March 10, 2026

Conan on Michelle Obama, Colbert Honored, MattRife plays tennis, and New Comedy Special from David Cross

Show Notes
Transcript

Johnny Mac covers Conan O’Brien on Michelle Obama’s podcast discussing optimism, career setbacks, luck, and privilege, and notes Conan is hosting the Oscars with a Hollywood Reporter cover story coming later. He recaps Stephen Colbert receiving the WGA Walter Bernstein Award and joking about Paramount and revolution. New releases include David Cross’s special “The End of the Beginning of the End” (website now, YouTube April 7), Cameron Esposito’s album “Person of No Consequence” (March 20), Derek Stroop’s Netflix special “Nostalgic,” Matt Koff’s Veeps special “Catman,” and Mario Adrion’s YouTube special “My Struggle.” He mentions Kathleen Madigan’s 1978 hoops shoot win and travel sports, Bill Maher getting bumped at a Lakers game, Blake Griffin comparing standup to the NBA, Matt Rife taking a tennis lesson, and Fox News interviewing Iranian-American comic Max Amini on avoiding politics and describing life under Iran’s regime. He closes with a reminder to vote in Comedy Survivor in the podcast’s Facebook group.

00:25 Conan on Optimism
02:20 Colbert WGA Jokes
03:14 New Specials Roundup
05:25 Kathleen Madigan Hoops
06:05 Travel Sports Rant
07:26 McDonalds Order: 2 Cheeseburger Meal, Diet Coke
08:26 Bill Maher Courtside at Knicks-Lakers
09:03 Blake Griffin Standup
09:42 Matt Rife Tennis
11:04 Max Amini on Iran

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Oh bye. Code And O'Brien was on Michelle Obama's podcast.

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As one does. Conan's not some sort of insider who

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has fancy celebrities at his holiday party. You know, he's

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this rascally outsider guy. Conan telled Michelle Obama. I always

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say I'm a fifty one to fifty two percent optimist.

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I do say the world has always been filled with horribleness.

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There's always been trouble. When young people preach to me

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it's all over, say it's the end of the world,

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I say, you have to understand this is the way

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it's always been and this is how it feels. Conan

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referenced the movie The African Queen. Spoilers for the nineteen

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fifty one film starring Katherine Hepburn and Humphrey Bogard Good film,

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you should see it. Conan calls the African Queen a

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great metaphor for life. In the movie spoilers, you had

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some time there, Hepburn and Boguard are lost in the

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thick woods. They're exhausted from trying to drag their boat forward.

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Convinced they'll never get out, they give up, unaware that

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they're just feet from the river. Conan said, I always

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think about that. I think I've been there probably thirty

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five times in my life when I thought I was

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on the boat and I'm dead on the boat. Then

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I make it past that. He said. Nearly every stage

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of his career has come with one of those moments.

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You may recall critics did not think he would last

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on the Late Night Show and said, then I make

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it past that. Later on I got the Tonight's show

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and I think I'm in good shape. Nope, that blows up,

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and now I thought it's really over. No, it's not.

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Keeps happening over and over again. There's this learning to

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roll with it. Okay, what's my next opportunity? Reset, recommit,

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look for the next opportunity. That is something I try

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to import to my kids. Good advice there Conan. Conan

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ads I'm a poster child for incredible luck. I've been very,

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very lucky, and I give it up for that. I

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also know that I work really hard, and I prepare

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and I try to treat people the right way, but

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I get very angry when people don't give it up

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for luck. I'm also aware that what was my path

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as a white male coming up in the nineteen eighties

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nineties a lot easier than a lot of other people

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in comedy and probably in any profession. We'll have a

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lot of Conan this week. He is hosting the Oscars

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on Sunday. The Hollywood Reporter did one of those fancy

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cover stories with him on Monday. I'm saving that for

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Saturday's Oscars preview episode. Meanwhile, Stephen Colbert was at the

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Writer's Guild of America Awards on Sunday in New York City.

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Colbert was given the Walter Bernstein Award, which is for

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a member who has demonstrated with creativity, grace and bravery

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a willingness to confront social injustice in the face of adversity.

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Colbert said he doesn't deserve any parallels to the namesake

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Walter Bernstein, who was blacklisted during mccortheism in the nineteen

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fifties for being a member of the Communist Party. Colbert said,

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this is not the nineteen fifties. This is not the

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Red Scare. And as far as I can tell, no

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one in Late Night is fermenting a revolution. As we know,

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the revolution will not be televised. It's going to be televised.

