Trevor Noah's plans for hosting the Grammy's, Larry David's plans for post Curb Your Enthusiasm

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Callaroga Shark Media. Hello, I'm
Johnny Mack with your daily comedy news.

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It is Grammy Night. Let me
do two things of homework here. One,

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if tomorrow's episode isn't there at three
or five in the morning, I'm

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gonna wait tonight to put Monday's show
all the way together. I want to

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see what Trevor does or doesn't,
or maybe Taylor Swift murders his career like

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she did to Joe Coy. Bring
it, Swifties. It's called Daily Comedy

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News. Posted on the message board. Make sure you include a link to

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Apple podcast. While you guys are
attacking me, laugh at the jokes Taylor

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anyway. So if the episode isn't
out right away, it'll be out by

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like eight a m. Eastern on
Monday. If all the Trevor stuff and

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the Comedy Awards have settled in,
I'll put it out. The other thing

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is if today is the first day
you've discovered this podcast, this episode is

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a little atypical. So if you're
like this sucks, maybe listen to yesterday's

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more normal. I'm gonna soapbox a
little bit about the Grammy Awards in a

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bit, and I've already talked more
the beginning than I usually do. Usually

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I get right to it. Nominees
for the Grammy Best Comedy Album are Chris

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Rock's Selective Outrage, Wanda Sykes,
I'm an entertainer, Trevor Noah, I

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wish you would, Dave Chappelle,
What's in a Name? Sarah Silverman someone

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you love now? A Ward shows
are always weird. I was thinking I

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didn't have Trevor Noah at the top
of my list last year. Well,

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that's because his special came out in
twenty twenty two. So for my list

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in twenty twenty three, I'm just
looking at the nominees here. I had

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Chris Rock at thirteen, Trevor actually
as a special after this one, that

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one was called Where was I have
that? At fifteen. I had Sarah

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at twenty, and Chappelle I think
was also at the end of twenty twenty

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two. Let me see if I
could find my twenty twenty two notes.

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In twenty twenty two, I had
Shang Wang as number one. I had

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Trevor Noahs I wish you would at
eight, and I don't if I remember

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correctly, Chappelle came out like maybe
after Christmas, so I didn't have it

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on my list. Regardless as you
hear me talk, I'm not really remembering

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that Dave Chappelle special, so that's
not the answer. I would pick Trevor

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Noah, and I think that would
be a nice win for Trevor, who's

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hosting and just is on the top
of the world right now, apparently irreplaceable

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as host of The Daily Show since
they had to go back to John Stewart

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and three four guest hosts a week. Anyway, good luck to Trevor.

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Noah is my pick for the Grammy. He's a two time Emmy winner.

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He has never won a Grammy.
He says. I'm rooting for Beyonce to

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break the most wins. I'm rooting
for Taylor Swift to win the most albums.

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Please make a Taylor Swift joke.
I want to see if she ICs

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you. Because she iced the Fox
cameras and she murdered Joe Coy's career.

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I want to see what she does
if you make a Taylor Swift joke.

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That's how we'll know if Trevor's in
like the Hollywood inner circle. If Taylor

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gives him a then we'll know like
Hollywood has accepted Trevor, Noah, Joe

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Coy, Sorry, Bud. Trevor
says, what's tough about these categories is

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that almost every single person in them
someone who I believe deserves to win that

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award. Yeah, they're all great. I agree. He says. I'm

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not part of the voting contingency.
I'm actually glad because then nobody can come

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up to me and say, who'd
you vote for? What you do?

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Luckily I don't have that stress on
my shoulders. He compared a regular set

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to hosting awards. He says,
I think stand up comedy is a performance

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that's curated not just for but by
the comedian for their own audience. It's

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one where you're in total control and
most importantly, you're the reason that people

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are there. An award show is
different because you're not the reason people have

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come most of the time, and
everyone there in the audience is there predominantly

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because they're hoping to take home an
award. So that makes this gig different.

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I think it means it's not all
the same skill sets, and I

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think that means the outcome is a
little less predictable because if you're a comedian,

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you're on stage and you're not doing
well, you can switch things up,

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you can do whatever you want.
You can't do that in an award

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show. So it's a different discipline. I don't take that for granted because

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it's difficult in a very different kind
of way to just doing stand up.

