Katt Williams Live Netflix Special, Trevor Noah (sorta) joins Fortnite, RIP Mojo Nixon

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

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Did you see that Nikki Helly lost
to Nevada to nobody? Late Night talked

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about her. We're also talking about
it on our political podcast that's called Ballot.

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Ellly got thirty percent of the vote, which was less than none of

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these candidates. Steve Colbert said,
Nicki Haley's campaign messages nobody's better than me,

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and Nevada agreed. She also lost
to Nevada candidates. Not feeling it

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today and gonna be a no from
me, dog kibble. You know how

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they say you're second and none.
She finished second and none. I like

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the idea that people took the time
to wait in line a vote for the

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candidates and picked none of these candidates. It's like going to Wendy's and yelling

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nothing for me, thanks. Seth
Meyer's even worse. She actually came in

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third behind none of these candidates.
And no, seriously, not you,

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Nikki. My that's fun? All
right? Hey, Johnny Mack, what's

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a special and what's an hour?
Well, I'll tell you what's a special.

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Cat Williams Live on Netflix. I
cannot wait for this May fifth,

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ten pm Eastern, Cat Williams will
performed live at the YouTube Theater in Inglewood,

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California. The special is unnamed,
but I mean, come on going

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after that last interview where he trashed
everybody, including you, listener, cannot

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wait for that May fifth Netflix Cat
Williams Live Awesome. A weird one came

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out on Wednesday night sometime after six
pm Eastern. Fortnite was like, yeah,

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Trevor ne Noah is producing a new
comedy special in Fortnite and it's on

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now now. There have been mixed
reports about this. In the end,

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Trevor's not actually in this thing,
he's quote unquote producing it. That's often

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industry code for hey, can we
attach your name to something and give you

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money so we get more pressed for
it and you don't actually do anything.

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For example, watch Star Trek Discovery
and count how many producers there are?

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Twenty one by my count. Anyway, Trevor Noah is producing a new stand

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up comedy special Fortnite. Joke Night
has launched. If you need the island

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code, it's a six two nine
eight two nine sixty five two four.

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I hope you had a pen in
your hand. If not, that fifteen

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second rewind button comes in handy,
or just go to the epic pic section

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of the discovery page. It features
performances from Matthew Brissard, Who's Great Preacher

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Lawson, Scott Sase, and Marsha
Belski a suit Who's not Trevor Noah said.

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Each comedian delivers a motion captured performance
delivered in a Fortnite outfit against the

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backdrop of a digitally rendered comedy club. Trevor Noah, in a statement supposedly

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said, with joke Night Royale,
we're blending two things my mom never wanted

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me to get into, comedy and
gaming. I'm excited to step into this

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uncharted territory, breaking down traditional barriers
and offering a fresh, dynamic way for

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fans to experience comedy. I think
the idea is actually cool, but I'm

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old. I'll check in with my
son to see what he thinks of all

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this. Fortnite has already done performances
from the likes of Travis, Scott and

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M and M. Comedy's an expansion
of that. I like it. The

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av Club points out. While the
trailer announces the show and it drops Trevor

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Noah's name, it doesn't feature Trevor
Noah. It doesn't feature Trevor Noah's voice,

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nor does it feature a Fortnite approximation
of Trevor no Noah. So I

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got my wish. The Joe Rogan
podcast is back available over the wall.

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You don't have to use the Spotify
app. I was using pocketcasts and I

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enjoyed some Joe Rogan with Aaron Rodgers
and men I shared in the Facebook group,

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which is Daily Comedy News Podcast Group. Well maybe a year or two

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ago, Tim Heidecker did a parody
of the Joe Rogan podcast where he and

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his crew were talking conspiracies. That's
what this Aaron Rodgers interview talked about.

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They were just running through the conspiracies
COVID, RFK, Epstein Island, UFOs

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and just switching topics like three conspiracies
a minute. I'm not exaggerating. Listen

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to it. They'll be in the
middle of a UFO conversation and suddenly we're

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on Epstein Island and then back to
COVID. I don't know what's going on.

