July 27, 2025

Marc Maron's Reflections, Adam Sandler Sequel Talks, and Dave Thomas in Ukraine

Show Notes
Transcript

Festival's highlights are covered, along with Daniel Tosh's Kansas City dining experiences. Lastly, Dave Thomas recounts his harrowing trip to Ukraine to support the Ukrainian Freedom Fund, illustrating the human side of war and the resilience of Ukrainian people.

00:12 Marc Maron Reflects on WTF Podcast
02:33 Adam Sandler Movie Sequels
03:35 Monty Python Reunion Possibilities
04:26 Taylor Tomlinson's Life and Career Insights
05:17 John Goodman on Roseanne Barr
05:32 Robin Williams' Comedy Club Anecdote
06:05 Montreal Comedy Festival Highlights
06:35 Daniel Tosh's Kansas City Visit
06:58 Dave Thomas' Humanitarian Trip to Ukraine

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Calaroga Shark Media. Hey there, I'm Johnny Mack with your

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daily comedy news GQS. Mark maron if he's sad about

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WTF ending, Is it like reading his own obituary? Maren said, no,

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I haven't gotten the sense of obituary dying or reconsidering.

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That hasn't happened, but not unlike the way to do comedy,

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the way to the podcast is I'm all in and

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pretty wide open and trying to sort through my own

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feelings about everything, and also very aware of the weight

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of expectation and people's need for my companionship at point

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of view in their lives. And after sixteen years of that,

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I'm a little depleted, and I do think there's some

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things about me that have changed. There's also the climate

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of where media's at now. And he did this before

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colber Gate where it becomes I don't know if it's

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diminishing returns or just sort of a psychological and emotional exhaustion.

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But no, Look, I don't know what my public profile,

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my brand, or whatever words people apply to a public

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person is going to be after the podcast ends, in

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terms of not being out there twice a week, you know,

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bleeding but Brendan and I have done a very specific

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thing for a long time that's never diminished in quality

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and has never been other than what we want it

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to be. And it's created a space not just for us,

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but for many podcasters, or created a template and put

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the medium on the map, and we see it as

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a finished thing in a lot of ways. He's a

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very specific type of audio producer and engineer, and I

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do what I do. The partnership has been equal. We're workers,

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and we've done a great thing, and there's no reason

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to keep dumping it out there if it just becomes

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something we feel like we have to do because we

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don't know anything else. Right, Mark, what should we do

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without you? He said, yeah, I mean have the conversation

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with your friends. You know, these conversations have been important

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to me personally. I really really am totally aware of

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the fact that we're on Mike's, my guests aren't, and

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the conversations we ever thorough and intimate. I really really

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am totally aware of the fact that we're on Mikes,

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my guests aren't, and the conversations we ever thorough and intimate.

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And I think that's something that human beings should do

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more in their lives because it's important. We're all on zoom,

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We're all locked in our phones in different states of

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panic or minor relation at times, and I think that

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disconnects from humans. It's a big problem. There's no flesh

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and blood community undertaking in most people's lives other than work,

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whatever the day to day is. And one of things

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that drove me to the podcast in journals, I've always

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been that person when I was a young comic wondering

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around New York, frustrated I couldn't get on stage, kind

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of sweating it out with mynok and having days and

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nights open because I didn't see any other thing for

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me to do. I really used to make the rounds.

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I used to go to a couple guitar shows. They

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used to go to a couple guitar stores, and go

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to bookstores and go to record stores. And'd go there

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and talk to the guys who are working there and

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talk about the things that interested me. If people could

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teach me something over like minded. It was always part

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of my life, and it was important part of my life.

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I mean, if I have one fear about the podcast

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being over, it said, I'm gonna have to put more

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effort and expanding my personal social circles. I can continue

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having these conversations that are enlightening and also get me

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out of myself and into somebody else's life. So I'd

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say that people who listen to try to make that

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an important part of their life, as it's what makes

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us human. Good stuff there, Happy Gilmore to Director Kyle

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Knuachek spoke to CBR dot com about what other Adam

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Sandler films could benefit from having a sequel. Ah. I mean,

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I wish we could get a sequel to Uncut Gems,

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but if you've seen Uncut Gems, so that would be

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hard to do. Maybe we could get a prequel to

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Uncut Gems. Knew a check said, here's one thing I

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think would be interesting now because Sandler was always doing

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the little nikky voice on set, so just hearing it,

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I was like, I bet that would be excellent now too. No,

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it wouldn't. I bet we could do something really crazy

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with Little Nicky, please, don't. I think there's something like,

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you know, Happy Gilmour is grounded and he's able to

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comment on the world in this movie and kind of

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send its themes out. But I feel like Little Nicky

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in the Fantastic Realm would really be able to call

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attention to some crazy stuff going on in the world

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right now, Please don't you may remember The two thousand

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film starred Adam Sandler as the son of Satan. CBR

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points out the film was not met with strong reviews,

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and it scored a twenty two percent on Rotten Tomatoes.

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It bombed in theaters. It was even nominated for Razzies,

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including Worst Actor for Adam Sandler, shocking Michael Paylan from

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Monty Python's Boke to SGA mag Could the Pythons get

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back together? Michael Payland said, occasionally their ideas for getting together,

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but now there's only four of us left, and people

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do their own things. Eric Idol's very much taken up

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the American way of life. John Clees is doing well

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with Faulty Towers in the West End, so he's fine.

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Terry Gilliam I'm seeing tomorrow. He lives up the road.

