A (2:36)

That's what all you guys say. It has to be true. Yeah. It just absolutely stinks.

C (2:42)

Yeah. I mean, you think about, like, Muay Thai, how you get kicked in the leg enough times that it becomes dead. Never becomes dead.

A (2:50)

Now do you think Evolved comedians have gotten past that. For instance, I'm thinking about, like, pitchers or batters who. They're bothered by a cold streak or, you know, they can't get things started or a slump, but it's. But then I guess the real pros have not. Have come to a place where they are not taking it personally. Like, in other words, this doesn't make them a bad baseball player. They've proven they're not that. But with comedians, it seems. Nope, I'm bad.

C (3:26)

Yes. I think. I think any comedian I've seen that it doesn't bother. Is no longer caring or trying to. I think there's a vulnerability that comes into stand up comedy where if you're not, and I'm not saying everybody has to be a soft emo comic, even an aggressive comic, you're still showing yourself in a raw way. And when that gets turned down, like, if you're selling paper. My cousin sells paper for a living, and he lives in a fucking three million dollar house. When they don't buy his paper, they didn't buy the paper.

A (4:04)

Right.

C (4:04)

When. When I bombed, they ain't buying me.

A (4:08)

I know. Yeah. It really is an extension of us.

C (4:11)

Yeah.

A (4:12)

Like, you write your best stuff, send it in, you don't even hear back. You're like, yeah, well, that. That was me.

C (4:18)

Right, Right. Yeah. I mean, do you find that with writing?

A (4:22)

Oh, yeah, for sure. And then that's a big drive. Like, even on the globes, we had so many writers and a lot. Oh, here's a good example. I don't know if I can say that one, but writers take it personally. And all of a sudden it's like they're turning it up on a day where we're kind of like landing the plane on the final version of the monologue. But they're turning up because they've seen overnight a joke they've had in for a while was beat, and they take it very personally, which I understand completely.

C (4:57)

Right.

A (4:57)

So, yeah, I do too. Like, in other words, you want to. You want to have points, you know, you want points on the board.

C (5:04)

So this was my best roast joke. I roasted Baba Bowie on the Howard Stern show. We did it live on the air.

A (5:12)

Yeah.

C (5:13)

And I said, gary's teeth look like a row of urinals at Shea Stadium. And I've since heard other roasters use that joke.

A (5:23)

Oh, really?

C (5:24)

Yeah.

A (5:25)

That's great.

C (5:27)

We want to thank people. Speaking of stand up comedians also, because.

A (5:30)

They have Mets fans. Piss all over them.

C (5:32)

Exactly. It's like a discolored Urine from the syphilis and not drinking enough fluids.

A (5:38)

Yeah.

C (5:40)

Speaking of comedians, Rocky laporte, our dear friend, had a rough accident and he's recovering and unable to work for. It's been six months now, and he's dealing with a lot of financial stress. So There is a GoFundMe. You guys have been very generous. I announced it last week and it's. If you go to support Rocky's road to recovery, I believe it's linked on my website. You can donate some money. Lane from Denver gave $100.

A (6:09)

Whoa, Lane.

C (6:10)

Tammy Winston gave $50. Alex Haynes gave $35.

A (6:15)

Alex.

C (6:16)

Tommy Hoskins gave $20. So anyway, keep them. Keep important. And then more importantly. Well, not more importantly, but also important is Paul liquezi, Port Jefferson, New York, who has pledged $500 if he receives a koozie from Mike Gibbons by the time this airs. So we won't be able to pay this off until next week's podcast because today's Thursday. We have until Sunday, and we will then announce on the following week whether he got it by Sunday. If he does, he's gonna donate $500 to.

A (6:54)

I kept my word. I dug up the koozie, put it in the, like, smaller envelope, which seemed to have more success going through the US Mail, albeit still borderline illegal. That's why so many got kicked back to me. But send it. Now, here's the fun part of this story. So we talk about it and we talked about there's his Port Jefferson address with his zip code, and we talk about his name. I then go to send them and I realize that's what's there. Paul Lucowsi, Port Jefferson, New York, with the zip code, no street address. So there's no contacting you. I didn't even try that. I'm like, all right, let me look up this guy.

C (7:39)

What does that mean? There's no contacting me.

A (7:41)

You're on the road, you don't get back to me. You're not. And then you're not going to have the, the bandwidth to dig it up and all that. Okay? So national public data dot com, I go on, and I just Google his name and his zip code, right? So this, this site pops up. There are a bunch of policies now. There's tons. Well, there's one guy older. There's a lot of Port St. Lucie in Florida, right? So I didn't do any of that. Any of that. Then there's another list. There's a lot of Paula Cowsis. And did you give me his Let me see here. No, you didn't give me a middle initial. Tons of them. But there's Port Jeff. Bingo. Click on point Jeff. There he is. On Main street in the zip code.

C (8:30)

Are we. Wait a minute. Are we voxing Paul right now?

A (8:35)

I didn't give his address, like, street number.

C (8:39)

Jesus Christ.

A (8:41)

But here's the thing. You then. What? What? I don't. I think you sent me a different address when you finally did. What address did you send me? Did you email it to me?

C (8:55)

Yes, I texted it to you.

A (8:57)

Oh, you texted it.

C (8:58)

Let's say we worry. All right, well, this is it. You can see where we get into trouble, folks. That Gibbons could have taken 30 seconds and texted me, I would have gotten him right back with this address.

A (9:13)

Well, listen, Paul, you know where you used to live on Main Street? You got to get down there. You got to get down there and intercept. Nope, man, I have him at a different place, which I won't read out loud because we won't dox him or whatever you want to call it. So listen, Paul, get down to Main street between 600 and 700 Main street now.

C (9:38)

You are going to FedEx it today.

A (9:41)

I'm not.

C (9:42)

We're not FedExing shoe day delivery.

A (9:44)

This got out there. He probably is probably. He probably owns both. He said he was successful, that he could afford this sweet donation. And you know what? I should. I'm not going to do it now. I'm going to look up both addresses and see how far apart they are. They're both in the same zip code. All right.

C (10:02)

Why don't you tell us about Marcus King in the meantime?

A (10:05)

Oh, man, we went out. So Marcus King is great. He's this big, kind of bizarre looking singer, guitarist. He's in Nashville now. I don't know where he's from. He's amazing, right? So all of a sudden, one of our. One of our buddies here is like, hey, he's playing the Blue Note. Do you guys want to go see him? And I'm like, I've never been to the Blue Note in Los Angeles. So we do. Unbelievable. But he played with two jazz guys. One guy is Mono Neon. Mono Neon is a bassist. He was the last bassist. He was playing with Prince when Prince died. He wears. I don't even know what you call it. It's knit. It's like a giant neon yellow knit jacket and pants. It looked like he had neon snowboarding boots and a whole mask. Also a knit, like a needle point type thing. Like a needle, like really, like, mask with Goggles. We were even like, how is he not sweating to death under that?

