Weird Al's new song, Joe Rogan's long-ago pay cut, Hank Azaria's Springsteen Tribute

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Callaroga Shark Media nine Jommy Mack with
your daily comedy news. It's been busy

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around here, all right, Just
to catch up on the feed. Yesterday,

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around one pm Eastern, I dropped
celebrity reactions to the passing of Bob

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Newhart. There was a normal episode
Friday. I know, sometimes, especially

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if you use Apple Podcast, you
might miss an episode because it only puts

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the most recent one in front of
you, So yesterday there were two.

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Thursday night, around seven pm,
I shared an episode of TV in the

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Basement where Joe Mitchell did a really
nice recap of Bob Newhart's TV career.

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Before that was the O bit and
before that was the normal episode on Thursday.

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All right, let's move forward.
Ten years ago, Weird Al made

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history Mandatory Fun, his fourteenth and
final studio album, hit number one.

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I remember listening to that for the
first time. I could tell you exactly

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where I was. I was out
for a run. I was listening to

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the song Foil and I'm like,
this is kind of lame, like it's

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Lord's Royals, but it's about aluminum
foil and it's kind of dumb. And

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then I should have trusted Weird Al
we got to the second half of the

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song with the wonderful twist where he
went into crazy conspiracy Land. I was

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like, oh, gotta trust weird
Al. Here, nobody's reached number one

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with a comedy album since Weird Al
said, I know it feels ironic to

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decide to stop making albums after having
a number one album, but I just

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like the freedom of being able to
really use whatever I want whenever I want,

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not have to be behold into a
label. Al has a new release.

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It's a pokem ed Lee poke Mania. I like Al's pokem mixes.

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On this one, he takes on
Billie Eilish's Bad Guy, Adele's Hello Miley,

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Cyrus Flowers, We Don't Talk About, Bruno from Disney's and Canto Olivia

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Rodrigo's Vampire, Lil Nas Exis,
Old Town Road, Lewis Ponsi and Daddy

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Yankees, Desposito at Sheeran's Shape of
You, Mark Ronson and Bruno, Mar's

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Uptown Funk, Cardi b and Meghan
Fee, Stallion's Wap Wap, Mariana Grande's

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Thank You Next, and Taylor Swift's
Shake It Off. Al says with the

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changing of media, he doesn't like
to have to sit around and wait till

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you have twelve songs. He can
release them all at once. Sometimes that

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means some of the tracks aren't going
to be quite so topical as for this

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release. Over the last ten years, there's been a lot of songs that've

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been on the charts that, for
whatever reason, I didn't take a shot

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at, and I thought those were
missed opportunities. I wanted to circle back

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and pay tribute to a lot of
those big hits over the last ten years.

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How do you pick the songs?
Al Al says, I started by

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limiting the songs that have been number
one on the Billboard charts. That narrowed

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it down quite a bit. I
didn't do like one song per year,

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but I wanted it to be pretty
spread out over the ten year period,

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and I picked songs that I thought
were iconic, an artist that I thought

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were iconic with some of the most
memorable songs. Did anyone decline? Al

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Al said, Well, we heard
back from Taylor Swift right away, which

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was amazing. Miley Cyrus and Billie
Irish both are apparently delighted they could be

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in a pokea Inmedley, the one
we never heard back from was Sizza,

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we wanted to use kill Bill.
She didn't say yes or no. She

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just never turned our phone calls.
Joe Rogan was hosting his Joe Rogan Experience

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podcast Have you heard of it?
It's pretty popular? He had on Sam

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Talent and Joe started telling a story. As Joe says, there was a

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club that when Fear Factor ended,
they decided that even though it sold out

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every show every time I'd been there
for years, they decided I wasn't a

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draw anymore. Oops. They tried
to decrease my amount by twenty five percent.

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I was like, what the afterre
you talking about. They're like,

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we don't think you're draw anymore.
But I sold out a year ago when

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I was here, Like, what
are you saying? Rogan did not name

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names, but said of the promoter, it was one of those big clubs,

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a big company that has a lot
of clubs. I think I could

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figure that out, but I'm going
to leave that alone. Sam Morrell was

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talking a Decider and they brought up
an interesting thing deciders that I've talked to

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some comedians who left at Netflix,
specifically because they felt like they weren't being

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served unless they were huge name.
They were just kind of lost in the

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shuffle. Sam said exactly. It's
like you hit that Netflix top ten for

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a minute and then you're immediately out
right because they put out a special every

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week, so as you said,
not special. So sure, I mean

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for me, I didn't leave.
I would have entertained Netflix if it was

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a more substantial offer, but the
offer was like very low where they said

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that'd make one with me in twenty
twenty five, and I'm like, okay,

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that's nice, but it's ready now. I mean, I have no

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issue with Netflix or Hulu or any
of them. I mean Netflix is obviously

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the big name, but sure oversaturation
is a problem, Like I mean,

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YouTube specials aren't doing what they used
to do. Netflix specials probably aren't doing

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what they used to do because there's
so many, Like not everyone got that

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Tom Sigora Alley Wong bump when it
was a desert over there, and they

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just got to hang on that home
screen forever. So yeah, there's a

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lot of crap. I assume you
said crap. The transcript says s dashline.

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I do think if you make a
good thing, it'll hopefully get shared.

