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Callaroga Shark Media.
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Hello there, I'm Johnny Mack with your daily comedy news
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right into the holiday weekend. Craig Robinson, you know him
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from the office. He announced he's stepping away from comedy
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to pursue quote something bigger. He uploaded a clip to
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social media saying, Hey, everybody, just wanted you to hear
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it from me. I'm quitting comedy, but not for nothing.
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It's been an amazing run and you've all been amazing
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and wonderful. But I'm following something bigger. So thank you
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so much. I love you and stay tuned. In a
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caption alongside the reel, he wrote, life update, I'm officially
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quitting comedy to focus on my true calling. Stay tuned.
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I'm working on something huge. On Instagram, he posted, Hey guys,
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big shout out to all my small business owners. Hey,
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you guys, got any advice for me? While I'm trying
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to get my business afloat? I hit a few bumps
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on the road and I sure would appreciate your guys tips.
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Thank you. So we'll say, is this for real? Is
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it a marketing stunt? Is he promoting something? I'm not
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sure if you were promoting something you would do it
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into July fourth weekend. But then again I am talking
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about it. The folks at the Berkshire Eagle went to
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see John Mullaney's current tour. That tour called mister Whatever.
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Some spoilers here if you're planning on seeing Milany. The
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Berkshire Eagle writes, there's still the classic affable Millenie. Of course,
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his flashing eyes and expressive face still accentuated every joke.
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His roster of impressions, including a raccoon and the President,
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still shimmered, especially an affected Boston accent that evoked my
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own grandmother. His physicality still stocked the stage. From kicking
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down a door and looking up to it would be
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kidnappered or rising up from a bed like something out
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of the Exorcist. But there was a tinge of cruelty
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now in some of his jokes. They still went down easy,
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but more than a few deliciously burned the back of
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my throat. Maybe it was always there and the kid
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who tortured a diner with Tom Jones, but out in
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the open it felt subversive and exciting. Take hiss cathartic,
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ultra personal tear down of Jeff Bezos or a shark
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tank pitch for a service to beat up the elderly
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abusive dads that made us feel like we were in
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a group with him. Less successful was that exorcist routine,
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a bit too long and a bit too reliant on
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the gimmick of a sweary lucifer, but prefaced as it
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was with a trigger warning and representing such a stark,
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shocky departure. I wondered where the awkwardness was the point.
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M'laney said, I've tried to explain your parents that I'm
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not the good of a guy, but they won't listen.
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Mister whatever felt unfinished loose. Themes of age and family recurred,
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but there was no central theme. As in his past show,
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Some anecdotes, like seeing an aging Frank Sinatra on that steamboat,
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cried out for more smoldering detail. Often Malini dangled a
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punchline so temptingly that we knew it, but still found
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a way to dodge expectations. Seeing an early show of
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this tour, it seemed that whole sections lives accordingately to
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this principle, just waiting for him to make the connections. Sary,
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that's totally fair if it's early to tories working out
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a new hour. Sounds like it was a good show.
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I saw on threads. Somebody put this in my thought,
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and the next time I attempt to break out a
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half ass impression of John Mullaney, I think this is
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the key. Somebody said they can't unhear on the B
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fifty two s I could love shack that. Frend Schneider
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sounds like John Mullaney, and I'm like, oh yes, And
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now I can't unhear that because I keep thinking I've
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got me a car. It's as big as a well, right, yeah,
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that might be the way into a half ass John
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MULLENIY John Marcus RESSI does a pretty good one. When
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he was a guest on this show, he broke that
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out and he kind of did a very good Mulleni.
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Taylor Tomlinson spoke to Evoke Ireland. She explained part of
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giving up what was it called sorry, holiday weekend networking
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after midnight is what it was called, right, She said,
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it's a tough schedule to film a TV show Monday, Tuesday,
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Wednesday and get on a plane Thursday morning and go
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to different cities to do stand up and then fly
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back Sunday night and go back to a lot on Monday.
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So it's just a schedule that felt unsustainable to me.
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It was a great experience, and the team that I
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got to work with was just exceptional. Everybody was so
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good at their job, and I had some really, really
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lovely people. But I didn't think I could keep doing
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the show and stand up. There's been so many great moments,
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but something had to give. I understand that early in
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my career, I was working at the radio station daytime
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and on a TV show at night. And the TV
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show money was good, but I had a new house
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and a new wife and a pool, and I was
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getting home at ten pm exhausted, and I was like,
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it's just not worth the extra money. I'm not enjoying
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my life. Taylor said, with the schedule it made it
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very difficult to date because all day, every day, just
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hanging out with the most successful comedians and them making
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me laugh. She has now decided to prioritize stand up
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and said, I've been doing this for half my life,
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and as soon as I started doing stand up, I
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was like, Oh, this is what I want to do,
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this is who I want to be, and this is
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where I want to be. When I took the TV
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job was very clear. I always said stand up is
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my first priority, and as long as I can do both,
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I'll do both. But if anything interferes with stand up
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too much, I have to prioritize stand up a new topic.
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In the same interview, Taylor always makes sure she checks
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with her family before making a joke about them. She says,
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you don't have to, but I do. I think it's
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the polite thing to do. I don't think it's worth
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ruining a relationship just for a couple punchlines, so I
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tried to run jokes past people first. My friend's family
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et CE Jimmy O Yang partnered with Hong Kong Tourism
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to tell good stories of Hong Kong. He shared a
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video on social media featuring some of Hong Kong's most
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iconic tourist attractions. It showed him trying Chinese barbecue pork
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at a local restaurant, visiting the man Mo Temple and
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Shang Wuan, going to a cocktail bar, and riding the
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cable car on Lantu Island to see the Big Buddha.
