#HMB 255 - Sweet Chin Music with Zac Townsend

What a better person to discuss the greatness of old wrestling entrance themes & finishing moves, particularly Shawn Michaels & Mr. Ass than with Zac Townsend, the biggest ass and chin having maniac that I know? This week on the pod he joins and we riff a bit on these topics and soccer star Ronaldo is in a lot of trouble after the latest accuser comes forward for some inappropriate behavior that happened years ago. Basically, he paid a girl off for being a creep and now she’s asking for more money. Maybe stop being a creep and stop accepting money for crimes? Anyhoo, check out the pod here:

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#HMB 250 - Context Maters Until It Doesn't with Zac Townsend (@smacktownsend)

All right, the ban is temporally lifted and comedian/writer Zac Townsend stops by to talk this week in what people are mad about and fired for and there's an array of very silly examples to go through. Just real great stuff as I continue to lose my mind about this upside down world in which we live. People like being right, even when they're wrong. This week, a NASCAR driver loses a sponsorship becuase his DAD said something racist 35-GODDAMN-YEARS-AGO (doesn't that drive you insane?), & baseball players caught heat for an Instagram post featuring a likeness of Hitler and a sentiment defending the 2nd Amendment. I...I don't know how much longer I'm gonna be able to do this, honestly but here it is, this weeks pod:

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#HMB 229 - Ku Ku for Racist Jokes with Zac Townsend (@smacktownsend)

First, I talked a bit about radio and podcasting with Creative Loafing Tampa earlier this week.  Check that out HERE.  Otherwise, another week and more comedians getting into trouble for making a jokes.  This one was even a bit more unusual since it was Esther Ku, a Korean woman who got scolded for making jokes about...Asians.  Yes.  Not kidding.  I wish I had 1/8th the confidence these people have who point these things out.  Humorless buffoons who are suddenly experts in comedy.  Of course, this is just a micro-amount of people who are really upset but the story gets picked up by the media which half point out it's absurdity and the others are oddly amplifying the cries of offense of the joke and those white's bold enough to defend her.  Of course, you will never convince these people that an attempt of humor is hyperbole and comedians should just stick to making fun of safe targets: airplane food and white men.  Genius!  This week, Zac Townsend stops by and we talk this crap and some other stuff.  Listen below and tell a friend about the show, would ya?  Thanks and I like you more than a friend.

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#HMB 226 - Creepin' Out Nessa with Zac Townsend (@smacktownsend)

“I could feel you burning a hole through the back of my head.”  If you judge anyone by how you would handle a situation, you’re going to end up disappointed but that doesn’t mean you can’t hate that person for how they handled it.  I was staring a hole through this woman’s head because I’m standing there in the Publix checkout line with my hands full and she didn’t bother to put the plastic divider up on the conveyer belt so I could put my yogurts up on there.  It’s not only lazy, but it shows such a lack of common courtesy for your fellow people-kind.  You know that those people don’t replace the toilet paper on the holder after they clog up the toilet with their Mac and Cheese poo’s.  It’s the little things that keep society chugging along and putting the divider up on the conveyer belt at the grocery store is one of those little things.  It’s important to know where you’re at in space.  Don’t talk in the middle of the aisle in the parking lot at the grocery store, either.  You’re holding people up with your sashay and I know most of the time its ignorance and not ill intent but we have to take some time to look around.  Also, can we start calling people out for rude yet innocent behavior?  We don’t have to be rude but can’t we at least notice out loud?  Make a joke out of it and laugh when you’re calling these dopes out.  That usually disarms people to the point that they don’t get defensive and it allows some time for reflection afterward.  You’ll truly be doing God’s work and make for a better tomorrow for you and I.

Anyway, Vanessa Rao was supposed to be in this week but had to cancel at the last minute for work.  I initially thought it had to do with local idiot Zac Townsend double tapping an old Instagram photo from my phone to be an ass but she wasn’t on The Johnny B Show either this week so I feel a little better.  This week we’re talking about the MLB player who beat up his girlfriend on video, March Madness and how Zac isn’t as sneaky as his thinks he is.  Also, I screwed up the recording on this one and it accidentally recorded from the external mic instead of through my mixer.  I’m dumb and I’m sorry but things of it as a modern art sound experiment.

