July 31, 2025

Dusty Slay's Comedy Journey PLUS The Bob's Burger HOAX returns!

Show Notes
Transcript

00:30 Dusty Slay's Comedy Journey
01:35 Shane Gillis at the ESPYs
02:08 Pete Davidson's Tattoo Stories
03:53 Eddie Murphy as Inspector Clouseau
04:35 The Pink Panther Movie History
07:05 The Bob's Burgers Hoax
10:21 Edinburgh Fringe Controversies

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Callaroga Shark Media. Hey there, I'm Johnny Mack with your

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daily comedy news. Dusty Slay specials out on Netflix this week?

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Did you watch it yet? I haven't seen it yet.

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I think my plan is going to be Friday night

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just to get in a comedy head and watch Dusty

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and Maren's Out on HBO tomorrow. I want to watch

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Eddie pepatoone after seeing a friend of the show, Jason

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Zenmann from The New York Times saying how good that

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one was? Verr does I have to catch up on?

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So Friday night might just be comedy night at my house.

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But Dusty Slay spoke about his origin story. He said,

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around two thousand and three, I moved it with a

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friend and we had some problems. So I moved out

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and got my own place, and I didn't have any friends.

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So I took an improv class, and that's how I

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got in the stand up. I took improv and I

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did improv for a long time. He didn't think about

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doing stand up professionally until twenty eleven. I want to

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stand up comedy competition. I thought maybe I could do

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something with this, So I started to take things a

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little more serious than in early twenty twelve. I quit drinking,

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and things became very clear to me, and I got

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very good at comedy. Well, I got good at comedy

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much faster. I wouldn't say I got very good right away,

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but I got much faster. Quitting drinking changed my whole

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life in a positive way. I never think of myself

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as an alcoholic, but I was most certainly a binge

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drinker that once I started drinking, it usually ended in

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some sort of disaster. Not a tragedy, but I would

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black out and lose my friends and things like that.

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So much of my jokes were all about drinking. I'd

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label myself an alcoholic, and I thought it was funny.

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I thought it was funny to drink too much and

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make bad decisions. But I was really living that lifestyle.

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So while I was making jokes about it, and I

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was also falling apart a lot of ways while still

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having fun, it just changed my life. And once I

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quit drinking, I no longer could make drinking jokes. NFL

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quarterback Matthew Stafford's wife, Kelly Stafford, went on Instagram on

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Monday and defended Shane Gillis. Kelly Stafford shared a few

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clips from her Night at the SP's hosted by Shane Gillis.

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She captured it every few years. We decided to dress up.

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Glad we did because Shane Gillis made me almost pee

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myself multiple times. Turns out laughing is fun. More people

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should try it. Signed fat ugly dog wife. I don't

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know if you've seen any pictures of Missus Stafford. I

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would not use the words fat, ugly or dogwife to

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describe her. I think she's being a little hard on herself.

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We're gonna be talking about Pete Davidson a lot because

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he's promoting not one, but two movies. He's in the

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Pickup with Eddie Murphy and he's in the Home, which

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is a horror film. Apparently, Pete Davidson was on Hot Ones.

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Host Shawn Evans asked Pete which of his tattoos were

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the most painful to take on and off. Pete had

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two hundred tattoos and said before even removing them, he

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had already covered up one of his most embarrassing with

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an image from Jaws. That embarrassing tattoo. Listen to this,

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Pete said, I've never admitted this because it's so humiliating.

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When I was like twenty at a comedy club. It

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might have been the Knitting Factory when Hannibal Burris used

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to run it, and I did like a set. I

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was like nineteen or twenty and Dave Chappelle was in

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the corner and this was before he was back, so

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seeing him was crazy, you know, like what the f

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I got off the stage and it was like, I

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watched your whole set. It was really good, and I

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was like, you know, how do you keep coming up

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with new stuff? I'm working on new It's like difficult,

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and he goes jokes come and go, but swaggers forever.

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Bete said, guess who got that tattooed on his chest?

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At the ninety second Street Why in New York City?

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Interesting lineup tonight they are screening Mark Marin's new HBO

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special which is out tomorrow. And then there's a conversation

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between Mark Marin and Jim gaff Again that is a

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that's a killer show. Seven o'clock at the ninety second Street.

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Why there was a delay in Nate Brigatsey's show Over

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the weekend, twelve thousand people waited almost an hour to

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see Nate as over two and a half inches of

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rain fell in Saint Paul. What did they do to

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kill time? They started doing the Wave and the skull clap.

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The power briefly went out at the Excel Energy Center.

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The generators kicked in the house lights came on in

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the middle of a set by Aaron Weber, who is

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the fifth and final opener. That's a lot of openers, Nate,

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what are we doing? The crowd then did the Wave

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and the Skull for fifty minutes. Eddie Murphy announced he's

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going to take on the role of Inspector Clusseau in

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a new Ping Panther movie. Now I would think I

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would hate that, but then I thought about and I go,

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you know what, that's not bad because it's right in

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Eddie Murphy's skill set. I hated the idea of Steve

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Martin playing Inspector Clusau, but I think Eddie is right

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for it. He shared this news with Al Roker, who

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reacted surprised. Roker was curious if the character would remain French.