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All right, I'm gonna get on
my soapbox here. If you don't want

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to hear the soapbox, maybe hit
skip like thirty second skip hit it like

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ten times. This will probably take
three minutes, would be my guess.

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So here's my soapbox. The headline
is I disagree with the Grammys on what

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an album is. They can pick
whatever they want as an album. It's

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their rewards. But let's go back
in nineteen fifty nine, the Chipmunk Song

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won the Grammy. As we get
into the sixties, things like Bob Newhart's

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The Button Down Mind strikes back.
So let's use that as an example.

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Clearly an album. I would like
to experience the comedy of Bob Newhart.

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Well, there are two things I
can do. I can go see Bob

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Newhart live, or I can go
to the record store and buy this twelve

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inch vinyl also known as an album
and play the Button down mind strikes back

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on my record player at home.
Clearly an album. Nineteen sixty three,

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Vaughan Mater is the first family.
Clearly an album. As we head into

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the seventies, nineteen seventy three,
George Carlin FM and AM I can either

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go see George Carlin or I can
buy a twelve inch vinyl. Maybe by

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nineteen seventy three did we have eight
tracks yet? Maybe? I don't know

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an album? You know, now
it starts to get a little little funky.

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So in nineteen eighty four we have
Eddie Murphy's Comedian. I owned that

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on cassette. Cassette another form of
album. You know, it's a thing

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you listen to you're not watching it. But there was also Eddie Murphy Raw

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I believe it was called, which
was the HBO special and the material kind

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of overlaps, but at least there
was an album there. You know,

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I could take my cassette and listen
to it poolside with the other teenagers,

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and believe me, we did.
But as we get into the twenty twenties,

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Dave Chappelle Sticks and Stones one in
twenty Tiffany Hattish Black MITZVN twenty one

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Louis c. K Sincerely twenty two, Dave Chappelle's The Closer in twenty three.

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Those to me are Netflix specials or
video specials. Those aren't the same

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thing to me as Bob Newhart,
you know. But the Grammys disagree.

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From their own website screening criteria for
Best Comedy Album, this category recognizes excellence

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in comedy recordings, including spoken words, stand up comedy, and musical novelty

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recordings. So far we agree.
New comedy performance albums, whether recorded in

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a studio or low, so far
we agree, or whether recorded in an

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audio only format or as part of
a video project or eligible. And that's

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where we are now. The Grammys
feels a Netflix special is eligible for a

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Grammy. I'm like, why aren't
we doing audio recordings here? What happened?

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So? If weird Al makes a
funny video but doesn't release an audio

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version of it, is that eligible? I guess it is now. The

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Grammys tell us recordings that are compilations
and excerpts from a current year radio or

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TV program, or new recordings of
comedy performance first aired on television within five

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years of the release date are also
eligible. Recordings that are compilations and excerpts

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from non current year broadcast radio or
television programs. Audiobooks, even if considered

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humorous, albums of sound effects and
albums of environmental recordings are not eligible,

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and Best Comedy Album and may be
entered in other categories as appropriate. So

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I'd say, well, agree to
disagree, but they're not my awards,

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So the Grammy's gonna do what the
Grammys are gonna do. The other thing

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is, and I've been programming comedy
radio for twenty years now, a lot

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of people don't release anything that on
old Man Mountain would call an album anymore.

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Most things are just video releases or
they go straight to YouTube. Maybe

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if we're lucky, there's a digital
release and you can buy some MP threes.

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But you know, the days of
George Carlin putting out twelve inch final

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That's over Cracked reminds us that no
comedian can touch with Bob Newhart did.

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In the nineteen sixty one Grammys,
Newhart recorded his debut comedy album and a

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club had never heard of the Tide
Lends Motor Inn in Houston. Bob had

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never performed in front of a live
audience before recording that album. Wow Bob's

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comedy career began when he'd call a
buddy who worked at an ad agency and

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do prank calls as an airline pilot
or the manager of a yeast factory.

