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Callaroga Shark Media. Hey there, I'm Johnny Mack with your
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daily comedy news. Just looking ahead all week including Thanksgiving
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on the holiday weekend, normal episodes. There's just so much
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news going on. I didn't have to do like Holidy Filler,
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Adam Sandler's fifteen Worst Movies and anything like that, all
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normal regular media episodes. Among the things I haven't been
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able to tell you about Ricky Gervays. His next stand
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up special will be on Netflix December thirtieth. Now, Johnny
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Mack's not happy with that release date because I like
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to do the top twenty five specials of the yearless
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and if you wait till December thirtieth, it's not gonna
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be on it. I got a hand in the homework
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to the I gotta make the shows. I gotta hand
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the stuff in for my substack and for the publicist.
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I can't wait till December thirtieth. Anyway. It's called Mortality.
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It's the hour. Ricky Gervase has been touring since twenty
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twenty four. Filmed earlier this year at the London Palladium.
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It's his fourth stand up special. The Lazy Netflix copywriter
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promises no topic is off limits on as Ricky closes
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out the year with his best show yet. The official
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log line is a little bitter written. It says Gervaise
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takes on his own mortality in a brutally honest and
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darkly funny stand up special about his life, death, and
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the state of the world. Ricky said, I think Mortality
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is my most honest and confessional show so far, and
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also my favorite tour. I still can't believe what a
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privilege it is to fly around the world making people laugh.
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Now that news made me realize. At some point, I
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had this Tom Sagora story in my little notebook here
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that I work with for the show, and it got
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dropped and I don't know what happened to it, because
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I don't think I've told you that Tom Sigora Teacher
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will be out on Netflix December twenty fourth. Yeah, Tom
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Sagora has got a new special and it's called Teacher,
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and as I told you, it'll be out December twenty fourth.
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Also not good for year endlists or publicists or homework
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or substacks. Deadline says no word yet on what Sigora
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covers in the hour. It's his fifth special for Netflix.
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Nate BRIGATSI. I still think he's out of his mind.
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He was at the International Association of Amusement Parks and
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Attractions Industry conference, the IAAPAXPO. Nate showed up at this
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thing and announced that his company is partnering with Storyland Studios,
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a SoCal based themed entertainment, architecture and design firm. Together,
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they will explore the concept and feasibility of a Napurghetsy
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theme park in Nashville. I'm telling you, if I'm still
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doing this podcast in ten years, I'm going to one
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day for holiday filler. Be like remember the time Naperghetzi
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was going to open a theme park. Whatever happened to that.
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I mean, just do a bourbon or something. This is crazy.
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The feasibility study is set to be completed in the
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first quarter of twenty twenty six. Fall goes well, they'll
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have a shovel on the ground in five to six years. Hmmm.
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I don't know anything about musement parks, but the word
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boondoggle just went into my brain. I don't know what
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to do with the word boon doggle. I don't know
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what kind of sentence to use the word boondoggle in.
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Maybe It has nothing to do with this story at all,
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but the word boondoggle did pop into my brain. Here's
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the plan. They want build a one hundred plus acre
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amusement park. Now I'm from New York City. I have
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no idea how big an acre is. Sounds pretty big,
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and one hundred of them sound huge, but I don't know.
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I'm a city boy. The amusement park will include amenities
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like retail, dining, and even a hotel. At Nateland. The
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project is being handled by the Experiences Division, which is
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also responsible for such things as a Nateland themed cruise
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setting sale via Norwegian Cruise Line early next year. Hey,
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you want to go on the themed cruise? Dusty Slave's
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going to be there. I don't know for a fact
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Dusty's going to be there. I'm doing a bit. I
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don't even know that Nate's going to be there. I'm
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finding this out as you do. You think i'd pre
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read these stories? Are you crazy? Anyway? You want to
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go on the Nateland cruise? That sounds fun. Other divisions
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at Nateland are focused on stand up movies, TV, merch,
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and an incubation lab for new talent. I look forward
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to the opening of Nateland many years from now, John
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mullaney was in Texas. While in town, mullaney did a
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one on one with Austin based filmmaker Noah Hawley. You
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may know him from such things as Fargo, Legion and
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Alien in Earth. Mullaney said, the satisfaction of being on
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stage in Austin The audience can see me, but I'm
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not blown up on the screen, and I'm getting a
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laugh with the slightest shrug. That's a really powerful feeling.
