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<v Speaker 1>Callaroga Shark Media from the basement where it's literally fifty degrees.

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<v Speaker 1>My boilers are not working. Hello, I'm Johnny Mack with

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<v Speaker 1>your daily comedy news. I am all discombobulated. It is

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<v Speaker 1>freezing in the house like cauld as. I have this

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<v Speaker 1>space heater and can kind of heat up one room.

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<v Speaker 1>It's just it's awful. There's supposedly coming on Sunday. Yikes,

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<v Speaker 1>So I'm a little messed up here. Billboard did release

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<v Speaker 1>the top twenty five Comedians of the twenty first century,

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<v Speaker 1>if you want to check that out on Billboard dot com.

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<v Speaker 1>I was hoping that today I would be able to

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<v Speaker 1>record my thoughts on it and put it out as

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<v Speaker 1>a bonus episode for the paid subscribers, and it would

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<v Speaker 1>be in the regular feet at the end of December.

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<v Speaker 1>But not going to get to that today. Johnny Mack

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<v Speaker 1>is running late. And you know I mentioned I had

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<v Speaker 1>the wedding last night, so as I record this, it's

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<v Speaker 1>before the wedding. But I have to shower, shave, and

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<v Speaker 1>put on real clothes. It's one thing to sit here

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<v Speaker 1>dressed like Adam Sandler recording a podcast. It's another to

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<v Speaker 1>look like an adult and then people like, hey, is

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<v Speaker 1>that George Clooney, And I'm like, no, no, no, no,

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<v Speaker 1>I get that all the time. I did record the

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<v Speaker 1>Comedy Survivor Selection Show that'll come out as a bonus

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<v Speaker 1>feed in the middle of the day Monday. So Monday,

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<v Speaker 1>I'll give you a regular episode which I haven't recorded yet.

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<v Speaker 1>And the Comedy Survivor Selection Show that came out really

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<v Speaker 1>well and put a lot of work into that. One

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<v Speaker 1>had fun with that, all right. Today's news, Kevin Hart

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<v Speaker 1>was on Diary of a CEO, and Kevin said, if

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<v Speaker 1>life ended today, I could cross my legs comfortably and

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<v Speaker 1>be okay. I made sure I applied myself to the

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<v Speaker 1>best of my ability. I tried my best to put

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<v Speaker 1>those I loved in a better position so that they

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<v Speaker 1>could see more and do more. My last name and

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<v Speaker 1>my family name is much stronger today than it was yesterday.

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<v Speaker 1>The idea of the world is that something I was

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<v Speaker 1>able to live and understand better because I was blessed

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<v Speaker 1>and fortunate enough to travel in meat. I was an

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<v Speaker 1>energy and source of good to bring people closer together

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<v Speaker 1>through all the things I've done, so it all connects

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<v Speaker 1>and I'm okay. I'm okay. If it stopped, it stopped.

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<v Speaker 1>What I'm not okay with is w well. I have

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<v Speaker 1>the bandwidth of good health, great mind. I can go,

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<v Speaker 1>I can do it. I can get there. I'm not

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<v Speaker 1>okay with wasting that time. Those are good smart words

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<v Speaker 1>by card If you haven't watched his special, it'll probably

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<v Speaker 1>unless something surprises me this week wind up as my

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<v Speaker 1>number two special of the year, Very very funny. Gary

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<v Speaker 1>Golman was asked what's the worst and most illogical state

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<v Speaker 1>abbreviation and why is it MO for Missouri. Gary said

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<v Speaker 1>they must have gone in alphabetical order and got to

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<v Speaker 1>Michigan and Mississippi before Missouri. Then they got to Missouri

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<v Speaker 1>and the next non s letter was Oh, that must

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<v Speaker 1>be how they did it. It's not intuitive at all.