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I don't think there was a single
question about football. Aaron Rodgers mentioned

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a couple times what he does for
a living. I think the word super

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Bowl was set once, but it
is not a football interview. And I'm

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sure the Jets are thrilled that Aaron
Rodgers is on the Joe Rogan Experience available

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wherever you get your podcasts. Mark
Marin has John Oliver on I haven't gotten

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a listen to that. I'm excited
NBC got in on the Shane Gillis controversy.

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They write with Shane Gillis's return SNL, Asians ask when they'll stop being

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the punchline. They quote one Asian
American comedian is saying there's an idea that

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Asians will take it and have to
just be obedient and have a smile on

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our face. Dylan Adler in La
based Asian American comedians quoted as saying there's

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a feeling of it being swept under
the rug anti Asian jokes being viewed as

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benign or not having real life effects
and consequences on people when it's not the

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case. I meant to tell you
yesterday I saw the clip of Shane Gillis

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making jokes about Chinatown and I wanted
to share it, but there's just so

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many F bombs in it. It
just I'd have to just machety it and

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it just wouldn't translate at all.
Now my take, I'm gonna be consistent

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here. I think Shane is dropping
into a character to illustrate how absurd the

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character is. It's almost like Archie
Bunker. So how do you do Archie

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Bunker without actually saying horrible things?
At some point comedy's comedy. I got

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a joke about something everybody. NBC
loaded their article Gillis, who's been embraced

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by right wing viewers for his anti
wo comedy. He was fired from SNL.

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We've recapped that. Just Tom,
an Asian American stand up comedian and

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actor, said, from twenty eighteen
ish to right now, casting has become

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more diverse, but because the image
change, it allowed people like straight white

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men to believe that now they're the
alternative voice. They're the little guy who's

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punching up against the diverse powers that
be. Dylan Adler says, what comedy's

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supposed to do is surprise you.
When I hear that that isn't surprising,

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it's not interesting, it's not nuanced. That it does feel lazy to me.

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For your point here, there's so
many talented, incredible Asian comedians and

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actors they haven't had on the show
yet. I can't believe they haven't had

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Margaret Show host the show or someone
like Michelle Yo. Michelle Yeo would be

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a good choice Marker show. Why
would Margaret Show host SNL in twenty twenty

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four? Anyway, we'll be talking
about that one for another week and SNL

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in the news During a Taylor Swift
Super Bowl week club Shayshay continues to make

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major comedy news. Monique is on
the latest episode, and Men's Journal recapt

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it and says Monique has not forgotten
a twenty eighteen GQ interview in which Tiffany

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Hattish made comments about Monique when Monique
accused Netflix of racial and gender bias after

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she was paid less for a stand
up special compared to other comedians such as

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Dave Chappelle and Amy Schumer. Let
me jump in there. Yeah, you're

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paid less than Dave Chappelle. I
mean, at some point, please be

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realistic. Chris Rock's gonna get paid
better than Todd Barry. Let's just be

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realistic. What are you talking about. Tiffany Haddish at that time said my

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business run different than her business.
I don't live her life I don't have

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that husband of hers. I'm looking
at how Netflix open up so many opportunities

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for black females in comedy when my
people are dying. That's when you're gonna

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catch me protesting. I'm not going
to protest because somebody got offered, not

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the amount of money they want to
get offered. If you don't like what

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they're offering, you just no longer
do business with them. That seems reasonable

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to me, based on what I
just said. Monique question why black women

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continue to throw each under of the
bus on the podcast, She said,

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well, I don't do business like
Monique do business, and I'm glad I

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don't have that husband of hers.
Monique responded to that and said, Tiffany,

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if you had a husband like mine, you might not have two DUIs.

