BONUS The Friday Show - Bear Necessities
Guest:I showed this video to Mark and he goes, this looks like a documentary shot at a high end institution.
Marc:Hey, Chris.
Marc:Brandon, I got my headphones, my iPad, iPhone, and a map of the United States.
Marc:I'm ready to go, my friend.
Marc:What are all those things for?
Marc:Well, Mark mentioned in Thursday's episode, he's like, oh, I don't know, this guy on my flight, he had headphones, iPad, iPhone, and a map of the United States with maps, with states, lines, and like, I don't know what he was doing.
Guest:He seemed like a good guy.
Guest:I'm like, that was my favorite part.
Guest:Like, he felt the need to qualify.
Guest:Like, in case that guy was listening, he didn't want that guy to feel like he was shitting on him.
Guest:No, no, no, no.
Guest:Good guy.
Guest:Guy was okay.
Guest:He was okay.
Marc:Definitely not a terrorist.
Marc:Definitely not a terrorist.
Marc:He's like that episode of 30 Rock where Liz thinks that her neighbor's a terrorist.
Guest:Oh, yeah, yeah.
Guest:Oh, I thought you meant the one where she thought she was flying next to Oprah Winfrey, but it turned out that the drug she was on was just a little girl.
Marc:No.
Marc:Also, also, does Mark not know that planes have an airplane mode where you can see where the plane is in relation to your destination?
Guest:I know he knows that because I've sat with him on a plane where he just watched that.
Guest:He didn't watch a movie or anything.
Guest:He was watching the airplane map.
Marc:Yeah.
Marc:You know, that's actually a trend.
Marc:I forget what it's called, but it's like, oh, I just did a seven-hour flight just staring at nothing.
Marc:No iPad, no phone, nothing.
Guest:Like Putty and Seinfeld?
Marc:Yes, just like Putty and Seinfeld.
Marc:It's a trend that people are doing now.
Guest:That's fine.
Guest:There's nothing wrong with that, actually.
Guest:I encourage that.
Marc:Yeah.
Yeah.
Guest:Did you also have a question for you, though, when you travel, particularly if you're traveling by car, are you prepared to take a roadkill bear and put it in your car to skin it for its meat?
Marc:You know, it's funny you say that.
Marc:Last night.
Marc:No, I did.
I did.
I did.
Marc:I did not see a bear get run over by the person in front of me and then put that bear in my back seat to be then skinned and eaten.
Marc:What?
Marc:Okay, hang on.
Guest:Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait a sec.
Guest:Hang on.
Guest:These details all require a lot of questions and extrapolations.
Guest:Yes.
Guest:And I think the best way to do this, especially for those people who maybe don't know, although I don't know why you wouldn't know this because it's the most hilarious thing ever.
Guest:Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Guest:released a video on Sunday night showing himself around a dining room table with, like, Brontosaurus ribs on it or something.
Marc:By the way, can I just pause right here?
Marc:Because for some reason, so my wife and I watch John Oliver's show every week, and for the past two weeks...
Marc:John has been getting sort of stumped or, you know, the news has surpassed him because the show comes out on Sunday.
Marc:It was all about RFK Jr.
Marc:So I just figured, oh, that's where this video was unearthed.
Marc:It was from this episode.
Marc:No, it's from RFK Jr.
Marc:Just put it out there.
Marc:So please, go on.
Guest:OK, so in this video where he is sitting in his, you know, Tony Westchester estate and he is talking to Roseanne Barr.
Marc:Wow.
Marc:How did that happen?
Guest:Who is clearly like cast in the role, by the way.
Guest:Right.
Guest:Because she's like she's like made up.
Guest:She looks she's TV ready in this in this barbecue that they're having.
Guest:And.
Guest:And so she knew she was going to be filmed or something.
Guest:And so, okay, the filming starts.
Guest:You know, I'm just going to read the transcript of this and we can stop line by line.
Guest:Thank you.
Guest:To address the issues that we had with... Anyone who's been listening to the Friday show knows my kind of enjoyment with the RFK Jr.
Guest:sideshow, by the way.
Guest:I mean, and if I thought...
Guest:If I said the peak of like my enjoyment of a politician who I don't like watching them spiral was going to be the worm eating his brain and dying in there.
Guest:Like I can't I couldn't imagine a universe in which that was topped by another story.
Guest:Particularly a story where he's a criminal that was documented on the news 10 years ago as a mystery.
Guest:Right.
Guest:Like you can go back and watch the footage from 10 years ago of people talking about this crime going like, oh, who would do such a thing?
Guest:Can you imagine if in that moment...
Guest:You like you were watching the news in 2014.
Guest:You see this story about the dead bear in Central Park and somebody standing next to you is like, oh, I know who did that.
Guest:RFK Jr.
Guest:You'd be like, you're an idiot.
Guest:Stop talking to me.
Guest:Like, don't go away.
Guest:Yeah.
Guest:Yeah.
Guest:That's clearly like just like some vagrant dragged a bear into the park or something, you know?
Guest:Yeah.
Guest:rfk jr did it is not the answer i was expecting yes and so unfortunately we are going to go through this this video line by line unfortunately like the subruder film uh i'm sorry to say well unfortunately or just celestial coincidence that we just saw magnolia last night these things all come together uh
Guest:I also want, like, we're on an audio product here.
Guest:It would seem to make sense, especially like I'm a producer.
Guest:I know like how to do this.
Guest:When you're doing something like this, it usually makes sense to just play the audio and we can play it and stop it.
Guest:I will not do that.
Guest:Yeah, don't do the voice.
Guest:Don't do the voice.
Yeah.
Guest:this guy's voice is and i know people are like oh that's people are mean about his voice yeah i'm sorry he did so much heroin he can't talk anymore that's that's that's that is a shame uh but yeah i can't stand listening to this guy uh so i will just read the transcript thank you uh of uh of this and we can stop where we need to okay
Guest:I was taking a group of people falconing up in Goshen, New York.
Guest:Now, I know this guy falcons.
Guest:Like, this is one of his big things, right?
Guest:He, like, you know, has videos.
Guest:Oh, win a falconing date with RFK Jr.
Guest:and that.
Guest:But it's still the weirdest and somehow most Kennedy line to start a story.
Guest:I was taking a group of people falconing in Goshen, New York.
Guest:Okay, Goshen, New York is now about two hours north of New York City.
Guest:west of New York City on the other side of the river RFK Jr.
Guest:lives in Westchester that's about an hour like due east of Goshen okay so I kind of want you to like draw that in your mind New York if you went straight north from like Brooklyn you would hit Westchester then you have to dog leg out west left to hit Goshen so he goes an hour out west to Goshen okay okay
Guest:I was supposed to meet them there.
Guest:OK, he's talking about going and meeting these people.
Guest:So he's by himself, according to this story, or at least he's not with the traveling falconer party.
Guest:OK, yeah.
Guest:So it's just him in the car.
