Ari Shaffir's Skeptic Tank Ari Shaffir

A solocast about how music trends are always a response to the world or to drug use.

Justin Silver comes onto Ari Shaffir's Skeptic Tank to tell us all about training dogs. He's been doing it for over a decade. Had a television show about it on CBS and another one in Hong Kong. This podcast was helpful and hilarious at the same time!

Nick Cody joined me from Melbourne, Australia to tell me about his epic trip he took across America at 19 years old. Went from Portland to NY by train to save like $90. Idiot. But also very cool. The entire trip was just so he could go see the O&A show where Bill Burr would end up doing his Philly rant that I always refer to as "7 more minutes" and that still makes me laugh. Nick was in the audience for that amazing comic/crowd fight and I'm so jealous of that and this whole trip.
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The Music
Sister Rosetta Tharpe - This Train (great song that made me cry)
The O'Jays - Love Train
Soul Asylum - Runaway Train
Bill Burr - Philly Rant (still made me laugh 15 years later)
 

Carmen Lynch was a scoliosis nerdburger in hight school. She wore a back brace and couldn't make friends. She came on the podcast this week to tell me about it. How she dealt with having scoliosis at such an important age and how it's helped shape who she's become now. Get it? Shape? Anyway, she's a very well respected comic in NY. Ask any comedian in the city about her and they'll tell you she's really funny. Her new album, Vertically Challenged is available today!
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The Music
HiM - Scoliosis
The Dickies - She's a Hunchback
8 Ball & MJG [feat. The Notorious B.I.G. & Project Pat] - Relax and Take Notes
Tito Lopez - The Blues
 

Corrine Fisher and Joe Derosa came to the studio to talk about the awesome and unique state NYC boozers find themselves in. It's summertime and none of the bars allow indoor seating. So many of them have gone to window service. You can get cocktails, beers, wine, and frozen drinks TO GO! It has turned the entire city into a giant street fair. It's amazing and people are really turning into their alcoholic butterflies.

Big Jay Oakerson came to the studio to talk to me about Cops. His favorite show in the history of television just got BLMed so he's in a bit of a state of mourning. And when I say favorite, I mean of the 150 times I've stopped by his apartment, he's been watching Cops 80 of those times. I honestly don't know what else he does with his time.
Big Jay is a hilarious comic. Check out his instagram and twitter at @BigJayOakerson and all his tour dates at Bigjaycomedy.com
The Music
A$AP Rocky - Dreams
Inner Circle - Bad Boys
KRS One - Sound of the Police
The Strokes - NY City Cops