May 26, 2026

Nate Bargatze’s The Breadwinner Gets ‘Nate Rate’ Ticket Discounts; Seinfeld’s Cars, and Golden Globes Rules

Show Notes
Transcript

Johnny Mac previews Nate Bargatze’s film The Breadwinner, describing its plot about dad Nate Wilcox juggling family life while mom Katie (Mandy Moore) goes on a Shark Tank-driven business trip, and reports efforts to make tickets cheaper via the “Nate Rate,” with AMC and possible Cinemark discounts similar to 80 for Brady (which grossed $39.4M domestic). He checks Fandango for a May 29 showing and sees few or no tickets sold, then cites Bargatze promoting the movie for all ages and a Nashville screening celebrating the city. The episode also covers Derek Stroup praising Bargatze’s influence and advocating clean comedy, with Johnny sharing related advice. Johnny highlights Jerry Seinfeld’s Airmail interview about his car addiction, dislike of electric cars, and thoughts on self-driving. He notes Ken Jeong’s Shark Week special K-pop Shark Heroes and summarizes updated Golden Globes eligibility rules for TV stand-up specials.

00:25 Nate Bargatze Movie Setup
01:05 Discount Tickets And Nate Rates
02:10 Checking Ticket Sales Live
03:16 Nate Instagram And Nashville
03:59 Clean Comedy Philosophy
05:51 Seinfeld Car Addiction Talk
08:10 Ken Jeong Shark Week Special
09:32 Golden Globes Standup Rules

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Callaroga Shark Media. No matter how many years they do

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the show, I will never learn the lesson of don't

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eat a handful of M and m's before jumping on

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the mic. The Peanuts close up your throat a little bit. Hello,

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I'm Johnny Mack with your daily comedy news. Boy, what

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an exciting week? Are you ready for Friday? I don't

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have to tell you what Friday is. That's right, Nate

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Berghatsi's The Breadwinner is out. Now. You might be saying, John,

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did Kevin James turn down this movie? And I think

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that's a reasonable question if you've seen the trailer in

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case you're not familiar. In The Breadwinner, Nate Berghatzi stars

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as salesman Nate Wilcox. Mandy Moore plays Katie, who's the

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ultimate mom. But you see when Katie's household invention leads

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to a once in a lifetime deal on Shark Tank

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and takes Katie on a prolonged business trip, wacky dad

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Nate has to figure out how to keep the house

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from falling apart because you know what's dead, So, yeah,

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we don't know how to make dinner or do laundery

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or anything. Kids soon learn that while he may not

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do it like Mom, he can figure out how to

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do it his way. Now, Nate's got friends in high places,

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including the Hollywood Reporter, who we're getting the message out

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that Nate wants to make The Breadwinner affordable for everyone

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to watch in the theater. That's right. You're not just

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gonna sit home and watch this on Netflix. You're not

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just gonna wait, I don't know six weeks till it's

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out on digital. You're gonna leave your house and go

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to the theater to go see The Breadwinner this Friday. Now,

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while studios can't dictate pricing, the Hollard Reporter tells US

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cinema operators have indicate they will treat The Breadwinner the

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same way they supported discounted pricing for showings of eighty

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for Brady. And we all know how well that did.

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How well did that do? Look it up? John Okay,

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will boxofficemojo dot com reports eighty for Brady Domestic made

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a thirty nine point four million, did another one million internationally. Anyway,

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AMC Theaters has announced the Nates rates. They did this

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on Instagram. Cinema theaters, meanwhile, may discount prices buy as

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much as twenty five percent. Pricing and availability will vary.

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You know what, I'm gonna go on like fendango right

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now and see if I can book a ticket for

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this thing. Hold on now. To be fair, I am

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doing this on May fourteenth. I don't know if you

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knew it was a holiday weekend. Sometimes I record in advance. Okay, Friday,

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May twenty ninth, I'm going to go seat at my

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local AM theater. There are shows at four and six

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forty five pm. Nothing later. All right, let's do the

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standard reserve seating close caption recliner seats six forty five.

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Let's say click, and it appears, if I'm looking at

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this map correctly, it appears they have sold two tickets

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in advance to the six forty five showing Friday for

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the Breadwinner. Now again, I recorded this like fifteen days ago,

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so it's quite possible that it's sold out by now.