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Another friend heard about Bob's funny phone
stuff and suggested recording them to sell at

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a radio stations. A few stations
bought in a suit at Warner Brothers found

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out about this. They thought Bob's
phony phone calls would make a funny album

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and wanted to record them at one
of the comics club gigs. The problem

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Bob Newhart had never performed in front
of an audience. Isn't this incredible?

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The Button Down Mind of Bob Newhart
hit number one on the charts, not

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the comedy charts would didn't exist at
the time. The music charts warners wanted

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another album, but Bob had used
up all his material, so he scraped

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together enough bits to get The Button
Down Mind to Strikes back its stores before

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the end of the year. That
reached number two on the charts, right

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behind his debut album That's Amazing.
The Button Down Mind of Bob Newhart beat

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out Harry Belafonte and Frank Sinatra for
Album of the Year. Bob also won

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Best New Artist, making him a
triple Grammy winner on the night, best

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Comedy Performance Album of the Year and
Best New Artist. Bob says, it

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turns out my two albums held the
number one and number two spots for two

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consecutive weeks. That record stayed in
place until Guns N' Roses Use Your Illusion

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one to two in nineteen ninety one. That is amazing, all right.

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The other big thing going on today
is Curb Your Enthusiasm rolling still. Alan

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Seppenwalla is a very respected critic,
and he writes under the headline Kurby Your

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Enthusiasm final season is a very mixed
bag potential spoilers coming up. Consider yourself

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warned. Sepinwall writes, it's a
running gag in season twelve that people keep

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mentioning that Larry David didn't work on
the last two seasons of Seinfeld, but

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then returned for the finale. Every
time, Larry greets the observation with Stony's

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silence because he knows the audience hated
that finale and assumes he is being given

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another thinly veiled complaint about it.
The previous eleven seasons on Kerb have already

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featured two episodes that were blatantly presented
at as series finales. In season five,

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Larry died then was kicked out of
The Afterlife for being annoying. Season

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eight, Larry and Leon fleet America
for Paris to escape a feud with Michael

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J. Fox and plenty of other
season enders would have been fine finales if

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Larry David didn't come back. Larry
was at a screening of the first two

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episodes of season twelve. He got
a standing out. Larry joked, if

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I had been a different person,
I might have been touched by that.

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He confirmed, this is it the
final season. It's very sad, and

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apparently he was being playful with the
American sign language interpreter next to him.

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Larry tells us, don't worry about
me. I got plenty to do.

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First of all, I love to
travel. Y'all know that I'm a world

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traveler. I love packing and unpacking, tripping ou everybody. When I come

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across having a medical emergency in a
foreign country where they don't speak English,

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that's the greatest. He says.
He's thinking about traveling to Antarctica. I've

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been hearing a lot of things about
Antarctica. Good things get that boat.

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O'll go down there. They got
the penguins. I love the penguins.

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Now that the show's over, I'll
have a lot more time accomplish a few

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things that needed to be done.
I might get that stool test that I've

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been putting off. All right,
a little long here Today, let's hit

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seafood Corner. This may be the
last seafood Corner. I love the bit,

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but there really isn't that much comedian
seafood news today. On seafood Corner,

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we're reminded that Chris Rock used to
work at a Red Lobster. You

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know, not like last year or
going way back here and back in two

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thousand and three, Chris Rock told
Jay Leno, the thing about Red Lobster

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is that if you work there,
you can't afford to eat there. You're

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making minimum wage. A shrip costs
minimum wage. It is the final day

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of sketch Fest, which means I'll
get to delete another bookmark. I've got

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about twenty open as usual. Let's
see noon Glop meets Glog. It's the

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Glorious Ladies of Puppetry and the Glorious
Ladies of the Groundling love the title.

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That alone makes me want to go
there. Two o'clock something called Hey Riddle

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Riddle that appears to be a podcast
taping about riddles. Okay, Seven o'clock

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DJ Dimmers I talked about him yesterday. That would be a great for us

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to see. Also at seven the
Traventure Zone, a night of Dungeons and

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Dragons, and also comedians seven point
thirty The Edinburgh Spotlights. Eight o'clock Open

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Mike Eagle and Sketch Fats Sets.
I would pick DJ Dimmers and then catch

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