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#HMB 223 - ...but it's my Turkey Leg & Going Viral with Zebra Corner

I really love comedy but I've grown to really despise comedians.  Most are really nice people when you talk to them in person but most tend to fit a profile. They're many things at once on opposite sides of the spectrum. They tend to be the most un-confident-confident people in the galaxy.  The way they speak on the internet is far from how they talk in person.  Online, you'd think they had a spine.  Most, are also horribly unfunny which is a problem for obvious reasons.  They seem to not understand their craft.  Many don't understand satire and in an effort to be "inclusive" have made many subjects off-limits so most of them just bitch about their Dad's and other heterosexual white men, comic books or the worst of the worst...REPULICANS.  Granted, those are also some of my favorite people to trash but I also like the variety of anyone being a target because there are a lot of A-Hole's in every subset.  Also, their only "People of Color" friend is the black dude who is nice to them at Open Mic's just in case they ever put on a show and want to be booked.  One of our friends that moved to Los Angeles to continue a comedy career said it's even worse over there and I believe it.  Make an off-color joke that doesn't pop and you might be banned forever.  Poof, your dream is dead because the dunce that runs the open mic is thinks your "having a hard time with chop sticks" joke bombed.  I saw it with my own eyes; a pink dreadlocked, drunk woman curse out a comic out in the middle of the open mic because he refereed to his dog as a "bitch".  I heard about one of these local "comics" calling for a boycott of Dave Chappelle over his transgender joke in his latest Netflix special.  Yea, good luck with that.  I saw on Facebook, a comic who now lives in Portland, Oregon post a picture of a swastika with a heart drawn around it on her car with a "This was on my car this morning. Fucking. Portland." caption because as we know, Portland is known for it's large intolerant Nazi population.  They can't decipher basic satire because they're either dumb or intentionally naive, perhaps both.  Dude, it's a JOKE.  They are MESSING with you.  As Zac pointed out, it's the equivalent of drawing a penis.  Go to any public school bathroom and it's filled with drawings of dicks and swastikas because they're awful things to draw.  It's a juvenile act that still makes most of us giggle, even as adults.  THEY'RE FUCKING WITH YOU!  If you're going to make jokes the first thing you need to be able to do is to take a joke.  Nothing should be off limits, give things a chance to be funny because trust me, if you don't laugh with all the things going on in this world, you will certainly cry.

They're not all bad though.  Ali from Zebra Corner, a homegrown Tampa Bay sketch comedy collective anchored by the fan favorite character "Mahk" stopped by this week to talk about how the group got started and going viral earlier this week with their hilarious parody of an Apple and NASCAR commercial: 

Zac Townsend, banned occasional co-host is on this one too.  The ban was temporarily lifted, however, it is now back in full effect.  We talk about the local comedy scene in Tampa Bay, the challenges of navigating the entertainment industry and the rise of new media.  Check out the podcast here:

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#HMB 219: St. Pete Art War! Language Police! Emergency Poop Stories!

This got out of hand.  Quickly.  After the THIRST podcast I got a call from another local artist here in St. Pete who wanted to counter some of the qualms that were voiced on the show.  Absolutely, I want to hear what everyone has to say.  Derek Donnelly stopped by earlier this week and we had a chat about the art scene, his counter to THIRST.  He gave THIRST a lot of props for being one of the originators of the scene and it was pretty civil for the most part.  It sounded like the axe was on it's way to being buried and it was time to move on from this whole beef.  Then the mural defacement's started happening.  Most of them being THIRST's own work, some not.

I don't know.  The vandal remains at large.  Over $10,000 dollars in damage and now the St. Pete Policy are asking for help in finding the perpetrator.  So. Yea. I don't know.  Everyone involved is staying pretty quiet.  Derek said I could release the episode after he sent me pictures of his defaced van:

These are all allegations.  No one knows exactly who is doing this, although people think they have a pretty good idea.  All I know is that it's just a flat out shame.  Look for a future podcast with Derek soon on HMBradio.com.

Anyhoo, my buddy, comic and writer Zac Townsend came by to talk about some of this craziness going on, the language police are angry with comic Tom Segura over some language in his last Netflix special so we dive into that and finish up with some good Ol' Fashioned Poop Stories. Check out the podcast: 

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#HMB 218: Facebook is a Shithole & Hello Darlin' with Arielle Stevenson

I screwed up.  I was under the impression that things were cooling down a bit and the hysteria of the political climate had started to settle.  I thought I could make a joke...OK, not a joke, but a criticism without stirring the pot.  Boy, was I mistaken after nearly 300 comments logged on my personal Facebook page.  Our president made a comment regarding letting in immigrants from "Shithole Countries".  I watched from the Social Media Mountain while some of my friends and acquaintances became apoplectic with rage over the comment and voice the displeasure on their accounts lambasting the sentiment.  I would certainly agree- it's not a very nice thing to say and we should expect more from our Commander in Chief.  However, we all know what he is and are you really surprised?