C (11:14)

Oh, my God.

A (11:15)

But it was like he was out of Parliament. You know what I mean? It was like that sort of spirit. He was phenomenal. But I hate to single someone out. I mean, Marcus King held his own. It was unbelievable. His jazz guitar, also blues. But the drummer, Chris, Dave. Apparently I am late to this guy because when you go on YouTube, like, it's tons of fans going, here's his 10 best. Like, riffs, you know, all that stuff. And he would just start drumming and it was like a. Like an engine. It was kind of like a. And then. And it was like a giant engine in the room that just kept driving. And him with this mono. Neon. Anyway, all to say, take these guys names. You will not be disappointed if you see just one of them wherever you can. And they play in small clubs. Go see them.

C (12:12)

All right. I've never been to the Blue Note. Is it nice?

A (12:16)

You know, it's expensive. I get it. You know, I think, you know, they do the $20, you know, at the table, per person, and then, you know, it was like 75 for the. There's only one price for the ticket. And. And then you have to line up so early. We didn't even get. So I. I couldn't even see Marcus King the whole time because the neon cable knit sweater, whatever the hell it was, was in front of me the whole time.

C (12:43)

Yeah, yeah. The one in New York, that's the first time I saw jazz. The one on. Was it Bleecker Street?

A (12:49)

Yeah.

C (12:50)

That's like one of the original jazz clubs in New York. And. And yeah, I've seen. I've seen a lot of good shows there.

A (12:58)

They played a Bob Marley cover. They play. And like, when you left, we all were saying in the car, we're like, take any of the hardest rock songs of all the bands we love and all. And if you put it in the hands of these monsters, I mean, it's just, you know, everyone knows, like, jazz guys are next level.

C (13:17)

Yeah, right. And they smoke a lot of weed.

A (13:23)

They do.

C (13:24)

They do Logo this week. It's a very cool one. There's a mushroom cloud in the background as we're on a motorcycle. And that motorcycle says freedom of speech, our first amendments. Which I thought was appropriate for this week.

A (13:38)

All right, look at us.

C (13:40)

But it says first ad. I don't know what that means. That can't be somebody's name. So anyway, if it is you, text us. So I can give you credit, because that Is really beautiful.

A (13:52)

It's very cool. Look at us. I have room for you. I have room for you on my bike, man.

C (13:57)

That's right. Song this week is from Inky Breath. Very cool. Definitely not AI. You can say that about that song.

A (14:07)

Sorry, Inky. I haven't heard it yet. Gregory didn't send it to me yet.

C (14:11)

Corrections. This one says I was listening to an episode last night of Pardo Interviews on which Allison was a guest. She brought up the topic of how much Mike said it cost to have your name submitted for consideration for podcast award this for the Golden Globes. They looked it up while on the show and figure and the figure was vastly different than what Mike said. I believe $500 versus his $50,000 was indicated. Probably you could verify with her. Just thought I'd bring it to your attention.

A (14:45)

Oh, I wonder. I have no idea. I do know that the Globes, it's about marketing efforts. So I think sometimes it's like let's say you're Marty supreme, the movie. So your A24 is the. Is the producer. So they want to be considered. And I don't know if it's. They buy also by ad time or I'm not sure. But I didn't come up with a figure. 50,000. But that's what, that's what everyone was saying and why, like Rogan didn't pay it. Theo didn't pay it. We didn't pay it because this says.

C (15:28)

I'm looking it up. On AI. Submitting a project for Golden Globe consideration typically costs $250 for individuals and $500 for motion picture television, with an optional $5,000 fee for using their official screening platform. Additional marketing packages, such as those for podcast categories can reach up to $75,000. So it's a marketing package.

A (15:55)

So I guess they have the upper end potential of 75,000.

C (15:59)

Yeah.

A (16:00)

All right. So I don't think someone made up this $50,000 figure, but obviously it's all degrees. But I wonder, yeah, I wonder if there's levels of consideration.

C (16:10)

I mean, a marketing package sounds like you get access to like a mailing list of the Golden Globe voters. So you're not going to win unless you go in for the marketing package. But technically we could spend 500 and get it, you know, considered for nomination.

A (16:29)

Yeah. What's his name? I'm looking it up. We're doing this a little early in the morning, so I don't have my brain yet, but some people took out ads. Who's the podcaster? Who's a deplorable person. Who?

C (16:42)

Pete Holmes. Just kidding. I love Pete.

A (16:46)

He's the nicest guy you mentioned. The most likable guy ever. Oh, God. I'm sorry, listeners. But he. And he loves. He loves musicals. Ben Shapiro. So Ben Shapiro apparently, like, campaigned for a nomination. Someone said they saw, like a billboard because he. He wanted to do it so badly. And as writers, we wanted him to be in that room so badly. We had such great jokes.

C (17:18)

Yeah.

A (17:19)

About him being a Golden Globe nominee.

C (17:22)

Then we got a minor one, but kind of epitomizes how you come up with Fitz. Facts. The flagstick is 12ft tall. Come on. Twice your height. Yeah, I guess it's probably closer to eight. Eight. I think eight sounds about right.

A (17:42)

Yeah.

C (17:42)

We're talking about golf. When we play, we play a bet where if your putt is further than the length of the flag stick, you win a dollar if you make the pot. So.

A (17:52)

And then I want to bet where when you're like, that's. That's within a flag stick. Like, if it's really borderline, I then want bets on that, that if you challenge the guy, you have to pay him. If you.

C (18:03)

If you're wrong after you measure it.

A (18:05)

No one likes my other bets that I add, like, closest to the pin. If no one's on the green, you should still do closest to the pin. You're a man hitting a ball. How close do you get it to the pin? Even if it's on grass that's a little taller than the green, who cares? You're closest.

C (18:22)

Derek Chamberlain said, all right, Hank Aaron was 86. He broke the color barrier in the 50s, so he probably was born in the 30s. So I got that right. While you were correct, Hank Aaron was born in the 30s, 1934, to be precise. And it was Jackie Robinson that broke the color barrier. And it was in 1947 when he premiered for Brooklyn Dodgers. Hank Aarons started his career a short time later in 1956. I mean, you gotta really think about what that was like in 1947 to walk onto a baseball field with. I mean, I don't think people can wrap their heads around the context of the racism around sports, around everything. But specifically to put a black player on the field and the fucking guts that took for Jackie Robinson. I mean, you can't understate that.

A (19:20)

And under direct orders to eat it.

C (19:23)

Yep.

A (19:24)

Eat all of it. Because otherwise you're going to be vilified.

