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up next today we've got Fortune fster
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who I have called
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fster and one of them is wrong I'm not
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tell which one I know and I've called
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her Fon fster I've called her
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fart I did it as you Bren fum fum our
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people worship you fum she's really fun
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we've done a lot of stuff together she
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was as David would say a blast yeah
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she's a blast she's lighting her feet
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laughs the whole time we talk about a
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lot about standup we talk about closing
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bits how you decide on a closer that's
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sort of inside baseball but people like
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that we talk about butt massages I think
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we did a she told a very uh funny story
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about butt massages and there's a twist
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ending so stay tuned for that but uh
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never see it coming never she was full
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of fun and joy we talk about naming our
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comedy specials you know we all we talk
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to each of us
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the arduous process of a name that no
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one's going to remember anyway uh naming
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tours all that yes and the process of
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building a new hour she's one of those
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people again that makes you a little bit
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like whoa just can really get kind of a
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new hour in a period of a few weeks new
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hour of standup is very hard very hard
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for most stand-ups uh she's very quick
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she writes fast and she grinds it she's
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on the road grinding it like Nikki
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Glazer they're all out there grinding
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Nate these people are doing like a 100
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dates a year it's unreal um but uh
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anyway here she is I hope you enjoyed we
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had a really really good time with her
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here's Fortune just she's she's adorable
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here she is Fortune
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[Music]
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beamster is Fortune here yes what was
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your nickname like I we're going right
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at it cuz Fortune is such a great name
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so nice to have you and thanks for
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coming
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we are not smartless they're the Borg We
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Are The Little Engine That Could ni nice
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to meet you I'm just curious right
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because I saw your name in print Fortune
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like hey fortune cookie I mean what was
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it what did they do with that because
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that's such a cool name yes my family
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was big on fortune cookies um that was
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no um
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my my it's an old family name my um
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grandmother's um Mom it's her made a
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name so there's a bunch of Fortunes in
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my family with the last name
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Fortune oh and is that French
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um for I don't know I don't know it was
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kind of a nod to my grandmother I um
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it's technically my middle name um but
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it's what I started to go by it's such a
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good Showbiz name and you know if you do
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a special your next one maybe you call
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it Fortune 500 minutes of Comedy that's
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too you called fortune cookie and you
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make cookies while you do your stand up
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that would be good although 500 minutes
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I would need a lot more minutes it feels
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long yeah yeah I might lo I might lose
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some
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viewers people jump off after about
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eight minutes of a special I think I
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read that if someone says to me one more
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time you got to drop into the algorithm
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you got to make piece with the algorithm
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[ __ ] algo guys I'm so [ __ ] about
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the algorithm we living with an
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algorithm and I don't know yeah how are
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you trending what's your numbers like
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feel feeling good oh yeah I'm always
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trending you're always shaking the tree
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that's right this tree right here is
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that is that an office that looks kind
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of like you look sort of like you're on
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a patio and you're outside um no it's
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just a corner of my office it's kind of
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cool because you have like boards
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instead of just well this is I don't
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know this is like the trend now in
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houses is to make a wall I don't know
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have text look outdoor oh textured wall
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a textured wall it's not like Spades
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with the with the
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skateboards Shrine if someone says
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texture texture to me again I'm gonna
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blow my top no I'm kidding
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about algorithm is my number one hate
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hateful word I don't really understand
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algorithms and why they because you're
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not a
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computer they're like this is what we
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like this and people like be your algo I
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go I'm trying but I don't know what that
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means the algo is mad the algo is
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mad like don't post too much it's not
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good for the algorithm and then the
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other sites are like you're not posting
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enough the algorithm is mad you're like
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oh my God and don't delete one if you
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delete one the algo goes back to zero
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and you have to win it over again
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really oh see there another one is
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people say to me is don't look thirsty
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don't look too thirsty don't do a by
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line on a clip that looks like you're
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kind of looking for clicks it has to not
