July 12, 2025

Nate Bargatze - is he starting to lose the plot?

Show Notes
Transcript

Nate Bargatze is attached to a new movie project 'Fantasy Camp', Roy Wood Jr.'s interview about his love for baseball, and Kumail Nanjiani's return to stand-up comedy. The show also highlights the Asian American-focused comedy event Belly Laughs and its impressive lineup. Additionally, there's an off-Broadway play centered on SNL's early days and a unique SNL-themed Lego set.

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Callaroga Shark Media.

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Hey there, I'm Johnny Mack with your daily comedy news.

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This is the final weekend where I can actually enjoy

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the summer before I start freaking out that summer's almost over.

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I know I'm a crazy person, but like today, I

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can go to the beach. We'll be like, gohs plenty

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of summer left. Starting next weekend, which toly nineteenth, I'll

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be like, oh, it's only two left in July. That's August,

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and I gotta start teaching again. That's limbord. Oh, I

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got I'm a crazy person. I'm good from like Memorial

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Day till today and then I got crazy. Naprigassy looks

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like he's jumping in another movie. Deadline reporting the Amazon

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MGM studios have acquired Fantasy Camp. Fantasy Camp follows a

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group of friends at a make or break moment in

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their lives, as they had to Dwyane Wade's Fantasy Camp

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in Miami to relive their basketball dreams. But what starts

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as fun becomes a battle for pride, purpose, and one

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last win. Is Kevin James not available? This sounds terrible anyway.

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Nprighassy is looking to star in it. With Nate Land

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Entertainment producing Nate Nate, Nate Nate. Don't mess it up.

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You got it going good. You gotta go do SNL

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once a year. Learn from Alaney, do sn OL once

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a year. To your Christmas special. Do stand up. You

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got it good. You're gonna mess it up here. I'm

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telling you, We're gonna come back in ten years and

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I'm gonna be doing a story going. Remember when Aprigatsy

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was going to build an amusement park in Nashville. I

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see this coming. You got it good, don't mess it up.

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Roywood Junior spoke to GQ. They were curious how Roy

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got the baseball bug. Roy said, f word, bro, that's

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a good question. When I was in Memphis, my mom

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put me in baseball and I took to it. I

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thought it was fun. I wasn't good at it. I

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was very terrible at it, but I liked it. Then

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we got to Birmingham in the fourth grade and I

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joined the Little League. It was with a lot of

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my classmates. I had the right coaches, and I became

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excited about it. At the same time, I was going

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after school care like I did in Memphis. I got

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to walk home, the Cubs came on at one or

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two in the afternoon. I would come home and sign

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to see that little last bit of the Cubs game.

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Bro.

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I'd sit there, no homework, no nothing, just sitting there

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with a Rice Crispy treat watching Andre Dawson. I just

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fell in love with it, man, right down to the

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broadcast teams and all that. And then I hit a

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second wave when I became a parent. Yeah, I remember

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when baseball. The Cubs were on everywhere, the Braves were

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on everywhere. There were day games. The World Series sometimes

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played in the afternoon, and kids could see it. They

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even chased me. I was a big baseball fan, and

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they just kept playing. Like remember the Cubs finally won

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the World Series, but there was a rain delay, and

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that happened at twelve thirty in the morning. I couldn't

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even bother to stay up for that. Now, you know

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what they should have done that night. They should have

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called a suspended game and then come back the next

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night to play the tenth inning in primetime at like

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eight Eastern with a Cub That would have done a

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monster rating. But baseball doesn't know how to market anyway.

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I digress. GQ was curious, what's the scouting report on

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roy Wood junior. Royce said, great locker room guy, lot

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of heart, first baseman. They can't hit for Bauer, but

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will ouhustle anyone on the field. Fairly slow, excellent glove man.

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The ball wasn't getting past me. I could, scoop. I

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could do all that on my best day. I'd be

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a late inning defensive replacement when we're defending a one

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run lead in September during a Pennant race. I'm defensively dominant,

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but a liability at the plate. Sounds like the eighty

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six Red Sox could have used him too soon. GQ

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was curious, could you play corner outfield if you need to?