C (19:29)

Yep.

A (19:30)

And then there's a great story. And if someone knows the exact story Please write in. There's a story where the guy called him the N word. Like, really said incredibly nasty things to him.

C (19:42)

Another baseball player.

A (19:44)

I think he might have been the first baseman. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, of course. What's his name on the opposing team?

C (19:51)

Yeah.

A (19:51)

If I were you, I wouldn't even try to get it. I doubt you. But I do know this. As the story goes, at his next bat, Jackie Robinson bunted up the first baseline and ran through that man.

C (20:05)

Really?

A (20:06)

Keep in mind, he was a fullback for ucla.

C (20:10)

Jackie Robinson was.

A (20:11)

Yes. So he ran through the guy. I mean, that's. That's, like my favorite Jackie Robinson story.

C (20:21)

Tour dates coming up. I'll be in Austin, Texas, tonight. Final show at the Mothership, Sacramento Punchline, February 5th through the 7th. Philly Helium Comedy Club, Valentine's Weekend, February 13th through 15. Then I'll be in Lexington, Kentucky, Houston, Fort Worth, Janesville, Bakersfield, Escondido. Go to fitzdog.com, get some tickets, come out and say hi. Also, we want to mention Sunday papers is sponsored by CalSHI, which is the largest prediction market in the U.S. i heard about this through our buddy Pete Scott. It's so much fun. You can literally.

A (21:00)

It's crazy.

C (21:00)

And predict anything that you want. It's a predict.

A (21:07)

There were predictions on the Golden Globes.

C (21:10)

You can do the Golden Globes. You can make a trade on the super bowl that's coming up. You can do whether or not how much rain there's going to be in Los Angeles, whether or not Trump will mention a certain country during the State of the Union. And it's hilarious. And so I put 100 bucks on Alcaraz winning today against Vers V or whatever the guy's name is in the semis of the Australian Open. Now, it's not a good bet because I have to bet $100 to make 17, but that's what I do. I chip away on the ones that I think are sure things for small wins, which sounds like probably your style.

A (22:01)

All right, so get this. We're at Penmar the other night, and we're. Why? I don't know why. Anyway, we're there, and then, you know, they have a bunch of TVs, and on one TV is the Australian Open, and Sinner is playing, and I'm looking at center. I'm like, whoa, what's going. Is he hurt? And you see him kind of limping. He lost the first set, and I'm smelling blood in the water. Well, there's Rabi. And I'm like, I predict that he's not going to win this. And he's fighting back. And it was a really tough second set. I go, but this means it's going at least four sets. And I go, I don't think he's. And he was really, really hurting. We predict it, we pull the trigger. We are so excited. Now we're watching him. He wins the second set, third set, huge struggle again, and then he has to leave the stadium. And I'm like, predict more. Get on there, get on there. Let's ramp it up. And we do. Well, never predict against the champion because that didn't go so well. But the. The opportunities were there. It was so much fun. And there's a whole community there, obviously, watching this match and weighing, like, the heart of a champion. And will this guy pull it out somehow?

C (23:20)

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A (26:26)

Look at us.

C (26:28)

Well, what. Actually, let's, let's hold off on this one. So we're not doing three in a row.

A (26:34)

All right. Okay, back to Jackie Robinson for one sec. I looked him up because this is worth it. Boy, where did it go? Hold on, hold on. I just had it and now I lost it. Jackie Robinson, four varsity sports at ucla. Baseball was his worst.

C (26:56)

No kidding. Wow.

A (26:59)

He set the UCLA record for yards per carry, 12.2 yards per attempt in 1939. No, no, dude, it's insanity. Oh, man. All right, anyway, and how do you.

C (27:14)

Lose against a team who's got a guy averaging 12 points a carry? He.

A (27:19)

Hold on.

C (27:20)

How do you win?

A (27:20)

I mean, right? Exactly. Wait, let me find. Anyway, he also then had the national record in the high jump. He had the national. The longest punt return. It was track and field, basketball, football and baseball. I mean, insanity.

C (27:41)

He was the, he was the, the, the Caitlyn Jenner of his day.

A (27:47)

I'm sure he is. Family and estate would appreciate that comparison.

C (27:51)

All right, give me a crinkle. Let's get to the front page.

A (27:55)

Here we go. There we go. What do we got here, huh?

C (28:03)

Let's do the FAFO story.

A (28:05)

Front page. We got the rise of FAFO parenting. FAFO and is this the end of gentle child rearing? I don't like the name rearing after child.

C (28:16)

Oh.

A (28:18)

Last summer, a piece in the Wall Street Journal heralded the rise of FAFO parenting and the end of gentle parenting. FAFO stands for F around and find out. A video posted on TikTok went viral where the mom explained that she had thrown her daughter's iPad out of the window when she had been misbehaving on the way to school. This is a car window the mom threw it out of, and she films herself retreat, retrieving the tablet now with a cracked screen. The video has been watched 5 million times, and the mom was congratulated in the comments. In another video, when a small child announces he is going to leave home, his mother says, see ya. Shuts the door behind him and turns off the outside light. You could have left the light on.

C (29:02)

Yeah.

A (29:03)

Then opens the door to him, screaming and pounding, to be let back in. That's been watched 2 million times. He had learned, said his mother, the meaning of fafo. So advocates of FAFO say teaches their child independence and the consequences of their actions. Even those consequences are uncomfortable or at the. Or at the extreme and harsh. Critics say it relies too heavily on fear and humiliation. Listen. It's better than how I was raised, which was fyhk. Forget you have kids. It was. We were Lord of the Flies.

C (29:37)

Yeah. Yeah. You were on the front porch, but you never got in in the first place.

A (29:43)

We wouldn't have. I wouldn't have pounded on the door like that kid. I knew my mom wasn't home.

C (29:48)

Yeah.

A (29:49)

There was no one to let me in until I got a key in.

C (29:52)

First grade and dad was gone. Dad wasn't around.

A (29:57)

Exactly.

C (29:58)

Jesus. This explains a lot.

A (30:01)

You were the same way. A little. Your parents had to get involved when they had to pick you up at the police station.

C (30:06)

Yep. And they. But they didn't pick me up from school. I went to school about 25 minutes away and I used to hitchhike home from school or take the public. But I would take a bus to a train to another bus.

A (30:21)

Yep.

C (30:22)

And it would take me about an hour and 45 minutes to get home. And they almost never. I can't remember in four years then picking me up more than once or twice.

A (30:32)

I had to take two buses and I had a transfer in White Plains, which was not near my.

C (30:36)

That's where I transferred. Yeah.

A (30:38)

Yep.

C (30:39)

Now, do the parents wear bandanas over their faces and not let the kids videotape it while they're doing it.

