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Callaroga Shark Media. Hey Aaron, Johnny Mack with your daily
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comedy news. Ronnie Chang specials out on Netflix Today. Friend
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of the show, Jason Zinnemann of The New York Times
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has it ranked as his number one I'm looking forward
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to watching it tonight. Love to Hate It was taped
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at the historic Hawaii Theater in Honolulu, where he had
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a five nights sold out show. In Love to Hate It,
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Ronnie talks about the indignities of the IVF process, the
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pitfalls of being a man on the Internet, American politics,
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and the place of the older generation in today's world.
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He had written a piece for The Wall Street Journal
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and said his first exposure to American comedy was watching
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Jerry Seinfeld's stand up intervals on the Seinfeld sitcom. You
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also watched The Lead Show with David Letterman, right, we
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like the same kinds of comedy, he wrote. I watched
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because stand up looked interesting. Comedians would walk on stage,
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talk to the audience and make jokes, and people laughed,
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including me. Interview magazine got a good interviewer. The interviewer
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was Harry Seinfeld, the subject Ronnie ching. Ronnie said, I'm
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surprised you agreed to do this. Jerry said, you know
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something about you. You just want to say, yes, you
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got that thing. I have it two you know? And laughs?
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How you doing ching? I'm okay, I'm actually in la.
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I just did Kimmel. I heard he did Fellon. I
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did well. They tell me how busy you were and
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how much I should be thankful that you've decided to
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speak to me. I'm still not over it. Seinfeld said,
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I think it's time. I used to get this thing
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I would call a twenty four hour talk show virus.
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You do a talk show, no matter what it could be, fantastic, mediocre, whatever.
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You don't feel good for twenty four hours. Do you
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have that, Ronnie? Now? I think I probably have the
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forty eight hour one. I get it twenty four hours
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before the interview and then twenty four hours after. I'm
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sick the whole time. You don't go on and be sincere.
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You want to be funny, but you don't want to
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just do a set. Jerry, Yeah, I went and did
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a set and it felt terrible about it. And I
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watched you tell a story about the night of the election.
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I thought that's what I should have done. I don't
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have any stories though. I don't understand these shows. What's
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going on here? Are we worthless or valuable? Chang says,
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I get my kicks from connecting to people I only
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know from watching on TV comedians. We a lot of
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reverence history. There are institutions that I'm just happy to
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be able to touch once in a while. That's why
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I do it. I'm like all my heroes used to
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do this, but then I didn't know if I should
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do so much press. You're the one who actually told me,
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what are you talking about? Do all the press? Jerry? Absolutely, Ronnie,
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So just to be clear, you're also doing this for press, Jerry, Yes.
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I like to think back to my early days of
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doing clubs, when I didn't even ask how many days
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I worked here, how many shows they did? Whatever you
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told me was fine. The club owner would say to me,
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I want to do an extra show, and I'd go
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an extra show, and it'd say, what's the difference? All
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you do is talk? I came from that. Now the
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comedians are like, well, we want to know what makes
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you tick. I've watched the you know, go from zero
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all the way to this insane place that it is now, Ronnie.
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Do you think it's gonna go back to where they
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don't care about what makes us tick anymore? Jerry, Yes,
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I do. We're in the red zone now. I think
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tact is gonna have to come back, and what will
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make it come back is aging. When you're in your fifties,
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you don't care about anybody else's problems. Ronnie. The thing
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that irks me is they don't actually care what makes
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you sick. They're just asking because they're trying to feel
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words in a column or keep the interview going. Most
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people don't care, Jerry. I have a new line in
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my set that I just started doing. It's unbelievably gratifying.
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It's a long run about what's annoying in the world.
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I say. I find that whenever people talk, it tends
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to be annoying. At this point in life, the hardest
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thing any of us have to do is not scream.
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I don't care into the face of anyone that says anything.
