Josh, I would LOVE to hear you rant about enshittification. Because I’m a bit younger, I’m 24, but I remember a time before smartphones and everybody having computers, I remember taking typing classes and being taught how to use a computer, and I have seen in real time the Internet and all sorts of Products getting better, and then getting worse. And it makes me feel insane trying to explain to my 13 year old sister that you didn’t use to have to have good google-fu to get the information you needed, to get decent product reviews without jumping through ten pages of search results, that you didn’t use to have to worry about companies removing the SD card spade from your phone and upselling you on storage. I think most people currently in their 20s and 30s share that experience of the progress of technology being headed in such a promising direction as we were growing up, and then as we have been in adulthood, everything getting so much worse. Like. Capitalism didn’t have to be this way 🥲
Sorry I'm just finding out who you are, and more importantly, how insightfully funny you are. Grew up around Lafayette (and went to "Alick" plenty of times w/ Dad on the way to the VA in Pineville.) Currently LMAO in Baton Rouge. Just finished my Ph.D. in Sociology, and as an academic, I encourage you to keep speaking your truths. I think you have a unique perspective, considering the time frame and location in which you grew up.....and you are speaking some painful truths in a funny way, and that's a powerful thing. As a long-time fan of comedy, I (openly and selfishly) encourage you to keep making me and everyone else laugh. As a Gen-Xer, it's funny to watch the "next group" dealing with the "oh shit, I'm aging" .....kinda comforting too, b/c we all kind of experience a lot of the same things, just in different, and often amusing methods..... Grad school was brutal.....this is chicken gumbo for the soul.....merci beaucoups Miseur. Hoping I can catch a tour date at some point in the future. Break a leg Dude, and thanks for making me laugh.
Have you gotten to read the book yet?? I know it's really fucking long and most people think they don't have time but give it like, give it a month. It's a good fuckin read. Also love your comedy you are very funny
It's great to see, there's plenty of comedians I've seen with great sets and then searched up to find other videos and it's just the same set in different places.
Do you follow the British comedian Michael Spicer? After reading your comment I had to go and find The Samsung Washing Machine Tune Challenge and watch it again, thank you 😂
I'm still using my old stereo, to get it to work i don't have to hit the thing itself but i have to flick the speaker membrane with my fingers and to this day i have NO clue wtf is going on there. I know it's the stereo itself because it also does this with brand new headphones which i have to smack on the side lmao
@buggyboogle9 it's a real thing. The parts were way chunkier, so sometimes knocking on it would help get things back into alignment. I've even heard stories that a fix for a particular issue on one of the early, early macs was to lift it six inches and drop it
I have a 90s washing machine now. We have fixed a few things on it ourselves, and we will never get rid of it. We replaced the entire transmission in it for like $150 and now it's gonna run another hundred years
I have the big screen tv we got when I was 7 in 1997. That thing cannot be stolen and I have to hit it or it's just a blue color line across the front. :). Best picture. I love it.:) meanwhile I need a new flat screen every year or so.
I lately replaced a leaky washing mashine. It is using less water and energy.... The laundry is often still full of detergent and not rinsed enough after I take it out so I had to split it and wash again using twice the energy and water my old washing mashine would use. I hate it every time. It's just sh't nowadays. It was a very expensive and from a good brand with top test results. Similar with my fridge. The old one broke, the new one is not half as good as the old one.
My mom still has a hand mixer from GE that is over 40 years old. It works great. And I had a 80's or 90's washing machine at one of my apartments a few years ago. Solid.
I hate to spoil a good story, Alexander Hamilton bought, sold and personally owned slaves. At the same time, Hamilton, like many of the Founding Fathers including Thomas Jefferson, recognized the contradiction between slavery and the principles in the Declaration of Independence. Many of them made plans to free their slaves but few did. They expressed hopes that slavery would gradually wither away but took little or no action to make that happen. These were rich men who liked being rich more than they liked philosophy and human rights. They were willing to risk their lives to protect their property, but they weren’t willing to give up their property.
Thomas Jefferson and Robert E. Lee are the biggest hypocrites in American history. (I know Lee wasn’t a founding father but he and Jefferson basically had the exact same views on slavery)
Why are they called "The Founding FATHERS"? I just listened to some christian nationalists with their focus on the so-called traditional family and the important role of the man in the house. etc. They really like to talk about the founding fathers and I think they are thrilled that these guys are called "fathers". Why do you describe your founders like that?
It is a very sad story that people associate slavery with racism. Racism is a byproduct that the rich happily use to make the common people not focus on them. Before North American slavery, slavery existed in multiple areas around the world and that slavery consisted of people enslaving people of the same race. The North American colonizers tried to enslave the Native Americans first but their immune systems were too weak and they died out due to the diseases the colonizers brought from Europe. The African slaves were sold to the colonizers from rich Africans. Kings enslaved the impoverished since ancient times. The rich graduated from the cruel idea of slavery to the cruel idea of indentured servitude in the Middle Ages. All this time race didn't matter. Social class was the biggest factor in who became a slave. The rich have never eaten their fair share of criticism throughout history because they diverted the attention away from themselves with ideas like racism. The common people just chase the shiny object until today we live in a world where 2% of the world's population controls like 90% of the world's wealth. Still people will talk about North American slavery as if it was racism. The South wasn't upset about the abolishment of slaves because they didn't want black people to be free. The were upset because they lost free work force and their profits would be overturned. Even the unfair civil rights after was in order to lower competition for good jobs and to have a cheap labor force for low tiered jobs. If a group of people is viewed as less than human, you can hire them for cheaper. The race didn't matter. It was just easy to use blacks because they never had social standing to oppose. You can see in the world today now that minorities have money that they do corrupt things and get away with it due to money and standing. Race never mattered as much as money and social standing.