A (30:44)

It's part of fafo, buddy.

C (30:46)

Pepper spray them. This is a new. Wait. This is a new thing. Because I thought using empathy and patience was the new thing. I mean, that hasn't been around that many years.

A (30:59)

It's. There's a generation of brats. I did. There was one paragraph I didn't put in here, which is. I think, anyway, that's run its course, and they're worried about these kids who have been absolutely coddled and how they're going to be and. Is it a generation of brats.

C (31:19)

Yeah.

A (31:20)

Who've never heard no and all that. But listen, my thing was, I used to love the fafo. I would try fafo. FAFO massively backfires. Because when you're like, bring your coat. I don't want my coat. Well, just bring it. You know? And even the. Just bring it. You don't have to wear it. No, no, no. I'm like, okay, great. And then they're freezing. Guess whose time is ruined? Mine.

C (31:44)

Right. Well, I told you this story.

A (31:46)

I find out also, you know the.

C (31:48)

Story about JoJo swimming in the pool when she was about 6. Stubbornly wouldn't get out. Wouldn't get out. I had to jump in and get her out. And then I made her walk to the car, freezing, blue lips trembling. She weighed about 8 pounds. She was such a skinny kid. And I didn't give her a towel. And then we got to the car, she got in, I handed her the towel, and she pushed it back at me and look straightforward, still trembling. And I was like, I am fucked.

A (32:16)

I have done that also. So I'm. I'm trying to now. How. All right, I did that as a kid, that exact thing where then my dad would feel and do it, and I'm like, too late. And what do you do? Because that, as you said, you're aft. That's a big crossroads to be at.

C (32:34)

Yep. And then we got in, and then she went into her room. And then about five minutes later, I heard Hawaiian music. So I walked around the side of the house and I looked in her bedroom window, and she had on a lei that she'd gotten from a party and a Hawaiian music CD that she'd gotten for the party, and she was hula dancing in her room.

A (33:00)

She probably had frostbite and was trying to mentally place herself below the equator or near it in Hawaii. I mean, what do you.

C (33:11)

Yeah, I think she was just celebrating a big victory.

A (33:16)

Yeah. I don't know, though. But, like, as. Like, I remember my dad said, and Maybe he learned this too late, but he was in therapy, coming out of the divorce and all that. But I remember his advice to me. He goes, remember to be the parent, you know, because I have definitely gone down to my kids level. Kind of like you with Jojo there, a little bit like tit for tat, and you're both dug in. And I don't think my dad, My dad knew that advice. I don't think he ever followed it.

C (33:50)

Yeah, but.

A (33:52)

But remembering to be the parent, I don't know how you're the parent. Once it's that entrenched, I think you just have to own it. But. But then it's like you can't apologize for all of it. The kid didn't come out of the center of the pool.

C (34:03)

Yeah, right. Well, you can say what you did was disrespectful and it's not acceptable. And how I handled it could have been a lot better than what I did. Now get the fuck in your room and turn off that Hawaiian music.

A (34:18)

I remember my dad. This is so typical. This says so much. Maybe I was in high school or whatever, and he gave me this book that came out called the Three Minute Manager. That's what he gave me. So it's. It was like a very, you know, pop culture thing. And it was a short book. And. And anyway, he gave it away anyway, and it was very short, which was good. And the only thing I would read at that time was something very short. Anyway, I remember once he. We got in an altercation and I go, hey, dad, remember that book you gave me? And he's. And he's still angry and he's like, yeah. And I go, you want to know one of the things it says in there when you're disciplining someone or you're talking to someone, leave them thinking about what you said and not how you said it. And it stopped him in his tracks. Yeah, I mean, I think he regretted giving. I think he regretted giving me that book.

C (35:12)

Yeah. Yeah, right. I know my parents never should have given me the Bible because when I. I read them back, some of the commandments, they were little protesters.

A (35:23)

They should have given you the number of the police department.

C (35:29)

Protesters who showed up at several Zips bars in Phoenix to oppose raids by ICE said they were pepper sprayed by federal agents for unknown reasons. Videos posted to social media from the zips on 32nd Street show agents pepper spraying protesters from the passenger seat of a truck as they drove away. At the zips on 64th Street, a video shows an agent walk up and spray demonstrators while another agent appeared to wave him down in an apparent de escalation effort. Both incidents happened the evening of January 26th across the valley State. Lawmakers said they were pepper sprayed without warning at the Zips in Tempe. And according to customers, this is the most seasoning used at a zips in 20 years.

A (36:19)

Finally, some flavor. I think it's a thing now at this chain of bars. It's like you go. It's almost like you get the lime, the salt, your tequila, and then the final thing is just spray right in the face and you go out and they let you drink right outside. And he gets sprayed in the face to finish it down.

C (36:41)

I mean, this is literally just like they've. The ice is just like teenage pranksters. They're like. It's like Halloween. Do they pants the protesters steal their Zips money?

A (36:52)

It's now a verb in Arizona. Yo, let's go. We're gonna get zipped. Let's go get zipped, bro.

C (36:59)

Dude, you are so zipped right now.

A (37:03)

You know, look, it's so good I got zip last night, man. I. I really tied on a zip. All right, here's another story. Is Josh the new Karen? I'm liking the sound of it. Women have singled out. Josh is the new most hated archetype on the Internet, rivaling the infamous Karen. He's the man who insists he's just being honest while actually being cruel. If he's ever in an argument, he will threaten to pull up a study to prove his point, though he never actually will. And if he doesn't already have a podc, he's thinking about starting one. Comments about Josh currently circulating on the Internet include such slurs as boys go to Jupiter to get more stupider. Is this second grade? Josh's girls go to Mars to shine like a star. All right, we'll skip that one. Josh goes to hell and we are all. We are leaving all Josh's in 2025. Goodbye, Josh. And this is my favorite one. And currently, right now, it's no Josh. January. Wow. It could be that Gen Z love poking fun at millennials as well as white people. And Josh is a popular name for a millennial man who is traditionally white. It sounds to me like this concept of Josh's was made up by young Karen's. If you ask me, it sounds very Karen.

C (38:24)

Like, yeah, Karen's is gonna try to diffuse the hatred for Karen's by. It really is cruel that, you know, the Karen to be born a Karen. Now it's the first thing people bring up when they meet you.

A (38:43)

Right? Yeah.

C (38:44)

No, I mean, by the way, Josh means to kid. Like, I'm joshing you. They're not being cruel, they're being funny. It used to be probably the nicest connotation of a name.

A (38:56)

Well, if Karen's did come up, it makes sense. Karen's hate all men except the manager. That's who they love talking to.

C (39:06)

They are obsessed with talking to him.