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I'm gonna click on F six and F five. Oh no, no, no,

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no no. I was looking at a gap, but I'm

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going across. I can buy one, two, three, four, five, six,

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seven eight. It appears zero tickets have been sold. If

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you can buy seats F five and f six for

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eleven ninety three. We are told the prices and feeds

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include estimated at tax per ticket. But I'm not actually

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going to go see The Breadwinner. Nate Pergatsi posted on Instagram.

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It said, hello, everybody, My movie The Breadwinner is coming

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out on May twenty ninth, and I've got something very

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exciting that i wanted to let you know. So the

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Nate rate is a special kind of lower ticket price

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because we want everyone to come out to this movie.

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And John has discovered some theaters have sold zero tickets.

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This movie is for your grandparents, grandkids, aunts, uncles, friends, sister, anybody,

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your dog, cats I think would love this movie specifically,

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anybody that wants to come out. Nate did a screening

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for The Breadwinner in Nashville. Nate said, I used to

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come to this theater a lot. There's an Applebee's right

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next to here where I met my wife. We're living

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in Nashville in this movie. This celebrates Nashville. I grew

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up here. I think we get a joy when more

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people move here in a way that keeps the fabric

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of what made Nashville a city very exciting. The Breadwinner

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stroop credits in Aperghatsey with influencing his embrace of family

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friendly humor. Now interesting. I came home from volleyball the

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other night. My wife was on her phone. She goes,

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do you know comedian Derek Stroop? And it wasn't like

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do you know him? It was like do you know

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who that is? And I'm like, yeah, I thought it

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was interesting that Derek Stroop said nabrigazzy. He took me

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under his wing just a couple of years ago. This

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guy's out here selling out four shows in one weekend

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at an arena. It's twenty thousand and eighty thousand tickets

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in a weekend. But because he's completely clean, and he's

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not edgy, and he's not up there starting a revolution

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with a microphone in his hand, he doesn't get the

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outside love. Clean comedy is the way to go by far.

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I preach it to everybody that'll listen. These young comics,

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I try to save them. I will tell a story

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I've told it before. When I first met Jeff Foxworthy.

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He sat in a room with me. He explained his philosophy.

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He held his arms out I don't know, like say

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shoulder length, and he said, I used to do comedy

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and curse, you know, like everybody else does. And then

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I realized, if I work clean, I pick up the

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older people. And he stretched out one arm and the

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younger people, and he stretched out his other arm and

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implied how much bigger his audience got. Derek Stroop said,

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nobody's ever come up to me after a show and went,

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those jokes were really good, man, but if you would

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occur a little bit, you could have sent us over

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the top. Everybody goes thanks for being clean. It was

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a really fun show. That feels good to have a

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product that travels, and everybody's excited to see now. You know,

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if you listen to this show, you know I try

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and keep it clean. Sometimes with the clips, I have

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to let a naughty word or two through, and I

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kind of don't like to do that, but sometimes this

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is just to keep the integrity of what was said.

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But myself, I try not to curse on the show,

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and you'll hear me use words like stuff. I also

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teach my college students who are younger producers, putting yourself

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in that box is a better creative way to go.

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I always quote mister the Rock, Queen the Rock at Johnson,

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I will use a pseudo swear word here. The Rock

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doesn't call somebody an asshole. The Rock calls somebody a Drabbroni. Hey,

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that guy's a jabbroni, And Jabbroni is just a much

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funnier word than just saying that other awful word that

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I just said. So I think that's always a good

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thing to do. Jerry Seinfeld said, I don't enjoy that

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many things, you know. I like watching baseball games, and

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I like driving cars, and I like comedy, and that's

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about it. He was speaking to Airman about his car

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addiction and why Jerry will never get an electric car. Jerry,

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how many cars do you have? I don't know. I

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always say it's an amount that if you looked at

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you would not say this makes sense. Air Mil asked Jerry.

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I don't know about you, but as I get older,

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I wonder who needs so many cars? Jerry said, Well,

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we could spend the whole segment discussing that word need,

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which is really difficult to define. It's an interesting word

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in terms of a car collection. Only really crazy car guys.

