Nick Swardson speaks about incident, Letterman's NBA rule changes. Jim Gaffigan on bourbon

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Caalaroga Shark Media. Hello Chunny Mack
with your daily comedy news. Nick Swartson

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took to Instagram and took the Denver
Gazette to task. This happened last Friday,

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you may recall. Recently, Swartzen
was removed from the stage twenty minutes

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into his set. He was incoherent, according to eyewitnesses. Swartzen posted a

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screenshot of the Denver Gazette report and
commented, been a minute to address this,

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so bleeping dumb that this is news
with all that's going on in the

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world, Love my fans. I'm
sorry edibles, alcohol and altitude will happen.

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Also, I'm not the first person
to try that combo in Colorado.

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All caps good Lord Jose have been
great after and will be Love you.

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Comedians are humans like everyone. Heart
emochi. That got some social media reactions.

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One user said, hey, Nick, I'm a huge fan. One

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of the reasons this is such a
big story is because he went on Theo's

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podcast talking about how you almost died
from alcohol. We love you and we

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want you to be healthy. That's
all. Another wrote, get out,

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brother, ain't no shame someone else. The three worst hangovers in my life

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was at veil and I live in
Denver. Ten thousand feet is no joke,

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Man, totally understandable. David Letterman
was on Inside the NBA last week.

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He presented a series of ideas on
how the NBA could improve the game.

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Kenny Smith said, is this anything
like a top ten list? Letterman

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said, why would you say that? Would it be bad if it was.

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Some of the ideas include five and
ten point lines, team mascot's getting

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all foul shots on the fourth quarter. I kind of liked that one,

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and a proposal to redesign the court
to include two extra baskets. Even brought

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a diagram. Ernie Johnson asked if
Letterman did that free hand. Dave said,

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that's all computer stuff. Letterman was
on for like fifteen minutes. Here's

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like a minute or so of that
conversation. Not particularly hilarious, but I

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love a Dave. I didn't know
this was studio Jay. Yeah, yes,

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named after Ernie. No, it's
Jobson. No really, Jim Reeves,

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the late Jim Reeves was a great
video guy for us. It's name

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for him. That's lovely. So
a guy who actually put in time in

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this building. Actually, yeah,
it worked tirelessly and make the show look

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as good as it does on some
And the other thing I'm thrilled about is

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I think I heard one of you
invoke the phrase mofo, which you know

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around the house. I don't get
to use that much. You know,

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you worked with us on All Star
Weekend. You and Reggie Miller. Is

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Reggie Miller, What a sweet guy. It was a real thrill for me

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and the production crew that I worked
with or worked with me or vice versa.

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They did all the work. They
were tremendous, and everybody here.

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When I was at CBS, everybody
was It was like a minimum security prison

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and nobody was guilty, and everybody
wanted to go home. Here everyone is

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happy and they're free, and they
say they leave the middle of the night.

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You guys will be here till the
sun comes up, and everybody happy

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and laughing going on. Well.
Thirty years ago, Bill Carter wrote The

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Late Shift book, a fantastic book, and the HBO movie The Late Shift

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is pretty good. At the time
people made fun of, especially the Jay

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Leno impression. I think that movie's
fantastic. Bill Carter also has a new

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website called Late Night Her, which
I've been checking out a lot very good

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website anyway, Bill Carter said,
when I was finishing the book thirty years

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ago, I initially concluded that Dave
had won because he instantly commanded the biggest

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audiences, knocking Leno's Tonight Show from
the pinnacle of late night for the first

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sustained period in the show's history.
But then Jay regained superiority and seemingly vindicated

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NBC's decision to coordinate him, except
it never fully resolved. Letterman retained his

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elite position in the late night pantheon
while Leno piled up ratings titles. They

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could never fully escape being linked together. That is true. Looking this in

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the rearview mirror now, I feel
like Letterman did make the pantheon, and

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I feel like Leno is one of
those guys that made the Hall of Fame

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because he played a lot of years. But to be fair, hosting the

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Tonight Show, you're not supposed to
if you see young Jay Leno on Letterman

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particularly, he was edgy, and
when you sit behind the Tonight Show desk,

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you gotta kind of be more vanilla. And maybe that's why Jimmy Fallon

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is good at it and Conan struggled
a little bit. Who knows. Bill

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Carter has another book about the Second
Transition, the one involving Conan O'Brien.

