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[Assistant] Uh, the Alex Gray church? No, we're not. Alex Gray is making a church just to go fucking off.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's pretty crazy. Yeah, I feel like right when you, if someone's inside my house, I feel crazy.


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[Assistant] If someone was in my house, dude, I would fuck. Obviously.


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[Assistant] That is fucked up. The, uh, that Olympic shit is making me die. Like that chick getting kicked off for smoking weed and then they're just like full blown trans blowing people out powerlifting. Yeah, man. It feels like, it feels like a storyline, like something like to get people riled up. Cause it's so obvious.


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[Assistant] Like fucking in her thirties or twenties. I don't think it matters, yeaah. Yeaah, full blown dude. I mean, if you put me in there, I think I could fucking give hell with it.


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[Assistant] It's gonna be bizarre, cause there's just no fans allowed. What do you mean? At the Olympics, like the whole fucking Olympics is based around like simulating the economy. Yea, there's no fa-


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[Assistant] Of people who have died. I could do it. Give me five weeks.


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[Assistant] That's a girl's record. That's a female record. I could fucking do it. 485? Give me fucking five times.


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[Assistant] Those are heaviest, they're tractor tires. Are they 400 pounds? I don't know how much a tractor tire is, but like.


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[Assistant] I just tried to pick up a fucking front tire for a trash truck I put in the back of my truck. That was heavy as fuck. But that was only probably like... Strong-manded? I strong-manded it. It was probably... I don't know how much a front tire... It can't be that fucking... It might be like...


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[Assistant] No, with the tire on and inflated, or rim on and inflated, so go fuck yourself.


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[Assistant] Kilpatrick and uh, oh, his, his wife.


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[Assistant] Uh, some guy debunked some Spielberg movie in the skies. Ah, I gotcha. He, yeah, he's a, he just fuckin' figured some shit out. It's crazy.


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[Assistant] You thought you were done. I was like, I'm listening to static and it sounded like people were talking. I also ate an edible. I was an edible fucking beast for a while. I was crushing edibles for a while.


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[Assistant] Uh, I would get real fucking high and forget how to chew and breathe. So I got half the chew and then fucking start breathing again. And then I think my one buddy was making edibles with like Percocets in them. So people were like tapping out.


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[Assistant] Like, people are like, I gotta go to the fucking hospital. Why was he putting perks in them? I have no idea. It was evil.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I would, I was definitely. I know these things were woo bangers, dude. If fucking, if they're, like all this plastic shit's real, we would get a Newport 100 and a joint and get a two liter of fucking Mountain Dew, dump it out.


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[Assistant] Burn holes, put them both in there and burn another hole to like clear it. And that's what we would do. Oh yea. It was probably fucking horrible for you.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so I'd never been able to actually enjoy weed. Really? Every time it was a mission.


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[Assistant] No, no, no, I just like couldn't chill because I was like, I'm getting caught. The last time I smoked in like 2015, but that was chill. I fucking smoked weed. Were you Amber? I was, I was past Amber. I was Pearl Jam. I fucking smoked weed, went down the street to a pizza place at Temple.


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[Assistant] I was in college, so I haven't smoked weed for like, I smoked, I stopped smoking weed in like 2010. Cause I was premature ejaculating when I was fucking my first girlfriend. Like I was trying to have sex with her and it just wasn't working. While you were high? But I just thought, I was like alright, it's obviously weed.


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[Assistant] I come- You don't have to brag. I come before I come.


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[Assistant] Yes, I just stopped smoking weed at that point. And I was like, alright, whatever. And at that point I was smoking bee sters, like middies, body highs, you name it.


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[Assistant] Because there was cops everywhere. We're not going to do anything to you. Obviously dude, but I haven't smoked weed since I was in like fucking sophomore year of high school. Yeah, true. So I'm just like, okay, I'm going to jail. I'm in here. I'm just trying to get a calzone. I'm going to jail.


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[Assistant] Donamose. Cheesy sticks. Fucking pizza. What's Donamose? Donamose. Like a, yo play yogurt? Donamose. The guy that did my...


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[Assistant] Yeah, so I smoked a weed, went back, watched out of the furnace. I didn't touch the calzone. I fucking left.


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[Assistant] If I'm driving dude, uh, what's that fucking, um, what's the one, it's like the acoustic strumming fuck.


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[Assistant] The ukulele? No, no, no. It's uh, it's one of the like, famous songs.


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[Assistant] I know what you're talking about. Uh, fuck. I forget the name. This is pissing me off. Superfan. Not superfan.