A (39:09)

I mean, they're hoping for a female manager, but let's be real. Karen's wanted. I think Karen's are sexist. I think they're like, you're not the manager. Give me the man manager.

C (39:17)

Yeah, I was. I went to a restaurant last night with a couple people from the neighborhood at, you know, the place called Casa Whatever on Rose by Lincoln.

A (39:26)

Yeah, of course.

C (39:27)

All right. So you go there and it's just a great environment. It's this old Mexican, you know, kind of. It's cozy, it's a little down and dirty, but it's fun. And. And the food is awful. You know that going in.

A (39:42)

Yeah. I thought I saw a cabana. I thought I saw a new sign. Have they. Have they yuppied it up a little?

C (39:48)

No, no, no. I think just Casa Cabana. I think it's. Anyway, we had this waiter. Without a doubt, the worst waiter. I've. I've had a lot of bad waiters, but this guy, he was like a Mexican guy with a shaved head whose feet never stopped moving. He came over to take our orders. It's like. It's like the parody of the Chinese waiter, you know, just. Okay, what. What else? What else? Yeah, and he, like, missed one of our orders. Missed a drink order. When he started handing out the food, he would lean across two other people to hand the plate. Like, he was like three people had their backs to him. And he stood at the edge of one of them and leaned across the other two and went, hot plate. So you had to take the plate in your hand, and then he knocks a giant glass of water over, lands in two people's laps. Not only does not say, I'm sorry if he finished serving the other person before he went over to try to start wiping it up. Then we get the bill and we pay it and we add a tip, and then he takes the money, and then we realize, oh, the tip was included. So not only was he the worst waiter ever, he was trying to milk 40% out of us.

A (41:08)

You guys did drink a lot of water or you consumed a lot of water.

C (41:13)

Geez. And I was at dinner with a guy named Josh who. Who was the first one to laugh about it and not call the manager over.

A (41:19)

That Josh might be. I. If it's a Josh I know might be one of the only Josh's in my life. I think even I looked up. I looked up famous Josh's, Josh Allen's one. But there are not a lot of famous Josh's. How many Josh comedians are there?

C (41:37)

Josh? There's one who opens up for Annie Letterman a lot. There's a big manager at 3 Arts named Josh.

A (41:47)

Josh seems to be the least popular. Popular name.

C (41:51)

Josh Gruber Grubin. Josh Duhamel.

A (41:54)

I had him on my podcast, Josh Gad from Broadway. But like, there's not a lot of Josh's. Josh Brolin.

C (42:03)

There's Joshua Tree by the about you too. We're going there for my birthday. We're going to Joshua Tree. Hope there's not a bunch of assholes there.

A (42:12)

Wait, I've heard you have a million birthday plans. I can't keep them all straight.

C (42:16)

Well, the only one you actually. If you want to come out to Joshua Tree with us, we would love to have you be a part of it. It's going to be my sister and husband, her two kids who are amazing. Owen is flying out from New York. JoJo's coming out. Um, I think that might be it, but I think we have an extra bedroom. So I'm putting it out to a couple close friends if you want to join us. Three days in the desert. The house has a pool table, a ping pong table, a cornhole thing, a pool, a 12 person hot tub, a karaoke machine. I'm bringing mushrooms. It's gonna be sick.

A (42:55)

Sounds like a decathlon in the making of some sort of sports.

C (42:59)

Yes.

A (43:01)

Love it.

C (43:01)

And then the party will be April 4th. It's gonna be a big party. It's for me and Aaron because Both are turning 60.

A (43:11)

All right, what do we got here?

C (43:12)

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A (44:54)

I love you.

C (44:55)

Get that for Sunday papers. You and I get one phone number.

A (44:59)

Does it automatically mail koozies?

C (45:01)

Yes, that would be sweet.

A (45:03)

Let's get to the ethical question.

C (45:05)

Okay.

A (45:07)

All right. I got a couple for you. Where are they? Here we go. Here we go. I let my wife have an affair. Do I have to console her now that it's over? And then the subtitle. The sub headline was, while she is grieving about it, I feel relieved.

C (45:33)

I think so. There's no revenge sweeter.

A (45:36)

I don't.

C (45:37)

Because you know what it does? It shows you didn't care that much in the first place, which hurts her because it sounds like the affair didn't work out, so now she's a double loser. Because if you're showing concern for her, she knows that you're over it, too. The guy's over her, and you're over her, and now she's truly alone.

A (46:00)

It also probably smarts when you're grabbing a beer with the guy. Now you guys are commiserating.

C (46:09)

You leave your phone on the counter and an incoming call shows his name.

A (46:14)

Wait, I clicked on. I'm reading some details. She recently decided to break it off because the overall emotional burden for both of us was too great. Okay, for both. But while she is grieving about it, I feel relieved, even though I wish that I could have better coped with the situation. I rationed rationally and ethically. Consider. Okay. Anyway. Yeah, I don't think you have to console her. Maybe a giant. I don't know. He probably feels validated, right?

C (46:48)

Well, can I Ask you a personal question?

A (46:51)

I'd rather you not, but go ahead.

C (46:53)

In college, you had a girlfriend who cheated on you.

A (46:57)

Yeah.

C (46:58)

How did you treat her afterwards?

A (47:01)

No, it was over.

C (47:04)

You just never talked to her again?

A (47:06)

Oh, no, we. No, we got closure and everything, but we were at the end. This is my. I had five years, so it was from 2025. We knew we weren't getting married or anything and we didn't know how to end it. And she had a co worker who then was moving to LA the next morning, and that's the night it happened, and I was suspecting it. So anyway, the mature me realized she had no idea and she felt terrible. Terrible. And then I immaturely felt great that I just was breaking it off and kind of punishing her, and so I really had the upper hand. That's like, what felt good. But, you know, looking back on it, that. That's not the way I wish I had handled it.

C (47:53)

But you guys stayed friends. Years later, I don't know if you did right away, but I remember you guys reconnecting at a certain point, right?

A (48:00)

Yeah, just. Well, because I moved. She eventually moved to la and then I did. Like, we didn't know where our lives were going. We're 25. But. No, but it was crushing to have my suspicion because they were really good friends at work. And then I knew he was moving, so. Yeah, no, that was that. No, that was. I was not mature enough to handle it in any other way except be like, fuck this and it's over.

C (48:29)

Well, which.

A (48:31)

It had to end.

C (48:32)

Also, I. I don't know if Aaron's ever had an affair, but, I mean, God bless her if she did. I'm gone so much just to take a lover on a Saturday afternoon and just leave it at that.

A (48:45)

Yeah. I did not have the healthy enough ego to contemplate anything except being massively hurt.

C (48:52)

We're going to make America, Florida Make America, Florida, y'.

