Matt Rife cancels 8 Chicago Shows: Extreme Exhaustion!!

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Calaroka Shark Media. Hey, what's
up Johnny Mack with a pool side edition

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of Daily Comedy News. If you
think you hear birds, you do.

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It's just too nice to sit in
the basement today. So I'm out on

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the back deck. Got my pal
here, mister Scruff. I'm mister Scruff,

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and we're chilling. I got a
nice coffee. All this is true.

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So you may have heard former President
Trump but got in a little trouble

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the other day. Bad luck for
the late night shows. Everybody but Kimmel

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was off, I mean brutal.
What happened in my life was I heard

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that the verdict was coming down and
I had to head out to take prom

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pictures with my kid. So I'm
at this party and I was talking to

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some friendly dad and I eventually had
a fall on my sword and I'm like,

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look, man, I know I
seem all kinds of distracted, but

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I work in the media and kind
of got to pay attention here. So

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that was my life. So I
feel for the late night shows. I

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mean, if you're work in this
business, sometimes you just really want to

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cover something, and you know,
that was an old time event, So

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I feel bad for those guys,
Jimmy Kimmel was on my dog just jumped

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on my lap. I'm recording a
podcast. This isn't he's standing on the

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laptop. This isn't going to work
here. You sit over here? Sorry,

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where were we? In case you
can't tell? Today's episodes a little

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casual. Kimmel did a full monologue
on his show Thursday night. We covered

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that on the Ballot podcast. We're
doing obviously a lot, since Ballot covers

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the election. If you want to
bounce over a ballot when we're done here,

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you can catch up on Kimmel.
The Daily Show tweeted Justice Alito as

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called for upside down American flags to
be flown at half mast. The Tonight

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Show went with Trump fought the law, and the law one. Meanwhile,

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as we sit here on the deck
in the landscape, or show up for

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some additional ambient noise. Colbert Seth
and Oliver have not yet responded. I

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hope Matt Rife is okay, to
be honest. The other day, when

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I saw he did the lake cancel, I was wondering if it was one

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of those ah yeah, schedule conflicts. But it looks like something's actually up

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from NBC Chicago. Rife has postponed
eight sold out shows at the Chicago Theater,

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so major market, major theater.
According to Deadline, Rife is experiencing

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quote extreme exhaustion symptoms and has been
advised to halt performing a statement reads On

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the way to a recent show in
Indiana, Matt experienced exhaustion symptoms and nearly

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fainted heading to the venue. Matt
is currently under advisement from his medical team

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to take immedia time off from touring
for two weeks. Interesting to me there

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that the quote is third party and
not from Matt. I do hope he's

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okay. Nicky Glazer's recent special Someday
You'll Die has two million viewers on both

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the streaming version of HBO and the
mothership HBO Max, putting on track to

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be the largest streaming audience for comedy
special in HBO. To Max History,

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congratulations, you know be better if
it was particularly great special. But I'm

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sure I'll get complaints from that online. I don't like every special. It's

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okay, Chris Ostrata tweets on Monday, I got pulled over being on my

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phone when the cop came back with
my license in reag he said, you're

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the guy from the full. Astrata
says yep. The cop asked when the

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season three come out. Astrada says
it got canceled and then shares this detail

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it got weird, and the cop
said, sorry about the ticket. I

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wonder if it hadn't been canceled.
La Times spoke to Nick Swartzen. He

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talked about comedy in the late nineties, not quite the big business it is

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right now. Nick said, when
I started, everybody was like, oh,

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comedy's dead. That was after the
eighties had such a major comedy boom.

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I was making no money. There
was no internet. My family was

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poor. I was raised by single
mother for the most part, and it

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was like we had to do one
nighters and biker bars for one hundred bucks.

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We had nothing. I always tell
kids that, and I feel like

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I'm a caveman talking about making fire. They'll complain about things like, well,

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how do I do this? I
tell them, get on YouTube and

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Instagram, make videos, make sure
it's make an ig reel and use that

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as a calling card. I used
to have to sleep in my car.