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look too thirsty is that the correct use
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of that David could you say thirsty a
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lot looks a little thirsty don't look
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thirsty I want to see Dana start posting
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thirst traps yeah Dana with his shirt
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off working out in
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the want let's just put it this way you
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saw the golden
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Bachelorette I lived it yeah that
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doesn't make sense but it sounds funny
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I'm doing two thumb pointing to me no
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I'm I'm in good shape for the shape I'm
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in um yeah it's everything's
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everything's fine it's working uh don't
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Wikipedia my name
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Fortune Fortune you have a professional
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microphone is that part of the podcast
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situation you you have right now yes you
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have a your podcast you want to promote
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it don't you have one yeah I have a
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podcast called handsome with tign nataro
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myself
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and that's right I've seen that in the
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top 10 I mean you guys are a hit right
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yeah it's crazy we're about six six and
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a half months in 8 million
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downloads we're just being silly and
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laughing and it's hard not to look at
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those charts I know so you're looking at
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what six months 8 million downloads was
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that like 7 750 a month or what is that
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what's the algorithm well I used to be a
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CPA I just like numbers I'm not going
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numbers but yeah it's you're doing fine
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it's really fun we have somebody ask us
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question it kind of leads um what the
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podcast is going to be about and it's us
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just being ridiculous for an hour is
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that how it works that you have a
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question and you run off that yeah you
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do you mind if we borrow that idea for
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our our other podcast bad hook because
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we're fresh out of bullets so thank you
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let me write that down you just changed
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my life listen the clip's been empty for
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a while Dana let's be honest take a
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question and do an hour of witty give us
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an example of something you guys are
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doing more than fine this podcast is
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always up there on the charts baby right
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jeez I can't look cuz I'm too sensitive
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we are up there huh yeah I don't I don't
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look at anything I love you guys
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together this is a great
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combo you what what give us an example
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of like a question that you could jump
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off on um oh God just something bag or
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is it advice um like Reese Witherspoon
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ask us like U what was your favorite
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holiday gift and okay um so we did that
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at Christmas Cole bear asked us like um
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do you have any woooo
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beliefs um oh you're asking
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celebrities not just fans yeah we know
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just anyone asking a question we don't
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want to get ahead of ourselves but what
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question would you ask our uh podcast
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the super light if you were going to ask
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a question not saying we're going to use
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this but right what would what would it
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be well because you guys come from
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rarified air I would ask some sort of
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SNL question I would be like you know
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what was your what was the hardest part
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of working on SNL or something like that
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some inside baseball thing oh yeah we
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get to inside actually we're talking
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about every meeting and every office in
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that 17th Floor we have dissected we
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have we have 150 hours of minutia well
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the meetings are on Monday with the host
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you know the rest of it did you ever
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have a a thing about SNL being a cast
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member or oh yeah that was like my North
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Star forever I I um grew up watching I
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watched both of you guys huge huge fan
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of both of you and well isn't that
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special I mean come on church lady was a
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part a big part of my childhood and
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doing doing your Dance I mean you
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Superior dance yeah one with the elbows
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up I don't know where it came from I
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heard Steve Martin when he was on the
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show when I was doing the readr I heard
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him say under his breath what kind of
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mind thinks of this
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because it was like your bulbas buttocks
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are thring you're not you know but um
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y'all were my guys I mean Wayne's World
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Spade telling people bubye I mean it was
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all of it so my I'm from a Tiny Town in
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North Carolina so that was my only
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access to Comedy and I would watch the
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sketches I would record them on my VCR
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and then I would go to like softball or
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tennis practice and sort of recite these
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sketches for people um and then I ended
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up testing twice for SNL um 2009
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2010 didn't test positive I did not test
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positive it was a cool experience though
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we get people on who have that
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experience and then I always say God
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there's so many inputs to being at the
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right place the right time it's not an
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out outright rejection at all it's
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literally people in the room going oh
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Fortune was really funny and your cards
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on the board yeah but Al also Barbara
