My guest is a Detroit-born pajama man & Denver-based stand-up comic, often found slinging drinks behind the bar at the Lion’s Lair. He just shot the first episode of his new rotating-venue variety show called: ‘The Papa JR Show’. Think the Eric Andre Show–meets–Johnny Carson energy, if that helps you get some idea, otherwise you will need to tune in when it gets released! Turn your ‘Stadium Pulse’ all the way up into the red & join me fully hyped to welcoming to our humble Top Shelf Studios: Papa JR!

Everybody gets the EATIN’ for this hang. Typically, our guests get the privacy of enjoying our signature smoked chicken wings behind the safety of the Patreon paywall, but JR & I decided to open with the full EATIN’ hang for free, for all!

Traeger smoked wings, Hennessy on the couch, & Papa JR walking through cutting every rope between you & the promised land of comedy. Then we go deep on permission vs affirmation, unspoken nepotism in the packs, Billy Gardell’s Netflix-worthy hour that the business will bury, and Papa JR presents Boondocks-as-politics. Sean wonders could-50-be-president, we make the case for listening to women, & why influencers bombing on club stages might accidentally save the art form.

A lot more honesty than a pajama set should legally allow, that’s an InTALLerable guarantee.

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FO & BW

0:00 — EATIN’ Opens Free — Bucket Gift

1:49 — Wrong Spot / Late-Shift GPS Fail

3:13 — Usually This Is Patreon — Wings First

3:54 — Hennessy on the Couch

5:06 — Detroit Homecoming / Never Turn Down Hennessy

6:50 — Sauce vs Wing Purity Test

8:11 — The Papa JR Show Debut

12:00 — Rotating Venues Forever

14:08 — Joseph Papa Jaws Star Ambition

18:01 — Cut the Rope

20:00 — Old Club Path vs New Landscape

24:00 — Comedic Entertainer (Not Just Comedian)

28:00 — Top-Down Entertainment Psyop

30:00 — Unspoken Nepotism in the Packs

34:00 — Don’t Announce “I’m Black” Onstage

36:00 — Permission vs Affirmation

40:00 — Jokes From a Place of Love

44:00 — Crowd Is the Instrument

46:02 — True Guest Intro — Papa JR the Pajama Man

47:02 — Wing Review!

50:05 — Boondocks

52:57 — Howard Stern 9/11 Live Tape

55:00 — Uniparty

58:00 — Black People Were the First Conspiracy Theorists

1:01:00 — Could 50 Cent Be President?

1:04:00 — Face Smells Like Groceries

1:07:00 — Game Comes From Listening to Women

1:10:00 — Porn vs Real Women / Andrew Tate Residue

1:14:00 — Craigslist Roomies & an Open Heart

1:19:00 — Title the Episode “Black Comedian”

1:22:00 — Road Towns That Ain’t Seen Black Folks

1:25:00 — AI Will Push People Back Into Rooms

1:28:00 — Barriers to Stand-Up Never Lower

1:30:00 — Don’t Let the Club Pimp You

1:34:00 — Changed My Mind on Matt Rife

1:38:00 — Master Jedi

1:40:00 — Full Nelson on Colfax

1:41:33 — ‘Heighting’

1:43:18 — Plugs!

1:45:19 — FO & BW