Hey everybody, welcome to Jon D Podcast. I'm
your host, Jon D Miller. Welcome to episode
number 72, everybody. Number 72. Numero 72. In
the old Espanol language, that's right. Mm -hmm.
1 ,509. Going on 1 ,510 days now as I begin to
record this of no booze. No booze, yes. No booze.
How are yees, how are yees, how are y 'alls?
Where have I been? Where have I been? Where have
you been? Is what I want to know. Huh? You haven't
checked it on me. Although I had a lot of listens,
lady. I know. Last episode, not since December.
And I want to apologize to you for that. I've
been working on everybody else's podcast but
my own. No, that's not totally true. But I have.
I've been working on podcasts, just not on this
one. But you know what? All I got to say is be
careful of a billionaire, whatever his position
might be in life. But anybody who has a lot of
anything they could ever possibly need, be weary
of them telling you, oh, you're going to feel
some pain, endure some things. Because that's
a crock of shit. Okay? So, yeah, I'm just going
to say that now. God, it's been since December.
We had Christmas. I passed, let's see, I turned
51 in January. I passed four years of no booze.
That wasn't very fun. No, it's been all right.
Thank you to people, anybody and everybody who
might have wished me well on it. I appreciate
that. That was super cool. And also to my buddy
Josh, who wrote an email back a while ago into
the show here. I don't remember what episode
it was, but hey, man, thanks for checking in
on me and making sure I didn't, as you put it.
fall off the wagon, which I think I might've
written a new bit about that. I don't know. I
think other comics have written jokes about the
wagon and the, what they call, you know, when,
when people are not drinking anymore and they
start drinking again, they fall off the wagon.
And I don't know. My thought was I never, I never,
I've never fallen off the wagon. I think if anything,
when I was drunk, I might've gotten wheeled home
in a wagon, you know, that might've happened
at some point or that somebody loaded me into
one and just roll me down the hill. I don't know
what hill that would be, but I've lived at the
bottom of some hills in my life. So, you know,
maybe some of my friends are like, just put him
in. I wouldn't deal with it. Let his woman deal
with it. You know, we don't want to get in trouble.
Yeah, but it was, I don't know, crazy winter.
I mean, Canada, I love you. I really do. The
true north, strong and free. May you always remain
that way. But man, that cold, I don't know what
it, I'm not trying to start some conspiracy theory.
People go, oh, they're sending the cold weather
down here to punish us. Don't, don't even. You
know how people are. No, it was just cold Arctic
domes or whatever they call them. The thing is,
my son even got it. Like we were sitting there
one night and we'd come in from being outside
and like out like grocery shopping. Not a grocery
shop, but we were out doing something and we
came back into the house and he was like, oh,
I can't even imagine how cold it is in Canada.
Yeah, exactly. If it's, you know. 18 degrees
here in the middle of the mid -Atlantic coast.
What is it in Canada? That's what I'm saying.
You people are strong up there, man. Every time
I've been up there, like I told, when I used
to do comedy, I told some of the bookers and
people I worked with, I'm not going back up there
in November through March. You can just take
me off the schedule and put me on something that's
in between. April and October, I guess. Maybe
September would be preferable. I don't know.
Canadians, I love your hockey. I love you as
a people. You're awesome. But please, your cold
air. Come on. I mean, it was crazy. We had snow
on an Alabama beach in the Gulf of Mexico. That
is just absolutely insane. People go, oh, it's
a once -in -a -lifetime occurrence. Well, a lifetime
is what? 80? Let's say 80 years. Find me something
80 years ago where it snowed on Alabama Beach.
I'm not saying it didn't. I'm not going to waste
my time looking it up because I don't think it's
ever happened. That's my point. And, you know,
I know I made some statements here a second ago.
And people go, oh, I thought you'd really talk
about, like, politics or anything like that on
the show. Well, you know what? Some people lately
seem to be saying one thing and doing another.
So, you know, maybe I'm just following suit.
Am I right? I am. Don't argue with me. So, anyways,
let's talk about hockey, huh? Alex Ovechkin,
895 goals, all -time leading goal scorer in NHL
history. Now, I saw Ovi's first two goals ever.
I remember watching him play. I'd seen some video
and everything like that, but I'm watching him
play in person. I was like, man, this kid is
going to do some stuff. And, you know, at the
time, I thought he would have won maybe a few
more cups, but that's not just on him. You know,
it's a team sport. You got to have a good team
around you. Ovi didn't have a very good one for
the first couple of years. And I went to the
first playoff game that the Caps had been in
in like seven years. And Ovi scored his first
ever playoff goal. I think it was Marty Baran.