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In the audience totally loves it. Pete Davison told The
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Hollywood Reporter he just wants to be known for doing
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great work, but only every couple of years. Pete said
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in the Sopranos. There's this line from Tony that's like,
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you ever feel like you got into something of the
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end when the good times are over. That's how I
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feel about show business and being a celebrity. It's over.
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When you're first coming up getting all these offers, it's
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hard to say no because you're hungry. I made the
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mistake of doing literally everything. Now I am older and wiser,
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and I'm realizing that less is more. Like Christian Bale.
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He does one movie every two three years, but you
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go see it. Leo Dicabrio does one movie every four years,
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but it's the biggest thing of the world. It's because
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you miss them, people have to miss you. I just
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want to be known for doing good work. I want
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to be out there only when it's a movie, stand
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up charity, or business ventures. That's what I want to
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be seen. I don't want to be this loser who
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just dates people. That's not who I am. But people
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hate celebrities now. The media takes a handful of celebs
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every couple of years and they just destroy them for
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some reason. I'm one of the people they choose to
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go after. It's actually, in a way a blessing because
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it's allowed me to take a step back and evaluate things.
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Who do you want to be? Who are you? I'm
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someone who's from Staten Island want to do stand up.
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But if I got to do anything else because of
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stand up, it's a miracle. Hmm. I can't speak for
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other I know when I talk about Pete, I usually
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come from a place of like, hey, dude, I'm rooting
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for you because I see the struggles he's going through.
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But I guess I see the celebrity gossip part of
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Pete Davidson's dating so and so. Yeah, I've done that too,
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I get it. Beete says he's very happy where he
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is right now mentally, and feels lucky that he was
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woken up about being hit on the face with the
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Hollywood shovel right. I found out a little bit more
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about Nabrigatzi's Christmas special, which is out on Thursday. The
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Nate is about to be massively overexposed between the CBS
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thing and his Netflix special. We're going to start to
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get sick about Nate, I think, and I love him.
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There is a trailer for the special where you know
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the thing where he plays George Washington and says ridiculous,
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and people ask questions and he gives answers, and you
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know you've seen the sketcharent he's doing a version of
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that where he's an angel or something like that. Meanwhile, Ways,
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you know the map thing on your phone. I'm a
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big fan of Ways. They tell us calling all comedy lovers,
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buckle up and get ready to hit the road with
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the hilarious Naprighezzi. As you're Way's driving companion. Nate isn't
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just a comedian. He also happens to love driving and
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is always ready with a joke or quirky observation to
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make the miles fly by. No we don't want this,
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No no no, no, no, no no no. Just tell
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me in three miles of the highway splits and I
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need to go left. That's all I need to know.
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Nate's sense of humor takes the edge off your daily
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commute no won't, and brings a smile to your drive.
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Expect witty commentary, relatable anecdotes, and a healthy dose of
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Southern charm. What Ai wrote that sentence, This Ways experience
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is all about enjoying the solitude of the open road
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and embracing the unexpected turns of life. Is it the
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open road or is it my commute? Pick a narrative here, guys,
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as you hear Nate put it. Shout out to everyone
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driving with a list of errands from their spouse. There's
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no time let on these errands. Okay, you could be
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gone for months. Make sure you have the latest version
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of Ways and look for the Nate forgets thee Benner
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in the left side column. Any of the app No thanks? Uh.
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Dane Cook is starring in the dark comedy thriller Boris
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Is Dead. Boris Is Dead follows a struggling actor working
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as a waiter played by Dean Cook, who unwittingly becomes
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involved in a violent Heights gone wrong where his boss,
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deep in debt, has been stealing from employees and running
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the restaurant is a front for the mob. Oh no.
