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Callaroga Shark Media. I am digging the mix of stories
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today a little different today. I'm Mondayaloh, I'm Johnny Mack
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with your daily comedy news. I take no joy in
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this first story. Christina Pozitski and Tom Sigora are divorcing
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after nearly twenty years of marriage. On the podcast Your
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Mom's House, Christina Pe told guest host Duncan Trussell she
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wanted to be transparent with fans. Christina said, I just
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wanted to let you know, on the other staff members here,
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that the rumors are true. Your daddy and I are divorcing,
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but it's not your fault. It's not your fault, guys
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in the booth. We still love each other very much.
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We're just going to live in separate homes, but we're
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still your mommies. She then got emotional and teared up
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and said, yes, Tom and I are divorcing, and it
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is extremely sad. Sorry, I didn't want to cry this soon.
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It is very sad. That being said, we tried to
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work it out for several years for the sake of
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our children and our family. We gave it all we could,
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but we just couldn't work things out. We are no
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longer a couple. Look, we had twenty amazing years together,
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and that's really good run, I think in a marriage.
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She continued. From what I understand, some people are taking
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sides team Christinea or team Tom. Please don't do that.
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There's no need because Tom and I do not hate
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each other. We have a family. Tom and I are amicable.
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Just so everyone knows, this is not an ugly divorce.
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We're cool, dude. We'll survive. We'll get through this stuff
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like we've gotten through everything else in life. This is
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just an unfortunate thing. We're going to be okay. For
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those of you who have listened to us from the
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very beginning, you've been with Tom and me through getting married,
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Living in silver Lake is two bro comics, berts and death,
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tragic accidents, cancer, COVID, all of it. And you know what,
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some effing cancer couldn't kill me. You think a dude's
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gonna f and take me out. No. She confirmed that
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she continues to co host the main show with Tom.
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Sigora said, We're still gonna have a good effing time
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because we ain't dead yet. That's gonna be hard having
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all that play out in public. The Times of London
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went to go see Dave Chappelle in London. Here's an
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opening paragraph. Dave Chappelle takes care to avoid anyone recording
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a stand up shows, insisting that audiences lock away their
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phones in the secure pouches. He on the evidence of
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this slap dash London appearance, though he takes less care
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with the shows themselves. Wow, The Times continues, he did
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warn us. He began by saying, I haven't done this
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for a while. Towards the end, he admitted, I gotta
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think of a closer, and I don't have one. Can
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I hang out for a minute? The Times rights he
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hung out by drifting from one idea to another, or
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he responded to a heck or two, including one about
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appearing at last year's Rio Comedy Festival. Apparently to that,
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Dave said, are you getting me for doing it? Like
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all the other whites? More from The Times. His skill,
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when his storytelling found its focus, only made the digressions
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that dominated more frustrating. Much of the show was motored
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by his fame and infamy baseball cap on head cigarette
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on the go, he said he wouldn't talk about transgender issues.
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He then touched on a joke suggesting Caitlyn Jenner's change
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of gender had been more easily accepted in America than
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Muhammad Ali's change of name. I think that was in
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the last special. Maybe I'm imagining that, and explained why
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he meant it as a joke about racism rather than gender.
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Dave said, I thought I was punching up. They thought
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I was punching down. Okay, yeah, so that's yep, okay, yep.
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I didn't imagine was in the previous special. Times is
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I'm not happy. They said this was thin stuff for
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big prices. My seat in Rosy cost one hundred and
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twenty pounds plus. We had to wait one hundred minutes
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for him to start, following good support sets by Cipha
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Sounds and Michelle Wolfe, an interval, then a call in
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response musical mash up from his on stage DJ that
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got us up on our feet for what felt would
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be brief but carried on for a punishing fifteen minutes.