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<v Speaker 1>They should have based it on population. Gary was asked

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<v Speaker 1>to talk about the Chicago comedy scene. He says, I've

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<v Speaker 1>been really impressed over the years. There were a lot

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<v Speaker 1>of good comedians in the eighties, white guys from Chicago

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<v Speaker 1>who reminded me of Boston comedians, but with a different accent.

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<v Speaker 1>The thing I noticed in Chicago's on the top five

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<v Speaker 1>for this The closer city is to university. I couldn't

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<v Speaker 1>have gotten into the better my act does. It never

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<v Speaker 1>fails the further I go from a good college the

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<v Speaker 1>harder I bomb Chicago has a Northwestern University of Chicago

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<v Speaker 1>and others. It's not about me being smart. It's about

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<v Speaker 1>how I try to sound smart, and it's appreciated there.

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<v Speaker 1>I found there were more comedians trying to sound dumb.

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<v Speaker 1>You spend five minutes watching them and you think that

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<v Speaker 1>person's not dumb. Those jokes that you clever, you're insulting

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<v Speaker 1>my intelligence. Billboard asked Josh Johnson if there were any

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<v Speaker 1>challenges making the transition from writer to correspondent to anchor.

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<v Speaker 1>Josh shedd it's probably hitting refresh after each show. It's

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<v Speaker 1>not a bad thing, but you could be on cloud

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<v Speaker 1>nine after you do a show. Right after the rap,

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<v Speaker 1>there's an element of okay, but do we have to

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<v Speaker 1>come back tomorrow and start again. At the end of

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<v Speaker 1>a week, you get to enjoy everything that you did

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<v Speaker 1>and be like, wow, that's a great experience. Day to day,

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<v Speaker 1>hitting refresh is sometimes a challenge, although I'm used to

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<v Speaker 1>it from doing so much stand up on the road.

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<v Speaker 1>You're in West Palm Beach one day, Jacksonville the next day,

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<v Speaker 1>and maybe Tallahassee the next I feel the same way

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<v Speaker 1>about my YouTube channel, where I post every Tuesday. Variety

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<v Speaker 1>was focused on Morgan Jay, and they wrote, Morgan Jay

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<v Speaker 1>is not your typical stand up comedian. Variety rights. Armed

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<v Speaker 1>with an acoustic guitar and autotune drench microphone, Morgan Jay

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<v Speaker 1>sprints down the ass of the theaters in which he performs,

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<v Speaker 1>bantering with his fans and leading them in song. He

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<v Speaker 1>pours tequila shots into women's mouth straight from the bottle,

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<v Speaker 1>convinces his couples on first dates to give each other

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<v Speaker 1>a smooch, and push his wheelchair bound audience members across

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<v Speaker 1>the venues, recruiting bad ease to sit on their laps.

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<v Speaker 1>All the while he stairs directly into the lens of

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<v Speaker 1>a roaming camera that follows him around and projects his

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<v Speaker 1>face onto a JumboTron. He's got a health and fitness

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<v Speaker 1>regiment equipped for a pop star. That regiment running every

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<v Speaker 1>other day, jim every other day, yoga, twenty minutes of

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<v Speaker 1>stretching a day, vocal exercises every day while I'm touring.

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<v Speaker 1>No alcohol, no weed, no smoking whatsoever, and no meals

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<v Speaker 1>after eight PM. Now. I love that because right when

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<v Speaker 1>I was reading vocal exercises every day, my voice cracked

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<v Speaker 1>and I'm leaving it in. And I worked out five

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<v Speaker 1>days in a row, and then I had to teach

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<v Speaker 1>Thursday morning, and then Friday I had to record this

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<v Speaker 1>and go to a wedding and not watch Adam Sailor

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<v Speaker 1>Jay Kelly and Today's Saturday. I'm not going to get

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<v Speaker 1>to work out either, because I didn't do the weekend

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<v Speaker 1>shows yet. Uh, this is how you wind up fat

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<v Speaker 1>well that in the seven thirty Am cheeseburgers I ate

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<v Speaker 1>when I was twenty four years old producing morning radio

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<v Speaker 1>in New York City. That's a story for another day.

