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today. Hi, I'm Johnny Mack with

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your daily comedy news. Jimmy Kimmel
riffed a bunch of jokes about heat that

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I loved. It'll be so hot
in Maine this week the lobsters will be

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getting in pots just to cool down. It's so hot in New York this

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week, the rats are wearing crop
tops. It's so hot in South Dakota.

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Christine Olam's dogs are shooting themselves.
It's so hot at mar A Lago.

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Donald Trump to ask Malania to be
even colder to him. That inspired

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me to come up with It's so
hot that Joe Cooy made a Taylor Swift

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joke just to get an icy look
from her. It's so hot that I

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bought some Jim gaffig and bourbon just
so I had something to pour over ice.

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Stephen Colbert said scientists Warren heat waves
will be longer and more intense and

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more frequent, So good news for
Missus heat waves. New topic from Colbert.

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The Celtics won the championship. It's
nice for Boston fans to have something

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to celebrate. Ever since Tom Brady
left town, all I've had a root

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for is Bill Belichick setting the record
for youngest girlfriend. Bostonians were out in

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the streets drunk and yellow, and
then they found out they want a championship.

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The Celtics now have the most championships
in NBA history with eighteen. It's

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that kind of sustain excellence that lets
everyone overlook their pipe smoking, chiley wielding,

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pot bellied stereotype mascot. Yeah,
I'm not a fan of that one,

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Nor am I a fan of what
Notre Dame is doing. But that's

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a topic for another day. Michael
ian Black resurfaced his substack from twenty twenty

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three. I shared this in the
Facebook group Daily Comedy News podcast group I'll

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read at length here. Michael wrote, when a producer first contacted me about

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the possibility of appearing in the Louis
Ck documentary, my initial instinct was to

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say no. This was for a
few reasons. The first was I didn't

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want to make it appear as if
I was making other people salacious stories about

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myself. Second, I'd already been
burned once before by commenting about Louis.

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Third, I was kind of scared, not scared of Louis or retribution or

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anything just scared of sticking my head
out of the sand and talking crap about

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a peer. It just felt kind
of bad. I suspect most of the

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other comedians they approached felt similarly to
me. What's the upside and dredging up

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an old scandal featuring one of these
still most popular working comedians. Louis didn't

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emerge unscathed from his notoriety, but
he definitely emerged. He's still playing massive

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venues. He won a Grammy a
couple of years ago. Louis c K

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is doing fine, So I agree
to wag a finger at him all over

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again. What was the point?
Michael iam Black continues writing, In my

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case, the point was that I
couldn't live with my own hypocrisy. A

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couple of years before, I'd written
a book about modern manhood called A Better

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Man, a mostly serious letter to
my son, in which I've talked about

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what I believe it means to be
a man. In that book, I'd

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made the argument that all people have
a responsibility to their own morality. If

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you believe something is the right thing
to do, it's always better to do

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that thing. As somebody who's spoken
up about the crappy things men sometimes do.

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I felt like it was my responsibility
to speak up here, even though

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the man in question was a peer. I've known Louis for almost thirty years.

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I wouldn't say we were ever close, but we were friendly enough,

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and I always look forward to his
sets, which were often bizarre and highly

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sexual. One riff that stands out
in my memory was Louis pantomiming having sex

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with a raw chicken breast. It
was gross but funny, and that's how

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I thought of Louis, gross but
funny. People probably don't remember the radic

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nature of Loui's rise through comedy.
He used to make absurd short films.

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I made by short. These are
like ten seconds. He had a couple

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short lived TV projects before Louis hit
on Fax. My point is it wasn't

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at all clear that Louis was going
to become the voice of his generation.

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It wasn't clear that Louis would even
have a career. But he figured it

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out, meaning he figured out how
to become Lewis c K. To his

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credit, he didn't deny the charges
against him. He admitted to them,

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saying I've brought pain to my family, my friends, my children, and

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their mother. I've spent my long
and lucky career talking and saying anything I

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want. I will now step back
and take a long time to listen.

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Michael ian Black wrote, the long
time didn't last very long. After only

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a few months of exile, Louis
dropped by I Think the Comedy Seller and

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did a surprise guest spot. The
appearance drew the attention of the media.

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I wrote a series of tweets saying
that while I didn't necessarily care about louis

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fate specifically, I thought it was
important that men embroiled in these bad but

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not illegal scandals figure out a way
to work their way back, because if

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we're going to make progress on this
front, we have to find a way

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forward through some kind of reconciliation process, or else the larger movement will suffer

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because men will be unwilling to come
forward. The backlash against me was immediate

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and intense. I felt horrible about
it, but I thought and still think

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that the essential point was correct.
A lot more to this, but I'll

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just leave you with this so odd
Michael rode there was no upside in talking

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about it again, no point in
rehashing an old scandal, no reason to

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be a boy scout. On the
other hand, as I said, I

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would have felt like a coward and
hypocrite for saying no, so I said

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yes again. I share the whole
thing in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News

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Podcast Group. Hannah Berner will have
a new special We Ride at Dawn Netflix

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July ninth. The hour long special
was filmed at the Fillmore in Philadelphia.