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Two stars out of five yikes. Andrew Schultz, called by
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The New York Times America's foremost political journalist. They're never
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going to live that down, As commented on Indiana Fever,
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basketball star Caitlyn Clark. On The Flagrant podcast, Schultz weigh
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in about how Clark has been villainized by conservatives for
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not supporting their side. Scheltz said, it was so unfair
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what they did to Kaitlyn Clark. She literally did the
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thing that every conservative punnit was asking all the black
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athletes to do around Black Lives matter. Remember, they were like,
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just shut up and dribble. She literally shuts up in dribbles,
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and then all the punnets are like, you coward, how
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dare you not say anything? Scheltz asked you one athletes
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to just play ball? Do you want them involved in politics? See,
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that's why he's America's foremost political journalist. Starvros Halkist is
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in the Anthony Bourdain movie. He plays Sioux chef Dmitri.
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Starvros called the character blue collar and a locker room guy.
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He's there to haze Tony but then throw his arm
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around him at the end. I wanted to recreate the
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vibe of that guy who's not quite mental level, but
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you do look up to him in certain ways. There's
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so much about Burdain would be kind of insulting to
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try and get everything like word perfect, exactly right imitation.
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Our movie is about the vibe of that specific summer
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in that period of his life and everybody's life who's
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nineteen and trying to figure it out. So that's how
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I approached my guy. I wanted the vibe of that
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guy who's gonna bust your chops at your job. But ultimately,
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if we get in a fight at a rival restaurant,
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you know, I got Tony's back. Can Stavros cook? He said,
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I mean I can make a very complex snack. The
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plating is very sloppy. It's more about the taste than
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anything else. From The La Times, Anthony jesse Nick gets
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a feature about his book club. The Times tells us
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Anthony Justina couldn't sleep was making him crazy. Hoping to
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find relief, Justlinnick sought help from a therapist he assume
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would guide him back to a healthy sleep schedule. Instead,
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he encountered an apathy that stunned him. Jesselnick recalled the
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therapist saying, so what if you don't sleep, if you
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wake up, read a book. Find ways to be productive
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in your loneliness, And I guess Anthony Jeslinick started reading.
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He has started a popular online book club Jesselnick book Club,
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which reminds me whatever happened to John m'laney book club, John,
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you have Google? Why don't you tell us you're hosting
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the show? Seems like it's still going Just last week.
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John mlaney on Twitter wrote, any and all m'lani reads
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Ers North Sun or The Voyage of the Walship Esther
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is my July must must read. This book is so
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bat crazy, funny, bizarre, violent, reckless, and very moving. John says,
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I haven't read Moby Dick because whatever. But Ethan Rutherford's
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description of catching a whale or failing to catch a
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well is one of the most visceral things I've ever absorbed.
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John then added he was very coarsic on his way
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to Saratoga. There's a video of John. He seems to
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be on the beach. He's wearing a hoodie and shorts.
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Looks pretty breezy on the beach there. I guess I
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could have pulled the audio, but I didn't because we're
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in the middle of it and Anthony Jesslinick story. This
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wasn't a John mulaney story at all. Jesson X got
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his own book club and it is titled The jessnic
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Book Club. Easy to Remember. Jesinick says, my goal was
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to curate and give people their best shot at enjoying reading.
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People will say, oh, I don't like reading books, You're
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choosing the wrong books. In twenty twenty two, best selling
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writer Isaac Fitzgerald released American Rambler, Walking the Trail of
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Johnny Appleseed. Fitzgerald said a friend texted me that Anthony Jessinic,
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a comedian whom I love but had never met nor
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interacted with, shouted out his love of my memoir dirt
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Bag Massachusetts. I was thrilled. At my events, both in
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Chicago and throughout the rest of the year, more and
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more people in my signing lines told me they'd heard
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of the book from Jessinic's podcast. I was also boyed
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by how many of the people in the signing lines
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were young men. Now Fitzgerald and Justinic are friends. Fitzgerald said,
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the man is a real lover of books, with excellent
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taste and unsurprisingly confidence in his convictions. Earlier this year,
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Jessliniic hosted a book launch event for the American Rambler book.
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Fitzgerald said, I think Jessinnic i may have single handedly
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invented a new way to do literary events. I don't
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know what to call it. A literary roost. Everyone laugh
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for an hour straight. That is fun. Now, this is interesting.
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Jesselnick talked about his own career. He said, I was
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trying to be the devil on stage and somehow ended
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up as likable anyway. Edgar Allan Poe wrote these books
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about psychopaths and killers. Authors do not equate their persona.