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We'll talk about do I need one of these? And

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the other guy knows what they're talking about. It's interesting

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to me that there are quite a few cars that

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I'm totally emotionally attached to, and there's quite a few

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that I'm not. I still like them and I like

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having them. But some of them you bond too, some

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of them you don't. Jerry says his car collection began

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around nineteen ninety one, when my TV series was picked

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up for its first very small order. Was that nineteen

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ninety one. I'm not gonna say that feels like five

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minutes ago to me, but uh yeah, that's college Boy

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time flies, Jerry said. I think four episodes. Jerry, you

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know was four episodes? Don't say you think you know

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how many episodes? Come on, dude. That was when I

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first acquired some money I did not need. I bought

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annineteen fifty eight Porscha three fifty six speeds are out

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of Wichita. I didn't really know anything about older Porsches,

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but I just thought, well, this car is a nice line.

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So I also thought, I'm sure you could never drive

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a car like this on the street. It must be ridiculous,

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And I ended up using it as my daily driver

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in LA for years on end. Really sorry, I sold it.

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I believe there's no car you've ever owned that you

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don't regret selling that. If you could have every car back,

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assuming it was financially possible, you would do it. You'd

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want every single one. This is a good interview because it's,

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you know, different stuff. You don't hear Jerry talk about

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this stuff. He said, I remember the very first time

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I became aware of the Yoshido Matsuda collection in Japan,

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two hundred cars. I saw this and went, this is

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one insane human being. I got the book of his collection,

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and then I became that guy. I never really had

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any problems with addiction except this. Selling cars can be

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very exciting too. It's pretty clear that cars coming and

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going seems to stimulate some receptor in the brain. For

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people that are genetically inclined, it's powerful stuff. As for

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electric cars, Jerry said, I'm not interested in electric cars

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at all. Anybody else wants to do it, that's fine.

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I think it's a big stupid virtue signal. Look at me,

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I'm saving a planet. Yeah, what about the lithium, it's

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all bs. What about automated self driving cars? Dray said,

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I always tell my kids that their kids will say

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to them, you mean, when you grew up, they would

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let people just drive at any speed and steer the

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car themselves. Didn't they just crash and kill themselves constantly.

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This is fun. Ken Jung is getting involved with Shark Week.

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It's K Pop Shark Heroes. You see. You take Shark

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Week and you drop K Pop Demon Hunters on top,

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and you get K Pop Shark Heroes. The special stars

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Ken Jung and the woman who is the singing voice

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of character Zoe Casehanot, a big K Pop Demon Hunters

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fan like me, I'm not at all I just learned

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as I'm telling you the sentence, Ken Jung voices Bobby,

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the agent manager of the K Pop Demon Hunters, who

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knew the official description for K Pop Shark Heroes is

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after a recent series of shark encounters off the Korean Peninsula.

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Actor and comedian Ken Jung, We're just dropping the doctor part.

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The guy went to medical school. I'm gonna revise your copy.

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Actor and comedian doctor Ken Jung is determined to reshape

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the perception of sharks across East Asia and around the

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globe by Zoe. Ken is on a mission to launch

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a bold, one of a kind public awareness campaign that educates, empowers,

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and shifts the narrative around these oceanic creatures using the

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power of K pop. I Love It Oh. Like most

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press releases, there's credits here. Jung is best known for

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playing Leslie Chow in all three The Hangover movies, as

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well as Ben Cheng in Community Hows six Seasons in

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a movie Coming Along Everybody by the Way. His other

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prominent credits include Knocked Up, Crazy, Rich Asians and The

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Mass Singer, on which he's served as a judge since

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season one. In twenty nineteen, to entertain myself, the Golden

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Globes have updated the eligibility if you want to win

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a Golden Globe for stand up comedy performance on television.

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Here are the rules. Are you ready? Rule number one,

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Performers are eligible for performances of traditional stand up comedy

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of at least thirty consecutive minutes aired other than roles

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in television series, limited series, anthology series, or motion pictures

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made for television. I'll roughly translate that your special has

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to include thirty minutes of stand up okay. Rule number two.

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streaming and pay preview cable. To be eligible for a

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Golden Globes' award, television programs must be released on a

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recognized media platform. Individual social media accounts do not qualify,

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all right, So translating there, it's got to be on

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like real TV. You can't just put it on like

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Johnnymack dot com and submit it. Okay, that's fair enough.

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Number three. Only programs first aired or made available for

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viewing on demand in the United States during the qualifying

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year are eligible. Interesting first aired, so like I don't know,

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say you were Ricky Gervais and the BBC gave me

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a lot of money. It has to air in the

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US first to be eligible for a Golden Globe. That's weird.

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I don't really care. I just find it weird. And

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that is your comedy news for today. I will see

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you tomorrow.