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Roy said, I don't know, man, I'm not getting a

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no gappers, I don't have the wheels, and my horse

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can't get there. I thought this was interesting. He says,

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my son's not playing organized baseball. I'm not forcing him

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in any sports, but we do a little bit of

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batting practice, playing catch. But to me right now, baseball,

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much like chess and legos, is a tool to teach

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what I believe is very pertinent life lessons. The main

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one in baseball is the idea that you can't do

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it alone. But a lot of time it's just up

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to you, and sometimes you're just gonna suck. Sometimes that

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picture your face is going to be way better than

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you and there's nothing to get you about it.

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Ah.

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I wish I were in LA this weekend. I have

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some family out there and they're not out there this weekend.

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If I were, it, head over to LA Live for

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Belly Laughs. Belly Laughs is celebrating Asian American culture by

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combining food and comedy. Take a look at the lineup

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in a second, but they liners include Hassan Minhaj coming

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on on Jehannny Margaret Show, Joe Kimbooster, and Cherry Kola.

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More than thirty comedians, three stages, two days. But there's

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also a food lineup featuring food from twenty restaurants across LA.

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Remember during the pandemic, when you know there wasn't anything

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to talk about, and I'd wind up going on these

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deep dive reading menus to you. Remember I used to

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do that sometimes. That was because George Lopez opened to

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George Lopez Tacos. I remember George Lopez Tacos. He was

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all in about that and I kind of forgot about it.

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I don't even think the url is still alive. I

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think I checked this one other time. Let me do

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that now, George Lopez Tacos. It's coming up on next bite.

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Let me click. That's taking me to visit the restaurant website. Yeah,

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now this is taking me to Somebody has gotten a

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hold of Lopez Tacos dot com. And apparently the text

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on the website is in Thai. I had to throw

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it into Google Translate to see what it even says.

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And apparently what it says on Lopez Tacos dot com

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in Thai language translated to English. Driving on the road today,

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no matter how careful drivers are, how much they prevent

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accidents or unexpected events, even though it's a good thing,

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there's still a chance that accidents are unexpected events will

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happen as usual because they may come from fellow road

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users or events that you cannot control. So George Lopez

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is so far in on Lopez Tacos that he didn't

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even bother to keep the url. Apparently, I digress. Johnny

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macbot here, John forgot to record the lineups. Forgive my pronunciations,

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after all, I'm an Ai Today, Hassan Minhaj Kumeil Nanjianni,

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Zarna garg Nimesh Patel, Johnny Park, Andrea Jin, Jason Chenni,

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Irene Two, Dylan Adler, Kieran Diol, Sabrina Wu, James, Tom Tien, Tron,

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Robin Tran, Tatiana Gucci and Di Loo. Tomorrow Hassan minhadj

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Margaret Cho, Bobby Lee, Joel Kim Booster, Hari Kondabolu, as

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If Ali, Joe Wong, Jenny Yang, Helen Hong, Fumi abe

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is My Alutfee, Aaron chen Nori Reid, Paula Gatta, Beautie

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shit Yarma, and Vicky Wang. Now back to human Johnny

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mack el eight Simes caught up with Kamail nan Gianni

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about the Belly Laughs Festival. He's happy returning to stand

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up after doing some films. He said, I miss being

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good at something I wasn't good at anymore. I used

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to have so much confidence in this. Now it feels

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like I'm a different person, and so in the strikes,

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the Hollywood strikes, I was like, I want to try

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and see if I still love it. Cherry Cola says,

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I find being a stand up comedian as a superpower

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stepping on to a set for sure. I think because

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we're good at crowd work. We have a quickness that

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on every actor has. Cherry Cola says that after being

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the subject of racial jokes for decades, the best way

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to counteract the sting of the stereotypes is for Asian

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comedians to write jokes about their cultures that help their

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communities laugh. She says, I don't know if it's just

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society trying to define us or put us in a box,

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but it's almost like we just recently got permissional laugh

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at ourselves because we've been the punchline for years in

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the media, and now it's a chance to exale because

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this is a safe space. It's kind of what Belly

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Laughs is giving. Johnny Mack, you never mentioned Pete Davidson.