If Josh is a history professor, his classroom will be always full capacity, to the point where a zoom class is held at the same time with his classroom; all learning and laughing. 🤣😂We love you Josh!
Lol my dad went straight to "look it up" Then we'd have to go to my grandma's house and use her 70s edition of the World Book Encyclopedia. This was in the 90s so you had to hope the information had not changed too much
@@stacypeterson3685 yes! I would ask my dad what a word meant and he'd say "look it up", and he'd make sure I followed through. I'd get the dictionary and find the word and read the definition out loud to him. He wanted me to know HOW to learn something. I think us millennials are really great at research. We did library research and learned how to research on the Internet as that was becoming a thing you could do. I remember a class in high school that emphasized how to find good references online.
Back in the day, reality didn't change that fast, so you were good using it. Come to think of it, nowadays reality doesn't change as fast either, regardless of what the anti-social media and traditional media want to make us think with their torrential use of click bait and news alerts.
@@IMArt-kx2ci naw, I'm of an age where Eastern Europe and Africa were constantly changing, adding and removing countries and had to double check if it had Russia or USSR
Been a fan of stand up comedy since 1982, I watched "Carlin at Carnegie" (when it was new!) and was instantly hooked. I have watched hundreds and hundreds of comedians. My first job was even cooking at a comedy club. I have to say, among all those comedians, Josh Johnson stands out with the greats. He is really funny, but he adds in a lot of intelligence and emotion making him the complete package. One day, he will be considered one of the legends.
@@danoneamiss2839 I learned the IBM Mag Card in 1974, and this was such a huge thing to have in my back pocket that I worked as a temp for a decade or so, and this made me a hot-ticket item. I had a temp job with the University of San Francisco and they begged me to sign on and work for them and offered free classes in computer science, and I didn’t accept their offer because I liked the freedom temping offered. A decade+ later, Bill Gates destroys my life by making my arcane niche job available to everyone. Grrrrrrr!!!
did you ever bring the typewriter to write in class or did you write them in your dorm/room? only asking because if y’all brought them in the room i feel like that would be overwhelmingly loud
@@whenthepawn1999They weren't allowed. We.... don't get upset... wrote things down by hand. Even knew shorthand. I can't explain it, just Google it. 😂😂😂
Josh encouraged us like an older brother on several occasions and delivered good content along with it and I think it's so natural how some of us are cheering so hard Everytime we see his new stuff and lately it's been so often! Such a great time to be a viewer. ❤️
I think there is a group of people that are tired of the constant chaos the world has become. And simply hearing common sense backed behind wanting to be a better person is a return to what a lot of us grew up expecting in our consumed media that was lost somewhere
@@alexsanderpalmore5443Yes exactly. You nailed it! I’m never afraid to click because I know I’ll feel happy. Even in darker material he handles it so well. There’s no bad aftertaste. Just knowledge. It gives me hope. Josh said I’m not going to get up here and bitch and complain. I’m going to make people happy and sometimes educate in a loving way.
My mom still has the microwave that my dad moved in with (I'm almost 30). That thing is 60 lbs, takes up 2 feet of counter space, has a bamboo skewer to keep up the metal grate, and it has never undercooked my Hungry Mans.
Things used to work. Didn’t need a mechanic or a WiFi service plan. They just did the damn job. I’m jealous of you but glad you guys are holding it down
When I was homeless in Seattle, they had a microwave at a shelter that was bigger than it needed to be and only had a dial for a control. I swear I could feel that thing running from across the kitchen.
I didn’t have to be told, but if I wanted to know something I would look it up. I was so upset when my mother got rid of our encyclopedia. They weren’t being used by that time but I would have dusted them on a bookshelf for years to come! 😂😂😂
There used to be a lot of comedians that made me laugh. Then it became basically rage bait. Thanks Josh for bringing the good feelings back. The core of comedy. Community and laughter. I’m laughing out loud again. Thank you!
12 yrs ago I was headed into a nurses station when I heard, " Soooo you put the circle on a spinning table. Then you put a needle on it and it would just play music?" .....😳🤯😑🫥😶🌫️ OAN our "appliance" was the Nintendo systems. Mine was blow into the cartridge 3 times, while holding it between both your hands then you slam the cartridge down into the hole.😅
With our Nintendo it was two quick, sharp blowing breaths into the cartridge on each side, one long blow in the middle, then you slowly, SLOWLY pressed the cartridge into the system as FAR as it could go, FIRMLY, and THEN down and click.
My grandson ,when he was 17, helped my friend clean out her storage space in her apartment building. He saw LPs for the first time. Had no clue what they were. Mind you, I had a record player and played records all of his life and he never noticed!
@@saxpoobielex7769 it's so funny and weird how things are repeating though, like records being back on trend. We have a bunch of records and listen to them often. The other day one of my kids asked what a DVD was and my other child answered "it's like a little record". 🙃🤣
@@xyrissavage4983 I have in fact recently launched a wiimote into an old tv and all it got was a little scratch, the wiimote was fine too. Resident Evil 4 is not a very scary game but when you get jumped from behind a corner it suddenly makes sense why they put the wriststrap warning labels on there 😂
The reason those TV screens were made of such thick glass - yes, real glass - is b/c on the other side were one to three RAY GUNS THAT SHOT ELECTRONS at it. It was called a cathode-ray tube (CRT). You could make the TV “eat a popsicle” by putting a speaker magnet near it. (We got in big trouble for that one). Oh, and the very oldest microwaves didn’t even have buttons, or digital displays. They had dials like a regular oven or stove. If the numbers on the dial wore off, tho, you were just as SOL.
