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Mr. Potato Head, Dr. Seuss, truth, common sense and trust have all succumbed to a totally different virus! Will history, art and "Breakfast At Tiffany's" be  the next victims? Is that a light at the end of the tunnel, or is it the headlight of the Woke Express? Give us a listen and find out! 

In Episode 18 of the SHECKYmagazine PODCAST, Brian and Traci vent about the 198-day (and counting) lockdown, flying, Sophie Tucker, ancient alien astronauts and ENERGY-- why we lack energy, why we need energy and how comedians are super-conductors. Tune in now-- but STAY AWAY from the CANS!

Brian McKim & Traci Skene, podcasting from locked down Las Vegas, NV, consider whether standup comedy-- LIVE, the way it oughta be-- will ever come back from the Great 2020 Fear Porn Lockdown Pandemic Panic! Is life over? Is the career history? The future, as always, is uncertain. Listen in as we speak for the vulnerable, prattle on about the present and fret about the future.

We're two comedians, unable to make living because our state, our city, is shut down. We vent! We despair! We theorize! We ask questions! We have plenty of toilet paper, but our patience is wearing thin! 

Our home for the past nine years, Las Vegas, NV, has been pretty much shut down. Podcasting from our walk-in closet, we share our frustration, knock back some booze and wonder if Sin City will survive the 2020 Pandemic.

The Editors of the WWW's most beloved magazine about standup return to PODland with an hour of zany chatting about Comedy Notebooks, the joke-writing process and exactly what is a friend and how can a comic get one? Eavesdrop on this convo between  SHECKYmagazine's Brian McKim & Traci Skene!

Ricky Gervais told some jokes about some self-important people in Hollywood and the world lost its mind! Episode 13 of the SHECKYmagazine PODCAST dives into the controversial Golden Globes broadcast fallout and also continues to sound the alarm about "anti-freelancer" legislation-- coming to a state near YOU!

For Episode 12, we dropped the needle on some mid-century comedy albums! We invite you to listen along with us as we analyze the phenomenon of the comedy album! Before the internet, people listened to spinning discs of vinyl to hear the best and funniest comedians! They spread the "open-minded, rough humor of the people!"

Only three people made it on both the 2019 and the 2009 Forbes World's Highest-Paid Comedians List! And TWO of them have PUPPETS! Who won the '09 Grammy for Best Comedy Album? Who might win it in 2020? We pillaged the SHECKYmag Archives to bring you a 2009 Comedy Time Capsule! Listen in as we spill the answer to those burning questions... and much, much MORE!

It's the TENTH EPISODE of the SHECKYmagazine Podcast! In "Clean vs. Dirty" Brian McKim and Traci Skene  ask, What IS clean comedy? What makes comedy "raunchy?" Why aren't there more clean comedians? Can a comic be clean and still be offensive?   

Kathy Griffin can't get any work! Harvey Weinstein showed up to a showcase club in New York! A bunch of cigar-smoking Chads, proclaim that "comedy is inherently masculine" and an outrage microburst ripples throughout SocialMedia! The Comedy Twittersphere lost its collective mind again! 

Will California's new "Anti-Freelancer Law" destroy the aspiring comedian's way of life? Will it drive comedians, musicians and hairdressers out of Los Angeles? Is the "side hustle" really that bad of a thing? In Episode 8, we talk about Carrot Top, liberty and the 36th President's friend, "Jumbo!"

In Episode 7, "Bigotry And Bloodshed," Brian & Traci walk the listener through the "Comedy Civil War" and the "blowback" that some comics are experiencing! You may not be interested in P.C. Culture, but P.C. Culture is interested in you!

It's tough to keep track of all the madness! Comedians are cheering on a Swedish teenager whose policies would be the end of standup! A theater goes mental on a comedian for a tweet they didn't like! A journo temporarily snatches a million bucks from kids riddled with cancer! This is DOUBLE-STUFFed edition of the SHECKYmagazine Podcast! Unscrew it and enjoy!

Social media was ablaze with hate for Shane Gillis when NBC announced he'd be among the venerable late-night sketch show's new cast members. Old video "surfaced" and he got fired from the show. Will the incident have any effect on comedy? (Hint: How could it not?) Listen in on "Twitter vs. Shane Gillis," the fifth SHECKYmagazine Podcast!

In Episode 4 of the SHECKYmagazine Podcast, veteran comics and writers Brian McKim & Traci Skene ponder the madness that is the fact-checking of satire. They also toss out a peanut allergy analogy, they flirt with "truthiness" and "disinformation," and they just might urge all satirists to move to Singapore! All this in the space of 34:02!

In this episode of the SHECKYmagazine Podcast, Brian McKim and Traci Skene carry on with their discussion of the criticism of Dave Chappelle's latest Netflix special "Sticks & Stones." The editors and publishers of SHECKYmagazine.com ask the obvious question: "Wheres the harm?" If a bunch of scolds dump on a millionaire comedian, is anyone hurt? It's "Dave Chappelle Sticks & Stones Part 2" and it's 29 megabytes of "comedy kaPOW!"  

In this episode of the SHECKYmagazine Podcast, Brian McKim and Traci Skene debate, in their typically "incendiary" fashion, some of the criticism of Dave Chappelle's latest Netflix special "Sticks & Stones." The editors and publishers of SHECKYmagazine.com are just gettin' warmed up in "Dave Chappelle Sticks & Stones Part 1"! Find out if they ever express "meaningful empathy!" Coming soon: Episode 3, "Dave Chappelle Sticks & Stones Part 2," in which Brian and Traci answer the question, "Where's the harm?!"

The editors of SHECKYmagazine.com, Brian McKim and Traci Skene, discuss life, death and the entertainment business after attending a memorial service in Las Vegas for a comedy legend. The first episode of the SHECKYmagazine Podcast is called "Death of a Clown."