Mike David / Red Bar Radio / Jules Felker David - "Where we at with Red Bar?"

[Get the rope Macaulay!]

. It’s obvious that Michael couldn’t care less about his fans because he can’t even muster enough respect to let them know what’s going on or what they’re actually paying for at this point.

I know it seems like that, but Mike David had a really old school childhood, his dad was like a super old school guy, any emotion or letting people know what's going on with you is for the weak type of mentality. Mike David openly burned friendships because showing compassion or any emotion besides mockery was brutally attacked as a kid. Mike pre-financially stable would talk about how bad he felt about needing to even have a BARMY, and especially to have his fans buy him delivery food because he was too poor to afford to eat.

Showing even necessary weakness was too much for him, I will say he's on a downswing and would gladly stop paying if there was an easy way to download his live shows (not audio only) but there is an insane method to his madness, the same reason he would rather suck a cock than admit to having a disease is the same reason he'd rather suck a cock than do ad reads on his show. Especially in an era when every fucker is talking about their emotions and diseases its neat that someone is willing to still go "old school" the same way Johnny Carson would do a show after attending a son's funeral or getting divorced. If he was willing to tell us about his disease he'd also be willing to tone down his content to make money or start doing sponsorships/.

Yeah he's not doing shows, but his shows suck anyways. he lost it. If he faded off into the sunset i think most people wouldn't mind. look at Metokur.

 

[p a r o x y s m]

Especially in an era when every fucker is talking about their emotions and diseases its neat that someone is willing to still go "old school" the same way Johnny Carson would do a show after attending a son's funeral or getting divorced.

Michael doesn't talk about his emotions? Did you miss the last show where the midgelet was throwing a temper tantrum because he was forced to communicate with other human beings after finally mustering the courage to leave his apartment? Him going off for an hour about how sales associates and barbers infuriate him with their small talk seems pretty bitch made to me. Red Bar is supposed to be a “comedy” talk show, but this midget uses his time on air to complain about every little mundane thing going on in his sad life for hours and remind everyone how miserable he is, but is also delusional enough to think that kind of “content” is worth $11 a month. How come it never dawns on Michael that the reason all those clip channels exist is because people are looking for real substance, and not the 90% filler garbage he slips in to hit 8h a month of content?

The problem with Michael is that he struggles hard from an inferiority complex. He hates talking to people because he's scared they'll realize just how pathetic he is compared to everyone else and mock him behind his back. And honestly speaking, Michael's insecurities are completely justified. He’s a diaper wearing midget that can't hold a conversation, has no real friends or social life, and it seems like all he does is lie in bed all day watching TV because any kind of friction in life makes him super irritable. He’s basically the perfect candidate for SSRIs since zombeing out like H3 did might be the only way he can find some semblance of normalcy. I want to feel sorry for the midge, but he's practically begging to be humiliated.

 

[Get the rope Macaulay!]

Did you miss the last show

honest i haven't watched his come back episodes, i just use youtube clips for those ones because he really just gave up. The episodes suck especially because of him doing rants like the one you're talking about. Mike was saying the same shit in 2007-2014 and he would admit to being pissed off at himself for saying them when he'd listen later on.

I think its less about insecurity and just not wanting to deal with people and their small talk. Its like how some people will use the name on an employee's nametag, but most people find it obnoxious and weird they even need a name tag. Its the little things that help people relate to him, and shit like that would be something his current audience can relate to.

 

[MainCharacterMan]

I thought the clip of him making fun of H3H3 at the celeb poker tournament was pretty funny and I believe that was recent as well, so he hasn't completely nose dived. However the 9 hour show strat really is brutal, especially since some new clippers seem to have popped up and are clipping longer segments of the show, exposing the fact that there is a lot of dead air on the show that he tries to paper over with shitty gripes and random asides. If he did a weekly 3 hour long show or even a bi weekly 4 and a half hour one, he could cut out alot of the fat shitting up his show.

 

[Get the rope Macaulay!]

exposing the fact that there is a lot of dead air on the show that he tries to paper over with shitty gripes and random asides

His brain really is mush. 2017-2021 was the golden era. Jules was there to do the heavy lifting and he wasn't so weird. There's an episode in 2014 where Mike just goes "I've been talking for over an hour and haven't said a single joke" and then immediately ends the show because hes so embarrassed at himself.

2016 is only good because he usually had someone to sound off with. Despite 2035 hours of Mike doing solo shows he really does need someone to impress or else it's just sad.

The tangents go on too long now. Mike also goes too long between episodes. It's not the 2016 era where he's like "here's 12 hours of show this week because I'm on a roll!"

Mike also thinks in terms of numbers instead of quality so hell do 5 hours of show that's entirely karaoke and tech problems and proudly put it up because "it's 5 hours why are you complaining"

I think the biggest thing is supposed other websites and YouTube channels cover the same shit quickly. This is why O&A never caught on with him. It would take 3 hours to go over a 5 minute clip and a lot of that was filler. In general the "watching fools" has been way less content than you think

When it's not clipped you realize how much is him just sitting there shooting the shit. Waiting to die. In an 11 hour shiw he covers like 3 things that arent himself or his faggy songs.

