Shut Up & Listen with Bob Golub Podcast bob golub

Bruce is a professional POT doctor who will help you grow or try and fix your sick plants. Yes he makes house calls.

If you are a comic and want to learn how to become a TV writer a MUST listen. Great stories about Larry David Roseanne George Clooney Ted Danson Jerry Seinfeld Steve Harvey Russell Brand and a lot more.

In the 1980's, Mike, just a teenager, was a fixture in the New York stand up scene. performing at such notable clubs as The Improv, The Comedy Cellar, Caroline's and The Bottom Line. A highlight from these days include working with his hero, Andy Kaufman. He played the drums for Andy when he did his famous Elvis impression and he refereed some of his legendary wrestling matches.

Early on Mike wrote one-liners for such comics as Rodney Dangerfield, Rip Taylor and Dennis Miller's Weekend Update. In the late 1980's he landed comedy writing jobs for sketch shows on MTV, A&E and Comedy Central.

It wasn't long before Mike moved to Hollywood to start his career writing sitcoms. His first was on a show starring George Clooney. Since then he's worked non-stop on shows such as "Coach," "Becker" and "The Nanny." He also wrote on a few comedy variety series such as "The Martin Short Show," and "Late Night with Craig Ferguson." He's also written for the "The Comedy Central Roasts." It's been one of his favorite jobs and he continues to write them as of this date.

Mike found the road to animation when he landed a job writing Eddie Murphy's sitcom, "PJ's." He's since been nominated for numerous writing awards including three Emmy's, and two Annie Awards (winning one) for his work on the animated series', "Family Guy" and "Futurama." In 2011 Mike finally received an Emmy for his work on Futurama as well as an EMA award.

Jackson takes us through the late 70's to 90's comedy scene. From Bill Hicks, Sam Kinison, Eddie Murphy Richard Pryor, Jimmy Walker Dave Letterman r. Jackson has a great story about getting Bill Hicks high for the first time. Heavy cocaine use story with Sam Kinison and also his out look on comedy and his career.

Think about this for a moment. What if you could actually remember every year, every month, every day and practically every single minute of your entire life?
Are you one who never forgets a face? What if you could put a name with every one of those faces? And besides remembering their name, you could also remember their birthday, their anniversary, even their phone numbers?

Meet Bob Petrella.

Bob is currently one of only 20 people in the world diagnosed with Highly Superior Autobiographical Memory or more commonly referred to as HSAM.

Who is Bob Petrella - The Memory Man
University of California at Irvine researchers have recently explored this extremely unusual phenomena and they have discovered that an individual with HSAM has a brain that is actually seven times larger than the average person. The results of their intensive studies reveal that an HSAM individual has a nearly infinite potential to store and recall vast amounts of detailed information.

In 2008, a team of doctors and researchers at UC Irvine identified Bob Petrella as the fourth person (at the time) known to have the rare condition of HSAM.

Currently, Bob and a handful of others believed to have HSAM are participating in a new series of studies at UC Irvine in an attempt to try and find a link between the memory retention found in HSAM individuals versus the debilitating memory loss triggered by devastating diseases such as Alzheimer's and Dementia.

Unlike other people with advanced memory conditions, such as an autism or savant syndrome, who use calendrical calculation, individuals with HSAM rely heavily on their personal "mental calendar." Unlike average people who store important information in the cell phones, like numbers, dates, reminders, directions, etc., those with HSAM merely "look up" the needed information -- somewhere in their brains.

In Bob's case, when he is presented with virtually any date from the past 50 years, he most likely will remember precisely where he was, what he was doing that day, and, if applicable, what world or national events that may have occurred that day or closely around that time.

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Amy Pittle - Managing Director of Improv-Vegas and Training Center Manager Originally from Scranton, PA, Amy is now a 26 year resident of Las Vegas and glad to be able to provide a fun and educational element to this crazy city she calls home.

Amy tells great story about getting to know Liberace!!!


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Friend of our show Crazy Jay. He has the number 1 podcast in Las Vegas. We talk about the great film "Searching For Sugar Man" Andrew Dice Clay stealing his nursery rhymes from Otto & George and a lot of funny stuff.