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Mike Pesca (0:00)
Hilarity will ensue. For the second season of Funny you should mention debuting both in this here channel on the gist and as its own feed on Funny you should mention. Funny you should mention Season two features my conversations with such comedians as Rosebud Baker, Michelle Bouteau, Alex Edelman, TJ Miller. Where we sit down and I ask them to do you really believe that? Is that why you said it? Is it the funniest way to say it? Is it the truest way to say it? Sometimes we describe it as unpacking the profundities and punchlines. Yeah, I know that's alliterative, but what I'm trying to get at is comedians are like the modern philosophers of our time, so I asked them about their philosophy. Funny you should mention like I said has its own feed. Subscribing there will give you bonus materials and make sure you never miss an episode or or every other week in the gist starting on April 4th. It's Tuesday, March 25th, 2025. From peach fish Productions, it's the Gist. I'm Mike Pesca. Your DNA may soon be available at a Menlo park yard sale or in the remainder's bin at your local Sam Goody. I think you know what I'm getting at, even if you believe my name to be Sophie. Sophie.
Chris Gethard (1:20)
Thank you.
Mike Pesca (1:21)
We've got some breaking news to get to. Genetic testing company 23andMe has now filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The firm valued at $50 million is pushing for a buyout Notice how he had to emphasize the million million like it's a lot. It's not really. Given the fact that 23andMe was once a $6 billion company, but not really. It was valued at that but that wasn't the actual worth because the problem is after you use it once. Huh. I'm a 16th CRE Indian who knew what is the case to reuse it. I mean maybe if in between the first and second use an uncle of yours does some serial killing that could be informative. But really this was more a one time parlor trick. Now I've been reading articles about how to delete your 23 and me and the key seems to be a, there's a, there's a process, three part process. It's a just news you can use segment and you'll thank me and Sophie afterwards. So what you need to do is you need to pick a password without any common phrases or sequential numbers too. You need to try to identify which picture is a motorcycle. And three, you need to learn to use CRISPR to decode the human genome. Now there is actually a permanently delete feature, but if you don't choose to use it or forgot that someone gave you 23andMe, guess what terms you agreed to when you signed up? I'll read them. Quote if we this 23andMe terms of agreement. If we are involved in a bankruptcy, merger, acquisition, reorganization or sale of assets, your personal information may be accessed, sold, or transferred as part of that transaction. And ladies and gentlemen, that time is upon us. Now maybe the new buyer will only want to market you medical products given that they've determined you have a genetic predisposition to tow fungus. Either way, good luck and may your Cree ancestors rest assured in the knowledge that their great, great grandchild is probably not being cloned. Probably. On the show today, I'll have a plug of an article in the Free Press based on my two part spiel about that subway shooting. I did the spiel a couple of weeks ago and I'm going to tease not only the article, but on Thursday a third part of the two part spiel. We'll call it a three part spiel. @ that point that's going to hit the just feed. People are clamoring for this one. But first, today's spiel is about the Atlantic editor involved in the signal chat, the Houthi Whoopsie, if you will. But first, Chris Gethard is back. Today, the standup and improviser talks about how the latest trends in comedy don't favor the kind of comedy he likes to do and how Shane Gillis and he had a heart to heart after Gillis derisively chided Brown. Kind of out of nowhere. Interesting stuff. Stay tuned. And by the way, I looked it up. 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And last episode and we're going to take the conversation into this episode we talk about what comedy has become and what comedy has become is to a large extent putting up a lot of clips of crowd work on social media and maybe being a little aggressive with and to the audience. So my first question was kind of a devil's advocate, but there is a certain kind of comedian who's Good at improv, good at interacting with the audience, and might say, look, this is what the algorithms are rewarding. At one point in comedy, comedian might say, oh man, I don't want to do comedy albums. But that's what comedy had become. So you do the albums. Now the definition of comedy is something like doing a lot of crowd work and maybe posting it on social media and maybe showing up the audience. But it seems to me, Chris, that if the audience members seem like they're into it and it's all in good fun and there's no real evidence that the audience is generally souring on comedy, I wonder about the tension, I wonder about the tension of you as a comic not loving where comedy is going versus this, what comedy seems to be and what the audience seems to be responding to.