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[Assistant] And then I got proactive, right? When I went through puberty, I was like, Tom, I never goes, yeah, cause you got fucking P. Diddy. P. Diddy came and gave you fucking proactive, you little faggot. Yeah, you gotta get braces and proactive, you faggot.


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[Assistant] I have a chip on him now. We chip him on. I don't know if it's a beer bottle or my necklace.


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[Assistant] That's what's nice about that. The LSD and the mushrooms are a nice fucking, like, take off to get drunk. Cause you don't need as many beers.


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[Assistant] Ruben had a complaint what he referred to as Night Horse, and I believe the warm weather was too much for him. We had some lively time.


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[Assistant] You know who Shane looks like? He looks like the Boston cop that beat up Kimbo Slice.


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[Assistant] Irish kids are tough kids and they're hard to put down, but they fucking do bruise easy. Yeah. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I know Mike. Mike does the best Irish accent. Hit us Mike.


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[Assistant] I think that's a pretty big job. That's like if I was taking a matchbox car and I was going vroom vroom vroom and I'm ready to race car drive. No, but the complexity of these


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[Assistant] Now do you feel comfortable with Shane? Cause Shane looks like a kid.


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[Assistant] Who you grew up with originally. He looks like an Irish kid. Yea, but he looks like, you look like a kid that you guys would be having beers with. Like Shane makes sense. He's an Irish kid.


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[Assistant] He's the type of kid if you're like, do you want to Stella? He's like, stop saying that type of language to me. What are you, what are we going to go get gymnastics?


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[Assistant] Trenton? That's him being sarcastic. Yeah. No, she's a great girl. Yeah, Trenton. Wow. I didn't know there were people still in Trenton. I thought it was just like, you drove past to get to the airport.


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[Assistant] I like how we're just, just doing the podcast, it's just, uh, occasionally just guys coming, we, we, are we podcast at a construction site?


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[Assistant] I'm in a mood. Yeah, and if we just start, if we join forces with fucking Shane Gillis and the three of us walk around with a vat of mashed potatoes, everybody's face is going into fucking mashed potatoes because Shane is not a small kid. We're three fucking beefcakes right now.


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[Assistant] I mean some kids, I look like me in high school. Cause my brother's special, and you go to school, I can always see which one of the kids clean up. My brother cleans up. My brother cleans up up there, he's got a lot of girls.


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[Assistant] You know what, we have to kind of, like, maybe some people listen to this who don't know what we're referring, who are dancing around the elephant in the room. Do you mind if I just set it up a little bit so the people- No, go ahead. Yea, so Shane Gillis, hilarious comedian.


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[Assistant] Got, uh. Get my vote for president. Yea, absolutely. Yea. Definitely Latta14's favorite comic. Yea, it's my favorite comic. Yea. He, uhm, he was hired by SNL.


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[Assistant] Uh, Saturday Night Live, and then a controversy happened where they went back and listened to a, uh, a podcast, and he said a word, which if you listen to it, he's like, he was saying what they would say.


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[Assistant] He was doing a character piece almost. It was a character piece. Yea, it was. So it doesn't even matter. I mean, it's just, it's, you know, it's like the game of telephone. It's like, you know, it's just, people just say, it happened and then it happened.


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[Assistant] And uh, and so then uhm, some people weren't, weren't, just didn't feel safe with his, with his hire. They didn't feel safe with that. They didn't feel safe with his hire, so they, he, his hire got retracted.


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[Assistant] And he's not at SNL, instead he's with the Hyenas right now in this fucking construction site. But, but uhm, yeaah. And you know, I supported him throughout the whole thing.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean, it's just, it's an unfortunate thing that we're living through this era where comedians are under the microscope and it's the result of


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[Assistant] Journalists. And how low their standards gotten. They're looking for anything to write an article about to make a name for themselves. That's why they have Twitter accounts. That's why they get verified. That's why they try to tweet jokes. It's why they treat like, you know, hard line, you know, headlines and say this has happened because it's a tension. They're crack horse for clicks.


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[Assistant] They're crack whores for self aggrandizing behavior. And so that's the reason this has happened to comedians. Cause we're a vulnerable target because we have no power. So we just take the hits and they're going, this guy's a racist. And you go, wait, I'm not, I'm joking. And they're going fucking burn him. We're the new witches.