Guest:supposed to meet them there at maybe eight or nine i was driving up maybe really early like seven and then a woman in a van in front of me hit a bear and killed it a young bear so okay let's stop here for a second
Guest:Did this woman just like, was this like Frogger?
Guest:Like she just plowed the bear off the road and just kept driving?
Guest:If that's the case, how do you know it was a woman?
Guest:Right.
Guest:It's just a van in front of him that just did this.
Guest:Is he just assuming this is a woman driver for sexist reasons?
Guest:I don't know.
Guest:But if the woman did stop, where is this woman?
Guest:Right.
Guest:Where is her story about this?
Marc:Right.
Marc:Right.
Marc:Uh, okay.
Marc:So also, also in the, on the other side of it, like, did they get out together?
Marc:Like, did they talk about it?
Marc:Yeah.
Marc:Did he say, no, no, no, you break the law.
Marc:Go, go, go, go, go, go.
Marc:Yeah.
Marc:Don't worry.
Marc:I'll, I'll handle this.
Marc:Okay.
Marc:Nice man who I just met with a weird voice.
Marc:I'm going to go now.
Yeah.
Guest:okay so i pulled over and i picked up the bear and put him in the back of my van because i was okay okay hang on before because the next set the next part of this sentence is the craziest sentence in the whole thing but i have to stop there of the first one he says he picked up the bear and put it in the back of his van a
Guest:A bear is heavy.
Guest:Yes.
Guest:Even if it's a baby bear cub, it's heavy.
Guest:He just killed it.
Guest:There is, spoiler, a picture of him with this bear.
Guest:It is covered in blood.
Guest:Yes.
Guest:How did this guy...
Guest:i don't know you ever listen to a true crime podcast like one one true crime podcast you will listen to it and go like oh yeah never touch anything dad because it will always be on you you will leave all sorts of uh identifying information and uh you will be covered in blood and you will never be able to not be able you will never be able to clean a blood trace you
Guest:You know, it's always around.
Guest:So, like, okay, the casual nature of just, I just picked up this dead bear, bloody bear, shoved it in my car, already strains credulity.
Guest:But then his reasoning is... Yeah.
Guest:because I was going to skin the bear and it was in very good condition.
Guest:And I was going to put the meat in my refrigerator.
Guest:And you can do that in New York state.
Guest:You can get a bear tag for roadkill bear.
Woo, woo, woo.
Marc:Okay.
Marc:A, what are you doing with bear meat?
Marc:Like, is that a thing that people are eating?
Guest:I get the idea of like, you know, my grandfather was a hunter.
Guest:We had all sorts of game that you want some venison.
Guest:You want this, that.
Guest:Never, ever.
Guest:ever was anyone like oh you know what so and so jerry up the road he killed a bear he's got the great bear chili we should go get some i've never heard of it in my life now granted that it may be a thing is it a thing in like
Guest:fucking westchester county right like people are like i gotta put this fucking bear meat in my free in my fridge this is gonna save this is gonna i'm gonna have this for months also this is like an american brahmin of the fucking kennedy's he's like this guy is wanting nothing why does he need roadkill bear like
Guest:If this guy wants it, you want a tow?
Guest:I'll get you a tow.
Guest:Like, this guy can get anything he wants at any time.
Guest:He does not need a bear that has gotten demolished by a van.
Guest:Right.
Guest:And I don't care what good condition it is.
Guest:And there's gravel in it.
Guest:There's some shit that you just took on from being hit by this car.
Guest:Like...
Guest:You don't need this bear.
Guest:Go get you.
Guest:I guarantee this guy eats dinner like Tom Womskins in succession.
Guest:Like he eats those birds where you have to put a towel over your head to eat it.
Guest:Like you don't need roadkill bear.
Marc:Yes.
Marc:He can get giraffe meat.
Marc:He can get probably human meat.
Marc:Like, what is he doing right now?
Marc:He can get it.
Marc:I'm probably sure he has.
Guest:All right.
Guest:Continuing.
Guest:Yeah.
Guest:So then we went hawking and I had the bear in my car.
Guest:I love that the hawking is just the verb here.
Guest:And then we had a really good day and we went late.
Guest:This will be a theme, by the way.
Guest:And we were catching a lot of game and the people really loved it.
Marc:So wait, is this like a fucking hunt?
Marc:Right.
Marc:Is this a hunting trip or is he is he shooting these hawks or the falcon that he lets go on his hand?
Guest:Yeah.
Guest:It's like, hey, everybody, all right, get your guns out.
Guest:It's going to go.
Guest:You got five seconds.
Guest:All right.
Guest:Wait, what was the bird's name in Royal Tenenbaums?
Marc:Oh, Mordecai.
Marc:Mordecai.
Marc:Fly, Mordecai.
Marc:I don't think it's the same bird.
Marc:It's white feathers.
Guest:Okay.
Guest:All right.
Guest:So he says they've been going very late.
Guest:They were catching a lot of game.
Guest:So that's also, if you're catching all this game, does it go in with the bear?
Guest:Like he's got like a stack bear antelope.
Marc:It's like Noah's Ark in his truck, whatever his van, whatever it is.
Marc:The Kennedy kill van.
Yeah.
Guest:Not the first Kennedy vehicle that's been called that.
Marc:No, no, no.
Marc:This was the van.
Marc:It's like Batman.
Guest:It's not a station wagon.
Marc:no no it's not the limo it's not the station wagon it's the van we got a lot of these got a whole fleet the boat we got a boat oh they've definitely killed people on a boat what are you kidding uh
Guest:All right.
Guest:So he says, so we stayed late.
Guest:And instead of coming back to my home in Westchester, I had to go right to the city because there was a dinner at Peter Luger's Steakhouse.
Guest:Okay.
Guest:Pause.
Guest:So I want to go back to how I mentioned the geography of this is.
Guest:So right now you can draw like an inverted L from Peter Luger to Goshen, New York through Westchester.
Guest:Does that mean you can go faster if you do the diagonal line that goes from Goshen to Brooklyn?
Guest:That's probably faster.
Guest:But is it...
Guest:crazy to go back home to Westchester first and then go down to Brooklyn.
Guest:It's you, you maybe add 15 minutes, like maybe.
Guest:And then the next thing I was going to bring up is change his clothes and take a shower before going to the nice steakhouse.
Guest:So maybe you add about 45 minutes total.
Guest:You're Robert Kennedy.
Guest:Do you think you can't show up somewhere 45 minutes late?
Guest:That'd be a problem.
Um,
Guest:So instead of going home and washing off the bear guts and they've been on him all day, by the way.
Guest:Also, he's got a dead animal in his car.
Guest:At least one.
Guest:At least one.
Guest:Possibly because they were they did.
Guest:They caught a lot of game.
Guest:It's possibly a stack.
Guest:This is like a uno deck of animals in his car.
Guest:And he's like, I got to go to the city.
Guest:I just got to go to the city.
Guest:I got to valet this at Peter Luger, which does not have a parking lot.
