.

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But after one episode, David Cross
love you, but this one, I

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don't know. You could use some
consultants. My contact is in the show

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notes. I'm sure not making any
friends here. Then I listened to Trevor

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Noah's podcast. Did Trevor take my
note on the new episode? He's got

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Sam Altman. That's the chat,
GPT guy. Fantastic interview. Now.

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I had previously mentioned that Trevor was
starting the show with ten minutes of talking

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to random people that I didn't know
who they were, and Trevor probably even

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told me during the podcast to who
they were, and I was like,

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I don't know who you are and
I don't care. Skip skip skip skip

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skip skip skip On this one,
Trevor took the note, got right to

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it right to Sam Altman. Very
interesting listening about our official intelligence a subject

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that I'm very interested in. I'll
take a point off in the entire interview.

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There is some low rumble that is
something that happens. For example,

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I record here in the basement,
my boiler often runs. There's easy ways

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to get rid of things. There's
things called a noise gates where you can

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get rid of any noise below a
certain decibel. You can run things through

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a processor that will get rid of
rumble. I do both of those on

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this program. Now, I would
say I don't know who's running things over

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there, but I see who's credited
with the production of this show, and

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you should know better. I'll leave
that there. I'm not making any friends

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today. Trevor's show. Yeah,
definitely listen to that. David Cross,

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Hopefully it gets better. Collider had
a good premise during the week they wrote

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Netflix stand up specials aren't special anymore. I agree with this. Everybody's putting

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out comedy, especially these YouTube things, and everyone's using the word special,

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and I think we need to get
back to calling things hours or half hours.

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Chris Rock is live on Netflix and
he's going to talk about the Oscars.

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Yeah, that's a special. You
went down on the chuckle Hut and

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set up two cameras and your friend
through it in final cut pro and the

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audience isn't mixed, right, I
don't know if that's a special. We

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need to back down with that.
Clyde writes. If everyone wins a trophy,

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is anyone truly a winner? There
used to be a time when landing

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a Netflix comedy special is a big
deal. In the mid twenty tens,

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only great comedians like Bo Burnham,
John m'laney to Mitri Martin and Chris Zecker

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were given a spotlight on Netflix.
Now it's as if no one is curating

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the specials that are produced for Netflix. Half the time, these big ticket

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comedy events just appear on the streaming
service with little to no fanfare in the

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form of advertising. I pointed that
out all week with Stavros Halkias. There

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was no press about it for three
days. Clyde writes, Unless it's a

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generation defining comic like Norm McDonald,
Ali Wang, Jerry Seinfelder, Dave Chappelle,

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Netflix couldn't seem less interested in pushing
new specials, should I bomp down?

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In Ali Wang? Generation defining?
Same note on Norm McDonald. I

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mean Norm's great in all but I
don't know if he's generation defining. Should

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I bog down on that? Not
today? How could you be interested when

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you're busy releasing these every five minutes
for every comedian on the planet. This

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is if they've run out of comedians
and are granting this platform to anyone,

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because unfortunately for every living thing on
this planet, Matt Riffe's first Netflix special

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is getting extra special treatment from the
folks behind the world's biggest streamer. Collider

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ads A had to anyone at Netflix
actually been curating their surfaces content, maybe

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natural selection would have done its job
and killed this special piece of garbage before

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any of us had to endure it. It was pretty bigad. Somehow,

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they have debuted comedy special that manages
to pull off the exact opposite intended feeling.

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Rife has unlocked the ability to tell
hardly any jokes in his comedy special

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in favor of spewing eight breened TikTok
vernacular and waxing philosophical about why people shouldn't

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take internetrolls seriously, while also throwing
a fit over as Twitter applies. Is

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this what Netflix actually deemed special?
I love this article, This is fantastic.

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They then recap rithe gate. I
won't do that today. If you

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listen to me every day, you've
heard it. Netflix. If you're listening,

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please take a step back and find
it's the next great voice. You

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have the money, the resources,
the reach, everything you possibly need to

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find the next grade comedian. Slow
down the conveyor belt of stand up releases

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and give the best comic possible a
special. It feels truly special again.

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The thing is the guy running Netflix
Comedy knows what he's doing. He was

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a big wig up at Montreal Comedy
Festival when I used to do stuff with

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Just for Laughs all the time.
I'm on Robbie PRA's LinkedIn right now.

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We're actually connected. His title Vice
President's stand Up in Comedy Formats at Netflix.