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You do have to slow down and
say that I believe man. Hannah is

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excited to be finally able to air
my hour to the world. This show

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and covers to different phases of my
life, my mental health, my love

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life, pop culture, and even
some politics. I like to make people

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question norms and make fun of everything, especially myself. For some reason,

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they're bringing back Everybody Still Hates Chris. This an animated take on the two

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thousands live action comedy Everybody Hates Chris. Chris Rock and Terry Crews are both

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back. It's got a text from
my daughter. She's listening upstairs. She

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just wrote talking about Hanna Burner's Netflix
special on your pod. I'm excited for

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that one. Yeah, stop listening. In Where Were We? On the

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show, Chris Rock plays the voice
of adult Chris narrating stories inspired by his

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experience growing up as a skinny herd
and a large working class family in bed

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Sty during the eighties. Terry Crews
reprises his role as Julius Chris's father,

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who's a gentle giant with a relentless
work ethic and cheap The Daily Beasts caught

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up with Keith Robinson. They asked
him how he's feeling. He said,

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I'm pretty good. Then asked him
if he's sick of people asking how he's

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feeling, and he said, not
really. When I think of somebody holding

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a door for me and then having
the nerve to say, take your time,

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what else am I going to do? He was very excited During his

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special Different Strokes, he walks on
stage with a cane and he gets a

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standing ovation from the audience, who
included at Wanda Sykes, Amy Schumer,

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Michael Chay, and Colin Quinn.
He says, man I felt like the

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president of comedy. It felt great. That whole experience was unbelievable, and

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the fact that my voice held for
two shows was like, oh wow,

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I'm doing this. John Stewart's in
a band. The rest of the band

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are Rick Barry, Andy Bova and
Jim Shovah. John Stewart is the drummer

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for Church and State. They played
last Saturday as part of the North to

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Shore Festival in New Jersey. The
Daily Show is on a mission to rescue

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two things it wants at democracy and
dogs. They announced the new initiative in

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Dogcision twenty twenty four, Rescuing Democracy, I Love This. The campaign kicks

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off tomorrow in New York City.
There, the Daily Show is partnering with

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voter registration organization Headcount and rescue group
Animal Haven. The event will feature pet

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adoptions, free giveaways, doggy swag, dog photo shoes, voter registration opportunities,

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special guests, and more. John
and his wife Tracy run the Hawkhawckson

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Farm Foundation in New Jersey, which
is a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting healthy,

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sustainable, and kind living. After
New York, in Dog Decision will

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hit Milwaukee and Chicago. The Milwaukee
event will be held on Sunday July fourteenth,

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Chicago Sunday, August eighteenth. According
to the press release, Indogcision will

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then hit the road with Headcount,
bring voter engagement opportunities to several adoption centers

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and cities across America. I encourage
you both adopt from a shelter and vote.

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Saturday, my guest is Mike Chisholm. He hosts the Letterman podcast We'll

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Be Nerdy About David Letterman. That
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media. Wednesday, I dropped a
new essay about some podcasts that you should

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check out other than this one.
Link in the show notes mckdeepod dot substack

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dot com. I found this one
interesting. The Eagle Mountain Casino has announced

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that Paul Rodriguez will have a free
show on Sunday. Now, why is

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that interesting? Johnny Mack? Paul
Rodriguez at the Eagle Mountain Casino. Eagle

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Mountain Casino, that sound familiar to
you. That's right, That's where George

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Lopez recently walked off stage. So
I find the booking of Paul Rodriguez curious.

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We'll see what happens there. Dave
Chappelle's going to do outdoor shows again

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in Willow Spring, Rings, July
third through the sixth. Pre sale tickets

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today ten am. General public sales
tomorrow noon ticketmaster dot com. This will

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be a cell phone free event,
meaning you'll have to do those yonder pouches.

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Ticketmaster warns you if you need to
use your phone during the event,

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return to the distribution tent at the
entrance. Anyone caught using a cell phone

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during the show will be immediately ejected. Gabe Iglesias did get the Key to

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the City of Long Beach. Gabe
tell the audience it's not something that you

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strive for as an entertainer. It's
like I'd love to have a TV special

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or I'd love to do a movie. Those are the things that at the

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back of your head, but acknowledgment
that's not something I expected. Some of

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my biggest accomplishments, clearly like today, have been here, and some of

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my biggest heartbreaks I've had situations that
happened to me over the years that happen

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here, and you have to take
the good with the bad. Gabe dedicated

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his Key to the City to the
memory of Sam Rubin. D KTLA news

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entertainment anchor Gabe said, he was
one of my biggest supporters in comedy and

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entertainment. I always covered my specials, he always covered my sitcoms. He

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was a really great human being and
I just want to thank him. And

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that's your comedy news for today.
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