July 7, 2025

Craig Robinson Quits Comedy! A look at John Mulaney's New Tour early on

Craig Robinson Quits Comedy! A look at John Mulaney's New Tour early on
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Johnny Mac covers Craig Robinson's surprising announcement of quitting comedy to pursue a new business venture, sharing his gratitude and seeking advice from small business owners. The Berkshire Eagle reviews John Mulaney's current 'Mr. Whatever' tour, highlighting its mix of classic style and fresh edginess. Taylor Tomlinson discusses her decision to prioritize standup over her TV career, Jimmy O. Yang partners with Hong Kong tourism, and W. Kamau Bell introduces his new show 'Who's With Me?'. Finally, Adam Sandler films at Montclair High School, and the Cheerful Earful Comedy Podcast Festival announces its return in October across three cities and continents.

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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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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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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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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,

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I'll do it. Now.

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Let's back up just a bit. Tell us a little

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bit about your new book. What is the Happiness Experiment.

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Well, this is a recording of the real events with

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real people who I decided that I would bring forward

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the inheritance the money I had for them in my

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will and made it a prequest, so it was a

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chunk of money that they were going to get. Well,

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they were still young enough to enjoy it, and I

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was still alive to see it happening. So I saw

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what they were doing. So when I sat down with them,

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I talked about money and happiness and how one can

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cognect and I said, look, I'm going to bring this

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forward to give it to you, but what I want

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from you is a plan so you use this money,

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so it's really a big benefit for you. I don't

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want this to overwhelm you. And they said what kind

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of plan? I said, I want a happiness plan, and

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they said, a happiness plan? What's that? So so you know,

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nobody has seems to have a happiness plan, but it's

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one of the most important plans you can get, and

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it doesn't have to be a very complex What is

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it that makes you happy? What values do you want

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to pursue? You know, what goals and dreams do you have,

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and you can pursue them. And so I got them

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to write a happiness plan. And then when I saw

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the plan, I gave them all the money all at

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one time, and so then they took it and I

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watched them with their plan. I saw all their plans,

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what they did, and how they became happier, and so

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you know, that had to be written about so because

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I wanted other people to see what they did so

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that they too could do the same thing.

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Which prequest is the most unique one you've come across.

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because two dear friends of mine had a beloved daughter

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and she was hit head on by a drunk driver

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and killed. She happened to be eight months pregnant at

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the time, so that killed the granddaughter too, and also

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their daughter. They were totally totally wiped out, devastated, and

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they died emotionally. They had decided that they could never

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be happy again. It would be wrong to be happy.

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had been killed. Tremendously painful, awful, awful story. So they

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were grieving six years later and I met with them

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and I told them how much they had added to

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my life and how much I was so grateful to them,

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and that I wanted to express the gratitude. And I

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put them in my will and they could accept that.

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and they said, oh no, no, we can't accept it.

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and I said, look, I'm leaving it open. So several

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months later, I think his wife persuaded him to do it, actually,

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you know, and you know, so they said, okay, we'll

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do it, because if we're going to wait until you die,

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why not do it now. And they did it. And

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it wasn't the money. Interesting now, they said, it was

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the coaching that made the big difference, that changed their

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mind their mindset from being so negative. You know, we'll

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never be happy again. We don't deserve to be happy.

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you know it can be you can be happy again.

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And they started to get the mindset of happy people.

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And now you cannot believe what these people. They're traveling

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all over the world. They're in Tahiti right now. They

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climbed Killimungarrett. These people are loving life. And it was

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a major change. That is one of the most heartfelt,

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wonderful results of the And in a sense, she said,

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the wife said, this prequest changed or saved my life

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because we were no longer living, we were dead, and

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this brought us back to life.

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can be really difficult to find your way out of it.

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way out of it, and you know, sometimes you want

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to map, right, and it looks like this concept could

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be a good map for you, if there's like it

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was for these folks. I always like to end interviews

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by asking is there anything that I didn't ask that

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I should have.

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How can my listeners benefit from this book? What should

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they do? What would be good for them? And so

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I'll answer that question. First off, think about happiness, Think

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about being happiness. Do you you deserve to be happy?

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it as a choice. I'm going to increase my happiness

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just that if you make that Realistically, I want to

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and I'm going to increase my happiness that choice. And

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then talk to people about it. Talk to a husband

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or wife, or a girlfriend or a friend, a therapist

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or coach, talk to somebody about it and say, look,

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I'm made the decision that i want to be happier,

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and I'm like you to help me create a happiness

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plan and then work on it. And it's not that hard,

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but it is. It is challenging, but it's a wonderful exercise.

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And if they do it, I guarantee they will increase

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their happiness. I guarantee it.

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Carl Barney is the author and the book is called

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The Happiness Experiments, A Revolutionary Way to Increase Happiness.

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Carl.

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Where can people find the book?

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Wherever books are sold, and it's now available for pre

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order from Amazon and they can go to the Happiness

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Experiment dot com and they can pre order it there,

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and I hope they will.

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Carl, thanks so much of the time. I really appreciate it.

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Yeah, thank you Dan. It's been fun.