Oct. 14, 2025

Bill Burr live podcast cancelled, WTF Maron ends with Obama, Whitney Cummings suggests some would be happy if a Fox journalist was murdered

Bill Burr live podcast cancelled, WTF Maron ends with Obama, Whitney Cummings suggests some would be happy if a Fox journalist was murdered

Johnny Mac criticizes Stephen Colbert's involvement in the new Star Trek series, 'Star Fleet Academy,' calling for Colbert's removal from television. Mac also discusses Bill Burr's cancellation of a live podcast taping, expressing concern for Burr's well-being. The episode covers Whitney Cummings' comments on comedians taking Saudi money, and criticism of her misplaced statements. Additionally, Johnny reports on Marc Maron's final podcast episode featuring Barack Obama and reactions to the government shutdown as depicted on SNL. The segment concludes with updates on various comedy industry events and gossip, including the return of 'The Inbetweeners' and auctioning of Joan Rivers' memorabilia.

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Callaroga Shark Media.

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Hello, I'm Johnny Mack with your daily Come News. Can

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I tell you President Trump is right? Stephen Colbert should

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be taking off television and never allowed on television again.

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Now what is making you say this, Johnny Mack? Is

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this some sort of political stance? No, Stephen Colbert has

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signed up with the new Star Trek series Starfleet Academy.

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Have you seen this trailer? Complete garbage? Why do comedians

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insist on destroying Star Trek? I'm looking at you, Tig Nataro,

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I'm looking at you. Patton Oswald has dug the Vulcan

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and now Stephen Colbert has sold out to Alex Kurtzman

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and this horrible, horrible, horrible crap that they call Star Trek.

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I love my Star Trek. You've heard me rant about this, Steven,

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What are you doing to me? Why did you do this?

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Stephen Colbert will voice Starfleet Academy's digital Dean of students.

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According to the press release, He'll begin having daily announcements

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to the students and alerting them of anything that needs

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their immediate attention. President Trump, get this guy off TV now,

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thank you for your attention. Let me just before I

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tell you this next story. Let me do a quick

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google of Bill Burr. We got to talk about Bill

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Burr again. Okay, it is twelve fifty on Monday. I've

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been looking for updates on this story. But before I

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took the weekend off there I saw fans had said

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that Bill Burr had canceled a plan to tape an

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episode of the Monday Morning Podcast that would have been

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taped in front of a live audience on Saturday. Burr

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was supposed to tape a live episode of Monday Morning

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Podcast at the Gordina Cinema in Los Angeles. I was

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in Los Angeles this week and I could have gone.

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So the venue had posted the cancelation for about forty

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five minutes. Then, as I understand things, they took it down.

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The speculation is that they caught some negative comments about

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mister Burr, so they were just like, ah, let's have it.

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But fans and the Bill Burr subreddit noticed it. One

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fin asked why postpone the show? Bill? Another said, but

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I thought Billy blood Money said it was bots. How

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can they come to a show if they're bots? Now,

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I just looked when I said, let me google Bill

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Burr at twelve fifty on Monday, there was no episode

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of the Monday Podcast. So first of all, I hope

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Bill is okay and everything's okay with his family and

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he's healthy. We can disagree on ideas. We don't wish

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anything negative on anyone except Stephen Colbert, who should be

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taken off television immediately for signing up with the Star

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Trek people. So hopefully all is okay with the Burrs,

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but just interesting that he canceled the taping and there's

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no episode on Monday. Omid Jee Lily wrote a piece

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for The Guardian. Omid writes, after fifteen years of turning

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down offers to perform stand up comedy in Saudi Arabia

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do to the country's human rights record, this time it

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took the gig. Why there's a push for change in

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Saudi and signs are discernible, yet many from the outside

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world would rather comedians in the West state away skipping ahead.

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I am no stranger to cancel culture. I was canceled

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after nine to eleven simply for being Middle Eastern, as

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Arab terrorists were behind the attack on the Twin Towers.

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This is despite the fact that I am not Arab

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nor am I, contrary to popular opinion, a terrorist. In

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certain circles there have been caused to boycott my UK

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tword Manamastay, a show in which I try to explore

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their nuances of the complex geopolitical landscape of the Middle East.

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After explaining the restrictions on performing in Saudi were exactly

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the same as in Dubai, basically no jokes about the

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royal family, no disrespecting Islam and no humiliation of the government,

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a concern friend texted me, I think you're at risk

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of invalidting You're right to make jokes about anything important.

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My show in Riod had a lot of material about

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the Saudis themselves. The perception that we as comedians were

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all being paid to be silent was as laughable as

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the idea that Dave Chappelle, a hugely successful comic with

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an estimated worth of seventy million dollars, was doing his

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show and Riod for the money skimming ahead julily writes

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the comedy guide Shortal erroneously reported that the pay was

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between three seventy five and one point six million for

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those doing solo shows. One thing East and West can

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agree on is you don't talk about your fee publicly

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because it is likely to cause consternation among the other performers,

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most of whom rereceived a significantly smaller amount than the

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American podcaster was purportedly set to receive. I assume that

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means Tim Dillon, which is where the three seventy five

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number comes from. Again, skipping ahead here, Julily writes, if

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I had an inkling that changes similar to those emerging

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in Saudi Arabia right now where are happening inside Iran?

