Josh Johnson’s 4th of July Half Hour 

Dun yo.😊

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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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.

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

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

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!

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..

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

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.

@@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

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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.

Imagine telling them what a word processor was before ms word

⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠@@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!!!

🙋🏻‍♀️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. 😂😂😂

A house for books!

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 😂

🎉🎉😂😂 omg hilarious

And it's not just a lot, it's *so* good.

Right!, 😂😂😂

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.

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.

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

Phoning a friend was different back in the day

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Patent Pending 😂

*ass

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.

Me too!!! And I mean hearty, belly laughs that keep comin'!!!❤

No fr 😂

Yes, totally.

No, we can`t burn out our boy.

😂 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 😅

😂 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.

Agreed

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". 🙃🤣

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 : )

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!!😂❤💫

@@user-zb7uh2ob1r 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 do you have a photo attached to your name??😮😮😮

By being a member 😂

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.

How very Dr. Seuss of you, I approve!😆

That joke killed me 😂

Can I quote you and Josh to my class this week? I want them to analyze it. Dig deep.

He has 2 specials out

​@@ashtree336WHAT? Where?

this 'kid' is mid-30, so he's old, according to people now😊

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'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

I don't miss it but I do miss the lack of people condescendingly telling you to Google things that have no useful search results

Beats Wiki

Patty Mayonnaise was the sh!t and Skeeter stayed lit!

Lucky. 6:54

Ehwehn Buuuh!!

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Just finished a thousand pages in at least 3 different books in the last month 😅😊& starting another one after watching Josh joke about life

I feel so old reading my slow Kindle these days