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But then Paramount bought it. Great joke, great, great joke,

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he continued. Evidently the revolution was losing like forty million

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dollars a year. It had to go. I hear the

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revolution is thinking about starting a substack good stuff there. Hey,

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where did the next story go? Oh? Here it is.

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It's supposed to be third, it's moved itself to fifth.

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I don't know how that happened. David Cross has a

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new comedy special. It's already out. It's called The End

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of the Beginning of the End. It is the ninth

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of his career. It's available on his website already. They

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announced this on Monday and they were like, it's already out,

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but it will be on YouTube. April seven. Filmed in

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David Cross's home state of Georgia at the historic forty

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Watt in Athens, David Cross tackles the chaos of modern

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America head on, skewering authoritarian politics like what what are

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you talking about? Really? Reproductive rights rollbacks, religious extremism, late

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stage capitalism, and uniquely American obsession with hoarding sneakers. Cross

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jokes the whole thing was written by some of the

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cheapest AI available. Cameron Esposito has announced a new album.

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It is called Person of No Consequence. It'll be out Friday,

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March twentieth on a special Thing Records. Cameron is fantastic.

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LA comedians. Was really good. What was that called? It's

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been gone for like ten years already. That was a

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really good. Anyway, It'll come to me as soon as

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I stop recording. Derek Stroup has a Netflix special out today,

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part of Nateland. You'll find Nostalgic on a Netflix. In Nostalgic,

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Derek Stroop dives into his experience being a nineties kid

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in rural Alabama and everything that came along with it,

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from partying with friends to board games and parental relationships.

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Daily show writer Matt Kauf has a new special out

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today Catman, It's on Veeps. In Catman, Matt Kauf discusses divorce,

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middle age, and cats, sharing his thoughts on the world's

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bias against men with cats. He says people love cats,

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but men with cats make people uncomfortable, including me. I'm

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a man with a cat and I'm creeped out by myself.

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Also also also out today, German American comedian Mario Adrion

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his special My Struggle, which is a tongue in cheek

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nod to the title of a famous German leader's book.

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evil guy that wrote a book Mario specials called My Struggle.

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That'll be on YouTube starting at nine a m. Pacific today.

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This one was filmed across four sold out shows a

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Dynasty typewriter in La Mario tackles his cultural experience as

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a German comedian living in America, exploring his German guilt,

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his German Jewish marriage, and how La is a bit

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different from a small hometown where he grew up chopping

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wood in the Black Forest. Kathleen Madigan, I love this one.

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This was in the Star Telegram. We learned that Kathleen

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Madigan back in nineteen seventy eight won the Mid Missouri

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Hoop Shoot Championship. Kathleen Madigan made fourteen out of fifteen

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attempts back in nineteen seventy eight, all underhand, and she said,

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that is true, and then I retired. You have to

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remember back then, this was not some school sponsored thing.

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This was through like the Elks Lodge. There was some

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random thing my dad signed me up for because he

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treated the girls like the boys. My dad was a

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lawyer and he saw sports for girls as a dead end.

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The next round was in Kansas City, which is why

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I wanted to do it. We lived in Saint Louis

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and I wanted to see Kansas City. There were seven

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kids in my family. I know such thing as travel

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sports back then with my parents was like if you

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can walk to the game, you can play, but we're

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not driving you. That reminds me when I was eighteen,

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I coached baseball. I just wanted to coach baseball, so

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they handed I don't know what they were, how old

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were these kids would have been like six seventh graders

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to some eighteen year olds. And this was in Queen's

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I didn't have a car. We would just walk to

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these fields like neighborhoods away. You think the parents would

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drive some of us. Now, I would carry this big

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bag on my back and go coach baseball. I loved it.