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I know well. The UK festival fright Fest has revealed

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its twenty twenty five lineup. The event will open with

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the Pete Davidson horror film The Home Freight Fest August

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twenty first through the twenty fifth. Vulture has some spoilers

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for the plots for the rest of the season of

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It's Always Sonny in Philadelphia, So if you don't want

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to know what's coming Skip ahead. I can probably do

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this in under a minute, so I want you to

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hit skip skip anyway. The rest of the season, according

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to Vulture, includes the Gang seriously engineering strangers, objectifying women,

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hosting an orgy, breaking up a happy family, and harassing

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Cricket and the waitress. And later in the season It's

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always Sunny. We'll cross over with The Golden Bachelor. Broadway

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World reported on a cast and call for an off

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Broadway show called Not Ready for Prime Time. This set

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backstage at SNL's early days. That sounds pretty cool. The

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SNL movie it was really good. The production self describes

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as a play about an American institution run by people

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who belong in an institution. They're looking for people to

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play Lorne Michaels, Dan Ackroyd, John Belushy, Chevy Chase, Jean Curtin,

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Garrett Morris, Bill Murray, Lorraine Newman, and Gilda Radner. Late

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Nighter points out since Bill Murray is a character in

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this that it will take place in a bigger timeline

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than the Saturday Night movie did. Broadway World says Not

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Ready for Prime Time will debut October fifth, scheduled for

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a limited run through December fourteenth at a yet to

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be announced theater. Staying with SNL. Apparently people are making

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SNL Lego. There's a website called Lego Ideas. On it

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you can pitch potential Lego sets that are voted on

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by Lego officionados, and sometimes Lego makes one. A new

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submission is called Live from New York It's Saturday Night.

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It's actually the second Saturday Night Live themed Lego. This

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new design includes seven Lego minifigures representing the original cast

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from nineteen seventy five. The creator says a detachable staircase

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could be used to pose your minifigures, as in the

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Face Name Is cast photo taken on opening night, eighteen

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hundred and thirty five pieces. The set includes glowing the

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dark elements to simulate studio lighting. If you want to

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support the idea and get Lego to actually make this thing,

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go to the Lego Ideas site. And that is your

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stick around for this interview our sister.

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I'm going to bring forward and yours and give it

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to you now. And he said, oh wow, that's that's great.

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Thank you. That's so generous of you, Carl. That's great.

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But his wife, my sister in law, went ballistic. She said,

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this is too much money, this is wrong. I don't

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want anything to do with and stormed out of the room.

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And I thought, well that's not what I expected. Oh

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my god. So I realized from that that this was

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not an easy thing to do. So I learned a

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lesson from that, and I knew that I had to

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do this authentically. I had to do it right, otherwise

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it was not.

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Going to work.

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So that happened. And then the third thing that happened

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was that I was looking at my financial statements and

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I had more money ain't there than I was really using.

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It was sitting there. I mean, it was growing, making

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profits and so forth, but it wasn't being used. I

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wasn't using it for me. I wasn't using it for

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things that I really cared about, not for my people.

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So I thought, well, if I have all this money, now,

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why should I wait until I die? Why don't I

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bring it forward? And then, you know, it was a

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that's what finally started this, and I said, well, I'll

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Now. Let's back up just a bit. Tell us a

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little bit about your new book. What is the Happiness Experiment.

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Well, this is a recording of the real events with

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real people who I decided that I would bring forward

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the inheritance the money I had for them in my

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will and made it a prequest. So it was a

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chunk of money that they were going to get. Well,

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they were still young enough to enjoy it, and I

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was still alive to see it happening. So I saw

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what they were doing. So when I sat down with them,

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I talked about money and happiness and how one can cognect.

