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traditional I would say, but right now I want to do this. I mean, if you guys watched Saturday Night Fly, Danny hands up, he did not watch it, but saw a couple of clips and the quick reset is your host was comedian Shane Gillis. He controversial is he was hired at Destinel in twenty nineteen and then fired about three hours later after people just started posting some shocking things he had said on one of his podcasts. So you know, he had the credentials to do sketch comedy to get hired on the
cast, as well as being a successful comedian. Almost getting fired, I would say, probably did help his career, you know. Ultimately, I think he would probably say that too. I think he's thirty six years old. Definitely, at face value, Shane Gillis, unless you're a big fan of his, a lot of people are probably going who And if you're a big fan of his, you're going duh? Have you heard? Like?
How are you missing this pretty edgy comedian. So before I play a couple of his monologue jokes, I want to play something that I discovered because I'd been kinda listening for a little of this overtime. He does a good fake Trump too, but he this is just great to me. He's just his live show in Austin and he's discussing how the presidential debates have changed over the years and how Trump just like changed everything when it comes to debates, it's
kind of funny from debates to no debates. Uh yeah, basically, can we admit that Trump was funny? I don't know. During Hurricane Dorian, he was like, maybe we should new kid. It was a real suggestion from the President. He was like, hey, we got a big storm coming. You guys want me to blow it up. I was like, no, what the are you talking like? I don't know. Irowned. Dude, Like, I'll never watch a debate ever again. Can you imagine
like just a regular debate. Now, we witnessed the goat undefeated the debates and he never said a fact. People try to hit him with statistics and facts, he would just go wrong. Oh dude, I was no one prepared for this. Okay, that's just the setup, Dorian. The storm nuked. Okay, that's where the debate's starting. And the first one is the best one. So it's a Republican primary. Everyone's up on set with I used to have to taw like a six pack and just watch old Trump
debate. It's a great Saturday night. I sit at home, and the first one is the best one. So it's a Republican primary. Everyone's up on stage. So like, the first couple guys that talk are like, I'm from Kentucky and I love education, and the crowd's like nice. And the next guy's like, I'm from Georgia and I love religion. Pretty good, This is a good one. It is a heated debate. And then I finally got to Trump's turn to talk, and he was just like,
Rand Paul is ugly. And the whole crowd is like, Oh, we didn't know you could do that in this You can just do that as your thing, and Ran Paul it's like, all right, everybody, settle down. We're trying to have a debate here. And the whole crowd was like, shut the up, Ram Paul, ugly bitch. And we just kept throwing dorks up on stage to make them debate Trump. And it was not fair. It was mean for us to have done that to people. These
guys were in politics their whole lives. There's one debate, there's one debate. He's like, in the middle of it, going back and forth about the economy with Ted Cruz. They're literally talking about the economy in the middle of it. He's just like Ted's wife, ugly is a dog. Ted. Ted was like, I'm from Texas. You don't talk about a man's family like that. You've got a dog wife, Ted, it was like everyone knows. Yeah. And a week later, Ted Cruise was on TV
like I support Donald Jay. Okay, that's funny, and I would sitting there on and it's so true. It's right, and I was like, okay, I mean I had to. I'd dove in kind of do a little homeworkers like, Okay, this guy is funny. I'm looking forward to this. I didn't know. I heard TC talk about it with the You Don't Have the Speakeasy on Friday, and he had known Jen Gillis is one of his favorite comedians going right now, TZ was kind of up to date them things. I just see if you headlines, but you do it,
Dovid start to give it a fair shut. You're like, this is good, like and that's a lot of stuff. It's funny. He was talking about how his dad went from like get the f off this off my TV Trump into we can't just go hang out. We can't just go storm the capitol hang out. There's a bunch of guys hanging out the Capitol. He's like, I saw it to have it to my dad. He's like, my dad turned into a full like that was funny. So here's his monologue.