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Eddie said, well, he has to be French, but he

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also could be Haitian. I'll tell you what, he's black.

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He's black for sure. I think it'd be good at

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doing a half assed French voice, doing the physical comedy.

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I think Eddie would be great in that role. Peter

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Sellers originated the role of Inspector James Clusseau. Is that right?

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I thought it was Jacques Cluseau. Yeah, it's Jacques Lussau.

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Where you getting James from Deadline? I love those films,

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The Pink Panther from sixty three, as Shot in the

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Dark from sixty four. Then there's the weird movie from

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nineteen sixty eight entitled Inspector Clouseau. The role is played

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by Alan Arkin. Peter Seller's declined to return, but he

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did return in nineteen seventy five for the Return of

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the Ping Panther, which is probably the best one. The

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Pink Panther strikes again in nineteen seventy six. This is

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when they're really rolling here. Then they made another movie,

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Revenge of the Ping Panther. In nineteen seventy eight, they

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were working on a movie that would have been titled

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Romance of the Ping Panther, but Peter Sellers passed away.

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So did they stop making Pink Panther movies? Of course not.

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In nineteen eighty two, remember the Trail of the Ping Panther.

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That one used outtakes from Peter Sellers as Clouseaux in

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a new story that investigates the disappearance of Inspector Clouseau. Now,

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if you've never seen this, the first half kind of

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sort of feels like a Ping Panther movie, And if

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I didn't tell you it was outakes, you would just

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probably accept it. Once you know it's outtakes, you can't

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unsee it. As Cluseau's age kind of bounces up and

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down a little bit. But if he didn't know, you

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might get away with it. But then halfway through the movie,

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Clusau disappears, and then the rest of the movie is

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trying to find him. We stop making Ping Panther movies, No,

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let's make another one. Just a year later in nineteen

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eighty three Curse of the Ping Panther, which reveals that,

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of course, Inspector Clusau underwent plastic surgery to change his appearance.

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The character makes a brief cameo spoilers he had forty years.

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Roger Moore plays Inspector Clusoe, billed as turk Thrust the second.

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This movie's about an American trying to track down Inspector Clusoe.

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Then they let it go for ten years, and they

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made Son of the Ping Panther, in which it's revealed

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that Cluseau had illegitimate children, and we follow Roberto Benini

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as Jacques Clusau junior. That didn't work. Then, for some reason,

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in two thousand and six, someone said, you know who

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would be good, Steve Martin. And as Wikipedia points out,

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Steve Martin's Clusou is considerably older than Peter Seller's. And

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yet even that got a sequel two thousand and nine,

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The Ping Panther two, and now Eddie Murphy will Starr

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as Inspector Cluso. Eddie's in his sixties. I'm being a

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bit of a hypocrite and being a little hard on

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Steve Martin, but I just don't think he's right for

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that role, and I think I do a good job.

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Now that the mainstream media is listening to me about

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Adam Sandler comedies, maybe everyone will admit to one of

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the great hoaxes of our time, which is, of course

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Bob's Burgers. Longtime listeners to this program know what the

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hoax is. If you are new, let me just ask

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you two questions really quickly, and then I'll elaborate in

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a minute, But the two questions I want you to

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ponder are have you ever seen Bob's Burgers? And of

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course the answer is no. Uh, but even more curiously

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because like, I've never seen Dalton Abby, but it clearly exists.

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The second question I would have for you is have

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you ever met anyone, anyone at all, who has seen

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Bob's Burgers? And the answer, strangely is no. Like I've

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met people that have watched Love Island even though I've

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never seen it, I've met people who have seen Dowt Nabby,

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but I've never met a single person who has watched

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Bob's Burgers. Well, Fox has announced Bob's Burgers will return

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on Sunday, September twenty eighth, alongside the season thirty seven

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premiere of The Simpsons. And then see here's the hoax. Okay,

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September twenty eighth, a Sunday night. You know what else

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is on that night? Packers? Cowboys? You know what kind

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of number a Cowboys game does? Yeah, so everyone's gonna

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turn over. So Fox knows what they're doing. They do

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air the Simpsons. The Simpsons clearly exists, but then the

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lineup is supposedly Universal Basic Guys. Nobody has ever watched that,

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and Kropopolis, nobody has ever watched that. And then after

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two things that maybe even if those exist, clearly people

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are going to tune out, And then season sixteen of

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Bob's Burgers. Yeah right, I know Kevin Burkhart will be like, hey,

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stay tuned tonight after the Chiefs game, and that's what

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the four to thirty game is on Fox that day

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after the Chiefs coming up, it's a season premiere of

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The Simpsons. Then stick around for an all new Universal

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Basic Guys, Kropopolis, and the sixty eight season premiere of

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Bob's Burgers. There's no way anybody's still sticking around for that.

