Doug Benson, Patton Oswalt, Hot Dogs and Cucumbers

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Callaroga Shark Media. Hey, I'm
Shonnie Mack with your daily comedy news.

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Tom Sever Have you heard of him? Hall of Fame picture, best known

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for being a picture on the New
York Mets. So when Tom Seaver was

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late in his career, he's pitching
a game and the pitching coach comes out

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and says, you don't have your
best stuff today, you got nothing?

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And sever goes, yeah, and
he gestures at the hatter and he goes.

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But they don't know that that,
my friends, was yesterday's podcast.

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For scheduling reasons, I needed to
tape both yesterday and today, and after

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all the twenty minute episodes I've done
lately. Naturally, when I was prepping

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the show on Wednesday, there was
almost nothing new, and I was like,

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ah, you're kidding me. Couldn't
like Kat Williams say something about somebody

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or something. Now, I had
some stories. Today, I had plenty.

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I'd planned on pre taping today,
so I have plenty for today Today's

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real Yesterday, I was like,
all right, let me see if I

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can check and jive and get through
this. And it worked. It was

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a pretty good episode of the fifteen
hundred or so I'm not sure it was

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the greatest episode, but it was
perfectly fine, so I was happy with

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how that came out to. Doug
Benson has already been scheduled for the Tower

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City Comedy Festival. You know when
that is? January twenty twenty five.

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Then has this super early. It's
in Paris, Texas, three nights,

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fifteen plus shows, one hundred plus
comics. Sounds fun. Doug Benson is

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your headliner, Johnny, Sure you're
not bluffing today because you led with Doug

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Benson's playing a show nine months from
now? Are you sure you're not bluffing

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today. I'm not bluffing today.
This is a high quality episode. Steve

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Martin's new documentary is out Apple TV
plus been telling you about this one.

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It's in two parts. The first
part focuses on Steve's comedy. The second

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part the movies and the banjo and
the Hall of Fame lamp and all that.

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I'll watch part one. Bill Maher
says, what I've decided to do

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is not preemptively give up my nervous
system to Donald Trump like I did last

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election cycle, or maybe the last
two times. If he wins, he

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wins, I'll do everything I can
to make sure that doesn't happen, but

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none of them have much influence.
The country's polarized. It's like a prison

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yard. You're either on one team
or the other. Everybody says they want

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to be in the middle, but
really they just go to their corners.

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So either trumpill Winterer he won't,
and then he becomes president. Either he'll

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blow up the world or put me
in Guatanamo Bay or whatever. I just

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can't worry about it constantly. Paley
Fest announced a few moderators. Jet Apatow

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will moderate Curb Your Enthusiasm on Thursday, April eighteenth. Patton Oswald will moderate

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The Late Show with Stephen Colbert Saturday, April twentieth. Some casting news from

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This is Spinal Tap. Lars Ulrich, you know him from Metallica, and

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Chad Smith that's the guy from Red
Hot Chili Peppers. They're gonna play drummers

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in the sequel too. This is
spinal Tap. Now, if you saw

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the first one Spinal Tap, drummers
tend to die. Also in the sequel,

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Fran Drescher's back, Rob Reiner's back, new editions to the cast.

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Paul Schaeffer isn't Schaeffer in the first
one. Did I imagine that? Yeah,

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Paul plays are you fucking? In
the original? Yeah? All right,

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I didn't imagine that. Maybe I
just think at reading comprehension. Anyway,

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Shaffer is in the sequel. Here
in the sequel, we catch up

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with Spinal Tap. They reunite for
one final concert after a fifteen year hiatus.

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They originally wanted to release this this
month for the fortieth anniversary of the

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original film March of eighty four,
but there was a strike, delay and

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stuff, and the movie still does
not have a release date. Steph Tolev

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spoke to w p R and they
said, crowd work is where Steph really

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shines. By the way, some
of us were talking about David Tell's CrowdWork

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at Tell is the best. Did
you watch it Tell specially? Yet?

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Watch it Tell Special number one special? Year? Heckle. Steph tolav at

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your own risk her most viral videos
of a man who overstepped and then left

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the theater. She tells the story. It was at the comedy store.

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I was in another room, so
I missed what happened at the beginning of

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the show. So I came in. I was talking to this couple,

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and they ended up not being a
couple. They were like Boston employee.

