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Callaroga Shark Media.
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Hi there, I'm Johnnie Mack and this is Daily Comedy News,
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a daily briefing on stand up comedy comedians and the
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comedy industry. Which is a sentence you might say if
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you were trying to retrain the Spotify algorithm to ranker
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show higher. Jerry Seinfeld was on We Might be Drunk
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with Mark Norman and Sam Morrel pulled a couple clips.
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I feel like all this is forced, Like Mark Norman
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is trying way too hard to impress Jerry who you
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can impress? I've met the man, you just can't. And
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Sam has nothing to add. Also, looking at the show
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and in today's substack, I will have a clip of
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what the show looks like. And it doesn't look good,
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says the guy in his basement wearing a yellow hoodie
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and his headphones on crooked. But it just doesn't look
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good anyway. Mark shared some of his pet peeves with
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Jerry Seinfeld.
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Well, now they turn the tip tip thing around. You're
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seeing this. I'm sure you got twenty minutes on the
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tip flow. You know that a Starbucks. So they flip
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the screen and it says eighteen five percent.
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I saw in recently.
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That was.
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It was I think twenty five, fifty seventy five.
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Come on, seventy five, seventy, Yeah, it was. It was
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insane where in Dubai.
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Come on, Yeah, everything's tipped now, everything's listener.
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Or anything anything where they get in you cannot get
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them out. Yeah, right, they they got away with it
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and that's it, and they're taking the money. I was
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just reading on the way down. You watch Red Zone
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on Sunday, right sometimes, so they put commercials on it. Yeah,
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it's like two hundred and eighty dollars for this channel
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to watch football with no commercials. And they say, well,
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you won't notice it. But now they're all but that's it.
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They're not going back. Nobody goes back.
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They also discussed whether or not comedians should be married.
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It is one of the great marriage savers because you're like, oh,
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I gotta go, I gotta do a set, and you're like, oh,
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I'm out of that.
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Can you believe what this guy's got going on? He
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his wife comes home.
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From work, she works at home. She works at home.
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Oh, she works at home. Yeah, he comes home from
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doing this or whatever he's doing, and then he goes
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out to the clubs during the week and he goes
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out on the weekends. They have a baby. We had
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a canceled flight Gary Veter and I this weekend and
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Mark texts him, oh, man, so extra time away from
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the kids.
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I'm like, yeah, no, no, that we're not happy about it.
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Said so much about you.
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Well, I think it's a marriage saver, that road time.
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It is because you're not really designed to be married. No,
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comedian is not. Jim Gaffigan used to say, whenever you
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would hear about a comedian getting married, he would go why.
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Speaking of whether or not comedians should be married, Amy
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Schumer announced that she and husband Chris have ended their marriage.
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As I've said on this show before, I think that's
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truly sad. I don't want to see any marriage end.
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I don't come here to dunk on Amy, but Amy
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continues to make decisions that just bewilder me. Amy wrote
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this on Instagram. I'm going to read it verbatim, and
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the first three words she wrote are blah blah blah.
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It's not me being flippant. That's what she actually wrote
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to announce her divorce. Amy Schumer on Instagram posted a
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picture of herself Chris and their son on the New
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York City Subway. The caption quote, blah blah blah. Chris
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and I have made the difficult decision to end our
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marriage after seven years. We love each other very much
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and will continue to focus on raising our son. We
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would appreciate people respecting our privacy at this time. Once again,
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Amy writes, blah blah blah. Not because misspelled, I dropped
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some pounds and thought I could bag s basket, and
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not because he's a hot James Beard Award winning chef
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who can still pull some hot tail. Amicable and all
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love and respect family forever. I imagine Amy has a publicister,
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access to a publicist, and could have just released a
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statement and said, you know, respect her privacy, and I
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think we all would. It's just weird. A source close
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to the pair tells people there's nothing ugly. It's a split.
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They've just been finalizing a few things. The New York
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Post reported that Amy sold her Brooklyn Heights town host
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for less than she paid. City records show that Amy
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sold the four story residents at nineteen Cranberry Street for
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eleven million dollars, roughly one point twenty five million below
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the price she and her husband paid in twenty twenty two.
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The five bedroom property, built in eighteen twenty nine and
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appears in the film Moonstruck, spans roughly fifty five hundred
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square feet and includes a private garden and gated parking,
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a restored roof, original fireplace mantles, and a custom kitchen
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outfitted with antique cabinry and a wine cellar. According to
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a prior listing, did you watch Robbie Hoffman special? It's
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pretty fantastic. I still can't decide if it's the number two, three,
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or four special of the year. At worst it's number four.
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You should watch it. John mullaney, producer of the special,
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interviewed Robbie Hoffman for GQ. This interview, as you can imagine,
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with m'lanie and Robbie's all over the place, I'll pick
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away at it over the next couple days. Mlanie's opener,
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if you open a water bottle and you don't hear
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a crack, do you still drink it? Robbie Hoffman said,
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mm MMMM'LINI said I found that if I note that
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it doesn't crack, but I still drink it. M'linie was curious,
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did you ever have a time where you pulled back
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her if you've been full blast your whole life, Robbie said, well,
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here's the thing around you. I'm still full blast because
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I'm nervous. For instance, somebody I really respect, I would
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treat back to talking a lot, to sharing a lot,
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I go full blast. I think I had a big
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period in life of calming down, but then I burst again.
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What happened was it was very embarrassing to be this
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boisterous and loud, especially as a girl, and opinionated and
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kind of you know, if we had a pop quiz,
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I'd be like, this is an injustice, and then I'd
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get embarrassed and I would say to myself, for you,
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shut the f up. But I really tried not to
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do anything for a long time, and then I kind
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of came back to it. Now it pops up when
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I'm really excited. It's not just you, just anyone, but you,
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especially because I love being in your presence. I noticed
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that a lot more, not that I'm dancing for my
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keeper or anything like that. It just comes out naturally.
