Chapter 1: What is discussed at the start of this section?
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Chapter 2: How do listeners request clips from the podcast?
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Coming up first, we have Adam Curl's show 867 with Steve Byrne, along with Alison Rosen and Brian Bishop. This one's from 2012.
Good day, Alison Rosen. Hello, Adam Carolla. Good day, Paul Bryan. I hope you get raped by a thousand black men. Oh, I got some complaining to do. Just got back off the road. This is a strange start to the week. I know. Houston, all that kind of stuff. Good crowds, good people. Phoenix, Arizona. All that. A couple things. First, Matt, porcelain punisher. Go ahead and man that mic.
We were flying in, flying to, we had a great moment. I make all my travel plans on the way to the airport. Matt was driving me and Mike August in to the airport on Thursday. And I said, am I flying first class, Matt? And he said, no. And I said, how long is this flight from LAX to Houston? And it was like three hours and 20-something minutes. I said, seems like a pretty long flight.
How come no first class? And he said... Mike August said, nothing west of the Mississippi. And then Mike, who was in the car, said, I was just kidding. I said that like three years ago. I said, well, okay, evidently. First time it's come up, though, with us, Matt, right? I've been booking your flights for a couple years now. You've never brought it up before.
But I feel like we do have a first-class conversation on most our things.
Yeah, yeah.
Why not the three-hour-plus flight? You say, hey, boss, want to go first class? Use up a few miles? You know, I was going by the Mississippi rule, which apparently doesn't exist. Yeah. How come you never checked the Mississippi rule with me, though?
I mean, we've gone over flight times all the time in the past.
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Chapter 3: What travel experiences are shared by the hosts?
What do I always say? Yeah, of course. Upgrade to first class.
Can we do it? Yeah.
We never had that discussion on this one, or maybe we did. I know that I ran all the flights by you, like we have for every trip. I make the chart. All right, second. Remember, I then pulled out my priority pass select, my black and gold card, and I said, go online and check and see if this will get me into the United Lounge. And you went online. I did, on my phone. That was very impressive.
I know. And you said what? PriorityPass.com had LAX listed, had United Airlines listed. And then I said what? This is going to be even more ironic when I show up and I can't get into that pass. Right. Or into that club. Well, was it? Scant 18 minutes later, I was standing in front of the nice lady. And by the way. It is gone. Whatever was in air travel, it's completely gone.
Mike August was keeping a no tally. I held up the priority pass, and she said, nope, we no longer accept those. Well, we merged with Continental and they accept them. There's always some bullshit thing where it's like, first off, please don't tell me all the places that do accept them because it's making things worse. Oh, if you were in Vegas, it'd be no problem. Yes.
If you'd only gotten here 10 minutes before, we could have let you in. She mentioned that... Continental, after they merge, would accept them. By the way, why bother merging if you're not going to accept it and she's not going to accept it and they're going to accept it?
And then she went on to mention that it would also work in the beautiful new Alaskan Airlines lounge, but that's on the other side of the airport. So she gave me the airline and another possible lounge that would accept it. And then I did what I do every time and I said, Mike August, watch this because my streak has never been broken.
I pulled out my black American Express card and I held it up and I said, how about this, baby? Because when you get the black American Express card, it comes in a leather bound folder with a British chick stuffed into the folder. And it basically it's like if you would like to close down any department store during business hours and shops.
You may do it by simply flashing this out on the sidewalk in front. I have held it. It says it'll tell you. Oh, it gets you into every single lounge in every airports that haven't been built yet. You can go stand on the patch of dirt where they're going to build a lot of compelling commercial card. I have flashed this fucking black card at 200000 lounges and they just go. Yeah, well, I.
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Chapter 4: What story do they create about the single dude at Fogo de Chao?
The single dude, the dude that's flying solo at the Foga de Chow. What's the fucking tie on? Who is that guy? I was dying to know the whole time. In my mind, he's the out-of-town businessman, probably European, on a different clock. We've built the whole story around this guy.
