Dec. 24, 2024

Nate Bargatze's Netflix Special Your Friend, Nate Bargatze out today

Show Notes
Transcript

In this episode, Johnny Mac delivers daily comedy news, highlighting Nate Bargatze's latest Netflix special, where Nate humorously discusses family life and school career days. The episode also covers Nate's personal insights from his Wall Street Journal piece and his journey in comedy, entertaining commentary from Dane Cook about his return to films and voiceover work, and Leanne Morgan's touring experiences. The show wraps up with a fun segment on holiday movie favorites and a celebrity Uber fantasy lineup featuring Johnny’s 'Mac Pack'.

00:00 Introduction and Daily Comedy News
00:16 Nate Bargatze's New Netflix Special
01:40 Nate's Personal Stories and Career Journey
03:41 Dane Cook on Movies and Voiceover Work
04:48 Leanne Morgan on Touring Life
06:00 Caleb's Favorite Holiday Movie and Celebrity Uber
07:05 The Mac Pack takes an Uber

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Callaroga Shark Media.

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A quick reminder of this program takes no days off.

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I will have an episode for you tomorrow and every

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day seventies a week. Daily Comedy News. Hi, I'm Johnny

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Mack with the aforementioned daily Come News. Nate Burgetzi has

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his new special at on Netflix Today. Nate discusses wanting

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a second dog, how much pizza to order for Guys Night,

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and how his wife is the responsible one. There is

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a trailer, let's listen.

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My wife, she runs everything, but I do do my

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own laundry. One day, I was like driving home and

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it popped in my head and I was like, all right,

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I'm bringing that up. Can I bring it up? That day?

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I was like, I'm sure there will be a time

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where we're be in some fight. I'll be losing this fight,

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and then I may not just come. I'm like, I

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do my own laundry. I went to career day for

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my daughter's school, so I was hoping to sit at

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a table alone. They put me at a table with

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a surgeon, which I think they did it on purpose,

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almost to show the kids here's the difference between reading.

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They asked him, how long did you go to school

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to be a surgeon. You know, he's like fifty four

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years or whatever. It's like them, and they asked me,

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They're like, how long to be a comedian. I was like,

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you're good now, so look finish elementary school and make

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their parents happy. But then I'd get out and get

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after it.

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Nate recently wrote a piece for The Wall Street Journal

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wrote it himself under the title Nate Forgets He isn't

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here to hurt your feelings. Nate writes, in class I

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was funny, but I wasn't loud of crazy. My side

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comments were always hushed so teachers wouldn't hear them. I

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didn't want to be disruptive or hurt their feelings. All

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of this was my way of fitting in and standing out.

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By my senior year, I managed to win the award

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for her most school Spirit. I didn't win class clown.

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I came in second. I wonder who won. Growing up,

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I watched my dad do his magic tricks. He practiced

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them on me, so I knew how they were done.

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I thought he was cool. My father was sensitive, like

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Robin Williams in Patch Adams. My mom is very funny,

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more like me in terms of setting up jokes. Dad

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is more slapstick in his delivery. But what I always

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admired is how we made fun of himself. He taught

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there's nothing funnier than making yourself part of the punchline.

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I started performing when I was around eleven, and skits

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that my dad and his friend wrote at church. They

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created these simple rural characters, Ned and Jed I joined,

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dressed nerdy with suspenders and say something dumb. What I

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love most was the audience's laughter. In high school, I

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didn't do well, but I love being there. I was

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homecoming king for a year book. We listened to where

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we thought me ten years and I joked playing in

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the NBA, But that actually happened. I played for my

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church in the Nashville Baptist Association, so technically it was

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the NBA. He then writes about his career. I'll skip

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to the comedy part. One day I told a guy

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at work, another guy we worked with, want to do

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some ipprofits someplace called Second City in Chicago, and talk

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to the other guy and we went ipent eight weeks there,

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and I learned that improv wasn't a good fit. Instead,

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I took a stand up class at Jim Rouse's Comedy

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College in Chicago for graduation in two thousand and three.

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The teacher took us to a bar where we all

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had our first stand up experience. We did well since

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the audience knew we were just starting out. My turning

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point was two thousand and eight when I was booked

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on Comedy Central Live at Gotham on Conan, and at

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the Montreal Comedy Festival. My first Netflix special was in

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twenty seventeen. Today I lived with my wife Laura and

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our daughter Harper and Nashville. We moved into our home

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in twenty fifteen. I loved that it was in a

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cul de sac with no through traffic. We have a

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big backyard and lost of space. Inside. We have an

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open living room, dining areaan kitchen where we all hang out.

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You could see everyone at once, so you don't have

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to go searching for any family members. Boston Magazine spoke

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to Dane Cook and asked Dane hay he missed doing film.

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It's been a while since you were in a movie.

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Dane said, I'm gearing up to do one now. It's

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first movie I've done in probably ten twelve years. I

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love comedy. I'm always going to do that, but I

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love the collaborative process of film. But for the most part,

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the stuff I was being sent was either really derivative

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of what I'd already done or just really watered down.