The Caps had been down 4 -2. And they came back
and won at 5 -4. They ended up losing the series,
actually, which kind of baited just a bit. But
I remember that first game against Columbus.
And I was like, man, this kid. I mean, you just
couldn't. His shot was just so. You can just
see it. You can just see the skill. You see the
power. So anyways, congratulations to him. And
I'm really happy for him. And I'm glad that he
got the record. Now the team can get back to
playing team hockey instead of always, you know,
force feeding Ovi the puck. It sucks because
Ovi should be, he should have broken the record
and he should be on his way to a thousand. He
should be at a thousand. His first season, he,
after he got drafted, there was no NHL season.
He, uh, lockouts, uh, COVID. You know, all that
stuff added up to, I don't know. I don't know
how many, especially when he was young and he
was popping in 63 goals in a season or around
that. I mean, he could have had another 50 and
then another 50. Come on. He should be over 1
,000 for his career. And he got shorted. And
I don't want to be a conspiracy theorist, but
supposedly. I'm just kidding. I don't think that
ever happened. I love you, Canadians. You're
awesome. Ilya Sorokin. I was telling. My kid
and a friend of mine, I was like, man, whoever
gets to be the goalie, right? Like, nobody really
remembers Garth Snow, who was the goalie when
Gretzky broke the record. He ended up scoring
like 70 -something more goals afterwards. But
people don't remember Garth Snow. I mean, people
might who've watched hockey for a long time.
They will remember Garth Snow. Like, you say,
hey, Garth Snow, and they're like, yeah, he played
for, like, what, the Islanders, the Canucks,
and blah, blah, blah, right? That's what I would
have said. There was another team in there, I
believe. But it doesn't matter. My point is,
yeah, I know who Garth Snow was. Now, if you
had said to me, Garth Snow, was he the goalie
that Gretzky scored on to break the record for
most goals in a season? I would have said, I
have no idea, dude. Why are you asking me this?
You want to look it up? That's Google. You have
a phone. Look it up. Okay, cool. That's what
I would have said. So, you know, that's what
I mean. I don't know. People for a while will
go, oh, Ilya Sorokin. Which I thought was funny.
Budweiser made up some beers with cans on them,
and they say zero of 895, and they gave it to
goalies who have ever played against Ovi and
not surrendered a goal. But some of them were
stupid. It was like, what was that, Dobesh kid
from Montreal, and he's faced five shots or three.
Don't get me wrong. A lot of goalies have literally
first -time shot, first -time goal. Ovi scores.
Don't get me wrong. Stopping any shot of his,
it's a feat. I give him credit. So congrats to
Ovi. I'm very proud of him. I'm very proud to
say I'm rooting for him. And some people are
saying, oh, he's Russian. He's terrible. Don't
bring that stupid war bullshit into it. And I
say stupid war as in the war is stupid. Putin
is stupid. That's what I'm saying. He was here
long before that ever happened. And I don't think
he supports it. They quit showing old pictures
of him and Putin from years ago. Oh, Putin congratulates
Ovi. And people go, oh, I see. He's not even
in Russia. He's still here in the United States.
He's still playing hockey. Come on. Be smart,
Americans. And wherever you are. So, anyways,
congratulations to Ovi. I've been on streaming,
whatever, Hulu and all that shit. Which, of course,
they're getting more and more expensive. I don't
understand. Can I just say this? I don't give
a f***. I have no fucking idea why, except for
the fact that I guess they feel they can do it.
Because what are we going to do? Are we going
to change? Are we going to switch? Is why when
you are a legacy, a quote unquote legacy customer,
why does like Hulu or these other companies,
because you're not new to them. No, you've only
been paying them money every month for two, three,
four years. And they're like, oh, hey, we're
raising our rates because you're a legacy customer.