A (48:55)

All. All right. Oviedo. I don't know how to say that. Man was arrested this week after he was caught engaging in a sexual performance with a vacuum cleaner.

C (49:10)

A performance that sounds like while it was happening, he had his hands in the air conducting, you know.

A (49:18)

Yeah. He has two shows a day. In a release, deputies said they responded to serious phrasing. His street in Kissimmee, is it. Kissimmee is Windsor Hills Resort.

C (49:31)

Wait a minute. Can I just stop you on that?

A (49:33)

Yeah.

C (49:34)

One of the first I ever did on stage was these two guys are driving through Florida and one of them Says, I love it here in Kissimmee. And then his friend goes, no, it's kissimmee. And he goes, no, it's Kissimmee. And he goes, no, it's Kissimmee. And so he goes, all right, well, let's pull into this fast food restaurant and ask them what it is. They go to the drive through. They pull up to the window, and the guy says, will you please tell my friend very slowly where we are? And the cashier goes, burger king.

A (50:12)

Kissemi has a burger king. Got it. Anyway, after receiving reports, the police arrived after receiving reports of a man exposing his genital organs in front of a residence. The victims that observed his behavior provided a statement and a cell phone recording of a male, partially clothed in front of a residence, engaged in a sexual performance with a. They will not let go of that phrase.

C (50:38)

First of all, he's in front of somebody's house. How long is the extension cord on this vacuum cleaner? Maybe it's. Oh, maybe it's a portable.

A (50:45)

Also, the two words following a sexual performance with a vacuum cleaner is. The release reads, apparently a complaint had been reported just a day prior. This guy does a lot of vacuuming. Apparently a complaint had been reported just the day prior about a man who'd been walking in a shared hallway space while nude. Investigators revealed video of the incident captured on a ring camera was given to the responding deputy. And this is why I don't have a ring camera.

C (51:18)

That's right. Well, I know, I know which. Which task just jumped up to the top of my honey do list. I got it, honey.

A (51:28)

Yeah, exactly.

C (51:30)

And depending on whether you shaved your pubic hair, you said it's a carpet or hardwood, right?

A (51:36)

Yeah, exactly.

C (51:38)

And you got to remember to clean the lint and the pubic hair out of the filter and the come out of the hose.

A (51:44)

Wait a minute.

C (51:45)

That one wasn't necessary.

A (51:46)

H O e S All right, here we go. Now. I tried something different. So here. We're going to make America Philly again.

C (51:56)

Okay.

A (51:58)

All right. So what I do is I occasionally go into Google news and I search for Florida man. Just those two words. So I put in Philly man. And I'm like, let me get some. Everyone knows my beef with Philly, right? Let me get into Philly man. Uh. Oh. Where did Philly man go? Hold on now. Oh, hold on. Marcus King. Oh, shit, man, I lost. All right, let me do it again. It is horrible. The Philly man. I can't do the story because they're all so terrible, and I'm not even joking. Hold on. Where did it go? Sorry about this. Stay with me, everybody.

C (52:40)

How about Santa Monica, man? Right now. Trying to read a story.

A (52:45)

I know I had it open. I lost it when I was probably looking up.

C (52:51)

I'll just mention to people. In the meantime, I got some great interviews on Fitz Dog Radio this month. I just had. Ian Bagg was on. Jay Moore was on. I got 3.3 million views on my Jay Moore.

A (53:06)

Oh, nice. All right, here we go. You ready? Philly man. Okay, first one. Multiple shooting in north Philly. Man pulls gun on gas station. Four men shot in north Philly. One victim dead. North Philadelphia shooting. Man killed in quadruple shooting inside Philly home. Drugs, guns found in Phil. All right, gunman, pistol whip man outside southwest Philly home. Drunks and guns. Gunman steals bike scooter to commit. Anyway, suspect arrested following fatal shooting. Stolen bike, fatally shoots man. Shooter kills man. Southwest. By the way, I'm reading all of them. There isn't one that's light. Like no one's having sex with a vacuum in Philly. Yeah, and they might be, but it can't even make the front page. The pistol whip again. Here we go. Man charged with the R word. Abduction of teen girls. Jump from window. Escape. Police shot someone. Wait, now there's. Tow truck driver killed.

C (54:07)

Is this all in one day?

A (54:09)

Well, it's all in one run. These are the first results. Shot in leg. Hold on, there's. There was a funny one down here. Wait.

C (54:22)

By the way, I'll be in Philly Valentine's Day weekend. Get a date and come on out to Helium Comedy club where the Fitz. Wear the Greg Fitzsimmons pin and you get in for free.

A (54:33)

All right, here then. I thought I found one. Argument in West Philly beer store. I'm like. I'm listening. This sounds like a Florida man story. Leads to a man and woman shot, man struck and dragged for blocks in deadly southwest Philly. Crash. Gunfight outside north Philly after hours clubs. Leaves one man hurt. Okay, it's the city of brotherly love, Right? So that gets in here. Man kills brother during fight over money in Philly shopping center.

C (55:04)

Jesus. I. Is it the number one homicide city Philly?

A (55:09)

I doubt it.

C (55:10)

Oh, it's up there. It's. It's top three. If it's not number one.

A (55:14)

So anyway, where I. So I spent too much time.

C (55:17)

Chicago might be number one.

A (55:18)

I think Chicago was pretty far up there. But it's all these. How do you view it? Is it per capita and all that stuff. So I spent a lot of time on that. And I cannot do Philly, man. Sorry. I'll find someone else next week.

C (55:32)

Listen to this. Number one is actually New Orleans.

A (55:39)

Oh, man. New Orleans is shady again. See that? See that documentary, the Pharmacist? It's so good.

C (55:48)

Philly is top.

A (55:49)

They talk about crime.

C (55:50)

Philly's top seven or eight. But no, New Orleans. Memphis, St. Louis, Baltimore. These are literally the poorest cities we're talking about. Of course, St. Louis isn't poor, but it's got East St. Louis, which is a really poor area.

A (56:08)

Do we have time to go to sports a Belichick, or you just want me to do this one funny joke I found?

C (56:14)

Let me do this other story real quick because what in sports. Very funny. Yeah.

A (56:18)

Sports. Here we go. Sports.

C (56:20)

Halle Bailey has asked for her ex husband Mark Kali's lawsuit against her for comments she made about the size of his penis to be dismissed. They got divorced due to irreconcilable differences. She discussed mentioning the size of his penis. It was so large, it made sex particularly difficult. And it was the biggest factor in the divorce. Kaylee has since launched a lawsuit seeking $75,000, claiming his ex wife made degrading and deeply personal comments, which has resulted in unwanted attention and invasive commentary from the public. If my ex wife put that rumor out, I'd be paying her $75,000.

A (57:00)

I think he's doing a lawsuit just to keep it alive. Yes, we're talking about his penis.

