Jon Stewarts return gets big ratings, Why did UFC's Dana White storm off Howie Mandel's podcast?

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Caalaroga Shark Media. Hello, I'm
Johnny Mack with your daily comedy news.

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Big ratings for John Stewart returning to
The Daily Show Monday night, the show

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drew nine hundred and thirty thousand viewers. That's the most for the Daily Show

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since March twenty eight, twenty eighteen. Midway through Trevor Noah's run, there

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was some simulcast on other Paramount owned
channels that brought the total number to one

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point eight five million viewers. Some
comparison numbers. During Trevor Noah's final ten

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weeks of host, he was averaging
four hundred and sixteen thousand. Prior to

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the writer strike last May, the
guest hosts were averaging three hundred and sixty

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nine thousand. When the Daily Show
came back on October with no host,

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the average was under three hundred thousand. Ouch. How else do we compare

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that nine hundred and thirty thousand slash
one point eight five million viewers? Well,

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let's see, NCIS had seven point
three two million viewers on Monday night.

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The Bachelor had three point four nine
million. John Stewart, capitalizing on

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the momentum, announced a small tour
March first in Poughkeepsie, New York,

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on the fifteenth, York, Pennsylvania, March twenty ninth, Princeton, April

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ten, Stanford, Connecticut, and
April twenty seventh in Wilmington. I was

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thinking some more about Trevor Noah versus
Spotify and how Trevor had fallen out of

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the charts. So here's why that
could be a problem. Let me walk

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you through how the sales works really
quickly. Podcasts are sold on a CPM

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model, which means how much money
do I have to give you to reach

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one thousand listeners? So I'll keep
the math simple. Usually a CPM number

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is around twenty dollars, So if
a podcast has one thousand listeners, you'll

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charge twenty dollars for an ad.
Rates may vary, but that's simple math

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there, right. So if you
have ten thousand downloads, you're going to

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get two hundred dollars per commercial,
et cetera. So Trevor launched really well,

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and I bet they were quite enthusiastic
about the sales. And if he's

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fallen out of the top two fifty, that means the numbers have likely gone

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down and you wind up in what
I call make Good Hell. So what

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I mean by that is you've told
the advertiser, Hey, we're going to

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reach a thousand people, and then
you don't actually reach a thousand people.

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You reach eight hundred people, and
then the advertiser is said and you're like,

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don't worry, we'll make it up
to you, and you can make

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it up to them. But the
problem is when you make it up to

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them, you're tying up your commercial
inventory to make up what you didn't deliver

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in the first place. So you
either have to add more and more commercials

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or you have to run a make
good a freebie to make your advertiser happy

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because you missed the projection. Anyway, make Good Hell can get ugly really

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quickly. I'll be curious to see
what's going on with Trevor No and Spotify.

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All speculation on my part, but
I do have some expertise on the

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subject. It'speaking of a podcasts.
I noticed Weird al Is on Craig Ferguson's

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podcast. I'd fallen out of listening
to Craig, but I'm a big weird

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al fan, so I will check
that out. Didn't get to it yet.

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I watched Taylor thomasin special on Netflix. It's nice enough. It makes

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my end of the year list.
The end of the year list right now

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is number one, Dusty Sleigh,
number two, Taylor Thomason, nothing else

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is on it. Three didn't make
the list. Pete Davidson, Jackie Novak,

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and Kevin James. I suspect by
the end of the year, Taylor

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Thomlinson will be more in the like
twenty one to twenty two range. It's

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not going to be the second best
special of the year. In no way.

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It's fine. I do have a
note for Taylor. You don't need

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the F bomb. She will drop
an F bomb and it's not really punching

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up a joke. It's just I
guess the way she speaks, and it

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was actually a little joring. She
should drop that habit. She doesn't need

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it at all. I did find
pretty deep in the special. Her constant

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hyper delivery was starting to wear on
me. The specials probably fifteen minutes too

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long. But it's nice enough.
Again. It made the list. Rolling

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Stone profile Taylor. She told them
it's the first time in her life she's

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at an actual job. I have
a badge. I've never gone into a

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studio a lot with a badge.
I've just been like, Hi, it's

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me. Last name is Tomlinson,
and they're like, we don't have you

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in the system. She also has
a writer's room, which feels like a

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luxury. She says, it's so
funny to me when everyone's like, you're

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so good at reading prompters, and
I'm like, great, people wrote me

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great jokes that you just have to
deliver. I've been writing my own hour

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and a half of material I have
to do from memory, Like this is

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awesome, what a sweet gig.
Interesting take here by Taylor. She doesn't

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want to hype this only woman in
Late night thing, She said, I

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mean Chelsea Handler was very popular,
Like what are you talking about? Sam

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be went on for seven seasons.
I don't get how everyone's like, oh,

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it hasn't gone well. I don't
think that's true. I struggle with

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the right balance of being like it's
very cool and also being like, let's

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not make this a thing. Could
she see her getting a bigger show in

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the future, say in eleven thirty, She said, I have no idea.

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I truly haven't thought about that at
all until you said it. Rolling

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Stone mentioned the other day Eric idle
seems unhappy with John clees Clae was asked

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by a fan on Twitter, because
we call it Twitter, not the other

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thing, Elon, and the fan
tweeted, because that's what you do,

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paraphrasing, Hey, John, I
see the pythons are all fighting. What's

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going on? John wrote back,
We always loathed and despised each other,

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but it's only recently that the truth
has begun to emerge. So I dug

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deeper because you never know. With
John, I'm like, is he serious?