Oh man, the TV we had when I was growin up in the 80s/90s was exactly like that. When the colors went wonky, I could just give it a good smack right on the sweet spot. #NostalgiaUnlocked
Thank you Josh for the bonus show this week, we truly appreciate everything you do to keep the laughter going. If plan to celebrate hope you have a happy & safe 4th of July. 🙂
Me tooooo!!!! 🎉🎉🎉😂😂 i always work on the 4th and i just got home exhausted. I saw him release this and i literally went to get a tasty meal and drink. And just unwind and watch this amazing man !!! Happy holidays from michigan !!! 🙏❤❤❤ stay safe and blessed
Always glad of a story from Josh but not feeling great about Independence Day this year. We are to celebrate forming a country that rejected autocrats and instead tried a system where people choose their own leaders. And here we are seriously considering choosing a crook who openly tells us he wants to be dictator and is supported by what was once the Supreme Court in the land who has said being a dictator is perfectly fine.
@@KathrynTanner-t8f fully agree, what's been going on in this country for the last few years is exactly why I've been so down on the past few independence days. but this video makes me happy. sending you love, i hope we all get through this (putting it LIGHTLY) rough time, and i hope shit gets calm and boring very fucking soon
How the F does this guy just keep putting out fresh content that’s this great so damn frequently, man what a talent. People hone tight 10s over like a year and he’s putting out brand new stuff weekly and killing.
Dude how do you drop so much great stuff without a special. I've been watching you for years now and are on my list of top 5 comics all time. Because your material is so relatable and your takes are top notch
Mane you just made me realize how old I am and I don’t know how to feel because people always say I look young… explaining before google.. you really are about to make me sit down and think about this… I absolutely LOVE YOU JOSH!!! I was super surprised to hear you were that old… GOOD LUCK ON THE JOURNEY AND GOOD JOB ON ALL THE ABUNDANCE COMING YOUR WAY ❣️❣️❣️💕❤️❤️ Happy 4th 🔥🔥
“A book is like a slow kindle.” Man, that BODIED me 😂😂🤣🤣 And I remember using reference numbers to find the right encyclopedia. If the answer wasn’t there, you’d at least learn other things that might come in handy. 😂
We also had better memories because we couldn't look up stuff later or store information on our phones. So, we had to just remember,. I still remember my childhood phone number
It's called digital amnesia....not automatically a bad thing though; before people knew how to read, they had REALLY great memories, could recite thousands of lines of poems, but I am glad to be able to read : )
What I have learned from this set, is that Josh will be an amazing old man telling stories about how the world used to be! Gather around younglings, Old Man Josh got another one of his crazy stories to tell!
Bell on, already liked because we know it’s gonna be incredible. Josh really be feeding us almost TOO well I appreciate how much effort he puts into this 💜
You never disappoint! I am laughing out loud as you are setting up each joke and I'm remembering all the things you are speaking about! 😂😂😂 You are just constantly looking at life and helping us to see it from a funny point of view! Need the laughs you always bring! 👏🏾👏🏾🤗🤗 Tracey from San Diego, California
Most people remember Y2K as a story about collective panic and disproportionate reactions, which were admittedly hilarious, but it's also a story about how a legitimate problem was found and called out and people in the field came together to find instances of the bug and fix them in time so they wouldn't cause any problems. It also gives me hope :)
I was a temp for an insurance company that sold Y2K insurance that had a clause stating that if the insurance was needed they wouldn't pay out. That company went out of business due to fraud I think due to Enron. It had been one of the big 5
When my kids were little, they used to accidentally turn on audio descriptions, on the tv itself, not the app, all the time, and it was so challenging to turn them off! Then, every new tv works different and, you know the appliances don't last like they did in the 90s, so we've been through like 5 or 6 tvs throughout the whole house since my oldest was born 9yrs ago.
Could definitely relate with 'before Google' lol.. Before we had internet, I also remember us having a big ass set of encyclopedias at home. XD But damn, first microwave ever having buttons.. Until just a few years ago, I still had one with a knob that you turned to set the timer. But yeah it was so old you couldn't see the numbers marking where was for how long, so usually we just turned it all the way and needed to watch a clock and go open it after time was up lol..😆
"you could fix anything in your house by hitting it". That is very true. I did tech support in the 90s. Because the hard drives were spinning discs, one of the potential fixes was to hit the hard drive. This would get the internal discs back on track and spinning appropriately. Also worked for computer fans. We also said the same thing back in the 80s and 90s. Appliances from the 50s were built to last! And they all still worked. They blow torched holes into the o-zone laser, but at least your food was hella cold. (what is the past tense of " to blow torch". It is clearly a verb)
My dad became the spontaneous technician on the neighbourhood because he opened the artifact, blew and brushed the dust, closed the artifact and no joke, it worked like 90% of the times 😂😂 And our big ass TV lasted a loooT because it died sometimes and you had to change like a mini lightbulb 💡 😅...Those TVs also alowed to watch the naughty unpaid cable channels between grains and grey blinds 😅 oh maaan I like streaming so much ❤
Dudes like doug funnie probably has a closet full of the same clothes but never ever wears the same outfit twice that’s a super flex 💪🏿 the”Josh Johnson” Skin
Before Google damn. The world truly has changed more in the last 50 years than it has in any period before. We've never seen a world where we all have access to all information before this.
