1 00:00:00,440 --> 00:00:04,000 Speaker 1: We're the farmers. We're the soldiers. 2 00:00:04,360 --> 00:00:06,120 Speaker 2: Where the workers. 3 00:00:05,680 --> 00:00:11,680 Speaker 1: On the dock, where the doctors, We're the coaches, the 4 00:00:11,760 --> 00:00:16,640 Speaker 1: guys who work around the clock. We are from the 5 00:00:16,680 --> 00:00:23,239 Speaker 1: biggest city, we are from the smallest town, and we 6 00:00:23,440 --> 00:00:28,200 Speaker 1: all come together on this common ground. 7 00:00:29,880 --> 00:00:34,600 Speaker 3: This is wise, but. 8 00:00:37,280 --> 00:00:38,000 Speaker 2: This is. 9 00:00:40,960 --> 00:00:51,480 Speaker 3: This is bigger, the Alabash Whiler. 10 00:00:55,720 --> 00:00:56,240 Speaker 2: This is. 11 00:01:16,040 --> 00:01:19,080 Speaker 4: Welcome to a brand new episode. 12 00:01:19,360 --> 00:01:22,840 Speaker 2: This is the Friday Happy Hour Laugh with Me a 13 00:01:22,920 --> 00:01:25,280 Speaker 2: podcast with Jeremy Odam. 14 00:01:25,319 --> 00:01:26,040 Speaker 3: I'm your house. 15 00:01:28,640 --> 00:01:32,720 Speaker 2: Jay. Oh man, it's been a minute. Let me tell 16 00:01:32,720 --> 00:01:35,600 Speaker 2: you why. First of all, I got a delicious Budweiser 17 00:01:35,680 --> 00:01:41,440 Speaker 2: right here to help me out here on a Friday afternoon, 18 00:01:42,400 --> 00:01:46,679 Speaker 2: just finished up work for the week, getting ready to 19 00:01:46,720 --> 00:01:51,320 Speaker 2: relax for the weekend, for an even busier week. 20 00:01:51,360 --> 00:01:53,640 Speaker 4: I don't know how many of you work. 21 00:01:53,520 --> 00:01:56,440 Speaker 2: In the retail world, but you know that we're about 22 00:01:56,560 --> 00:02:00,200 Speaker 2: ready to kick it into high gear as we are 23 00:02:00,520 --> 00:02:03,760 Speaker 2: heading straight into Thanksgiving week. And then after that, you 24 00:02:03,800 --> 00:02:06,480 Speaker 2: got by Friday, you got a holiday shopping, and then 25 00:02:06,800 --> 00:02:13,359 Speaker 2: the holy grail of shopping, it is Christmas. It's Christmas, baby, 26 00:02:13,760 --> 00:02:16,440 Speaker 2: And on the podcast for the whole entire month of December, 27 00:02:16,960 --> 00:02:19,200 Speaker 2: we've got some special things where we did last year. 28 00:02:19,240 --> 00:02:24,760 Speaker 2: Remember we had three special holiday related episodes. Get ready 29 00:02:24,800 --> 00:02:28,320 Speaker 2: for even more this year on laf with Me. 30 00:02:28,520 --> 00:02:34,440 Speaker 4: But you know what, hopefully we get there. Hopefully we make. 31 00:02:34,320 --> 00:02:37,560 Speaker 2: It through the holiday season. 32 00:02:37,560 --> 00:02:39,919 Speaker 4: Here's what I'm worried about. Comedy. 33 00:02:40,600 --> 00:02:44,880 Speaker 2: Comedy in general is under attack like never before. I mean, 34 00:02:44,919 --> 00:02:47,600 Speaker 2: I don't know how many of you know about what 35 00:02:47,760 --> 00:02:51,760 Speaker 2: happened at Madison Square Garden at a specific rally. There 36 00:02:51,800 --> 00:02:54,040 Speaker 2: was a comedian who went up there to tell jokes, 37 00:02:54,520 --> 00:02:59,360 Speaker 2: Tony Hinchcliff, and he was the next day's media news 38 00:02:59,400 --> 00:03:07,239 Speaker 2: fodder for his jokes were under attack. Funny comedic actor 39 00:03:07,639 --> 00:03:11,960 Speaker 2: OJ Simpson never got another