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Josh Blue is that comedy works downtown. This week he
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spoke to Colorado Public Radio. They were curious if his
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timing and delivery have changed since he started, and Josh
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Blue said, I feel like I've always had impeccable timing,
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even as a kid. I could just zip something in
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with the teacher and the whole class would laugh. I've
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always had that gift, but I feel like it's definitely evolved,
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and I've gotten more comfortable in the silence. I'll let
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something ride longer the laughter go, and then when I
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do hit them, it's even harder. What's beautiful about stand
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up is I'll never figure it out completely. Every time
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I think I've got something pinned down, something new in
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the world happens, or something in my brain puts a
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new connection together. There's no end to this. I have
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a bit where somebody would get up to go to
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the bathroom and I'll be like, where you go, And
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they go to the bathroom, and I'll be like, you
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want to wait? And then I will wait the entire
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time they're gone. It gets a laugh without me saying anything,
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and I mean minutes go by without me saying something,
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just a facial expression or body movement, and I can
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get it. When they come back. It's like a standing
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ovation that people are so happy this person came back
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from the bathroom. It's really fun. Josh Blue nineteenth through
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the twenty first It comedy works downtown. All right, you
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need New Year's Eve plans. Here's something I guess you
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could go with NBC announced the day Drinking with Seth
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Meyers New Year's special. It's an hour look back at
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Seth Meyers's drunken interactions with Rihanna post Malone, Kelly Clarkson
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Blah blah blah it Al air from eleven thirty to
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twelve thirty five AM on New Year's Eve. It is
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unclear how they're going to handle the whole midnight thing.
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Not that hard. You could just do an insert somewhere.
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You could time the thing out. I've pre recorded some
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New Year's Eve specials in my radio career. It can
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be done. Quick story there. Before the merger, when it
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was just serious, I used to do a New Year's
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Eve special, rowd Dog's Effing New Year's Eve, and we
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would time it out so it aired at midnight. But
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we learned from the engineers for the signal to go
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from the computer up to space and back to your
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radio was twenty three seconds. But I can do math,
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so we used to time it out, so we would
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play at eleven fifty nine thirty seven and then hit
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your radio right at midnight. And it was kind of cool.
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technology and so there was no way to do it anymore.
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different number. And then they started with the Internet and
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the internet delay was a totally different number. So when
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is midnight? We had four different answers. Last year NBC
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aired Sunday Night Football. Before that, they were doing the
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Lorne Michaels thing. Remember Pete Davidson was part of that. Yeah,
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that went away quietly. In case you're curious, CBS has
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a five hour country music special out of Nashville. ABC
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has Dick Clarks New Year's Rock and Eve with Ryan Seacrest,
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and over on CNN, Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen will
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probably have a couple beverages, as they tend to do.
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On her podcast, Samantha Bee talked about Luigi man GEONI
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you know, the guy accused of killing the guy She
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was asked about, where's the line? She says, how do
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you know when you've gone too far? I'm not a
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person who finds murder amusing in the least. That's a
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hard limit, no matter how bizarre or engaging the details.
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Are You ever watch darts The World of Darts Championship
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is going on right now. You'll find it on YouTube
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if you're in the States. It is the most entertaining
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thing at all. Basically, these guys walk up the Brits
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right now are like, we know, but the Americans don't
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know anything about the darts. They don't know it. Let
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me explain it to them. Okay, So because everybody does
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this for a living, the commentators are like, oh, he
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needs to hit a twenty twenty and a triple seventeen
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to get to whatever the number is. These guys just
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walk up to the line, like you know, when I
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play darts at the bar, I stand there for a second.
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These guys just walk up to the line. They're like
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whoa who who and they're just you know, they're pros,
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but they're great. And then announcer will be like, all right,
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this guy needs a triple sixteen and a bulls eye
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and it just moves now the crowd. The crowd dresses
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up like they're on let's make a deal. And everybody,
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I think they've all had a couple beverages. So this
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whole thing is fun to watch. I recommend on. So
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a guy's been walking around dressed up as Ali G.
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It turns out it's Jack Whitehall who posted the Darts
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the Greatest show on Earth. Wish I still had the
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stamina for it, and he shared some pictures of himself
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dressed as Ali G getting in the spirit of things.