True. As of June 2021, over 50 million pieces of articles are shared daily, over 500 million tweets are sent daily, and over 15 billion items are sold on Amazon. Crazy!
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Josh, I would LOVE to hear you rant about enshittification. Because I’m a bit younger, I’m 24, but I remember a time before smartphones and everybody having computers, I remember taking typing classes and being taught how to use a computer, and I have seen in real time the Internet and all sorts of Products getting better, and then getting worse. And it makes me feel insane trying to explain to my 13 year old sister that you didn’t use to have to have good google-fu to get the information you needed, to get decent product reviews without jumping through ten pages of search results, that you didn’t use to have to worry about companies removing the SD card spade from your phone and upselling you on storage. I think most people currently in their 20s and 30s share that experience of the progress of technology being headed in such a promising direction as we were growing up, and then as we have been in adulthood, everything getting so much worse. Like. Capitalism didn’t have to be this way 🥲
Sorry I'm just finding out who you are, and more importantly, how insightfully funny you are.
Grew up around Lafayette (and went to "Alick" plenty of times w/ Dad on the way to the VA in Pineville.)
Currently LMAO in Baton Rouge.
Just finished my Ph.D. in Sociology, and as an academic, I encourage you to keep speaking your truths. I think you have a unique perspective, considering the time frame and location in which you grew up.....and you are speaking some painful truths in a funny way, and that's a powerful thing.
As a long-time fan of comedy, I (openly and selfishly) encourage you to keep making me and everyone else laugh. As a Gen-Xer, it's funny to watch the "next group" dealing with the "oh shit, I'm aging" .....kinda comforting too, b/c we all kind of experience a lot of the same things, just in different, and often amusing methods.....
Grad school was brutal.....this is chicken gumbo for the soul.....merci beaucoups Miseur.
Hoping I can catch a tour date at some point in the future. Break a leg Dude, and thanks for making me laugh.
Have you gotten to read the book yet?? I know it's really fucking long and most people think they don't have time but give it like, give it a month. It's a good fuckin read. Also love your comedy you are very funny
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"Before Google you had to just know" is the most painfully accurate description of those days.
Facts, these days I have like 3 important phone numbers memorized because my phone does that for me so my brain deleted the rest
I still remember my childhood friend’s parents house number!
It’s their Barnes and Noble membership number 🤣
And now Google straight up lies to you
When you asked your mother how to spell something and she told you to look it up,
I thought he was going to mention encyclopedias, but that’s Gen X.
Is it just me or does this dude crank out high quality material faster than any comedian who’s ever lived? 😱😱😱
He does! It’s incredible to watch his work 😂
Man's always got a loaded chamber😂
It's great to see, there's plenty of comedians I've seen with great sets and then searched up to find other videos and it's just the same set in different places.
He is so fast.
My husband and I were just discussing that! He is SO good!
Washing machines now sing to you like they're about to send you on a fetch quest in Zelda
This! 😂
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Do you follow the British comedian Michael Spicer? After reading your comment I had to go and find The Samsung Washing Machine Tune Challenge and watch it again, thank you 😂
I clean houses and some of the songs go on waaaaaayyyy to long like a full minute
Fuck that's such a good explanation for it
I'm so proud of Josh like he was my son. I been with him since the klan ribs.
Parasocial relationships are a helluva thing
“Are those…..
…klan ribs?”
Since the catfish days
Normally i just hear based on bald, fro, big fro as time frames, i can get behind ribs and catfish
If Dale only knew who got a bite of his klan ribs..
“You had to hit it”
It’s called percussive maintenance sir and it was a legitimate option.
Percussive maintenance 😂
I'm still using my old stereo, to get it to work i don't have to hit the thing itself but i have to flick the speaker membrane with my fingers and to this day i have NO clue wtf is going on there. I know it's the stereo itself because it also does this with brand new headphones which i have to smack on the side lmao
As a43 year old, I can attest to this lol 😄
Yes. According to quite a few engineers I know, this is valid. Very valid.
@buggyboogle9 it's a real thing. The parts were way chunkier, so sometimes knocking on it would help get things back into alignment. I've even heard stories that a fix for a particular issue on one of the early, early macs was to lift it six inches and drop it
I have a 90s washing machine now. We have fixed a few things on it ourselves, and we will never get rid of it. We replaced the entire transmission in it for like $150 and now it's gonna run another hundred years
I have the big screen tv we got when I was 7 in 1997. That thing cannot be stolen and I have to hit it or it's just a blue color line across the front. :). Best picture. I love it.:) meanwhile I need a new flat screen every year or so.
I'm so jealous.....
Back when appliances were made to last #FordTough era💪🏾
I lately replaced a leaky washing mashine. It is using less water and energy.... The laundry is often still full of detergent and not rinsed enough after I take it out so I had to split it and wash again using twice the energy and water my old washing mashine would use. I hate it every time. It's just sh't nowadays. It was a very expensive and from a good brand with top test results. Similar with my fridge. The old one broke, the new one is not half as good as the old one.
My mom still has a hand mixer from GE that is over 40 years old. It works great. And I had a 80's or 90's washing machine at one of my apartments a few years ago. Solid.
I hate to spoil a good story, Alexander Hamilton bought, sold and personally owned slaves. At the same time, Hamilton, like many of the Founding Fathers including Thomas Jefferson, recognized the contradiction between slavery and the principles in the Declaration of Independence. Many of them made plans to free their slaves but few did. They expressed hopes that slavery would gradually wither away but took little or no action to make that happen. These were rich men who liked being rich more than they liked philosophy and human rights. They were willing to risk their lives to protect their property, but they weren’t willing to give up their property.