Well, my legacy. I'm going to leave your ass
at one of these days. You keep freaking raising
my shit. Partly it's the live TV. That's the
expensive part now. If you want live TV, I mean,
I love my hockey. Like tonight, I was watching
a game. It wasn't even, it was what? Leafs and
Panthers. I was watching that. I don't just watch
the Caps, okay? But I don't understand why. Why
is that? You pay them overnight, and they're
just like, yeah, we're just going to raise your
rates. But anyways, hey, you. mr nobody we've
never met you before would you like to come in
and join all of our services for like 15 bucks
a month yeah these people over here are paying
like 90 or you know 70 to 90 bucks and but you
can have her for 15 for like two years and then
yeah i'm just saying all right so the national
film registry is run by the library of congress
and they have on their websites every year they
pick like 25 movies and they can be over the
course of any time. They don't have to be recent
or they don't have to be a certain age. Well,
I think they have to be a certain age, but like
20 years or 25, something like that. In this
year's inductees into the National Film Registry,
what they do is they take these movies and they
put them in there and they keep them for purposes
of being culturally relevant. They could be the
time, the place, what it's about, a lot of different
things, all that in between combined. So that's
what they do. And here's the coolest thing about
it. You can actually go to their website and
well for now, and you can actually download the
movies for free. You can, or you can watch them
for free. I think that's, I don't think it's
the best video quality. I think they might be
like mob wave files, mob files. So not the best,
but you know, free. And you actually download
the movies and they're not the best quality,
but they're okay. At least as far as watching
it on a computer screen. I mean, I'm not saying
you shouldn't like, you know. don't download
some a movie from the national film registry
as a mob file and then be like all right kids
we're having movie night like it's it's gonna
be a little it's probably gonna be the best i
don't know if you ever i mean it's definitely
better than some of the movies i used to watch
on the fire stick did anybody have remember that
thing is that still going on i don't know anybody
who does that anymore but you remember that you
would do with the jailbreak the fire stick the
cody app Or did they just stop it? Is that what
it was? I don't know. I haven't done that in
so long. Because that's what happened. You kept
getting these shitty freaking movies with people
filming in a movie theater. Yeah, this is not
going to work. This is not going to make my family
entertained. What were we trying to watch one
time? I think it was one of the Despicable Me
movies. I think that's what it was. Yeah, the
Despicable Me movies. One of them. Not the first
one, but one of them. And I remember trying to
watch it. And you just see. At first, you're
like, what's up with the sound? What's up with
the picture? It doesn't look. And then you literally
saw somebody just, like, walk, doing the whole,
like, excuse me, excuse me, excuse me type of
situation. And then you could see somebody move
and kind of get out of the way. Like, yeah. So
when I say it's not great, they're good quality.
They're just not. Don't put them on your 80 -inch
fucking Samsung TV. Yeah, that's with the UHD
and the 8 million pixels. I get it. Like, don't
do that, okay? Don't do that. And I do know that
fact about TVs. I don't know what they are now,
but that's what they used to be because I used
to work for Best Buy. So that's how I knew that,
specifically with dealing with television. Anyways,
you can go to the National Film Registry and
you can get these movies and you can watch them
off of their website, which is super cool. You
want to talk about your taxpayer dollars being
put to good use? I think it is. But anyways,
just to go over real quick, three of the inductees
that I found to be very interesting were one
of them was Dirty Dancing. Yeah. For the ladies,
right? Got to throw that in there because it's
culturally relevant to see Patrick Swayze shaking
his hips around. I've heard women say it. It's
his hips. It's his hips in the movie. Really?
That's the thing? I don't know. I don't know.
I'm not a dancer. I guess. But Dirty Dancing,
you know, nobody puts Baby in the corner. So
I guess, you know, they filmed it here in Virginia.
But you know what? Here's the thing about Dirty
Dancing. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think
the storyline for the movie, it's not even the
dancing and the blah, blah, blah. But my thing,
I just never thought the storyline was all that
great of a story. You have this chick who goes
on vacation with her rich family, and then they're
staying there. These kids that work at the place,
they also dance. When they dance, they're dirty
dancing. Come on. It's a different version of
breakdancing the movie. It's just not that good
a story. You throw some romance in there. You
throw some kid rebelling against their parents.
It's got all the elements of doing that. Okay.
Because how else am I going to defend another
choice that I truly think should be in there,
and that's up in smoke. I mean, come on now.
Obviously, Cheech and Chong. Got to be in there.
By the way, I don't know. I'd tell this story.
I don't know if I ever have. I don't know how
tall Cheech Marin is, but I have met Tommy Chong
in person very briefly, very literally just stood.
I was at the Funny Bone here in town. I wasn't
working. I was there hanging out. Tommy Chong
came walking up the ramp. There was a ramp coming
up. from where the green room was, and he had
his guitar, and he had a Hawaiian shirt, and
he was, I don't know, he was like maybe up to
my shoulder, I don't like six foot, if I don't,
if I'm posture's good, and he just, but he looked
over, he was like, hi, I'm Tommy, and I said,
hey, I'm John, he goes, are you working, and
I said, no, I'm just hanging out, my friend's
working, and he said, cool, how are they, and
I said, they're great, they're here for you,
he said, awesome, I'm gonna go work now, and
I said, good, he goes, it was good to meet you,
John. I thought that was super cool, actually.