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[Assistant] The world we live in. It is getting crazy. Meanwhile, uh, what's this kid from Kaiser Soze? What's his name? Kevin Spacey. Kevin Spacey. Four accusers of his have died mysteriously. Yeah, that's what it is. So I mean, we're just living in a wild


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[Assistant] Is there a low, you are, you're in the open mic scene of journalism. Is there a lower beat than I'm, I'm, I'm sifting through podcasts at the creek in the cave? Malaka. What, what, what, like, I'm serious, like, I'm having to try to be funny. What is lower? What's lower? Like, what's a lower...


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[Assistant] Whose father was a British businessman who left his family to marry a Thai woman and somehow that Thai woman who used to be a man had a baby. And here it is.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, I mean, that kid, the other kid, I read the other kid's thing and he was going like, uh, yeah, he was going like, uh, would you, uh, would you start a fight with your employee and then somebody? Oh, this kid, um, yeah.


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[Assistant] It does. So what happened is they got into like an altercation because a kid was talking shit to Louis way back when Louis was hap- Online. Online.


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[Assistant] And then Lewis, like a man, like I respected, Lewis was like, went up to him, like a man, said, hey, you talking shit, why you talking shit? And also the kid was encouraging kids to like throw milkshakes at him or whatever. So I was like, what's up with that? And then the kid, you know, pussied out and then went back on Twitter and was saying, and the funny thing was, this is the real hypocrisy of it, was some,


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[Assistant] A fan went back in his Twitter and found a tweet where the kid said that like, uhm,


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[Assistant] What do you mean? The French made it for him, much like the Statue of Liberty, they made it for him. They admired his cause or whatever, as an Irish revolutionary, even though he was a failed kid.


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[Assistant] Catholics are pro-life because they don't want anything interfering with their child's supply.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I'm not. Allegedly. They're the ones that start the policies. Yeah, they control the pipeline of hot young boys. Yeah, exactly.


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[Assistant] Well, the kid, yea, the kid had a wild, wild life. Like Shane said,


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[Assistant] Yeah, so, he uhm, and then yeah, he tried to start the revolution. The revolution was actually hilarious because they just like started a fist fight with like a couple of bailiffs or something.


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[Assistant] He probably got a lot of these passes because his pops, right? You think some of them are going to just let my son go?


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[Assistant] Dude, they are a good storyteller, got a good sense of humor. You just like, when they get drunk sometimes you gotta just be careful because they are looking, they are looking to throw hands. Yea, they want to throw hands. They do like to throw hands. It's what it is. Yea. Yea, I mean like when we were out in Germany with those firefighters, they got, they started getting a little aggressive with us because they knew that we were women. Yea. And they knew that. Yea, they thought


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[Assistant] Yeah, we went hi-his boys from home, we're all firefighters, they-they do this thing with the exchange program where they hang out with firefighters in Germany, and me and Chris- That's fucking gayer than a history talk. It is, a little bit, right? I know. That's what you should have reminded them. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, that's what I thought. Just meetin' dudes across the pond. Come on, boys. You know what's funny?


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[Assistant] You know what's funny was the contrast between the, the Queens Firefighters and the New York Firefighters and then the, the Bavarian ones? Yea. Cause the Queens guys were like real New York guys, you know? We're going over there to fight a fight, this is Quinn, this is, this is Murray. And they were like, Hi! How you doing? My name's Stefan.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so he's in the United States. One thing they both liked to brum together? What? Was fucking brews. Yea. I mean. Yea, yea, yea. Dude, have you seen


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[Assistant] Now you come from royalty in Pennsylvania, where you from? Where you from? He's from East, he called me East.


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[Assistant] So your friends back home definitely think that you're, you're into guys cause you're doing skits. I get that a little bit. I got called gay for having ice coffee. I like ice coffee.


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[Assistant] We've seen it. Three white guys, we've seen it. We've seen it. We've seen it. We've seen it. We've seen it. We've seen it.


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[Assistant] Here's the thing about the Brits, dude. The Brits kinda hide their brutality with like the manners thing. They're kinda like the clean comics of countries. You know what I mean? Like comics who like don't curse and stuff. You're like, you got a dead hooker in your basement. That's the British.


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[Assistant] It's an appropriate title because the kid should have died at this point like ten times. Yea, for sure. And then, and then after this he becomes, he goes to the fight in the civil war. Yea, so let's get into it.


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[Assistant] He, uhm, he was a little ahead of his time though, in that way, with the Irish Revolution, cause that happened. And uhm, he, and the Panama Canal happened. So the kid was just, the timing wasn't there. Right. You know?


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[Assistant] He was like the Andrew Schultz of the stuff. He was just the right time, you know? There was kids who put their stuff on YouTube first, but Schultz was just, Schultz was the first guy to do it.