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He's always got a major film on the go, which

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he says has been messed up by some so and

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so that's how I know he's happy. Graham Chapman and

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Terry Jones have passed away. There have been rumors of

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a new stage version of Life of Brian. Michael says, yeah,

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that is potential, but I don't know where that's got to.

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I think what Python produced is what we produced when

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we were all together, and when Graham was around. He

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was brilliant as the central character in Life of Brian.

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Said to do something else without that aspect of it

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doesn't seem to me quite right. It's like a table

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with four legs, one of which is missing. It's still

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just about usable, but it's not very stable. Taylor Thomlinson

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spoke to the Times of London. Taylor's on the road

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until January, and then she says, this is honestly the

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first time in a while, and I think it's because

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I'm a bit burnt out that I don't really know

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where to go from here. I think I need to

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live a little bit of life and there's something to

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talk about. She has a book coming out late next

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year about things she's changed her mind about, including marriage.

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Taylor says, I really wanted to be married when I

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was younger. If I'd met someone who said I don't

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want to get married, I would have stopped dating them.

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I think I still wanted to hold onto this image

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of an ideal woman with a church upbringing. Now I'm

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not sure if I ever want to get married. I

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don't really care what people are saying about me, and

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I forgive myself more than I used to. It was

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really hard on myself for every little mistake and knowing

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that a certain job or level of success or relationship

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isn't going to fix you. You're your own responsibility. That's

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where I've got to. Most of my goals are personal

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and not professional, which is a nice change. I could

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do a whole hour and how I used to want

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to be a comedian and now I want to be

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a human being. John Goodman told The Daily Beast he

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hasn't spoken to former co star Roseanne Barr in a

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few years, and she probably doesn't want to hear from him. Apparently,

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Roseanne is not easy to work with. Goodman said she

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was a force of nature when it came to getting

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what she wanted. We were work friends. The Guardian had

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a fun anecdote from Robin Williams. They write for a

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year from nineteen eighty to nineteen eighty one. The comic

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strip was the hippest and hottest comedy night in town.

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The bouncers had a rule. If you reaked of after shave,

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you were sent to the strip show. If you spelled

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of beer, they went to the comedy show. Robin Williams

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came in and de managed to perform to impress his

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guest David Bowie. He was offered fifteen minutes. Robin said,

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I told David Bowie d do an hour. The guy

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running the place said you can't. Robin Williams said, I'll

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buy the club. Robin was told we don't own it.

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It belongs to a bouffont haired pornographer. De Montreal Comedy

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Festival wraps up today six o'clock. Jerry D tapes a

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Netflix special seven o'clock, Danny Boy, Leslie Lao at seven,

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drop Out, Improv at seven thirty. Sunday Night Improv at eight,

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Jerry D again, another Netflix taping at eight thirty. Matthew Brossard,

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who's been a guest of the show and a former

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Great New Face at nine. So if we were up

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there tonight, I don't know, Leslie Loud seven and Brizard

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at nine because we could see Jerry D when he's

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on Netflix on Gossip Corner. Daniel Tosh was in Kansas

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City somewhat recently. He apparently enjoyed eating at barbecue restaurant

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Q thirty nine. He said it was great, but lamented

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the fact that they were out of sausage ashett. He

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stated the Crossroads Hotel for one night and gave props

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to x R, one of the restaurants inside the hotel.

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He said the pizzas were delicious, but the charred cucumber

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salad stole the show. Dave Thomas recent returned from a

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ten day trip to Ukraine to raise awareness for the

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Ukrainian Freedom Fund, a charity this applies non lethal equipment

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and training to Ukrainians. Dave Thomas from SCTV is seventy

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six now. He told the Globe and Mail, you can't

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fly to Ukraine. I took a Turkish Airlines flight from

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la to Istanbul, which took fourteen hours. Then I took

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a connecting flight to Moldova, south of Ukraine. From there

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was an eight hour ride with an Army security official

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through Ukraine. It was a pretty hairy ride. We were

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dodging automobile debris on the road from previous drone strikes.

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We had to travel at night because the strikes were

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during the day. I later met a communications officer who

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said his personal car was attacked when he was off duty.

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They were stalking him because he was a valuable piece

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in the military command chain. The Russians used social media

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and all sorts of tracking methods. It's a different kind

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of war going on, Dave Thomas says Kiev. We got

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there in the morning, it looked like a normal European city,

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business as usual. People sat in cafes drinking lattes. Students

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were lyned up outside of the university. During the day, it

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was difficult for me to imagine there was a war

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going on. But at night, that's when you know. Explosions

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rock my hotel. I'm seventy six years old. I feel

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like I have to do something with my life before

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I died. O has some value. I've made some people laugh.

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I guess that's great, but I felt I should do

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something more. I learned a lot about people. Maybe they'll

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be increase in donations in Canada, which would be great.

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They're giving medical supplies and teaching field triage. They have

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evacuation teams that go behind enemy lines to rescue Ukrainian

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people were trapped there, including women and children. He accompanied

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those teams and said the Russians were shooting at us.

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Drones are the weapons of choice now. Ukrainian soldiers told

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me how difficult they are to shoot down. They're almost

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like model airplanes. I saw one Russian drone hanging in

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a bar. It doesn't look threatening at all, and yet

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they carry ordinance. Did he visit any comedy clubs in context?

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That's not an absurd question, I'm exerting from the article.

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Dave said, yeah, I spoke with stand ups. I wanted

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to know what Ukrainians were laughing at. What I found

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was that it wasn't Trump or Putin or political jokes.

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It's dating, lifestyle jokes. They want to laugh at normal things.

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The war is off topic. Nobody thinks the war is funny.

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There's nothing funny about it. And that is your comedy

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