I pulled two little portions of it there. It's all under a minute. It's kind of how he opened up. Most of you probably have no idea who I am. I was, actually I was fired from this show a while ago. But if you know, don't look that up. Please. If you don't know who I am, please don't google that. It's fine, don't even worry about it. I don't know this is I probably shouldn't be up here, honestly. I actually I come from a long line
of coaches in my family. My father's actually a volunteer assistant girls high school basketball coach. He's actually here right now. You get him on there, Yeah, there he is. That's my dad, the volunteer assistant girls high school basketball coach. I thought it was funny, all right. You don't think that's funny to bring my dad here to make fun of him for being a girls high school basketball coach? All right? I thought it was great. Never mind, I thought that was gonna be a big hit here.
Okay. Then and then he talked about his mom, and it shows her. I just love the guy who's openly, like you could tell he was nervous a little bit, but I love the openly Oh yeah, okay, I whatn't good for you? A joke wasn't good And this is a joke about he made about his mom. And we'll discuss a little more. Now. My mom's up there with my mom. I'm not gonna make funny. My mom asked me, She's like, when did we stop being best friends?
And she's right, we used to be best friend. You remember that when you were a little boy and you like, you loved your mom and you thought she was a cool You remember when you were gay? Do you remember when you were just a gay little boy? Every little boy is just their mom's gay best friend. There's literally zero difference. I was gay for my mom. She would pick me up from school. I'd hop in the van. I'd be like, girl, tell me about your day. I
thought she was cool. I would listen to her music. I'd be like, bam bam, badam, bam bam bam, let's go girls. I would dance for her. My mom asked me when we stopped being best friends? And I don't. I don't have the heart to tell her because like most men, I know exactly when me and my mom stopped being friends. It was it was the first time I whacked. I mean, dude, it's funny, it's so good. You don't have this next line there?
Uh? Which one was? After things? Right? I did cut it, I know, because he's like, I got business to attend to. Yeah, it used to be, Man, where's mom? Where's Mom? I love? You know, let's talk. What is this bitch gonna leave the house? I need him alone. Time you start doing that, leave the house. Like I stopped up. I thought it was funny, and I thought the crowd reacted well to it, and you know how it works. But now if you I just look up Shane Gillis and there's four articles
about bombing his monologue, kidding and SNL and bomb's opening monologue. No he did not. Jane Gillis bombs SNL with down syndrome and gay jokes. Look, I mean, who picks bombed? Who decides bombed? I mean the crowd was laughing the whole time they were in the rub on him. For a lot of people is there was a time in comedy where nothing was off limits. And he's not. He's not mean spirited. He's not making fun of people with Down syndrome. He's not making fun It's basically it's it's kind
of just like a backdrop for a joke. It's context. It's all about context. Because he talks about having I think two or three members of his family that it's something, it's a it's a it's a trait or a gene that runs in his family's DNA, where he's got some family members that that have downson. He was like, I dodged it. I dodge it, but it nicked me. Nicked me. I mean, he was incredibly funny,
incredibly human and very normal. But the world that we live in now, man, it's of that where people are very sensitive, they're very afraid and very and they monitor the things that they say for fear of any type of backlash. I didn't hear him attack anyone. No, he didn't. This is this all thing like, this is first of all, good on SNL for having him. Right, he's a popular comedian, he's allowed to
do the show. Right if uh like whatever website said he's bombed, whatever, Okay, if gay Asian bow and Yang was fine with him doing the show and was in a bunch of skits. What does that say? I mean, because that's what got him in trouble the first time he had an Asian slur on a podcast that I would say, like an armor might be, it might help you get to where you're going there, right, okay, but that joke right there, obviously everyone's there is okay with it all