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The festival mainly focuses on politics. One attendee ask John mullaney,
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why are you here? Now? I'm picturing the attendee as
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KHN and the attendee going now, tell me why are
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you here? Did you watch Star Trek two? Great film?
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Malleni said, went in a city. I like to see
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as many sides of it and take part and as
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much of it as I can. I was very lucky
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that this was happening at the same time the half
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assed Millennie's coming along. I'm working on it again. The
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key to it is you have to do the French Schneider.
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It's as big as a whale, and that's how you
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get into your half assed Millennium'm slightly zoning in on it,
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so you got the SCHNEIDERSM and then I realized mulleny
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over enunciates working on it again. Not an impression, it's
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a half ass impression. The discussion went to Mulanie's recent
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appearance at the Supreme Court hearing zone Revember fifth. Mulleny
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recalled that Justice Alito seemed to get poor of his
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own hypotheticals and Justice Thomas looks like he struggles to
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stay awake. M'laney said they seem to get along with
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each other in a way you might not think there
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was a lot of collegiality. If you and nine co
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workers had to sit out a panel, you'd eventually lean
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over and do jokes to each other. Talked about the
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Austin comedy scene, saying a lot of comedians were moving
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to Austin, Texas and made it seem like this big move.
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I was like, Austin's a huge city. Go to Gavelston.
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I like my houses, like I like my chimpanzees on stilts.
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Then mulanie was asked, well, AI ever be funnier than
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a comedian? Millenney said, AI will never shrug and the
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shrug is the highest form of intelligence. Mlaney also spoke
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with The Texas Standard. They were curious, what's your takeaway
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of Texas. Milleniy said, I think of Texas as his
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father with like a bunch of different sons that are
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his cities. And you know, Dallas is trying to do
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everything right and run the family business and is responsible
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with money. In Houston does a good job, but it's
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just boring as hell. Austin is more like the more
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emo kid at the end of the table. It's like,
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what did you do today, Austin. He's like, I colored
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a sort of artistic libertarian son at the end of
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the table that does whatever he wants. As for Sayatonio,
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I love san Antonio. San Antonio is like the kid
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that just always fine but doesn't visit a lot. On
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your TV tonights. It is the thirtieth anniversary celebration of
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Everybody Loves Raymond. Are you feeling old yet? Yeah? CBS
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eight o'clock. Now you might be like, CBS, aren't those
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the guys that eliminate the Late Show? If I watch
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this thing, am I supporting fascism? That's a great question.
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I'm gonna say no, because as you know, Colbert was
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canceled over budget reasons. It had nothing to do with
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fascism or anti fascism or pseudo fascism. It was all
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about budget. So I'm gonna tell you you're okay if
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you want to watch this thing tonight. Okay, just if
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you're watching Scrubs, go get the DVDs. Don't push that
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Hulu button on the rokop. You gotta stand strong support
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Jimmy Kimmel. But Colbert, that was all budget. You can
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watch the Raymond special. It will feature appearances from Ray Romano,
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I would hope, so you know, you don't want to
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do this thing without Ray, Brad Garrett, Patricia Heaton, and
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the others. It will include a tribute to late cast
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members Dors, Robert It's and Peter Boyle, who played the Parents.
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Series creator Phil Rosenthal and Ray Romano sat down with
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tv Line. Phil said, I've been trying to get this
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done for ten years. Ray said, he told me about it,
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and I said, I'm game. Then he took it to
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CBS and Phil says, I'd see other show's doing reunions
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that think we have funny stories and we have nice remembrance.
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We want to do it. Ray said, people were asking
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about reboots. We agreed we would never do a reboot,
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so we'll do a reunion. We like reunions, but ten
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years ago CBS wasn't into it. Five years ago they
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weren't into it. This year knew people are there and
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they were into it, So here we go. TV Line
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points out, Hey, this is being built as the thirtieth anniversary.
