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

Speaking of Mike being a frail dude, he was a huge girl about his weight. he proudly talked about his weight being only 140 lbs in 2012 after getting kicked from the comedy "club" for his amphetamine addiction and going to rehab for a few months. Mike never saves his money so he was living on begging paypigs for delivery.

Up until 2016 he sort of gave up being a comedy show to just being a slice of life-personal type of show. he really spilled his guts during those episodes. So Mike wasn't joking when talking about being 130lbs, which also means he's a tiny guy. He was 130 lbs and wore size 30 pants and at 180lbs wore size 34 if that can help you with his real height.

Another fun fact about Mike that probably plays into his health problems is that his foot turns in when he walks.

Anyways AMA about Mike David and his 1200 square foot apartment he paid 225k for in 2007
 
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The thread bump now will let me tell you about why Mike and Kyle didn't own a comedy club. In comedy there's a thing called a bar show, its exactly what it sounds like, a show at a bar. Just like how every bar seems to have a trivia night nowadays, two decades ago they were all about the comedy show. So they approached a nightclub and gave them an amazing deal, before the nightclub opens at 11pm they'll host a comedy show. the club gets all the money from the food and drinks, and they'll just keep the ticket money. because it was a huge nightclub they were able to seat 200 people in there, with 4 shows and $20 tickets that shit added up quick. The reason people think its a comedy club and not a bar show is because almost every bar show doesn't exactly pay the talent. They might get paid in drink tickets or a meal but not in actual cash because most of the time they can't charge tickets or sell enough tickets. Because of how shitty the standup comedy scene was in chicago, Mike actually paying the talent plus the large amounts of seats meant it was the 2nd biggest standup comedy show in the entire city. being an improv town meant most comedy shows were free bar shit and was more of a glorified hang out than a real career to most of the people in the scene. So the Redbar comedy club was a huge deal at the time.

Thats also why Just For Laughs in chicago hit them to be one of the places to host comedians back in 2010/2011. It was a dream for Mike who was such a lonely bastard that he'd constantly make excuses like hosting aftershows to keep his co-hosts around. Now Mike was the biggest name in Chicago comedy, he literally could choose if you had a career in stand up or not and its why everyone was tolerating him for that brief period. Mike even admits to letting RBR die during that point. 2009-2011 is fucking unlistenable. Mike was too busy living the high life and having people kiss his ass to actually care about the show, which is a big reason for his downfall...

So for all the people online saying Mike has a trust fund or rich jew parents that brought him a comedy club. thats not true at all. Literally he just found a huge gap in the market and was able to convince people to pay $20 to watch people tell jokes at a bar and made bank off it. Mike even said how he did it and that anyone could do it, you just keep asking bars until one says yes to hosting an event and set up a ticket system and you've done 90% of the work. Thats how Mike was able to host the live events too, you just have to find any venue in need of some customers and offer to fill it. They will usually say yes because it doesn't cost them anything.

Most normies are confused on the idea of hosting comedy shows outside of a comedy venue but thats 99% of places that do comedy at this point. A physical comedy club is actually a pretty rare thing nowadays. Its like thinking anywhere that has a trivia night is a trivia club, its sort of stupid for you to assume.
If he bought it how is it not a condo?
because i'm one of those weirdos who thinks words dont mean a thing. like what even is a mansion?

You're right its a condo. its just that an urban building with many units to me is an apartment. Sorry about that.
 
say he wants to fuck 12 year old girls and more
Its funny you should bring that up, the girl in that clip everyone shares where he's talking about girls isn't actually 12, she's 21. she's a french jewish listener who Mike refused to fuck despite her being a regular during his call in era (2007-2013), she has a pretty good story about going to the live show and being forced to take a bus and wait a few hours because Mike was terrible about planning out live shows and then at the after party Mike didn't fuck her despite them both knowing she was giving out all the vibes and her asking him to come into the shower with her and all sorts of near porno level come ons.

Mike's ED is a notorious subplot in the first half of redbar, its a big reason why his girlfriends like Britney hobbs would cheat on him (like with future director Jordan Vogt-roberts) because he just couldn't satisfy them.

If you're an avid listener you can pretty much figure out how many sexual partner Mike has had, and its like a dozen at most. You have:
  1. the girl he lost his virginity to at 14
  2. an internet hook up at 19
  3. britney hobbes
  4. Katie from Detroit
  5. Michelle the comedian that worked at a bowling alley
  6. the woman he had a "threesome" with when hanging out with Kyle
  7. woman that gave comedian Drew Michael (zimmerman?) herpes.
  8. Danielle
  9. Jules
Maybe 2 or 3 i'm forgetting about, but Mike is such a Cha'Nerd he proudly exclaimed every time he had sex, prior to Jules moving in.

