April 13, 2025

Slow News Sunday: Jay Leno's Law, Stanley's Perfect Sunday, and Comedy Festivals

Show Notes
Transcript

On this slow news Sunday, Johnny Mac covers Jay Leno's new law aimed at classic car preservation in California, Leslie David Baker's (Stanley from 'The Office') ideal Sunday routine, and various comedy festival events. Jay Leno's law proposes changes to smog checks for classic cars, while Leslie's routine involves brunch, flea markets, and steak. The episode also highlights fundraising events like Brad Paisley's charity comedy night, the Nashville and Moon Tower comedy festivals, and the mystery of the seemingly never-aired 'Bob's Burgers.'
00:00 Slow News Day
00:11 Jay Leno's Law and Classic Cars
01:28 Leslie David Baker's Sunday Routine
04:38 Brad Paisley's Charity Event
05:47 Comedy Festival Highlights
07:11 Miscellaneous Comedy News

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hi there, I'm Johnny Mack with your

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daily comedy news. It's kind of slow here on this Sunday.

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I held back a couple shinier things for tomorrow that

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I want to talk about during the week, as the

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weekday numbers tend to be a little bit bigger. Jay

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Leno's Law has passed its first hurdle in the California legislature.

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Named after Jay Leno, who co authored the bill, Leno's

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Law would change how classic car owners navigate anti smog

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laws in the state of California. You see, the California

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Air Resources Board currently requires all vehicles built in nineteen

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seventy five or later to undergo a smock check every

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two years. Under the terms of Leno's law, smock checks

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would no longer be required for vehicles thirty five years

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or older if they're insured as a collector car, So

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that would move the deadline up to nineteen ninety. Jay

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Leno tild supporters, I know there's nothing more annoying than

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Hollywood people involved in politics, so I'll just try to

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keep that to a minimum. But this one's important to

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me because I'm an enthusiast California helped invent car culture,

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from low riders in East to light a muscle cars

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in the Central Valley. These cars tell the story. SB

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seven one two is about keeping that story alive. These

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vehicles are driven occasionally, not daily, and it just makes

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sense to treat them differently. I'm proud to be working

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with Senator Grove, and I thank the Committee for recognizing

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the importance of preserving our automotive legacy. I laugh here

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in New Jersey when you go for inspections, the only

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thing they check right now is the emissions. Seriously, you

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could roll up with crack windows, no door, a taped

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on bumper, Been there, done that. Nobody cares. As long

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as you pass the emissions, you're good. The La Times

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caught up with Leslie David Baker. Now you're like, who's

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Leslie David Baker. He's Stanley on the Office. Remember that guy.

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You've seen the Office? You're familiar with the character Stanley.

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You know who I'm talking about now? Yeah, of course,

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Leslie says, I know you. Hear some celebrities say it's

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a bother when people call me by my character name.

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It's a bother when people are talking about the show

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I did this many years ago, but for h it's

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an honor and a privilege to have that kind of recognition.

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Hali Times tells us, much like Stanley, Baker loves a

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good snack break, which is good because his name is Baker.

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He's in partnership with frozen snack band Tasteless Tasteles, Tasteles,

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tast l e Z taste Dels, Taste Les you guys

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tell me, I'm gonna go with taste Les because it's funnier.

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They were curious what is Leslie's Sunday routine, and Johnny

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Mack wisely held onto the story, thinking, someday there'll be

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a slow Sunday and you'll wish you had this story.

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That's today, my friends. He wakes up at ten am. Dude,

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what are you doing ten am? You only wake up

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at ten am when you're in college or like you know,

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right out of college, when you're hungover. You don't sleep

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till ten am when you're an adult. How old is

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this guy? Stanley's sixty seven years old. What are you doing?

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Get up? Ten am? He wakes up and enjoys a

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cup of coffee, then he takes a shower, and I'm

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gonna pause here to put that mental image in your brain.

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Because it's a slow news day. Stanley from the office,

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taking a shower. You're thinking about it. I know you're

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thinking about I'm thinking about it too. At noon, Stanley's

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perfect Sunday would involve a very long brunch. He says,

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if I'm at Bottega Louis, I'm going to have their

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portobello fries. They serve it with a nice gorlic. They

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also have a nice pizza that's drizzled with honey and

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sliced red peppers. That sounds delicious. But if he finds

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himself at these sand Vicente Bungalows, he'd get one of

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their omelets, and their chocolate chip cookies are his favorites.

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At two thirty on his perfect Sunday, he would go

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to a flea market, specifically the Melrose Trading Post. Leslie

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told The Times, I got a chair a statue there

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from my house. It's fun. Parking is convenient, and it's

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right down the street from Cantor's Deli. So after brunch

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you're like, I'm not cooking dinner tonight, go buy Canter's

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Deli and get something for later. At five o'clock, he

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says he might head over to the Grove. There's a

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meat market there eat. Stanley's not looking to pick up chicks.

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He's looking to eat, have sausage. At seven o'clock, Leslie

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would like to hit up a steakhouse. I'm fully aware

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I keep bouncing between Leslie and Stanley. It's on purpose.

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Did I mention it's a slow news day. I'm trying

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to make a show out of this. I'm gonna get

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a text from Scott Beckett and he's gonna be like

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slow news day, and I would be like, yeah, I

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mentioned it. Leslie says. When I want a really good steak,

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I go to Mastros. I'd order gin with ginger beer,

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a splash of bitters at, a twist of lemon or orange.

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That's a good cocktail. At nine point thirty, he would

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catch a live show on a Sunday night. Dude, if

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I'm not in bed by nine to twenty nine pm

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on a Sunday night, my whole week is thrown off.