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was great or or bill whatever it is so
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do do you did you feel hurt by not
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getting it were you close or what did
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you think um I mean obviously that had
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been the dream for so long that not
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getting it was so disappointing but I
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just now that I'm at the place I'm at in
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my life I can see why it didn't work out
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and I've weirdly enough gone to on to
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work with so many SNL people um even
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doing Keenan sitcom I worked with Lauren
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he was
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that means they loved you from the
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audition and remembered you I was pretty
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green I mean I was in advanc at the
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Groundlings when my first audition
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happened so I hadn't even gotten
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experience yet of Sunday company and
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doing sketches every week um I feel like
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I might have auditioned maybe two years
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before I was really no hard feelings
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fist bump I would say the your because I
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saw your special and I would say there's
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that kind there's a likeability thing
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that happens with certain performers I
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mean I can see it when I look at certain
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people like Steve Carell or whatever and
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and you you do have that oh a big time
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and um it's it's very cool to see the
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audience so Charmed by you and your
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special thank you I appreciate that
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you're essentially clean you're I mean
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you're you're 99% just clean and you're
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doing stuff about dodgeball and stuff
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it's just sort of it's Charming but
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anyway they blew it
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you should go back now I didn't even do
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standup in my audition which is wild to
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me now cuz I do feel like uh standup
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obviously is a strong point for me yeah
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uh my first audition was all characters
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and then I felt like I gave them all my
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best characters so my second summer I
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was like I don't know what I'm going to
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do now I should have just done
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standup well
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you oh yeah yeah yeah you do a few
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characters but what could do you mind
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just telling us what the characters you
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audition with well it's funny the first
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audition I only had like um I got called
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at like 300 pm on like a Wednesday and
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they're like can you be on a plane
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tonight a booty always they always they
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always do that yeah it was crazy they're
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like can you be on playe tonight and
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you're going to audition at like noon
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tomorrow so I was freaking out but I
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almost like that better I had less time
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to freak out yeah call back my first
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audition actually I thought went pretty
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well um I did um Richard Simmons
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obviously
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obviously well you look so much like I
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did um a Hooters waitress that um I was
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doing at the time what was funny is that
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I layered my clothes so I started um
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with my regular outfit doing I can't
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remember what characters I did and then
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I ended with taking that top layer off
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and it was the Richard Simmons tank top
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um closer then under underneath um that
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was a Hooters tank top there's more oh
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my God by the by the end of the audition
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I had a pile of clothes and I ended my
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audition and I did feel like a stripper
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that was like okay the lap dance is
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overing it up cuz it is kind of quiet no
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matter who you are it's just a few
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people oh good okay you you missed
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something your shoes are over there
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thank you very much yeah there's like
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you see those three lamps in the corner
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like in you're I'm gathering my clothes
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like okay thank you Lauren do you have
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any Tide
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Pods so I'll never forget that part of
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it did you have a rip cord at all or was
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it just sort of unbutton get it off
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taking it off no velcro you weren't on
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the show yet when you get on the show
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it's all velcro oh and let me let me
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also add that I took my pants off um
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because of course underneath my pants
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were short shorts cuz hello
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who dedicated so the pants didn't just
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come off you had to get on a chair and
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get them off I had to take take my shoes
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off pull my pants down it was a whole I
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mean was
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jeez that was kind of sexy Dana I hate
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how did I not get how did I not get that
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job that's crazy what what I don't like
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Dana and this is not on the subject when
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you're watching a when you're watching a
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porn and I know you guys don't but when
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you're watching a porn everything's
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going great and they're about to do it
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and then they both sit down and start
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taking off their pants the guy's got to
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pull his Levis over his shoes I'm like
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just take your shoes off for like
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yeah and then the I'm like go and then
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he's it's all stuck and he's got to sit
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down the lays on the floor I go can we
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just trim this part like I don't I love
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that you're D has
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notes I write in the comments at the
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bottom I go I liked it