C (57:06)

Meanwhile, she's had trouble dating because other men keep getting lost in her cavernous vagina. Just sucked in.

A (57:16)

Yeah. All right, we're in sports. Here goes Belichick. One funny thing. Belichick was passed over, and it's been a big news story.

C (57:26)

The hall of Fame.

A (57:27)

Yeah. And what I love is how apolitical. Like, people listen. Belichick's not well liked, but seemingly everyone is. Like, what are you talking about? He's not first ballot, hall of Fame. But here was a funny meme I found which said, Bill Pellet, super bowl.

C (57:44)

Ranks.

A (57:47)

Eight or nine, by the way.

C (57:48)

No, six.

A (57:50)

That's impossible.

C (57:51)

Oh, no, you're right. It's eight. You're right. It's eight.

A (57:54)

I think it might be nine.

C (57:55)

No, it's eight.

A (57:57)

Okay. You sound very confident now.

C (57:59)

I'm looking at the story. I wrote the story down, and Jerry Rice was saying to Rich Eisen, he. That how can he have eight super bowl championships? And as a. As a head coach and assistant. He wasn't a head coach. For all eight.

A (58:15)

I know Bill Belichick waited 49 years for his girlfriend to be born. He can wait one more year to get to be born.

C (58:27)

That definitely takes the sting out of not getting the ring, I'd say.

A (58:31)

Look at that.

C (58:32)

Yeah.

A (58:33)

All right, what are we going down?

C (58:35)

History.

A (58:36)

Here we go.

C (58:38)

By the way, someday we are going to do an entire episode on international and Science and Tech, because that's the last two categories, and we never get to them because we're running into time issues on the show. So we jump down to. So we have all these stories built up in those categories. We're gonna do a whole episode on just those.

A (59:01)

All right, we're up against it now. You ready? So Edgar Allen Poe's the Raven first appears in print on this day. Speaking of Philly, isn't he a Philly man? He might be.

C (59:15)

No, Baltimore.

A (59:16)

Oh, you're right. It's Baltimore. I knew it was a hurting city. All right, what. What year did the Raven first appear in print, give or take 40 years.

C (59:30)

Jesus. I'm going to say 1870.

A (59:34)

You did it, sir. 1845.

C (59:37)

Nice.

A (59:38)

You did it. Oprah Winfrey was born on this day. In what year, give or take five years?

C (59:51)

1951.

A (59:54)

You did it, sir. 54.

C (59:57)

Okay.

A (59:59)

You don't seem pleased. Normally very pleased.

C (60:01)

Well, I just. These are easy. These are really.

A (60:03)

The British film Dr. Strangelove or how I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, a landmark call, Cold War farce, directed by Kubrick, was released in theaters on this day. In what year, give or take four years?

C (60:17)

1975.

A (60:19)

64. I knew I'd catch up.

C (60:21)

No way. Really?

A (60:23)

That early? That close to the war? Let's see here. All right, last question. The Beatles performed together for the last time on the roof in the 42 minute set on the roof of Apple Corp. Headquarters in London. And it was in the documentary Let It Be, give or take one year. What year was the rooftop concert?

C (60:55)

1970.

A (60:57)

1969.

C (61:00)

Nice. Nice week for me.

A (61:04)

I mean, he should have gotten that. Come on. All right, that wraps it up. And then where are we off to now?

C (61:11)

Let's do some letters to the editor.

A (61:12)

Letters to the editor.

C (61:14)

John in Utah says I'm a longtime listener. Love the show. Saw you and Mike on Burt's pod this week. Oh, yeah. We should give a shout out to that.

A (61:22)

Oh, yeah?

C (61:23)

What's it called? His.

A (61:25)

Something's Cooking.

C (61:26)

Something's cooking. What's cooking? What's burning? Or is it what's burning?

A (61:30)

Burning.

C (61:32)

Something's burning.

A (61:33)

I think Something's burning.

C (61:35)

I love seeing your banter together in the same room. Here's an idea. With your sixth anniversary around the corner. What? What? What about the two of you in the same room for an episode? Would be a wonderful treat for the audience. You know, I have the studio.

A (61:53)

Where do I have to go for that? I have to bring all these coats and jackets.

C (61:59)

We could do a live one. We could do it live. You know, we could do is like a three o' clock show in the belly room at the store.

A (62:07)

Oh, wow.

C (62:08)

And bring a guest on stage. Didn't we do that once before?

A (62:13)

We did a live one, I think in Maria Bamford, maybe. Was it on La Brea or. Yeah, something like that.

C (62:20)

Okay. And then Kevin Sweeney from Philadelphia. I was listening to your podcast today. While shoveling snow, he actually wrote Shoving Snow and where the part that's probably.

A (62:34)

What they do in Philly, they shove snow and scream at it.

C (62:39)

Mike starts ragging on Philadelphia calling us animals. I couldn't help but feel a sense of pride. The history is for 350 years that people don't give a flying fish. Anyway, I had a good laugh. Kept me working outside for another hour. Hope to see you next month.

A (62:57)

Of course, he was outside for an hour. He's probably pissing all over the snow. He is an animal. Kevin's an animal, too.

C (63:05)

This One came from K2. And this is. He gets an email every day called A Thought for the Day, which is like a positive thought. Quote, don't read this. I'm going to read it and you tell me who said it.

A (63:17)

I already read it.

C (63:18)

I stand for honesty, equality, kindness, compassion, treating people the way you want to be treated and helping those in need. To me, those are traditional values said by none other than Ellen Josh DeGeneres. Comedian, TV host.

A (63:37)

Yup. Well, do what she says, I guess, and not what she does.

C (63:43)

Yeah, well, she's moving back to the country. We missed her. Welcome back.

A (63:47)

Is she moving back?

C (63:48)

That's the rumor, yeah.

A (63:50)

She can't commit to anything, man. All right, we off to the funnies.

C (63:55)

Let's do the funnies.

A (63:57)

All right.

C (63:58)

Every week we do a thing called a comedy caption contest. I give you one frame of a comic, you write a punchline, you send it to fitzdogradiomail.com we correlate a handful as finalists. We pick a winner. That person gets a koozie sent to them at some point in time. Now we ask that you put your name directly under your punchline and we'll go from there. Last Week we had a comic of two men in jacket and ties. They're sitting at a restaurant with their food in front of them. And then there is a kid. And I say kid, but he seems to have sort of like a weird balding hair pattern.

A (64:42)

He's an older person, I think.

C (64:44)

All right, so he's got his finger in his nose and he's got an ice cream sundae in front of him. And the two men are talking to each other. Matt from Peoria said, you can't pick your family.

A (64:55)

All right.