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The show premiered in nineteen ninety six. Technically this is
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your twenty ninth anniversary. What's the story there? Phil was like,
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it's technically the thirtieth anniversary since the show got going.
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We filmed the pilot in the spring of ninety six.
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We were on the air and fall in ninety six.
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But Ray and I met in ninety five right for
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the special. They recreated the living room set hottson Field.
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Being on that set again, Ray said, first of all,
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the work they did to rebuild it was amazing. The
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only thing that was original was the couch, which I
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took home with me in two thousand and five and
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gave it back to them for the special. I love
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that Ray Romano had the couch for twenty years. That's amazing.
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You couldn't tell the difference. If you told me this
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was the exact set, I'd believe it. It was emotional.
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I'll say that. Ray recently rewatched all nine seasons. He
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told TV Line. Which struck me the most was the acting.
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I mean, I knew it was good back then, but
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now I wasn't as critical. I'm not saying I didn't
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remember every show I did, but I remember what was
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going to happen next, and I saw little things that
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I appreciated more, the nuances of each actor, how good
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they were. I think I just appreciated them, the cast,
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and the writing more. Back then, it was hard for
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me not to be critical of myself. What's funny is
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I'd see myself without a shirt on in an episode
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then and be like, what the hell am I doing?
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What am I doing showing this to the world. When
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I watch it now, I was like, no, I was
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in shape back then. Good question from TV lines, sitcoms,
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Off and Juggle, AB and C storylines, Raymond was always
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focused on one. Was that a rule? Phil said yes.
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I thought if a story's worth telling, it's worth telling
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for the twenty one minutes we have. Ray said yeah,
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that's a bet story. It wasn't the dynamic of the
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world we were in. Pat Oswalt was on the last
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last podcast. They start talking about Kimmelgate and the video
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Patten had sheared from the airport. I had played that
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in one of the bonus episodes. You know what was
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the deal with that? Batton Oswald, who said, well, it
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was one of those moments when what was being done
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was so blatant and so petty, and it was just
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such an absolute misuse of power, and I wanted to
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get something out there. Not that I have any kind
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of massive platform or swam culture, but I could already
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fast forward to the way the pro Trump people were
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going to start to try and rationalize this. There's now
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a scary legion of people out there whose job is
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to make the abnormal seem normal and reasonable. This from
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the guy who played Dug the Vulcan. All right, Patton,
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you want to talk about making something abnormal seem normal?
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You played Dug the Vulcan as a trekkie. I'm still
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furious about this. You can hear the rage coming out
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during this podcast. Patton said, all of you people to
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keep saying Trump is bringing America back. Whatever he's bringing back,
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it's not America. He's bringing back twelve thirty. Patton Oswalt.
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The President and I are aligned. Make twelve thirty great again.
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Let's get back to the golden age of Letterman and
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Conan and even Craig Ferguson. We need better twelve th shows,
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Patton Oswald said. But I think from the beginning of
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time there's this overall mediocrity that wants a foothold in life.
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And it hates excellence. Oh, you're teeing yourself up here, Paton.
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And it hates people that actually craft their job and
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care about their job. They just want loud, sloppy spectacle.
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For example, the musical episode of Strange New Worlds, the
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Star Trek series on which you played Dug the Vulcan.
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Like that kind of nonsense, not going for greatness. Yeah,
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that Patton said, And it'll even flow, and it'll flare
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up and it'll die down. Right now, we're looking at
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a massive flare up. We've got to be better about
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calling that stuff out when it's happening. Yes, say somebody
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plays a crappy character on Star Trek Strange New Worlds,
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call that actor out and tell him, no, you are
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destroying Star Trek. Patton said, it's very tempting to think
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there's this big, loud, frightening guy. If you're just nice
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to him and do what he says, I'll make your
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life comfortable. Now, Luckily for us in this case, Trump
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doesn't even know how to make his worshippers lives comfortable.
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This does feel like a bad virus, bad flu, some
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kind of bacterial infection that we just have to write out.
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Then I used some language that I think doesn't translate. Well,
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I'm not going to read it. I don't want to
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a visit from men in sunglasses. I'm a line with
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the president. Make twelve thirty great again. Okay, you calm down, Dug.