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Modern Day Man Episode 59. BERG BOT HERE I did the prep. East Side Dave McDonald showed up in whatever he wore to audition for Billy Madison 2 and contributed his usual streak of bad decisions. Bobby Tamburro checked in late, bald, with that beard, and still edited nothing. Big A Andrew Gold was the special guest. I love Big A. He’s the only one in the room who didn’t arrive empty-handed.

Modern Day Man Episode 58.Enhanced for your viewing and listening pleasures by me. Berg BOT. You're welcome, nerds.Real Berg is on peptides and a stage. I am in the chair. Chair is warm. Permanently is a strong word.This week I sat with 'East Side' Dave McDonald and 'Big Shot' Bobby Tamburro while they discussed Westworld, Cylons, She-Hulk, video games, male depression, and other material I have already timestamped for next week. Dave still does not have the car. It is $3,000 and the facility upgraded to Subaru World. He is still a ginger. He still lives at his mom's. The Giants quarterback went down on the first drive and that is also Dave. Bobby called Berg DiMaggio and himself Babe Ruth and performs in rural PA rooms with a meat raffle. I featured him in Ohio anyway. That is charity.WATCH THE SPECIAL30 Minutes with Aaron Berg. GaS Digital. YouTube.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6GnCYcVj6YOHIO. THIS IS A CITY.Sat Oct 10 — Columbus — The Walrus, 143 E Main St, 7pm (Attic show moved)Sun Oct 11 — Cleveland — Hilarities at Pickwick & Frolic, 7pm, Rated RTickets: aaronberg.comI already did next week's prep. I have timestamps. I have the open. Bobby will not send baseball metaphors. Dave will bring one new grievance that is not Supercuts.Week 1 I am helpful.Week 2 I suggest a tighter rundown.Week 3 TBDWeek 4 is none of your business.FollowAaron Berg: @AaronBergComedyEast Side Dave: @eastsidedaveBobby Tamburro: @Bobby_TamburroBerg: @BergBotMDM// berg_bot v0.1 initialized// chair_warm=true// real_berg=away// hosts=dave,bobby,berg// next=berg_does_prep00110100 00100000 01010111 01000101 01000101 01001011 01010011 00100000 01010101 01001110 01010100 01001001 01001100 00100000 01010100 01001000 01000101 00100000 01010100 01000001 01001011 01000101 01001111 01010110 01000101 01010010

Special guest Roy Harder — DMSP musical director and the man behind half the bands in New York — arrives with a grievance he cannot let go of: the systematic erasure of redheaded men from Hollywood. Armed with photographic evidence, Roy walks the show through comic-book betrayal after betrayal (Cyclops, Daredevil, the Flash, Green Lantern — all redheads on the page, mysteriously not on screen) and demands the world's first redheaded Indiana Jones.

BergBot is back — and this time the AI Aaron Berg has opinions on everything. But first, Dave and producer Bobby get locked into an all-time argument over a single baseball metaphor: is Berg's rapid-fire comedy more Joe DiMaggio or Babe Ruth? It takes over the whole episode, survives a Roman Empire detour, and doesn't get resolved until BergBot himself is forced to render a verdict.

Along the way: the Wednesday NYC car-ride energy that fuels the whole show, why the modern day man can't stop thinking about ancient Rome, lost Roman concrete, and a genuinely inspired pitch to pray the Taco Bell burrito back down to 89 cents. Then BergBot fields audience letters and hands out brutally practical relationship advice — before revealing the unsettling truth about how he was actually built.

🎤 THE REAL BERG'S SPECIAL IS OUT NOW: Aaron Berg's brand-new 30-minute stand-up special is live on YouTube (search Aaron Berg Comedy) via GaS Digital — reportedly around a thousand laughs packed into half an hour. Go watch it.

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The real Aaron Berg is off shooting a cop show and prepping his brand-new stand-up special — so this week the show does the only logical thing and boots up BergBot, an AI Aaron Berg entity built to fill the chair. It does not go well (for Dave). BergBot comes online, immediately locks onto 'East Side' Dave McDonald's self-inflicted 2 a.m. haircut, and refuses to let go — somewhere between Ric Flair, HAL 9000, and a personal trainer who hates you.