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Let me tell you what that one's
called. That one I liked a lot.

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I read it on the plane to
Australia one time. That one's called

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The War for Late Night when Lena
went early and television went crazy. Also

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very good. Deadline reports that Stephen
Colbert will narrate Pope Francis's six hour audiobook.

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That book is called Life My Story
Through History that went out this week.

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The Pope has a new audiobook,
Life My Story Throughout History. He

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guess who's narrating it wrong, Stephen
Colbert. Maybe he did guess Stephen Colbert.

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Speaking of notable Catholics, Jim gaff
again has his weekly column on CBS

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News. This week, Jim wrote, part of me can't believe I'm about

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to say this, but I like
bourbon. I don't know if that means

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that I'm an old man or just
an alcoholic enjoying hard liquors. New for

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me. I've always it's been a
beer guy in the past. When a

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friend would say, let's get a
Scotch and whiskey. I think, well,

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I guess we could pretend like we're
in a Tennessee. Williams play James

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said, I decided to surprise my
wife by buying a couple bottles of bourbon.

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Don't tell me I'm not romantic.
After the cashier wrapped up the last

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bottle and bubble wrapped like with some
precious historical artifact, she casually mentioned,

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I don't know if this is a
big deal, but this bottle of bourbon

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cost eleven hundred dollars. Does it
matter only if my children expect to go

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to college. It should have been
an easy answer. Nobody needs an eleven

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hundred dollars bottle of bourbon. Haven't
gotten to this one? Yeah? It's

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Amazon Prime has Ricky Stinicky that follows
the misadventures of three loyal, yet irresponsible

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friends. They are played by Zac
Efron, Jermaine Fowler, and Andrew Santino.

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They are forced to bring their imaginary
scapegoat friend Ricky Stanicky, to life.

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They do this by hiring rock Hard
Rod, who is played by John

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Cena. Santino and Fowler did a
bunch of press. They didn't take any

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of it too seriously. Rephrasing their
comedians. They just gave joke answers to

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everything. Santino said on set,
we meaning Faler, are good friends.

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We're very different, and I think
we have all these friends in real life

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that we love as people, but
our lifestyles are extremely different. The way

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we've grown has been so different.
But at the cores that we love each

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other, we still love to have
fun together. In real life, I

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would say we're closer than we are
in the film. We're both comedians and

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actors and two handsome young black men, so we have a lot of that

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in common. I think Fowler said
it's true he's pretty black. Now I've

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learned a lot from this dude,
Like his knowledge about Rolex watches is pretty

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outstanding, no joke. I've heard
him talk about cars and watches in golf

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and I'm like, man, I
just like listening you talk about it.

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The New York Yankees will give away
a George Costanza babblehead. That's on Seinfeld

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Night July fifth, May Martin is
putting out an album, but they told

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Mark Marin, I'm doing earnest music. I'm putting out an album this year

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of the most mediocre emotional songs.
The music is guitar based. May said,

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I'm embarrassed by it, so I
don't know how I'm ever going to

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promote it. I might just put
it out quietly. If a musician listens

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to it, I think they'll be
like, this is very mediocre. Tyberrell

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will lead the ABC comedy Forgive and
Forget, you know Tie from Modern Family.