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And a comedy festival were taking place in Tehran and

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pigs were flying. He adds, I can assure you I

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would be on the first pig over long piece here

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in the Guardian. Let me just wrap up here where

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he rates. And the gigs were great, packed houses, young crowds, popcorn, standing, ovations,

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even heckling. About eighty percent of the audiences were locals,

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many of whom had never seen a live comedy gig.

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Whitney Cummings on her podcast said, by the way, any

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comic that has ever worked with live nation, which is

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all of them, has taken Saudi money. But keep up

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with your little rants when you get a second Google

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Saudi Arabia Live Nations, so you can be informed on

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the fact that anyone who has worked with Live Nation,

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every stand up comic has taken Saudi money or bought

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a ticket through Live Nation, went to a Live Nation event.

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All the actors who were represented by William Morris Agency,

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which is all of them if you want to send

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them notes too. All right, let's google Saudi Arabia Live Nation.

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I had this. I'm doing this real in real time.

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I haven't done this before. The first thing that comes

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up is from Music Business Worldwide, which as Saudi Wealth

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Fund exits Live Nation steak. The second story, also from

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twenty twenty four, Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund sells Live

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Nation steak, and scrolling down from April twenty twenty, Forbes

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reported Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund buys five hundred million

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dollars steak. Her point may be valid between twenty twenty

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and twenty twenty four, but it doesn't seem to be

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presently valid or a valid prior to it. And I'll

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remind you there was a pandemic in twenty twenty, so

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I don't know how many comedy tickets you bought in

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twenty twenty or twenty twenty one. You may not be

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as guilty as Whitney Cummings says. She said, though I'm

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trying to help you sound less racist. She then discussed

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napple babies. People whose dads have points on huge television

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shows are like, I have a backup plan, a huge

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trust fund. You're a sellout for making money, And then

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I have a major, major problem with this next thing.

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She said. The same people who were like, if they

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found out a Fox journalist was murdered, they would truly

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throw a party. That is not cool, Whitney, that is

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not true that you're a jerk hole for saying that.

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I really don't think any comedian would be like, oh cool,

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a Fox journalist was murdered. That's just terrible. Also, the

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same people who are like, if they found out a

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Fox journalist was murdered, they would truly throw a party.

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How dare you? John Marcos Serresi spoke to Current Affairs

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dot org and said, the numbers that I've heard floid

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at the top were like one point six million, and

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I would imagine easily that if not more. I don't

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think George Carlin would have ever performed at the REDD

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Comedy Festival, but he was also never asked. These comedians

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used to not enter the sphere of influence, and now

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because of podcasting, the fact that comedians were kind of

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on the front end of that and social media has

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allowed our voices to expand their new questions. What are we?

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What is our role in America, let alone globally. It's complicated.

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I performed in places whose governments I did in align with. However,

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I do think you can make distinctions, and the distinction

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should be made at the gouvern is funding this a

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government that you know has this history of human rights abuses.

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It's easy for me to stand hi because I wasn't

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invited to Riod Trump didn't ask to go on my podcast,

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neither did Kamalaw. But I think we need to re

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establish what our expectation is. If a comedian like Theo

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Vaughn is going to go on his podcast and cried

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tears over Palestinian suffering and then two weeks later have

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JD vance on and joke about how he's going to

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go hang out at his poolhouse. I hope that we

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cultivate an audience that goes, Hey, THEO, what the F

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that's bs, I don't buy this. I hope that the

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stinkedestri Odd Comedy Festival is great enough that some comedians

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are forced to confront where they stand and what the

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responsibility is to themselves and to their audiences. Hopefully we

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can move on from this subject. I didn't want to

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talk about it today, but there were all those stories

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I just told you about what should have been the

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lead is. Mark Maron wrapped up his podcast his final

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guest on Monday, former President Obama. Maren was asked why

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Obama for the final guest. Mark Maren said, the first

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time was an important turning point, certainly for me personally.

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For sitting president to come to my little garage at

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my house was a big deal, and I think it

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was a big game changing episode for podcasting in general

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in terms of the attention it brought to the medium.

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I was happy to see him again and talk about

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the current administration and the world we're living in now,

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but also, you know, to honor my show. The Times

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was curious any conditions for the interview. No, neither time.

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There were no conditions, no vetting of questions, and no

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request for a pre edit. Mark anythink it went last time?

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There was a morticaid, a secret service in many staff involved,

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and he was still disarming and grounded and present. This

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time it was more casual, just me and him in

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his office, so I know it would be even better,

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and that turned out to be true. He was very

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aware that he was our last guest and the last

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episode meant something to me, and culturally, I guess at

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some point in September and October, this podcast or reached

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a point where I just can't avoid the politics of

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it all. So jump in the pool here. Obama said,

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if you decide not to vote, that's a consequence. Let

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me start right there. Please vote whoever you vote for.

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Whoever you vote for, that's up to you. But please vote.

