Allan MacDonell is Cancelled

It's All Bad

Mental Health, Comedy Interviews, Health & Fitness, True Crime, Comedy

4.9 • 575 Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2019

⏱️ 104 minutes

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Episode 24. Allan MacDonell is an author of three books. He wrote for Slash magazine in the early days of the Los Angeles punk scene. Then we wrote for Hustler for 20 years until he roasted Larry Flynt and got fired. Now he's in need of a literary agent. Hit us up if you know anybody.

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0:00.0	I just thought I was in place.
0:09.5	I'm not going to be able to get in here.
0:12.4	And yet here I am.
0:14.8	We are.
0:16.0	Should we,
0:16.3	we might,
0:16.7	I feel like we should do at least the intro,
0:18.9	you know.
0:20.2	We have a special guest with us tonight, Alan McDonald. And what? No. McDonnell. Mac Donnell. Oh, Christ. Let me do that. Is that right? Macdonnell? No, you're not doing it again. No, so is that, it's Scottish. It is Scottish. It is Scottish. It is Scottish. Mac is Scottish. I always used to joke because in the, when we were all, when everyone I knew was totally
0:42.4	poor, it'd be like, hey, where should we go to dinner tonight?
0:44.6	And people would be like, I don't know.
0:46.0	How about the Irish restaurant?
0:47.2	We used to call it the Scottish restaurant, McDonald's.
0:50.2	And I was like, friends of mine used to joke say that we'll go to get some Scottish food, McDonald's.
0:54.8	I'm not sure McDonald's may be like the exception to the MacMickrull. McDonald's may in fact be Scottish. I'm not positive. That'd be, right? I don't know. I always assumed it was Irish, you know, the joke would be Irish restaurant. There's this clan Donald. Yes. Planned Donald includes the McDonnells, the McDonald's, the McDonald's, like all these Donalds.
1:13.2	Copy that. And they're, they hate the Campbells. So the Campbells and the McDonnells, they don't get along. And the McDonald's don't get along. But the McDonnells were one specific little strain of the Clan Donald who lived in this place called Glengarry. And they short of there was sort of shot callers like they like there's this story about
1:31.4	the well of the seven heads which I love to tell and it's these two McDonald's
1:35.6	there was this McDonald family and their kids went to France to get educated
1:39.5	this is like in the 1600s or something and they came back and they had a big
1:43.0	party for them because they're coming back to Scotland and And they got an argument with their cousins. So their uncle and their cousins killed them both at the party. Wow. Just killed them. And then some guy named Ian the Bald felt that this needed retribution. So he came to the McDonnells to get clearance. And McDonnells had to green light this thing.
2:01.6	So then Ian the ball grabbed about 40 guys and they went to this
2:05.6	McDonald hideaway and they killed seven of them, brought them back,
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