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I
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yeah went crazy I I'll put this image in
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your head Fortune because you like
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Wayne's World so Mike had one of the
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best reveals ever he was touring with me
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and he would come out as as Wayne with
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the whole outfit on go do these jokes
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it's killing anyway and then sprockets
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would come on and he had a spring
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mechanism that he suddenly and then the
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wig comes off his hair s back so he's
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the German he's deer and he's strutting
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around with the music I go [ __ ] I got to
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follow
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this it would crush just the suddenness
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of yeah hi Mike if you're listening yeah
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hi Mike man man you guys were the best
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that was I mean you are the best but
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that was so that was just such a huge
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part of my childhood I told you Dana
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Fortune is likable so watch out I know
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you better watch out I told him watch
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out don't fall for it she's very fortun
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and I have worked on a few things and uh
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you know Fortune you won't remember this
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but we were on a show called Afterparty
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I do remember that okay that was thick
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of Co
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into the thick of it yeah we were you
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know the funny thing about this was Dana
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you knew lights out because you did it
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and uh Fortune did it and my f favorite
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talk show that show was so good I'm
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inate yeah that show should still be on
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the air you know I do hear more I've
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hear more about it after uh but when we
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were doing that uh our our old buddy and
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your buddy Ted Sandos would come
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sometimes right he was just comedy guy
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so he's he would pop by Netflix was
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close by so anyway anyway he so when we
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got uh uh word fired is strong uh when
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we got Co fired it
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was they had a new boss and they said
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we're gonna get rid of everything oh the
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new regime yeah so he called and said
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Ted called and said hey would you is
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there a way we could do that over
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Netflix because we did like that you
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know I think this the stipulation was at
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the end if you could interview someone
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from one of the Netflix shows for eight
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to 10 minutes after you do your panel
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after you you know and I'm like well
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yeah because we were always looking for
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like a fourth act like the closing act
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anyway so it'd be like a monologue and
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then comedians blabbing about [ __ ] and
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then maybe we'd film something and then
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interview someone I said that's actually
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perfect what happened was we got me
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fortune in London in there London Hughes
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and we had Bill Burr on the first one
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and what happens is Ted hands it off
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yeah and then it gets handed off and
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then by the time we shooting it's not
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that it's not lights out anymore no yeah
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and
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unfortunately it just turned
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into like an hour commercial
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for just for the people listening so
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this was you Ted got you two together
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and then you were doing you were doing
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like sort of a show that was about
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Netflix shows Loosely based right it it
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turn it was supposed to turn lights out
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com supposed be lights out then it turns
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into Entertainment Tonight God it was
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supposed to just be Comics kind of doing
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yeah just like joking around with
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sitting around and doing what we do and
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Bill and the first one they said let's
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do Bill Burr and then someone from
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Netflix and I'm like oh only one comic
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okay well so it sort of just got changed
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and you know all those things are
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well-intentioned like whoever's in
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charge the English guy uh and he said
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well we'll do this because it works here
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in England and then and then the second
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show how about no comic and it's that
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fast we're like wait this is really
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different so well it was odd because
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Spade's a very famous guy you've been
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around like you're suddenly interviewing
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like fate The
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Saga Love is Blind like why is
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Spade you know what I mean it was like
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what's happening and I didn't I didn't
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even claim to know enough about it I go
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maybe London should do this one because
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she's more into it she knows things I
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don't know and I'm like I don't even
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know what I'm doing and I'm like don't
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read the Q cards I'm like I don't know
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what show this is I don't babe would be
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like so Jenny and
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George which one of you's Jenny which
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one like I go I've seen every episode
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now which one's Jenny I go oh you might
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figure that out after a few episodes you
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you've watched seven seasons but that's
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your first question I really did like
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Jenny and gey that was a fun one because
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I did watch it and she was a
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sweetheart but the farther it went along
00:19:30
I started whatever I mean there's no
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real BL you didn't need to be you didn't
00:19:33
need to be interviewing people about