Guest:So you do have to have either valet it or park somewhere under the Manhattan Bridge.
Guest:OK, so Williamsburg Bridge.
Guest:So he goes as I go into Peter Luger Steakhouse and at the dinner, it went late and I realized I couldn't go home.
Guest:I had to go to the airport.
Guest:All right.
Guest:So we have established has not cleaned himself, has not changed his clothes.
Guest:As far as we know, has not packed clothes.
Guest:Right.
Guest:Just did not play like or maybe he did pack clothes and the plan the whole time was to go from falconing.
Guest:to Peter Luger to the airport, which if that's the case, don't you end your falconing trip a little early?
Guest:Guys, the whole plan was we were going to go right from here to Peter Luger, but now I have a menagerie in my car.
Marc:I have to do something different.
Marc:Yeah, I cut this short, but no.
Guest:All right.
Guest:So he says, and the bear was in my car and I didn't want to leave the bear in the car because that would have been bad.
Guest:Oh, you think so, doctor?
Guest:i also love that he just figured this out now like he's halfway through his steak he's like his steak is tasty a little gamey gamey game oh no i have i have so much game in my car
Marc:Or, like, was he thinking that, you know what, I'll bring this bear to Peter Luger and you know what, maybe I'll just be like, hey guys, can you fix me up some bear meat?
Marc:Like, you can get out of the whole bear, you can just shave me off, I don't know, a breast of it?
Marc:Like, what?
Guest:Well, that's the other thing.
Guest:His plan was, like, what is he?
Guest:He's saying he's going to skin the bear.
Guest:Maybe that takes a quick amount of time.
Guest:But cut the bear up and put it in his refrigerator.
Guest:That was his whole point for putting it in the car in the first place.
Guest:So that is adding two hours to your day.
Guest:Three hours.
Marc:On a day where you know that you have to fly away, right?
Marc:Yeah.
Marc:So, like, what?
Marc:Like, this is just bad time management, honestly.
Marc:This is just, you know...
Guest:but like if you go by the if you like by the letter of his story everything he's saying is true if you believe that it is one of the worst cases of impulse control i've ever seen like and as a guy running for president even though it's he's not and that's stupid but it's like the idea that like you as a president would not have enough sense to be like okay don't put the
Guest:roadkill bear in my car on this very very busy day that includes a flight out of New York at JFK airport like right because otherwise I've just added three to five hours to my day for you know trimming and dressing and cutting a bear and storing its meat and
Marc:RFK Jr.
Marc:has a Goodfellas type day for like the entire time.
Marc:I just think that song is happening.
Guest:Yeah.
Guest:Harry Nilsson.
Guest:Yeah.
Guest:And he's got somebody at home stirring the sauce while he cuts and skins a bear.
Marc:I can't forget my lucky hat.
Guest:All right, going back to him.
Guest:So then I thought, you know, at that time, this was a little bit of the redneck in me.
Marc:All right, pause for a sec.
Marc:I'm sorry, Mr. Kennedy.
Marc:What part of redneck are you?
Marc:Just end it with, I'm sorry, Mr. Kennedy.
Guest:Like American royalty.
Guest:They called them Camelot.
Guest:This Kennedy says that there is a little bit of redneck in him.
Guest:That is not getting enough attention in the circles from which I travel.
Guest:Okay.
Guest:So that was a little bit of a redneck in me.
Guest:There'd been a series of bicycle accidents in New York.
Guest:They had just put in bike lanes.
Guest:And so a couple of people were getting killed and it was every day and people were badly injured every day and it was in the press.
Guest:All right.
Guest:Pause here for a second.
Guest:Yeah.
Guest:now knowing where he's trying to connect this to the story.
Guest:Why is that a good prank?
Guest:Right.
Guest:Like the, he's like, Oh, the setup to this prank that I pull is that innocent people were dying on their bicycles every day.
Guest:What?
Guest:Why is that related to this bullshit prank he's going to detail about leaving a bear in a bike lane?
Guest:Like, if anything, isn't that a prank on the bikers, on the cyclists?
Guest:Right.
Guest:That like either someone will accidentally run over this bear or it's saying that the cyclists are dangerous because they killed a bear.
Guest:Like isn't isn't this whole thing supposed to be like, no, I'm supporting like nature and the environment and use your bike.
Guest:And instead his prank is I'm going to put a bear in the bike path and look like a bear got killed by a cyclist.
Marc:Like, it makes no sense in any imagination.
Marc:Also, can we just go back to the fact that he realized that the bear is in his trunk and, you know, it's bad.
Marc:That's like Michael Scott realizing that he had potato salad in his car the whole day.
Guest:Just the sun.
Marc:Beating down on it.
Yeah.
Guest:I really, some of this, I know it's all bullshit, but some of it I really hope is true on the level of like realizations that he came across at various times.
Guest:Like, you know, like, oh, I make my car stink.
Right.
Marc:I now want to know, like, what season was this?
Marc:Was it the summer?
Marc:You know, like, how bad was this stench?
Guest:All right.
Guest:So he says, so I thought I wasn't drinking, of course, but people were.
Marc:I don't like it.
Marc:I'm pretty sure he was drinking up his spaghetti.
Guest:Well, also, like, the need to immediately... There's no need to put anything in here about drinking at all, right?
Guest:Like, you just say, so, you know, we had this joke.
Guest:Let's take this out to Central Park.
Guest:But instead, he says, so I thought... I wasn't drinking, of course, but people were drinking with me who thought this was a good idea.
Guest:So, like...
Guest:What he's trying to say is he says it's his idea.
Guest:He goes, and I said, I had an old bike in my car that someone asked me to get rid of.
Guest:Put a pin in that.
Guest:And I said, so let's put the bear.
Guest:I said, let's put the bear in Central Park and we'll make it look like it got hit by a bike.
Guest:So everybody thought that's a great idea.
Guest:OK, so he is saying, but also he is basically in that same sentence saying I was with a bunch of drunks.
Guest:I was not drunk, but I came up with this idea and the drunks thought it was fantastic.
Guest:So obviously I had to do it.
Guest:Like, again, if you go by the letter of his story, it is terrible judgment.
Guest:It is like he's like, listen, how could I say no to these bar flies?
Guest:They loved it.
Marc:They thought this was great.
Marc:I mean, he didn't mention his other ideas of dropping it off of the Empire State Building.
Marc:Like a penny.
Right.
Marc:Look, it's King Kong.
Guest:Was beauty killed the beast.
Guest:So wait, but I also want to go back to what he said.
Guest:He has a bike.
Guest:Put a pin.
Guest:There's a bike in this car with a zoo of dead animals.
Marc:How big is this death car?
Yeah.
Guest:he's got all bad i got this old bike i've been meaning to to throw out yeah do you do that it's when wait he says that someone asked me to get rid of first of all the idea of that is hilarious like some neighbor is like hey rfk jr can you get rid of my bike for me
Marc:Like, who asked him to get rid of this bicycle?