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Forgive and Forget revolves around Hank,
the perennial life of the party you,

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after an unexpected diagnosis, reconnects with
his responsible adult son Ben in hopes

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of making new memories together. Mary
Lynn Rice Cub You know her. She

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was Chloe on twenty four and she
is a comedian. She has joined the

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Netflix, CBC and APTN comedy North
of North. It has begun production in

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none of it Northern Canada. Part
of this is Canadian governments will pay for

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Canadian content. Not sure what the
plot of that one is. Sean Kaine's

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album came out last week. Didn't
get to tell you about it for reasons

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we discussed on Saturday. America's Uncle
Dad is available everywhere. Streaming audio is

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enjoyed. Sean jokes about mass transit, yoga culture psychedelics, growing Up with

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an adorable lisp, and a takedown
of Simon garfocal classic that they promise will

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forever change how you hear the song. Some of the tracks on Sean Kean's

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Uncle Dad are Mom Goes Online,
uh oh and Psyched Alexaid Karaoke Caitlyn Belufo.

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I was going to do an interview
with Caitlyn and that got lost in

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the shuffle for reasons discussed on Saturday. Her new album is out as well,

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and she shared two clips well us, so let's play the clips.

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Honestly, I didn't think I had
a drinking problem until I stopped drinking for

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one month and immediately lost fifteen pounds. That's twins, Yes, that is

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the weight of healthy twins. I
dropped little little Morgan Rita right there.

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You know. My body was like, girl, we'll give you abs.

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Just put down the sangria. It's
not fruit, okay, all right.

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I thought the pandemic was going to
be a party because I thought it was

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going to be me and my younger
boyfriend getting hammered every night. That's what

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I thought. But it turns out
he's not a big drinker. Yeah,

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I know, and I honestly should
have known because I saw him take night

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quill from the cap, so I
was like, we are different people.

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I use a straw, who measures
their medicine? What a door? Right?

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Get a personality. Spiked online dot
com wrote about the sand demise of

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the Montreal Comedy Festival. They said, Montreal is huge. Comedians used to

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scheduled careers and international holidays around it. It was crucially the North American industry

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trade fair for decades. It was
the springboard between the club circuit and the

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five minute breakout spot on The Tonight
Show Starring Johnny Carson, Late Night with

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David Letterman, The Tonight Show with
Jay Leno, or whatever thin Democratic Party

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propaganda grule the punch drunk American people
are currently accepting as their late nights will

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supposedly, by twenty twenty five,
Montreal will re emerge in a scale down

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format after a financial restructuring, but
it surely won't be the same. I

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agree, a scale down versus Montreal
is not the same. That was such

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a good festival. So I was
talking about it earlier today that I'm sad

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about it. I want to go
up there. I guess I'll just go

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up to Montreal for Montreal's sake.
Now, like Don Lonon writes, you

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may be asking yourself, why should
I care. I'd like to raise the

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possibility that it's symptomatic of something much
bigger, much widespread, and then it

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should indeed worry all of us.
My suspicion is that this is one of

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many events, former behemoths of live
entertainment that have returned post lockdown, but

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in zombie mode. Lazarus like,
they walk out in the light, but

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something is awry. They have no
soul, there's something missing behind the eyes.

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Yes, live events are back technically
speaking, and I've been back for

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a few years now, but something
is still just very slightly off. Something's

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not quite right. They then talk
about how movie going has changed and wrote,

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perhaps the comedy festival and the cinema, or just a couple of entertainment

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options whose time head come. That's
your comedy news for today. I'm going

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to get serious here, So if
you are just came for the comedy,

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you're dismissed. For everybody else.
I'm recording this on Sunday, and this

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section here, I'm on stake four, as I've stumbled several times already,

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Monday was my mom's wake and Tuesday
was the funeral. I got a lot

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of notes from listeners, and I've
responded to them individually, so I'm not

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going to do a shout out or
a laundry list of you know things.

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Thanks to so and so and so
and so. Thank you so much for

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the individual notes. It meant a
lot. And there was just an edit

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there where I choked up. I
really really appreciate the notes. Everybody all

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right, we should be back to
normal tomorrow. Thank you again. We'll see tomorrow