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their show I just turn into something
00:19:37
else and it it it was well-meaning I
00:19:40
still like lights out is I mean maybe
00:19:42
we'll do a panel show one day it was fun
00:19:44
to do like cuz in that we got to hang
00:19:47
and and laugh and it was during the
00:19:49
thick of the pandemic when people
00:19:50
weren't working um yeah I think I think
00:19:53
that first episode did so well it was
00:19:56
like the numbers were like insane that
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then they're like whoa wait what and
00:20:01
then a bunch of cooks were in the
00:20:02
kitchen yeah if this worked it would
00:20:04
work even better if we changed it all it
00:20:06
would work it works so well we should
00:20:08
change it a lot are you telling me wait
00:20:11
a minute are you guys telling me that
00:20:13
the suits of the hierarchy will take
00:20:15
something that's working and inject
00:20:17
their clueless ego and destroy the sule
00:20:21
is that your premise I'm saying that
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happens on every show and it sometimes
00:20:26
it works sometimes it makes the show
00:20:27
better and this scenario it didn't play
00:20:29
to anything I did well so I'm have to
00:20:31
blame because I was half checked out
00:20:34
going I just don't I don't know what I'm
00:20:36
doing anymore like well it wasn't it
00:20:38
wasn't the show that you came in with
00:20:41
that was working and was I didn't do a
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mon while I didn't do any goofing on
00:20:47
comedians anymore so it just came hi I'm
00:20:50
David Spade and tonight we talk to the
00:20:52
cast of Mostly it's a new show and you I
00:20:56
have to go watch it because we're
00:20:58
telling everyone who these people are
00:20:59
you know no one knows you were basically
00:21:02
Mario Lopez yeah and
00:21:06
you who we love great we love him very
00:21:10
much he's tremendous sorry the Karate
00:21:12
Kid one was fun cuz we did a sketch
00:21:14
about him that was with Ralph with Ralph
00:21:16
Macho Cobra Kai yeah yeah Cobra Kai well
00:21:20
it sounds like a great show I'm just
00:21:21
gonna write down reboot what was the
00:21:23
name of it no need it was called what
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was it no need
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for the algo no need that was called
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after party after party
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[Music]
00:21:40
yes Fortune if you had that experience
00:21:44
sorry just based on what taking David
00:21:46
Spade really really funny alltime funny
00:21:49
and then making him kind of the straight
00:21:50
interviewer have you had experiences
00:21:53
where they take you funny funny funny
00:21:55
and then somehow make you unfunny ooh
00:21:59
they
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they it happened to me a lot you when I
00:22:03
wasn't writing it you but what was your
00:22:06
worst experience in a show and we want
00:22:08
names gosh I'm trying to I'm try a
00:22:11
golden career no I mean there's
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definitely some misses I mean I
00:22:15
definitely think so I went from uh Mindy
00:22:17
Project was my first um series regular I
00:22:21
had just come off of Chelsea Lately um
00:22:24
and uh loved it and and they wrote so
00:22:28
well for me I I didn't have to think
00:22:30
about anything I literally just would
00:22:32
show up it was the best job and then we
00:22:34
went from that to a show called
00:22:36
Champions um that was on NBC and um same
00:22:41
same group uh similar group of people um
00:22:44
but it was a new show so it was trying
00:22:45
to find its way I definitely think that
00:22:48
was a character I didn't really know
00:22:51
what that character was and I was
00:22:54
overacting and like intense and I was
00:22:57
like oh this is
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this is not working you mean like you're
00:23:00
trying to go for the laughs a little
00:23:02
harder still wasn't clicking yeah
00:23:05
because I think because the pressure of
00:23:07
it being a new show and we're like
00:23:08
where's the funny I was trying too I was
00:23:12
pushing too much yeah it happens on
00:23:14
stage with Comics too my self- included
00:23:16
where when you're getting a tough crowd
00:23:18
you start to go bigger you can't help or
00:23:20
you bring out the profanity it's just so
00:23:23
or you speed it up there's so many
00:23:25
classic things you do that are wrong
00:23:27
yeah the last one I did it was I only
00:23:29
had one shot at it because the air
00:23:31
conditioner went out the first night you
00:23:32
know shooting a special so then that
00:23:35
wasn't usable because it was sweating
00:23:37
people were leaving oh no so it's kind
00:23:39
of like you work on something for six
00:23:41
months you got you got one shot here he
00:23:42
comes so very hard not to kind of push a
00:23:45
little bit but full circle back to your
00:23:48
special totally relaxed didn't feel like
00:23:50
you were recording was that what what I
00:23:53
seen was real I mean you didn't look
00:23:56
like you're pushing at all um that's
00:23:58
good what you felt I definitely get I
00:24:00
don't get nervous obviously with live
00:24:02
shows I only get nervous when I'm
00:24:04
filming so there is that pressure to be
00:24:07
like like you said there's I got two
00:24:09
shows to get this right I've been
00:24:11
touring for so long with this material I
00:24:14
don't want it like tonight to be like
00:24:16
the dud um I think once I get I think
00:24:19
I'm a little stiffer on the first show
00:24:22
and then if I get that at least the
00:24:24
Beats down then I'm like oh I have I
00:24:28
have the Baseline there now I can just
00:24:30
be you can always pull because people at
00:24:32
home don't know you sort of usually
00:24:35
combine the shows yeah you do the same
00:24:37
act twice then you go that choke worked
00:24:39
better in here the one about the
00:24:40
propeller worked better in the second
00:24:42
show and you kind of patch it together
00:24:44
but also I think on mine you know mine
00:24:47
everyone had a mask on and I didn't know
00:24:50
so when I went out the laughs were
00:24:52
noticeably muffled and I'm like oh my
00:24:55
God because the first thing you don't
00:24:57
want to think when you after first joke
00:24:59
is oh my God they're a tough crowd it's
00:25:01
my crowd and they're tough I'm having to
00:25:05
win I'm having to win over the people
00:25:07
that already like me yeah I'm winning
00:25:08
over my own crowd that PID B and they
00:25:11
don't but after I got off they go God it
00:25:13
was tough because they were all muffled
00:25:14
I go oh they were with the n95 like
00:25:17
super non- laugh Muffler zombie killer
00:25:21
and then you you couldn't see it from
00:25:23
the stage that anyone no like I don't
00:25:26
want to look at anyone then I'm like why
00:25:29
and then I thought God why is this so
00:25:31
tough and uh yeah but you know you can
00:25:33
fix it tweak but you want to just be
00:25:35
loose and be like the other night I went
00:25:37
on in Santa Rose and I'm like this is
00:25:40
such a fun show I knew before I walked
00:25:42
on the crowd was good I go I wish I was
00:25:43
taping tonight it just well that's the
00:25:44
best best theater I've ever played is
00:25:46
that that used to be the Luther Burbank
00:25:48
and now it's called Wells Fargo or
00:25:50
something like that right I think Luther
00:25:52
burbing is still in the title it was
00:25:54
it's in s Rosa oh you have to play that
00:25:56
place because it was a it's on a church
00:25:59
with a balcony it's sort of a half
00:26:01
cylinder and if you talk about F of
00:26:03
rooms right David it's 1600 but it plays
00:26:06
like a club it's really really the
00:26:09
balcony is up on your sides also it's
00:26:11
not just in the back and so they're
00:26:14
everyone's on top of you kind of it just
00:26:16
has that quality so yeah I'm gonna call
00:26:19
my agent um after I get off this and
00:26:23
what when would be good for you to play
00:26:24
a Saturday in Santa
00:26:26
Rose let me know dude Fortune grindes
00:26:29
out the gigs you are you are kicking it
00:26:32
I saw your schedule you're cra look
00:26:34
tired I'm I am
00:26:37
tired um I both these tours have been
00:26:40
back toback and have been over a hundred
00:26:42
cities um [ __ ] he Richie Rich wow and
00:26:46
I film and I filmed Fubar with Arnold in
00:26:50
between two tour so I never so I haven't
00:26:54
had a break since the
00:26:55
pandemic we're g to put a hammock on the
00:26:58
s let's go come on Fortune yeah Fortune
00:27:02
you know she get the actress with the
00:27:04
name and it brings Good Fortune that's
00:27:06
why we hired her and she's happy and
00:27:08
smiling and we do the shots and then we
00:27:11
we're ready for the premiere with Ted
00:27:14
sarand he he brought up at one point
00:27:16
Hans and France and I was like oh yeah
00:27:19
oh oh yeah no he's he's hysterical yeah
00:27:22
so you're you're I mean you're uh you're
00:27:25
doing incredible you're stand up you got
00:27:27
food bars you got shows seems like you
00:27:29
you're on a roll for the last many years
00:27:31
I mean congratulations that's all I'm
00:27:33
saying it doesn't always go perfect like
00:27:35
it's awesome I just work my butt off I
00:27:38
just I don't ever stop because you know
00:27:41
as all of us you know have that fear of
00:27:44
like what what's going to happen that
00:27:47
time when people don't want to come you
00:27:49
know so there's no real demand for us
00:27:51
that's the thing I guess if I stopped I
00:27:53
W be like okay yeah people just
00:27:55
like so yeah I just grind cuz you know I
00:27:59
just um I do enjoy it and there is that
00:28:02
fear of like when will this stop so
00:28:04
let's go no and you're you're young and
00:28:08
um yeah go for it I I'm just curious do
00:28:10
you have a name because daveid what's
00:28:12
your name of your T I think they're kind
00:28:13
of funny well this is a good question
00:28:15
because I was also going to say when you
00:28:17
do a 100 at a clip do you flip the whole
00:28:21
hour or what what is your when I at the
00:28:24
end of this tour yeah like when you did
00:28:26
your first hundred shows now do you you
00:28:28