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Is he joking? Apparently he was
joking. That wasn't that clear,

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but he did clean it up and
he said, I just saw the Press

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Association release. They got it totally. My remark about loathing and despising each

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other one refer to all the members
of the group two was a joke.

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I would have expected the Press Association
staff to have one and understanding of irony

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to the sense of humor. Kevin
Hart is joining the Great Outdoors Comedy Festival.

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He'll do Spokane Stadiums Sunday, August
twenty fifth. A suit with the

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festival says having a comedian at the
level of Kevin Hart choosing the Great Outdoor

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Comedy Festival Spokane stage to perform for
his fans. I hate these press releases

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in the region after so many years, it's really exciting with the already announced

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Tom Sigora Comes Together tour now Kevin
Hart, in addition to what we're working

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on for Saturday, really puts Spokane
in a league of their own for comedy

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lineups. Bad news for Sarah Silverman. By the way, before I get

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in to that, I just recorded
a couple episodes of Five Good News Stories.

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That's the podcast. It's Monday,
Wednesday, Friday. I'm the host

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and I just tell you either good
news stories or stories that'll make you smile.

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I just recorded a bunch so much
fun five Good New Stories. Number

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five Good New Stories. Wherever you
get your show's Bad news for Sarah Silverman.

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A federal judge has dismissed most of
a lawsuit brought by Sarah and others

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against Open AI over the use of
compyriting books to train its generative artificial intelligent

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chatbot. The district judges the authors
failed to cite any particular output that is

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substantially similar or similar at all to
their books. A bunch of new comedy

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specials coming out Kyle kaneen his hours
called Dirt Napp. It'll be out on

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March fourth. Let's listen. Last
week I did a show in Montana and

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we spent Labor Day in Yellowstone National
Park, and it was something like I'm

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sitting there watch it's beautiful and watching
old faithful go up look at this landmark,

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and I just shoulder to shoulder with
people like let's go Brandon T shirts

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and like don't tread on me,
hats and everything. Just people that hate

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big government and either hate socialism even
more unironically enjoying a national park. I

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love Kyle. A couple of years
back, I had his special pretty high

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up. The list was that twenty
two No. It was last year Kyle

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Kanane Shocks and Struts I had at
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top five were Gary Goman, Tod
Berry, Shane Gillis, Tom Sigour,

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and Kyle Kanane. I've been thinking
a lot about Shane. I might watch

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that special again if I get a
minute. Ivan Decker has a new special

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out on eight hundred pound Gorilla Media. It's called Popcorn, a culmination and

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celebration of everything that has happened in
Decker's License is last special on Netflix,

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including stealing a baby from Whole Foods
and attempting to raise at his own.

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He says, popcorn gives you a
rush of serotonin and dopamine that's better than

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any drugs, and that is why
he titled the special. Rory Scovell,

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also on eight hundred Pound Gorilla,
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and a few things in between.
That one's going to be out on Max,

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and I was pretty surprised. Rory
Scovell is a good comedian all but

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I was like, Max, Wow, so how do you explain this.

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Conan O'Brien is behind This doesn't mean
Rory's bad. I'm just like, oh,

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now it makes sense. Conan is
vouching for Rory. He was a

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good comic. There's a recorded last
November at the Gooddale Theater in Minneapolis.

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In the hour, we see Schoolville
offering observations on disparate subjects such as religion,

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sex, mushrooms, vaccines, parenting
an eight year old, and much

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more. Seventy minutes set. That's
fifteen minutes too long. I wanted to

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play some clips for you, but
too naughty, can't do it. But

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here's a trailer. I really liked
Hannah Gatsby. It's a multi comic special

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featuring gender queer comics from around the
globe. It's called Gender Agenda. It'll

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be March fifth on Netflix. The
trailer is great. I've scoped it down

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a little bit here for both pacing
and language, but I'm looking forward to

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this like. I like this trailer
a lot. The last time Netflix brought

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this many trans people together was for
a protest. So my name is Jess

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Tom, I'm trans. Can you
tell don't answer that that was a task

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you're passing? Am I Back when
I was in school, kids you used

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to call me a butt pirate and
I was kind of cute. I'm not.

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I'm really, although I will admit
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star comedy benefit that has raised more
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This year's show hosted by Steve Sharippa. I know Steve pretty well. Good

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guy. I've got some Shrippa stories. I'm always fun to work with.

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Steve Shripper a really good guy.
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Garden of Dreams Foundation. I did
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right, includes Burr and Gaffigan and
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person that got the quote from was
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back anyway? Chris said, it's
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about Garden of Dreams and how Garden
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incredible work. It could be more
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lineup for a great cost. That
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it. Shrippa said, I'm so
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I've seen firsthand the monumental impact that
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people and families it serves, and
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the Foundation to make an immediate an
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news, Howie Mandel was interviewing Dana
White, you know, the UFC boss.

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According to the recap, now I'm
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pull the clip, and it pulled
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a Howie Mandel podcast. Guess how
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a Howie Mandel podcast. Fifteen?
And I'm like, I'm not hunting through

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fifteen non skippable commercial breaks to find
this clip. Fifteen commercial breaks in an

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hour, even if they're one second
long. That's annoying. What are you

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doing anyway? Low Kick MMA,
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Howie was just complimenting Dana left and
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turn to talk, he said,
thank you for all the kind words.

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I appreciate it. I'm sof and
tired of doing podcasts. I'm literally done

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with them. I'm not doing anymore. Then he left. I don't know

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what that's about, and I'm losing
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for the Sailor episode. I need
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I gotta wrap up. I can
do the Sandler episode that's going out Saturday.

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