role after his hilarious take. 40 00:03:11,800 --> 00:03:12,600 Speaker 4: In The Naked Gun. 41 00:03:12,680 --> 00:03:16,799 Speaker 2: What he was just gold in that movie, in those movies, 42 00:03:16,840 --> 00:03:22,680 Speaker 2: and he never got another role after that. It's like, what, why, 43 00:03:22,800 --> 00:03:26,040 Speaker 2: why are we? Why are we singling out a pro 44 00:03:26,040 --> 00:03:28,919 Speaker 2: football Hall of Famer like that who actually found his 45 00:03:28,960 --> 00:03:32,520 Speaker 2: way into what could have been a very good career 46 00:03:33,000 --> 00:03:39,119 Speaker 2: in acting. And then and then your boy Jo took 47 00:03:39,160 --> 00:03:42,160 Speaker 2: a shot. Yeah, a lot of you didn't see it. 48 00:03:42,400 --> 00:03:45,400 Speaker 2: Here's why he got censored. I got censored by the 49 00:03:45,480 --> 00:03:49,960 Speaker 2: very person who came under attack, who came after not 50 00:03:50,120 --> 00:03:56,920 Speaker 2: just me, became after comedy in general. This specific person. 51 00:03:57,120 --> 00:04:01,640 Speaker 2: It started very innocent, like, okay, this speciacific person and 52 00:04:01,920 --> 00:04:05,880 Speaker 2: just you know, for uh, for the purposes of having 53 00:04:05,960 --> 00:04:09,600 Speaker 2: somebody to reference, We're gonna call her Don okay. And 54 00:04:09,640 --> 00:04:13,440 Speaker 2: she's a comedian and using names. I'm not using real 55 00:04:14,080 --> 00:04:20,600 Speaker 2: real names, okay, so I'm using I'm using names just 56 00:04:20,640 --> 00:04:23,240 Speaker 2: so that I have a reference point for you. So 57 00:04:23,520 --> 00:04:29,400 Speaker 2: down local comedian from Lincoln, Nebraska, or as we're gonna 58 00:04:29,400 --> 00:04:29,800 Speaker 2: call it. 59 00:04:29,800 --> 00:04:30,479 Speaker 4: Big Lincoln. 60 00:04:30,680 --> 00:04:33,800 Speaker 2: Okay, Don from Big Lincoln. 61 00:04:35,080 --> 00:04:37,760 Speaker 4: Posts. She's promoting a show, which is great. I love 62 00:04:37,800 --> 00:04:39,560 Speaker 4: seeing him. I like I like them, I share him. 63 00:04:39,600 --> 00:04:42,640 Speaker 2: I I try to do what I personally can is 64 00:04:42,680 --> 00:04:45,680 Speaker 2: I can't make to every show, like I can't physically 65 00:04:45,760 --> 00:04:50,080 Speaker 2: be in the audience at every show that goes on 66 00:04:50,160 --> 00:04:53,360 Speaker 2: in Lincoln and Omaha and other surrounding places. I go 67 00:04:53,400 --> 00:04:56,080 Speaker 2: where I can, when I can, and and whatnot. But 68 00:04:57,080 --> 00:05:00,600 Speaker 2: here's the thing. This person puts up a post promoting 69 00:05:00,600 --> 00:05:05,119 Speaker 2: a show actually and promoting a friend of the podcast. 70 00:05:06,200 --> 00:05:06,400 Speaker 1: Kent. 71 00:05:06,880 --> 00:05:09,200 Speaker 4: You've heard him on the show. He's fantastic. We're gonna 72 00:05:09,200 --> 00:05:10,239 Speaker 4: have a back on the show. 73 00:05:11,080 --> 00:05:14,679 Speaker 2: She's promoting a show that he's on, right, and she says, 74 00:05:14,680 --> 00:05:17,280 Speaker 2: all right, come out to the show, and she says 75 00:05:17,560 --> 00:05:21,200 Speaker 2: laugh with me. And she's, you know, trying to get 76 00:05:21,200 --> 00:05:22,960 Speaker 2: the audience to uh, you know, come back to the 77 00:05:22,960 --> 00:05:26,279 Speaker 2: show and laugh a little bit. And I thought, well, 78 00:05:26,320 --> 00:05:29,240 Speaker 2: that would be funny if you know, because you know 79 00:05:30,040 --> 00:05:31,880 Speaker 2: this show is called Laugh with Me. It would be 80 00:05:31,920 --> 00:05:37,000 Speaker 2: funny if I interacted with her post, because I did 81 00:05:37,040 --> 00:05:38,679 Speaker 2: see it and I think what she's doing is great. 