Dave Chappelle calls Gaza a genocide

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Caloroga Shark Media. Do me a
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you're hearing this podcast, listen to
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Mack with your daily comedy news,
and this one's for me. Sometimes they

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just need to talk to the audience. You can hear my voice. So

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I went to see The Stones Thursday
night, right, and again, if

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this is your first time with the
show, this is totally self indulgent,

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go find a different episode. So
I headed out to The Stones and bark

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the car and I was sitting there
with my buddy Glenn, and we had

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gotten Chipotle and we're eating our burritos
and you know, nice enough night.

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And I take a selfie of us, go to send it to my wife.

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Worlds at Tamos tailgate and I see
two miss calls, a voicemail and

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a text that says call me now. That's never good, right, And

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nope, it was not good.
Just took another stomach punch, some more

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terrible news. But you know,
we were at the show and there was

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nothing to be done. And I
don't have a time machine. So Glenn

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and I saw The Rolling Stones.
I'll have it in substack on Monday,

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that's my free newsletter where I talk
about the media. So if you want

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to get a full review of the
show, that'll be in the sub stack.

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You can hear. I can't even
form a sentence today. I think

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they were really good. It was
one of those things where I was not

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good company. Glenn understood. But
I'm sitting there and I'm half thinking about

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the phone call for my wife,
and I'm half enjoying the Stones, and

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I'm like, you know, kind
of out of it, and then like,

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oh wow, this sounds really good. I really like the song Miss

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You. But what this conversation gonna
be when I get home. So that's

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where I am today. But I
just want to tell you the Stones I

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think they were pretty good, but
I'm not sure because I was out of

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it. The other thing affecting me
today is Morgan Spurlock passed away. Now,

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I worked with Morgan, and I'm
trying to explain the Morgan Spurlock I

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worked with circa I don't know,
twenty fifteen, sixteen seventeen, somewhere in

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that range. Yeah, somewhere in
that range. Was like a really cool,

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thoughtful guy. He passed away on
Thursday in upstate New York complications from

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cancer. He was fifty three.
I'm fifty four. We did a podcast

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with him. It was a weekly
news recap show, A really good idea.

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I think maybe we tried it a
little too early in podcasting's growth curve.

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It was a show that deserved a
lot better. I don't even know

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if it's still up. Let me
look, yeah, I don't see it.

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My old company may possibly have taken
it down. Let me read from

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his obituary and variety. This is
where it gets a little complicated. In

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December twenty seventeen, as the me
too movement continued to gain traction, Spurlock

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wrote in a lengthy social media post
saying he was part of the problem.

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In the post, he admitted to
serial infidelities and said he had settled an

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allegation of sexual harassment from a former
assistant. He also said he had been

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accused of rape and college. The
post effectively ended as Spurlock's documentary career,

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as Spurlock stepped down from Warrior Poets
shortly after. If I remember correctly,

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he stepped down at the Christmas party
that year. Yeah, December twenty seventeen,

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he had a lengthy lunch with him
on the other side of that,

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I don't know what happened or didn't
happen. I can tell you he was

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quite remorseful about everything, and I
found it would be a very thoughtful person.

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Again, I don't know what happened, and if something horrible happened,

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I'm not here to defend it.
I'm just telling you at lunch, the

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guy I worked with found to be
cool. I found'll be thoughtful. But

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he canceled himself for a reason,
So I don't know. So all that's

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kind of on my mind today.
Also, out of that podcast that I

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worked with Morgan on, That's how
I know Tim Dylan. He was one

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of the frequent collaborators on the show, and you know, at that time,

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I'm like, I don't know who
this guy is, and he would

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crush every time he came on.
So, you know, I often think

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of Morgan when I think of Tim, and just when I heard this news

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on Friday, I was just absolutely
stunned. All right, let me see

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if I can find my fastball here. I also, personally, I need

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a couple of days off. It's
been quite a stretch. I'm hoping to

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take Memorial Day weekend and just sit
on the deck and listen to music and

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play video games and gonna watch Dune
and stuff. I need to turn my

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brain off for a couple of days. So my goal here is to immediately

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find my fastball and then record a
bunch of these and give myself a couple

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of days off. So thank you
for that self indulgence here in the first

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five minutes. Again, if this
is your first time listening, that's not

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normally what you get here. Right. Let me see if I can find

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my upbeat delivery, because our top
story today, all right, let me

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find it. In three to one
Dave Chappelle and the News. He was

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performing at Abu Dhabi Comedy Week and
as part of his set, he said,

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a genocide is striking the Gaza Strip, all right, So that's going

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to make huge news. As I
record Friday around lunchtime, this story just

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starting to bubble up. Chappelle's comments
get complicated. Abu Dhabi has maintained its

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diplomatic relations with Israel, although it
has increasingly criticized Israel's conduct in the Seven

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month war. Meanwhile, pro Palestinian
marches have swept across the Middle East since

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the war began, before Dave came
on stage. DJ Trauma played the song

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My Blood Is Palestinian by Palestinian singer
Mohammed Asaf. Now, no footage of

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this show yet, as it was
one of those the Yonder Pouch shows.