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You guys don't have to do that. There's so many venues. You just

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have to be motivated and creative.
I'm happy for young comics. It's such

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a crazy boom right now and everyone's
killing it. It's a really exciting time.

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The light time said, do you
see it as a daunting time?

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Because of the reliance on social media, Schwartz has said comedians can say whatever

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we want. You gotta commit to
it, and you gotta stand by it.

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If you're gonna put something out there, you can't pull back. Comedians

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are the last resort of just calling
stuff out. So when you try to

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censor me, I've done this for
thirty years. I don't blink an eye.

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Don't tell me what to do.
Don't tell me I can't say on

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stage. I'm gonna say some crazy
stuff and I don't give an f.

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So if you're offended, leave my
show. Why are you here? Real

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comedians double down when you tell the
class clown growing up, hey, don't

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do that. Guess what the kid's
gonna do. He's gonna go harder.

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I put a lot of pressure on
myself to make sure my shows are great

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because every time you do New Hour, you think that's your last one.

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So it's a little stressful. When
you're established. People are like I bet

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Schwartz's gonna go insane and make me
wet my vants. So that pressure is

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a little dawning to be like,
huh, I'm gonna make everyone you're an

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eight. Oh and there's more good
news. He's filming Happy Gilmore too.

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You know who stars in that one, don't? Yeah? Yeah. Nick

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is really beyond excited about that.
It's been amazing because we know each other

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so well. Like Sandler and I
clicked pretty much right away. He gave

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me the script Grandma's Boy and asked
me to rewrite it, and ever since

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I've worked with him and toured with
him, and he's one of my best

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friends. Sometimes they'll take a step
back and be like, oh, yeah,

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David Spade, Rob Schneider, nor
McDonald, these were my best friends

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and they still are because creatively,
like we get each other. I know

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what Adam is gonna like, I
know what Spade's gonna like. We're just

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all on the same page. Matthew
Rappaport shows that Batavia's comedy Vault were canceled

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amid safety concerns and planned protests form
a pro Palestinian group. These shows were

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scheduled for June sixth, through the
eighth now off the calendar. Batavia Police

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Chief Sean Maza sold NBC five that
the police department met with the Comedy Vault

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owners in regards to safety after they
were inundated with calls and emails to cancel.

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However, the police chief says the
official call to cancel came from the

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Comedy Vault. The US Palestinian Community
Network made repeated calls to cancel the show

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on social media, promising protests against
Rappaport if he had performed at the venue.

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Jewish organizations in the Chicago area strongly
condemned the decision to cancel the shows,

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calling it an infringement on rap words
free speech. Alison pure Slovan of

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the Simon Weisenthal Center said the Jewish
community feels that if it were anybody other

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than the Jews, that there wouldn't
be this kind of cancelation. Hacks has

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been picked up for season four.
I've really been enjoying season three. I

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finally got into Netflix and watched episode
two of Tires. Jean Gillis, if

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you're listening during the week, my
entire family was on Netflix all week and

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I couldn't get in. But I
finally got a chance to watch episode two.

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Liked it a lot and I wanted
to binge it, but I've been

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sleepy. I digress. Hacks is
back for season four. Sarah Aubrey,

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head of Max's Original programming, said, we congratulate hacks brilliant cast and crew.

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Hacks is a masterfully crafted comedy,
delivering laughs and sharp insights about the

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vulnerability and joy of sharing a dream. Hannah Einmender, who stars in Hacks,

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has a new special coming out June
thirteenth on Max. What's interesting to

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me about June thirteenth is it's a
Thursday, not a Saturday. Max has

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been putting the specials out on Saturday
night, and I recently commented that I

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wish they would pick a different night. Maybe they listen to me, or

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maybe I'm not sure. Is this
this is where Max's Brandon gets confusing?

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Is this a Max special which is
somehow less than an HBO special. It's

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very very confusing. This one branded
a MAX special, so I guess it's

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quote unquote lesser. The hour long
set was filmed in April at the l

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Ray Theater in La Handah covers everything
from climate change to her days as a

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competitive cheerleader shot in a cinematic style. The show is called Everything Must Go.