Marc:And also, just put it on the side of the road.
Guest:I don't know, a normal thing, but why is this bike... It's like when I asked Prince Harry, could you take my recycling down to the dump, please?
Marc:Prince Harry, you got room in the car.
Marc:To be fair, when you guys had Obama on, you asked him to take the recycling out, right?
Guest:Right.
Guest:I asked him so many things that I was turned down on.
Guest:All right.
Guest:But so the bike is in his car.
Guest:All right.
Guest:He says, everybody thought that was a great idea.
Guest:And then he says, it would be amusing for whoever found it or something.
Guest:Like this is where his bullshit is just starting to just completely flitter away.
Guest:Yeah.
Guest:Like whatever at this part.
Guest:Yeah.
Guest:Because also it would be amusing for whoever found it.
Guest:Like,
Guest:A mauled bear obstructing the bike path with a bloody bike laying next to it?
Guest:Well, that's hilarious.
Guest:I'd be so amused if I found that on my morning bike ride through Central Park.
Marc:Yeah, funny ha-ha funny?
Marc:Or something is just, yeah, funny or terrifying or just fucking bizarre.
Guest:Okay.
Guest:And so then he goes on.
Guest:I'm not going to read how he identifies, like, seeing this on the news and, you know, says, he's probably exaggerating about the amount of news coverage it got.
Guest:The helicopter and stuff.
Guest:Yeah.
Guest:It's bullshit.
Guest:Yeah.
Guest:It was on the news and there were police involved and they did like send the bike to like a crime lab and they had to, you know, deal with this, you know, dead bear carcass.
Guest:I saw people doing like analysis of it.
Guest:My, my local city councilman released a, or the, the city comptroller who used to be my councilman, I guess that's why I'm still on his mailing list.
Guest:He released like the finances of like how much this cost the city to have the, you know, this, this,
Guest:You know, what it actually cost and what Robert Kennedy owes the New York City taxpayers for this dumb prank that he that he did.
Marc:The New York Times covered this story.
Marc:And apparently there was a reporter for the New York Times who was related or is related.
Marc:Yeah, one of the Schlossbergs.
Marc:Yeah, that's insane.
Marc:So, I mean, what a coincidence.
Yeah.
Marc:slash, pretty sure he planted that story and was like, hey, cousin, there's this bear story that's going to come out.
Marc:You should write something up or something.
Guest:I mean, maybe, but what does that benefit from him?
Marc:Yeah, I don't know.
Marc:I mean, this is all...
Guest:I think to me, I think it's such a perfect example of like, as this guy talks about being a redneck and out there hunting game and whatever.
Guest:It's like, this is the fucking Kennedys is one of the most elite families in the history of America.
Guest:Like, like their, their, their tendrils are in everything.
Guest:Like they're so much so that like this random crime story from Central Park is bylined by one of his relatives.
Guest:Right.
Marc:Right.
Marc:I mean, I guess this is what brain worms does to you.
Guest:Well, he made a joke about that.
Guest:He said, like, maybe that's where I got the worm from handling this bear, which again, so that was his statement about it, which is like a winking statement to be like, oh, yeah, I guess maybe I got a brain worm from it.
Guest:Well, but that indicates, you know, it is unhygienic and and frankly, like, you know, something to be treated with care.
Guest:When you're handling a dead animal.
Guest:Right.
Guest:Like you're not like gallivanting around to dinner parties.
Marc:What are you doing?
Marc:Shaking hands.
Guest:The best thing is he posted this video because it was coming out in a story recently.
Guest:Right.
Guest:This that was going to be, you know, in this profile that was written about him in the New Yorker.
Guest:And they called him to fact check this story.
Guest:So this was his idea of getting out ahead of it was like release the story himself.
Guest:And he posted this with the line saying, looking forward to seeing how you spin this one, New Yorker.
Guest:but touche like if i'm the new yorker i'm like i don't think i need to spin this yeah i think i'm gonna just uh let this lie i also think maybe he was like he's like what's the big deal like this is the least worst thing anyone in my family has done with the car like
Guest:I don't understand why everyone is upset about this.
Guest:I showed this video to Mark and he goes, this looks like a documentary shot at a high end institution.
Guest:Like it's like in 12 monkeys.
Guest:Like this is like Brad Pitt sitting around telling a story.
Guest:Roseanne's there listening to him.
Guest:I also love that Roseanne Barr, a lunatic, is standing there clearly thinking, I need to keep my face frozen and barely react to this insanity that is unfolding before me.
Marc:Yeah, and just zip it and just let this guy spill like he's the jinx.
Marc:Robert Durst just spilling all the details.
Marc:Yeah.
Guest:This guy has probably spilled more blood than Robert Durst.
Guest:I mean, it's animal blood, but still.
Marc:Yes.
Guest:All right.
Guest:Well, that was, I've been the most enjoyable thing for me this entire week.
Guest:And I'm glad I got a chance to go over with you.
Marc:Dude, and you have to add, you have to make a new song.
Marc:You have to do a new updated song for RFK Jr.
Guest:Oh, I have to make a new one, do I?
Marc:Yeah, yeah.
Marc:To include the bear.
Guest:Well, you're in luck.
Guest:Hang on one second here.
Guest:Let's just pull this sucker up.
Guest:This would be, I would call it the coda of... Verse three.
Guest:Yeah, you know, with the AI, you can very easily add on to songs that you've already made.
Guest:Excellent.
Guest:So I believe I made this five seconds after seeing the video.
Guest:I found a dead bear and I wanted it to me.
Guest:But I drove it to the park and I dumped it on the street.
Guest:don't know why that memory is buried so deep that's a gift for my brain the worm let me keep it's like a glove man
Guest:It's as if he needed, he himself wanted a third verse for that song.
Marc:Exactly.
Guest:He's like, I didn't like how it ended.
Guest:I'm going to give this guy a little extra juice.
Marc:Holy shit.
Marc:That is amazing.
Marc:Thank you for that.
Guest:All right.
Guest:Well, it has been a fun week for us.
Guest:It's been a week of exciting things on a political front, on an entertainment front.
Guest:Thank you for that politics episode.
Guest:I needed that.
Guest:I needed that.
Guest:I was very surprised that Mark wanted to do that.
Guest:It was his suggestion.
Guest:I just want to talk about the election.
Marc:Can we do that?
Marc:Yeah.
Marc:For a bonus?
Marc:I missed that side of Mark.
Marc:I mean, like, I guess I used to get it all the time at Air America, right?
Marc:But, like, I was feeling, you know, when that debate happened with Biden, I had this, like, 500 pounds of luggage on my—
Marc:Oh, it was over.
Marc:Like I was just despondent.
Marc:And like, I was kind of like hoping Mark would kind of lift my spirits, but no, he was feeling that same way.
Guest:He was right there with you.
Marc:I did not enjoy that.
Marc:But luckily with Harris coming in and like, it just like the whole thing.
