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🗓️ 3 January 2026
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Mike Pesca digs into the vault for two 2017 interviews exploring the "ground game" of the New York stand-up scene and the "ad hominem screech" of early outrage culture. Dan Soder discusses his transition from a hard-drinking youth to a maturity fueled by caffeine and cannabis, admitting that his iconic Russian accent bit remains the "Free Bird" closer he can't quite escape. Meanwhile, Moshe Kasher dissects the launch of his series Problematic and the shallowing of the American brain, arguing that a comedian's primary duty is the "primacy of laughter" rather than social activism. Along the way: why Arizona rain smells like "hot nails" and how lighting a cigarette at night acts as a lighthouse for the mentally ill.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Saturday. It's the Saturday show. What I like to do is bring you one or two from the vault, |
| 0:09.0 | and that's what I'm going to do. Pretty old interviews with pretty funny comics. Very funny comics. |
| 0:15.3 | These comics predate when we started the funny you should mention series, and they go back to, I think, April 2017 was Moisha Catcher's appearance. |
| 0:24.4 | We'll play him second. |
| 0:25.4 | Dan Soder was also on the show. |
| 0:27.8 | He's since been on billions a lot. |
| 0:30.8 | And he's one of these comics that has a foot in a few worlds, acting, regular comedy. |
| 0:36.2 | There's a skanks type comedy. |
| 0:38.7 | There's a legion of skanks and skank fest, and he does really well there. |
| 0:43.4 | He plays in front of a whole lot of crowds. |
| 0:46.3 | And so you'll hear my interview with Dan Soder. |
| 0:49.4 | You'll hear my interview with Moisha Catcher. |
| 0:52.2 | And then you'll hear me say, thanks. |
| 0:55.0 | Well, you won't. |
| 0:55.6 | I'll say it now. |
| 0:56.3 | Thanks. |
| 0:56.9 | Talk to you again on Monday. |
| 0:58.2 | Pre-thank you. |
| 1:06.5 | Age catches up to you, and that's okay. |
| 1:09.1 | I'm getting definitely wiser. |
| 1:14.4 | But, you know, when I do a deep knee bend or even a mid knee bend, there are certain noises. The joints are stiff. Recovery takes |
| 1:21.3 | longer. I'm always looking for products, ideas, or products that are ideas to help me out. |
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