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Caloroga Shark Media.
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Hey there, I'm Johnny Mackin Mike Chisholm, the host of
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The Letterman podcast, and we are friendly and sometimes we
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do crossover episodes. Mike and I recently did a session
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where we talked about things for like two and a
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half hours, and I chopped it up into pieces, and
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here Mike and I were discussing the state of comedy
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as twenty twenty five came to an end.
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It's been an interesting year in all sorts of areas,
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but in comedy, I don't know, man, I just feel
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like the genre and the industry that is stand up
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has never had a bigger, more successful year. But in
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that it's also felt never's felt as divided as it's felt.
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But you're the guru when it comes to this stuff.
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What do you think about that assertation? Yeah, it's interesting.
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I just saw a piece on Vulture suggesting that comedians
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need to get more angsty and fight more and believing
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as a pot cast host, I love when the comedians
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are battling. You know, you and I should start award
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just for the for the clicks. But let's do it.
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You know. On the other hand, if you look at it,
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what's really working is the Nate Berganzis of the world
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doing the clean comedy, family stuff. You know, Sebastian manaskalgo
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that style of comedy. But then at the other end
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you've got the the canceled of Ricky Gervais and Shane
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Gillis and Dave Chappelle. They're all canceled and they're never
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going to be able to speak again. They're selling out Arenas. Ye,
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you've got that other wing of austin Ish and the
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Chraysiers and the Rogans and the Sigoras. You've got all
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that going on, so it's sort of fractured. It's tremendously successful.
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I'm all over the place. When they did the Top
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Communities of the Century, Dane Cook wasn't mentioned. Has everyone
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forgotten what a huge comic Dane was and Dane selling
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out the Garden was a statement with three exclamation points.
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But now you know, I love them, But we're all
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sells out the Garden. Everybody sells out the Garden, so
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you know something has changed there. The business is bigger
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than ever. A lot of that is Netflix driven, for sure,
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but yeah, it's just a weird time. But there's comedy
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for everybody.
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Right, Oh, definitely, Like, but thank you for mentioning Dane,
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because I remember back in the day. It's interesting that
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you talked about all the different facets of comedy, and
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I remember how big of a deal it was when
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dice Clay sold out Madison Square Garden, Like that was
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a huge, huge, when when when dice Clay was, oh
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my god, Andrew dice Clay is doing an arena, you know,
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and then you know, you'd hear about it every once
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in a while. But then you got Dane who comes
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in in the early party and I okay, fine, the
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Billboard list was of the twenty first century, the top
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twenty five comics of the twenty first century. Well, I'm sorry,
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but if there was a guy that brought in comedy
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and elevated it at the beginning part of the century
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in the early two thousand, it was Dane. It was
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a big deal, the tour that he went on, that
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run he went on, and I mean, you know, it's
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different than Kennyson, but it's similar to Kinnyson in the
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sense that there's this huge thing that happens and it
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inspires all of these people, and then a couple of
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years later, you know, the star fades and it goes
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across and and and and and now we're here in
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twenty twenty five and we're debating whether he should be
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even be on the list. Well, to me, of course
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he should be on the list, but some people have
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short memories when it comes to this stuff.
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I suppose I have a strong opinion on My theory
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is that the stylized comedians and Dan Cook did have
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a style to him, the physicality and the way he spoke,
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you know, maybe not full on character like a dice,
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but it's the brick wall comedians that tend to last.
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The Bill Burrs, the Dave Chappelle is just a guy
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talking in front of a brick wall. We could put
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an arena, we could do with theater in the round shore,
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but it's the traditional George Carlin esque stand up of
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I'm gonna stand here and just tell you what's on
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my mind. Where some of that stylized stuff we've seen
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shooting stars over the years and they come and go
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and they're they're white hot, and they have that three
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four years and then they kind of go away. I'm
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not sure Dane is full on stylized comedian to use
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the term. But you know, he was just a monster,
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a quote unquote rock star there for a while, good
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looking guy, really lighting up crowds, people quoting his material,
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and you know, you go about twenty years later and
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it's like he's forgotten somehow. It's weird.
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Now, Yeah, it's crazy that he wasn't on that list,
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like like, like, as far as I'm concerned, he ushered
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comedy into the twenty first century by making it more,
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you know, talking about the MySpace stuff and the way
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that he would use the Internet, not just in his act.
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I mean, of course his act was very very you know,
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it talked a lot about the Internet and things like that,
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but the way that he built his community was a
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blueprint for what I imagine if podcasting existed back does now.
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I mean, he would have been one of the first
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people with a podcast. He really really saw where the
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puck was going and led an entire genre in that direction.
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I just so yeah. But that being said that, the
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Billboard list was interesting. I really love I recommend everybody
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to go back and listen to the Daily Comedy News
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podcast episodes where where Johnny goes through the Top twenty
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the Billboard Top twenty five Comedians of the Century. It's
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it's it's very very good. You split up in two episodes. Again,
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bite sized, really really simple, not like this behemoth of
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a show where it's long form. I really really like
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the bite size aspect of of what it is that
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you're doing. And boy, you've got lots of stuff to
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talk about, and we could do separate shows. And we
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are going to do separate shows when it comes to this,
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because there is so much to talk about. But the
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guy who brought me into this podcasting game, David Letterman,
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has put out in the last month a whole bunch
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of new content. In fact, more content in the last
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month than I think if you add up all the
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rest of the months, I think you might be pretty close.
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Have you watched any of the new My Next Guests yet?