82 00:05:39,480 --> 00:05:42,479 Speaker 2: If I interacted with the post with like a fake 83 00:05:43,160 --> 00:05:45,520 Speaker 2: cease and desist letter and said it was from the 84 00:05:45,600 --> 00:05:48,839 Speaker 2: desk of the lawyers from. 85 00:05:48,680 --> 00:05:53,760 Speaker 4: Laugh with Me podcast. So I put together the cease 86 00:05:53,839 --> 00:05:54,480 Speaker 4: and desist. 87 00:05:54,279 --> 00:05:57,320 Speaker 2: Letter, and let me just tell you, it couldn't have 88 00:05:57,360 --> 00:05:59,719 Speaker 2: been more. It was very cartoonish. Okay, it was a 89 00:06:00,040 --> 00:06:06,640 Speaker 2: It was a simple Google ceason desist letter and images 90 00:06:07,080 --> 00:06:10,520 Speaker 2: and found one that had blank spaces, and then I 91 00:06:10,640 --> 00:06:16,599 Speaker 2: went and I typed in very big and cartoonish the 92 00:06:16,680 --> 00:06:19,600 Speaker 2: gaps there on the spaces, so that basically the cease 93 00:06:19,680 --> 00:06:22,359 Speaker 2: and desist was that you cannot use Laugh with Me 94 00:06:22,960 --> 00:06:26,200 Speaker 2: because we own the copyright to Laugh with Me. 95 00:06:26,360 --> 00:06:27,919 Speaker 4: Right, Johnny, we. 96 00:06:28,000 --> 00:06:33,760 Speaker 2: Have solved all of your holiday shopping stress. Your needs 97 00:06:34,120 --> 00:06:36,320 Speaker 2: because the holidays will sneak up fast, but it's not 98 00:06:36,360 --> 00:06:38,839 Speaker 2: too early to get your shopping done and actually have 99 00:06:38,920 --> 00:06:42,480 Speaker 2: fun with it. 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In a second, this is 110 00:07:11,840 --> 00:07:12,920 Speaker 2: what I want for Christmas. 111 00:07:12,920 --> 00:07:13,280 Speaker 4: Okay. 112 00:07:13,960 --> 00:07:18,920 Speaker 2: Uncommon Goods has a recycled skateboard display stand, so it 113 00:07:18,960 --> 00:07:21,440 Speaker 2: looks like a skateboard. It just sit on your desk, 114 00:07:21,840 --> 00:07:24,360 Speaker 2: sit on the bookshelf. I can put my laptop on it. 115 00:07:24,600 --> 00:07:28,200 Speaker 2: I can work on the show, Johnny, I could be working. 116 00:07:28,280 --> 00:07:32,400 Speaker 2: I could do your job frankly and look like I 117 00:07:32,400 --> 00:07:35,400 Speaker 2: got a little skateboard. 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Don't miss 139 00:08:51,600 --> 00:08:54,880 Speaker 2: out on this limited time offer Uncommon Goods. 140 00:08:55,440 --> 00:08:57,520 Speaker 4: We are all out of the ordinary. 141 00:08:58,559 --> 00:09:01,959 Speaker 2: Johnny, if you haven't told everybody this is how you're 142 00:09:01,960 --> 00:09:04,720 Speaker 2: doing your holiday shopping, you really missed the boat. 143 00:09:04,760 --> 00:09:06,400 Speaker 4: I mean, that's what That's why I told my family. 