Sept. 3, 2025

WTF Maron and Heidecker slam Rogan Experience PLUS Howard Stern no-shows

Show Notes
Transcript

Marc Maron and Tim Heidecker critique Joe Rogan’s podcast and political impact. Howard Stern skips his much-hyped return. Jay Leno fails to pass a California smog law for classic cars. Plus: Cam Patterson may join SNL, Cleese rages at the BBC, Beck Bennett & Kyle Mooney launch a confusing podcast, and Bill Burr picks the Iron Bowl.

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

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daily comedy news. Mark Maren continues to be super interesting

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on his podcast On Monday, he had Tim Highdecker on

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I coincidentally had listened to it on Monday, enjoyed it

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very much, and the media is picking up on the

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discussion of Joe Rogan's podcast. Tim Hideker told Mark Maron

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there's something annoying about his show Rogan that you can't

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put your finger on. A few years back, he did

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a wonderful parody of Rogan's show. I actually just downloaded

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it again to re listen to it. Let me find

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it for you. It's episode one eighty four of Tim

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Hideker's Office Hours Live. If you've never heard it, check

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it out. It's unbelievable. It's so on point, and Hideker

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said we put our finger on it, you know, and said,

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this is what's annoying about it. It wasn't even political.

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It's just like how boring it is and how going

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in circles you end up going. Arren said that Rogan

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and friends spend the show skirting around an issue that

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you don't understand with information that you don't understand. Either,

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Maren continued, the authoritarian hardware, to say, administration and the

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fascist cultural apparatus through the Christians. They're making policy built

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on the back of this anti woke thing. All these

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comics who were like it was really about language and

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their own victimization that they saw, which wasn't real. They're

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tethered to political policies. They're really killing people and damaging

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lives and infringing on the freedom of people and the rights.

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I'm working on my half, asked Maren a little bit.

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I know I don't have it at all, not that

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I have any of the half ass impressions, but Maren

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seems to speak in five word chunks, and the last

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word of a downbeat he tends to stretch out. For example,

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I'll just do that last phrase again, the freedom of

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people and their rights anyway, Mark Maron said, Joe's kind

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of changing as too now. But the thing is he

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did what he did. How convenient. Howard Stern wants us

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to talk about him, so we will. He was supposed

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to come back from vacation on Tuesday and tell everybody

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what was going on, and he didn't show up for work.

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Who knows now, To be fair, I'm recording this at

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nine in the morning on Tuesday. I never record at

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nine in the morning, but I had to take care

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of some stuff on Tuesday afternoons. I recorded way early

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in the day, So who knows. Howard may have said

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something later in the day or as I'm recording this.

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I don't know what the President announced or not. At

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two pm. You might be like John, you're not talking

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about the thing. That's why. Anyway, Howard was supposed to

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be back on Tuesday morning. They had even ran promos

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during the summer promising the big reveal today. Well, Howard

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didn't come. Howard's social media accounts posted on early Tuesday

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that Howard Stern will now speak Monday, September eighth, encouraging

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listeners to stay tuned. I could all kinds of speculate here,

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but I suspect the news cycle will change quickly, So

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I'm just going to tell you that's what happened. The

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Daily Mail caught up with former Stern intern Steve Grillo,

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who had predicted for the announcement that didn't happen yesterday.

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Comes September second. I think it's just going to be

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everybody tuning in and then I think they're going to

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get disappointed and tuned right back out, unless he decides

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to put on a leather jacket and a pair of

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black jeans and then come back and was like I'm

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back baby, which I highly doubt he's going to do

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because it's two for and in between. All of a sudden,

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he's going to come back and be that awesome rock

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star that everybody listened to every day. Instead, Grillo calls

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the promo's lame and says it's such a sad, pathetic

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version of what happened to this man. I think if

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old Howard Stern could go and jump in the time machine,

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he would punch him right in the face. Now I

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don't know about the violence part of that, but I

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have said that in the past that nineteen eighty five

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Howard Stern would destroy twenty twenty five Howard Stern and

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hate everything that old man Howard Stern became, Grillo told

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the Daily Mail. Now he's trying to develop an audience

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again through this entire awful hoax campaign of did he

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get fired? Did he not get fired? He's going to

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come on announce that there's five more years of creative

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BS that is going to be able to do. But

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that's already been in place. His contract is up. I

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guess probably January from my reliable source. That's been part

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of his contract since day one or the last time.