Not that I made an impression on him. I just
think it was cool that he remembered my name
and said it. He said, yeah, thank you, John.
And then he kept on walking. But he was like
on my shoulder. And he's shorter. Look at the
movies. Look at the movies. Watch the clip for
Mexican -Americans. I'm just saying, any scene,
you see them together. I mean, up in smoke, obviously.
Which, actually, I know. Mexican -Americans is
in next movie. It's not in up in smoke. But I
was watching that the other day. And it always
makes me laugh. Anyways, so if that has cultural
relevance, which I think it does, just the counterculture
and everything else that's sort of involved with
it as well as, you know, the stonerifics of it,
I guess you could say. So, yeah, I think it should
be in there. Beverly Hills Cop. I haven't seen
the new one, the new Beverly Hills Cop, but there
you go. I don't have Netflix. That's another
one. Stay with us longer and we're just going
to keep raising your rates up. Why? You know,
if anything, it should go to a certain point
and then start reducing back down. I think that's
what it should be. Can we do that? Can we negotiate
that deal? Yeah, that's exactly what I would
say. Let it go up and then we'll negotiate it
back down. Or we'll let it slide back down. And
then you can let it go back up for a little bit.
Something. Like, work with us. Every other month
it's this price. I don't fucking know. I'm not
a business major. You are. You figure it out.
You figure out how to keep me happy enough that
I stay giving you money. That's what my freaking
point is, right? Is that, can I, yeah, I hear
people cheering in my head. Anyways, so yeah,
Beverly Hills Cop, that was cool. I think that's
a good one. Star Trek II, Wrath of Khan, which,
can I just say this? You know, Wrath of Khan,
great movie. Definitely, they came back with
a bang after releasing that first shitty Star
Trek movie, Voyager, V 'ger, that whole thing.
They did. And the cast was great in that. And
then they came out with three. I don't think
three will ever be in the National Film Registry,
if anything, because they took away a little
cute Kirstie Alley as Savick and replaced her
with that other lady. I don't even remember her
name. I know one time I was at a Comic -Con and
she was there. And I walked past and I saw her.
And I was like, fake Savick. No, she was actually
in like two of the movies, wasn't she? I think.
What was the one in four? I liked four. It was
where they go to, what, San Francisco and save
the whales. It was a stretch, but who gives a
coat to Colin? You know what scene still in that
movie gives me the queasies is the checkoff.
Remember they put the worms in him and the captains
and the helmets and it like controls their brains.
All right, maybe it's not that great a movie.
Nothing else, the battles. It was the space battles.
The ship to ship. You know what I mean? Like,
that was pretty epic. Okay, Khan. Here it comes.
All right. See, what can I tell you? I know.
I'm a movie quote guy. But check those out. All
right. Well, I guess I need to start wrapping
it up here. We did some fun stuff. And I know
I don't like to talk politics on here. I am going
to sort of discuss something. And I'm just going
to say a couple things real quick. Okay? And
then we're going to move on. I just want to tell
people, stop trashing Teslas, okay? Just stop
it. And I say that because it's stupid. Some
people, you don't know, okay? Okay, regular Teslas.
If it's the fucking truck thing, you can, whatever.
No, don't do that. It's stupid, is my point.
Stop it, okay? It's dumb. A lot of people probably
have Teslas. That's their car. That's what they
drive, you know? Remember, there was a time before
none of this was going on. Things change. I get
it. But you can't, you know, don't punish somebody
because they bought a car five years ago when
Elon was still, you know, hadn't gone quite off
the deep end yet. Or maybe he always was. We
just didn't know about it. Point being, these
people didn't know it when they bought the car.
We're better than that. You want to protest at
a dealership, that's one thing. Leave people's
property alone. Here we are in America with the
things that are going on. We're going to get
through it. I'm not saying don't take the gloves
off every once in a while because I think we're
going to need to. Stop acting stupid. Scratching
up somebody's Tesla is dumb. Not to mention,
those things have all these cameras on them and
shit. Come on. I would never own a Tesla just
for the fact that you could be watched at any
moment. You're sitting there trying to drive
and scratch your balls and somebody could be
watching you. I don't want that. Get out in the
middle of Ohio. The Ohio Turnpike, that thing
is flat and straight. You got nothing else to
do. Just sitting there. I used to always pretend
sometimes when I would be on those things, I'd
have the cruise control on. Literally, I'd have
my shoes off cruising along. Nobody around me.