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And there wasn't travel baseball back then. This was cyo

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baseball and Queen's I was still doing cyo baseball as

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late as the turn of the century. And then you'd

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hear like the really good kids would be like, I'm

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playing travel baseball. You'd be like, what's that now? I mean,

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twenty five years later, forget it. Especially soccer, boy, the

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big money came into soccer in the right around twenty ten,

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the big money, the Brits all came over and just

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basically town soccer fell apart, county soccer fell apart. You

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have if you want to play anything, at least big competitive,

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you had to pay play in these travel leagues, and

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those were all like four thousand dollars. So everybody sport

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the World Baseball Classic. Because what I want to do

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is I'm gonna move to London and I'm going to

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open up Big Apple Baseball. I'm gonna ramp up the

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accident a little bit and be like, hey, you want

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to be like Wan Soto let me show you how

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to do it, and then George British parents four thousand

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dollars for me to teach them how to play baseball,

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and they'll be like, oh, he's from New York City.

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Sounds right, like I don't know if these British guys

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weren'ty good at soccer, they just looked right. I don't know.

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I digress. Ye. My wife just texted me asking me

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if I want McDonald's. The answer is yes, hold on, Wow, Wow,

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she's the best. I got to hold on to her.

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I just ordered a two cheeseburger meal to die coke.

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And case you're curious, where were we and why don't

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you edit that out? John? The answer, as always is

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because that's not fun. Kathleen Madigan was talking about travel

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sports and said, look at the commitment, all this money.

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My sister called me from jim Issareli. I remember all

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that She's hoping and praying her kid would lose in

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the volleyball match. That's what I was saying. You'd be

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in this soccer chortament at like eight in the morning,

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and if you win, you get to play in the

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championship game at like four point thirty on a Sunday

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two and a half hours from your house, and like

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part of you is like, yeah, I totally hope they win.

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It would be a shame if we didn't get to

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hang out here in these fields, in the middle of

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nowhere all day. Call. He said, I stay in Marriad

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courtyards all the time, and I see the parents of

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the kids sports team. They're always just hanging out in

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the lobby, just drinking all the time. Speaking of sports,

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did you watch the Knicks on Sunday? You were like, Hey,

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did Amy Schumer dance? No, it was a road game.

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Bill Maher was there. He was sitting in the front row.

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Bill Maher's got a lot of money. He was sitting

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courtside at the Lakers game. So whatever you think of

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Bill Maher, he's done a right for himself. Anyway, Lakers

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guard Marcus Smart crashed into Bill Maher in the middle

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of the game. I saw this myself on live television,

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wrote myself a note Bill Maher in the script. Thing

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that seemed to Bill Maher's finger got slightly injured. It

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was a little bit swollen. Hopefully Bill Maher is doing okay.

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Marcus Smart re entered the game and defeated the Knicks,

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which was very disappointing. Now, last night Johnny Mack had

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to stay up late because the Knicks were playing the Clippers,

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and you know who used to be on the Clippers,

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Blake Griffin. Blake Griffin has tried stand up comedy. See

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how I tied this all together. You couldn't plan it

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any better, thanks NBA schedule. Blake Griffin compared to stand

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up comedy to the NBA. He said, you finish a

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good game, you get the text from the people, you

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talk to people that were there. You feel a certain

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energy that's riding above everything else. It's the same when

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you have a good comedy set. I haven't had many

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of them. You definitely feel this higher energy. Comedy is

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the same way as basketball. For me, putting in the time,

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going about constructing jokes, constructing a set the right way.

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It's important to me. I don't want to be this

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hack who only goes for the low hanging fruit. Meanwhile,

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from tennis dot Com, you're home for comedy news. Matt

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Rife took a tennis lesson with Chris Eubanks and discovers

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that Spanish grunting improves shot quality. I think we all

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knew that Chris Eubanks, who as you know, is the

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twenty twenty three Wimbledon quarter finalist, shared on social media.

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Super Lucky. Matt Rife asked Tennis Channel for the opportunity

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to get a good tennis coach. So who else to

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bring besides myself? Matt Riife said, the wrist is everything.

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Rife explained. Tennis Channel asked me if I wanted to

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embarrass myself. They were like, I've ever played before. I said,

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not a day in my life. So then they brought

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in the best. They warmed up doing some groundstrokes. Then

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matt Rife was taught on the art of grunting. Chris

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you Banks said, maybe let the grunt determine the quality

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of the shot. Raife took the advice. You Banks told

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matt Rife, I feel like your shots are getting better

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with it and you're just letting go of atension. When

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it was all done, Riife said, that was tremendously harder

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than I thought it was going to be. He went

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to collect the balls. A young fan yelled out from

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above the court. Matt Riife yelled back to the mom,

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he should have no idea who I am that's terrible parenting.