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Keep an eye on that one.
All right, I need a laugh.

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I'm going totally out of sequence here. Did you see what happened on Wheel

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of Fortune? Here? Listen to
this, let's do it. Our first

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toss up is worth one thousand dollars. Category is phrase and off and golf.

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Tomorrow's right in the butt? What
no blake that says the best?

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Yeah, that's that's it, I
think. Yeah, I've got to also

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late night with a couple of random
jokes. Jimmy Fallon pointing out that it's

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Fleet Week in New York City.
If you're in Manhattan this weekend, you'll

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see a lot of sailors. Usually
sailors are in shape and look good in

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a uniform. I'm a straight mail
but I understand why, you know,

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some people would be like, hey
check that out. Fallon said, of

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course, Fleet Week kicked off here
in New York City with the braid of

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ships, and it ends Tuesday when
all the bartenders wave away flag. Fallon

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again. He talked about there's a
new airline, bark air is for dogs.

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I talked about this on the other
podcast I host five good news stories.

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The short version is dog Airline.
Okay, you get the setup there.

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Fallon said, the flights take a
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do three circles before it lands.
New topic, Colbert talking about a Trump

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aid task with printing out copies of
flattering articles for Trump. Colbert said,

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when she really needs his attention,
she prints those on a slice of baloney.

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N silly joke. Another silly joke
from Colbert unified Reich is the most

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fascist presidential ad since Dwight Eisenhower's.
I like Reich, just a silly joke,

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joke. I love joke jokes.
The New York Times as an article

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on what comedy specials you should watch
this weekend, and I figure I better

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do this one today. Right is
by Jason Zinnemann. I respect his work

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a lot. He recommends Nicky Glazers, Someday You'll die. I didn't feel

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it at all. I understand that's
an unpopular opinion, but didn't feel it

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at all. Nathan McIntosh on his
list Down with Tech. I'm not familiar

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with this one. Let's see Down
with Tech. Self produced focuses Nathan's populist

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fury on the tech oligarchs with how
much are attention we've conceded to their whims?

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All right, I'll try and file
that in the back of my mind.

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I don't know how much comedy I'm
in the mood for this weekend.

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I really think I need to watch
like Dune. It just turned my brain

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off totally. Part of it is
if I start watching comedy special, I

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start mentally hosting the show again,
and like I said, I just need

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I need a little break, need
a little break. Rachel Feinstein's Big Guy.

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I forgot that even came out here
in this busy week that's on Netflix.

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I want to check that out.
Neil Brennan's Crazy good, solid recommendation

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there. He's another one off the
beaten path, Ian Abramson's The Heist.

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This one on YouTube. Jason writes, if you're a comedy fan with an

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experimental bent, give this Giddaly oddball
performer a shot. He begins with a

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cinematic high scene and ends with a
wild lark of a closure that no one

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will see coming sounds fun. All
right, let me take the break here.

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This was all new. I threw
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originally Saturday. I'll chop into pieces
and I'll use it over the course of

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the weekend. And the second half
you'll hear my normal delivery because I recorded

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a couple of days ago. Now, if you were listening last Sunday,

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you heard me say that, oh, I have a ton of leftovers.

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Maybe I will record a Memorial Day
weekend. That's this part here. The

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Columbus Underground caught up with Bill Burr
and they said, a few years ago

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Rolling Stone had you as seventeenth on
their list of best stand up comedians of

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all time. You're in the same
tier as Bill Hicks, Robin Williams,

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and Andy Kaufman. Thoughts persaid,
you know, it's funny, bug me

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when I was left off it early
on, or if there was someone I

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thought wasn't as good, just mentioned
I wasn't, and then I just kind

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of realized somewhere along the line that
I get this business to be on a

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list. So much of it was
also if you had a hot career at

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the moment, or if you didn't, or who you knew all that stuff,

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just like the awards show, the
effort, the promotion, the schmoozing,

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ah, the stuff you have to
do just to get friggin nominated.