right now. At the time when he was fired, twenty nineteen was way different than now, I think too. Probably, Yeah, you know, twenty seventeen is the year in my head of WHOA like or just everything did change a little bit, but it was all it was all fine. I mean, he is a shocking comedian though that's his bit. That's a part of his bit. I don't think I've ever seen him do stand up or anything. I just read the controversies. But I thought he was funny and
that monologue. Thought he's good and he laughs at himself while he delivers. And his niece has down syndrome, you know, like he told a story about that. It's his niece, that's his sister's kid, you know, and man, he loves very much. And I believe is it true that he opened up a coffee shop where people with Down syndrome work. I think
we have one of those momentum. Yeah yeah, in Dallas too, So that's I don't know if that's what cafe momentum just said that all right, I think they do under people who needed a fresh start, that kind of thing. Yeah, sorry, but anyway to have that, you know, it's something that you did your family does I mean it proves in the real world. Yes, you provide opportunities and do great things for people with Down
syndrome. And then I have a joke about I mean, he joked that, you know, the coffee shops doing great, there's a line line around the building. He's like, not because the coffee is good. You know, slow services services. Everybody gets apple juice. My apologies, hugs. Cafe up in McKinney there, yeah, right next to they're there by. Some shows up there a couple of years ago. So I thought I thought it was a good episode. I've got a little something else. I thought
he was in his skits too. Yeah, No, and he's good, like he was equipped to be on SNL. And now he would probably go, you haven't worked at SNL. I'm like one of the biggest state up comedians in the game right now. I don't need to go to SNL. You know, if they were like, hey, you want to come, you know, he didn't have to do that. He can now host it, you know. So I uh gallous of too from a little sports betting thing at nine from SNL play for it was pretty funny. But I also
want to get to this. So Bening Skin had on a guy by the name of Luke Bronner. Now Luke Bronner not a household name, but they tracked him down because he is the guy in the video from last Thursday when the Suns and Mags are in town and Kevin Durant turned around as they were coming up, you know for pregame warn up warmups, and he got into
it with a couple of fans as a man and a woman. Well, the man in that clip, Luke Bronner, was tracked down by the Bending Skin Show on Friday at like one o'clock late in their show and they had him on and here is what he says happened. Okay, is you he heard in the clip last week if you missed it, Basically you hear bitch in the video that channel eight posted that the lady that he was with and Kevin Durant turns around and confronts them. So you're assuming that they called Kevin
Durant a bitch. Here's what Luke Browner says really happened. You know, we got their early Katie's coming to a tunnel. I'm with a friend and she does holler out. I mean, the facts why she does holler out, kat You're a little bitch. You're saying that the person you're with actually said those exact words, those exact words. Yeah, and I agree wholeheartedly that he was completely justified to turn around. Uh, it's you know, I've seen a lot of the comments online. Not a whole lot. I
haven't. I've tried to not look, but I've seen I've seen a lot of hate thrown our way, thrown his way, And you know, I think his his reaction was justified. I think that he actually handled it with as sort of as much class as you can when when when you hear someone say like that, And I think the hate that he's receiving for this particular situation is undue. Okay, So that's how it kind of started, all right, Right, So he confirms that she said, Katie, you're a
little bitch. It is. I mean, it's pretty shocking. But then he provides the context why that was said, who she is, why they were at that game. Buckle up. My friend who I was there with, her older brother and my lifelong best friend, died four years ago in February of twenty twenty and his time of death was at two twenty two and at that point, his memorial service had already been planned for February twenty seconds.