Marc:And now with Walls being her VP,
Marc:really just like that that weight is now it's off of my of my back and like i know it's temporarily because you know these fuckers are still gunning you know and of course they're going to try to win but it felt so good to hear mark talk about politics and just uh it we're in we're in such a better place and i have hope yeah i have hope which scares me because i i'm scared of hope honestly because
Guest:Well, I think you're fair.
Guest:I do think I gave a little bit of a, I don't want to say I was a buzzkill, but I was hoping to kind of temper a little bit of the enthusiasm.
Guest:Not because I don't want people to be enthusiastic, but it's like, it's still a hard road.
Guest:You can win by millions of votes and still lose this election if you're the Harris campaign.
Guest:So stupid, yeah.
Guest:Yeah, I mean, it's going to be this focus in very limited numbers of states.
Guest:But look, that's what they're doing.
Guest:They're out there on the road in those states.
Guest:They've got to win.
Guest:So that was what didn't happen in 2016 was going to those states.
Guest:And it's like, hey, if that makes a difference...
Guest:then here we go giddy up yeah and i mean boy it's night and day between the harris campaign and the biden campaign because he wasn't doing anything like we couldn't yeah he was he's a limited candidate yeah it was that was the problem and now i mean it's like all all of a sudden you see this like this was the reason people were like just get him out and get anybody in there like this was the this was you know i was saying this to you
Guest:in that little interregnum between the debate and him dropping out, you know, when it was every day, like, what the fuck's gonna happen?
Guest:He's not going anywhere, this or that.
Guest:And my thing, and I was all for Harris because I was like, you just need to make the move.
Guest:Just do it.
Guest:Just do it clean cut.
Guest:And I was afraid of any kind of contested convention, anything like that, that it would disrupt and it would be counterproductive.
Guest:But people within politics were afraid of Harris.
Guest:I can't tell you, I have friends, I have people that I've worked with that work within institutional democratic circles, right?
Guest:Let's call it, whether you want to call it consultancies, lobbying, this stuff.
Guest:And I'm on text with people that are telling me, I can't be her.
Guest:She will lose, right?
Guest:And my thing was like, it just needs to be anybody.
Guest:Put anybody there.
Guest:And because she's the vice president, it's the cleanest one.
Guest:And I think that what you're seeing now in the reaction to this is probably true.
Guest:That like, it couldn't be anybody, but really a durable replacement.
Guest:That had some kind of, as Mark was identifying, some kind of projectable energy, vitality, a way to kind of visually represent America as being more than old white guys.
Guest:Like all of that was vital.
Guest:And like ICP, oh, when is she going to give a press conference?
Guest:When is she going to talk?
Guest:She doesn't fucking need to.
Guest:Like she can do a national big national interview after Labor Day or something.
Guest:But right now it's like she they just got to ride this momentum of new energy of people like yourself feeling this is great.
Guest:This feels awesome.
Guest:Yeah.
Marc:Yeah.
Marc:And I was hoping for Mayor Pete to be the VP, but I will say the whole VP process was a delight that no one was... It worked out.
Marc:No one was bickering.
Marc:No one was attacking each other.
Marc:It felt so refreshing and it felt good.
Marc:And this guy, I've never heard of him before this last week, but I am finding myself just captivated by him.
Marc:Walls is...
Marc:delightful guy he's never read off of a teleprompter which is crazy to me but there are all these videos of him like in his car being like hey here's a spark plug and you know this is how you change it or like him with a pig or him riding a roller coaster with his daughter like this is just fucking just a normal guy yeah just normal guy he really reminds me of Gary from Parks and Rec but he seems like a competent guy who can actually not a sad sack yes yeah and
Marc:And I just I don't know.
Marc:I'm feeling it, man.
Marc:Like, I am feeling fucking good.
Marc:Like, yeah.
Guest:Hey, that's a difference.
Guest:Right.
Guest:Politically to feel good about something.
Marc:It really does.
Guest:It really does.
Guest:Well, good.
Guest:Yeah.
Guest:Maybe I'll have Mark, you know, kind of check in on the, you know, the election again on another bonus episode coming up.
Guest:Like, I'm glad he did it.
Marc:Yeah, yeah.
Marc:And I love that he mentioned that he feels like he's back in the Air America days where he's saying all these words and hope that he can land the plane in a way that makes sense.
Marc:I can relate to that.
Marc:And I remember him freaking out about that.
Marc:But yes.
Marc:I also fear that, have that same fear whenever I open my mouth here.
Marc:So yeah, I definitely know that feeling and I'm glad Mark's back in it and, you know, just getting the rust off.
Marc:And hopefully, I really want you guys to do this like at least once a month.
Guest:Check in on it.
Guest:Also, if you remember, that was how Mark would end every episode, like the last segment of every episode.
Guest:He'd go, okay, let's land this thing.
Marc:Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, totally.
Marc:But yeah, great, great episodes.
Marc:I've never heard of Jimmy Dale Gilmore.
Guest:Did you recognize, though, when Mark mentioned that he's Smokey in The Big Lebowski?
Guest:Oh, yeah.
Marc:Over the line, Smokey.
Marc:Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Marc:Like, Mark at eight, dude.
Marc:Yeah, yeah.
Marc:Definitely, definitely recognize him from there.
Marc:And I will say, I love when...
Marc:People come on the show who have, you know, prep for the show by just listening to a couple of episodes, which totally normal thing to do.
Marc:And totally normal, they wouldn't know, you know, the show.
Marc:But then they listen and they're like, oh, my God, this is my jam.
Marc:Like, I –
Marc:Yeah, yeah, right.
Marc:I love podcasts.
Marc:How have I not heard of this podcast?
Marc:And now I have a thousand or so episodes to listen to with this guy who is captivating.
Marc:And you can tell that he, you know, Jimmy was like kind of swooning over Mark and like was, you know, just picking up what Mark was throwing down, like his spiritual math stuff.
Marc:And like, I just, it was a really wide ranging talk and I just dug it.
Marc:It was really fun.
Guest:Well, I also think there was one of those episodes for me, you know, I started in editing it and he talks about, and I was glad that he mentioned it.
Guest:And he like, he mentioned it pretty close up front about how he's like this king of digressions.
Guest:Yeah.
Guest:Yeah.
Guest:And I was like,
Guest:Okay, glad this caveat was set up because now I don't have to go crazy trying to like loop this thing back on track all the time.
Guest:Like it's been established that this is how his brain works.
Guest:He's pretty lively too.
Guest:So it's not like this like confusing or boring tangents, but you can, at least it's identified up front.
Guest:Hey, I tend to go off in other directions.
Guest:So now you can buy that.
Guest:Okay, he's going to go off in other directions and I don't have to...
Guest:put a bunch of stuff on the cutting room floor just because it didn't fit into the narrative.
Guest:But, but following it through, like once you get to the, and he's going through all his philosophy stuff, I found is one of those episodes that paid off the longer you listened to it because it,
Guest:it all tracks when you basically figure out, Oh, this is an alcoholic who was just trying to get it to all make sense.