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Then someone else yealed out. He
sponsored the show move on with this tone

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that was so rude for no reason, and he left. So I got

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mad because I was like, you
can't heckle me and leave. Sorry,

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I now this works. You want
to kill me? You stay in the

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room, you deal with it.
I convinced the host at the end of

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the show to bring me back up. I was so pumped to go back

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on stage. The crowd went nuts
too. They was bet up there.

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The heckler slunk away once more.
Steph says, then he ended up being

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route to me after texting a guy
whose showed was still making fun of me.

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I was like, yeah, your
chance, you wasted it. Sorry,

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you can't be a troll. You
troded me to my face. This

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is what happens, Johnny. You
assure you that trying to pull a CEV

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here this These stories sound pretty generic
from the BBC You're for Comedy News.

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Ed Gamble has swapped a hot dog
for a cucumber in his advertisements on the

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Subway. He has swapped a hot
dog for a cucumber. You dirty listener,

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I know what's in your mind right
now, hot dog, cucumber.

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Don't act like it's not. You're
thinking about food. Yeah, I know

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what you're thinking about. So Ed
Gamble had used a hot dog in his

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advertisement for a stand up tour.
Hot Diggity dog makes sense to me.

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However, Transport for London aka TfL
does not allow foods high in fat,

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sugar and salt to be advertised on
its network. Really, a spokesperson for

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TfL said, following a review the
advert, we advise that elements would need

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to be removed to and short complied
with our policy. This is somebody's job.

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On Instagram at Gamble describe the incident
as a career highlight, adding eat

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your greens kids. So he removed
the hot dog and put in a cucumber,

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but his team kept the ketchup and
mustard. Gamble said, I actually

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don't have a problem with the TfL
regulations. They make sense to me,

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but the new posters promote something way
more harmful. The idea of the cucumbers

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pairwell with ketchup and mustard. I'm
not sad to have them remove the hot

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dog. It was only featured on
the poster because I wanted to eat during

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the photoshoot. Hopefully it's not too
late to change the title of the show

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to Q Diggity Cucumber. Today's daily
comedy news is brought to you by Monsters,

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Sharks and Dinosaurs. It's a podcast, Monsters, Sharks and Dinosaurs.

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I love this one. I just
wrote a bunch of episodes for it the

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other day, so I won't even
read the proper copy. I'll tell you

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what we're doing here. You pick
a monster, say King Kong, and

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then we explain how King Kong would
kill you. Then we get into the

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plausibility of all right, could there
be a giant gorilla? How would that

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work in science and stuff? We
take a look at that, and then

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we'd take a look at the monsters
in popular culture. Are there movies with

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such a monster? A lot of
fun. It was originally a throwaway idea.

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I said to my business partner Mark, I'm like, let's do monster,

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sharks and dinosaurs. So that was
the extent of the idea, and

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then when I sat down to actually
write them, it came out a lot

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more fun and a lot smarter than
I thought. So this morning I was

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writing episodes about the Dracula, frank
Stein's Monster, the Mummy. We have

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episodes about Jaws and Jurassic Park.
You know, sharks, dinosaurs. So

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the show is called Monsters, Sharks
and Dinosaurs. Monsters, Sharks and Dinosaurs.

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Where you get your podcast? Check
that one out. The CBC says

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Just for Laughs has been a launch
pad for Canadian comedians. What happens to

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us without it? Comedian Sam's Faraza
writes, a few weeks ago, I

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was feeling pretty good about being a
Canadian comic. I'd flown out to perform

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on a taping for Just for Last
Vancouver as part of the next season.

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We see gyms that the new wave
of stand up series. The morning of

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my filming, on a typically drizzly
Vancouver day, I wrapped myself at a

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complimentary hotel robe. I treated myself
to room service. Life was good.

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Then the JFL announcement. My first
thought was, what a devastating blow this

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would be a Canadian stand up My
second thought was could my exorbitant room service

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be blamed for this? Then I
remember and I had paid out of pocket

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Just for Laughs as a beacon for
Canadian comedy. It's the carrot at the

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end of the stick that every Canadian
comedian is chasing, whether they admit it

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or not, it has a hand
in creating the very foundation of Canadian stand

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up and as a result, getting
booked on the Montreal Festival, the biggest

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comedy festival in the world, is
one of the very few springboards for success

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in our industry. It has propelled
comedians from amateur to something to at least

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somewhat resembles professional status. Getting on
JFL means something. It's a stamp of

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approval, a sign that you've made
it. I'll add an amen to that.

