June 30, 2025

Bert Kreischer's new Netflix show

Show Notes
Transcript

Johnny Mac discusses Bert Kresicher getting a new Netflix show called 'Free Bert', where Burt adjusts his antics for his daughters' elite school. Jeff Ross recounts how he convinced Tom Brady to participate in a roast, and Jeff's experience with Brady's reaction to a controversial joke. Margaret Cho criticizes Dave Chappelle's comments about the trans community, while Taylor Tomlinson enjoys performing in Ireland and shares a bit about her upcoming projects. Johnny Mac also critiques the production quality of a new podcast from Deadline and highlights recent beer endorsements by comedians. Finally, a former Russian space chief threatens comedians over a joke about his dissertation.

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Callaroga Shark Media. He there, Shunny Mack with your daily

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comedy news. Bert Kreischer is getting a quote unquote TV show.

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I don't know why I put quote unquote. You know

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what a TV show is. He's getting a Netflix show.

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Probably a better way to phrase it. This one is

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called Free Bert. In Free Bert, Bert finds himself in

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uncharted territory when his daughters are accepted to an elite

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Beverly Hills private school. When Bert's antics turn his family

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into outcast, he decides to put on a shirt and

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stifle his true nature to better fit in. Is it

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me or is that sounding a little Kevin James? Like

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I told you that Tom Sigor is doing lt Gray,

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which feels Tom Sagora and the Machine Movie feels Bert Krescher.

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This feels a little CBS sitcom Bert. Here's another log line.

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Krayser will play a version of himself, a shirtless comedian,

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party legend and perpetual wildcard. His daughters are accepted to

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do an elite private school in Beverly Hills. When his

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antek's turn in the family and ow Cassie decides to

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put a shirt on. Blah blah blah, that's sounding a

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little CBS Bert. I don't know, man, love you, I

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don't know. We'll see. Jeff Ross explained how he got

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Tom Brady to do the roast. Jeff told Howard Stern

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I had seen Brady looking at my Instagram on Super

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Bowl Sunday a few years ago. I was like, why

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is Tom Brady on my Instagram? I had some jokes up.

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Maybe that's how he on wines before a big game

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and then he wins. So I hit him up the

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next day on Instagram, going, dude, it's time for roast.

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You obviously love this stuff, he writes me back. We

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start talking and it turns out my agent and his

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agent work together, and we put a deal together to

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do a roast. Netflix was like sure. I'm like, let's

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elevate this whole thing, bring the roast back bigger. I

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said to Tom right beforehand, why are you doing this?

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And he goes, I love this kind of humor. People

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are too snowflaky right now. It took so long because

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he agreed that he retired and we were like, now's

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our chance. Then he unretired. Then we had to wait

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till he was done playing. Then he was going through

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a divorce, Let's wait for that. Then Netflix was like,

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our festival's next May, let's wait for that, and let's

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do it live. So he was ready on the hook

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when I brought up the live idea. There's the moment

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in the Rose where Brady said, don't say that stuff

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again after Jeff Ross made him a massage parlor joke

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about Patriots owner Robert Kraft. Was Brady actually angry about

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the joke? Jeff Ross said, I think Tom was checking

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me the way a lawyer objects on behalf of a client,

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even though they know it's kind of bull. I just

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shrugged it off and kept going. Margaret Chow she's been

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doing a lot of press and says she wishes Dave

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Chappelle would not talk about the trans community and the

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way that he does. He's such an authority on comedy,

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people hold him in such high regard, but then when

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he talks about the trans community in such an uneducated,

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negative and destructive way, it's really painful. Taylor Thomlinson is

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doing shows in Ireland. Talked to the Ireland press about

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doing big arenas and said she's used to it now,

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it's definitely a different muscle and a different cadence at

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a different speed, but once you figure it out, I

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think you have a good handle on it. I like

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performing in all kinds of different rooms. I think my

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favorite is probably on the smaller end. But you just

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don't get to speak to as many people that way, unfortunately,

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so it's not the most effective way to tour at

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this point. But I do love smaller rooms, especially when

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I'm writing new material. I love Ireland. I've been twice now,

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you know. Sometimes you go to certain places and you're like,

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I can maybe live here, Taylor, I'm with you. I

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did the exact same thing when I was there. I

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was there in March, and I kind of want to

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go back. And let me take kind of out of

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the sentence. I do want to go back, Taylor says,

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I don't know if I feel that way about anywhere else.

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When I do these European runs, I'm always sad I

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don't have more time in Ireland. What's she doing now

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that the TV show's over? And obviously touring comedy, I'm

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working on a movie that would very much like to

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get made, and I'm writing a book. But beyond that,

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I think I've been very fortunate and I have an

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incredible career that I'm so lucky to have. Asking for

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more feels sort of greedy at this point. So it's

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all at cherry on top as far as I'm concerned,

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let's go at Costca tell the La Times, I think

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I have like twelve agents or something, and I'm like,

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is that even a thing comes with leveling up? Right?

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And not to quote Spider Man, but yeah, responsibility right.

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She tells a story about her childhood. Her parents divorced

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shortly after her birth in nineteen eighty eight. She lived

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with her father, later moved in with her mother and grandmother.