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Around nine to twenty pm, we're all watching Packers Cowboys

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come on Fox. Briany is in on the hoax. They

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say Bob Burger's is hitting its three hundredth episode. Really

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three hundred, there's three hundred episodes of these things. No

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one has ever seen it, You've never met anyone's ever

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seen it. For the landmark three hundredth episode, Bob's Burgers

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will flash back to the very beginning of the Belcher's

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Restaurant exec got a producer and master hoaxer Lauren Bouchard said,

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a comicon in the present day, Bob is really sweating

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whether or not to raise prices, and it's killing him.

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It sends us on this kind of series of flashbacks

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to what was going on when Bob and Linda started

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the restaurant. We're also told there's going to be a

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Halloween episode, uh huh, in which Teddy takes a job

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in the store next door, and a Christmas episode that

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takes place at a Christmas village. All right. Now, on

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September twenty third, the hoax gets even more elaborate. They're

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putting out a book, the Art of Bob's Burgers. Now,

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I've discussed on this program in the past. The artwork

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clearly exists. There's clearly Bob's Burger's merch. There are clearly drawings.

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I've obviously seen them. They're in all these articles. But

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as for the show, have you ever seen it? No?

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Have you ever met anyone? No? There will be a

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book the Art of Bob's Burgers. September twenty third, Hoaks

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master Bichard said, this is a very important book to us.

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We love the artist work on the show. We love

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the drawings that have gone on and the millions of

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miles of pencil let on paper, and we wanted to celebrate.

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There's also going to be more Bob's Burger's merch, which

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is what I suspect the hoax is all about. It's

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a fake show. We'll sell some merch, we'll put out

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a book. We don't have to actually make the show.

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I get it totally switching gears and let me get

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the lilt out of my voices. This is a more

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serious story. At the Edinburgh Fringe, some Jewish comedians shows

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have been canceled quote over staff safety concerns. The Independent

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reports to Jewish comedians have claimed their shows have been

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canceled at the Fringe. Rachel Krieger was set to perform

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her show Ultimate Jewish Mother, Philip Simon was due to

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host jew O Rama. Both acts have claimed that they

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were told their gigs would be canceled because bar staff

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at the venue express fears of being quote unsafe. Organizers

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of the Fringe so they were working to find alternative venues.

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But politicians and comedians have raised concerns about the movie

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at a time when anti Semitism is on the rise.

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In the UK. Krieger told Times Radio this would have

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been a thirty year in a row of that specific

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show at that venue. When it comes to safety, they

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said they felt the extra safety precautions that many Jewish

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performers were subject to at the moment due to rising

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anti Semitism made them feel ironically more unsafe. I'll be

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talking a lot about the Fringe all through August. Two

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stories about British comedian Karis Nilms. I'll start with the

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better story from Voicemag and they did a lot of

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previews of the Fringe. They asked Caris about her show.

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She said, it's called Queer Takes for Autistic Folk, a

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very silly, semi improvised, super interactive, choose your own storytelling adventure.

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She was asked about the cost of performing and staying

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at Fringe. That is a topic. There's going to be

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a trillion articles about that over the next month. Carris said,

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I'm very lucky to stay with friends who live in

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Edinburgh so they can carry on their lives during the Fringe.

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It's nice to watch TV with them and catch up

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a little bit and pretend like the Fringe isn't happening.

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When I'm not performing. I'm a math teacher and my

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student so'll be getting their A level results in the middle.

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So I'm going to dash back to London to be

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there for it and then come straight back up. We'll see.

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As you're about to hear, that's a little tease. What

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advice would you have for an artist considering going to

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the fringe? Caarris said, watch a lot as much as

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you can, watch people you've never heard of, not just

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your friends, and watch it in a way that celebrates

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the people you're watching. There's enough space for everyone to

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get excited about each other's work. That is great advice.

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But Caris is also in the news as she could

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be facing up to three years in Turkish prison. That

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sounds like a joke from the Naked Gun reboot, but

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it is not. Apparently Caris left a Zara store without

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paying for her items. She went back as soon as

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she realized her mistake. She was shopping in Istanbul on

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July twenty second. She accidentally left the store without paying

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for her purchases. She went back in offered to pay.

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She was detained locked in a room for several hours,

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arrested for shoplifting, transferred to a police station. As the

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story goes, quote pressured to sign Turkish documents she didn't understand.

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She was held for twenty four hours. A judge released

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her but told her she couldn't leave Turkey. Currently, she's

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trying to figure out how to afford a place to

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stay and how to get back to the UK. On

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social media, she wrote, I'm lucky I have good friends

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in Turkey who are currently looking after me and trying

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to translate the paperwork. I have no money, no earnings

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coming in from home, and I'm running out of important medication.

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I'll lose my home, which I share with my son,

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and livelihood. I'm not looking for sympathy. I made a

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mistake which I tried to immediately rectify. I'm embarrassed with

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my friends, my family, and I've made my mom unwell.

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I'll never forgive myself for what I've done. And that's

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