Live From The 405 Podcast · Luke Allen, Stand Up Comic & Comedy Writer

Live From The 405, Episode 526

·1 hr 42 min·5 clips

Larson’s in Woodland Hills had good turkey, but the whipped cream problem became the running joke.

The episode opens in familiar Live From the 405 style, with a fast greeting that lands right in Thanksgiving territory. He locks onto people who try to be above turkey and the holiday itself, treating the whole anti-Thanksgiving pose like fake originality. Turkey, in his view, is good enough to love without pretending it needs a year-round relationship. From there he moves into a TV watch that pulled him in enough to keep going for three episodes. Then he backs off and starts wondering whether he even cares enough to finish it. The complaint is less about any single plot point than the fatigue of pushing through a misery parade that keeps demanding patience. The monologue then swings into a violent historical set piece involving a wagon train, a warning not to settle in a certain stretch of land, and a deadly attack carried out by Mormons and Native Americans together. He lingers on the scene because it felt harrowing and because the staging reminded him of The Revenant. That comparison gives him another way into the idea that familiar influence can still land when the execution is strong enough. He keeps widening the frame from there. What bothers him is not just one show or one scene but the broader drift toward lowered standards. He circles back to the same complaint from a few angles until it starts to feel like a thesis from someone who would rather be irritated than polished. Then he goes fully back to the real world. He talks through being out and about, trying to choose between a burrito and a chicken salad, and running into chaos at both places. The annoyance is simple: every spot is out of chicken. He turns that into a joke about a chicken embargo, as if the whole city has somehow forgotten basic lunch competence. The joke works because it is so petty and so sincere at the same time. That is the shape of the episode overall: holiday gripes, TV fatigue, frontier carnage, and a lunch errand all folded into one irritated run of thought. He never really treats any of it as separate from the rest. It all becomes one long argument about how annoying the world is when it ought to know better. The pacing stays quick and unfiltered. He interrupts himself, corrects himself, and chases side thoughts without smoothing them out. That roughness is the point. The episode sounds like someone talking mid-day, mid-task, and mid-annoyance, then realizing the annoyance itself is the material.

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A post-Thanksgiving rant that moves from show fatigue to frontier violence and a chicken shortage joke.

Episode 526 starts in familiar holiday territory, with turkey talk and a show complaint, then keeps widening its circle into a wagon-train massacre, lowered standards, and a lunch errand that becomes a chicken shortage joke.

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