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Than when her mother started having mental health struggles, Otsgo's

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grandmother moved to everyone to La to be closer to

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the uncle. Grandma told eight year old Otsco they were

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going on a two month vacation, but eight weeks turn

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into years and Otsco started a wonder if she had

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been kidnapped. She said she had a lot of questions,

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like did grandma kidnap me? I also learned your gut

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is off and right. Some podcasts for you to listen

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to Mark Maron with Jordan Klepper that's been out for

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a week now. That is really fantastic. I was checking

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that out before my daughter's soccer game. You know, you

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get there, you drop your daughter off, and then like

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dad has to sit around for an hour before the game.

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So sitting in the stands, listen to that one really good.

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Maren pretty forceful at the opening about political stuff. I

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covered that last week, and I also checked out that

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Deadline podcast, the comedy Business one with I Guess Nate Berghezzi.

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It try to be coined here. It's not produced well.

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I can tell that nobody who's ever produced a podcast

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is involved with that, or if they are, oh yike's

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the levels aren't right, the eq isn't right. These are

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just very basic things that someone like me could fix

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for you in thirty seconds, not even doing a lot

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of work. There are AI tools that'll fix both those things.

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But it just sounded like we ought to do a podcast.

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Everyone has a podcast and they jumped on Zoom and

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they had published Deadline. You can do a little better there.

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They're gonna get good guests because they're Deadline. The host

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is also not up to the game as a programmer.

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The note talk to me about topic is not a question,

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that's just you have a list of punch things you

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want to get to. And that's not a conversation. That's

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you stop listening to the answer and you look at

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your piece of paper and said, oh, ask him about

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the amusement park. Talk to me about the amusement park.

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Not really conversational. So from the program director's chair, the

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Deadline podcast could be a little bit better content wise.

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You know. I came away from it thinking, let me

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put it this way. If you listen to my podcast

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in ten years and I come on and I go,

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remember when nateprigets he was going to do an amusement park.

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That was crazy? What was he vegging? If I do

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that ten years from now, that sounds about right right.

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Just Nate is just talking about like, yeah, I'm gonna

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build a theme park in Nashville. Like that's nothing, and

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everyone's gonna be like, oh, we got to go to Nateland.

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I mean, he's famous, But is he famous famous? Are

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we booking a vacation in Nateland? Or is it we

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happen to be in Nashville? What should we do on

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Tuesday afternoon? I don't want to go see Nateland. I

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don't know. Man. He also gets into how he's just

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going to walk away from comedy touring and how no

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one believes him. I'm going to jump over here to

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the group of people who doesn't believe him, and I'm

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gonna stand over there so you can listen to that thing.

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It's basically the same themes that I've been telling about

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on this show. It's the usual Nate press of where

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he is right now building out nate Land Enterprises. Now

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that is a good thing. Someday I'm gonna come on

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this show and tell you Big Media Company has purchased

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Nateland Entertainment for four billion dollars. Like he's really smart

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with that stuff. But a theme park, I don't know, man, anyway,

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check those out, all right. If you're a comedian, you

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gotta be hawking a beer or you're gonna get left behind.

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We've got Colin Jos hawking Blue Moon, Shane Gillis, of course,

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but Light Now, Marcelo Hernandez, he's teamed up with Miller

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Light Now, Johnny Mack. It can be a beer snob,

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but sometimes I just like a basic light beer, and

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Miller Lte is my choice of light beers. I'm not

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doing an ad here. I just happen to really like

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a cold Miller Light. You can make fun of me

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in the school yard and then I'll be like, all right,

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let's order a Maxisin triple stout beers knob sometimes sound

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like a nice called Miller Light. Anyway. Marcelo Hernandez is

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now part of an ad campaign. They've released a twenty

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second commercial styled after a sports draft, announcing Marcelo Hernandez

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as its first pick and a fictional twenty twenty five lineup.

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We see Marcello wearing sunglasses, sitting next to his mom.

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He's excited when his name is called. He takes the stage.

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He lifts up a Miller Lite jersey and a beer bottle.

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The chiron says he's from Miami, Florida and height is

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five eight, and we see that five six has crossed out.

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Miller Light captioned the clip Welcome to the original Light

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Beer Team. Marcelo does not speak in the clip, and

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I imagine if he did, he would just do that

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one character that he does in everything he does. Right

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And from the Moscow Times, your home for comedy news,

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this is a little scary, they write. Russia's former space

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chief dmet You Ragozen threaten to send a group of

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young comedians to the war in Ukraine after they mocked

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his PhD dissertation on a TV show. The former Space

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Chief said he was sent a clip from a recent

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broadcast of the Cavyn comedy game show, where teams compete

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for the title of Russia's Funniest and most inventive club.

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In the sketch that he's mad at a member of

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the team joke that the Space Chief had written in

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his dissertation that one doesn't swap the cosmos for a chick.

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The Space Chief went on his telegram channel and said,

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we'll take them to the front line and wish them

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good luck and battle, and when they return, we'll laugh

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together at their unfortunate, unfunny and vulgar joke. Mister Rigozan

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has a PhD in engineering and focus on weapons theory.

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In his post, he claimed to know which military enlistment

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office the Cave and team members are registered with, and

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said it was awaiting the name of their joke writer,

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who he described as a talentless punk will teach them everything,

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including a sense of humor. The next day, he apparently

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had calmed down and said that the comedians are of

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no interest to us due to their intellectual immaturity. They

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may be good for silly jokes, but not for defending

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the motherland. That's your company is for today. I don't

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want any part of that. I'm just telling what's going on.

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Do I have to pick sides? Bragozen's right, one hundred

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percent right. I'm with that dude. See to morrow.