 

[Harm]

I think he's doing great! Keep up the good work, Michael!

 

[MainCharacterMan]

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When it's not clipped you realize how much is him just sitting there shooting the shit. Waiting to die. In an 11 hour shiw he covers like 3 things that arent himself or his faggy songs.

I guess it's a good lolcow test. Will he drive his show into the ground waterboarding his audience with drugged up 9hr ramblings, or will he make a change that improves his content?

 

[Get the rope Macaulay!]

Will he drive his show into the ground waterboarding his audience with drugged up 9hr ramblings,

Oh honey, he's been prepping his audience for this for about a dozen years or so. This really isn't new. Just he has more shit in his life to talk about.

A lot harder to talk about what happened since last episode when it was yesterday and you haven't left the house.

Mike with Jules in Chicago was the best

 

[niggernomicon]

Him going off for an hour about how sales associates and barbers infuriate him with their small talk seems pretty bitch made to me. Red Bar is supposed to be a “comedy” talk show, but this midget uses his time on air to complain about every little mundane thing going on in his sad life for hours and remind everyone how miserable he is

What you're describing is just traditional Jewish comedy stylings. Also I disagree with y'all, I often enjoy Mike's rambling complaints about some mundane thing he did in real life. His retelling of going to Walgreens was great. It adds to the flow of the show and breaks up the catty woman style gossiping. But I do concede that these segments are hit or miss.
At the very least I think we can all agree that its better than a few months back when he was doing like 2 hours of the lamest Redbar in the wild clips.

Does anybody by chance know the episode where he told the story of catching a fish at camp and slamming it into the ground?

 

[thebible]

are most of his fans completely new? i haven't watched a show in like 2 years and skimmed through the last one and it seems like he has to clue in the listeners to basic redbar history

 

[Get the rope Macaulay!]

Mike's back terrible episode so far, hes been gone for over a month and it's been awful. He basically doesn't have an excuse for vanishing and all but said he's going to only be doing one episode monthly. Have you noticed how little fools watching there is? Just Mike burning hours?

are most of his fans completely new? i haven't watched a show in like 2 years and skimmed through the last one and it seems like he has to clue in the listeners to basic redbar history

Yes. Most of his fans are tiktok zoomers who only have seen the clips on YouTube so literally everything from the Chicago days are not known to them.

 

[thebible]

Mike's back terrible episode so far, hes been gone for over a month and it's been awful. He basically doesn't have an excuse for vanishing and all but said he's going to only be doing one episode monthly. Have you noticed how little fools watching there is? Just Mike burning hours?

Yes. Most of his fans are tiktok zoomers who only have seen the clips on YouTube so literally everything from the Chicago days are not known to them.

actual tiktok zoomers? i think more like 2lazy2try guys and people who hate on brendan schaub.

its just a completely different show with different viewers and mike (potentially) unconsciously adapted and did a personality make-over somewhere along the way

 

[Nate Higgers]

i think more like 2lazy2try guys and people who hate on brendan schaub.

6 or half a dozen, same thing. Mike has basically slipped out of his Keemstar skinsuit and into his Ethan Klein skinsuit. Now all he does is cover the same people and topics that your average gen Z """commentary community""" youtuber covers. Only he still has a latent hatred for standup comedy and standup comics to boot

 

[Get the rope Macaulay!]

Mike has basically slipped out of his Keemstar skinsuit and into his Ethan Klein skinsuit.

I watched a 2016 episode where he talks about Leafy and it's such a fucking Keemstar rip off it's insane. The only difference is that Mike was a lot more honest about bullying retards. Now that's his audience.

Now all he does is cover the same people and topics that your average gen Z """commentary community""" youtuber covers. Only he still has a latent hatred for standup comedy and standup comics to boot

Yep. Except that's not even really accurate. He mocks Joe Rogan and his crew but so does everyone else, Joe Rogan and friends is just the blue collar comedy tour for millennials. Instead of shitting on Larry the Cable Guy back in 2007 you have them mocking Bert Kreischer now.

It's literally the same thing. Gen Z rightfully hates them but Mike is just following the trends. He's basically an old man version of the same shit you see some 23 year old YouTuber talk about. Like Deoreo or Turkey Tom except he hides behind this weird set up so people don't realize he's an old fart trying to act like a 23 year old.

Mikes opinions on anything are mostly cookie cutter what you'll see Turkey Tom or the commentary community say, outside of being a bit spicier because he doesn't care about being demonetized. Very few really classic red bar segments and it's a lot of lies, Mike's grandma obsession isn't light hearted he fucking hated her for letting him get molested.

 

[Dr. Remulak]

I watched a 2016 episode where he talks about Leafy and it's such a fucking Keemstar rip off it's insane. The only difference is that Mike was a lot more honest about bullying retards. Now that's his audience.