Just by myself. I would just pretend I was flying
a plane. That's what I would do. I would just
pretend like I was Lindbergh flying across the
Atlantic. If that guy could have done it, I could
do it. I can get through. I could go from Michigan
to D .C. in one day. All right. I got to get
going now. This has been long enough. This one's
just going to have to come out, whether I like
it or not, I think. You know what I mean? I think
it just needs to come out. All right, I got to
get going. As always, please like, subscribe,
download. Tell your friends. Don't forget your
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Kid Hungry. That's a great charity. And any of
these charities are fine, but I encourage you
to go to them. or any other charities that might
be in your local community. But some of the ones
that tend to be more broad, that are more reachable,
wherever you might be, of course, are No Kid
Hungry. Many school -aged children are in situations
where the best meal of the day comes from school.
So No Kid Hungry helps children with meals when
children in need are away from school, such as
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the brave men and women who have served our country,
really truly deserve the best care that we can
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them need extra help getting that done. Some
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internal that they might need help with, or just
accessible housing. It's a long list of things
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makes it happen. Woundedwarriorproject .org.
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faster and in more numbers. Their goal is to
have the entire country no -kill shelters. Bestfriends
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Support any of the other ones that might be worthwhile
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what are you going to do? Oh, somebody was asking
me about the gift card the other day. Somebody
sent me a... Yeah, I don't know. Am I still doing
that? Are we still doing that gift card? What
do you know? You don't know. Yes, we are. We
are doing it. Apparently he doesn't pay for anything.
He just sits there and just doesn't do it. Okay.
Am I going to do the gift card thing? I guess
I could. I don't think it did anybody do PBR
and pork rinds. I don't even remember. It's how
long ago it was. Did anybody get it? I don't,
you know, I really don't know. So I'm going to
go with no, nobody did, but I'm going to say
that that one is, that one's no more good. I'm
no good anymore. No, because I'm not going to
do it now. You didn't do it before. People listened
to the episode. Not as many as I've had in the
past, but people listened. My listeners stay
around. That's awesome. Thank you. But if you
want to do this one, yes, I'll still do the Amazon
gift card for this episode. Not the last one.
Not PBR and pork rinds. Here's what you do. If
you want to get the $10 Amazon gift card, find
the title that'll be of the episode. Find it
the first time it appears, because it's always
something I say in the episode. Find when it
is in the episode. Get the minute mark and what
it is and be at the minute mark and send me an
email, johndpodcom at gmail .com. Okay, send
that to me. And if you're the first person to
do it, I'm not doing 30 of these freaking things.
Well, or more than that, if everybody did, if
everybody wrote in, but I'm not doing that. It's
the first person and you got to trust me on who
it is. That's how it's going to be. I will give
you a $10 Amazon gift card. It's easy. I just
do your email and then I send it and you accept.
It's easy. Somebody said, can you really do that?
Are you kidding me? Are you kidding me? With
all the stuff, the modern technology nowadays.
Come on. Somebody was saying like, aren't you
afraid somebody's going to try to scam you? Out
of $10 from Amazon? I don't fucking, I don't
think so. You think some, you know what I mean?
Like somebody in Africa from Nairobi is trying
to rip me off out of $10 Amazon gift card. And
you know what? If somebody is in Nairobi and
they want, they listen and they say, this is
it and this is the minute. Like if they pass
all the steps, I don't give a shit who they are.
I really don't. They could be an evil dictator
or a wannabe one. Well, okay, maybe not them.
But you know what I mean? Like it could be, there's
a big wide range of people that I don't give
a shit who they are or where they're from. If
they want the $10 Amazon gift card and they're
willing to do the steps, they can have it. Because
I'm just that kind of a person. All right. This
is going to be a freaking nightmare to edit.
But I've been working on so many other people's
stuff. This will be nice. I'll actually get sick
of hearing myself talk again. I am pretty sure.
I'm pretty sure that'll happen. So anyways, thanks
for listening, everybody. Keep the faith. And
by faith, I mean in yourselves, okay? All right.
Just do that. Chin up. Be smart. Be resistant.
And do it wisely. And spread kindness. And that's
how we're going to deal with it. All right, well,
that has been episode 72, numero 72 of Jon D
Podcast. I've been your host, Jon D Miller.
Thanks for listening, everybody. I'll try to
be back a lot sooner than I was before. I just
need some new energy in the show. I'm working
on it. Thanks, everybody. Take care of yourselves.
Take care of each other. And until next time,
later with you.