C (64:57)

Albert Corrado said, if you think last night was wild, imagine what he will let us do. If we pay him with money, he'll let us.

A (65:06)

Oh, that's dark. I think that's dark.

C (65:08)

Dark. Ron said, this is what I get for banging a dancer from Jumbo's Clown Room.

A (65:13)

Ron got the reference in there.

C (65:16)

Anyways, never meet your heroes. Pat McDermott said, what does that mean?

A (65:22)

Is that the guy's hero or did he have. Did he have sex and this is the offspring of the hero he met? That's not what he intended.

C (65:29)

I don't know. I think he's saying this guy was.

A (65:31)

Yeah, all right.

C (65:33)

Chris said, is that really the guy who wrote Dear Mrs. Fitzsimmons?

A (65:36)

Not bad, not bad.

C (65:38)

Jim Curran said, he's celebrating. He just got accepted into ice.

A (65:44)

All right.

C (65:45)

Mike Nestor said, it's Eric's turn to sit on Daddy's cabinet meeting. Sit in on Daddy's cabinet meeting.

A (65:51)

So that's Eric Trump.

C (65:53)

I don't know. I'm not going to say. I don't want to be put on a list.

A (65:56)

Oh, man. By the way, the ice thing, I just saw thing come out, incidentally, the $50,000 bonus, man. Do you know the fine print about that $50,000 bonus?

C (66:07)

Do you get it in. Do you get it in Trump?

A (66:11)

If I can believe what I heard. I'm not saying it's true. No one is getting that $50,000 bonus. And if you don't get it, I think anything you've paid, you have to pay back.

C (66:25)

Really?

A (66:26)

I think it's nine arrest. You have to average like nine abductions. I'm going to call them abductions a day, something like that. Whatever it is, it's. It's. It's more than a few, and. And then it's staggered, like, you know, months into years. It's over years. And if you don't make it the full time, that's when I think you have to pay it back. It's like a payday loan, is what the person was saying.

C (66:53)

Nice.

A (66:54)

I know.

C (66:55)

All right, let's get down to.

A (66:57)

Well, we're not picking. There's no winner this week, right?

C (67:00)

No, let's pick a winner.

A (67:01)

Oh, out of these. Well, I guess Chris with your Mrs. Fitzsimmons.

C (67:08)

All right, there you go, Chris. You. You earned your way by making an inside reference. Now, people don't take that as a green light to make all references about the show. They're cute, but in a restrained way.

A (67:21)

Just Greg.

C (67:23)

Next week's comic is a gentleman in the bathroom looking in the mirror. He is bald. He's got the. What do they call the trim around.

A (67:32)

The sides, like a halo effect almost. I don't know what that is.

C (67:37)

He is staring at himself, not happy. And he has a brush in his hand, a hairbrush. So do with that.

A (67:46)

Looks rather glum. Yeah.

C (67:48)

Hagar the Horrible is outside of a castle with Lucky and another marauder. They've got their swords up. And he says to the king who's in the balcony, you have more money than you need. And the king says, define what I need. And Haggar goes, 100 pounds of gold to make us go away. And obviously the queen is. It's just a given. You don't. Yeah, that's the fine prince.

A (68:18)

Right.

C (68:19)

And your wife for what, two days? How long did the Vikings go out of King's wife? How long. How long does the queen get? Two days.

A (68:27)

What? Two days in possession of the marauders.

C (68:30)

Yes.

A (68:31)

Sure.

C (68:32)

Yeah.

A (68:35)

That was a brief one. Normally, Normally there's a little more to a hagger.

C (68:38)

Yeah, it wasn't a great one. It's been, it was a bad week for the cartoons. I, I literally. The Lockhorns, Benny host. I don't know what's going on with her, but this week, not a single. Oh, for seven on the comic strips this week from Bunny Onion had some.

A (68:58)

Some good ones. Here's one. Man manslaughter honked at. That's the extent of America up in arms. Manslaughter honked at. Here's another one because you and. You and I were talking about how challenging sleep is lately. This one is man unrecognizable after full eight hours of sleep. I think that speaks to so many people right now. And then something else. It's not a cartoon, but someone posted this, I guess is neither here nor there, but. Except that it's right in front of my face. They posted a Craigslist, Craig's ad, Craigslist listing that if you go to see the Melania documentary At any Boston theater, you will get a free ticket and you will be paid $50. But you have real. You have to remain in your seat for the entirety of the film. I don't know if someone made it up or they screen grab the listing. I don't know if it's real.

C (70:02)

I don't think that's real. But I do.

A (70:03)

Pretty funny.

C (70:04)

I do know that there is anecdotal evidence that the theaters have been empty. We'll see what the box office looks like at the end of the weekend. Blondie's in bed with Dagwood. He's got on flannel donut pajamas. She, on the other hand, has on a navy blue frilly lingerie off the shoulder. And somehow. And you see how firm her breasts are because she doesn't have a bra on. And they are still presenting.

A (70:35)

The artists spent time on them.

C (70:38)

She is reading a book magazine, and she goes, survey. If your wife gives you a pass to dine with a famous actress, whom would you choose from this list? He says, oh, no, this is just another lose, lose situation. I'm opting out of this trap now. She leans over to his side of the bed, which she doesn't come to that often, and she gives him a big kiss. And as she does, the lacy strap falls further down, almost to her elbow, and she goes, oh, honey, calm down. It's just a fun little game. And he goes, well, it could cause big trouble. And now she rolls her back to him, which is the way she sleeps, understandably. And he says, by the way, is Sydney Sweeney on the list?

A (71:23)

Well, I mean.

C (71:25)

I mean, do you want to put a picture of Sidney next to a picture of Blondie? You fucking. I mean, does he not see her? Is it one of those, like, Madonna whore complexes where you're married to a woman and so you're no longer able to touch her, especially once she's had children. He just doesn't see her anymore.

A (71:48)

I know it's sad. This reminds me, and I know I've said it before, and I'm pretty sure it's Norm MacDonald. His great joke on the hall passes, and he goes, my wife and I talked about it, and mine was like Christie Brinkley, and my wife's was our gardener and his son.

C (72:15)

That's the genius of Norm, is he went for two.

A (72:19)

I know.

C (72:20)

Not only is it. It would have been a funny joke on its own. With the gardener.

A (72:24)

Right? Exactly.

C (72:25)

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A (73:09)

Not really. Those jazz guys, man. Go back up to the top and list it. Get those names, find those dudes. They're amazing.

C (73:16)

Also, I'm gonna be on the Joe Rogan Experience. I'm taping it tomorrow. It goes up next week and then I'm taping Kill Tony on Monday. That'll go up by probably two or three weeks after that.

A (73:27)

Nice.

C (73:28)

Yeah. All right, talk to you later.

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Take it eash.

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All right.

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