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Showcases for JFL have all un canceled
at the last minute, and comedians

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like myself that work on these important
sets all year long have been left high

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and dry. Although it says it
hopes to resume the festival in twenty five,

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that feels like a tall order the
of the festivals dependent on jp R.

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That's the just for last company pulling
off a huge restructuring in a year's

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time, let's take a lot of
innovation and downsizing, no small feat for

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a large company that's already struggled to
pivot. As for other avenues for success,

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comedians are left with crumbs. There
are little to no comedy specific grants

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for stand up. Often we're grouped
together with theater artists in the grant world,

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forcing us to compete with completely different
art forms. Meanwhile, circus arts

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gets its own category. And hey, no shade to sirc to sleigh.

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Just want a fair fight. And
if you're thinking, just post you stand

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up online build a following. I
could tell you a thing or two is

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someone with a medium size falling online. First, the money doesn't come easy

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because you have to have an online
following. And secondly, while festivals are

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far from the only thing to work
toward in comedy, getting an opportunity to

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perform at a festival like JFL is
a huge goalpost that's now in peril.

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If JFL does come back next year, it's hard to imagine Canadian comedians getting

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a good deal. Canadian comedians will
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bringing in more bankable American talent paid
for by Canadian taxpayers and artistic institutions.

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The same criticisms the festival is faced
in the past will likely become more ingreened

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in the future. Speaking of Canada, Canadians are applauding a comedian who expertly

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shut down an American that insisted on
correcting him during a set. Michael Harrison

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is a New York based comedian from
Saskatchewan. He posted a clip titled an

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American Canadian explaining Canada to me,
What a surprise. We don't have a

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thirteenth grade He've been lying to him. Sorry to correct you. Yeah,

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we don't have that. I'm Canadian. Trust me, I'm very aware of

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what our country has. We actually
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ago. They don't have it anymore. The woman goes, you have it.

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No, they don't trust me.
I hate to admit this to you.

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You're wrong. The audience laughs.
He turns to the audience and says,

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this is how American that woman is. You're wrong about your country.

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This is why people don't like you
guys as much when you travel other country

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because of that. Mike Lazer's debut
comedy album Life Rules Mixed Ape, Volume

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one out today on a special Thing
Records, The Tights eight tracks of Comedy

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Gold. Mike hit the stage to
explain that saying yes to life, his

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love of weed Town, for cooking, having good merch therapy and validation,

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and the pressure Beast tells Us Originally
from Saint Louis. Mike Glazer is an

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entertainment juggernaut with extensive credits, including
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and No, I didn't forget.
I just moved it to the end.

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Let's see what's happening at Melbourne.
Let's say you're listening on Friday, which

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means in Melbourne it's Saturday. By
the way, Sunday's episode of this podcast,

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already recorded is a look at up
and coming ozzy comedians, so a

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bit of a format breaker. It'll
be me just going, hey, here's

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this guy I've never heard of.
Here's a clip, but it's a lot

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of fun. I think it came
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you think of that episode, and
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a daily comedy news podcast group.
The Melbourne site. They must have been

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listening to me complain about it.
It loaded a little quicker and they now

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have a tab this Saturday, which
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do mental gymnastics. Let's see if
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today. Tom Ballard's good point,
well made, says, there's a clip

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and there is let's listen rolled.
Michael jokes about the name coronavirus Corona.

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That's like a bee. Then I
drink what's next Peroni virus? Yeah,

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look, everyone of those toilet piper
o the news. It was hilarious.

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Then Tom Hanks got it and we
were like, this is serious. Sheriff

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Woody is sick. Then Richard Wilkins
got it and we were laughing again.

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Okay, we were like, oh, now, this is a wonderful news

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story. All right. It took
me a minute to find a clip.

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There. He drops a lot of
F bombs. I'll give you a note,

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as a guy in a basement doing
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your particular material doesn't need the F
bomb every third word. Just drop

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it all. You don't need it. Johnny Max is not anti swearing,

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but you know, I don't need
to do this podcast. Like, hey,

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if you enjoy the fing show,
tell a friend about it. They

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might effing like it too. Like
I don't need to do that. Eater

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does that? Comedian? Now I
hear my dog flopping upstairs. My dog

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is sixteen and a half years old. I'm going to go rescue her.

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Oh, my God just fell again. All right, see you tomorrow.