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They knew it was an issue and basically kicked the can down the road.
Thomas Jefferson and Robert E. Lee are the biggest hypocrites in American history.
(I know Lee wasn’t a founding father but he and Jefferson basically had the exact same views on slavery)
Why are they called "The Founding FATHERS"? I just listened to some christian nationalists with their focus on the so-called traditional family and the important role of the man in the house. etc. They really like to talk about the founding fathers and I think they are thrilled that these guys are called "fathers". Why do you describe your founders like that?
It is a very sad story that people associate slavery with racism. Racism is a byproduct that the rich happily use to make the common people not focus on them. Before North American slavery, slavery existed in multiple areas around the world and that slavery consisted of people enslaving people of the same race. The North American colonizers tried to enslave the Native Americans first but their immune systems were too weak and they died out due to the diseases the colonizers brought from Europe.
The African slaves were sold to the colonizers from rich Africans.
Kings enslaved the impoverished since ancient times. The rich graduated from the cruel idea of slavery to the cruel idea of indentured servitude in the Middle Ages. All this time race didn't matter. Social class was the biggest factor in who became a slave.
The rich have never eaten their fair share of criticism throughout history because they diverted the attention away from themselves with ideas like racism. The common people just chase the shiny object until today we live in a world where 2% of the world's population controls like 90% of the world's wealth.
Still people will talk about North American slavery as if it was racism.
The South wasn't upset about the abolishment of slaves because they didn't want black people to be free. The were upset because they lost free work force and their profits would be overturned.
Even the unfair civil rights after was in order to lower competition for good jobs and to have a cheap labor force for low tiered jobs. If a group of people is viewed as less than human, you can hire them for cheaper. The race didn't matter. It was just easy to use blacks because they never had social standing to oppose.
You can see in the world today now that minorities have money that they do corrupt things and get away with it due to money and standing. Race never mattered as much as money and social standing.
If Josh is a history professor, his classroom will be always full capacity, to the point where a zoom class is held at the same time with his classroom; all learning and laughing. 🤣😂We love you Josh!
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Shoutout to my fellow librarians!
Hey hey!
Dewy decimal daughter over here!!❤🎉
I worked in my high-school library you couldn't tell me nothing 😂
Shhhhh is the librarian shout out 😅
💯...n I still have my library card
As an adult services librarian for a public library, I had to smile at your explanation. Thank you!!!
A house for books!
What adult services do you supply? I'm having a bachelor's party soon.
"A library is like a house for books"😂😂😂"A book is like a slow kindle"😭🤣
Oh how that is really sad!
Lol my dad went straight to "look it up" Then we'd have to go to my grandma's house and use her 70s edition of the World Book Encyclopedia. This was in the 90s so you had to hope the information had not changed too much
@@stacypeterson3685 yes! I would ask my dad what a word meant and he'd say "look it up", and he'd make sure I followed through. I'd get the dictionary and find the word and read the definition out loud to him. He wanted me to know HOW to learn something. I think us millennials are really great at research. We did library research and learned how to research on the Internet as that was becoming a thing you could do. I remember a class in high school that emphasized how to find good references online.
Back in the day, reality didn't change that fast, so you were good using it.
Come to think of it, nowadays reality doesn't change as fast either, regardless of what the anti-social media and traditional media want to make us think with their torrential use of click bait and news alerts.
Simpler times
Yup! We had Encyclopedia Brittanica.
@@IMArt-kx2ci naw, I'm of an age where Eastern Europe and Africa were constantly changing, adding and removing countries and had to double check if it had Russia or USSR
Been a fan of stand up comedy since 1982, I watched "Carlin at Carnegie" (when it was new!) and was instantly hooked. I have watched hundreds and hundreds of comedians. My first job was even cooking at a comedy club. I have to say, among all those comedians, Josh Johnson stands out with the greats. He is really funny, but he adds in a lot of intelligence and emotion making him the complete package. One day, he will be considered one of the legends.
Josh doing the scream of the clothes being beaten was the most wonderfully out of the ordinary thing I’ve ever heard him do. Fantastic…
A whole half hour!? We've been blessed.
Before Google??? Imagine how those of us who used typewriters in college to write papers feel!!! Oh wait, we actually ARE old, thank you.
Imagine telling them what a word processor was before ms word
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I learned the IBM Mag Card in 1974, and this was such a huge thing to have in my back pocket that I worked as a temp for a decade or so, and this made me a hot-ticket item. I had a temp job with the University of San Francisco and they begged me to sign on and work for them and offered free classes in computer science, and I didn’t accept their offer because I liked the freedom temping offered. A decade+ later, Bill Gates destroys my life by making my arcane niche job available to everyone. Grrrrrrr!!!
🙋🏻♀️old resin present and accounted for!😁
did you ever bring the typewriter to write in class or did you write them in your dorm/room? only asking because if y’all brought them in the room i feel like that would be overwhelmingly loud
@@whenthepawn1999They weren't allowed. We.... don't get upset... wrote things down by hand. Even knew shorthand. I can't explain it, just Google it. 😂😂😂
Josh encouraged us like an older brother on several occasions and delivered good content along with it and I think it's so natural how some of us are cheering so hard Everytime we see his new stuff and lately it's been so often! Such a great time to be a viewer. ❤️
Its a positive feedback loop ⭕️ 😸
I think there is a group of people that are tired of the constant chaos the world has become.