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They'reknew to his contract that when he came to this point,

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he had an option of five years of freedom to

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do what he wants and still have his name on

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the door. It's serious interesting. My prediction continues to be

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a end of December announcement of a two year farewell tour.

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We'll see some more SNL rumors. And again, I recorded

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early in the day, so by the time you're hearing this,

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maybe there's been eighteen more cast departures. Who knows well

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you do, or maybe you don't. Maybe that's why you

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listen to me. I don't like recording this early, but

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I had to. TMZ reporting SNL is looking at Cam Patterson,

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who you may know as a regular on Kill Tony.

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Cam Patterson possible new cast member. Boy, there's a whole

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bunch of comedy snobs on comedy threads that already hate

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SNL and hate Kill Tony. If we combine those two things,

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those people are going to lose their minds. TMZ points out.

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Cam Patterson has nearly six hundred thousand followers on Instagram.

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He's part of the recent Netflix version of Killed Tony

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and was okay. Speaking of SNL, beck Bennett and Kyle

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Mooney have a new podcast. They're out there trying to

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make some noise. Vulture caught up with them and Beck

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Benn said, we shared addressing room for seven years, in

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an office for eight years, so just hanging out in

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the office and doing bits and making each other laugh

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was a very creative, natural process, and we missed that

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now as a podcast executive, I see some red flags here.

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Kyle Mooney said. I think we were psyched about the

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premise that we don't know what we're doing and we're

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going to explore how to become better podcasters. Beck Bennett said,

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were talssing around ideas and we didn't really have anything.

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We were like, we could start a podcast, but why

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would we be starting a podcast. Kyle had the idea

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where we start a podcast trying to figure out what

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our podcast was, and I guess would come on and

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give us an idea. Okay, major red flag. You know

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what this is telling me? This to me is screaming

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that they don't have much going on, and they saw

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that Carve and Spade have an SNL podcast. They are

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like twenty years younger. So we'll do our own version

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of that. And podcasting is easy and we'll make a

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ton of money and we'll book our friends. And anytime

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hosts come in and be like, I don't know what

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we want to do, that never works out, never well.

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Tray asked what podcast you listen to? Kyle said, I

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listened to The Beatles, The Beach Boys, and Prints. Beck

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Bennett said I listened to SmartLess, Hollywood Handbook, dough Boys, WTF,

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Las Culturistas, and Office Hours Vulture. In your second episode,

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Mark Marin said he had a hard time telling when

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you are or aren't doing a bit Kyle. It's something

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we've encountered pretty consistently with every guest. No one has

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heard the podcast, and nobody knows what to expect when

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they come in the room, Kyle. We pitched the podcast

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to a handful of places, and Headgum was incredibly receptive

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in an awesome way. One of the cool things about

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the concept of developing it with them is we don't

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know the best way to present all these things, So

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there was a development process of how do we break

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this down. What portion of the show is a podcast

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within a podcast with guest pitches? What portion is the interview?

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Do you want to do an interview? How much of

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it has just beckon me? So there's this constant conservation

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of what this thing is, and they were really essential

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in the process of making it an actual podcast that

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seemingly is ready to be consumed. Yikes. Well, to be fair,

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they're off to a good start. What's Our Podcast with

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Beck Bennett Kyle Mooney is number one ten on the

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All Podcast charts and number fourteen on Comedy overall. That's

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pretty good. Bill Burra said he plans to attend the

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ninetieth edition of The Bowl when Alabama visits Auburn on

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November twenty ninth. Burst said, I've picked out the college

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football game that I'm going to go to this year.

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I got the green light from my wife because this

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was the hard one. It's Auburn, Alabama and Auburn. It's

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a Saturday after Thanksgiving. Oh but it's gonna be a

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good game, just for laughs. Announced their dates for twenty

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twenty six. I'm not sure in the past they've announced

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it this early. Now it was always really consistent in

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the last two weeks of July, but kind of nice

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to see it. So as they've announced it, the festival

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will be held in both Quebec City and Montreal simultaneously

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from July fifteenth through the twenty sixth in Montreal and

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Quebec City July twenty second to August second. That's interesting.