Mike didn't fuck multiple groupies during his life shows when women that were his "type" were there such as the french jew in texas or Sam Jeffcoats in Arizona or multiple other women.

Mike even has multiple episodes where he throws a pity party because his girlfriends at the time tried to have sex with him only for his cock not to respond. begging fans to ship him boner pills to help him out.

I'd say roughly half the girlfriends Mike has had ended up cheating on him/leaving because of his inability to fuck them.

Say what you will about Mike's ED but thats a huge reason he hasn't gotten D'elia'd, can't sweet talk the underage if you don't allow yourself around them. Honestly going after Mike for being a pedo won't hurt him, especially with his current fanbase, and it certainly won't affect him. For that stuff you have to look at his older episodes where he talks about wanting to kill himself and begging people to call in or be his friend.

There's a reason RBR fans basically admit you aren't allowed to venture before 2016 in the archive. Mike without Jules was such a miserable guy, and the "fools watching" doesn't really kick into high gear until 2016. And thats because he then decided to go after Patrick Melton who was the originator of the fools watch way back in 2005 and he decided to steal that entire format while also going after TACN subscribers.

Mike didn't learn to control himself until Jules essentially, he spent more time yelling at the 40 listeners he had and banning them than actually producing content most of the time. Pre-2016 Mike was literally unironically Ethan Ralph tier.
 
Zero chance he's taller than 5' 8" from the sound of it.
Mike is easily 5'4. Thats the only way the pants dimensions make a lick of sense. 34 waist isn't that huge and to get that at 180 pounds means you have to be pretty tiny. anyone over 5'6 is struggling to fit in size 30 without a belt. Another fun bit i like to touch on is Mike's heath issues, mike gloats about being able to drop 25% of his body weight in the span of about 3 months. Which you might not know is something that most people on The Biggest Loser can't even do and they're literally 2x Mike's size. To naturally shed pounds that quickly, especially when you sit in a desk 20 feet from your bed for years on end and you eat a restaurant sized meal every day means something fucked has been going on with his body for awhile.

And that doesn't even factor in the booze he'd intake. most people can't lose 10 pounds in a month with no change to their diet unless something bad has been happening to their body during that time.
 
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Is there a photo of Mike at 180lbs anywhere? I have zero frame of reference, but I can't picture a guy at 5'4 180lbs who isn't just round. I'm assuming a normal weight at 5'4 is like 120-130.
 
I didn't get into Redbar until ~2018, and I know people have always been dubious of Mike's story of being at the Elan School given Mike is known to exaggerate and lie since he's an entertainer. Because of my own similar experience and fascination with cults and the troubled teen industry, I'm glad I found one of the clipper channels that has an interview from 2015 with the director of a documentary about Elan called The Last Stop. I was always 50/50 on whether Mike was being truthful about going to Elan, since Mike's Boarding School Story can't be found anymore, but I'm 100% convinced now. He knows too many weird little details and the terms they would use like "LEs" and given that the director also went there, that puts the credibility of his film at risk interviewing someone who's lying.
 
Everyone seems to forget the 2013 or 2014 “teen” phase Mike was into by finding 17 and 18 year olds on Craigslist and bribing them with weed for sex in hotels. He also tried to fuck wittykitty but she was repulsed by him and tried to have threesomes with almost every male cohost. Mike trying to get a listener to have a 3 way with Dean was what made him tell Katie Schuster about Mike’s serial cheating which got Dean fired from the show. He’s also like 5’6” or so. There was analysis from him standing next to listeners and Charlie sheen.

Mike’s elan story is most likely fake and probably a result of a link to a forum Dean sent him months before they talked about. He went to the ombudsman special school because Stevenson kicked him out. During the Elan show an actual Elan student who went during the time Mike claimed to be there called in and Mike is notably shaken from being called out as the guy doesn’t remember him being there.

Mike also literally claimed to be the “hero” of elan who lead a revolt which lead to its eventual downfall but no one can verify this, not even the woman Mike claims to have fallen in love with when fans found out who it was (from employee names on a forum).
 
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I have a couple of theories about Mike. I'm kind of on the fence with each of them, though:

1) He's a cripple. We know, by Jules' and his own admission, that he was bed-ridden for months and in a lot of pain. Plus just from watching his show, he just looks like his legs don't work. Seriously, when's the last time we've seen him standing? The way he does everything sitting down, reaching for things, using his pointer thingy, etc. Idk, it looks like someone who can't walk. And his chair has those metal bars which I think may be for support when he has to force himself up and into his hypothetical wheelchair.

2) He's dyeing his hair gray. He had black hair and then it went pretty much completely gray within a year. Sure it could be he was always graying and actually dyeing it black and just stopped doing that, but I don't think so. It doesn't look natural me. I think it's more of a fashion thing, or maybe Jules prefers it (the distinguished older gentleman look). Or maybe it's to trick the audience into thinking he's old sick when in reality he's cripple sick (see theory #1). Take a good close up look at it and see what you think.