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We have a trailer. I'm gonna
play it for you now. I

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don't want to lead you with my
thoughts with a share on the other end.

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But there's only one joke in the
trailer, so I don't want you

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to think that I left ten other
jokes out. This is all we have

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one joke. Let's listen. When
some comedians start off their set, they

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will say something like, let me
tell you a little bit about me.

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This is my version of that.
I smoked Los Angeles chronic marrow. I

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want four plus times a day during
vital stages of my brain's development. So

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I am what scientists and doctors have
referred to in several articles and medical journals

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as ruin. I thought that was
a really long way to go for one

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joke. No, I hope this
one is okay, but I don't know

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about that. The Hollywod reporter spoke
to Hannah about Hack season four. She

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says they have started writing it.
She doesn't know what happens in it,

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and is excited as for this cinematic
comedy special. She tells us I knew

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a camera was going to be to
my right, and that was the one

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I wanted to play several direct looks
to camera. Other than that, I

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just sort of knew where my close
up camera was and where some of the

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wider angles were. We also had
some cameras following me, and I'm pretty

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physical on stage. It definitely changed
my performance filming the set. Usually I'd

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really played down on the crowd,
but I sort of had to play up

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to camera. The idea to look
directly in the camera came for the fact

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that translating the show from live to
film, I wanted to figure out a

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way to do what I do live
to the audience at home, which is

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make pointed direct eye contact with people
in the crowd. I thought that would

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be the most engaging way to mimic
what I do live on film. Very

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interesting. I'm not going to judge
until I see it. My spidy sense

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is like, hm, but maybe
that will work great. I'm not sure.

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Spoilers. You have a piece where
you connect toxic masculinity to landscape architecture

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from the forties. Where did that
come from? Hannah tells us there was

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an article in Scientific American I had
read called botanical sexism cultivates homegrown allergies.

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It explores the topic of botanical sexism, which is a hot hot issue in

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the urban forestry community. I think, she explains. I read the article

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because I have really horrific allergies and
I had a really bad experience in New

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York where my seasonal allergies are at
an all time high. I could barely

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breathe. I started a research and
the most prevalent reason that pollen counts are

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growing is because of climate change,
because as temperatures rise, trees thinks it's

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a different season basically, and they
release more pollen. Then there's the botanical

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sexism theory as well. I read
that article and joke started firing off of

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my head. That's fun, and
I will leave you with this. James

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Austin Johnson tweeted this. His version
is two minutes twenty seconds. I have

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cut this down a little bit for
pacing. He is walking through a parking

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garage and doing an impression of a
very notable politician. I'll let james words

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speak for themselves. He captioned the
tweet with Don found guilty on thirty four

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counts of trying to take down framed
photos of hot ladies from Buca to Peppo

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men's room calls general manager a discrease. Carbonar are too expensive, just peas

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and eggs. Right, here's James
Austin Johnson. When you go to a

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Buca Debeppo, there's so many wonderful
things that are on walls and that there

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are on the table. Frankly,
if you look at the Pope room,

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there is a big head of the
Pope and you should be able to play

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with it. I think like an
action figure is something you know when you

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go to collectible store and they have
so much behind glass and you can't look

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at any of it. The last
time I checked Booker Abebbo was not a

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collectible store. So we would like
to be able to take the frame photographs

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down from the men's room at Booking
to Beppo and instead what you have is

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a very disgraceful judge who has said
that you're not allowed to do that.

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Win. In fact, you should
be allowed to do that because the fun

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pictures and the carbonar is very expensive, and I think carbonaro what is that

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like four or five ingredients? Peas
a it's bacon, you know, they

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give it a different name, Italian
name, but it's bacon and I think

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some cheese, maybe a couple of
eggs, and it sounds like breakfast.

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But it's a very yummy pasta.
But they charge you so much. They're

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charging people so much, and there
was no way. It's an absolute disgrace.

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There was no way to pay for
the carbonar Our country is in decline.

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Buka de Beeppo is in decline.
The breadsticks are not as good.

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People say that. People say that
the bread's not as good. Definitely not

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very good. And that is your
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