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Kalaroga Shark Media. Hello, I'm Shoonni Mack with your daily
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comedy news. You may recall last week Rosie O'Donnell took
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a shot at the worst person who ever lived, Jay Leno.
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You know that guy. Yeah, she took a shot at
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him for something he did with a guest with one
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of the biggest losers. Jay Leno has responded and outrageously said,
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I don't dislike Rosie, She's a funny comedian. Jay added,
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I don't know where Rosie's coming from these days, and
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said when he hosted The Tonight Show for twenty two years,
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which makes it outrageous that he would even have opinions
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about how late night television should go or not. I mean,
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who are you, Jay Leno, to say what late night
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is or isn't. So you beat David Letterman and they
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had to bring you back to rescue Conan O'Brien's failing ratings,
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I mean, what do you know? I like this bit.
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Jay said he would meet with guests before filming to
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discuss what would be happening during their segment. Jay said,
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I'm pretty sure I asked beforehand if it would be okay.
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If not, we wouldn't have done it. It's why we
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got stars who wouldn't do many other shows. In Puck,
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Matt Bellany caught up with Lorne Michaels, who was asked
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what was Lauren Michael's reaction over Colbert Gate. Lauren said,
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I was just stunned. I'm on the side of the
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people who do shows. But there's two audiences now. There's
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the audience that is watching on TikTok and YouTube, and
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there's a linear audience. Both Seth and Colbert are heirs
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to David Letterman. You know what I mean. Conan O'Brien
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as well. Yeah, I mean they all have shows that
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David Letterman used to host. If you're gonna draw a
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line from David Letterman to Seth Myers Late Night, it's
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gonna be a little crooked in my humble opinion. But
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what do I know. I'm recording a podcast in the basement.
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Lorden Michaels has been on SNL forty six out of
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fifty one seasons. They like to pretend that those other
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five years didn't happen. Lauren hasn't been with SNL for
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fifty years. He took a break there. Look it up
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Johnny Mack. Now you're killing Lorden Michaels. No, just pointing
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it out where were Lauren said, They're going to be
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that type of late night show, just as I'm still
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doing SNL as if everybody's watching that night. But Jimmy
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Fallon does a lot of stuff you can watch all
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day podcast. Do you think that Colbert cancelation was political?
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Lauren said, I don't think any of us are ever
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going to know that. He talked about the Smothers Brothers
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thing back in nineteen sixty nine. That happened before I
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was born, so I mean, you know, I guess it's
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t gentally related. Good question here. Have you been assured
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by comcasts that the Jimmy and Seth shows are safe
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for the foreseeable future? They're both signed through twenty twenty eight.
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Lord Michael said, yeah, I think the CEO who I'll
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be working for for the rest of my life has integrity.
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But at the same time, everybody has broadcast licenses, everyone has,
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you know, but I don't really believe that we affect things.
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Interesting answer onto SNL, Lauren, do you feel pressure to
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reinvent it this season? Yeah, for sure, it'll be announced
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in a week or so. This article came out late
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last week, so it may have even happened this morning.
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Will James Austin Johnson be Trump? Yes, I personally hope
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James Austin Johnson goes back and listens to his original
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Trump depression. It has really started to drift last season.
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Lauren didn't want to talk about retirement, but Puck asked,
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are you going to give anyone in particular on your
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team some added responsibilities this season? Good phrasing there, Lauren said,
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that's already been happening in the past year or so.
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More people are involved in the choices and in the decisions.
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But I'm not worried about AI because AI won't guess
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what I'm gonna do between ten and eleven on show nights,
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because I have no idea. There's a lot of people
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in that room with opinions. I make the final decision, obviously,
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but it's not as if people don't let me know
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how strongly they feel. I guess I'll pull up this story.