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Seven years at Netflix and before that
twelve years two months it Just for

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Laughs. Is VP of Programming,
so it's not like he doesn't know comedy.

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Man who knows probably comes down to
the algorithm. But I agree there

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are too many things being called specials. We're just throwing stuff up there.

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But isn't that what Netflix does?
I mean, Netflix has a lot of

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content. I'm not sure how much
of it is awesome. I am not

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making friends today Jesse David Fox,
he has that new book about comedy.

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Rodriebert dot com interviewed him. They're
curious, what's it like for Jesse when

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he's in an audience and not connecting
with a comedian, but all around you

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people are in hysterics. Good answer
you here from Jesse. If the comedy

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doesn't connect with me for whatever reason, I don't find it actively sinister or

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bad. I'm able to join in
with the audience if the size and the

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energy you're correct. Most I'm happy
to be around people laughing. I think,

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okay, cool, this is great. The audience is doing a good

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job supporting whatever this is. You
could appreciate it like you would any art

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form, Like when you walk around
a museum, you see different things.

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You go like like this a lot. I'll spend time with it, or

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I don't like this this much,
but I'll read what the deal is and

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contextualize it. Good follow up here. You quote Mark Marin who said that

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laughter is the only thing standing between
us and fascism. I don't know.

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I once saw a so called right
leaning comedian who told these absolutely horrible jokes

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about Hillary Clinton and the audience.
Rock with laughter was almost frightening. Jesse

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said, it's complicated. The problem
is that as much as the right can

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say that all comedy on the left
is clapter and pandering, it's not exactly

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true. If you're going to see
a comedian just because you agree with their

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political opinions, then they're not operating
as comedians. They're operating as birthday party

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clowns who repeat the phrases people know
from watching Fox News. Donald Trump is

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the best version of that. Send
in your letters to Jesse David Fox care

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of Vulture from the AAARP, You're
home for comedy News. Heyzus Trejo,

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he's a caregiver. This interview spoke
to me a lot. If you listen

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every day, you've caught me mentioned
here and there. It's been a rough

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year for my mom. It's been
a rough few years from my mom,

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but the back half of the year
has been quite challenging. And they asked

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Hejesus, what's the top three lessons
he's learned from caregiving. He said,

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the bullet points are time, resting, in humor. You got to have

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a lot of patience, You've got
to rest, You got to take the

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time to make sure you're resting to
be ready for what the day brings,

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and you have to take everything with
some humor. If you can master those

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three, I think everything else becomes
easier. You have to have a good

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sense of humor because things tend not
to go how you planned. And sometimes

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you just have to laugh. There's
no other emotion that you can tap into

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other than just a laugh and a
smile. The hard thing about caregiving is

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that you're juggling so many things.
You're juggling life, you're juggling career,

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you're juggling caregiving, You're juggling the
caregivers. I'll jump in specific to this

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podcast. Yeah, there have been
a few weeks here where normally I record

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one day in advance, except for
the weekend. I usually do the weekend

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on Thursday or Friday, but during
the week I'm usually just doing the next

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day. There were a few times
where I was working two days out,

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three days out, just in case
I was gonna be unavailable to do the

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show, you know what I mean. Luckily he didn't come to that.

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I've recorded a few safety episodes.
I've got some reruns ready to go in

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case I'm unavailable. So yeah,
there's definitely juggling to it. I've written

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episodes in emergency rooms, so I'm
really feeling this article. Azho says,

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being a stand up comedian being a
caregiver they kind of go hand in hand.

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I'm also able to be a good
caregiver because I do have that creative

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outlet, and I'm able to be
a good comedian because i have this part

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of my life that's very different than
most of my peers. I learned a

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lot about myself as a person and
an artist, and it's that the only

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constant thing in life is change.
Aging is part of life. You can't

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escape it. Everyone's gonna deal with
it. Either you're gonna need a caregiver

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or somebody to take care of you, or you're gonna care for somebody.

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It's just how it goes. I
will say that caregiving is a privilege.

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I know it's hard to see when
you're in the midst of changing a diaper,

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being in a tough situation where you
see your parents not feeling well.

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It's time spent with your parents and
it's as tough as it is. Sometimes

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you're going to look back and laugh
at those moments. It's a privilege.

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Remember that I'm actually gonna wrap there. I had more, but I think

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that's such a poignant note. I'm
gonna call of a day. That's your

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