Everybody has had somebody in customer service argue that the lousy, awful thing they’re doing to you is just because they’re “doing their job.” Back in the 40’s following World War 2 and claims from Nazi underlings that they were just “following orders,” a Yale Psychologist devised an experiment to see just how far the average person would take cruel orders when it meant other people were hurt. On our newest hella-big-sized ‘spode of Chucklepedia, cohost Jim and I discuss this experiment, as well as the aftermath of the Super Bowl in San Francisco, the homeless encampments being broken up and some of my most delightful bombing experiences.

Find the show HERE or on iTunes and Stitcher, and also Google Play whenever they start allowing podcast downloads.

Tomorrow night (2/8) wash off the Super Bowl ickiness with some down-home, wholesome comedy featuring your hosts ME and Joe Gorman. We’ll be bringing you a lineup of some of the Bay Area’s best and brightest, a few out-of-town surprises and also a handful of people who should really just give up already. It’s comedy, baby. Venue info HERE, but it’s free to get in for this show.

Taken near the end of January 2016 at the Throckmorton Theater in Mill Valley, California. I’d heard great things about this venue for years and they were all true, as evidenced by my super-edgy thumbs-up.

San Francisco has a history of really cool, awesome and lightning-in-a-bottle comedy venues. The Hungry i back in the Fifties. Then the Purple Onion in the Sixties. Then the Holy City Zoo in the Eighties.

San Francisco has had another of those for a while now – the Cynic Cave at Lost Weekend Video. For several years now, a tiny basement in a video store has been home to some really sharp, cutting-edge comedy (and some garbage, but, hey, whaddaya gonna do) and just like those earlier venues, the lightning in a bottle must eventually break out. Lost Weekend is closing in March, and while the store – and possibly comedy shows – may be moving elsewhere, the Cynic Cave as it has been will be no more.

It’s sad, but things only become historic when they go away. And part of the glory is to have been there when it happened in the first place. So – GO see a show before it closes. I happen to be part of the Saturday show this weekend for February 6th (tickets HERE) but be sure to go and sit in one of those old dusty movie theater seats one last time, drink a Tecate and watch some Bay Area comedians do what they love to do in a place that has always welcomed them to do it.