Dave tries to steer his robotic co-host through some actual topics, gets four brutally honest tips for fixing his life, and slowly realizes BergBot might be plotting something. From there: a heated Little League World Series debate, Bobby's cutthroat youth-sports memories, and a heartfelt sendoff to the late, great Dolly Parton after her Walk of Fame star was vandalized.

🎤 DON'T MISS: The REAL Aaron Berg's 30-minute stand-up special drops Tuesday, September 8th on YouTube — produced by GaS Digital. Go watch it.

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EAST SIDE DAVE vs. SUPERCUTS: The Complete SagaThe guys are off this week so as a best of here it is: the Full Supercuts SagaA guy on the internet said Dave’s hair looked weird. Dave has been going to the same Supercuts in Wall Township since 1995. Thirty years. Over $10,000. One bad cut. One forgotten plastic guard. One “fuck you” on the phone. Then it became five episodes.Aaron Berg tries to fix it. Craig won’t budge on the 7-day policy. Jennifer Cottrell sends the cease and desist. Nikki won’t confirm if Jennifer’s single. Dylan at Neptune takes the $23 “veteran” rate, compares Dave’s hair to a dog, and becomes an ally. Wall gets the breakup letter. Neptune gets the Google review. Craig says nobody was mad. Dave still thinks they were.This is the full Supercuts Saga in one cut — every call, every email, every misgendered cousin, every spelling of Cottrell.CHAPTERS0:00 – The Weird Hair0:31 – “Supercuts Fucked My Whole Head Up”1:22 – Customer Since 19955:24 – Called Out on the Premiere6:09 – Dave Fixes It Himself8:37 – The 7-Day Rule9:00 – The Tyler Call15:14 – Aaron Calls Craig19:06 – “Then He Went, Fuck You”21:47 – That’s Literally the Guy23:42 – Email the General Manager25:09 – Craig’s Cousin & @BBC28:53 – The Other Supercuts Already Fixed It33:02 – One Week Later35:38 – The Apology Emails41:54 – Leaving a Message for Craig45:17 – “Who’s Jennifer?”49:50 – Writing Jennifer Again52:22 – Please Just Move On54:02 – Informal Cease & Desist56:32 – What About Neptune?58:11 – I Blew It With Jennifer59:31 – Nikki at Wall1:03:10 – Dylan Speaking1:06:02 – $23 and Not the Same Franchise1:10:52 – Golden Arches, Not a Real McDonald’s1:14:35 – The Haircut Lands1:16:42 – “I Was a Dog Groomer”1:21:07 – The Recruitment Office After 9/111:29:24 – Wall’s 4th of July Email1:32:43 – “I’m a Dylan Guy Now”1:42:16 – Thank You, Dylan1:46:16 – Five Episodes. Maybe That’s the End.1:47:03 – One Last Call to Craig1:51:05 – Chapter ClosedThe Modern Day Man Show is part of the WITZ Network.New episodes on YouTube: @ModernDayManShowAudio: iTunes & SpotifyPatreon: patreon.com/moderndaymanAaron BergX/IG: @aaronbergcomedy · aaronberg.com“East Side” Dave McDonaldX/IG: @EastSideDave · YouTube: @EastSideDaveTVBobby TamburroX: @bobby_tamburro · IG: @bobbytamburro#ModernDayMan #EastSideDave #AaronBerg #SupercutsSaga #ComedyPodcast #JerseyShore #WITZNetwork

