Welcome to Sunday Morning asylum seekers, today we start my new segment ‘Sunday Funday’ and I know that name has been done to death but until I come up with something better.. and I will, this is it for now.
I figured you kind people would appreciate more content rather than having to wait for a moment of invention from yours truly.
This day is for podcasts that are lighthearted, comedic or uplifting in nature, maybe just about nature itself, a personal favorite of mine.
I am going to start cataloging the longer-form podcasts found in these weekly posts on separate stand-alone pages so stay tuned for that, and the reason for this is for your benefit, sometimes you do not have 9 hours to binge Joe Rogan for a day but you still wanna listen to some interesting discussion about what’s going on.
That’s where I come in, I am here to put the leg work in for you busy people to enjoy what you want and when you want it, I am in a unique position that I have almost 10 hours a day to check out all this content and put it here in summary form to help save you time!
Without further ado, today we have just that, three… Three! Joe Rogans and two of them are part of something new to me which is listening to the professional comedians on his show. I used to skip over these episodes as I figured “I’m not a comedian, so why listen to comedians?”.
That’s what I used to say… Now I see the error in my ways, these comedians aren’t just on their talking comedy, they share life experience, motivation, the grind, and more often than not they provide a positive message for you to sink into.
Not to say it’s all positive but I am seeing a thread in all these people, they try and leave the people they come in contact with better than they were before, they are ‘fixers’, fixing our perspective on things and showing us that there are often two sides to a story.
On the other hand as you’ll see in the first podcast featured, the Italian brothers are a little on the rough side and brash compared to most, however it is evident there is still good that rules their inner workings and the machines are driven by the same motivations, to make the immediate world around them better.
The second podcast is not a comedian, but a film director of a slew of prominent documentaries and is promoting his latest one ‘Screwball’. Billy Corben seems a little juiced and hyper but I think you’ll see that he too as a spark of betterment inside him.
And third, is one of my new favorite people Ron Funches, he’s got a good message and he and Joe shoot the shit about the grind.
These are people with interesting stories, they live life rather than merely exist, whether or not you agree with their path you can emulate the fact that they go out and get after it.
Below will be a quick summary followed by the waveform of the audio with general topics listed around the corresponding times.
JRE #1270 – Lenny Clarke
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Lenny and his brother Mike reminisce about ‘back in the day’ doing comedy in Boston, they talk about life and life lessons, with more than a few wild stories cut in throughout.
JRE #1271 – Billy Corben
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Billy pops on the show to promote his latest documentary ‘Screwball’, I haven’t had time to check it out yet but this podcast has definitely put it firmly on my ‘To Watch’ playlist.
JRE #1273 – Ron Funches
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Joe has new and upcoming comedian Ron Funches on the podcast to discuss the comedy grind, how to stay motivated and how to live life on your own terms as opposed to other peoples “advice”.
So thank you all for joining me and as the more observant of you will recognize that this post is a day late! I hope you can forgive my transgressions and join me again later this week for more content.