July 19, 2025

Marc Maron vs. Anxiety

Show Notes
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Johnny Mac recaps the best late-night jokes of the week, focusing on topics like the Epstein files, MAGA hat burning, and nudist events. Comedians such as Jimmy Fallon, Seth Meyers, and Jordan Klepper deliver punchlines on current events and odd happenings. Interview highlights include Marc Maron discussing his HBO special and anxiety, Taylor Tomlinson reflecting on the perils of being a woman comedian on the road, and Shang Wang expressing his love for the craft of comedy. Additional segments cover a school sign prank in Montclair, updates from the Just For Laughs Festival in Montreal, and a comedian's attempt to set a world record for the most garage sales in one day.

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Callaroga Shark Media. Hi there, Johnny Mack with your daily

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comedy news. So I've been trying to get back in

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the habit on Fridays of recapping Late Night. Don't worry

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you didn't download the wrong episode. It's Saturday Calm Down.

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But I didn't do it yesterday because we had so

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much Gene Gillis to get through. I really like yesterday's episode.

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If you missed it, check that one out. So here

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are some of the better Late Night jokes from the week.

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One of the topics the Epstein Files. Jimmy Fallon said,

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Trump said, everybody move on. It's a minor issue. And

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people said, exactly, it's a minor issue. Fallon again. A

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thief in Massachusetts stole more than one hundred thousand dollars

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worth of rare Pokemon cards. Trust me, the last thing

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you want to tell your CELLMATEE is that you're in

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prison for jacking a squirrel. That's pretty edgy for Jimmy Fallon.

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But then I thought about it more and I could

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see Johnny Carson back in the day nailing that vaguely

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dirty punchline and mugging for the camera and getting a

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good life seth Meyers. A newdist group in Pittsburgh over

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the weekend held its annual Balls Out Bowling event where

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clothing is not allowed, much to the horror of Jimmy's

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eighth birthday party. I like that twist there at the end,

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more of a straight up tag by Seth. By the way,

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whose idea was this, We need an idea for the

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next nudist event. How about a sport we bend over

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in front of everyone. Fallin. They're burning the mega hats.

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People in China were like, come on, we work so

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hard making them. That's very good. Is Jimmy Fallon quietly

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handing in great monologues because Colbert is not Oh, I

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did the prep and I didn't pull any Colbert jokes.

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Fallin Again. The excuses are getting worse and worse. Today

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Trump was like a dog ate the Epstein files than

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people in Ohio ate the dog. That is fantastic, Seth Myers.

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The dating app Bumble has announced plans to lay off

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about thirty percent of its staff, and it's pretty cool

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how they're doing it. No, no, yes, no Fallon. A

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woman in California said her home is being flooded with

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hundreds of unwanted Amazon packages. By the way, an unwanted

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Amazon package is how Lauren Sanchez described her honeymoon. Also

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great Seth Myers. In honor of National hot Dog Day,

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the convenience store Circle K offered two roller grill hot

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dogs for a dollar because that's what they used to

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cost back when they were first placed on the roller,

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but Jordan Klepper for the win. Lauren Bobert had suggested

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that Trump appoint Matt Gates special counsel for the whole

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Epstein business. Jordan Klepper slammed it with you want Matt

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Gates to investigate underage sex trafficking. I guess it makes

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sense in a game recognized game way, I caunes see

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Matt Gates pulling up to R. Kelly's house saying I'm

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putting together a team fantastic. Randomly, I saw a note

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that Jay Leno, according to NBC, hosted more than forty

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six hundred episodes of The Tonight Show, which was the

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most of any of the six hosts in the show's history,

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and I was like, Leno hosted more than Johnny Carson,

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so I looked it up. Johnny apparently hosted quote unquote

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only thirty six hundred and fifty eight episodes. So I

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thought about it, and I think that's probably lazy math.