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I actually had it in the second half last week,
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Sky revealed plans about bringing SNL to the UK. Sky's
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executive director of Unscripted Originals, Phil Edgar, Jones said it's
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exciting a bit scary as well. Edgar Jones spent some
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time embedded with Lauren in the SNL USA team. He
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has confirmed that James Longman, the executive producer of The
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Late Late Show with James Cordon, will become the showrunner
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of SNL UK. Edgar Jones hopes the show will be
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true to the American original, but quote has to be
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a very British thing if it's going to resonate with
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audiences in the UK. The Sky UK SNL will launch
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in twenty twenty six. There have also been remakes in China, Germany,
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Italy and South Korea. Out on Netflix today, kill Tony
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guests include Jim Norton, Mark Norman, Matt Rife. Boy you
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combined kill Tony, Tony Hinchcliff and Matt Rife. The Internet's
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gonna explode. There's gonna be a whole set of comedians.
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We're not gonna be able to deal with that. Guys.
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It's just a show. Just watch it. It's fun. Slate
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had done a big article probably ten days two weeks
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ago now about kill Tony. Slate writes, some veterans stand
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ups find themselves wondering if kill Tony is less of
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a comedy exposition and more of a vindictive freak show.
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James Adomian said there's a visible through line here back
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to shows like Opie and Anthony. He describes such shows
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as occasionally funny but mostly just offensive. Kil Tony on
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Netflix today, Shane Gillis he's appearing in another bud Light commercial.
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This one is titled Vender Voices. You see Shane Gillis
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shouting across Darryl k Royal Texas Memorial Stadium. Shane is
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wearing a Texas Longhorns polo shirt. He's attempting to get
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the attention of a vendor. They go back and forth,
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Hilarity ensues, then his friend spoilers for the Budlight Commercial's
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friend comes back from a successful beer run. This is interesting.
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The paper that's the office spin off. Remember I told
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you they were gonna put like four episodes out and
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then do like two, two and two and burn the
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whole thing off in September. Well, Peacock has changed their mind,
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but not the way I recommend. They're now dropping all
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ten episodes on September fourth, when we're all watching Cowboys Eagles,
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and that means you know sits like av Club Involve.
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Sure they'll have reviewed the entire thing before you and
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I even have a chance to watch it. Like I'm
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a podcaster who works from home. I can't watch the
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paper at six thirty in the morning before a review
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of ten episodes of something drops. You gotta give me
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a minute. I think NBC Peacock is making a mistake here.
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I think they should do a weekly thing and get
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some buzzing around it and get people talking about it.
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The ten episode drop makes me think they don't have
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confidence in it. I have seen some internet chatter from
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people who have seen it who said it's actually pretty good.
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But I don't know. This is just really weird. Why
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would you drop all ten? On September fourth, Ralph Barbosa
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spoke to the La Times after his special came out,
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and he said, now I've got about ten minutes worth
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of jokes to my name. I'm broke comedy wise, I'm broke.
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He grinned and said it's the funniest place to be.
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The Times asked Barbosa about the perspective he brings as
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the next generation of Latin comedian. Ralph said, I don't
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necessarily think it's important to get my voice out there.
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But I do like making jokes about ice in immigration
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because it's like the only way I know how to
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bring attention to it. I'm not a big political dude
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or anything like that, but yeah, I've made jokes about
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things like immigration stuff, I stuff. I feel like there's
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certain topics, certain subjects you can't avoid. After a certain point,
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we should talk about it. We should at least put
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it in the faces of the people who aren't going
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to talk about it. Like, if you're not going to
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talk about it, that's fine too, but you got at
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least hear about it. Congratulations to Ken Jung. He is
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receiving an award from the fifteenth Annual Catilina Film Festival
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on September twenty seventh. The award the King of Comedy
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Award the King of Comedy Ken Jung, presented by the
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Catalia Film Institute. The King of Comedy trophy is given
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to a performer who has mastered the craft of comedy
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and uses it to uplift, inspire, and bring joy. Jung's
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credits include Knocked Up, Pineapple Express, Role Models, Right Along Too, Transformer,
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Stark of the Moon, Tom and Jerry and of course
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his roles in the Hangover trilogy and as Senior Chang
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on Community. The New York Post was catching up with
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Eddie Peppatone and they pointed out your IMDb list two
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upcoming projects. Can you spill any details? Eddie explained, untitled
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Neil Brennan project was filmed a bunch of years ago
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and never went anywhere. Neil was working on a pilot
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for Fox and they passed on it, and I don't
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know why it's up there like that. He's also working
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on Dead, an indie film where he plays a rabbi.
