Oct. 26, 2024

Theo Von talks with J.D. Vance about Cocaine on This Past Weekend

Show Notes
Transcript

In today's episode of Johnny Mac's daily comedy news, there is a thorough exploration of comedy insights featuring Seth Meyers' new HBO special 'Dad Man Walking', his SNL anecdotes, and his comedic philosophies. The episode also includes Stavros Halkias discussing career fears, Joe Rogan's significant financial milestone, and Cristela Alonzo's Texas comedy venue incident. Jay Leno shares his non-political approach to comedy and his engagement with car enthusiasts at Texarkana's Four States Auto Museum. Carlos Mencia delves into comedy’s societal role, stressing cultural sensitivity and the necessity of comedians as truth tellers. The episode wraps up with mentions of ad-free listening options and previews of other shows.

00:00 Introduction and Seth Meyers Overview
00:36 Seth Meyers' Personal Life and Career Insights
01:48 Seth Meyers on SNL and Comedy
03:36 Stavros Halkias on Success and Career
04:48 Joe Rogan's Early Career Reflections
05:06 Cristela Alonzo's Comedy Venue Incident
05:58 Theo Von talks with J.D. Vance about Cocaine
06:33 Jay Leno's Texarkana Comedy Show
07:34 Carlos Mencia on Offending Audiences
08:33 Final Thoughts and Show Promotion

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Callaroga Shark Media. Here's the meal. If you like Seth Myers,

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you're gonna like today's podcast. If you don't like Seth Myers,

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hit thirty second skip, I don't know ten twelve times.

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I got a lot of Seth today. Hi, I'm Jinny

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Mack with your daily coming. He was Seth Meyers dad

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Man Walking out tonight ten pm on HBO. Yeah, they're

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still doing that thing where they think I'm gonna sit

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around till ten o'clock and then watch the thing live.

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That's over HBO. What planet are you on? Just put

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it up. Seth Meyers dad Man Walking dives in a

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Myer's personal life with stories about raising three children, living

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in New York City, and reflections on his family dynamics.

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Seth did like a group press conference rather than individual interviews.

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Walt had a recap of that. He told a story

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about laughing hard at SNL Table Reads. He said, Andy

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Samberg wants that to meet the press sketch where Beetlejuice

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was filling it for David Gregory as the host. It

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was such a ball attempt by Andy to do his

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Beetlejuice impression on SNL. I laughed, very hard, and I

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think Lorn laughed. Not at all toughest hosting gig to

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kill at, he said, Weirdly, the Emmys was the toughest.

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I thought the SPIE's would be really tough. But the

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fun thing about the SPI's I realized that no one

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there actually cares if they win ANESP or not. So

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if you have good jokes about sports, you can crush.

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Where is it the Emmys? I felt a Titanus there.

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Dumbest weekend update joke, Seth, I will tell you the

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dumbest joke that definitely didn't work. A man in Washington

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State was arrested for animal cruelty after he was caught

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having sex with the family dog. Even worse, it was

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makeup sex. Seth says, What I love about that's a

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good joke. What I love about that joke is every

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time I tell it, no one groans until the punchline.

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So even after sex with the family dog, the audience

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is still like, okay, we'll hear the man out. The

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delayed groan is why I will never tire of telling

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that very dumb punchline. Best Lorne Michael's advice, Seth. When

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I started late night, he said, it'll take you eighteen

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months to figure it out. I thought that was too

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much time, but he was one hundred percent right. I

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think it was almost eighteen months to the day that

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I realized I shouldn't be standing for the monologue. He maybe

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has a reputation for being an impatient person, but I

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think he does appreciate the process and that you sometimes

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need to learn by doing worst. Lauren Michael's advice seth

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my first summer on SNL. He told me that I

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should take tap dancing lessons because he thought that would

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give me more confidence as a performer. In fact, it

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was so important he told someone else to tell me.

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I never took those tap lessons, but maybe I should

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now do something special for him. At the fiftieth Ultimate

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Andy Samberg writing Hack, have him say a very dumb

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thing with total confidence. Ultimate Amy Pohla writing Hack. She's

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very funny when she's frustrated and trying to convince people.

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She's right. Most effective trick to make a boring talk

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show guests seem interesting. If you can project to an

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audience that you're listening, they'll also want to listen. You

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can't get caught looking like you're thinking about your next question.

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Most important lesson he learned about running a writer's room.

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If you're rewriting anything, don't pitch lateral moves. If a

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writer's put all his time into writing a piece and

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they have a joke, you can pitch a joke if

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it's twice as good, but if it's as good, they'll

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probably want to use their own joke. Seth was asked

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if he will aboard his bait in the fiftieth aniverse

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of SNL. Let me answer for him. Yeah, like he's

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not gonna go. What kind of question was that? Seth said,

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I just officially received my first reach out from Lorne

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saying would you be available in February should we need

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a hand. Seth was on Andy Cohen Show and was

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asked to rank his top five favorite SNL characters, a

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list with which I really disagree. He sets list number

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five Rachel Dratch's Debbie Downer for Eddie Murphy's Buckwheat that

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is a good choice. Three Kate McKinnon's Colleen Rafferty, two

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Will Fortes mcgruber, and number one Bill Hayter's Stefan, a

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character I never got. Did you listen to Stavro's hockeyist.

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On Neil Brennan's Blocks podcast, Savro said, I don't know

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if you have this, but I definitely had the it's

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going to end tomorrow disease of like for the first

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time I started doing well and started making money, I

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was like, we're gonna lose all our subscribers tomorrow. And

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then I got a little internet heat, but no one's

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gonna watch my special to like, all right, the YouTube

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special did well, but no one's gonna watch the Netflix special.