And simply hearing common sense backed behind wanting to be a better person is a return to what a lot of us grew up expecting in our consumed media that was lost somewhere
@@alexsanderpalmore5443 Well said
Such a great time to be a viewer…..no truer words have been spoken. 😂
@@alexsanderpalmore5443Yes exactly. You nailed it! I’m never afraid to click because I know I’ll feel happy. Even in darker material he handles it so well. There’s no bad aftertaste. Just knowledge. It gives me hope. Josh said I’m not going to get up here and bitch and complain. I’m going to make people happy and sometimes educate in a loving way.
The shy girl washer voice going "I think I did it~" absolutely wrecked me. XD
Right!, 😂😂😂
2:47 "Sometimes it's important to tell young people lead and old people guide." Well said. 👏🏿
My mom still has the microwave that my dad moved in with (I'm almost 30). That thing is 60 lbs, takes up 2 feet of counter space, has a bamboo skewer to keep up the metal grate, and it has never undercooked my Hungry Mans.
Things used to work. Didn’t need a mechanic or a WiFi service plan. They just did the damn job. I’m jealous of you but glad you guys are holding it down
I still have my parents microwave from 89 with the time dial on it in my basement. Works just fine.
Man never disappoints. One of the most prolific comedians
And it's not just a lot, it's *so* good.
He did NOT just say straight pride parade! I am HOLLERING! 😂
🎉🎉😂😂 omg hilarious
Violence was not so prevelant on these streets because you hit your appliance. Trained for this household😂😂😂😂
"Remember when TVs had @$$" should be on a coffee mug!😂
Patent Pending 😂
*ass
When I was homeless in Seattle, they had a microwave at a shelter that was bigger than it needed to be and only had a dial for a control. I swear I could feel that thing running from across the kitchen.
It was giving love to your internal organs.
Dude those dial microwaves are pure power.
My grandma had one of these at home until like 5 years ago
Anyone else have parents who would tell you to "look it up in the encyclopedia"? They knew! Holding out on us!
🤣
I didn’t have to be told, but if I wanted to know something I would look it up. I was so upset when my mother got rid of our encyclopedia. They weren’t being used by that time but I would have dusted them on a bookshelf for years to come! 😂😂😂
I’ve decided that we NEED a nightly Josh Johnson show. He spoiled us with a Monday and Tuesday drop, now I WANT MORE!! Josh is the truth.
Yes, totally.
No, we can`t burn out our boy.
This is genuinely the only comedian on YT that I watch and actually laugh instead of just exhaling out of my nose.
No fr 😂
Do you remember when tvs had ass?😂
I lost it on that one.
haha thiccums. the way my bf calls me 😂
I do! Just never thought of it that way 🤣
Yep. 😂
Big Back TVs 😂
Before google you had at least one smart friend.
Phoning a friend was different back in the day
😂😂
There used to be a lot of comedians that made me laugh. Then it became basically rage bait. Thanks Josh for bringing the good feelings back. The core of comedy. Community and laughter. I’m laughing out loud again. Thank you!
Me too!!! And I mean hearty, belly laughs that keep comin'!!!❤
The jokes are on point, complex, and delivered flawlessly. Josh is an absolute legend, excited to watch his career grow!
You're killing me with the library and book definitions
12 yrs ago I was headed into a nurses station when I heard, " Soooo you put the circle on a spinning table. Then you put a needle on it and it would just play music?" .....😳🤯😑🫥😶🌫️
OAN our "appliance" was the Nintendo systems. Mine was blow into the cartridge 3 times, while holding it between both your hands then you slam the cartridge down into the hole.😅
With our Nintendo it was two quick, sharp blowing breaths into the cartridge on each side, one long blow in the middle, then you slowly, SLOWLY pressed the cartridge into the system as FAR as it could go, FIRMLY, and THEN down and click.
Had to POP that cartridge down. I miss Paperboy like crazy
My grandson ,when he was 17, helped my friend clean out her storage space in her apartment building. He saw LPs for the first time. Had no clue what they were. Mind you, I had a record player and played records all of his life and he never noticed!
@@saxpoobielex7769 it's so funny and weird how things are repeating though, like records being back on trend. We have a bunch of records and listen to them often. The other day one of my kids asked what a DVD was and my other child answered "it's like a little record". 🙃🤣
“I punched a tv in its face” is a great line 😂
you ever launched a wiimote into your tv screen. I feel like it would'nt have been possible on those cathode ray tube tv's. They were just stronger.
@@xyrissavage4983 I have in fact recently launched a wiimote into an old tv and all it got was a little scratch, the wiimote was fine too. Resident Evil 4 is not a very scary game but when you get jumped from behind a corner it suddenly makes sense why they put the wriststrap warning labels on there 😂
The reason those TV screens were made of such thick glass - yes, real glass - is b/c on the other side were one to three RAY GUNS THAT SHOT ELECTRONS at it. It was called a cathode-ray tube (CRT). You could make the TV “eat a popsicle” by putting a speaker magnet near it. (We got in big trouble for that one).
Oh, and the very oldest microwaves didn’t even have buttons, or digital displays. They had dials like a regular oven or stove. If the numbers on the dial wore off, tho, you were just as SOL.
@@Filmstudent3663 bruh you used to need like 5 people to get a big screen TV in your house. Those things were heavy AF.
100% right about the appliances. Bought a coffee maker in 1990. That sucker lasted 23 years. It's replacement lasted less than two.