have to wait and then you start over and
00:28:31
flip the whole hour or do you do a combo
00:28:34
plate um no I do the I do the tour like
00:28:37
100 cities what however many shows 150
00:28:40
shows film a special um and um some of
00:28:46
those some of those cities not many
00:28:48
might be right after um and then I go
00:28:51
off the road um uh for a couple months
00:28:55
write start doing like local show
00:28:59
um then the special comes out okay then
00:29:04
I do some clubs to work on that new
00:29:06
stuff and I tell people this I'm working
00:29:09
I'm working it out they they love that
00:29:12
though you know they love it and then so
00:29:15
say if the special came out in like
00:29:18
October I'm working clubs November
00:29:21
December January I'm starting a a new
00:29:24
tour new hour fast you get an hour that
00:29:27
fast that's
00:29:28
that's what I've you're a machine I did
00:29:30
that this will be my third hour in five
00:29:33
years that I'm it's so hard people don't
00:29:36
get how hard is I go is it going to be
00:29:38
stuff I know and I go well some people
00:29:39
go on Instagram you didn't even do those
00:29:41
three jokes like your special I go I
00:29:44
know because half the people want new
00:29:45
and half people want old I don't know
00:29:48
they want well there are some jokes that
00:29:49
people are like will you tell that you
00:29:51
know that one thing so I was doing that
00:29:54
early on I was doing um a a joke to from
00:29:59
my sweet and salty special and then now
00:30:01
that I'm working I'm filming in April my
00:30:04
next special okay so now I'm just doing
00:30:07
what that hour is going to be Where Are
00:30:10
You Gonna film
00:30:11
itous um in Seattle at the Moore oh I'm
00:30:15
going to Seattle September yeah it's fun
00:30:17
it's a really beautiful theater um it's
00:30:21
like 1900 seats but and three levels but
00:30:24
all the levels are like right at the
00:30:26
stage
00:30:28
um so every everything's very close so
00:30:30
the the laughter's big and nice so
00:30:32
you've done three I saw one I hope I saw
00:30:35
the latest one I have two that are out
00:30:37
and I'm filming the third one okay on
00:30:39
Netflix yeah and so do you have a name
00:30:41
for your tour well I it really is hard
00:30:44
to come up with those names um I did
00:30:47
live laugh love which is you know that
00:30:50
classic
00:30:51
sign and all your mom's um you know
00:30:54
kitchens or living rooms um I just think
00:30:57
that sign is so funny and I love that my
00:31:00
mom's like that's art I'm like you got
00:31:03
it Sis it sure
00:31:05
is I've done live laugh to
00:31:09
CRA no I'm just I'm just embracing the
00:31:12
corniness of it I guess so you did sweet
00:31:14
and salty no I think it's nice yeah
00:31:16
sweet and salty sweet and salty was my
00:31:18
but see I never the name of my tours
00:31:20
don't ever end up being the name of my
00:31:23
special oh is that different wait I
00:31:26
don't know Mine mine's catch me inside
00:31:28
yeah and my tour was I mean my special
00:31:32
was
00:31:32
called I don't [ __ ] know was it
00:31:35
called I don't remember Heather what is
00:31:37
my
00:31:39
tour Heather oh what is it something
00:31:46
problems some oh um this has been a
00:31:50
running game hilarious two years that
00:31:53
he nothing personal okay nothing
00:31:55
personal it's so hard to remember
00:31:58
because I do jokes about people I did
00:32:00
one about Stallone I did one about all
00:32:02
these people actually like and I do a
00:32:04
joke I'm like wasn't that funny and
00:32:05
they're
00:32:08
like [ __ ] mean I go no no I was just
00:32:12
having fun it's funny for me because I I
00:32:15
I was just funning I was just fun I was
00:32:17
honestly just funning next time you're
00:32:19
gonna go get forward whatever I'm you're
00:32:22
you're kind of from the south maybe no
00:32:24
North Carolina I'm definitely from the
00:32:26
South North Carolina
00:32:28
North Carolina I'm going there how is
00:32:30
that place I'm going there you're going
00:32:33
when are you going what's it called the
00:32:35
CAC uh dpack that's in Durham CPAC I'm
00:32:39
gonna be gonna be dpack in a couple
00:32:41
weeks oh you are that's gonna be great
00:32:45
uh did you really graduate Suma come
00:32:47
loudy this sounds like a lie I
00:32:50
did she you're no wonder you can do a
00:32:53
new hour in eight weeks [ __ ] stepen
00:32:56
Hawking
00:32:58
yeah right says it was just again
00:33:01
because I'm I was an
00:33:03
overachiever it was you had six people
00:33:05
in your high school I um I'm in a small
00:33:09
I'm from a small town for sure it's like
00:33:11
10,000 people yeah and then my college
00:33:14
was small too so um [ __ ] still that's
00:33:17
good on the resume yeah I mean what the
00:33:20
irony is I was working so hard in
00:33:22
college to have a resume and in La no
00:33:24
one
00:33:25
cares [ __ ] I know what you went to
00:33:29
college okay what a loser yeah loser I'm
00:33:33
like I you're not dedicated to Comedy
00:33:35
because you didn't quit school unless
00:33:37
unless you went to Harvard no one cares
00:33:40
in comedy that you went to college
00:33:43
oh they were all IV League at SNL a lot
00:33:46
of the writers from Harvard or brown or
00:33:49
well let's see Dartmouth yeah and I went
00:33:51
to San Francisco State he went to Scott
00:33:53
Community College or dumb Comics it was
00:33:55
great smart writers were dumb com ex
00:33:58
that a good combo or it's just AA
00:34:00
degrees from community colleges you
00:34:04
know it's a trip I did um I sold a pilot
00:34:07
and Tina Fay and Robert Carlock were the
00:34:09
producers this was a while ago that's
00:34:12
big and well that and they had all a lot
00:34:14
of the 30 Rock writers because I
00:34:16
co-wrote it with Matt hubard who um did
00:34:18
30 Rock and they're all Harvard they're
00:34:21
all ivy league guys and it is definitely
00:34:24
like a different a brain the joke
00:34:28
machine kind of thing I had not worked
00:34:30
with people like that before well they
00:34:32
know all the references they know French
00:34:34
words they know exactly what happened in
00:34:36
the early part of the Civil War they
00:34:39
just have a
00:34:41
educated pedestal to stand on Civil War
00:34:45
well they would they would know what
00:34:46
George Washington ate for breakfast I
00:34:48
mean these guys are educated I'm has a
00:34:52
doctrate in I'm like I loved fundip
00:34:54
growing up yeah buan fun dip anything
00:34:59
with fun I would
00:35:03
[Music]
00:35:05
like did you ever have a fun dip chunk
00:35:08
what your early standup what are some of
00:35:10
your what you look back now that you
00:35:12
feel are cringey or still special oh I
00:35:15
had a fun dip
00:35:16
in in my sweet and salty special I uh oh
00:35:21
and and it that that one was about being
00:35:24
on the swim team I joined the swim team
00:35:27
because found out that the swimmers ate
00:35:29
funp and that was the only thing that
00:35:32
got me to do it and then you were a
00:35:34
champion or no I didn't know how to swim
00:35:37
my parents signed me up for the swim
00:35:39
team and I didn't know how to swim you
00:35:40
thought it was how to learn how to swim
00:35:42
I ran I ran across the
00:35:45
pool Jes like Jesus or what do you mean
00:35:48
ran across the pool like I was I thought
00:35:51
I could fool people into thinking I was
00:35:53
doing the butterfly oh okay oh you ran
00:35:56
across the bottom bottom yeah so I was
00:35:59
like running and doing the motion [ __ ]
00:36:02
yeah like no one will
00:36:06
know and I beat everyone I got their
00:36:08
first so they technically had to hand me
00:36:11
a ribbon that's not
00:36:13
cheating well then I was informed that I
00:36:16
was disqualified you get out of the pool
00:36:18
and they just hand you a ribbon there's
00:36:19
no there's no ceremony no you get a
00:36:22
ribbon but then some someone has to tell
00:36:24
me like actually like you got disqual
00:36:30
they said DQ and you go we're going to
00:36:31
Dairy Queen and go
00:36:35
no so that's one of those Classics that
00:36:38
I like to call them um but yeah my
00:36:41
earlier stuff I'm yeah sure I I watched
00:36:45
my half hour from Comedy Central there
00:36:47
was again a lot of that pushing a lot of
00:36:49
that yelling punch lines and I mean my
00:36:54
wife is some is like can you lay off the
00:36:56
yelling punch lines I'm like sure sure
00:37:01
I've done it my old stand up I'm like
00:37:02
hey everybody you've been to the DMB
00:37:04
it's crazy they're like all right [ __ ]
00:37:06
we I had my brother say something to me
00:37:09
that stuck with me I'm at The Improv in
00:37:11
the uh early 80s terrified 8 o00 spot
00:37:15
and I just bought it I mean you know
00:37:18
dead silent someone goes Norman Lear
00:37:20
would seemed to like it you know it's
00:37:22
like eight people he left my brother
00:37:25
just kind of said uh hurry up and be
00:37:29
funny you know Rush rushing it trying to
00:37:33
just go really fast maybe that'll save
00:37:35
me hurry up and be funny so yeah yeah
00:37:38
that when you're when you're bombing
00:37:40
it's it seems like such an instinct and
00:37:42
I I did it two weeks ago at the comedy
00:37:44
store I went on and I thought I was hot
00:37:46
[ __ ] and I was [ __ ] cold boogers I
00:37:48
went out there and uh you know I start
00:37:51
going and they're not buying it I'm like
00:37:52
what the [ __ ] then I start going wait
00:37:54
what am I doing oh I should jump to that
00:37:55
one oh yeah they don't like this they
00:37:58
don't like that and then you start spir
00:38:00
you're like a horse that got spooked I
00:38:03
don't I mean to be honest and it's a
00:38:04
good Pro it sounds self- congratulatory
00:38:06
but it feels like the audience is kind
00:38:08
of waiting for either George Bush Senior
00:38:11
or or car or something oh yeah I can do
00:38:14
any kind of thing about me at 7-Eleven
00:38:16
or regular standup bit but then if I hit
00:38:18
a voice Ah that's what we want you know
00:38:21
that would be nice to have in your back
00:38:23
pocket though you're like it's like
00:38:26
playing a guitar you're like you guys
00:38:27
don't like this are you going to like
00:38:29
this oh yeah here we
00:38:32
go say hello to the church
00:38:35
lady but see you're so great at
00:38:38
Impressions Impressions is not obviously
00:38:41
my I can't even get rid of my Southern
00:38:42