Other than that, I still mostly enjoy the show. I really hate most comedians and podcasters, so I like a show that largely centers around making fun of them and nitpicking them.

I do agree with some of the criticism, though. I wish he wasn't so afraid of being criticized: I feel like he's constantly coating his political views with sarcasm and absurdity in an attempt to make them harder to pin down.

I think Jules is alright, for the most part. Once in awhile she even surprises me with something really funny. Interrupts too much, though. Alogether she's about as cool as a female co-host could possible be.
 
by finding 17 and 18 year olds on Craigslist and bribing them with weed for sex in hotels
Mike didn't have the cash nor the connects for either weed or hotels. Like i said his dick doesn't really work. also i can tell you're a james fritz era fan because of how you go from 2013 to dean carlson. If Mike fucked a teenager he would have bragged about it all over and in fact he got quite a few "teens" who came to his live shows (at various airbnb venues) who proceeded to call him out for not banging despite him acting like a sexual dude. There were quite a few episodes where mike begs the fans to send him viagra as well because of how useless his dick is. And its a big reason why his girlfriends would cheat on him.

Mike's own history of being a child rape victim is probably another big reason why he full blanket banned even talking to the under 18 (or under 21) after his lawsuit fiascos in 2006. you can talk shit about mike all you want, just be honest about it.

You talk about witty kitty but she was part of the roughly quarter of the fanbase who didn't come back after Mike got booted from the club (which he deserved btw) meaning you clearly stopped listening a long time ago. there's a pretty good shot you never even listened to the Elan story if we're being honest.

Honestly outside of the David Angelo/bridenstein era Mike was completely shit during the james fritz days. Mike never really found his "niche" until he stole NLO's and starting going after other podcasts/comedians.

Mike is such a "penis puppet" type that he reflects his cohosts hard, its why he pretended to be a lady when jules started co hosting and why he was so Sven-esque during the die era.

Mike reflects hard, he did it to literally all the co hosts and then baby dick drew michael too.
I have a couple of theories about Mike.
he's had documented health problems for years and literally had his fans buy him prilosec even when he rarely had enough money to afford food, so it would be absurd for him to fake it, and mike's genuinely not smart enough to keep up a bit for 15 years. He isn't fucking Fez Whatley, who made sure he was sober as a churchmouse while playing his character, Mike was constantly black out drunk and still whining about his health, thats literally daniel day lewis levels of talent.

Mike was complaining about his health even when he was young and wasn't smart enough to realize how much worse it was, Mike had rapid weight fluctuations that were obviously medically bad (and aged him hard) but he didn't realize it. one time losing 17 pounds in 45 days and another time losing 45 pounds in 90 days. To be able to do that while broke and without anything beyond basic exercises you can do in your living room is shocking. Thats the sort of weight loss you see on commercials and people call it unrealistic. Mike also had the ability to out eat his co-hosts who were usually literally twice his size too meaning his stomach must have been completely shit. Mike's creeped out by throw up too so we know he wasn't pulling a katie and barfing it up.

Mike also talked about having problems walking "as far back as i can remember" his foot turns in while he walks and its a big reason he's always sitting. and if he was uncomfortable walking during the literal prime of his life, he probably is using a wheel chair now. Mike never had health insurance and could only afford sketchy doctors so his health problems are probably on par with what you'd find in the average 40 year old back in the 40s.

Mike smoking 2 packs a day from 13 to 30 is a big reason he looks so old, he was already whining about getting greys in 2012 and its a big reason he shaved for so long. If you ever watch older clips its pretty apparent he's weirded out by his aging, its why he has on hats and glasses and hiding while having a camera literally pointed at his fucking face. he won't talk about it in the modern era but he was always a nerdy loser. Mike was more willing to get suspended from school than go to gym class for instance. literally every "girlfriend" he had as an adult came from the internet. he'd have to fly across the country to get his penis touched. he is/was your sterrotypical weaser fanboy. Thats a big reason he goes full BPD chick on his "friends" he doesn't have many/any so he'll act like your perfect match if you bother befriending him. He pulled multiple 180s on james fritz.

The only reason he "fell in love" with kyle lane is because out of everyone that appeared on the show, he was the only one that was willing to go out with him and didn't vanish once the show ended. Bridenstein letting him tagalong during the blerds group stuff is a big reason Mike was obsessed with moving to LA for over a decade. Its weird too because mike had high standards for who he wants as a friend and constantly rejected people that reached out like TimOthy but if you met his qualifications and let him in he'd act like a crazy obsessive girlfriend. Even Kyle Lane said he was the worst ex-girlfriend he ever had (which is telling because he was the northwestern russell brand)

IIRC Mike also would take his brother's sloppy seconds a lot of the time too. thats how pathetic mike was before Sven really helped him become the redbar we all know and love.
when he has to force himself up and into his hypothetical wheelchair.
on a semi-recent episode back during the chicago studio days he literally showed that he was sitting in a wheelchair, this isn't a theory. also his dad aged super quick too, so it shouldn't surprise you that mike did. On the episode Mike's dad appeared on, he doesn't look like he's in his 50s, he looks much older and especially sounds like Tom Bosley on his deathbed. also mike clearly didn't go grey in a year, you clearly have never brought scars ever because you can literally see it get worse and worse month after month.