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<v Speaker 1>Morgan Jay says, it's an investment for people come to

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<v Speaker 1>the show. I'd hate not to be able to give

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<v Speaker 1>my fans the best show I can give them. Variety

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<v Speaker 1>did some math. Ticket plus parking plus merch plus two

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<v Speaker 1>drinks plus hotel can easily tell them more than five

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<v Speaker 1>hundred dollars, so you don't need a hotel go home.

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<v Speaker 1>Jay sett of minds two things that comedy purist might

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<v Speaker 1>scoff at, music and crowd work. People get so upset

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<v Speaker 1>about the crowd work. Did you watch Matt Raife special?

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<v Speaker 1>It's funny Variety really waxed his car, They wrote, Just

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<v Speaker 1>as Bo Burnham might be the quintessential comic to rise

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<v Speaker 1>from YouTube, Morgan Jay embodies comedy's TikTok era. He posts

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<v Speaker 1>about one crowd work clip per day to his nine

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<v Speaker 1>point four million followers, asking people where they're from, who

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<v Speaker 1>they're with, and whether they will sleep together after the show,

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<v Speaker 1>all while talk Singing into a pitch corrected mic, he says,

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<v Speaker 1>crowd work, It's only the first twenty minutes of his set.

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<v Speaker 1>The rest of his show follows a more rigid structure,

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<v Speaker 1>with pre written songs and interludes, a traditional stand up comedy,

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<v Speaker 1>and no, the autotune is not always on. Interestingly, after college,

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<v Speaker 1>Morgan Jay was an intern on NBC's Tonight Show when

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<v Speaker 1>it was hosted by Conan O'Brien. He explained Conan would

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<v Speaker 1>have three or four pages of jokes for the opening monologue,

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<v Speaker 1>and the interns were asked to come down and watching

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<v Speaker 1>rehearse so he could get a live reaction. He'd read

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<v Speaker 1>the jokes immediately go no, no, no, yes no. He

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<v Speaker 1>wasn't precious with the material. After the Tonight show Mortgage

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<v Speaker 1>Jay was a bike to our guide plugging his own

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<v Speaker 1>show to tourist cycling around Central Park. Then he got

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<v Speaker 1>a job hawking iPhones. He said ninety percent of working

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<v Speaker 1>at the Apple stores resetting passwords. That's funny. He started

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<v Speaker 1>doing the autotude crowd work during the pandemic, but says

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<v Speaker 1>they did do a grind. When I started going viral

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<v Speaker 1>on TikTok, I had ten years of experience and a

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<v Speaker 1>backlog of material. Or people will blow up on TikTok

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<v Speaker 1>who don't have twenty minutes of material. People see me

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<v Speaker 1>as this TikTok comedian. There are a lot of other

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<v Speaker 1>sizes of myself. I'd like to show. These. Glar brothers

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<v Speaker 1>talked about being twins and said being twins, even from

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<v Speaker 1>were born in the seventies, it was rare to see twins.

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<v Speaker 1>You rarely saw a double wide stroller. I think as

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<v Speaker 1>we got older, there was a lot of attention on us.

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<v Speaker 1>We love getting laughs and being connected to people. When

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<v Speaker 1>we started out, it was hard to live in Saint

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<v Speaker 1>Louis and give yourself a lot of opportunities in the

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<v Speaker 1>Comedy World. We went to the University of Michigan for

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<v Speaker 1>college and really started to develop our comedy chops. Then

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<v Speaker 1>we had a choice either go to New York or

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<v Speaker 1>la if you really wanted to try and make a

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<v Speaker 1>run at this business. So we chose New York because

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<v Speaker 1>we love New York and the energy there. I worked

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<v Speaker 1>with those guys a little bit. They are cool guys.