accent I've been in La 21 years so you
00:38:46
have a very cool voice I've just been
00:38:49
starting to really listen to it it's
00:38:51
tonally in the accent yeah it's just
00:38:53
kind of I I figure I mean I can't I'm
00:38:56
not going to try to do you but there's
00:38:58
something about I did do I did Daniel
00:39:02
Craig in knives out that was called
00:39:06
because I did a cartoon for Robert
00:39:08
Carlock and Tina Fay and so they I said
00:39:11
do kind of a South Caroline you know so
00:39:14
I just watched knives out and I just did
00:39:16
that I just did over the top you know
00:39:19
Fog Horn Leg Horn basically that's what
00:39:22
I'm trying to say and I guess it worked
00:39:25
I don't know I don't know if boy even
00:39:28
said it's jarring even hearing it knives
00:39:32
out because you're like it's so old
00:39:33
school yeah I know no one thinks that's
00:39:37
real they go when you're in the midwest
00:39:39
you go that's not like a real thing yeah
00:39:41
it doesn't feel like a real voice what
00:39:44
what what kind of and I who am I doing
00:39:46
now there's a friend of mine he's from
00:39:47
the south and he kind of talks like this
00:39:49
what y'all fixing to do yeah that's like
00:39:52
um Tennessee he act he acts kind of
00:39:54
dumber than he is I go what are you
00:39:55
doing saying you don't know what's going
00:39:57
on goes I was just playing Pome Pome I
00:40:01
was just playing I was just fun and I
00:40:03
talked to yeah go ahead well people do
00:40:05
think all the every Southern is a
00:40:07
dumbass because of our accident well
00:40:11
also this woman from Alabama who is a
00:40:13
muse and she was a really good one she
00:40:15
used to put her elbow on your ass and go
00:40:16
give it give it oh I like that elbow on
00:40:19
the ass give it oh yeah you had a whole
00:40:21
wasn't that yeah butt massage that was
00:40:25
funny that was and that's very real I'm
00:40:29
I had a guy a a guy um M what's the mour
00:40:35
masseuse a mass um he only wanted to
00:40:39
give butt massages and I was like I
00:40:43
really was startled at first and then it
00:40:45
was the greatest thing I'd ever
00:40:47
experienced and he would do it for like
00:40:50
the just the but for like 30 minutes oh
00:40:53
my God would not touch like feet legs
00:40:57
anything else he would do should he do
00:40:59
shoulders like a 10 minutes and then
00:41:01
that was the massage and I kept going
00:41:03
back because I was like no one else is
00:41:05
touching my butt like this guy yeah you
00:41:08
walking backwards ready here we come and
00:41:11
then he got fired and I was like oh yeah
00:41:15
I think he did he was never supposed to
00:41:17
do that probably at all that's he just I
00:41:19
don't think he was he was just doing it
00:41:21
hey do I owe anything no you don't owe
00:41:23
me anything it's fine I just I got off
00:41:25
what
00:41:27
make noises
00:41:29
like like he was so into it and I was
00:41:33
like I should be grossed out by this but
00:41:35
my butt has never been more relaxed do
00:41:38
you know that the glute muscle and all
00:41:41
that stuff around there is connects the
00:41:43
lower it is the biggest muscle in your
00:41:44
body and the most important must yeah
00:41:47
you must have felt incredible you must
00:41:49
have walked with a bigger stride after
00:41:52
that and every and I thought after doing
00:41:55
that joke that like okay now when I go
00:41:57
to m to a massage place they're going to
00:42:00
be like let's give her the old butt you
00:42:04
know elbow because they saw it in the
00:42:06
special and and not one has done it I'm
00:42:09
like God dang it you know what they give
00:42:12
you those code words like they they
00:42:14
really dress it up like gluteus medius
00:42:17
and all this like right terraform and
00:42:19
they're not just saying I'm into
00:42:20
butts but no one's like do you want me
00:42:23
to they're not even giving me the option
00:42:25
like would you like me to get on that
00:42:27
glute I be like yes please and but I
00:42:31
don't want I don't want to be a creep
00:42:33
that's like Hey What Can you I do I say
00:42:36
get in that
00:42:38
butt get in that butt I like butts and I
00:42:42
cannot lie who sang that song Sir Mix A
00:42:46
Lot Sir Mix lot have yall had butt
00:42:49
massages oh my God yes can I do my
00:42:52
favorite uh glute joke joke this is
00:42:58
FR my favorite put down your BS are like
00:43:01
marshmallows you're lucky I don't have a
00:43:03
campfire here so the reason that's funny
00:43:06
is like what are they gonna burn they're
00:43:08
gonna put his ass in a fire burn right
00:43:11
because his ass is like marshmallows
00:43:12
I've gotten a lot of massages but not
00:43:14
lately I need a new I need a masseuse
00:43:18
somebody Dana what do you think is the
00:43:20
character people most requests from
00:43:25
you it's a pick them depending on age
00:43:28
group it would be the George Bush Senior
00:43:30
oh or G it's George Bush Senior G church
00:43:34
lady Hansen Franza rosaro probably
00:43:38
what's your
00:43:39
closer my closer I do like 50 micro
00:43:43
Impressions and you ever have a joke in
00:43:45
your act fortune that you don't feel is
00:43:49
like the best bit but it gets an
00:43:52
oversized response you're like really
00:43:55
yeah like I do George W bush is a
00:43:57
standup with an old stock joke that Leno
00:44:00
gave me once uhuh and it kills so hard
00:44:03
I'm always like really George is a
00:44:06
standup uh two Irish men walk out of a
00:44:08
bar it could
00:44:11
happen
00:44:13
like oh they walk
00:44:15
out you know I'm going that's just such
00:44:18
a silly joke I do like a 100 micro
00:44:21
impressions in a row oh that's cool just
00:44:23
to bludgeon them quick quick quick quick
00:44:26
quick yeah thousand stabs the knife and
00:44:28
then they collapse at the end the one
00:44:30
that lately kills I just brought it back
00:44:32
because it made me laugh was just a way
00:44:33
to do George for scor that that I feels
00:44:37
new but anyway yeah George Bush Senor
00:44:39
tries to go off a high dive so I'm like
00:44:41
I'm crawling up to the front of the
00:44:42
stage he's looking down gotta do it
00:44:46
gotta do it then it's like he looks over
00:44:48
not gonna do it you know it's
00:44:51
just yeah I love that uh thank you so
00:44:56
what's your clo closer what's your don't
00:44:59
give it away if you don't to give Clos
00:45:01
well you've had different closures you
00:45:03
what what's your sweet and salty clothes
00:45:05
what's the one that you just wrote that
00:45:07
you're going to do in your special don't
00:45:09
waste it so well I'll just say that this
00:45:12
hour is um I've kind of fallen into the
00:45:16
storytelling yeah rhythm of of um my
00:45:19
standup so the every special um has a
00:45:23
beginning middle and end like uh this is
00:45:26
I'm I'm introducing a premise to you and
00:45:28
here's kind of this is going to go on a
00:45:30
journey um and then this is all going to
00:45:33
tie in at the end and then here we are
00:45:35
gon to come full circle um damn you're
00:45:38
jeez so it's so this the closer is not
00:45:42
necessarily um like oh my God this is
00:45:46
gonna like you know slap your titties
00:45:52
that's just beat yourself up and slap
00:45:54
your titties just slap your titties is
00:45:57
good yeah um but it's a vict it's a
00:45:59
victory that involves um what I set up
00:46:03
in the beginning and um so it's said I I
00:46:07
introduced something early on Jesus
00:46:09
you're Christopher Nolan oh yeah like I
00:46:12
do my ACT backwards once and then so the
00:46:16
closer is the Victory and then um I have
00:46:19
the big the big clap for the Victory and
00:46:22
I am tagging it with another thing that
00:46:26
like brings it full circle a second time
00:46:30
people gota come watch it and then do
00:46:31
you put your hands up and go good night
00:46:35
and then
00:46:36
photos I do a photo yeah Before I Let
00:46:39
You Go Fortune you got to tell us do you
00:46:41
how do you do the photo at the end
00:46:43
because I never do it and I go I gotta
00:46:44
do this you asked me you're like how do
00:46:47
you do that because it is kind of an
00:46:49
awkward like you've done you've gotten
00:46:51
your Victory and then you have to be
00:46:53
like okay now I'm going to need a f
00:46:58
um yeah I just kind of people are so
00:47:01
used to it now I just um finished the
00:47:03
thing and and while they're clapping I'm
00:47:06
like thanks for coming you guys are the
00:47:08
best uh let's get a photo for um for the
00:47:12
old Instagram or my scrapbook or
00:47:14
whatever and scrapbook and I just say
00:47:18
you know the I go on the count of three
00:47:20
um and they did did the house lights
00:47:22
know to go up the the house yeah they
00:47:24
bring the house lights up and um I go on
00:47:26
the count three just act like you had a
00:47:28
good time and I count to three and
00:47:30
everyone goes and we get a picture when
00:47:33
I do it I'm going to go and on three
00:47:35
stand up on Two And on three look like a
00:47:40
stuning Ovation what I do which is an
00:47:42
inside joke with my opening act
00:47:44
sometimes Larry Bubbles Brown is very
00:47:46
funny because I tell him I'm GNA do it
00:47:48
so I'm doing a guitar Thing guitar Thing
00:47:50
guitar thing bam then I take the neck of
00:47:53
the guitar and I hold the whole guitar
00:47:55
up slowly way over my head so I'm kind
00:47:58
of like 12et tall and as I move the
00:48:01
guitar up the audience is hypnotized
00:48:02
into standing up yeah and then he's
00:48:05
always laughing so hard like I'm holding
00:48:07
a head a cut off head in R they're like
00:48:11
we're standing for this yeah look at the
00:48:14
guitar it's up in the sky I got to get
00:48:16
on my feet well when they know it's over
00:48:18
it's like when a plane lands they're
00:48:19
like I just want to stand up and get out
00:48:21
of here I think it's I take it as a
00:48:23
compliment but they're like are can you
00:48:25
stamp this and I'm like no I'm leaving
00:48:27
the stage well cuz all of us kind of set
00:48:30
up the in for them right we're like and
00:48:34
now yeah my closer you know you kind of
00:48:38
get sometimes I said before I go here's
00:48:41
one last thing yeah that helps call the
00:48:43
babysitter say you're on the way yeah
00:48:47
yeah it tips them off do you have nights
00:48:50
where it's mayday mayday where you have
00:48:52
to call an audible you have to cut cut