Oh man, the TV we had when I was growin up in the 80s/90s was exactly like that. When the colors went wonky, I could just give it a good smack right on the sweet spot. #NostalgiaUnlocked
We love you Josh! one of the best out there
Agreed
I still got that 90's washer and dryer from my Grandmother. Love that thing and it works exactly as you've advertised
Thank you Josh for the bonus show this week, we truly appreciate everything you do to keep the laughter going. If plan to celebrate hope you have a happy & safe 4th of July. 🙂
How do you have a photo attached to your name??😮😮😮
By being a member 😂
Josh, you are the only comfort in this Country right now! You are a blessing to us all!!
this is the first time i've been excited about the Fourth of July in almost a decade, bless your soul Josh
Me tooooo!!!! 🎉🎉🎉😂😂 i always work on the 4th and i just got home exhausted. I saw him release this and i literally went to get a tasty meal and drink. And just unwind and watch this amazing man !!! Happy holidays from michigan !!! 🙏❤❤❤ stay safe and blessed
Always glad of a story from Josh but not feeling great about Independence Day this year. We are to celebrate forming a country that rejected autocrats and instead tried a system where people choose their own leaders. And here we are seriously considering choosing a crook who openly tells us he wants to be dictator and is supported by what was once the Supreme Court in the land who has said being a dictator is perfectly fine.
Same!!😂❤💫
@@KathrynTanner-t8f fully agree, what's been going on in this country for the last few years is exactly why I've been so down on the past few independence days. but this video makes me happy. sending you love, i hope we all get through this (putting it LIGHTLY) rough time, and i hope shit gets calm and boring very fucking soon
I remember pre- ask Jeeves and when the school computer was wheeled ceremonially into our class but we were not allowed to touch it 😂😂
Sounds like around the time the floppy disks were actually floppy.
That's why you have to do the laundry while you're cooking. Just do all the noisy things at once.
Such a good comedian. The way he breaks down subjects in a clever way is impressive. You rock, Josh
Half hour of gold. Josh, we don't deserve you
As a child i was the remote...turn the channel..adjust the volume...move those rabbit ears.😅
😂 same 😅
Back in the day my dad made me the remote changer. Oh, and let's not forget the aluminum foil that wrapped around the antennas
😅
Josh Johnson just never misses. Young man killin it
This man just freestyle'd for 30 minutes straight. This is not just comedy people. This is art, this is perrfection.
Funny. Genuine. Relatable. Crushing it, Josh.
How the F does this guy just keep putting out fresh content that’s this great so damn frequently, man what a talent. People hone tight 10s over like a year and he’s putting out brand new stuff weekly and killing.
My favorite thing about watching Josh is the freshness of every set. It’s relevant, always evolving, and just relatable.
Dude how do you drop so much great stuff without a special.
I've been watching you for years now and are on my list of top 5 comics all time. Because your material is so relatable and your takes are top notch
He has 2 specials out
@@ashtree336WHAT? Where?
Another great thing about 90s TVs - the big ass boxes they came in. You can't make a fort or a spaceship with these skinny boxes we got now.
Learning different stuff on a quest to learn stuff is the best
That joke killed me 😂
Can I quote you and Josh to my class this week? I want them to analyze it. Dig deep.
Mane you just made me realize how old I am and I don’t know how to feel because people always say I look young… explaining before google.. you really are about to make me sit down and think about this… I absolutely LOVE YOU JOSH!!! I was super surprised to hear you were that old… GOOD LUCK ON THE JOURNEY AND GOOD JOB ON ALL THE ABUNDANCE COMING YOUR WAY ❣️❣️❣️💕❤️❤️ Happy 4th 🔥🔥
I started feeling old in my 50's. I acknowledged that I'm old in my 60's.
😂 same...😅
I started feeling younger in my 70’s. Good times…😊
I started feeling old before I hit puberty. Not yet 35 but I feel ready to sleep in the dirt.
@@DianaM.-ht8lsI hope to feel that way but I'm lazy and apathetic after work. Unless my grandkids are around of course.
“A book is like a slow kindle.” Man, that BODIED me 😂😂🤣🤣
And I remember using reference numbers to find the right encyclopedia. If the answer wasn’t there, you’d at least learn other things that might come in handy. 😂
Remember, when libraries had card catalogs!
We also had better memories because we couldn't look up stuff later or store information on our phones. So, we had to just remember,. I still remember my childhood phone number
Me too
@@hauntingjourney phone numbers for sure!!! I had all my friends phone numbers (house phones) memorized. Locker numbers and combinations.
Yeah lulz I never called my friends because you know someone else is going to answer the phone
Same here!!!
It's called digital amnesia....not automatically a bad thing though; before people knew how to read, they had REALLY great memories, could recite thousands of lines of poems, but I am glad to be able to read : )
Love your work JJ, didn't even know the game needed you. Now? I can't see the game without you. Can't wait to see you go even further 😊
I’m from South Africa before Google we had Chappies. It’s gum that had all sorts of facts on the inside of the wrapper
Full nostalgic set, "Ask Jeeves"/ Librarian 😂😂😂😂😂👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 Josh, you're like an undercover history teacher, I love it!
Yes! We had to “Fonzie” the appliances… and it WORKED! 🎉😂
Been stressed at work lately, but as long as Josh is here, I'll always have a destressor ❤❤❤
Josh. My grandson turned 23 today. Last night I told him :get your friends, vote! We need you young people. The hope...
What I have learned from this set, is that Josh will be an amazing old man telling stories about how the world used to be! Gather around younglings, Old Man Josh got another one of his crazy stories to tell!
