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Kalaroga Shock Media. Hey there, I'm Johnny Mack with your
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daily comedy news, daily briefing on stand up comedy comedians
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in the comedy industry. A sentence you'd think I've memorized
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by now, but I have not. But the algorithm does
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love it. Apparently numbers are up new listeners. Thank you
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Today is political, not because it's President's Day. Just as
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I put the show together the same way I put
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the show together every day. Almost all the stories are political.
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Sold try and start with a fun one. I saw
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this headline. Deal between Jimmy Fallon and Tommy Mottola falls through.
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Apparently they were going to work on a pasta sauce together.
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What could have possibly gone wrong? Seems that Tommy's name
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is in the Epstein files. Page six says representatives for
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Jimmy Fallon did not comment, nor did Tommy spokesperson. A
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source familiar with the pasta sauce plans tells page six
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nobody wants to be within fifty feet of anyone in
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the Epste files. Obviously, the Epstein Files are not funny,
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but the pasta aspect of this story is funny. Jimmy
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Fallon has escaped Meanwhile, Jimmy Kimmel has proposed a new
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nickname for the files. Kimmel has proposed rebranding the Epstein
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Files as the Epstein Trump Files. Kim ll explained Trump
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wants everything to be named after him, including the Kennedy Center,
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Dulles International Airport, and New York's Pans Station. Jimmy said,
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I mean, if that's the way to keep them happy.
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I have another suggestion for something we could name after him,
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and it's big, and I think you'll like it because
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it's something everybody's talking about, something that he actually, unlike
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almost everything else he wants named after him, deserves to
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be a part of. And I propose that we should
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think about adding his name to the Epstein Files. This
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is hilarious and that is the point of comedy. You
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can find laughter and anything like. Again, it's serious for
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a second. I write for Pallace Intrigue about the British
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Royal Family, Epstein Files, everything. Some of the stuff that
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I have clicked on these images are in my head.
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I don't even want to verbalize out louds some of
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the things have come across that are just horrific. So
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I don't make fun of the files at all. But
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from a comedy standpoint, what Kimmel's doing here is hilarious.
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The idea that a Jimmy fallon pasta sauce deal went
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sideways over the files, that is kind of funny. So
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Kimmel said, with your cooperation and the cooperation of others,
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will be known as the Trump Epstein File. So now
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he's flipped it there as an ice ring to it.
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Why not put his name on the outside of the
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files too. On Thursday Night, Jimmy is Monologue noted that
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he has trademarked the phrase Epstein Trump Files. Kim Will
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explain jd Vance has been very weekly defending his boss
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in the fact that Trump's name is mentioned more than
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a million times in what are now known as the
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Trump Epstein Files. We're getting that trademark, but if you
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can spread it around, feel free. The Hollywood Reporter had
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a big piece titled why Mega Boosting comedy bros or
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turning on Trump? Subheading from Joe Rogan Andrew Schultz. The
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bromance between bright coded comics and the president is quickly
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cooling off. The Hollywood Reporter reminds us, with their tens
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of millions of subscribers manosphere show a circle of pals
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that includes such Trump amenable comics as Tony Hinchcliff, Joe Rogan,
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and Andrew Schultz. Are not a cultural footnote. That reminds
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me last week Theovaughn had on two guests. He had
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on Kevin James and the United States Secretary of Health
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and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Junior. If you want
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to catch up on THEO. Vaughn Show, Kevin James always great, listen.
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I'm sure I digress. The hollowd Reporter says Hinchcliffe, Rogan, Vaughn,
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Andrew Schultz are not a cultural footnote. They are an
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infrastructure map. You know, that's sentence structure. There is very AI.
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I use a lot of AI. It's very AI there
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copywriters at The hollod Reporter Sidney Demetz, a fifth year
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PhD student at the University of Washington who studies podcast
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networks and misinformation, described the medium's advantage less as a
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media theory than a statement of physics. Sidney says podcasts
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are incredibly persuasive because they induce the parasocial phenomenon and
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trigger a lot of feelings of intimacy and trust. Hopefully
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that is true. Hopefully people are walking around and saying
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the phrase great dramatic actor Adam Sandler Fell Sydney is
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right about this, She says. The listener does not merely
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consume content. The listener builds a relationship. After enough hours,
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disagreement feels like betrayal. Right, so like, yeah, you're gonna
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be sitting there, you're gonna be watching Happy Gilmour three,
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and you're gonna be like, this sucks. Johnny Mack is right. See,
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that's how this works. Thhr writes, this is how political
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influence arrives disguised his personality. Roguod show rarely sounds like ideology.