00:48:55
things or hurry it up the audience is
00:48:57
tired or drunk or they're just quiet and
00:49:00
do you adjust or you just it's not a
00:49:02
problem I mean since you're telling
00:49:04
stories it's harder to like trim it on
00:49:06
chop them you right yeah because there's
00:49:09
definitely um a specific set I'm running
00:49:11
right now if the audience seems a little
00:49:14
like my closer didn't get the punch I
00:49:17
wanted if it's feeling a little
00:49:20
incomplete I will then say and as a
00:49:23
cherry on top let's do a
00:49:27
classic and I'll give them um like U the
00:49:32
probably the most popular story I do is
00:49:34
from sweet and salty about um going to
00:49:36
Hooters as a kid um and then um my mat
00:49:41
you you know it's a good one it works
00:49:43
what's that oh yeah yeah yeah that it it
00:49:46
always works so if that doesn't work
00:49:47
you're like [ __ ] it if that doesn't work
00:49:49
then it it's not funny bye I got nothing
00:49:51
for you guys could you just tell tell us
00:49:54
the first the first laugh line of that
00:49:57
story the first um well the so what it
00:50:00
is is that I I just say I've been the
00:50:02
Hooters my entire life um because I have
00:50:04
two older brothers they loved Hooters so
00:50:07
it was never a big deal and my mom
00:50:09
started dating a very conservative man
00:50:12
when I was in high school um who you
00:50:15
know everything was a sin and um I said
00:50:19
we were trying to figure out where to
00:50:20
eat and my mom's I start playing my mom
00:50:23
where she stiffens up and she looks at
00:50:25
me and she's like I have
00:50:30
never been two Hooters and it's um
00:50:36
because it's a long story but now that
00:50:38
people know the story and love the story
00:50:41
the whole audience wait for it say with
00:50:43
you I have never the whole audience is
00:50:48
yelling I have never been the Hooters as
00:50:51
a whole crowd it's pretty fun that's
00:50:54
like Beyonce yeah I like yeah I'm just
00:51:01
[Music]
00:51:03
like what size rooms are you playing now
00:51:06
what's your biggest room you've ever
00:51:07
played um I just did the Chicago theater
00:51:11
and that was 3500 seats it was sold out
00:51:14
that was a pretty that was pretty
00:51:17
awesome um that's hard to do yeah I was
00:51:20
I was it was definitely like a cool like
00:51:23
holy cow this is yeah a mil Stone moment
00:51:27
um I'm doing anywhere from, 1500 seats
00:51:31
to the 3500 seats and then um sometimes
00:51:36
I'm selling out the 2700 seat and adding
00:51:39
a show or sometimes I'm selling out the
00:51:41
2 seats and that's that or sometimes I'm
00:51:44
you know happy to have the 12200 what
00:51:46
city sorry this inside baseball for our
00:51:49
listeners what city do you sell the
00:51:51
tickets the easiest the fact you know
00:51:53
certain cities like oh they sold out
00:51:54
already what city loves you the most
00:51:56
Seattle because that's where you're
00:51:58
going back to Seattle's yeah we're at
00:52:00
like 6,000 tickets there that weekend
00:52:03
it's pretty crazy um Seattle Chicago um
00:52:07
we almost added a second show but I got
00:52:10
too nervous to like not have the victory
00:52:13
hard yeah if you don't fill up the
00:52:14
second one it sometimes looks weird I've
00:52:16
done that why did I I'll just come back
00:52:19
yeah exactly um Dallas Charlotte um I
00:52:23
mean I have this I'm in this weird spot
00:52:26
where I'm Southern but I'm also gay um
00:52:30
so I do a lot I do really well in red
00:52:34
states that would surprise
00:52:37
people um because there are you know
00:52:40
even though they're red states there are
00:52:41
people there that want to they want to
00:52:44
see yeah they want to see people that
00:52:46
don't come through as much um and um so
00:52:50
yeah I I do like I sell better than
00:52:54
like Mobile Alabama than I do San
00:52:58
Francisco it's wild because those a lot
00:53:02
of those folks are just starred
00:53:05
for you know other voices that they
00:53:08
don't get coming through there as much
00:53:10
some representation they go we don't in
00:53:12
Sam Fran it's every night somebody
00:53:14
you're like there you're like hey this
00:53:16
should be fun and then plus you do just
00:53:18
a great standup show anyway yeah I mean
00:53:21
I try to do jokes and stories that are
00:53:24
not geared towards one person or one
00:53:27
voice or one experience even though I am
00:53:29
gay there's a lot to me that is goes
00:53:33
beyond that so my stories are coming
00:53:35
from a place of like you know being a
00:53:38
kid in the 80s being a having a quirky
00:53:41
mom you know being married um so things
00:53:45
that you know even in Good Fortune in my
00:53:47
last special proposing to my wife that's
00:53:50
something men could relate to you know
00:53:52
being nervous not getting it right um I
00:53:54
try to throw out stories that that
00:53:57
different people can you know grab on to
00:54:00
and relate to yeah I think you have a
00:54:03
very broad appeal to all kinds of people
00:54:06
thank you I try I think so I'm going out
00:54:10
on a limb I'm predicting good things one
00:54:12
is not only that you're talented that
00:54:14
you have a great work ethic it's very
00:54:16
impressive that you can turn an hour uh
00:54:19
and treat it like a college assignment
00:54:22
or something I guess are you recording
00:54:24
you go to the clubs you record your set
00:54:26
and writing listening to the recording
00:54:28
making notes writing going back to the
00:54:31
club I mean it's it's hard and mentally
00:54:33
hard is my least favorite process the
00:54:36
writing of the new hour I'm sure you
00:54:38
guys feel similar it's tough It's hard
00:54:41
I'm like what can I mean at the end of
00:54:43
this I'm I'm like what am i g to talk
00:54:45
about and you're like I don't I have a
00:54:46
couple things that work I don't have a
00:54:48
closer I don't have like something that
00:54:49
kills every time and you're like missing
00:54:51
your old stuff going [ __ ] I could put
00:54:53
that in right here I know it's it's hard
00:54:55
it's it's it's not a process that
00:54:58
process I I enjoy it when it's on its
00:54:59
feet and I'm working it out but I don't
00:55:02
enjoy the like I don't know what stories
00:55:05
to even start with um you've already
00:55:09
racked your brain for three specials
00:55:11
you're like yeah and we're all working
00:55:12
all the time so I my wife's like we
00:55:15
gotta like live some life you know stuff
00:55:18
yeah yeah do something different I don't
00:55:20
want to be talking about like rental
00:55:21
cars and hotels in my next one and gold
00:55:25
bars that you bought
00:55:27
I'm a gold member of
00:55:29
Herz well thank you Fortune uh thanks
00:55:33
for coming on so nice to meet you I hope
00:55:35
we run into each other and hey you're on
00:55:37
our podcast hi Fortune Dana it's such a
00:55:40
treat to to talk to you meet you and my
00:55:43
pleasure I love me some Spade too and
00:55:46
Spade and I went real quick we went to
00:55:49
happen to be at Craigs once at the same
00:55:51
time oh that's right the place in LA to
00:55:54
eat there's a booth us it was empty yep
00:55:58
and they um so Spade was in in one booth
00:56:00
over here we were on the other booth an
00:56:02
empty Booth between us and um Megan
00:56:04
marle and Prince Harry were maybe gonna
00:56:07
come and be between us and I was like
00:56:11
this would have been the greatest story
00:56:13
oh my God because they came up and
00:56:14
whispered they go hey just so you know
00:56:17
we're not supposed to tell Megan Mark
00:56:19
and Prince ha are GNA sit right there
00:56:20
and I'm like oh [ __ ] yeah and then I
00:56:21
look over and I see Fortune I go oh my
00:56:23
God we go over there we're like
00:56:25
conspiring like this is going to be so
00:56:26
fun going to get 10 new minutes but then
00:56:29
remember for we saw a couple like Secret
00:56:30
Service guys com in like checking the
00:56:32
place out and I think they went back and
00:56:34
said there's two clowns on either side
00:56:37
and I wouldn't go in there and I they're
00:56:39
probably gonna Tick Tock let's not have
00:56:41
this happen yeah they went to the
00:56:42
Bungalows after oh man but I thought
00:56:45
that would have been the greatest moment
00:56:47
of how fun like you and you and I
00:56:51
sandwiching uh a royal would you have
00:56:53
gone over no
00:56:56
you probably you would I wouldn't unless
00:56:58
they came over yeah at least they said
00:57:00
something yeah like um byebye I I would
00:57:03
just nod my head and go carrat
00:57:06
top um but anyway oh it's Prince Harry I
00:57:09
love all your stuff you're fabulous my
00:57:12
name's to meet you and nice to meet you
00:57:15
I wouldn't have done I would have ran
00:57:17
away I want them on this podcast all
00:57:20
right because I do think I'm sure
00:57:23
they're very funny people I'm sure they
00:57:25
laugh a lot they need to come on here
00:57:27
you need to loosen just just laugh let's
00:57:29
tease out all the humor get rid of the
00:57:31
darkness you know and have this is the
00:57:34
Prince William beam in or whatever get
00:57:37
these Royals back together as a family
00:57:39
that's one of my goals this year in 2024
00:57:42
if anyone can bring the Royals back
00:57:44
together yeah it's you too yeah we won't
00:57:47
go rough on them there you go no
00:57:50
hard-hitting questions right here you
00:57:52
heard it no no just fun yeah
00:57:56
stay in touch and like me more than Dana
00:57:59
a bit I mean do what you can it's hard I
00:58:03
know I always wanted to get on the
00:58:04
Fortune 500 and I feel like I kind of
00:58:08
have no I have no closer of course you
00:58:10
have that was a great closer
00:58:12
Dan all right bye well all right I I'll
00:58:15
just say goodbye as the church L well
00:58:17
well well Fortune find my Meister oyster
00:58:20
we don't know how to pronounce our last
00:58:22
name do we but Jesus loves us and we
00:58:24
know that we we like to do our little
00:58:27
comedy jokes and strut around the stage
00:58:29
like a little scrumpet anyway sorry
00:58:31
that's all I got oh my God that she
00:58:35
she's mean that just took me to a very
00:58:38
wonderful place in my
00:58:40
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00:58:42
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00:58:53
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