I’ve never been a fan of comedy until now...My Favorite Comedian 💙
Bell on, already liked because we know it’s gonna be incredible. Josh really be feeding us almost TOO well I appreciate how much effort he puts into this 💜
"the washing machine would be whooping your clothes"😂 they way I just streamed, looooool!!!!!
Watching you grow, watching you glow. Oh the places you will go. Keep on keeping on Josh.
How very Dr. Seuss of you, I approve!😆
Josh you are doing great work. Don't ever change.
Josh your timing is awesome.
😂❤
I fixed whole TV's right out of the 80s with percussive maintenance alone
Josh saying great barbecue reminds me of the klan ribs story 😂 0:07
You never disappoint! I am laughing out loud as you are setting up each joke and I'm remembering all the things you are speaking about! 😂😂😂 You are just constantly looking at life and helping us to see it from a funny point of view! Need the laughs you always bring! 👏🏾👏🏾🤗🤗 Tracey from San Diego, California
How does he do it? How does he create 20-30 minutes of fresh, funny as hell new material every friggin week?!?
One of the best part of the 90's was all the people freaked out over Y2K
My mom stocked up so much water and food, the OG TP run 🤣
Most people remember Y2K as a story about collective panic and disproportionate reactions, which were admittedly hilarious, but it's also a story about how a legitimate problem was found and called out and people in the field came together to find instances of the bug and fix them in time so they wouldn't cause any problems. It also gives me hope :)
I was a temp for an insurance company that sold Y2K insurance that had a clause stating that if the insurance was needed they wouldn't pay out. That company went out of business due to fraud I think due to Enron. It had been one of the big 5
I don't know how old you are, but the mass panic was media-created. Plenty of us knew it was BS.
The washers in the 70's & eighties were like that too. So accurate
This is why Josh is my favorite comedian 😂
This kid is just plain good!!!!!!
this 'kid' is mid-30, so he's old, according to people now😊
“The remote was not remoting.” 😂😂😂😂 I could just *feel* the frustration!
When my kids were little, they used to accidentally turn on audio descriptions, on the tv itself, not the app, all the time, and it was so challenging to turn them off! Then, every new tv works different and, you know the appliances don't last like they did in the 90s, so we've been through like 5 or 6 tvs throughout the whole house since my oldest was born 9yrs ago.
How brand of every day happenings, relatable humor. Is intelligently delivered, well timed, and fanfriggintastic 😂
The description of "before Google" is so painfully accurate. Feels like a million years ago and really wasn't that long ago.
You have such a calm and peaceful voice! Love the comedy too
Me? I learned about the Hamilton-Burr feud from the "Got Milk?" commercial in the 90s.
Ehwehn Buuuh!!
yes! we need the young folks to lead and allow the wisdom of the prior generation to teach
Dude im about to be 44, and the sheer amount of core memories you just unlocked 😂😂😂😂😂 keep doing you Josh, we love to see it ❤❤❤❤❤
Could definitely relate with 'before Google' lol.. Before we had internet, I also remember us having a big ass set of encyclopedias at home. XD But damn, first microwave ever having buttons.. Until just a few years ago, I still had one with a knob that you turned to set the timer. But yeah it was so old you couldn't see the numbers marking where was for how long, so usually we just turned it all the way and needed to watch a clock and go open it after time was up lol..😆
"you could fix anything in your house by hitting it". That is very true. I did tech support in the 90s. Because the hard drives were spinning discs, one of the potential fixes was to hit the hard drive. This would get the internal discs back on track and spinning appropriately. Also worked for computer fans.
We also said the same thing back in the 80s and 90s. Appliances from the 50s were built to last! And they all still worked. They blow torched holes into the o-zone laser, but at least your food was hella cold.
(what is the past tense of " to blow torch". It is clearly a verb)
Man, there is nothing better than getting a history lesson that is uniquely funny and original. No one’s done it like this since Carlin
Can’t wait to see you in person Josh!!!!!! Your content is amazing! May you continue to be blessed🎉❤😊
Love his played up personification. One smart cookie!
One of my favorite comedians currently. It's like mixing Bomani Jones and Ali Siddiq. Great storytelling and intellect 💯💯
I'm gonna have to look up Romani Jones I love Ali
Ali Sadiq is amazing!@@cindygr8ce
@@cindygr8ce Bomani Jones is a sports media personality. Been on ESPN etc. They have very similar humor and mannerisms.
@@28bLaKmusic damn I watch a lot of comedians and always want recommendations
My dad became the spontaneous technician on the neighbourhood because he opened the artifact, blew and brushed the dust, closed the artifact and no joke, it worked like 90% of the times 😂😂 And our big ass TV lasted a loooT because it died sometimes and you had to change like a mini lightbulb 💡 😅...Those TVs also alowed to watch the naughty unpaid cable channels between grains and grey blinds 😅 oh maaan I like streaming so much ❤
Dudes like doug funnie probably has a closet full of the same clothes but never ever wears the same outfit twice that’s a super flex 💪🏿 the”Josh Johnson” Skin
Patty Mayonnaise was the sh!t and Skeeter stayed lit!
Before Google damn. The world truly has changed more in the last 50 years than it has in any period before. We've never seen a world where we all have access to all information before this.
True. As of June 2021, over 50 million pieces of articles are shared daily, over 500 million tweets are sent daily, and over 15 billion items are sold on Amazon. Crazy!
I have a washing machine I bought in 1998 and it still works as well now as when I bought it.
I still have my 90’s washing machine it takes quilts and all works like a charm…knocking on wood as I say that!…just to date myself a little more🤣🤣