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Just guessing more of the French stuff will be in

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Quebec City would be my guest there. John Mulaney's got

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a book club, remember that. Yeah, he in the middle

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of the holiday weekend dropped on threads. I saw it.

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Weird time to make an announcement, but anyway, this month's pick,

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according to John Mlanieu's pan by Michael klune Alani said,

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this book is wild as a panic attack. Veteran reading

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this novel was a funny, surreal b so totally familiar experience.

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Panic has a spiritual experience. Panic has a gift from

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the gods. I had never read anything by Cloon before,

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and I intend to dive into it all now. Some

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reviews describe the setting of this book as a dreary suburb,

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but Libertyville, Illinois is a fascinating place home to several

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of my cousins, as well as Tom Morello. All right,

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that's John Mulaney's a pick. Add John Clees to the

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list of people that when I mention them on the show,

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I'm never like John Klee said, it was a beautiful

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day and I pet a puppy and isn't everything great

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in the world. He's always fighting. Klees is mad at

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the BBC and said, if you put a script in

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now it has to go through a bleeping committee. You

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have no idea what they're doing. There's been nothing funny

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since the office. It's sad, and it's because the people

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in charge of no idea how to make comedy happen.

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The whole process has been replaced by a bureaucratic process

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which does not begin to work. He said of British comedy,

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we used to be really good at it and now

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we're not, and that's very sad. There weren't committees when

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we started. Comedy now has to be clean. You must

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not play for lass. So I'm going to write a

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book about writing comedy and make people are aware how difficult

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it is. The people organizing comedy have never been very good,

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but at the moment of particularly the BBC. They are clueless.

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I don't think it's a lack of talent except among

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the executive classes. Those classes have no idea what they're doing.

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Cleaes is working on a sequel to the twenty sixteen

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adaptation of Faulty Towers. Faulty Towers, Too, will be inspired

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by three episodes from the TV version, which include The Psychiatrist,

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where Basil Faulty accidentally groups a hotel guests appressed while

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reaching for a light switch, and also from the Kipper

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and the Corpse, where the hotel staff tried to hide

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a dead body. No word on what happened with the

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TV sequel of Faulty Towers. I haven't heard anything about that. Now,

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let's check in on the worst person who ever lived,

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Jay Leno. Listen to the nerve of this guy. He

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was trying to get the California Assembly Appropriations Committee to

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prove something called Leno's Law. Leno's Law would have given

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classic car owners like Jay Leno a pass from smog requirements. However,

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on Friday into the holiday weekend, the Assembly Appropriations Committee

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blot ba Field Republican Senator Shannon Grove Senate Bill seven

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point two from advancing for a full vote. Jay Leno,

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the nerve of that guy, had testified the support of

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the measure in Sacramento earlier in the year. Assembly Member

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Buffy Wicks did not a great name. Buffy, I'm sorry

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it did not provide a reason for killing the bill.

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During Friday's hearing, which quickly announced the fate of two

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hundred and sixty other bills that have been placed on

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the committee so called suspense file, Buffy Wicks was asked

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by reporters, why did you kill Jay Leno's law? Buffy

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Wicks told the reporters, I'll have to go back and look.

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I can't remember what what what do you mean? You

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can't remember now? When Jay Leno testified the nerve of

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this guy, he said, with a modern cards, plug and

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get your money, boom, get out. It's very quick to

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get a smock check with a modern car. It's not

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impossible in an older car, but it's tricky, takes time,

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and often causes charges four or five six times more

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than a regular car. Leno said, classic car owners struggled

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to even find a shop with the equipment needed to

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test them. The nerve of that guy, that's your comedy

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News for two. I actually wrote a substack mcktpod dot

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substack dot com link in the show notes about how

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I've become obsessed with jay Leto. I will tell you

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right now. I've got a jay Leto story in the scripts.

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I think all the way through Sunday already, I am

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obsessed with possibly the worst person who ever lived? Is

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he you tomorrow?