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But then again, he didn't get up till ten am,

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his bedtime. Midnight. He tells the La Times. LA doesn't

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stay open as late at Chicago and New York. So

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usually by midnight I'm home, especially if I have to

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get up and go to work. Sounds rough getting up

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at ten o'clock every day. All right, we might as

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well get to the festival stuff. Brad Paisley, Yeah, the

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country music guy. He's doing a benefit today to support

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his free grocery store called The Store. Paisley said, it's

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an amazing event in terms of the fact that comedy

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for charity is my favorite way to raise money for anything.

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Most charity events are too long. Most of them are

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asking a lot that people attend. You're asking for money,

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you're asking for time, usually feeding them a badly catered meal.

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There's an auction that takes too long. None of that

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is a part of this. This is what we call it.

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Groceries with Dignity Comedy Without. The Store is a nonprofit

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organization that offers a free referral based grocery store to

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Nashville families with food insecurity. They open their first location

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in twenty twenty. Last fall, they reveal plans for a

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second store. Paisley describes Groceries with Dignity Comedy Without as

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a roast in comedy Night that just so happens that

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we raise hundreds of thousands of dollars to feed people.

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That's awesome. It's at Zany's tonight, doors open, five fifteen,

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show at six pm. Tickets. Now, it's a fundraiser, so

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don't I roll this. Okay, this isn't Alley Wong charging

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you one hundred and sixteen dollars for a practice show

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or whatever that was the other day. This one two,

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one hundred and fifty dollars. It's a fundraiser. Okay. Let's

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see what else is happening at Nashville tonight at the

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Rhyme at seven o'clock one to psykes, and at the

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Lab at Zany's at eight thirty. Amber Autrey's stand up,

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Get Down. Let's see what this is. Amber Autrey is

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an international touring comedian hailing from Nashville. She's been featured

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on Peacock TV. Amber's relatable observations and electric energy make

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every audience feel like they're the best friend. So basically,

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it's a nondescript comedy show as far as I could tell.

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All Right, that's the Nashville Comedy Festival for this year.

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I get to delete the tap and get some of

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my browser space back let's see what's happening at Moontower tonight,

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Johnny Mack, you usually do the festival stuff in the

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second half. Is it a slow news day? Oh? Can

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you tell? Only one show at Moontower tonight, seven o'clock

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at Tiffany Hattish the Funny and Fearless Tour at the

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Paramount Theater. Now I'm kind of annoyed. I didn't know

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the Macau Comedy Festival is going on this week because

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I would have talked about it. It opened on Wednesday

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with Peppa Pig's Fun Day Out, which is a Mandarin

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stage adaptation of the popular British children's series. Well that's

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not your typical comedy festival. Now. Unfortunately the festival only

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ran through today Sunday, and the way time zones work,

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by the time you're hearing this, you're not gonna make

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it in time. But there were comedy megastars there, that's right,

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Shen Tang, Ma Lee, not somebody named Molly, This is

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Ma Lee. They were there that you're said you missed it.

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Congrats to the Woodlawn Comedy Club in San Antonio, Texas.

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They opened up last night. This is the place. Paulie

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Shore is part of told you about that. I got

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a nice note from the owners. Hi, guys, good to

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hear from you. Got some good shows coming up. April

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twenty sixth. Michael Winslow's there. Remember him? He's the sound

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effects guy from movies like forty years ago? Isn't that

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who Michael Winslow is? Yes, the man of ten thousand

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sound effects. You know this guy? May third, Tom Carter

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and Kerry Louise. May tenth, Stephen Michael Caseta. You know

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who that is. He's the guy from Breaking Bad. What

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was his character's name? Shout it out at your phone,

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remind me while I look it up. He played agent

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Stephen Gomez on Breaking Bad. He's comedian May seventeenth, Caroline

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Ray June twenty eighth, Bill Bellamy, And there's some other

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shows in there in between. Here's a fun thing I

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saw while putting together the Palace Intrigue podcast. Palace Intrigue

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is the show where we talk about the British royal family.

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I'm the writer on it, and I can assure you

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we make fun of Megan Markle. There's a lot of

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money to be made making fun of Megan Markle. So

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while I was googling Megan Markle. I learned that Megan

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has invested into the six hundred dollars billion menopause market

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with a fresh investment in Midi Health. Now, John, we

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get it's a slow news day, but why are you

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mentioning this because the article said some of the other

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high profile investors include Amy Schumer. Very interesting. The Simpsons

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is still on, unlike Bob's Burgers, which has never aired. Clearly,

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the Simpsons exists, although much like Bob's Burgers, it's entirely

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possible that The Simpsons have just been pretending to be

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on for the last twenty years or so. I know

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the Simpsons at least used to exist. I'm not sure

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it actually still exists, but they keep claiming there are

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new episodes even though nobody's seen them, and stick around

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after the fake Simpsons for the fake Bob's Burgers. Two questions, One,

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have you ever seen bobs Burgers? No? Two, have you

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ever met anyone who's seen bob Burgers? The answer is

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also no. Anyway, where you to put on Fox tonight

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you would be like, Hey, one of the bullies has

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a new voice. What's going on there? Well, you see

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voice actor Pamela Hayden retired Jimbo Jones now played by

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Moe Collins. As of tonight, That iss your Slowest Heck

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comedy news for today. It wasn't the worst show I've

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ever done, but also not the one that I will

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send to the podcast Hall of Fame. I definitely have

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good stuff for tomorrow, because A I'm about to record

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it and B I know that I held it back.

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Tomorrow's really good. Today, you know, slow to Sunday, got

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some brunch with Stanley. See tomorrow