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But I think you just have to
work when in doubt, work harder

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because there's a lot of competition.
I don't mean comics in competition, I

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mean like all forms of entertainment.
Sam says, I have a podcast,

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and I'll tell you how often I
get hit up by a comic I've never

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heard of who's got a special I'm
like, Wow, there's a lot of

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specials. Decider asked if Sam needs
validation from his peers or within the industry,

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and Sam said, they all matter. I mean, it's hard to

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rank them. They all matter,
obviously. I want to comics. I

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respect to think I'm funny. That
means a lot to me. Fans are

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so important because they keep you going
and they keep you writing. I mean,

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if I went back to when I
couldn't sell tickets on the road,

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it'd be very hard for me to
write New Hours because that was hard.

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You're playing the video game on Hall
of Fame mode when you're young, and

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you know, then you kind of
move up. It gets a little easier.

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You're busy, so your brain is
a little bit more mush these days,

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so you don't have time to write. But yeah, having no one

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there papered rooms on the road,
that was tough. Reggie Watts has a

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special out today on VEEPS. You're
probably like, what's veeps? I'm looking

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here too. Veep's official website get
unlimited access to live shows, on demand

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content, and exclusives from artists you
love. A bad news for VIEPS.

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I clicked through the link that comes
up on Google and it goes to can't

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find the server. That's not good
anyway. I found a deeper link.

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They've got a bunch of specials up
on Nick swartz In, David Cross,

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Rory Scovell, Brad Williams. So
yeah, good stuff here. Reggie Watts

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never Mind will be available to stream
on VIEPS today starting at eight pm Eastern

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Time. This one has a bit
of a time out travel hook. Reggie

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says the time travel hook keeps us
away from some of the divisive issues that

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are playing us now. It's tapping
in how I really thought it was going

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to be back then, and it
still can be in many ways. I

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think the Internet is obviously an amazing
tool, but capitalism has ruined it for

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the most parts. Watts worked completely
off the cuff. Moments before he walks

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out on stage, he says,
I'm not preparing at all. I create

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the room of the environment for something
going to happen, but I'm not preparing

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for what I'm going to perform inside
the environment. Watts isn't even sure he

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needs people to laugh. He's seeking
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that takes people outside of themselves.
They might be laughing, but it's more

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the type of laughter he associates with
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Reggie says, audiences that really know
me, I can still laugh with

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them. I just have to not
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be fresher in the way that I'm
being on stage. This special is set

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in the mid nineteen nineties and points
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the perspective of only a couple decades
ago. Matt Matthews will be taping his

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special tonight at the Alabama Theater in
Birmingham, Alabama. This is from his

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Newest Too, when that thing and
got to thing in all right. For

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the last few days, I've been
telling you how excited I was about this

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Hank Azaria thing. All right,
Johnny Mack, what is it? This

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better be good. I've probably oversold
it unless you're a Springsteen fan. Hank

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Azaria answered my prayers. Remember the
other day, I said, I did

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this whole thing about how comedy was
kind of stale right now and nobody was

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doing anything interesting. Hank Kazaria must
have listened to the episode, traveled back

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in time three months and put together
a Bruce Springsteen cover band. Vulture caught

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up with Hank, who said,
my whole life is about sharing vocal impressions.

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This, in some ways is the
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think of it as a theatrical performance. I'm staying in character as Bruce,

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even though I'm telling stories about myself. It's a performance piece, but I'm

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not a Bruce impersonator. He did
a gig recently that went so well he

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was offered to acting jobs later in
the week, and he turned them both

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down and spent all morning pursuing whatever's
next with the Easy Street band. They're

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gonna play New York City in August
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a major Springsteen fan. I have
seen and Bruce fifty something times. When

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I worked at Sirius, I worked
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The Wise Guys Show. I've been
to rehearsal shows. I met Clarence,

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I've met Max. I was in
the bathroom with Bruce. You don't talk

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to Bruce in the bathroom. That's
awkward. You know, I'm there,

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he's standing next to me. You
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like your music. That's not the
time to do that. Anyway. Let's

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let Hank iss Area take us into
the break with Glory Days and dudes.

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I'm a big Bruce fan and I
thought this was gonna be horrific. This

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is pretty good. Enjoy. I
had a friend was a big baseball player

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back in high school. You can
pull down street ballfire, make you the

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l a fool moment. So the
other night out out this rone sidebar,

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I was talking in he was walking. We went back inside, sat down

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bad a few French HOLLI temps topping
what's Holy Day? Well pass you by.

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Conan O'Brien is going to appear on
the Simpsons co Showinner Matt Selman was

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on the podcast Dough Boys and said, can I give you guys a Simpsons

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scoop? But they say, now, we don't want that. Of course

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they said yes. He revealed Conan
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premiere of The Simpsons. Conan O'Brien
will play Conan O'Brien. It's not Conan

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O'Brien's first time as a character on
the show. He makes an appearance in

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season five's Bart Gets Famous. Back
in nineteen ninety four, Bart appears on

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Late Night with Conan O'Brien, which
was just five months old. Selman says

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Conan's role in the upcoming episode will
be much bigger. Cheech and Chong making

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waves in the cannabis industry, but
they've hit a snag when it comes to

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shipping in certain states. Idaho is
the main punchline in their marketing. Cheech

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and Chong have decided to advertise saying
cruise Chooser one hundred percent legal in every

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state except Idaho. Sorry, folks, you know what it's like one hundred

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and five degrees in my basement studio
right now. I've got three more stories,

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but I'm being honest with you.
I'm hot. Let's let's wrap it

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up there. More comedy news tomorrow. See you then.