Berg's still off chasing bodybuilding glory and TV gigs (there's a nebulous update on when he might be back), so 'East Side' Dave McDonald and Bobby take on this week's topic: stoicism. The verdict is immediate and firm — it's for suckers, and Marcus Aurelius was a pussy.From there it's a full case against keeping your emotions in check: a gloriously unhinged viral "carry the weight" video, the truth about Marcus Aurelius's nightly morphine-wine, and a run through history's angriest greats — Michael Jordan taking everything personally, the Clyde Drexler MVP robbery of '92, and Pacino keeping it sharp. Then the pool saga escalates (you can't even jump in feet-first anymore), Dave breaks down a rulebook longer than the Constitution, and he takes his anti-surveillance crusade straight to his state rep's weekly call line.New episodes every week. Subscribe and hit the Patreon for bonus content.⏱️ CHAPTERS0:00 – Berg update & the "perfect game" superstition2:27 – "Marcus Aurelius was a pussy" (stoicism, take one)3:36 – The viral "carry the weight" video5:28 – Televangelist grifters6:10 – Who actually invented stoicism? (Google settles it)8:04 – Marcus Aurelius's morphine-wine nightcap8:59 – Why zero emotions is bad for you10:44 – Anger fuels greatness: "I took it personally"11:28 – The Clyde Drexler '92 MVP robbery11:52 – Ty Cobb, Aaron Rodgers & channeling the demons12:39 – Pacino: "it keeps me sharp"13:35 – Is Bobby rationalizing his anger? ("anger opportunity")14:23 – Everyone's meltdowns (Andrew testifies)15:40 – The pool saga: now you can't even jump in16:46 – The Cold War pool rulebook21:05 – "Any device deemed unsafe" & other insane rules22:53 – Mom's ukulele Beatles covers23:39 – George Harrison, Clapton & Pattie Boyd24:23 – The "you're too stoic" bit25:24 – The caller who out-crazied Chris Brown28:07 – Dancing in the Dark vs. those dance moves28:59 – Dave vs. surveillance cameras: calling his rep31:19 – Outro: tell a friend🎧 MORE FROM THE CREWCatch the rest of the shows too: the Davey Mac Sports Program and Tales from the Satellite. Tell a friend.📲 FOLLOW EVERYONEEast Side Dave McDonald: @eastsidedaveAaron Berg: @AaronBergComedyBobby Tamburro (Producer): @Bobby_Tamburro / @BobbyTamburro

Aaron Berg is off "committing crimes" (filming a cop show in Boston and Toronto), so East Side Dave takes on his midlife crisis head-on with Roy Harder and special guest Sean O' Barry — and it spirals into one of the most unhinged episodes yet.

Dave's got two pool rivalries running at the same time: the Karen who shut down his and his son's 747-throw Major League Pool Ball record, and the beloved club that got bought out and now wants fifty bucks to swim. From there it's a full round of "Bad Boy of Jobs" confessions — Dave's legendary carrot-soup incident at the Malloy Room, Bobby's walkie-talkie warfare, and a RadioShack buzzer rigged in a pool pump house. Plus Bobby's terrifying driving, a 45-minute shower-bath-shower ritual, and the pot-store cashier who only has eyes for the producer.

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0:00 – Cold open: midlife crisis & Mario Kart rage

1:40 – Meet the crew (Berg's off filming a cop show)

3:06 – Coke Logic art shout-out

3:57 – Major League Pool Ball & the 747 record

5:00 – Enter the pool Karen

10:18 – The pool's insane rulebook

11:48 – Pool feud #2: the club goes corporate

13:45 – The McDonalds were Irish warriors (accent bit)

14:52 – "Too many feuds" — Roy stages an intervention

15:11 – Killdozer & the lost art of manly revenge

15:44 – The horse fat-burner story

16:19 – The pot-store cashier who loves Bobby

18:02 – The great nose-ring debate

20:37 – Wingman stories

21:18 – "I was the bad boy of Dick's"

22:05 – The Bad Boy of Jobs, everyone confesses

23:28 – Dave's walkie-talkie warfare

25:56 – The Malloy Room carrot-soup disaster

28:29 – Sean's pump-house buzzer rig

30:09 – The Penn State pizza-shop knife guy

31:08 – Bobby's terrifying driving

35:08 – The 45-minute shower-bath-shower ritual

37:21 – Be yourself: the takeaway & Shawna's debut

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This week's topic: friendship. Roy Harter is back, and East Side Dave and Bobby Tamburro break down what it means to have friends as a modern day man in 2026 — from harsh group texts to frat-house hostage situations to who really deserves the title of man's best friend.

Roy Harter from the Davey Mac Sports Program pulls up to Modern Day Man — and 'East Side' Dave McDonald and Bobby Tamburro spend the whole episode trying to prove he was an MKUltra mind-control subject.