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Happy Halloween. I'm Johnny Mack with your daily comedy news.
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A couple of things going on. I'm gonna say for
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the weekend. Bilber still talking about the Riod Comedy Festival.
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He's annoyed Withsten comedians. I'll probably do that Sunday. Also,
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Mark Marin is the guest on the Bullseye podcast. I'm
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pulling some audio in the background from that. I'm running
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a transcript on it as I record this episode, so
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that's not ready to bake yet. I'll probably do that
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on Sunday as well. Wanda Sykes had a big profile
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piece in Variety. Did we know this? One of Sykes
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worked a day job at the National Security Agency after college. Yeah,
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daytime at the NSA nights and weekends telling jokes. She
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eventually opened for Chris Rock. She was on Chris Rocks
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Bring the Pain Tour for one weekend in the nineties.
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She remembers Chris Rock saying you're funny, I'm gonna look
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for you. Soon after that, she got a career changing call,
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Wanda Set. Everything started for me with the Chris Rock Show.
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That led to the Wanda Sykes Show, which Fox canceled
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in twenty ten after one season. I don't remember that existing,
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as she said, I don't miss that. I had too
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much on my plate. But she's proud of it, saying
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I can't think of anything that's like, why did I
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do that? Maybe Pooty Tank, but people love Pooty Tank.
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In two thousand and nine, she headlined the White House
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Correspondence dinner and says, when I got the call, the
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first thing I said in my publicist was they know
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him gay, right, because they were doing a horrible job
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of vetting people in the Obama administration. I was like,
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he knows. She was like, yeah, everybody knows. Writy writes.
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In a moment where several of Wanda's contemporaries like Jerry
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Seinfeld and Bill Burr spot off hot takes about the
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industry and what can and cannot be done, Syke says,
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I've never been one to pontificate about comedy. When I
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hang around comedians and all they are really into talking
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about is comedy, I'm like, just go tell your jokes.
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I'm not a yapper. Wanda Sykes. Do you interact much
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with Trump supporters? She says, I have friends who are
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I mean they're Republican, but yeah, they voted for him,
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so I guess they're Trump supporters. But it's best not
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to talk. We don't bring it up. Interestingly, Wanda was
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supposed to be on Kim All the night ABC pulled it.
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What happened there, Wanda? She said, I was doing some
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last minute makeup. My publicist called and said he'd been
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preempted and they didn't know when he'd be coming back.
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I was like, well, what did he say? I was
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texting with him. Jim was like, I have a lot
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of people protect it was real. I don't want to
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say a real wake up call, because we were aware
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of how bad things were, but this is crazy now.
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I still don't see how what he said was outlandish
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or hurtful. Wanda? Does that make you think twice about
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things you say on stage about Trump? Wanta Syke said,
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you can't really censor yourself like that and give people
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a good show. I can't, so I don't now if
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you're watching sports like me, and you're sitting there half
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asleep in the comfy chair, I think this was me
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during Sunday night football. Maybe it was the baseball game.
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I think it was Sunday Night Football and a commercial
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came on for Call of Duty Black Ops seven and
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I'm like, isn't that Nicki Glazer? And you know you're
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like half a sleeping Like, why would Nicki Glazer be
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in a video game commercial? Is that Nicki Glazer? Just
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a woman who kind of looks like what you think
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Nicki Glazer looks like? Nope, it's Nicki Glazer. She is
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in the commercial with Terry Cruz. Niki Glazer plays one
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of the replacers who step into play the game when
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the original replacer gets into trouble, in this case during
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a celebrity filled space flight mission that goes awry. Nicki's
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agent getting it done, Eliza Slessinger had her proverbial car
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waxed by Variety. She got a big story, and Eliza said,
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you have to truly believe that what you have to
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say is so important that it warns a microphone that
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makes you louder than everyone else. And you have to
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believe that the way you look at things is so
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funny that people are going to want to stop and listen.