Guest:Yeah.
Guest:Right.
Guest:For what, and whatever other issues you might have mentally or otherwise, like this is a guy who's kind of lifelong quest has been to get himself to a place where he can manage his addiction and his, the negative things holding him back in life.
Guest:And what kind of systems does he have to create in his own brain to do that?
Guest:And like, again, it's one of those things like that's a, that's,
Marc:that's an important part of what I think we do on the show is like highlighting that yeah and I think Jimmy found like a new way to a new like sort of you know avenue to you know hear a similar story and a similar person and like you know with your podcast so I just really love that also I didn't realize that Buddhists also think that most people are bad like I thought that was a really fun thing
Marc:Well, yeah, most people are not following the path.
Marc:Right, right.
Marc:Yeah.
Marc:That's true.
Marc:And can I just say the guitar riff that closed that episode was so fucking good.
Guest:That's a new one, too.
Guest:That was a live one that he did that day.
Guest:Yeah.
Marc:He is he's gotten really good with the guitar.
Guest:It's it's interesting.
Guest:I noticed the same thing, especially because I'm going back and pulling some older ones, you know, to put at the end of these ones when he's in Vancouver.
Guest:And yeah, he's he's much better.
Marc:Yeah.
Marc:And that that song, though, in particular.
Marc:I was driving home the other night and I was listening to the episode and, you know, I'm driving.
Marc:I can't, you know, turn, turn it off, but I'm listening to this guitar riff and it's like the perfect driving music.
Marc:You know, there's no traffic and it was just, it was just pulsating.
Marc:It was great.
Marc:Like really great stuff.
Guest:Yeah.
Guest:Hey, look, you could tell him that he won't take the compliment.
Guest:But, you know, I have said similar to him, like, hey, your guitar playing is getting really good.
Guest:You know, I say he won't take the compliment.
Guest:I do think because he doesn't put anything professionally on his guitar playing, that's probably one of the areas where he is better with compliments.
Guest:Oh, yeah.
Guest:he knows.
Guest:Yeah.
Guest:You know, it's, there's no, there's no self doubt.
Guest:Cause he's just doing it by himself in his house.
Guest:You know, the self doubt would be like when he has to go perform with somebody.
Guest:If you were like, Hey, no, you were really good up there.
Guest:He'd be like, I kind of fucked this one up.
Guest:Right.
Guest:Right.
Marc:You know, at the end of that episode, he, when you, you guys put the, the clip from the, the earlier episode where he was performing with the guy and he's like, and the guy's like, Oh, Oh, you play Dave Alvin.
Guest:Yeah.
Marc:You play that song that fast.
Marc:He's like,
Marc:fuck man, it's your song.
Marc:I don't know.
Marc:Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Guest:He was so, he's so insecure in that moment.
Guest:I really liked that moment.
Guest:That, that, that song is on our, uh, our record store day album.
Guest:Like when we did that for, uh, for record store day, put a bunch of the live songs on an album, uh, that's on there.
Guest:And I left that banter in on the album just cause I thought, yeah, like what, like this is a perfect representation of Mark.
Guest:Like, yeah,
Guest:He's like, oh, can you want it?
Guest:You want to play?
Guest:And the guy's like, you're going to play with me.
Guest:And he's like, oh, no.
Marc:Also, so Mark has mice or rats, right?
Guest:Rats.
Marc:Yeah.
Marc:OK.
Marc:For whoever told him that maybe he has the Hanta virus.
Marc:I don't know.
Marc:Maybe maybe don't send that that text or that that message.
Marc:Like, what are you doing?
Guest:Here's here's what I would say about that.
Guest:That's a kind of bit of knowledge that now Mark is not the kind of guy who listens to podcasts, but if he did and he had that bit of knowledge, he would have written to the person and said, you could have the Hantavirus from that.
Guest:So all I would say about the person who wrote that into Mark is birds of a feather flock together.
Guest:Like, yes, crazy thing to send to Mark because he's going to freak out about it, but also exactly the thing a Mark-type person would send to Mark.
Marc:Yeah, yeah, totally.
Marc:But I will say, as someone who has had a mouse problem, not a rat problem, never had a rat problem, it sounds crazy to me, but the peanut butter traps, I don't know what peanut butter traps he's using, but I have the humane ones where there's...
Guest:Yeah, but those are, those are small for, for mice.
Guest:Okay.
Guest:So I don't think you can use those for the rats.
Guest:Yeah.
Guest:Yeah.
Guest:Rats are big.
Guest:Okay.
Guest:I have those exact ones you're talking about and I've used them and they're successful.
Guest:You know, we've caught mice in them and they, you know, you just let them out.
Guest:I mean, I take them to the park far away and let them out there where they're going to, you know, that's the other thing.
Guest:I do this mainly because like Dawn does not want dead mice in the house.
Guest:Like she doesn't want to hear the snap and go down and it's miles.
Guest:We just broke its neck trap.
Guest:Yeah.
Guest:Yeah.
Guest:Right.
Guest:Well, the glue traps just brutal and torturous, but, uh, taking them outside is killing them.
Guest:Like there's no, I'm taking them to the park.
Guest:They're going to die within an hour or two.
Guest:It's like dead.
Guest:Right.
Guest:But I guess the,
Guest:Exactly.
Guest:And it's also like, yeah, nature, circle of life, take its course.
Marc:Yeah, yeah.
Marc:You know, it's funny when, so when I do the peanut butter trap and I get one, my cats somehow like it's, you know, I put it over near the radiator, like crawl space, but my cats somehow get that trap and move it to the middle of the living room.
Marc:And then they surround it like they're doing a seance around the trap.
Marc:And they're just fascinated with this live mouse that's in there.
Marc:And I'm just like, what are you guys doing?
Marc:And like, how long have you been sitting there?
Marc:Like, because I wake up and they're just there.
Marc:I think they all night, they're just like standing guard over this.
Guest:OK, but then the question is, what are they doing when there's no traps?
Guest:Why won't they actually hunt the mice?
Marc:It's so weird.
Marc:I don't get it.
Marc:I don't I don't understand why they don't hunt these mice.
Guest:Lazy domestic cats.
Marc:That's why.
Marc:Although I let them outside.
Marc:They have a chipmunk in their mouth.
Marc:And I'm like, hey, maybe put that down.
Marc:And they put it down.
Marc:And come get the thing inside.
Marc:Right.
Marc:You can't train everyone, I guess.
Guest:No, it's like, or it's just like, it's like, you know, there's certain situations in which you will or will not eat pizza, right?
Guest:You're like, I'm not going to get a pizza at a fine restaurant.
Guest:Right.
Guest:Well, listen, the episode with Beth Stelling, I think since it only came out yesterday, I am a little hesitant to talk about it because I do think, and somebody actually wrote in saying this, like, hey, that episode takes such a turn.
Guest:Yeah, it sure does.
Guest:Don't give it away.
