Sept. 13, 2025

Shane Gillis goes full Notre Dame + Bert Kreischer’s FSU speech goes viral

Show Notes
Transcript

Shane Gillis becomes a Notre Dame folk hero with injury reports, tailgates, and jumbotron cheers. Bert Kreischer shares his viral Florida State pregame speech that left 90,000 people cheering — and Tom Segura crying. Plus: Jimmy Kimmel retirement talk, Jerry Seinfeld’s controversy stalls, Adam Sandler shoots hoops, Ego Nwodim exits SNL, and Spinal Tap lore deepens.

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Callaroga Shark Media very busy Saturday, and I should start

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with the real news. But as I sat down a record,

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I heard from a friend of the show, Scott Beckett,

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live from American Airlines flight ten twenty one. He is

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telling me that the airline is in on the Bob's

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Burgers host. Now, if you're a new listener, I have

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two questions for you. One, have you ever seen Bob's Burgers?

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The answers no, no one has. And two, and this

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is the real good part of the conspiracy. Have you

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ever met anyone who has seen Bob's Burgers? The answer

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is also no. I get that the artwork exists, and

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Scott has sent me American Airlines is posting the artwork

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for Bob's Burgers, but as we know, there's no such show.

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It's just something Kevin Burkhardt promotes on Sundays. Speaking of football,

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I had the Vikings Thursday night and mine was a

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sixteen point pick, So I'm putting him in the dust again.

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I'm in fifty sixth place, but I'm not letting him

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catch me. He also said he was listening to daily

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comedy news on the flight, as one does, and apparently

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my patent Oswalt Star Trek commentary made him chuckle, and

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his flight neighbor and his seat mate said, you seem

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to have liked that. Thank you, Scott. All Right, I diggress.

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Where should we start. Let's start with Late Night because

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I didn't do it yesterday. As you could tell, today

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is a much happier show than yesterday. Catching up from

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during the week. Did you see when the President went

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out for seafood the other night and the National Guards

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out in DC? Will Seth Meyers said, President Trump dined

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with several members of his cabinet at Joe Seafood while

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RFK just ate something they hit on the drive over.

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It's hilarious. Kimmel said, there are hundreds of troops on

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the state and somehow they led a thirty four time

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convicted fellon Walton to or a restaurant. No questions asked

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at all. Sharp commentary there, Jimmy Kimmel. Michael Costa said, Hey,

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nothing says I feel safe like driving one block from

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the White House surrounded by a fleet of armored cars

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and countless Secret Service agents. Kim Lill again, kim Old

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talked about that drawing that Jeffrey Epstein apparently had Kimmell said,

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I know how you get him meeting the president to

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admit that he did this. All you have to do

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is say that drawing is great, and he'll immediately take

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credit for it. Colbert said, And you know what they say,

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if it walks like a duck and it quacks like

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a duck, that duck shouldn't be allowed within three hundred

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yards of a school. Late, I was good this week,

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Fallon had commented on the White House renaming the Department

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of Defense the Department of War. Fallon said, when they

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heard about the big change, the owner of Cracker Bear

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was like, Eh, maybe take a minute and think about it.

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You know what I've been thinking about Jerry Seinfeld. The

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horrible Charlie Kirk story has given mister Seinfeld a lot

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of cover. I noticed on Friday the mainstream media was

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starting to notice the Seinfeld's comments. The weekend may help

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save mister Seinfeld, but I'm not sure that story is

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going away. College football today, Notre Dame takes on Texas

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A and M at seven point thirty. There are a

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few articles during the week about Shane Gillis's love of

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Notre Dame. It even made the New York Times, they

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write Notre Dame limits sideline passes for home football games

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to coach his family members. So Tommy Reese discovered a

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long lost cousin. That's how Shane Rees ended up on

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the sidelines. Coach Rees, who was the quarterback for the

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Irish from twenty ten to twenty thirteen, said, the students

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blew their cover they noticed that cousin Shane was a

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famous comedian. Coach Rees says, the students were going nuts.

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Our cover was blown. Now. Last weekend, Shane Gillis opened

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for Zack Bryan at Zach's Notre Dame concert. I saw

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Zach during the summer. Fantastic, and he sounds way better

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live than he does on the records, and he sounds

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really good on the records. Notre Dame coach Marcus Freeman said,

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you know, Shane's an awesome human, right, He's got a

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lot of notoriety just because of who he is and

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the way he really performs his craft. We appreciate him

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and the sport he gives our program makes us kind

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of cool. I guess. For the team season opener against Miami,

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Notre Dame listed Shane Gillis on the injury report as

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out because of tailgating. Last year, during the first round

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of the College Football Playoff, the jumbo screen showed Shane Gillis.

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Fans went nuts, the camera shifted off Shane, the crowd booed.

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The New York Times rights back on Gillis, cheers back

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off Gillis booze. Shane said, it makes me slightly uncomfortable

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because people were like, who the hell is this guy?

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But I think I represent a good notere dame fan.

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I never went to school there. Of everything, I've been

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lucky enough to have happened to me, and this is

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probably easily the coolest that. It's definitely the coolest with

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my family. During the concert last weekend, Shane Gillis exited

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the stage. He high five fans and shouted f Michigan.