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It's about feeling seen, especially as a woman. I think
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that that's paramount, feeling seen and feeling heard and that's
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the guiding light of my career. Knowing that what I
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have to say is just as valid, if not more valid,
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than the male comic next to me, and deciding that
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I'm allowed to talk and it's going to be pretty good.
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And twenty years in survey says what I have to
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say is pretty good. Eliza said, as you age in comedy,
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it's okay to just tell superficial jokes. There's nothing wrong
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with that. But I feel things very deeply as an artist.
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I think comics in comedy get brushed off as ah,
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You're just a comic at the end of the day.
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I'm not just some road dogs there to tell Penis jokes.
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I'm an artist, and I feel very deeply. I see
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that there's a certain way, and I feel it's my
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job to hold up a mirror to society and to
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call out things when I see them, especially for women,
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because we're told that we're crazy. I know a lot
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of other women who don't have the voice to say
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to things that they want to say, So I just
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try to say the way I'm feeling, and I hope
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that other people feel the same way. You talked about
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touring overseas and people having a hard time dealing with
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things that, by the grace of God, you or I
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don't have to deal with the fact that people take
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the time out of their stresses and their lives to
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watch my stand up or buy a ticket. The fact
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that people give me their time is something that has
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never been lost on me. I've never taken it for granted.
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And they get to be part of people's lives when
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they're going through something horrible is actually energetically a very
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special thing. I think about that a lot. Do not
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bother me. On Wednesday, February twenty fifth, why John Scrubs
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is back two episodes eight o'clock now. To watch this,
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you're going to have to support fascism because this air
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on ABC, which is owned by Disney, and they're the
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people that you know were mean to Jimmy Kimmel and
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we all canceled Hulu and Disney Plus. And that's why
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I've been watching the Scrubs DVDs instead of just hitting
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click on my Roku remote where it says Hulu now
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I go upstairs and get the DVDs. I do not
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support fascism, but we all come to a point where
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we sell out. Some people take money from the Rion
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Comedy Festival. Johnny Mack watches Monday Night football in Scrubs, say,
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February twenty fifth, I should probably edit that out because
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I'm trying to ask the ABC publicists for some Scrubs people.
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This is not going to help me. It's a comedy
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show publicist, don't you see in the notes where it
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says parody and commentary. George Clooney has been talking about
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the great, great dramatic actor Adam Sandler. Now. The folks
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at far outmagazine dot co dot UK neil this entirely.
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They write, Sandler is an incredibly divisive figure. Once an
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untouchable superstar with a roster off it's to his name,
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He's now the archetypal Hollywood, has been an annoying hangover
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of a previous age, still coasting on his past glories. However,
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George Clooney doesn't think so. Clooney said, I thought Punch
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Drunk Love was amazing. Now perhaps George Clooney is insane.
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I don't know. I've never met the man, and I'm
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often confused by him. People like, you look like George Clooney,
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but you dress like Adam Sandler, what's with that combo?
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I don't know either, but the possibly insane George Clooney
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said of Punch Drug Love, that was the first time
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we'd seen Sandler do something where it wasn't just a
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straight up comedy. I also have to say you were
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beautiful in the Myerwitz stories. I really love that. I
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thought you and Ben Stillar were great together. I felt
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like that movie got short shrift. Somehow, it didn't get the.
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Attention comedy stock markets.
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Every Friday I make some hypothetical stock picks for you
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in the comedy stock market. Now, remember the premise here.
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We're not really saying that somebody is good or bad.
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It's not that it's we're trying to sell high or
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buy low. Like you know how you make money on
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the stock market. You're familiar with this concept. Yes, So
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just because I say, hey, let's sell our stock in somebody,
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doesn't mean that I'm like, god, person's the worst. That's
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not what this is. This is about making hypothetical money.
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So here's my picks for this week. Let's buy John Stewart.