Guest:And I take that to heart.
Guest:And I think, like, that is true because I did have the... Like, you know, it's weird.
Guest:Mark sent me that and didn't say, like, this gets heavy.
Guest:He was like, this is a good talk or whatever.
Guest:We talked about it a little bit.
Guest:But he didn't tell me about, like, the turn in that episode.
Guest:And I was, like, listening to it as I was editing it.
Guest:And I was like, whoa, what the fuck?
Guest:And it was...
Guest:You know, not a reaction I think only I had.
Guest:Or like I said, we already got some mail about it.
Guest:So I will not get into the details of that episode and just say that if you haven't heard it yet, first of all, like content warning, it does get a little gnarly.
Guest:I think talked about with total tact and there's nothing exploitative about it.
Guest:But it's a lot of, you know, kind of heavily traumatic stuff involving her childhood.
Guest:Yeah.
Guest:And and and later in life, frankly.
Guest:So, yeah, maybe we'll just back off of that one and you could just give a listen to it.
Guest:And I'll say that was one of those ones that happened because Beth wound up being on a couple of it was the same as Ali Sadiq.
Guest:that she wound up being on a couple of like best of special, like comedy specials of the year lists at the end of last year.
Guest:And I remember like, I use that stuff as food.
Guest:You know, it's like, let me see what I can get out of here and watch a bunch of these specials.
Guest:Dina Hashem, she was another one that I found from one of those specials lists.
Guest:And it's interesting because it's better for me to do that than to go look at like...
Guest:Oh, what's the most streamed comedy right now?
Guest:Because generally, yeah, those are going to be like Matt Reif and stuff like that.
Guest:And it's outside of the realm of Mark's sensibilities or what he tends to be attracted to in the way a person presents themselves comedically.
Guest:You know, I've seen it happen a million times at the comedy store when I'm from there with him, where like he there's some act that's on there and they're just crushing it.
Guest:And I'll talk to him about the person afterwards.
Guest:And he's like, yeah, kind of a hack.
Guest:or whatever and and then and i understand where he's coming from it's not coming from a place of resentment it's coming from like he's seen it all and he's seen somebody go in and just completely blow up the room and ultimately sometimes that's easy to do right it's like you know yeah he always makes fun of bobby lee about it for fucking a chair or whatever you're clowning uh you do the clown thing and uh
Guest:You know, he has a respect and an interest in people who are like, you know, doing comedy in a similar way to him where they're working through difficult issues, things that are, you know, weighing on their mind.
Guest:And so when I see like a best of list, I know that a lot of times the people writing those lists, the comic reviewer, you know, stand up comedy reviewers are coming at it from the same approach.
Guest:Like they want to see stuff that's novel.
Guest:Right.
Guest:They want to see stuff that is breaking the mold and not just what's trendy.
Guest:And so a list like that, I find I get a lot more out of than if I was just trying to find new comics from, you know, TikTok or something.
Guest:I gotcha.
Guest:And yeah, like we.
Guest:we found a lot of people just from last year alone, the last year alone from, from those year end lists.
Guest:And Beth Stelling was one of them who Mark, you know, admittedly had not seen until then, even though I think they have done some shows at Largo together or, or dynasty typewriter, like he knew of her, just never really saw her.
Guest:And there's, there's guests coming up that are the same.
Guest:There's a guest next week, Blair Saki.
Guest:In fact, why don't I tell everybody what the next,
Guest:two-week schedule is because you will not hear from Chris or myself live, well, as live as this is.
Guest:This is still on tape, but in real time, I guess we should say until the end of August because next week's Friday show will be recorded.
Guest:We're going to record it right after this.
Guest:And then the following week, I'm going to present for you similar stuff that we've been doing on the Tuesday.
Guest:It's some rarities, but it's not a rarity's
Guest:episode it's um you know like how we've been doing the ones we recorded at comedy clubs live wts this is going to be rarities that are little like short uh odds and ends that when we had uh libsyn premium service that was our first server we were on they were trying to encourage us to do this like you do little 10 minutes here and there of like little bonus like droppings that would drop into the feed
Guest:And, uh, we did it for a little while.
Guest:It didn't do much.
Guest:So we stopped doing it.
Guest:You know, like we were like, yeah, this is not like really generating much of anything.
Guest:And we don't really agree with this as a business model.
Guest:Like if we're going to bring people in to a premium thing, we'll bring them in because we've got all this archive material, which was what wound up working.
Guest:Um,
Guest:Uh, but so you'll get some of those odds and ends.
Guest:I'll just go through the schedule next week.
Guest:Uh, you're going to, and you might want to go back and listen to the original episode with moon Zappa and Mark.
Guest:Now, if anybody knows the history, uh, moon Zappa, who is the daughter of Frank Zappa, uh, was on the show.
Guest:She and Mark go back, went back like 20 years prior to them, uh, talking on the show in 2013.
Guest:You can listen to that episode four 34.
Guest:And, uh, that,
Guest:appearance on the show uh like kind of rekindled their uh friendship where you know they were they had only ever been friends before they never dated or anything but in that rekindling of friendship they started dating and they dated for a couple of years um on the show i think it was right up to about you know maybe a year and a half two years they'll talk about it on this upcoming episode and
Guest:You know, they they were together.
Guest:They had a breakup.
Guest:It wasn't, I don't think, tremendously acrimonious, but it was, you know, a date and a breakup.
Guest:And so this is them kind of, you know, reconvening after all that.
Guest:Moon has a new memoir out.
Guest:And so I think, you know, she was largely there to talk about that.
Guest:Yeah.
Guest:When Mark told me that he was going to do this, he was like, yeah, I'm going to have Moon on to talk about her book.
Guest:I was like, she wrote a memoir?
Guest:And he's like, yeah.
Guest:I was like, you in it?
Guest:Are you in it?
Guest:He's like, oh, I didn't think about that.
Guest:He goes, I guess I should check it out and see.
Guest:Is he?
Guest:He said he is not.
Guest:So like, yeah, I don't know.
Guest:I don't know how he felt about that.
Guest:We'll find out.
Guest:Yeah.
Guest:I mean, to me, I was like, okay, you got off easy.
Guest:But, you know, maybe he's pissed.
Guest:Right.
Guest:Exactly.
Guest:I don't know.
Guest:It's like, what?
Guest:We had emotional damage.
Guest:That should have made it.
Guest:Well, you know, anybody who's listening to this who is a Marin fan, who watched, like Brad Pitt's listening to this.
Guest:I got a little bit of info for you, Brad.
Guest:There was a character on that played by Constance Zimmer.
Guest:I believe only one episode, although it might have been two.
Guest:She might have gone across two episodes because she was basically playing Moon.
Guest:And I know that like the last scene of it where they break up, he turns to walk away and she like says to him, I'm very disappointed in you.
Guest:And it like, you know, hits him in the guts.
Guest:Like that is true.
Guest:I remember that was the real story of it.