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Jimmy Carr was on the Louis Thorough podcast, and I
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don't know if I said the man's name right. I
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don't mean disrespect. There's like five thousand articles about how
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to pronounce his name correctly, and I have to keep
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moving here. Jimmy Carr was defending his decision to perform
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at the Riod Comedy Festival. Jimmy Carr said, I played it.
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I loved it. I think we need to give up
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on the idea that the Middle East becomes Western Europe.
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The Middle East is a very different place, and the
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same people that will tell you diversity is our strength
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will tell you don't go there. They're not like us.
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The thing I like about Saudi Arabia is the direction
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of travel. Look at where it was forty years ago,
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look at where it is now. The direction of travel's
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pretty good. How much were you paid, Jimmy Carry said,
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I was paid. I would say a commensurate amount with
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selling out an eight thousand seater room. So it's a
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big room, and I got paid. I earned it. Cars
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spoke about freedom of speech interestingly enough and said you
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have to deal with the consequences. If you're going to
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say that, you got to be willing to say it
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and go, Yeah, I don't regret telling that joke. That's fine.
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Some people were really upset by it. That's okay. I've
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got the people that come and see me and they
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really like that stuff, and I've got to serve them,
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not someone else. Felix Jakins is Amnesty International's UK head
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of Campaigns. Felix said this is entertainment washing in action,
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using big name comedians and glossy festivals to project reform
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while repression continues off stage. No amount of laughter, it
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can disguise the reality of Saudi Arabia's human rights record.
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Last year alone, a record three hundred and forty five
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people were executed, many after deeply flawed trials. Comedians performing
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there should ask whether challenging repressions or helping to legitimize it.
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Performing free speech in a country speaking freely can cost
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you your life isn't brave, It's hypocrisy. Jimmy Carr said,
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I got paid. I earned it. Oh, I think I
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said that already. Sorry, I repeated a quote. I'll remember
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to edit that out later. Anthony has a book club,
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he told Vulture. Yes, I'm going to start a book
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club next year. Jessel nick book club and the goals
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to try to get guys to read literature. I feel
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like people say I do like to read, but I
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read serious books and that drives me crazy. I think
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that literature is serious, if not more serious than nonfiction.
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You learn just as much. I think the world is
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lacking in empathy, and the guys can benefit from literature.
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I've got a list of twelve books of the month,
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but that might change something new comes out. I'd like
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to get into that book influencer space, where on the
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first of the month it's here's what we're reading, and
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then you can ask questions at the end of the
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month and I'll answer your questions, talk about why I
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love this book, and just try to give a reading
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list for guys. And it's okay to put a book
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down and say I don't like this, pick up something else.
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Just keep trying. My first book in January is going
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to be The Getaway by Jim Thompson. It's an action
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book that's been made into a movie several times. The
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end of it is almost supernatural. It almost turns into
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a horror novel. And if you're a fan of mine,
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I think you can get into this book. It's two
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hundred fifty pages. It's easy to read. My second book
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is a Vonnagut that I think says more about podcasting
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today than it does about World War two. TV is
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getting worse, movies are getting worse, and I think books
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become a more viable entertainment option for people as things
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have become more corporate and bland. I don't know if
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the book club will be successful. It might get five
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hundred views and no one cares and they make fun
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of me. But that's okay. I'm picking timeless novels that
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I think a guy can get through without being embarrassed.
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A book that you can read on the subway. No
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one's making fun of you for it. They talked about
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John Mulaney's book Club jes Unix sent my publisher. I
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saw the Milleni post and was like, uh oh, it's fine.
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His first one was the first book I picked up
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in January. Playworld that I've forgotten every single thing. It's
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been on some lists and I couldn't tell you a
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single thing about the book. It's okay to forget everything
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you've just read. It's hard to remember things. I could
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barely give descriptions of a lot of the books in
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my top ten. I don't know how seriously Milanie is
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taking in. It seems like it was just a post
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put up on Instagram and a social media person was like,
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you should try this. Great. I hope there's a million
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comedian book clubs, but I'd like to go a bit
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deeper than just holding a book and saying this month,
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we're reading this and then never mentioning it again. Sarah Sherman,
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doing a lot of press, spoke to Variety and said
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that she bombed when opening for Adam Sandler as You're
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My Best Friend tour, but says the thing about saidlor
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Is is comedy is really surreal and bizarre and dirty, so
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it's actually a good fit with her own style. But
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apparently she said she's stunk. Here's why, because she relies
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on being in smaller venues for interactive comedy. She explained,
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so much of my material is very audience interactive, so
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it's weird to be so far away from people, and
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my voice is very shrill, and when it's ricocheting off
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the walls of aa Gine Arena, it can be painful
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for some people. If you're listening on Spotify, follow daily
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comedy news, so it shows up on your feet every morning.
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That's the kind of sentence. Somebody trying to go the
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Spotify algorithm would say on several podcasts in a row,
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pay attention to that kind of thing out on the
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eight hundred pound Gerrilla today Christopher MacArthur Boyd's Scary Times.
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No shocker here. Howard Stern is not suddenly ending his
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career tomorrow. Nope, what do you know? Howard Stern has renewed.
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After all that press about Howard's being canceled, Howard did
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into many bit bah bah blah blah. I told you
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all along, the whole thing was nonsense, and right before
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the winter break, Howard would announce renewal. Howard announced a
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three year deal. He gets a more flexible schedule. He's
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already only doing three days a week and has July
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and August off. Boy, nice money if you can get it.
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Howard is what I call a once in two generations
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Hall of famer, the best who ever did it, but
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also little past his prime. People are upset with Saturday