144 00:09:07,040 --> 00:09:08,760 Speaker 2: So I post it, and I say from the desk 145 00:09:09,160 --> 00:09:14,160 Speaker 2: of you know, Laugh with Me podcast, and then Kent 146 00:09:14,600 --> 00:09:19,920 Speaker 2: instantly gets tagged and with a question mark, you know, 147 00:09:20,000 --> 00:09:22,959 Speaker 2: asking him what the hell is this? And then then 148 00:09:23,040 --> 00:09:27,320 Speaker 2: I'm under attack and there's this giant paragraph. But how 149 00:09:27,400 --> 00:09:30,960 Speaker 2: she didn't know that I owned Laugh with Me and 150 00:09:30,960 --> 00:09:33,520 Speaker 2: that she couldn't use that, and like just went on 151 00:09:33,559 --> 00:09:37,120 Speaker 2: and on and on and on because apparently she thought 152 00:09:37,120 --> 00:09:40,760 Speaker 2: I was a real lawyer, which no, okay, I sell 153 00:09:40,960 --> 00:09:47,440 Speaker 2: gasoline by trade and pizza slices. Okay, I'm in no 154 00:09:47,640 --> 00:09:53,280 Speaker 2: way a lawyer. But the folks who represent Laugh with Me, well, 155 00:09:54,960 --> 00:09:57,439 Speaker 2: I can tell you right now, my producer, Johnny Palermo, 156 00:09:57,640 --> 00:10:01,319 Speaker 2: knows people in a certain industry that would be able 157 00:10:01,360 --> 00:10:03,480 Speaker 2: to lay down the wall, if you know what I mean, 158 00:10:04,240 --> 00:10:05,880 Speaker 2: if it came down to it, Well, you know what 159 00:10:05,960 --> 00:10:11,559 Speaker 2: I'm saying, Johnny, That's what I'm saying. So she posts this, right, 160 00:10:12,200 --> 00:10:15,600 Speaker 2: I leave it alone? Oh no, no, no, I didn't 161 00:10:15,640 --> 00:10:16,240 Speaker 2: leave it alone. 162 00:10:16,240 --> 00:10:17,240 Speaker 4: This is what gets better. 163 00:10:17,320 --> 00:10:20,120 Speaker 2: I post a gift that shows a little stick band 164 00:10:20,559 --> 00:10:25,120 Speaker 2: and flying over the stick man's head. It says joke 165 00:10:25,200 --> 00:10:26,880 Speaker 2: and it flies over their head, you know, like the 166 00:10:27,000 --> 00:10:31,360 Speaker 2: joke went over her head. That's when it got personal. 167 00:10:31,520 --> 00:10:34,600 Speaker 2: That's when we went under attack. Then she started talking 168 00:10:34,600 --> 00:10:38,440 Speaker 2: about how I she doesn't like dumb humor, and I'm like, 169 00:10:38,480 --> 00:10:40,480 Speaker 2: first of all, I didn't say anything. That's when I 170 00:10:40,480 --> 00:10:44,400 Speaker 2: shut it down. And then that's when she very conveniently 171 00:10:46,320 --> 00:10:48,679 Speaker 2: hid all the comments, so now nobody can see my 172 00:10:48,840 --> 00:10:51,000 Speaker 2: sists and cease and desist letter, which was. 173 00:10:51,000 --> 00:10:53,959 Speaker 4: Getting a lot of likes and laughs. It was funny. 174 00:10:55,040 --> 00:11:00,120 Speaker 2: It was getting interactions and impressions on her post to 175 00:11:00,160 --> 00:11:07,000 Speaker 2: help promote her show. That's what we were doing. Anyways, 176 00:11:08,880 --> 00:11:15,760 Speaker 2: we're declaring war. We are declaring war on Big Lincoln. 177 00:11:17,559 --> 00:11:18,000 Speaker 4: And down. 178 00:11:19,440 --> 00:11:23,679 Speaker 2: Then again, I'm using I'm just using fake names so 179 00:11:23,960 --> 00:11:24,600 Speaker 2: to not to. 180 00:11:25,360 --> 00:11:26,360 Speaker 4: Upset the innocent. 