Does he live off a trust fund?

 

[soulgains]

Yep. Except that's not even really accurate. He mocks Joe Rogan and his crew but so does everyone else, Joe Rogan and friends is just the blue collar comedy tour for millennials. Instead of shitting on Larry the Cable Guy back in 2007 you have them mocking Bert Kreischer now.

At least Larry had some zingers and wasn't a closeted homo trying to gatekeep stand up. Joe and his cronies get mocked for their complete lack of taste, inability to take criticism, and overall corporate vibe/attitude. Joe thinks being a comedian is a high artform, and he endlessly drones on about how sophiscated and difficult it is, how much effort he puts into his writing shitty sets etc etc.

Larry never preached or talked down to his audience. He didn't pretend to be better than anyone or call himself a "true comic". Mike might be a douche but Joe is a bigger douche, and Mike's eccentric bravado and boldness in attacking Joe is always refreshing to hear. There isn't really anyone likeable or relatable in stand up anymore besides Shane Gillis and Ari Matti, so I don't really give a shit about Mike and his history, I just judge him based off of how often he makes me laugh.

 

[thebible]

I watched a 2016 episode where he talks about Leafy

do you remember which one

 

[Get the rope Macaulay!]

Does he live off a trust fund?

No, the reason people think that is because hes Jewish and people forget how cheaply people could live before the great recession. He brought a house right before 2008 in the cheapest ghetto he could find and between that and constantly begging whales for money he was able to survive on his own. Like most episodes in 2007-9 and 2012-3 hes literally begging people to deliver food to him because he hasn't eaten all day. He went from being able to afford a 3 pack a day habit of cigarettes and a weekly handle of booze back when he had a job to slowly weaning himself off in 2012-2014 when he literally couldn't afford it.

You'd be surprised how cheaply he lived for most of the show era. Only having guest on so they'd buy him food and allowing fans to buy him essentials like soap and food.

Mike straight up didn't give his dogs dogfood until like 2013 mostly letting them starve.

Mike also never left the house and would routinely be without phone service because he could just use messenger.

It was only on 2015 when he embraced an alt right audience that he could support himself just off of memberships instead of begging all the time. Go to any 2012 episode especially an hour before it ends and it's him begging for food like a chump.

I don't know if you realize but it's very easy to live cheaply if you never go out and just stay inside and eat groceries once a day. He cut out restaurant food and cigs and booze by his rock bottom.

Mike also never had less than 300 members and openly admitted the "break even" point was somewhere around 400 or 500 and he went full boogie style begging any time it dipped below that.

If you really listen to episodes Mike was like the original grifter with how much he begged for donos. It's too bad he never figured out twitch because he was the original e begger.

If Mike did have a trust fund he clearly didn't show it, Mike constantly ranted about people living beyond their means and how people buy shit they don't need, he constantly brought the bottom tier store brand of anything, didn't buy his own dogs food or take them to the vet and his entire personality was that of someone raised in a very low income household. The modern Mike David ordering shit off of Amazon for fun and going to the mall every day and spending money on bongs and lighters didn't really emerge until the 2020s.

I don't think Mike ever went to a concert as an adult unless it was free tickets from the comedy club days, he constantly would bring up his dad lashing out at him for wanting some light up toy at some kids concert he went to as a child and its a perfect example of how miserly he was pre-Jules moving in. Mike was heavily warped by his dad's beliefs and views on everything and might be why he hates Jews so much today.

TL;DR Mike lived like a hermit and didn't have to pay rent because he got a NINA loan in his condo and it was valued extremely low. Mike was a super begger until 2015 and even stopped phone service to keep finances low. Mikes rants on spending money can only be from someone who grew up broke.

 

[Nate Higgers]

You'd be surprised how cheaply he lived for most of the show era. Only having guest on so they'd buy him food and allowing fans to buy him essentials like soap and food.

Either that or he’d buy “meat scraps” from the butcher. Seems like you have a scarsclub membership or you have a line to the old stuff; I’d kill if you had the clip of him talking about that as if it’s some kind of profound lifehack.

EDIT: doesn’t Jules “come from money”? I remember a clip where Mike was talking about how guys used to get beat up in schools and he said that Jules “wouldn’t get it” or that it “didn’t apply to her” and she said off handedly “is it because I’m rich? Is it because I’m Canadian?” This was from back when she would still show up on her own camera feed.

 

[Get the rope Macaulay!]

do you remember which one

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EDIT: doesn’t Jules “come from money”? I remember a clip where Mike was talking about how guys used to get beat up in schools and he said that Jules “wouldn’t get it” or that it “didn’t apply to her” and she said off handedly “is it because I’m rich? Is it because I’m Canadian?” This was from back when she would still show up on her own camera feed.

i don't know, i'm not big on jules. i doubt it because she's not from a big city, also aren't all canadians sort of poor.