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It sounds like a shaggy, melancholic tenderness or fuse. It
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will be pinned down Schultz. A show is never doctrine,
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but it does sound like swagger. They don't tell all
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their audiences what to believe, so much as they suggest
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what is acceptable to laugh at, to dismiss, to view
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as performative, order regard as just the media doing its
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predictable thing. Skipping ahead, Vaughn's recent rupture with the administration
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is instructive because it's less ideological than existential. When DHS
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posts that a deportation themed video that used to clip
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a Vaughan without his consent. He objected publicly. Schultz's retreat
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has been much louder. Talking to Charlemagne the God on
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January thirty first, a rattled Schultz said the fatal shooting
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of Alex Pretty by Ice agents in Minneapolis was his
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breaking point. It's giving ahead. Trump can survive contempt from
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newspapers he survived for years. What he cannot easily survives
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contempt from the people who made him feel to millions
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of listeners like a permissible choice. The hangover is spreading.
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Not a sudden moral awakening, but a curdling, a fatigue,
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a clawing sense that the joke kept going long after
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it stopped being funny. Now that reminds me. Over the weekend,
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I was watching the movie Diehard. Bruce Willis. Have you
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seen this movie? It's pretty good. I like that line
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where Bruce Willis says, welcome to the party, pal. You know,
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Bruce is just like frustrated that the cops aren't paying
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attention while he's screaming in the window. I like that.
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See I digress. Let'll get back to comedy here. Dave
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Chappelle will be in Minnesota today to stand with community
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Dave's at the Grand Casino Arena. Be curious to see
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what Dave has to say as he performs in Minnesota.
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From pod News, which is a fantastic newsletter written by
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James Kridlin, who I'm friendly with. It covers the podcasting industry.
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He had an interesting report on Friday about the Trump
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Epstein Files and how podcasts appeared in them. Now, I
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haven't searched for daily comedy news in them. I hope
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I'm not in the Trump Epstein Files, but in some
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of the back and some people recommended to Epstein that
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he listened to The Dan Bengino Show. Also recommended episode
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eleven sixty nine of The Joe Rogan Experience. The guest
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I think on that one was Elon Musk. Also recommended
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Gilbert Godfrey's Amazing Colossal podcast, specifically the episode with Jackie
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the joke Man. Now we don't know who recommended that
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Epstein listened to Jackie the joke Man. That came from
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a redacted contact, but somebody was like, hey, check out
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Jackie the joke Man. Now I'm worried because I've had
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Jackie the joke man on this show. I better not
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be in these things. Joe Rogan found out that he
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was mentioned in the files on last Tuesday's Joe Rogan Experience.
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Joe said he never once considered meeting Jeffrey Epstein. Rogan's
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guest was Cheryl Hines. She's married to Health and Human
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Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Junior. You may also know
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her from the television show Curb Your Enthusiasm. Joe told Cheryl,
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I'm in the files for not going. Jeffrey Epstein was
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trying to meet with me, and I was like, what, Like, no, thanks.
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Cheryl Hines asked, are you glad? Joe said, It's not
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even a possibility that I've ever won. Especially after I
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googled him. I was like, what the eff are you
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talking about? This was like twenty seventeen. One of my
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guests was trying to get me to meet him. I
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was like, are you high? Like, what the eff are
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you talking about. Rogan added that some people get intoxicated
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by being in a circle of rich and powerful people,
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even if they don't have any ambitions of being one
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of those people, they just want to be around them. Yeah,
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that's called los Angeles. Rogan described Epstein's networking is very clever,
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saying that Epstein was getting all these very powerful and
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very respected people together, and you'd figure, like, yeah, Clinton's here,
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how could this be bad? You know, he's a genius.