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Leno hosted for twenty two years. Let's say he did

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forty eight weeks a year. He might have done fifty

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or more, but let's call it forty eight. I don't

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remember Jay taking a lot of time off. So if

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for twenty two years you did the show five days

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a week as opposed to four, you would make up

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one thousand and fifty six shows on Johnny Carson, who

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for a long while did four days and towards the

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end only did three days. Oh and now that I'm

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thinking about it more, I guess part of that would

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have been Jay Leno was the Monday guest host for

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a couple of years, you know, so that's hosting the

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Tonight Show. So okay, that math does make sense. But

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it was very surprising. GQ is a good interview with

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Mark Maron, and it was nice. Somebody asked Maren something

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different for a change. GQ asked Maren. In the past,

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you've spoken about struggling to pick out a good outfit

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when you're on stage filming a special. Do you feel

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like you dialed it in with this one Mark special's

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on HBO August first. Maren said, yeah, I mean, that's

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been a lifelong journey for me. I committed that shirt

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and those pants and those boots, and it was I'm

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quite a bit. Leading up the special, there was an

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issue with the shirt being a little snug when I

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sat down the gas between and the buttons would pop open,

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but like everything kind of fell into place. I stretched

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it out when I got there. The wardrobe person, who

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was an employee at the theater solved that problem by

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putting snaps in between the buttons that you couldn't see.

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So that was resolved. This part of my brain that

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seeks to be anxious and cost myself minor problems before

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I go in, because that's just the way my brain works.

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That has to work against me in order for me

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to have a certain energy, I guess, but it wasn't

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there that night, and I just didn't have the usual

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habitual anxiety that I usually have heading into something like that.

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I knew the stuff, I knew the work, I felt

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good about the outfit, felt good about the shirt, felt

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good about my hair. There was no weird, dumb stuff

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that happened that would spiral me out. I mean, it's

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about time that that part of my brain stops trying

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to f with me. I've avoided medication for most of

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my life, but I've been taking something specifically for foundational

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anxiety and maybe it was working, I don't know. But

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also that theater is a big part of the special.

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Is whatever I did up there in that theater of

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the Bam Harvey. It's not disrespair, but it's frozen in

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a state of decay in a way. They didn't distore it,

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thought it be what it is, but they maintain it.

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So it's got a very interesting personality. To me. Well

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looked like a rough go painting. And when I first

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saw the space, I'm like, there's no way that wall

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is going to be as big a part of the

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special as I am. I can't explain it exactly why,

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and the DP was like, yeah, I get it. And

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when he was first looking at it, he's like, I'm

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thinking kinsugi. I'm like, I don't know what that is,

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and then he told me and I looked it up.

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That's a Japanese order for storing broken ceramic pieces with gold.

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So he was able to work the lights around that.

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In the audience in the room and on the rug.

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Then it fades up during those last two heavier bits

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under the wall as sort of a reparative poetic implication.

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Mark Maren panicked August first on HBO, Taylor Tumlinson told

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The Times of London the hardest thing about being a

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woman in comedy he's traveling alone on the road, and

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so you get to a certain level just more dangerous.

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When I was twenty into these small towns and doing

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these weird gigs by myself, people would try to break

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into your hotel rooms because they know you're a loon

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in the middle of nowhere. It's scary. Yikes. The reporter

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was like, what Taylor said, Yeah, you know, we all

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have those stories. She says traveling for comedy can be isolating.

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She's hired her younger sibling to travel on the road

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with her, which has helped her a lot. Dating has

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fallen down the list of the stuff that she's able

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to get to. Taylor says, the idea of oh it's

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going to happen for you, I don't know. We're all

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on our phones. You might have to try a little bit.

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I'm also on the fence about having kids. I don't

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know how to feel about that. First things first, I'd

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like a partner, and I think if I focus the

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same level of caret attention on that, and it probably

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happened a little faster. Now that my career is in

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a place i'm happy with, I have to finish this tour,

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film the special, finish my book. Then next year I

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can focus on finding a partner. I think she's on

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the celebrity dating app Raya. Oh yeah, there's a whole

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other world out there that you and I are not

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part of. She says, it stinks. I mean, my last

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relationship was from Raya, so it does work sometimes, but

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I think dating is just bad across the board. It

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can feel uneven because there's so much information publicly available

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about me. If I meet somebody who I don't know

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anything about, it feels like they have the high ground.