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<v Speaker 1>Gave them a show on serious as most of the

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<v Speaker 1>stories I tell you. I couldn't get anyone to give

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<v Speaker 1>me any budget for it, and it was not a

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<v Speaker 1>lot of money, but you know, you got to give

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<v Speaker 1>people some money. So many missed opportunities. We tried to

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<v Speaker 1>give Amy Schumer a show before she super popped, but

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<v Speaker 1>no money. Chang Wang caught up with Cincinnati dot Com

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<v Speaker 1>sincey dot Com wrote, that's understandable in a club where

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<v Speaker 1>there's fifty one hundred people, but if a thousand people

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<v Speaker 1>As long as you're on stage, Shang said, I try

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<v Speaker 1>to keep it moving. It's quick, photo quick. Hello. Charging

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<v Speaker 1>feels weird to me to just say hello to people.

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<v Speaker 1>It feels so nice that people will express how excited

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<v Speaker 1>and happy they are for the show, the topic they

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<v Speaker 1>are charging for meet and greets. A lot of comics

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<v Speaker 1>do that. Shang said, I love seeing generations of a

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<v Speaker 1>family have a reason to spend time together. Someone in

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<v Speaker 1>Milwaukee thank me because they get to spend an hour

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<v Speaker 1>and a half with their mom and they rarely get

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<v Speaker 1>to laugh and spend time together like that. I might

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<v Speaker 1>not hang after shows forever, but right now it's touching

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<v Speaker 1>and sweet to me. Fun interview here Cincinnati dot Com

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<v Speaker 1>doing their research said I ran across a wedding page

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<v Speaker 1>that said you're marrying Rachel Rowlands next summer in Oh Yeah.

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<v Speaker 1>I don't know how many Sheng Wang's are out there,

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<v Speaker 1>but it seems like a singular name. Comedian Shengwan said,

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<v Speaker 1>you know, I saw that recently. I don't know what

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<v Speaker 1>that is, but it feels like a scam. There's no

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<v Speaker 1>photos of who they are. Since he said, it says

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<v Speaker 1>please send presents to Rachel Shen Wing said, exactly, that's

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<v Speaker 1>such a good scam. At the University of Southern California,

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<v Speaker 1>you can minor in comedy. You can take classes in

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<v Speaker 1>stand up improv, magic, and medical clowning. About fifteen to

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<v Speaker 1>twenty undergrads complete the minor each academic year. The La

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<v Speaker 1>Times took a look at this program. I found this interesting.

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<v Speaker 1>Launched in the fall of twenty fifteen by the School

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<v Speaker 1>of Dramatic Arts. Some of the students are seeking careers

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<v Speaker 1>as actors. Others are just in careers in medicine, science

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<v Speaker 1>and engineering. For them, comedy offers a chance to develop

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<v Speaker 1>skills that could be useful in their hope for professions

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<v Speaker 1>and their daily lives. There's an intro to stand up

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<v Speaker 1>my mind. Then he won on TV and took off

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<v Speaker 1>came up with it himself. Who do you think that is? So?

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<v Speaker 1>Who would show up at after midnight? So it can't

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<v Speaker 1>Jim Gaffick? And that is a good question. Let me

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<v Speaker 1>know what you think about that. In the Facebook group

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<v Speaker 1>Daily Company news podcast group Ishmael, do you have any

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<v Speaker 1>advice to others? None of us deserve success selling out tours,

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<v Speaker 1>writing jobs, pilots, Netflix specials. I've held insurance through the

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<v Speaker 1>Of course not. It's a brutal, unfair, unsustainable scam. If

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<v Speaker 1>you're experiencing success, you'd better be humble. If you're struggling,

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<v Speaker 1>take solace in the fact the rich shall not enter

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<v Speaker 1>the Kingdom of God. That is your comedy news on

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<v Speaker 1>a Saturday. Have a great day.