Guest:basically the end of their relationship.
Guest:So yes, if you, if you go back and watch Marin, which I don't know where you can watch it.
Guest:I don't think it's streaming anywhere, but you can, you can see that, that play out.
Marc:I wonder if Brad Pitt bought Marin, like the box set, like if it's not streaming anywhere, he's probably like, get me.
Guest:I just want to know how many viewings he's up to, like how many times he's watched it all the way through.
Marc:Or does he do it for a particular character?
Guest:I do remember he loves Dave Anthony.
Guest:That's a thing that we found out.
Guest:I think it got back to Dave Anthony that somebody was like, oh, you know, Brad Pitt loves you because he watched you on Marin.
Guest:That's awesome.
Guest:Uh, so yes, Moon Zappa, that'll be next Monday.
Guest:Next Tuesday is a very, uh, oft requested bonus episode that has been long missing called the blue show.
Guest:This was one of our live shows, uh, that we did, you know, back at comics in New York.
Guest:This was, uh, with Dave Attell, Bobby Kelly, Kurt Metzger, Anthony Jesselnik, Joe DeRosa, and a, a unbilled, uh, appearance by Amy Schumer who,
Guest:Not unbilled because she was a big star or anything.
Guest:She was not.
Guest:She was a starting out comic.
Guest:Oh, cool.
Guest:And she was dating Anthony Jeselnik at the time and was basically like, Mark booked this show to be, he wanted a bunch of filthy comics.
Guest:That was his thing is we're going to call it.
Guest:We did.
Guest:We wound up calling it the blue show, but we had booked two shows that day.
Guest:One was the first show was with, I believe, Sam Seder and Jesse Klein, maybe a couple other people.
Guest:and Mark called that the nerdier show.
Guest:And then the late show would be the dirtier show.
Guest:So it was nerdier and dirtier.
Guest:And that was how he built it to do.
Guest:We did two shows in one night.
Guest:And, and so the idea was he just wanted a bunch of filthy comics for this blue show.
Guest:And, uh, Jesselnik showed up with Amy who, you know, Mark knew, but didn't really, like he just knew her around.
Guest:I don't think he'd ever really even seen her act, uh, very much.
Guest:And, uh,
Guest:They did the whole thing.
Guest:They all came out.
Guest:Etel came out.
Guest:And I'll have to go back and listen to it before it airs.
Guest:I can't remember who suggested, why doesn't Amy come out here?
Guest:And they invited her out and she fucking killed.
Guest:Really?
Guest:She gave as good as she got.
Guest:And she was as filthy as everybody else and was hilarious.
Guest:And it really like made Mark go to bat for her like many times than in the future.
Guest:Like there was that whole thing that's got that, you know, went around about her, that she was stealing jokes or whatever.
Guest:And Mark did a whole monologue about it.
Guest:It was like, no, no, no.
Guest:I don't know what you guys think about Amy Schumer.
Guest:She is the real deal.
Guest:And let me tell you why, like what she did to impress me that night where she came out with some heavy duty hitters.
Guest:Bobby Kelly and Dave Attell like these are guys that you know will just steamroll you with their filth and funny and she hung with the best of them and like Mark was like forever sold on Schumer from that day so cool yeah you have that to look forward to I can't wait now
Guest:That's great.
Guest:Next Thursday will be a similar one to the ones we've been talking about with these newer to Mark comics.
Guest:Blair Saki, who is another comic that Mark didn't have a lot of familiarity with and got to watching her, got to liking her.
Guest:And then we will do, as I mentioned, we'll do another part of the Friday show that we're going to record right now.
Guest:You'll just hear it next week.
Guest:And Chris and I are just going to go through all the stuff you've been sending in, all of your questions, your comments, your reactions to things we've had on the show recently.
Guest:We're just going to kind of purge the mailbag.
Guest:So that'll be next week's Friday show.
Guest:We're kind of getting into summer breaks and a little summer scheduling trickiness here, but we're going to make sure that we have stuff for you every week, just like you expect.
Guest:It won't necessarily have a recounting of RFK's dead bear in the trunk story, but we'll try to get you stuff that's just as good.
Marc:Are you feeling good about everything, Chris?
Yeah.
Marc:I'm feeling great.
Marc:I can't wait to come back and see that RFK has a polar bear story that he hasn't told us.
Guest:Yeah, but it's a polar bear that he like crashed into the polar bear tank in Central Park.
Guest:That's the funny thing.
Guest:It's like all of this like, oh, RFK Jr.
Guest:adventurism, right?
Guest:But it's like he's up in Goshen.
Guest:You know what's up in Goshen?
Guest:Legoland.
Guest:Like this is not the wilderness.
Guest:I will say this too, like that there are a lot of people that Mark has talked to in the comedy community that were easily suckered into the RFK thing.
Guest:Really?
Marc:And people, real people thought RFK Jr.
Marc:for president.
Guest:Yeah, because these are people, these are the type of people who are like generally Republicans, but they know it's embarrassing to support Trump.
Guest:Yeah.
Guest:Right.
Guest:So they're like, oh no, but you know, the RFK is making a lot of sense and he's a Kennedy and blah, blah, blah.
Guest:And Mark fucking just hates when these people do that.
Guest:And he's like, makes fun of them to their face.
Guest:But like, this is, I think generally where he was coming from, Mark was coming from when he was like, yeah, but if I had, if I had to be a Biden supporter, I couldn't really go back at them.
Guest:Right.
Guest:Like I couldn't be like, no, fuck you with your RFK.
Guest:I got Biden, you know?
Guest:Right.
Right.
Guest:And so in the meantime, he's like, yeah, yeah, I guess we, you know, I got, I got to defend this guy, but man, your RFK stuff, that just sucks.
Guest:And now he is in all his glory.
Guest:Cause he can be like, he's like, I remember him texting.
Guest:I'm not going to give away the name of this person, but he was texting this guy after the brain worm story.
Guest:And he's like, here's your fucking emperor.
Guest:Yeah.
Marc:This your guy?
Marc:This your fucking guy right here with the brain worms?
Marc:That's him?
Guest:I have to find it.
Guest:So Mark had written to me, that Kennedy piece about the worm in Vanity Fair is tremendous.
Guest:You could conclude he even got the worm from eating ass or even better, eating shit.
Guest:And then he texted this comic and then he sent me the screen grab of what he sent and it said,
Guest:You may want to get your lips off RFK's ass because that's how the worm is transmitted.
Guest:Fatality.
Guest:How did that comic respond?
Guest:I did not see a response.
Marc:Oh, man.
Marc:Like a direct hit.
Guest:Yes.
Guest:Oh, it's great.
Guest:All right.
Guest:Well, if there's any news like that that comes out in the next couple of weeks, you won't hear it from us until the end of August.
Guest:But we will still bring you shows over the next two weeks.
Guest:So hang with us.
Guest:Enjoy the rest of your summers.
Guest:And until next time, I'm Brendan and that's Chris.
Peace.