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She talked about having more fame and money now, and

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she said, I'm very conscious of that. You can't go

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out on stage and act like, oh, things are still

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really hard for me, still having a tough time at work. No,

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you're not. You're doing very well. And I think you

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just have to come at it from a place of gratitude.

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It's because of everybody who buys tickets. If you're in Maui,

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you go see Shang Wang tonight. He'll beat the Max

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Castle Theater. He told Maui News. I'm always trying to

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pay attention. I'm almost trying to be present and just

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see what's happening, then collecting little moments, little observations you

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notice that could be obviously hilarious, or it could just

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be something interesting that's not obviously humorous but shared in

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a funny way. I love creating something that wasn't here before,

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that wasn't here yesterday. I love the process of craft.

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I love the idea. It's so open, it's pretty free.

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It's you, a microphone and an audience. It's fine if

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you bomb, that's say you get better. It's always fun

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to do a good show, but having a good set

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isn't that meaningful if you don't try something new. The

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most rewarding thing is coming up with something new or

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making it better, and the process of just basically being

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okay with bombing. I like the idea that people can

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now walk out of this show to their regular lives,

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see these little things and have a moment just a

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moment there to think where maybe they're not an autopilot

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when they're brushing their teeth. I like the idea that

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after this show, if people really enjoyed it, they can

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come across little points into lives where they're not kind

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of glossed over or moving through without thinking. We can

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consider this moment a little bit to be present. Basically,

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Chang Wang Maccastle Theater tonight, seven o'clock MAUI all right,

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from Montclairlocal dot com. We are on gossip corner. Montclair

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Local was wondering what was going on at Montclair High

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School the other day because there was a new sign.

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The school had apparently been renamed Aldrin High School. Now interesting,

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Buzz Aldrin is from Montclair, New Jersey, but he already

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has a school in town named in his honor. Susan

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is a Montclair resident. She was one of the first

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to spot the sign at around five forty five in

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the morning while dropping her son off at soccer practice.

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She told Montclair Local, my first thought was, am I

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seeing things? My second thought was how did I not

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know about this? Have been living under a rock? And

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then I thought we already have a Buzz Aldrin Middle school.

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It turns out the sign was for Adam Sandler's new

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movie Roommates. The film also stars famous actress Sonny Sandler.

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I may have to leave the country. I'm not gonna

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be able to take all the Sandler stuff. Speaking of

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leaving the country, it's just for laughs. Montreal taking a

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look at the English language programming tonight, the Cultural Show

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at seven, the JFL Live sessions at seven. Again if

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you heard me ran yesterday. This website is not awesome

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this year. In the past, the live sessions have been

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album taping, so I'm going to assume that that's what

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that is. Eight thirty a show called and just like that,

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this is Me now an hour with Trana Wintur, The

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Nasty Show at nine thirty, and probably a good twenty

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French shows I didn't tell you about, Oh ten o'clock,

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Dino Archie and Chris Robinson at ten, and Midnight Surprise

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at eleven fifty nine. This will really start to pick

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up once we get into the week here. This is

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very typical Week two of the Montreal comedy festivals, always

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the stronger week. Don't read anything into any of this.

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All right in Belleville, Ontario, a comedian today is hoping

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to set the world record for most garage sales in

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one day. Kyle Wolven said, I'd like to go to

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the higher ups in the city, all the well connected

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city council type people, and explain my idea. And then

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it took one person to say that's not a bad idea.

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We should try and do something like that. Well, today

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the community will aim to set a Guinness World Record

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for greatest number of yard sales. There does not appear

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to be an official record yet, but there's an event

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in the US called the one twenty seven Yard Sale,

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which claims to be the world's longest yard sale, crossing

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six states at six hundred and ninety miles. Well Wolven said,

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people can't help but love yard sales. If they see one,

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they get the surge to go and stop at it,

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even though most of the stuff there they don't want

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or they have already at home. But when you see

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a yard sale, you go, oh, yeah, cool, come on,

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what do they have over there? You can look at

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their stuff and be like, oh my goodness, you bought

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like two of those singing bass fish that hang on

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the wall things. I'll give you three fifty for those well,

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good luck with your record, sir, and that it's your

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comedy news for today see tomorrow.