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If you had a husband like mine, you may not be caught up

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in what looks like you could have
been grooming a child. A Men's journal

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reminds us. The latter comment references
a controversial comedy skit Tiffany appeared in alongside

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Aery Spears in twenty twenty two,
titled Through a Pedophile's Eyes. It led

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to a lawsuit. The lawsuit was
eventually dismissed, Hadish apologize for the skit.

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Comeil nan Gianni opened up about the
mental stress created by being in The

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Eternals. He was on Michael Rosenbaum's
podcast and said, the reviews were bad,

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and I was too aware of it. I was reading every review and

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checking too much. It was really
really hard because Marvel thought that movie was

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going to be really, really well
reviewed, so they lifted the embargo early

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and put it in some fancy movie
festivals, and they sent us on a

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big global tour to promote the movie
right as the embargo lifted. I think

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there was some weird soup in the
atmosphere for why that movie got slammed so

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much, and I think not much
of it has to do with the actual

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quality of the movie. Was really
hard, and that's what I thought was

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unfair to me and unfair to my
wife Emily, and I can't approach my

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work this way. They wore some
stuff has to change, so I started

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counseling. I still talked to my
therapist about that. Emily says, I

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do have trauma from it. We
actually just got dinner with somebody else from

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that movie and we're like, that
was tough, wasn't it. And He's

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like, yeah, that was really
tough, and I think we all went

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through something similar. At the GRIE
Awards, Kevin Hart recognized Eddie Murphy as

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one of the greatest comedians of all
time. He said, the idea of

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performing in big venues came from watching
you, from watching you on that lens

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of what the hell the stage is
attached to a laugh and in a demand

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where this rockstar like idea was attached
to comedy because of the work you did.

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You made it look good, you
made it look cool and my time

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I wanted that, and you opened
the doors for me to do a version

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of that. He also praised pioneering
comedians, including Steve Harvey for his contributions

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in the original Kings of Comedy,
Cedric d entertainer Bernie Mack and Diel.

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Kevin said The Kings of Comedy was
such a dope thing for comedy. We

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started to expand the lens of how
comedy should be perceived. I swear to

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you, I'm thankful and humbled for
what you guys have allowed me to do.

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The baton gets passed, then I
don't take it for granted. Jeff

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Die is recording his special Two Nights
and Tomorrow with the Electric Gene in Nashville.

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You may know Jeff from the NBC
show Better Late Than Never, where

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he follows Henry Winkler, William Shanner, Terry Bradshaw, George Foreman as Jeff

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Greats for them the adventure of a
lifetime. Shanner's been a space hashtag six

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seasons and a movie. Donald Glover
tells The Holly Reporter Dan Harmon told me

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what he wanted, and I was
like, this sounds great. This is

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the community movie he's talking about here. It's a college reunion. But Abed

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is like this big director now and
basically this is his magnum opus. I'm

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like, this sounds effing tight.
And I was very sad to see my

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friend Mojo Nixon passed away at age
sixty six. You may know Mojo.

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He had a minor and novelty hit
back in the eighties called Elvis Is Everywhere.

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A statement announcing the news on his
Facebook page and this is so Mojo

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wrote, Mojo has left the building. Mojo Nixon real named Neil Kirby McMillan

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Junior. I didn't know that died
after suffering a cardiac event during an Outlaw

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Country cruise in which he was a
performed. The Facebook post reads, how

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you live is how You should die. Mojo Nixon was full tilt, wide

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open rock hard root hog corner on
two wheels plus on fire, passing after

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a blazing show, a raging night, closing the bar, taking no prisoners,

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and a good breakfast with bandmates and
friends. A cardiac events on the

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Outlaw Country cruise is about right,
and that's just how we did it.

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Mojo has left the building since Elvis
is everywhere we know. He was waiting

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for him in the alley out back. Hen'n help us all. Mojo was

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a good guy, larger than life, fun, always in a good mood.

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I just loved being around him.
I worked with him on blue Collar

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Radio a little bit. He hosted
some NASCAR stuff for us. But you

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know, super awesome guy. Mojo
Nixon was sixty six. See tomorrow