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I was like, Okay, I could make a million bucks

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and do the movie, but then my fan's gonna be like, dude,

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what the F is this? Dane was asked if voiceover

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work is the easiest pay day ever. Dane said, it's

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the most convenient payday. I wouldn't say it's easy. I

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was working on planes, and it was especially tricky because

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I was replacing an actor who had been fired. John

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Lassiter thought my voice had the boyish whimsy he wanted.

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The amount of work that went into doing and right

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and giving those animators what they needed was a lot

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more work than I thought. So, yeah, you're rolling into

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your pajamas and there's no hair and makeup. But after

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that first take, you very quickly start to realize this

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isn't just about putting on a cute voice. You gotta

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land it, and it's a really really intricate work. Dane Cook,

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what's your biggest personal extravagance. Dane said, I turned into

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a bit of a sneaker head. Over the past couple

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of years, podcasting became so in vogue that I realized

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you can't go on a podcast with the same sneakers

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every time. So I started buying a new pair every time,

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and I think I probably have about two hundred pairs

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now in my closet. Leanne Morgan told Movie Guide what

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it's like to tour with her. She said, I'm always

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dragging a big suitcase they're an airport, and then getting

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in a rental car and going to a theater, going

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a hotel, putting on a girdle, go to a theater.

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Do all that just hard on your body and hard

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on your mind. Then you got to get there and

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you want it to be the best for your audience,

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you know. Then you got to get up so you

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can be the best and give it everything you got.

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And then you try to go to bed and sitting

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in a hotel room staring at a space. I don't

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want to sound like I'm not grateful, because I'm so grateful,

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but I think two things can be true at the

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same time time out. I've been using that phrase a

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lot this past year. Many things can be true at once.

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People just too often discuss things in absolutes. Yes, Leanne says,

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you can have this wonderful thing happen, which is everything

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I've ever dreamed of and bigger than I ever dreamed

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of to be, but it's so hard. A partner in

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Turla sounds like me. When she travels, she says she's

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really sensitive to noise, and sometimes at airports and airplanes

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there's so much unpredictable noise that sometimes she won't to

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have anything playing in her noise canceling headphones. I'll just

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put them on to create another layer between me and

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the world. I do that all the time, she says.

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I used to have a pair of Bow's headphones, and

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those were on their last legs. I got a new

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brand going down one of those internet wormholes where it's

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just looking for some more eco friendly headphones, and I

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ended up on some back alley website. The ones I

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have now don't even have a logo on them. The

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Cut asked Caleb Hero, Hey, what's your favorite holiday movie?

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Caleb said, a Christmas movie that a lot of people

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don't think as of being a Christmas movie. He said,

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step Mom, Julia Roberts, Susan Sarana and you know it,

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You'll sob for three days straight. It's one of the

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saddest movies ever made. It's so effed up. Julia is

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Pete nineties Julia. She's wearing leather jackets like it's her job,

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and in many ways it is. She's wearing a little

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beret sunglasses, She's looking Sheikh as hell, and she's the

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step mom and Susan Saranda is the real mom. There's

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a Christmas element to it. It makes me sob. It's one

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of my mom's favorite movies. The cut asked him, all right,

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you're hopping in an uber. You can bring five celebrities

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dead or alive. Who's coming. That's a fascinating question. I

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might have to ponder that question myself, but not right now.

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He says, I'm gonna go with Natalie Mains, the lead

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singer of the Chicks. That's my girl. I love that band.

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John Goodman, I love him and everything. And he went

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to my college, Missouri State shout out go Beers. Back

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in the day on Roseanne o g fat. John Goodman

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was so hot and so funny. Whatsn't I'm gonna put

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in there? Frank Ocean, I need to understand what's going

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on with him. I love his music. He's sort of

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in a where he's refusing to put any out. I

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want to be his friend or more if he's open

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to it. Frank, hit me up. All right, I've kind

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of as I was reading that, thought about my list.

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I should go with the guys from the Macpack. Now,

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if you're a new listener, what's the Macpack? These are

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my celebrity friends. When I become a big time celebrity,

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this is who I'm gonna roll with. It's a bunch

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of people. So the original macpacker is Michael Chicklist. John,

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do you have a man crush on Michael Chicklist? I might,

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It's okay. I met him a couple times in real life.

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He's cool. I like the guy. He's in the Macpack,

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so he's in my uber. I think Andy Samberg also

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in the Macpack, seems like a good time, so we'll

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bring him. That's two. Now it's dead or alive? Do

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I invite like Jim Morrison just to make the trip

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interesting Carlin, so we can talk comedy and I can

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be like, hey, George, what do you think of YouTubers?

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And that's four? Can I time travel. Can I bring

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Peak and White PD Blue? Kim Delaney just, you know,

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so we could talk about the show. Maybe she's wearing

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a turtleneck. I don't know how this works. It's Christmas Eve.

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Why don't you shut up? Okay, all right, very Christmas.

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I'll be back in the morning on tape. Well, you're

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always on tape on it's a podcast, yes, but definitely

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on tape tomorrow. See then,