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He's at the height of his powers, but a little
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below the radar, possibly by now by between me recording
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this and you listening to it. He has renewed his
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deal with Comedy Central, and if not, that'll put him
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on the free agent market. So let's buy some John
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Stewart right now. I think that's a good buy. Let's
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also ride along with the powers that be in Hollywood
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who have decided that Stavros hockeyist is going to be
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a superstar. Let's go for that ride. Because if you
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walk down the street and you go to one hundred people,
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hey have you heard of this guy? Unlet's run into
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I don't know one person, you might go zero for
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one hundred. And I'm not kidding, and that's not a
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diss this is just comedy stock markets. Let's load up
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on starv Ros for that same reason. Let's buy Rachel Sinnott.
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A lot of you were like, I don't know who
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that is. You keep talking about her? John, who is that?
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I've never heard of her? Give it a month, two months.
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She's about to have a show on HBO. She's about
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to be in your face. You're about to see his
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zillion articles about her. Let's load up on Rachel Sinnott.
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We're buying low there and we are going to sell
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high in a couple of weeks. I want to sell
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if we have any left. I do think we might
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have sold it all Nate Berghatzy stock, we might have
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sold after the Emmys. If we have any left, let's
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sell it. This game show thing that I told you
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about in Thursday's podcast just sounds like I don't know.
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I can't imagine Nate Pergatzy being a good game show host.
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I don't think he has the skill set for that.
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He's too dry, He's not an animated comic. I just
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I don't see that working at all. So let's sell
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our Nate, and let's sell Andrew Schultz, who increasingly just
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seems tone deaf and doesn't get it. And I get
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that he's popular, but I just feel like everybody is
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looking at Andrew's direction right now, going yeah, bro no,
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And I feel like there's a Schultz backlash coming. All right?
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Bye John by Stavros, Bye, Rachel Sell, Nate, sell Schultz.
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It is Halloween, and Entertainment Weekly caught up with Bobby moynihan.
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They talked about the famous SNL sketch. David S Pumpkins
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Boy said it was Halloween that week and Tom Hanks
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was there and we said, what can we right that'll
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get in the Halloween special every year? And we started
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joking around and we're like, I always play Santa. Spent
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nine years playing Santa. I was the heaviest one on
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the show. And I was like, there's no Santa for Halloween.
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Started joking around and saying, what if it was just
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a guy named David Pumpkins? And then Mikey and I
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had another idea about these dancing things and we kind
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of mixed up the two was three in the morning.
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It was a fever dream and we were like, I
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don't know, man, what are we doing. I guess we're
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just writing this to be weird. Tom Hanks hated it
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and asked us to give it to somebody else and
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we said no. And then in between dress rehearsal and air,
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Tom Hanks went like, I'm just gonna be weird and
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we were like, yeah, great, and he lost his mind
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on air and did something super weird and silly and
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it worked. We got lucky South Park. It didn't put
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out an episode Wednesday, they're planning on releasing one today,
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a special Halloween episode titled The Woman in the Hat.
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We're told the White House deals with a disruptive spirit
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from the East Wing, which in real life was destroyed
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as you do. While Stan worries that South Park has
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become too political, we'll do some stories about Jim Gaffkin
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Berbon if you're worried about that. Metal Insider caught up
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with John GOBLECN. They explained to Embondie, John Goblican on
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stage is one thing. It's cosplay with consequences, But to
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be John GOBLECN, the meme fueled talk show hosting ANTSI
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hero is something else entirely. David Spolly is both a
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human named Davis Spoley and John GOBLICN. Metal Insider asked
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Davis Spoley, do you ever feel like humans are jealous
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of goblins? Dave said, Oh, I know they are. John's
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life is pretty incredible, touring, interviewing celebrities, eating skin, living
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in a way mow, what a dream, Dave. You're a comedian.
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How has comedy changed? Dave said, It's constantly evolving. That's
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what makes it enticing while also being the most frustrating
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art form of all. When I first started, there was
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a very linear path. You did open mics that he
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had spots around town. You got into clubs, as a
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host and a feature than a headliner. Now, to be
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a comedian, you not only need a craft and act,
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you need to be a I gotta take a breath
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here so I can get this sentence in. You need
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to be a deep breath actor, podcaster, editor, social media manager, influencer,