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Obama said, if you decide not to vote, that's a consequence.

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If you're a Hispanic man and you're frustrated inflation, and

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so he decided, you know what, all that rhetoric about

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Trump doesn't matter. I'm just mad about inflation. And now

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your sons are being stopped in LA because they look

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at Latino and maybe without the ability to call anybody

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might just be locked up. Well, that's a test. It'd

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be great if we weren't tested. This way, but you

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know what, we probably need to be shaken out of

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our complacency. Maren used the line he used in a

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special We've annoyed the average American into fascism. Obama responded,

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you just can't be a scold all the time. You

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can't constantly lecture people without acknowledging that you've got some

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blind spots too. And life's messy. I listened to about

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a third of it this morning. I was founded very compelling.

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I just had to get to work and didn't have

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time and to listen to more of it. But that's it.

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That's a rap. And at the end of the program,

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he thanked a few people and said that his Thursday

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show was actually the goodbye episode. But that's a wrap

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on Mark Maren for now. Anyway. I have not yet

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seen Saturday Night Live, but the Department of Homeland Security

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did any cold open. Amy Poehler reunited with Tina Fay

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to play Attorney General Pam Bom and Secretary of Homeland

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Security Christy Noam. Tina Faye's character said, I'm here to

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tell you this Democrat government shutdown needs to end now.

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By the way, you know what, I don't care I'm

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telling you this because this blew my mind. So I

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was out in California on the weekend and there was

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a National forest and I wanted to check it out,

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and I wanted to know, like, do I have to

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pay it and get in the forest. This is for real.

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You can look at this right now. This is on

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the US Forest Service web page. This is the phrasing. Again,

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what if your politics your politics, But here's the phrasing

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on a government website, the radical left Democrats shut down

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the government. This government website will be updated periodically during

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the funding lapse from mission critical functions. President Trump has

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On Gossip Corner. Pittsburgh Pirates Paul Skeens and girlfriend Libby

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seen hanging out with famous comedian Theo Vaughn Levy. Dunn

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Instagram story. Out today on the eight hundred Pound Gorilla

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Jessica has been in the news lately. I don't know

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if you heard about this. She was recently at the

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ri Odd Comedy Festival. Jessica said, I hope that this

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festival could help LGBTQ plus people in Saudi Arabia feel

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seen and valued. I'm grateful that I was able to

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do precisely that, to my knowledge, on the first openly

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gay comic to talk about it on stage in Saudi Arabia.

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Received messages from attendees sharing how much event to them.

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To participate in the gayffirming event. At the same time,

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The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed with two sources that the

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Human Rights Coalition has received the entirety of Jessica's fee. Anyway,

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if you enjoy Jessica's comedy, the No Material CrowdWork Special

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is out on the eight hundred pound Grilla YouTube channel. Today,

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Jimmy Kimmel won the September ratings, the first time he's

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actually won the time slot. Apparently, according to Late Night

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is teaming up with Jimmy Fallon. It's that TV show

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on Brand with Jimmy Fallon. It apparently is some sort

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of football season marketing challenge involving Captain Morgan. On on Brand,

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we see Fallon and Kimmel introducing contestants to the episode's task,

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and off the field. Are you familiar with the British

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teen comedies sitcom The in Betweeners? A fantastic show that, oh,

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on cable whatever. It's fantastic. There was an American remake

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that was okay, but the British version is fantastic. The

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show's creators have a deal to bring it back. Is

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unclear how it will come back or where are you

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the original characters, who've got to be at least in

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their forties now, I would guess. The in Betweeners originally

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was broadcast on E four in the UK between twenty

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eight and twenty nineteen. It followed the misadventures of suburban

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teenager Will McKenzie and his friends Simon Cooper, Neil Sutherland

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and Jay Cartwright as they navigated school life, friendship, mail bonding,

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lad culture and failed sexual encounters. Two hit movies followed

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in twenty eleven and twenty fourteen. I Welcome That Back,

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I Will Watch That and The Jone Rivers Estate has

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auctioned off over three hundred pieces of memorabilia once owned

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by Joan Rivers. They included some of her wigs, X

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rays of her dogs, Spikes, Thorax, and some royal family

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related keepsakes. Melissa Rivers, Jones's daughter said the timing felt right.

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I'm finally emotionally ready to let go Joan passed away.

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In twenty fourteen, two X rays of Spikes Thorax went

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for five hundred and seventy six dollars. They came with

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a manila envelope from Spike's VET. A copy of the

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May twenty six, nineteen eighty six issue of People with

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John Rivers and Spike on the cover sold for nineteen

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hundred and twenty dollars. Two of the wigs sold for

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fifty seven sixty and twenty eight eighty two Voodoo dollars

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went for for forty eight And that is your comedy

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use for today, right listen? It was fun at the end.

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I know I got a little feisty in the middle.

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And Stephen Colbert must be removed from television immediately. President Trump,

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what are you doing? If you can create piece in

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the Middle East? Certainly you could save Star Trek? Can

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you do that? Can we make Star Trek right again?

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You want to impress me? Do that? See tomorrow