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I mean, it's Washington, d
C. It's the same thing, like

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you're running for office. I don't
pay too much attention to it, you

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know. It's like, look at
that the list of top drummers and musicians,

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something I don't do, so I
can have fund debates of like,

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dude, how can you put this
drummer ahead of that drummer. I don't

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want to look at a list of
something I'm doing because there always only somebody

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off it I feel strongly about.
But the worst is it's just kind of

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a lazy list. If who's selling
the most tickets and stuff. To be

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honest with you, that's how I
made it on those lists, certainly because

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of my looks. Eventually you start
selling tickets, someone goes, well,

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this guy's selling tickets, he'll bring
eyeballs or he'll sell magazines. By the

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way, this is not meant to
be a bilber impression. It's more of

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a vibe. Once you finally make
it a list, then you gotta wonder

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how much of what's on there is
true the fact because you know I played

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Madison Square Garden. If I did
the exact same thing but only did it

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at Funnybone Clubs, why don't you
even make the list that if I do?

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Where am I in a list?
I mean, it's nice to be

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mentioned, but it's not something I
hang my hat on or really start believing,

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like, Wow, I guess I'm
on eleventh of all time or whatever

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the hell I have. That's hilarious. If you look at the people who

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are actually the reason the R form
exists, there's about thirty people right there.

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I feel like you have to tell
of like an Eddie Murphy or something

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like that. Maybe I don't know, but you look, I think wherever

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I am on those lists? Because
it's twenty twenty four and I'm selling these

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tickets right now. Let's say twenty
years from now, when I'm a senior

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sists and nobody gives a hoot about
me, if I'm still making a list,

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and I'd be like, yeah,
that's pretty good. That's all right.

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Let's see, since it is a
holiday weekend, let's see if the

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list is around. By the way, someday I'm going to get the flu

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or something I have had for two
three years. There's a couple safety episodes

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sitting on the back end in case
I just can't speak or I've deep dove

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into these lists. They're gonna be
pretty moldy by the time it actually runs.

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All right, I think this is
the list, and I'm not sure

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when they made the list, but
the list is something like this. Number

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one Richard Pryor to Carlin, three, Lenny Bruce four, Woody Allen,

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five, Chris Rock, Steve Martin, Rodney Cosby, Roseanne at nine,

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Come on stop Eddie Murphy, who
again, I'm from the eighties. Love

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Eddie, But the more I pay
attention, it's just a Richard Pryor cover

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band top to bottom. Now,
if you're my age, we loved him.

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But it's a Richard Pryor cover album. So I don't know. I

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gotta move Eddy way down the list
in these days. Carson Seinfeld, Robin

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Williams, Bob Newhart, Letterman,
Ellen Rickles, Jonathan Winter's Hicks, Canison,

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Dennis Miller, Klein, Stephen Wright, Red Fox, Bob Hoe Open,

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twenty five, ver Mono, Leno, Jack, Benny Milton Burrole,

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Gary Shalaling, I'm just trying to
get to Bill Burr. But maybe this

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list might be from like two thousand
and four, George Burns, Albert Brooks,

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Handy Kaulfman, but He Hankett,
Phillistiller, Jim Carrey, Martin,

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Lawrence, Bill Maher, Billy Crystal, mort Sahl, John Stewart, Flip

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Wilson. I mean John Stewart's great
but best stand ups of all time John

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Stewart, number forty one, and
number forty three is Dave Chappelle. Now,

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clearly, if you made that list
today, there's no way that that's

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the rankings right, No way.
And number forty six is Adam Sandler,

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so obviously the list is complete garbage. Sebastian Man of scalco I was talking

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about AI in comedy, said I
don't know how it's gonna affect stand up

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comedy. Guess I really haven't seen
that yet. I haven't really been on

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the pulse of things going oh wow. I mean my wife used it to

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redesign our kitchen, what our kitchen
might look like if we remodeled it,

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which is cool to see. He
said. He thinks live entertainment will always

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be around, but who knows.
Twenty years from now, I might be

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talking to Union, might be going, wow, you never saw AI coming,

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and I'd be like, yeah,
now I'm unemployed. Look, you're

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always gonna want to see the actual
performer again. And I would to see

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The Rolling Stones a few days ago, and I have Rolling Stones DVDs.

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It's not the same. You want
to be there, you'd be part of

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it. Can a AI write some
stuff? Sure? It can write some

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stuff. Can it AI voice some
stuff? I use AI to revoice a

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couple of my stumbles three four times
a week, including this phrase right here.

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If I said welcome to the month
of July and I meant to say

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June, I can replace the July
with June and you won't notice, and

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I won't notice, and I'm me. But if I start to use a

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lot of AI, it falls apart. But that's as bad as the AI

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is ever going to get. So
it should be pretty interesting as we head

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forward. And that's your comedy news
for today. Enjoy the holiday weekend.

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I'll have episodes for you all through
the weekend and meet you back here tomorrow.