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Jimmy speaks both English and Cantonese, and the clip and
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says that's why you gotta love Hong Kong man. All
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in one place. We saw the mountain, in the ocean,
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the Buddha. We eat the best at barbecue w Camal
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Bell's new show is called Who's with Me? He caught
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up with Kuow. Bell said, I feel like my assignment
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is to be clear about who I am, what I believe,
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and then ask you're with me or you're not with me.
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If you're with me, yay. If you're not with me, fine,
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then we'll be over there. Let me be clear. I'm
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team World Peace all day long. But the type of
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comedian I am, there's no shortage of things to talk about.
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So in that sense, there's a lot of gris for
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the mill, but I wish the mill didn't have so
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much grist. My audience is automatically more conservative than people
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realize because I was on CNN for seven years in
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despite what people think, CNN is not a left leaning
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political network. It's maybe middle of the road, maybe center
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right network. I hear people. I don't agree with everything
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you say, but I've learned a lot. I really appreciate
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the way you talk about this stuff. I don't have
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any issue talking to those people on an individual, one
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to one basis. It's when they get into their team
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sport bag of like the president is my avatar. That's
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what it becomes like, I really can't talk to you
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right now. To me, there were a lot of people
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who've realized I'm not a Democrat, but I'm not what
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this is, and I can talk to those people. On
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Gossip Corner we found out why Adam Sandler was over
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at Montclair High School. He's filming a movie. An actor
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who declined to be named said she was playing a
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teacher in untitled Roommates Project. A casting call production sheet
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was seeking actors to portray students through August twelfth. Untitled
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Roommates Project is a Netflix production by Adam Sandler's Happy
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Madison Productions. A young man who's thirteen years old so
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I won't give his name, had watched the filming from
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behind a fence and said, I see this graduation that's
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going on. It looks like they put a load of
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effort in when it looks really nice, all the clothes,
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the suits that everyone's wearing, the uniforms. Another young man,
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also thirteen, said I've seen him playing basketball just on
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the street. Happy Gilmore two is on Netflix. A July
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twenty fifth. Speaking of Adam Sandler, Hey Alma caught up
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with Josh Gonoman, who asked, Josh, what are your top
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three Adam Sandler films? Now? If he's smart, Josh Gonoman said,
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Uncut Gems, the Basketball one, and say fifty first Dates.
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Those would be the top three if you're correct here.
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But Josh Gonoman said, oh, this is such a good question.
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I gotta have Josh han We got to fight this out.
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I think Punch Drunk Love for the one dramatic movie.
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I think Happy Gilmore is in the top three. Happy
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Gilmore and Billy Madison occupy a similar space in my
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heart mine too, just not the same as yours. Josh Gonoman,
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I'm trying to think of another era of Sandler I'd
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like to represent. Hold On, I'm gonna pull up his IMDb. Okay,
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I'm gonna go a little bit off the menu. I'm
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gonna go with his first Netflix special, one hundred percent Fresh.
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I'm also going to give a shout out to his albums.
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My friend and I had his comedy albums when we
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were way too young and they were so dirty. We'd
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see the movies which were PG thirteen and Him on SNL,
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and we got these filthy comedy albums. My friends and
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I were like probably ten to twelve years old and
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would have to listen to them in the woods on
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a boombox so no grown ups would hear them. And
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one by one all my friends who had bought them
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or see them as gifts had them confiscated by parents
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because they were so dirty. It was like an extremely
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formative comedy part of my youth. Yes, Adam Sandler comedy
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targeted at ten year olds exactly. The Cheerful Earful Comedy
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Podcast Festival returns this October. They are expanding it. It's
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going to be three cities across three continents. It is
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now in its fourth year. The fifteen day Festival will
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host over fifty live shows in London, Melbourne and New
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York City. Now, out of those three locations, if you said, John,
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do you want to go to this? I'd be like,
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I do want to go to it. Do you want
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to get to the one in New York City?
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No?
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I hate traveling in New York City. It's a pain
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in the neck. It's actually easier to get to London
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because I drive to Newark Airport and get on a plane.
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You want me to cross the Hudson River, are you insane?
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As much as I'd like to go to London, I'd
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really like to go to Melbourne. What a great city
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that is. I had a great time there, so I
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will rank them a Melbourne, London, New York City. But
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I digress. In London, the Bedford is the festival hub.
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In New York City the caveat and in Melbourne stupid
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and Controversy coming out. That is a spinoff to our
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Palace Intrigue podcast. Season one of Crown and Controversy, we'll
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take a look at the courtship of Kate Middleton, and
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Prince William. If you're not on Apple Podcasts, link of
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the show notes, Calierga dot com, slash plus, and that's
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your comedy news for today, see tomorrow, and now stick
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around for this interview our sister.
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I'm going to bring forward and yours and give it
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to you now. And he said, oh wow, that's great,
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thank you. That's so generous of you. Car that's great.
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But his wife, my sister in law, went ballistic. She said,
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this is too much money, this is wrong. I don't
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want anything to do with and stormed out of the room.
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And I thought, well, that's not what I expected. Oh
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my god. So I realized from that that this was
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not an easy thing to do. So I learned a
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lesson from that, and I knew that I had to
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do this authentically. I had to do it right, otherwise
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it was not going to work. So that happened. And
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then the third thing that happened was that I was
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looking at my financial statements and I had more money
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there than I was really using. It was sitting there.
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I mean, it was growing, making profits and so forth,
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but it wasn't being used. I wasn't using it for me.
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I wasn't using it for things that I really cared about,
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not for my people. So I thought, well, if I
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have all this money now, why should I wait until
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I die? Why don't I bring it forward? And then
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it was a long process for me to come around
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to that, but that's what finally started this, and I said, well,