So two twenty two has become this very significant number for us. And so when we saw the MAVs were playing the Sons on two twenty two, We're like, we got to go to that game. He's a diehard MAVs fan. And the uh, basically what happened is when when KD came back and started talking to us, he uh, she said something about it. I was just joking whatever, and he said, why did you say that? And I said, do you really want to know? And he said, yes, tell me why you said that. And so I started to
tell him, like the whole story. We are here, you know, we're honoring the memory of her brother. And I mentioned the podcast because I used to host this sports show that he was a guest on all the time, and every time and anybody brought up KD, he that was his line, KP's a little bitch. And it was because he was stalty about KD
going to the Golden State Warriors whatever. This is years ago, but so it became almost like a catchphrase for this person, this this friend of virus Nathan, and so she wasn't actually saying it to KD in that moment. All we were doing, genuinely was was honoring the memory of our friend. It was almost said in tribute. I mean, neither of us have any negative opinion about Kevin Durant at all. I think everybody thought we were drunk. We weren't drunk. We had you know, we were just having fun
and remembering our friend. All right. I have no reason not to believe him. And it sounds plausible, right, He came off very believable. Yeah. I think I've told you guys this story, and if I haven't, I'm sorry, And I'll just be quick. One time I was peeling out on street, okay, because everyone's peeling out of it and rained a little bit, and everyone's peeling out. You're about to leave. My good friend John Paul comes up to the to the window. Got spin them right
now. I'm not a very good driver, just got my license probably couple weeks ago, so I'm main sure gonna turn it, but I'm gonna quick
turn, and I'll like spun my wheels. And then in between the Chicken place and the subway, I spun my wheels and I'm up on two wheels and then I even up, and then I'm up on two wheels on the other side, and the even up and I'm lost control and I smashed into the trash can right in front of the subway, right which if it wasn't there, that trash can flies, and maybe if it's not there, maybe I can go into a house behind the subway. Why trash can? I
think of what oscar on a dumpster? Okay, yeah, a dumpster. Anybody, you get out of the car and your front end is just you know, you're like, oh crap, I've messed up my my vehicle here And I get out and I kind of calmly and funny because I was very funny, most humorous four years in a row. And I go anyone got any excuses? And my friend Mark Prayne goes, tell your parents that you
swerve to miss a dog, and that's what I went with. I had a little bit of time to get home very close, calm down, and go with yeah, swerving to miss a dog and I hit the dumpster in the parking lot of the subway, all right, now, That is kind of how I feel like Luke Bronner was going there. If you are following me here, I had a little bit of time to come up with a good answer. Again, I have no, like Dady said, no reason to not believe it, but we had any reason to not believe me about
swerving to miss a dog. But in the immediate, in the in the moment, what he explained on ben AND's skin reflects the direction he was going with what was captured on film by somebody recording the interaction. But talking about you hear about my podcast sports podcast, and he's trying to explain it, and clearly Katie's just like sorry I asked he was when he said, yeah, why you say it? Well, I'll tell you. Why do you really want to know the date? Yeah? He want? You wanted out
of that conversation right when he asked for it. Yeah. Uh, Frankly, I guess I believe the guy, and you can if you want to do the research. Find out the date of whatever memorial service for this person who passed away being two twenty two. Look up the podcast and see if whenever his friend or whatever was on and if he called Katie a bit. Yeah, this is getting picked up by Fox News awful announcing is on it,
crediting the station and the mind skin show. Okay, well, and have any of them done that leg work I can't see it yet, or Sports Illustrated right there, the Daily Mails on it. We'll see a lot of these places don't have an on staff detective like our show exactly. That's why things take a lot longer for them. This guy has a podcast network down in Houston. That podcast was called Hey go Sports or no, yay
go sports, yay go Sports. I'm gonna find that. Yeah, and then find when Nathan died twenty twenty gett Nathan's last name looked for an obituary. Yeah, that we're doing. That's what you need. The sleuthing begins, and I can see Katie's a little bit being a little every time he comes up, because you throw that in he did reference to was when Katie went to the Warriors too, which everyone had their thoughts about him going to the Warriors. I thought that was a little messed up. I definitely did.
It sounds very reasonable, And the bottom line is Kad just didn't want to hear the story. He was bored. Yeah, but he ended up crediting. I thought it was big of him to come out and credit Kevin Durant, you know, I mean, he talks multiple times about him. Came back in like it was a son's assistant coach who was trying to get him kicked out of the game, and Kevin Durant was like, no, don't do that. So yeah, I don't know. I'm kind of brothers
Dough. I'll let you know if I find more. I'm gonna look for this hard during the break. Hell yeah. But damn, so there's this. We've got the reason. Good job in Skin Show tracking that down, making that happen. That's taken off still throughout the sports world today. Coming
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