On a different clock. He's been told the story, and he had to go, and his meetings were over for the day or whatever it was. Yeah. He was tired of his wife or something. For him, it was 11.30 at night.
And he'd read about it in the in-flight magazine.
Possibly. Growing up in Pittsburgh, being half Korean, probably weren't a whole lot of people screaming at you, you need to act. That I needed to act?
Chapter 5: How did the hosts get into stand-up comedy?
Yeah, do comedy, get on stage. No, God, no, no, God, no, no. How did that work?
Well, I finished college, and I went to Kent State University in Ohio. And my father had gotten transferred to New York, where he was originally from. And I walked up and down Broadway in all the restaurants to just get a shit job, just make some money.
And then I was going to move to California. And I walked into Caroline's Comedy Club. And I'd never been to a stand-up show before. You know, I like Caroline's Comedy Hour. Caroline's in Ohio? No, Caroline's in New York City.
After college, I went out there. Pay attention, Brian. Or actually, I'll give you an option.
Chapter 6: What challenges do comedians face when performing?
Don't pay attention, but don't talk. You can either do one or the other.
I'm going to do both. How about that?
But I got a job at Caroline's, and I got hired. They had just fired somebody.
I walked right in. I said, I'm looking for a job. The manager happened to be standing. He said, what do you want to do?
I said, I'll do anything. So I answered phones, swept floors for four months, and I said, oh, I'd like to try that.
I was seeing every comic in New York City at the time.
Yeah, because everybody goes through that place.
Yeah. And it was just awesome. I loved ā the minute I did it, as soon as I got off stage, I just ā I kind of ā I wept like a baby. I was like, that's it. That's what I'm doing.
Now, how does it work when you work there and you go like, hey, man, I want to get up on stage? They have open mic night or whatever. Right. But does your boss ā well, first off, your boss has to work with you. And then he has to deal with you bugging him to go back on stage when you gave suck the first time. Does he try to dissuade you? Like, you know, there's that thing where it's like ā
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Chapter 7: What are the implications of the Penn State statue removal?
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All right. Now, somber news. The Penn Stateāwell, I don't know that this part is so somber. The Penn State Joe Paterno statue, gone. As are those football guys, by the by, that are behind him, the players that were on the wall.
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Chapter 8: How do societal perceptions of crime and punishment evolve?
Yeah, kind of. Or a prisoner. But the number one finger still sticking out, but the head covered by a hood of shame as he was dragged away there. I think what they should do, really, wouldn't this be a grand move?
They should put that ā they're going to put it in a so-called secure location. I think they should put it in Sandusky's cell. Oh, yeah, there's that image right there. Furniture pad looking thing. Yeah, yeah.
But it's kind of ā it's creepy looking, right, and somehow appropriate. But they should put the Paterno statue in Sandusky's cell.
A seat for him.
Well, first of all, practically, it would just take up space. His ability to move around would be compromised. Sure. He could forever look at. Let's not lose sight of the fact Joe Paterno did some bad, bad things with this whole deal.
But let Sandusky never forget, he is responsible for taking down an entire program because as soon as Monday, we record on Sunday, as soon as Monday, they're not going to get the death penalty, but all the reports are they're going to get hammered.
In fact, one of the quotes I read is they're going to wish they would have gotten the death penalty, which would be no football for a year. Instead, they're going to lose bowl. They're not going to be allowed to go to any bowl games. They're going to lose all sorts of scholarships and so on. They're really going to be destroyed and marginalized for, I bet you, at least the next decade.
I bet you they don't play winning football for at least a decade. Well, SMU was devastated. Yeah, they got the death penalty.
They got the death penalty. You know, SMU in Texas, recruiting rich environment, same thing as Pennsylvania. But, yeah, I think they're in a lot of trouble. Ace, do you agree with taking the statue down?
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