The Joe Rogan Experience - #1045 - Bryan Callen

Bryan Callen is an actor and stand-up comedian, and together with Brendan Schaub he also hosts “The Fighter & The Kid” podcast available on Spotify. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Duration: 3h 8m
Broadcast on: 27 Nov 2017
Audio Format: other

Bryan Callen is an actor and stand-up comedian, and together with Brendan Schaub he also hosts “The Fighter & The Kid” podcast available on Spotify.

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I was listening to some old-timey music the other day, and it was making me think of how depressing it would be if that was the only music that you could hear. It's the David Lynch movie, David Lynch in his movies, he always has those songs like "There's a Woman Dead" in a hotel, and it's just this, no, no, no, no. Can you imagine living in the days where that tuba with a needle at the bottom of it? My grandfather had one of those. In my home, in Pelham, in his poem in Pelham, New York, they had an old chronograph. You think that's what it's called, right? A chronograph, and they would play, you know, classical. My grandparents never listened to, they were Sicilian, they never listened to music. Did your parents or your grandparents have the TV in a cabinet? Uh-huh. And they certainly did. And then if the TV would die, a lot of times folks would put the new TV on top of the cabinet, they would keep the cabinet with the blown-out TV. Yeah. Yeah. Dude, everybody did that. Well, I had a family that had never threw anything away. No, my name. Never, ever. I'm talking about road cons. You got to my attic, you find crazy shit up there. Really? Yes, by the chronograph. Not a chronograph. A chronograph. What's a chronograph? But they also had a chronograph. Oh, watch. Oh, right, right. Yeah. Has that been chronology? Goddamn it. Yeah. Those things were crazy. Yeah. Like, that was how they used to listen to music. A tuba attached to a needle. That's right. And you're... In the speaker file. It must have sounded like dog shit. My dad used to have a dust cover for his turntable. And he would... Oh. Yeah, there was a ritual to how you clean your LP. Oh, there's a ritual? Yeah. You got to dust it off.

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