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Oh there's more, Brady Quinn said, every single night in

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Ireland we hung out. There were some stories. Gillis invited

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former quarterback Ian Book to a show in Sacramento. The

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night edited at three am at a blackjack table with Books,

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high school friends, Shane Gillis and UFC fighter Nate Diaz

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and his aunt Dearage. You know, I used to have

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nights like that. When I worked at Sirius and I'm

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not just trying to be cool like that. We would

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go to Vegas. One of my high school friends, Matt,

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lives in Las Vegas, and we would go out and

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it'd be someone that was, you know, Shane Gillis level

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famous and their friends and you'd wind up at the

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blackjack table three am. I could relate to this, believe

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it or not, as lame as I am doing a

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podcast in the base. I wasn't always this old. Former

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Gord Chris Watt said, Chaine's almost reserved, down to earth.

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He could probably name all the Notre Dame quarterbacks I

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played with and actually did know them all. You never

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know these days how big fans some people are. He

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truly grew up living the team. What a great profile

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in the Times, right. This is good for everybody and

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so much more fun than yesterday's podcast. I'm just gonna

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point out. Meanwhile, Bert Kraser spoke about Bert's viral Florida

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State pregame speech. Who's Florida State got today? We should

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know this? They're off today? Well that lever Ruin is

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my show? What are you doing? They play Kent State

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and on the twentieth. If you can wait, come on,

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Florida State schedule makers. I had this all lined up.

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I should have checked before anyway. Bert Kraser opened up

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about his viral Florida State pregame speech. Bert told Ridge

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Eyes and Florida State called me and said, would you

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give a pump up speech before the game? And I

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was like, yes, but you gotta give me the parameters.

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I literally scraped everything they wrote for me. I walked

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out with no script, and I gave what I would

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argue is my best. What did he say? Much funnier

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than I will read to you? Bert said, my name

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is Bert Kreischer. I spent six and a half years

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at this beautiful institution. I'm not even sure if I

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have a degree. I was baptized in nineteen ninety one

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in that end zone when there were still wooden bleachers,

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and when that spear went into the fifty yard line,

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tears streamed down my eyes. So those tears were gorn

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it in Gold Alabama thinks they're going to come in

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and roll all over us. They don't know where they are.

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I only have two words to say to you, go knowles,

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Bert said, ninety thousand people pop up I'm crying, tears

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are coming down. My shirt comes off. Tom Sigor is crying.

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The athletic director was like, that was amazing. Coach Norville

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is pumping his arms. They go, do you want to

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see the spear drop? And I go yeah, and they

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take it. I'm shirtless to the fifty yard line. I

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look at Tommy. He's crying. I'm crying. It's the best

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day of our lives. That's what the Alabama game was

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for US Florida State thirty one, University of Alabama seventeen.

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More sports dramatic actor Adam Sandler. He stopped by the

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University of South Carolina. He was at the Carolina Coliseum

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and he played basketball with the men's basketball team on

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Wednesday afternoon before doing a concert at the Colonial Life

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for Reas Saandler said, shout out to the game Cocks.

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I got to meet the coach a lot of the

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players that were nice enough not to swat off all

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my shots. See, this is so much more fun today.

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If you listen to Friday Show, Friday Show is a

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little serious. The news was a little serious. This is fun.

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This is what I want to do some SNL news.

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Another cast member has left who is it, Johnny Mack.

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It is Eggo Nuotam, who joined the show in twenty eighteen.

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She said, the hardest part of a great party is

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knowing when to say goodnight. This is on Instagram and

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she said, I am immensely grateful to Loren for the opportunity,

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to my castmates, the writers, and the crew for their

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brilliant support and friendship week after week on that stage

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taught me more than I could have ever imagined, and

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it will carry those memories and that laughter with me always.

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Now invite me to your weddings. Please. During the week,

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Jimmy Kimmel talked about retiring. I'll go first. You're not retiring.

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Why would you retire. It's a great gig. You have

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the summers off. As I've said in the past, just

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tell it. If you want to work less, just tell ABC.

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I want a longer winter break. I want to not

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do a show at all on Fridays. You guys can

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show Friday night videos or something. We'll tape two on Wednesday,

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will do four week. You're not walking away from the show, Jimmy.

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It'd be insane. It's a good gig and you're like

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my age, what are you going to do record a

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podcast in the basement. Kimmel's answer, I'm not prepared to

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answer that question. Something I think about a lot. Things

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have changed over the last few years, the last nine years.

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Every day is a new adventure and I kind of

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take them as they come. So much press about the

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Spinal Taps. Everything about the Spinal Tap two has been

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in character in universe. So The Guardian went with the

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bit and said almost all the Spinal Taps catalog has

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been unavailable since release. At one point, their then label, Megaphone,

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took legal action to prevent them from making any music

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at all. From nineteen sixty seven's Spinal Tap Sings to

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nineteen eighty two Smell the Glove, the band made eleven

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studio albums plus four rumored unreleased records, two live albums,

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as well as Nigel Toughnell's solo project Clam Caravan. Yet

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since nineteen eighty four, all that's been available has been

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the soundtrack to the film, featuring a selection of songs

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from those albums. Then the band put out nineteen ninety

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two s Break Like the Wind, a mixture of new

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tracks and re recordings, and then a similar compilation on

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two thousand and nine's Back from the Dead, The Guardian

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tells us. The problem is that, for nearly fifty years,

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ownership of spinal TAP's catalog has been scattered. At one

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point it was owned by shadowy Iranian operatives before Ian

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Faith faked his own death and distributed the songs around

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assorted fated celebrities like Mario Andretti and Billy Jean King. Now,

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even if spinal Tap wanted to re release the catalog,

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they couldn't find it to buy it back. And that

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is a fun Saturday episode of Daily Comedy News. Tomorrow

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show will be good too. I got a lot in

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the script and I bounced like seven things today, so

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we got plenty to talk about. And I'll meet you

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back here tomorrow