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The story is about a young woman's dad who becomes
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a ghost and won't leave until there's something settled, and
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Eddie Peppertone's character oversees a quote Jewish exorcism. Tony Rock, comedian,
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he has a brother named Chris. Tony was doing some
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crowd work at a recent show. A video clip has
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gone viral. Rock asked a man in the audience, you
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want to fight m effor. It was all in good fun,
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but the man got up and took off his glasses,
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seemingly prepared to fight, and Tony Rock said, you better
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sit down. I ain't Chris m effor the crowd laughed
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at the joke. Tony Rock high five to his audience member, Hey,
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you know what happens when you pull an SNL story
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up to the first half of the podcast. You get
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to the second half and you realize, oh, you don't
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have any stories left. Hah. What you don't know is
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I had bounced this Mark Maron story because I thought
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the first half was getting long, but nope, now it's
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going into today's show after all. Newsweek asked Mark Maron,
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what do you think about the current state of podcasts.
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Maren said, at the beginning, it was sort of the
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wild West. It was an open format. You could do
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whatever you wanted done on like comedy, but with more production,
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especially what it was all just audio. And I think
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at the beginning there was sort of a movement. Was
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this kind of populous and that everybody thought they could
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do it, And it's the same with comedy now. A
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lot of people do it for a lot of different reasons.
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enable them to have another cash flow by capitalizing on
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who they are, whether they're good at it or not.
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everybody went to video, and once old school mainstream show
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business started to collapse in on itself, people were really able,
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through bubbles and tribalization, able to build their own show
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business empires. And I think podcasting facilitated that, and that's good.
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voices out there and niche markets and really do it
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interesting stuff, but also lower the bar for entertainment in general.
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I think you have as much, if not more, unique
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and interesting content with interesting personalities and talent. But then
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you have a much larger portion of two to three
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white guys sitting in front of microphones talking about the
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last time they crap their pants as adults. So you
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have this large contingency of like afternoon drive radio that
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seems to speak to a lot of it, which I
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think lowers the bar. Then you do the other stuff.
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But I think it open doors to people having more
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control the type of show business they wanted to do.
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might not have thought they had a profound amount of talent,
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but at the very least could sit and talk to
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other people. I can't tell you whether it's a good
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or bad. There's a lot of both, and probably more
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bad than good. Mark, what advice do you have when
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a young comic comes up to you and says they
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want to start a podcast? Mark says, well, that timing
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is great, and you're gonna be up against a lot.
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I'm too old to know what it really takes. I've
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never really been a guy who produces content for content's sake.
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terms of the other tried and true ways of getting
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you and your being and brand out there, and it's
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all on you. So if you're going to do it,
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seems I wouldn't want to do it now to what
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you have to do to sort of serve this is
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a full time job before you even get to the podcast.
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that grabs people enough to bring them to you, and
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I think we lose that, and again it's lowering the
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bar what these art forms were, what these broadcast forms were,
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because of this desperate need to somehow grab people's attention
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and hold it for long enough, to keep it for
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long enough for you to turn a buck out of it.
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not the world where people spend a lot of time
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trying to create interesting and provocative content or some sort
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of hyper personalized, well articulated comedic voices. I mean, everyone's
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chasing what their freedom of speech may be. It's all
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now kind of boxed in by social media platform expectations.
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So how free are you? What are you doing there?