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And I said, look, I'm going to bring this forward

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to give it to you, but what I want from

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you is a plan so you use this money, so

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it's really a big benefit for you. I don't want

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this to overwhelm you. And they said what kind of plan?

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I said, I want a happiness plan, and they said,

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a happiness plan?

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So so you know, nobody has seems to have a

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happiness plan, but the most important plans you can get

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and it doesn't have to be very complex. What is

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it that makes you happy? What values do you want

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to pursue? You know, what goals and dreams do you have,

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and you can pursue them. And so I got them

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to write a happiness plan. And then when I saw

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the plan, I gave them all the money all at

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one time, and so then they took it and I

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watched them with their plan. I saw all their plans,

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what they did, and how they became happier. And so

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you know, that had to be written about so because

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I wanted other people to see what they did so

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that they too could do the same thing.

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Which prequest is the most unique one you've come across.

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Well, it was a very very painful and sad story

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because two dear friends of mine had a beloved daughter

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and killed. She happened to be eight months pregnant at

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the time, so that killed the granddaughter too, and also

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their daughter. They were totally wiped out, devastated, and they

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died emotionally. They had decided that they could never be

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happy again. It would be wrong to be happy. They

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didn't deserve to be happy because their darling daughter had

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been killed. Tremendously painful, awful, awful story. So they were

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grieving six years later and I met with them and

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I told them how much they had added to my

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life and how much I was so grateful to them,

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and that I wanted to express the gratitude, and I

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put them in my will and they could accept that.

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and they said, oh no, no, we can't accept it.

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worked and I said, look, I'm leaving it open. So

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several months later, I think his wife persuaded him to

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do it. Actually, you know, and you know, so they said, okay,

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we'll do it, because if we're going to wait until

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you die, why not do it now. And they did

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it and it wasn't the money. Interesting Now, they said,

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it was the coaching that made the big difference, that

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changed their mind set from being so negative. You know,

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we'll never be happy again. We don't deserve to be happy.

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you know it can be you can be happy again.

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And now you cannot believe what these people. They're traveling

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all over the world. They're in Tahiti right now. They

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climbed Killamungarrett. These people are loving life. And it was

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a major change that is one of the most heartfelt,

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wonderful results of the And in a sense, she said,

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the wife said, this prequest changed or saved my life

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because we were no longer living, we were dead, and

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this brought us back to life.

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have I have, you know, when you're in those depths.

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way out of it. And you know, often it looks

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like there isn't a way out of it, and you know,

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sometimes you want to map right, and it looks like

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this concept could be a good map for you if

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it sounds like it was for these folks. I always

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like to end interviews by asking, is there anything that

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I didn't ask that I should have?

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How can my listeners benefit from this book? What should

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they do? What would be good for them? And so

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I'll answer that question. First off, think about happiness, Think

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about being happiness. Do you deserve to be happy? And

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you can be happy, but you have to make it

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as a choice. I'm going to increase my happiness just

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that if you make that realistically, I want to and

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I'm going to increase my happiness that choice, and then

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talk to people about it. Talk to a husband or

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wife or a girlfriend or a friend, a therapist or coach,

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talk to somebody about it and say, look, I'm made

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the decision that I want to be happier, and I'm

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like you to help me create a happiness plan and

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then work on it. And it's not that hard, but

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it is a but it is challenging, but it's a

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wonderful exercise. And if they do it, I guarantee they

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will increase their happiness. I guarantee it.

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Carl Barney is the author and the book is called

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The Happiness Experiments, A Revolutionary Way to Increase Happiness. Carl,

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where can people find the book?

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Wherever books are sold? And it's now available for pre

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order from Amazon, and they can go to the Happiness

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Experiment dot com and they can pre order it there,

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and I hope they will.

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Carl, thanks so much of the time. I really appreciate it.

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Yeah, thank you, Dan. It's been fun.