181 00:11:28,280 --> 00:11:32,480 Speaker 2: But what we're not gonna have is comedy attacked, and 182 00:11:32,520 --> 00:11:36,360 Speaker 2: we're not gonna have comedy be shoved to the side. 183 00:11:36,400 --> 00:11:40,160 Speaker 2: When a funny bit hits, and that one hit, we 184 00:11:40,320 --> 00:11:44,760 Speaker 2: celebrate it, Okay, Johnny, When a funny bit hits, like 185 00:11:44,760 --> 00:11:48,119 Speaker 2: when somebody posts a cease and desist letter on Facebook 186 00:11:48,400 --> 00:11:50,920 Speaker 2: because they say the words laugh with me. How do 187 00:11:51,000 --> 00:11:56,240 Speaker 2: we how do we react to? This is how we react, Johnny. Yes, 188 00:11:57,720 --> 00:11:59,840 Speaker 2: we give them a like, We give them a laugh, 189 00:12:00,200 --> 00:12:03,720 Speaker 2: We say thanks for the impression, the interaction, the comments, 190 00:12:05,440 --> 00:12:08,200 Speaker 2: because that's how we grow this damn thing, right, that's 191 00:12:08,240 --> 00:12:11,400 Speaker 2: how we grow this damn thing. 192 00:12:15,280 --> 00:12:18,520 Speaker 4: If we're going to post to. 193 00:12:18,640 --> 00:12:24,160 Speaker 2: Our friends all the shows we're doing, we are in 194 00:12:24,280 --> 00:12:30,600 Speaker 2: fact needing other friends to post, comment, like, and share 195 00:12:30,960 --> 00:12:33,960 Speaker 2: in order it for it to grow to other people 196 00:12:34,520 --> 00:12:38,640 Speaker 2: who are not friends with you, who may then potentially 197 00:12:38,640 --> 00:12:41,640 Speaker 2: go to your show. Guys, that's how it works. If 198 00:12:41,640 --> 00:12:45,440 Speaker 2: you're posting to the same old folks every single time 199 00:12:46,120 --> 00:12:52,240 Speaker 2: and you're not getting any interactions, you're not promoting shit. Okay, 200 00:12:52,559 --> 00:12:57,400 Speaker 2: that's just how it is. And then when somebody interacts 201 00:12:57,480 --> 00:13:00,079 Speaker 2: with you to help promote your show. 202 00:13:03,080 --> 00:13:04,680 Speaker 4: You do not declare war on them. 203 00:13:05,920 --> 00:13:13,280 Speaker 2: Don You made a mistake, Because myself, Johnny Palermo and 204 00:13:13,320 --> 00:13:16,000 Speaker 2: the friends of the Life with Me podcast are prepared 205 00:13:17,600 --> 00:13:20,840 Speaker 2: to go to war to save comedy. And that's that's 206 00:13:20,880 --> 00:13:24,320 Speaker 2: exactly what we're doing. So on this Friday Happy Hour, 207 00:13:25,440 --> 00:13:29,800 Speaker 2: we toast to you don We toast to you, We 208 00:13:29,880 --> 00:13:34,560 Speaker 2: toast a big Lincoln. We toast to all of you, 209 00:13:35,440 --> 00:13:38,280 Speaker 2: in hope that we can come to some sort of 210 00:13:38,280 --> 00:13:41,520 Speaker 2: an agreement, to some sort of conclusion to this, because 211 00:13:41,600 --> 00:13:45,120 Speaker 2: right now the stakes are high, The six have. 212 00:13:45,200 --> 00:13:47,559 Speaker 4: Never been higher. Comedy is at steak. 213 00:13:47,600 --> 00:13:52,040 Speaker 2: You're seeing, you're seeing it attacked all over the world. 214 00:13:52,080 --> 00:13:55,160 Speaker 2: I gave you two incredible examples before it got personal. 215 00:13:59,520 --> 00:14:03,520 Speaker 2: This one's big Don. This one's real, big big Lincoln. 216 00:14:05,040 --> 00:14:08,920 Speaker 2: Laugh with me is common. Laugh with me is common, 217 00:14:10,559 --> 00:14:14,800 Speaker 2: and we're bringing the jokes with us. Cheers, Happy Friday, everybody. 218 00:16:00,960 --> 00:16:03,960 Speaker 1: Mummer