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I'm trying to make reading cool again. Reading is a
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solitary act in the way that stand up comedy is
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a solitary art form. There are so few books for
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guys that are literary. There's a lot of John Grisham
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and Jack Reacher, but that's not something literary that a
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guy can sink his teeth into. If it's well written
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and the writer's great, then I'll go on any kind
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of journey they take me on. I don't always understand
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everything that I read either, but reading a great writer
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it's like listening to classical music. A little bit more
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about this about Jesslinnick talking about the end of his
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comedy career, I will save that for tomorrow. Jenny Yang
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is out on a national summer comedy tour. She turns
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grocery stores into comedy clubs for night. This is fun.
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She says, I go to buy a bunch of small
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snacks and shrimp chips and throw it into the audience
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every time I feel like it joked in Land. I mean,
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this is my dream. It's the Good Egg Immigrant grocery
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store stand up comedy Tour. Love It. The tour will
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wrap September twenty six back in la with Yang filming
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a performance for a proposed comedy special. She touches on
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topics ranging from infertility to awareness of immigrant experiences in
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the US. Yang said, people come into this art forum
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as a stand up comedian for different reasons. I'm of
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the mind that my stand up comedy is just an
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extension of my values, and I believe in punching up,
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not down. At a supermarket in Minneapolis, the store manager
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said they reconfigured shelves near the checkout lanes to fit
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one hundred and fifty cheers. He says everybody got in
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line to buy some snacks and some drinks. A few
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people even did a bit of grocery shopping. Yang said,
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just rending a spotlight mikes a show. How fun is
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it that I'm literally doing stand up comedy in next
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to an aisle that sells fungus and five pounds of rice.
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That sounds like a good time. Vogue asked Mary Beth Baron, Hey,
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a lot of your comedy is about love and relationships.
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Were are you with dating now? Mary Beth Baron said,
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I'm single, I'm thirty five. My choices are staring me
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in the face. Sometimes. I think maybe being a comedian
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and talking about my life on stage and having this
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podcast where we're pretty transparent, is scaring away potential romantic
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partners who could be good for me. But this is
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who I am, and if my job doesn't fit in
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with that person's idea of what they wanted a partner,
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and they're probably not the right partner for me. She adds,
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dating culture, where there seems to be an endless amount
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of amazing women and the number of male counterparts she
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seems to continue to dwindle. I'm a romantic, but I
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think my hope is starting to waver a little bit.
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You just have to keep the hope alive. They also
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asked her about crowd work. Mary Beth Barone said, people
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really do tell me stuff. They want me to know
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their secrets. That's even in business meetings. I'll meet an
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executive and we'll get into it about a good date
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they had last night, and I'm invested too. There's a
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lot of bad press for parasocial relationships, but I've just
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got the benefits of it. A much less fun story
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involves Amanda Knox. You may recall the famous case Amanda
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Knox was arrested after her roommate's death. Knox was convicted
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of murder and sexual assault in two thousand and nine
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alongside her then boyfriend, but after years of legal battles,
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they were cleared of all the charges in twenty fifteen.
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Knox is now a comedian performing at the Edinburgh Fringe.
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The sister of the murdered student, Meredith Kircher, has accused
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Amanda Knox of normalizing and trivializing violence against women. She
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was asking for the Edinburgh Fringe show to be withdrawn.
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At an interview with the Telegraph, Amanda Knox said she
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believed miss Kirscher would appreciate the show because it grapples
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with what it means to be a young woman and
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it's honest. Stephanie Kirscher said, it's left a massive void
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in our lives, and Amanda's naturally free to continue with
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her life as she wishes. But I think the problem
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with this particular project is that it's comedy, and while
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I appreciate comedy is there to push the boundaries and
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very much normalizes and trivializes violence against women and Meredith
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in particular. And I think in this case, where it's
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not a generic topic, it's targeting an individual traumatic case
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and an individual person and family, and I feel very
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strongly that Meredith wouldn't agree with that. Meredith absolutely wouldn't
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find these topics of any comedy value. Kercher added if
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someone else was doing the show specifically against Meredith, I
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would still feel the same. It's obviously an added wound
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that it's coming from her at the same time, but
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I do feel very strongly that it should be something