Its hilarious how many things people say about Mike David can easily be proven by literally just watching episodes instead of clips.
 
He should just own it.
What are your thoughts on the Sven call?
Here’s a video for anyone curious.
I imagine it was posted pages ago.
Might have to watch/listen to this tonight at work. Is it where he says Mike has to wear diapers?

@Get the rope Macaulay!
Wow! You seem to have an impressive grasp on all things Redbar. I actually was a Scarsclub member for awhile. I binged it for awhile, the last few seasons anyway, and then canceled it. There are hundreds upon hundreds of (very long) episodes, so you'll have to forgive me if I haven't seen everything haha.

Man, that sucks that he really is that immobilized. I'm glad he met Jules, though. As he said, she helped him through some very hard times. And they seem perfect for each other, it shows on the show. I love the little moments where they both get excited about the same thing or Mike does something silly and she laughs. Wholesome stuff.
 
2) He's dyeing his hair gray. He had black hair and then it went pretty much completely gray within a year. Sure it could be he was always graying and actually dyeing it black and just stopped doing that, but I don't think so. It doesn't look natural me. I think it's more of a fashion thing, or maybe Jules prefers it (the distinguished older gentleman look). Or maybe it's to trick the audience into thinking he's old sick when in reality he's cripple sick (see theory #1). Take a good close up look at it and see what you think.
He was already starting to go grey by 2018, then he took an entire year off in 2021/22 so we didn't see him during that time. When he came back the change was a bit jarring, but I don't really think it's unrealistic to go from full black to full grey in your late 30s/early 40 over the course of 5 years, especially if you're in poor health.

I do believe he has health issues. I think he probably has fibromyalgia or another one of those psychosomatic woman diseases and he doesn't want to talk about it for obvious reasons.
 
, the last few seasons anyway,
20 (actually more like 16, he never put back up the 03-06 shows because he hated how cringe he was) years of archives and people only pay attention to the last seasons.

Which is good for him because he literally stopped being such a sad pathetic loser once he decided to start numbering the episodes and calling them "seasons"
 
20 (actually more like 16, he never put back up the 03-06 shows because he hated how cringe he was) years of archives and people only pay attention to the last seasons.

Which is good for him because he literally stopped being such a sad pathetic loser once he decided to start numbering the episodes and calling them "seasons"
I was listening to the archives last year, but started listening to 2015 shows. He made it seem like women were easy to bed, like the Bachelor black girl. What was his personality before 2015?
 
like the Bachelor black girl.
a black girl on the internet especially pre-myspace would have been extremely easy to fuck. Also Kyle Lane literally taught mike everything he knew about banging chicks, such a shame Mike's ED got in the way of that. Mike always tried to seem like a chad. I'm at least half sure Mike is making up the story with the black girl just because of how hard he mocked literally any other man for even admitting to being attracted to non-white women during those days, he literally called it bestiality. Plus if he did fuck a black chick he'd 100% have told people as a way to prove he isn't racist. fucking a black chick would have easily been a great topic for an episode, Mike was perfectly fine talking about how bad he is at sex or his nonfunctioning penis or how comedian Drew Michael has a small penis or that he fucked the same woman that gave Drew Michael herpes (and if you know your math properties you can infer here)

What was his personality before 2015?
a lot goofier. post-take over his best friends were an albino and a giant, even mike admited it was weird to be part of such a freak show but it was literally the best he could do. Mike was mostly the same only with no girlfriend or steady income or thriving fanbase he was extremely insecure. The best way to describe Mike pre-2015 is to imagine if a sterrotypical BPD chick/latina hosted redbar. IIRC 2015 he wasn't all about covering fools, but he was getting there. Mike is classic mike when he's over examining videos but if he's out of his element he's a blatant loser. if you have access to the archive 06-26-13 is the perfect episode to listen to. its Mike at his most stereotypical for that "era"

If you notice Mike is also super reliant on people calling in. Mike was completely different during the call in era. There's a reason classic mike starts in 2015. Mike's worst traits popped up when dealing with people, once he stopped doing that his reputation/confidence/talent all skyrocketed. Mike banned 200 people during this era while only having 20 live listeners some episodes. Also i said this is his most stereotypical episode, its not even in the bottom hundred from this era.
 
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