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Mom said, he's never seen your stuff. Matt Rife gave

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the young man some advice. Nice to meet you, buddy,

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Enjoy your future detentions. Well, if you've had the TV on,

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you'll see that we're bombing a run for some reason.

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Stock market down, gas price is up. Over the weekend,

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the President of the United States showed up at the

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Daynified Transfer ceremony in a baseball cap. That's just your

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news recap. Fox News caught up with Max Amini. Now.

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The setup for this was like a lot of the

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articles lately about how Maximini has gone from Who's that

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to We're all going like, wait, who sold out Madison

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Square Garden? And then you answer the question Maximini. But

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what interests me today is Maximini is of Iranian descent,

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born in Arizona. In nineteen eighty one, when he was

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eight years old, the Emini's left Arizona and moved to Iran.

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Max lived there until he was seventeen. He explained, I

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was born into this family who promoted the Iranian culture

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in a very positive way to us. So I learned

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all the best things about my culture, and I was

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very lucky to be raised in America in an environment

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that was very patriotic. Max told Fox News he's not

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interested in bringing division onto the stage. He explains the

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beauty of stand up comedies. You sort of take a

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perspective and you decide this is who I am, and

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you go on stage and you present that. I never

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like politics. I hate politics. I just can't tell you

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how much I feel like politics is negative. It's a

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power game. It divides people, it makes you lie, it

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makes you do things just to in for your party.

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I'm very simple. I don't like the feeling of that complexity.

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Fox News points out that Max's interview with Fox took

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place before the recent news events, but Max did say

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freedom is something that today we understand is the most

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important thing for any human. If you can imagine how

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hard it is to be in any country, as someone

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who lives in this beautiful country, can you imagine that

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they strip away all your rights. You're afraid of what

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you're saying. You can't do simple things in life, singing, dancing,

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you know, basic basic things we take for granted. Women

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cannot sing or dance in public, They can't go out

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without their significant other freely and people cannot exercise their

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beliefs certain religions. It's very unimaginable for people who live

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in a free country like the US or European countries

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that have so much respect for human rights. Max described

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the Iranian people saying they're fun, they're hip, they're fashion forward.

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When you understand just their taste in music and the

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way they enjoy their gatherings and how they live, you'll

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be surprised what the media shows and what the reality is.

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So I hope everybody gets a chance to see that soon. Again,

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this interview took place before recent news events. Max said, Historically,

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when a country held in this situation, they're held hostage,

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there is a regime that's absolutely brutal and they're killing

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their own people. The intervention is a must, and the

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rescue mission is the most beautiful act a country can

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do for these people. They're screaming out for help. And

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I think on that note, it is time to wrap

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up today's podcast, and that is your daily comedy news

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for today. Don't forget to vote for Comedy Survivor. When

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I last checked, the Facebook group was starting to gang

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up on tig Nataro, which is very interesting. I think

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we're down to seven names in Comedy Survivor. Now it's

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gonna get down to the nitty gritty. Also, i've seen

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John Malaney got his first vote. I think that's his

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first vote of the contest so far. If you're like,

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what is all this? John? Here? Do this? Go to

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the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast group. There you'll

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find a picture of Bert Kraser and me. We're both

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wearing shirts. Boy, I try to make a little cartoon

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image of Survivor every week. I didn't even tell you guys.

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Last week to get Kevin Hart to render correctly took

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twenty tries. It kept making Kevin Hart, who will admit

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not being tall, absurdly absurdly tiny, and I just everything

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get rendered. I'm like, I'm not handing that in. So

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I finally got to do something. And then this week

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it just would not depict Burt Krescher with a shirt off.

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I think it thought I was asking for something naughty,

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and I'm like, Burt Krascher is known for not wearing

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a shirt. Here's images of Burt Krescher not wearing shirts,

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and it just wouldn't do it. So Bert Chrayscher's wearing

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a shirt and so am I because you nobody needs

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to see that. No, no, no, I mean maybe in

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a shirt off contest. If I was standing next to

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Bert Krascher, you might be like, Hey, that guy on

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the right there has got it going on. But you know,

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a normal company, you nobody, nobody needs to see that. Okay,

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tm I Johnny Mack. That's your comedy news for today. Oh,

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here's what you do. Facebook group, Daily comedy News podcast group.

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