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On a different episode, Rogan talked about the Epstein files
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and said it's crazy. The whole thing is crazy because like,
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why have you protected people? He then got into some
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of the stuff I don't want to get into on
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this program. This is the stuff that's in my head
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that is like, yikes, yikes, yike's skipping ahead. Referring to
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President Trump's claims that the Epstein files were part of
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a Democrat inspired hoax, Joe Rogan said, it looks terrible
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for Trump when he was saying that none of this
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was real. This is all this is not a hoax,
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Like did you not know? Maybe he didn't know, and
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if you want to be charitable, but this is definitely
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not a oax. And if you got redacted people's names
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and these people aren't victims, you're not protecting the victims.
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So what are you doing? And how come all this
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stuff is not released? Fun show today? John, I know
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Pete Davidson, he has that television show that Netflix was
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calling a video podcast. Well, sag After has weighed in
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on it, and they apparently have signed an agreement with
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Netflix that covers the Pete Davidson Show as a quote
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video podcast. After Pete's inexpensive television show was announced, sag
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After I reached out to Netflix to be like, you know, hey, Well,
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last Thursday, the Actor's Union announced that it had struck a
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podcast agreement. A rep for the union set in a
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statement to Variety sag After a Netflix have executed a
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podcast agreement covering the Pete Davidson Show. They did not
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say the terms. Variety says, typically the union's podcast agreements
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have less stringent requirements than TV agreements do. Whereas TV
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contracts require payment of residuals, podcast contracts generally do not.
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In addition, TV contracts have relatively strict rules regarding a
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production safety protocols, working hours, breaks, and travel, which are
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often simplified in podcast agreements. I hope Pete Davison isn't
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working in an unsaved garage. Christella Alonso was scheduled to
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bring her Midlife Mixtape tour to the Charlene Macomb's Empire
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Theater on April eleventh. However, she has announced she is
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now trying to change the dates for her visit to
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Alamo City. Now, why does she want to change the dates?
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Christella explained a lovely follower mentioned that there was a
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show playing literally in the theater next door that's based
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on a podcast that honestly, I don't want to be around.
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She did not mention what that show is, but everybody
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else assumes she's referring to The Killers of Kill Tony,
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that live comedy podcast a schedule to play San Antonio
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on April eleventh at the neighboring Majestic Theater. Christella said,
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the majority of my followers are Latino, and in the
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time that we're in right now, I don't feel comfortable
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having my people around a demo that includes people that
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support the atrocious things that are happening to my community.
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So I'm looking to change dates for the San Antonio
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show that will ensure that my people have the best
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time and where I don't have to cross paths backstage
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with anyone I don't want to, Christella said. When she
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booked her San Antonio date to Kill Tony Folks hadn't
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been confirmed, she said, Had I known it was playing there,
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I would have picked a different day. I know some
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of you might not understand my motivation, but I've had
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a really difficult couple of months and I don't want
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to put myself in a space like that. I'm rescheduling
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asap and we'll let y'all know. Thank you to those
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who understand, sorry of those who won't. I just refuse
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to be in proximity of that world if I don't
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have to be. The Milbourne International Comedy Festival has launched
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a podcast. It is called The Callback. I have added
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it to my increasingly long podcast queue. There's been so
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much sports. There was a Super Bowl, now these these Olympics,
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so I've been watching more TV than usual and less podcast.
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It's also been four degrees out, so I haven't been
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out for runs or long walks with the dog. But
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eventually I'll get to The Callback. Hosted by beloved comedian
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and broadcaster Claire Hooper, The Callback dives into the defining
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moments that shape comedy careers. Claria said, comedians are entertaining
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on stage, but it's backstage where the chats get really good.
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Let's see what's happening in JFL Vancouver Today. Now, is
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this the thing? I got to check in with Daily
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Comedy News Canadian consultant Mike Chisholm. You know how like
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in the United States of America the calendar week starts
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with Sunday. Well, on JFL Vancouver's website it goes from
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Monday to Sunday. So every time I go to do
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this little segment, I click on the wrong day because
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in my brain, Monday should be the second box, but
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on their website it's the first box. I'm gonna have
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to ask Mike about this. Looks like there's only one
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show tonight, Rashid Baduri, The Tale of the Syrian Dragon,
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that's at the Review stage at seven o'clock. If we
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were in Vancouver, we would go do that and then
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probably have a nice meal on some beverages. Actually I
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like to go to bed. We would have a nice
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meal in beverages at like four forty five, hit the
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show and be in bed by like nine to thirty.
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Oh sounds lovely. Coming up at noon Eastern today the