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I started to watch the Sandler episode, okay, and I
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really struggle. So I'm stealing from Jimmy Buffett fans here.
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There was a group of Jimmy Buffett fans who created
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Church of Buffett Orthodox Yes, And what their premise was
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was that at one point Jimmy Buffett was about, Hey,
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let's hang out at the beach and have a good time,
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and over the years, it became about product and knockoff
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Corona beer and restaurants, and I kind of want to
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form Church of Letterman Orthodox who believe in the I
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got to have a self trouble here the Testament of
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the twelve thirty. We might read the eleven thirty, and
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then the later works of David Letterman just aren't our thing.
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And boy, I just so just where my mind is.
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I was on YouTube the other night and I almost
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sent this to you, but then the clip went sideways.
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But the first few minutes of the clip were guys
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throwing stuff off a bridge onto a frozen lake, and
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I was like, yeah, that, I want more of that.
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Why isn't anyone doing that? Dave? Can you throw something
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off a bridge on a frozen lake? I want to
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watch that? And this Elder Statesman Letterman, I don't take
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away anyone's enjoyment of it. I don't take away your
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enjoyment of it. I'm glad Dave somehow has gone from
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a guy in a bad mood that doesn't interview people
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to the great interviewer. That's an interesting transformation. But those
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of us in the Church of Letterman Orthodox, I just
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want to throw stuff off a five story tower and
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have Chris Elliott do something weird and make fun of
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the whole thing not being that funny, making it funny.
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And as I've called it over the years, Establishment Letterman
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just isn't my thing. I feel bad saying this out loud,
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especially off this show that's you know, maybe some of
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your fans will be like, yes, Church of Letterman Orthodox,
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I want to sign.
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Up, Oh gosh, yeah, And I mean there are you know,
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I like the fact that our show is the size
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that it is because I can kind of look into
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the people who support the show, and you can see
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the different I can still see everything. It's like it's
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it's like when a musician is still playing in a
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in a venue that's like maybe under seven hundred people,
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they can kind of still kind of see everybody that's
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in the audience as they're playing on it. And it
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kind of feels that way. Certainly, there is a huge
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contingent of people who tolerate this show because every once
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in a while they get a beautiful itch scratch talking
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about the late night show that they enjoy enjoyed so much.
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The Church of Letterman or the Orthodox Letterman Church would Yes,
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there certainly would be a lot of members. But that
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being said, the he did transform, and I would I
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would submit that the long form, you know, skills that
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Dave has has is now showing us. Really at the
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end of the day, I think it took a career
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to build the skills that he has done. When it
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has has gotten when it comes to this stuff, I
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see him interviewing Sandler and it's it's an interesting thing.
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We'll do an entire episode once. I want to wait
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till you watch the entire episode if you can stomach it.
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Because one of the things that you talk about is
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the idea about how strong a dramatic actor Adam Sandler
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actually is as opposed to being a comedian or being
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a funny man. And and and I love the reoccurring
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bit that that appears. Whether it's a bit or not,
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I guess remains to be seen on your show where
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you talk about that. They certainly talk about it in
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the in in Dave's long form interview with them, But
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more so I think back to the days you were
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talking about, and I can remember Adam Sandler's first few
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times on Late Night, and it's really cool to watch
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Dave go back and talk to some of these people
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that he has had a TV or a showbiz relationship
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with for so long, and they can talk about some
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of those early days and things like that and add
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that as an element to the to the conversation. So
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you and I can go really deep on the Adam
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Sandler one and that'll be a lot of fun. But
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they're all good. The Mister Beast episode is good, really
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good in fact, especially for people who don't know who
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Miss Beast is, you know, biggest broadcaster on the planet.
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A lot of people still don't know who who he is.
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I didn't know who Mister Beast was other than his name,
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so it's interesting to hear Dave kind of come from
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the curiosity standpoint with him. The Michael B. Jordan episode
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very very good as well, very strong. I put that
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up there with some of the other episodes of people
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who I didn't know who they were, very very very
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very well, like they weren't super familiar with me, and
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and then you get a whole bunch of insights and
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now you look at the body of work and some
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of the things that this person has done, and it
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adds dimensions to it. And Michael's did that with me.
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But for me, the highlight of all of them was
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the Jason Bateman episode. I mean that that episode to
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me was absolutely perfect. By the way, it's not throwing
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stuff off towers, but Dave is doing silly things a
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little bit. In some of these episodes. He goes to
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a hat shop in London. He smokes a cigar for
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the first time ever. I smoked cigars because of David Letterman,
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so I thought that was really really interesting. And then
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of course at the end of the Bakman episode there's
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an arrested development thing with Ron Howard in the whole
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nine yards, and it seems fun big time is what
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it felt like to me. So anyway, there's a sum
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up of how I feel about that. We're gonna do
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post mortems, Johnny and I will do a post mortem
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on Adam Sandler. We're going to do post mortems on
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the other three episodes with the appropriate guest as well.
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Thank you for letting me monologue there for a second,
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my friend. I appreciate It's been a while since I've
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done one of these, so I needed to get that out.
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Thank you.
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Oh no, I feel bad. So I started to watch
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the Sandler one, and you know, it's fine. It's just
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that this is all about me and my sensibility. I
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was recently thinking about. So I'm going to drop a
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name that you know, unless you lived on the East
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Coast at some point that I'm not aware of, you're
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gonna have no idea what I'm talking about. But a
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section of your viewership is going to know the name
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Uncle Floyd. So Uncle Floyd had a uhchf show in
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the eighties when you know, we didn't have cable and
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