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I could sell out comedy clubs, but I don't think

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my agents are wrong. I'm not going to sell theaters.

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And it's like I just finally allowed myself to be like,

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you're fine, pretend it's a different guy's career that you're analyzing.

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It's not going to fall apart tomorrow. And so once

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I kind of did that, I was like, Okay, I

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don't have to say yes to everything. I'll only do

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stuff that I think is cool from now on, Like,

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I'll do my own stuff and I'll do anything that's cool.

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But I've turned down a couple, like some acting stuff.

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I've turned down some other opportunities because I'm like, I

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just don't want to do it. I just want to

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hang out. I recognize that I kind of won a

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generational lottery of like a guy with my skill set

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born five years earlier, host born five years later. I'm

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trying to make man on the street. Tiktoks, you know

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what I mean. But I was in the sweet spot

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where we might have been the first comedy podcast on Patreon.

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Calm down when we started, and it was like I

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just got in on podcasting. I thought podcasts were dead.

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I had the wrong business. I was like, well, marin

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this American life comedy bang bang, those are the only ones.

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And then like god, we were wrong. Joe Rogan on

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his podcast set, I remember the first check I got

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a real check. I got a development deal from Disney,

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of all people, I guess I was like twenty six,

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and it was the first time I ever had a

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good chunk of money, like six figures in the bank.

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And I felt like the weightlift that off me, like

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a physical feeling because my whole life I was like,

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how am I gonna eat? How am I gonna pay

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my rent? Then all of a sudden, I don't have

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to worry about that anymore. Cristelle Alonso was upset with

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a comedy venue in her hometown of McCallen, Texas. She

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shared a story on Facebook. As Cristella tells it, she

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was backstage at the local theater and then the staff

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kicked her out at midnight. She was in the middle

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of a meet and greet. Her family was there. She

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said that there was no warning that she needed to

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leave by midnight. She had to pack up everything and

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ask her fans to meet her outside the building. That's awkward,

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Alonso posted. The disrespect is something I'll never forget. Then

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once we were outside taking pictures, they came to apologize

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and said we could go back inside. No, thank you.

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I will not go back inside when you forced us

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to leave, I will not go back inside that building again.

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I don't know when I'll come back to McCallan, but

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I'm gonna have to figure out another solution. The fans

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were great. The venue sucked. Sounds to me like a

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junior staffer was enforcing the midnight rule and not knowing

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how to deal with talent. Didn't look the other way.

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That would be my guess. I did see a recap JD.

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Vans with THEO Vaughn. They talked about cocaine THEO said,

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I don't know if it'd be sober if this stuff

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weren't killing people. To be honest with you, I know

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that's sad to say, but it keeps me out of

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the risk of it. JD said, makes it a little scarier. THEO. Yeah,

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but it's also sad that somebody. I mean, this is

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ridiculous to say, but you know, you can't even do

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cocaine in this country anymore. You know that seems like

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a crazy thing to say, And don't say that, but

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I said it. JD left and told THEO he was

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gonna steal that line. But after the election, I've got

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to win first. As I keep mentioning, it's going to

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be hard not to do politics these next ten days

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or so. Are you in Texarcana here, it's a good

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place to drive a truck in a trans am. Bring

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some cores back east? Jay Leno's there tonight. Jay said,

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it's just a comedy show. There's no lecturing, there's no

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Here's what I think, you know. Rodney Dangerfield and I

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were friends for forty years. I have no idea if

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Rodney was a Republican or Democrat. I had no idea.

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We just used to talk about jokes, and that's what

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I'll be doing, no obscenities or anything like that. While

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in town, he's serving as the Grand Marshal for the

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Four Estates Auto Museum's annual Fall Auto Show. Jay said,

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so I'm one above normal marshals. I'm the Grand Marshal, which,

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of course I have the right to arrest or detain

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anyone for any reason at any time. He says he

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enjoys hanging out with fellow car enthusiasts. You know what,

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when you're in California, I meet like one or two

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guys and each have like one hundred cars. And when

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you go to Texas, Oklahoma, you meet one guy who's

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at a car he's been working on since he got married,

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and he put it away when the kids went through school.

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And the kids are in college now, so now he's

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back working on fifty seven Chevy. So it's kind of fun.

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I really enjoy it. If you're in Texarcana the auto

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show today from eight to four, Carlos Mencia told Denver's

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six thirty khow if you're easily offended, please leave. It's

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because I care. I care about your time, I care

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about you. I care enough to know that I'm not

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for you, that's who I am. Once you buy into it,

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it's such a beautiful, cathartic thing to watch everybody just

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give into the laughter and see the difference between comedy

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and anger, between racial and racist. All this stuff becomes

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comedic fodder. And I think that's where I'm living right now,

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and I think people need that. People need to be

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told out a bad person because you laugh. It's a

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mechanism that we use. The host brought up Dave Chappelle's

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War against the Woke, and Sea said, think about the

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phrase itself, punching down. It assumes presumes that you either

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place me above those people or I do. And I

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don't understand punching down. I don't get it when I

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do my jokes about me or my family. It's okay.

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Self deprecating humor can be just as hurtful sometimes as

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anything else. I can go up there and talk about

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how I'm overweight, but the midnight I talk about how

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you're overweight. That's where the line gets crossed, and that's

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the hypocrisy. We the truth tellers, are needed. We're also

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the valve for people who are angry, who are taking

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life a little too seriously. And that is your comedy

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