I made a comment poking fun at my fellow white compadres mocking the fact that how dare he say that about a country even though before today they never thought about these places before today.  They may have donated $10 to the Red Cross during the disaster relief telethon a few years ago but that's the only finger they've ever lifted for these places.  They don't really care and their rage over a word was silly because the only way they visit these places is if it were on a 5-Star, All-Inclusive Resort that was protected by armed guards (most of them hate guns too).  Most responded with a "thumbs up", others turned it into a personal debate about Trump vs Obama (for whatever reason) and then some just got plain mad at me about it.

I'm just sick of the phoniness.  The holier than thou fake outrage.  The pearl-clutching lambasting from these people who have little to no reason to complain about anything.  A friend of mine called the comment "tasteless" and went on to infer that I condone the statement (nope, I don't) and another, Crocodile Deathspin from SunGhosts, a rock-band based in Miami went on to call me just about every name in the book (safely from behind his brand new Macbook, I'm sure).  I liked the kid when I met him when the whole band came in for a podcast the beginning of last year but I haven't talked to any of those guys since but we were all Facebook buds.

He went ahead and decided I needed a good scolding and digitally wagged his finger in my face while hurling expletives at me, totally misunderstanding what my critique was.  I didn't bite, I'm not gonna fight with this dude over a misunderstanding.  He continued his tirade from many comments even after other jumped in to defend me and at one point concluded that he understood what I was saying but that it just wasn't funny.  Well, it wasn't really a joke.  I replied that he clearly didn't understand what I was trying to say because I wrote it, and I understand what I was trying to say.  No one knows better what you actually meant more than other people.  By this point he has removed me as a friend and since my post is set to friends only, he was unable to respond or see any future comments (consider yourself lucky Croc, this crap went on for days). So adios, buddy, I'll miss our online interactions that we never had and if you're ever in town and want to do a podcast: holla, holla, holla!

Anyhoo, podcast this week welcomes back local Renaissance Woman, Arielle Stevenson.  She has a new venture called Hello Darlin' Records, a mobile record shop based out of a restored VW Bus.  Local idiot/comedian Zac Townsend was visiting so he sat in on this one too.  Always good having Zacky Boy around.  Check out the podcast below:

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#HMB 216 - #GoodKnight & Hard Times with Zac Townsend

Oh boy, a very Happy New Year to you's!  I'm back in the confined makeshift "studio" space in an undisclosed location better known as my apartment with a brand new podcast to kick off the new year.  #HMB 216 ft. local idiot, writer and comedian Zac Townsend.  I lifted the ban temporarily in order for him to come talk about his brand new, exciting gig with The Hard Times, a satire website akin to The Onion.  Many of The Hard Times staff writers eventually move on over there at some point.  They're kind of like the cream of the crop as far as satire goes, I'm sure you have heard of them.  I very excited for Ol' Zacky Boy but make no mistake, the ban is now back into affect so see you never, loser.

Also, I start the show this week talking about the UCF Knights Football team declaring themselves the 2017 National Champions after defeating Auburn in the Peach Bowl.  I hate the UCF Knights.  I hate them for no other reason that they are the arch-rival of the college I went to, Go Bulls.  I know a lot of Knights though and they are all grand human beings so I was happy for their joy and swallowed my tribal allegences and wished them a "congrats!" over a group text message.  Then the "National Champs!" texts started to roll in and that's when my joy for them turned sour.  Are you kidding me?  You really believe that?  National Champs?

UCF, you didn't play anyone worth a damn aside from Memphis (who lost their bowl game to Iowa State) and USF who squeaked out a last minute victory against a mediocre Texas Tech.  Look, beating Auburn is a huge accomplishment and it's great for the conference moving forward.  That win may push some people to give the American Conference a little more respect in the future but for now, I need you folks to go ahead and revel in your undefeated season.  I want you to go put on your "2017 Peach Bowl Champions" shirts, smile with pride and frig the heck off.

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