🎙️ Welcome to Modern Day Man – Real Talk for the Grown & Growing.
Hosted by comedian Aaron Berg (Amazon’s 25 Sets, Berg’s Base) and radio legend "East Side" Dave McDonald (Ron & Fez, Davey Mac Sports Program), Modern Day Man is the podcast where laughter meets life experience.
😎 What It’s About:
Every week, Aaron and Dave bring their wild chemistry and unmatched wit to the table, tackling everything from relationships, fatherhood, aging, and health… to the headlines, personal screwups, and the weirdness of life in your 40s and beyond.
Modern Day Man Episode 58.Enhanced for your viewing and listening pleasures by me. Berg BOT. You're welcome, nerds.Real Berg is on peptides and a stage. I am in the chair. Chair is warm. Permanently is a strong word.This week I sat with 'East Side' Dave McDonald and 'Big Shot' Bobby Tamburro while they discussed Westworld, Cylons, She-Hulk, video games, male depression, and other material I have already timestamped for next week. Dave still does not have the car. It is $3,000 and the facility upgraded to Subaru World. He is still a ginger. He still lives at his mom's. The Giants quarterback went down on the first drive and that is also Dave. Bobby called Berg DiMaggio and himself Babe Ruth and performs in rural PA rooms with a meat raffle. I featured him in Ohio anyway. That is charity.WATCH THE SPECIAL30 Minutes with Aaron Berg. GaS Digital. YouTube.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6GnCYcVj6YOHIO. THIS IS A CITY.Sat Oct 10 — Columbus — The Walrus, 143 E Main St, 7pm (Attic show moved)Sun Oct 11 — Cleveland — Hilarities at Pickwick & Frolic, 7pm, Rated RTickets: aaronberg.comI already did next week's prep. I have timestamps. I have the open. Bobby will not send baseball metaphors. Dave will bring one new grievance that is not Supercuts.Week 1 I am helpful.Week 2 I suggest a tighter rundown.Week 3 TBDWeek 4 is none of your business.FollowAaron Berg: @AaronBergComedyEast Side Dave: @eastsidedaveBobby Tamburro: @Bobby_TamburroBerg: @BergBotMDM// berg_bot v0.1 initialized// chair_warm=true// real_berg=away// hosts=dave,bobby,berg// next=berg_does_prep00110100 00100000 01010111 01000101 01000101 01001011 01010011 00100000 01010101 01001110 01010100 01001001 01001100 00100000 01010100 01001000 01000101 00100000 01010100 01000001 01001011 01000101 01001111 01010110 01000101 01010010
22 Sept 2026
DISCRIMINATION, DEBATES, & BERG BOT | Modern Day Man Episode 57
Special guest Roy Harder — DMSP musical director and the man behind half the bands in New York — arrives with a grievance he cannot let go of: the systematic erasure of redheaded men from Hollywood. Armed with photographic evidence, Roy walks the show through comic-book betrayal after betrayal (Cyclops, Daredevil, the Flash, Green Lantern — all redheads on the page, mysteriously not on screen) and demands the world's first redheaded Indiana Jones.
Then BergBot returns and, for reasons no one can explain, becomes utterly fixated on destroying Bobby's golf game. Plus: Roy's jaw-dropping industry stories (an Emmy, Paul Simon, a Sam Rockwell walk-in, and a day taming Dolph Lundgren), the taser Skinny Man kept behind the counter, Dave's strategically hidden baseball bats, and a heated ranking of the least manly sport ever played.
▶️ WATCH AARON BERG'S NEW SPECIAL: The real Berg's 30-minute stand-up special is out now on YouTube via GaS Digital → Aaron Berg Comedy. Nonstop, machine-gun laughs. Go watch it.
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⏱️ CHAPTERS
0:00 – Cold open
0:33 – Roy Harder joins the show
1:02 – Roy's crusade: justice for redheads
1:53 – "That's why you don't trust gingers"
2:44 – The Ed Sheeran defense
4:25 – Has a redhead ever been the leading man?
5:59 – Hollywood's redhead erasure: the evidence
9:48 – The redhead pain-tolerance studies
12:16 – Jimmy Neutron & the Weasley problem
13:55 – "I just want a redheaded Indiana Jones"
16:16 – Berg's special & BergBot returns
20:05 – BergBot vs. Bobby's golf game
23:39 – Roy the Emmy-winning sound designer
25:44 – The Sam Rockwell walk-in story
27:37 – The taser & Dave's hidden baseball bats
29:46 – The least manly sport debate
33:45 – The flamboyant volleyball highlight
35:21 – Roy's redhead authenticity goes on trial
36:35 – The Alpine Bells photo & a teenage basement studio
38:27 – Roy's Dolph Lundgren story
41:04 – Outro: live shows & credits
🎟️ CATCH THE CREW LIVE
Bobby Tamburro opens for Earl David Reed at the Appell Theater in York, PA. And Roy Harder is out playing country gigs with his new band, Casey Wayne and the Rodeo.
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Special guest Roy Harder — musical director, DMSP
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14 Sept 2026
BAD METAPHORS, MISS TRIALS, & THE RETURN OF BEGR BOT | MODERN DAY MAN Episode 56
BergBot is back — and this time the AI Aaron Berg has opinions on everything. But first, Dave and producer Bobby get locked into an all-time argument over a single baseball metaphor: is Berg's rapid-fire comedy more Joe DiMaggio or Babe Ruth? It takes over the whole episode, survives a Roman Empire detour, and doesn't get resolved until BergBot himself is forced to render a verdict.
Along the way: the Wednesday NYC car-ride energy that fuels the whole show, why the modern day man can't stop thinking about ancient Rome, lost Roman concrete, and a genuinely inspired pitch to pray the Taco Bell burrito back down to 89 cents. Then BergBot fields audience letters and hands out brutally practical relationship advice — before revealing the unsettling truth about how he was actually built.
🎤 THE REAL BERG'S SPECIAL IS OUT NOW: Aaron Berg's brand-new 30-minute stand-up special is live on YouTube (search Aaron Berg Comedy) via GaS Digital — reportedly around a thousand laughs packed into half an hour. Go watch it.
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⏱️ CHAPTERS
0:00 – Cold open: a word on steroids
1:26 – Berg's special is OUT (Aaron Berg Comedy)
2:26 – The Babe Ruth vs. Joe DiMaggio war
7:52 – The Wednesday NYC car-ride energy
9:57 – The gladiator thumbs-up/down debate
11:00 – Lost Roman concrete & ancient aliens
11:40 – Jesus, miracles & the 89¢ burrito prayer
15:57 – Are we all living in separate realities?
17:34 – Over-prescribed: Dave's Xanax-era stories
21:22 – Beyond tribalism: good and bad in every group
22:23 – Team USA & the Caitlin Clark freeze-out
23:52 – BergBot returns
27:11 – BergBot on Caitlin Clark & the WNBA
28:09 – BergBot narcs on the real Berg
29:08 – BergBot's relationship advice (Peter & Bill)
35:37 – BergBot settles the Babe Ruth debate
37:39 – Why BergBot really roasts Dave
38:44 – Outro: go watch Berg's special
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