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[Assistant] I saw a picture of you at Thanksgiving, uh, you got a multicultural family. I have a multicultural family.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, I mean, jesus christ. Failures of every continent. Not one decent drop of wasp blood in there. That's sort of like digging through the trash of Europe and the middle area.


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[Assistant] Well here's the good part about having to name Shane Gillis and having a story about


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[Assistant] When you got it, it was like, you gotta come on Legion of Skanks, and you were like, nooo. Let's wait a couple years.


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[Assistant] Thank you, thank you, but, uh, did you listen to all the podcasts?


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[Assistant] That's uhm, and when I heard, I read Lauren writing about it going like, we were looking for someone to appeal to the conservative audience. That's what it said.


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[Assistant] They're, you know, obviously Shane's a comic, so most of the time comics aren't even left or right, we're just fucking poking fun at everything. But it was sort of an indication that they're, you know, much like Roseanne, which brought in huge numbers, blew out everything, it's like Lauren seems like a little aware, like hey, you know, like,


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[Assistant] Maybe this woke thing, maybe there's more than just the woke thing. Furthermore, when you look at that segment that Colin Jost and Che are doing, where they're kinda like...


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[Assistant] They're saying like, I wrote this joke for you to see, you know, they're pimping each other. You're going like.


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[Assistant] It's like, you can't not notice that the best jokes was that segment, and you can't not notice that Eddie Murphy's edgy stuff from an


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[Assistant] That wouldn't have been part of the mission statement. Yeaah. But it's fucking funny. Yeaah. But it's funny. Yeaah. Cause the right thing is rarely the funny thing. When did that happen where like saying the right thing lines up with the funny thing? Like, I mean, what the fuck? Agreed. It's usually the wrong thing that's the funny thing.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that's what's happened. And you know what? There's no way out of this one because these people are doing it because there's no other jobs. Right. So it's more of like an overall.


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[Assistant] Venetier, we're gonna put you back into sewing factory. You're not just gonna fucking prance around from job to job and work trip, work trip anymore.


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[Assistant] And it's self-reinforcing because they see the other kids who aren't that funny making it. Everyone's going like...


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[Assistant] And those kids are supporting them because they're going like, that means I can do it too. So they're just kind of like, supporting it. Yeah, they're taking turns kind of performing and, and audienceing for each other.


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[Assistant] Well, it is the greatest era for comedy because there's this. And you see that this is really where most people's eyeballs and ears are anyway. So it's just been kind of this big illusion, you know what I mean?


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[Assistant] It's ironic because TV has become trolls. They're trolling.


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[Assistant] Trolls get the attention the same way car crashes get attention. Everyone looks to stop to see what the horror is. And that's what TV's become. You turn on Colbert, he's a Trump troll. You turn on SNL, it's a Trump troll. They're all trolling the president.


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[Assistant] The weird thing is, uh, so he went to the civil war, he fucking got injured, he got his ass handed to him at Antietam, I mean he was in the middle of a war.


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[Assistant] Right. Nasty. Somehow he survived that. Somehow he survived the escape and all these things. And then the kid dies fallin' off a boot. Fallin' off a boot? In honor of Pennsylvania, he fell off a boot. Into the water. Into the water, dude.


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[Assistant] Shane Gillis, the podcast, you know what, I've gotten like 10 or 20 DMs of people saying, when are you going to have Shane Gillis on Honey's? Have you had those DMs? Where people are going like, you guys need to come together. So it's been a pleasure to have you. Good episode, man. Fascinating.


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[Assistant] Come see me and Mike in February in New York at Uncle Vinny's. And Gotham. Oh nice. Yea, at Gotham and Uncle Vinny's. Me and Mike. At Mike V. Suarez.


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[Assistant] Sippers, welcome to this episode of the Tea with Me podcast with me, Shane Todd. It's a Wednesday episode. It's a guest episode. I'm gonna fly solo this Friday with an episode with just me. We'll do the TripAdvisor review, listeners questions, all that kind of stuff. But I've got a guest this week. Very, very excited about this one. I was in New York in


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[Assistant] God, when was that? Like February kind of time? I think it was February. And I got to perform at the Stan Comedy Club, which is


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[Assistant] I was just sort of soaking in the atmosphere of the place and really hit it off with a load of the comedians there and the owner, Chris, Chris Italia. So, when I was there I saw a comedian called Shane Gillis


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[Assistant] And the name definitely rung a bell. Shane is a stand-up who is now based in New York. And as we sort of get into at the time, during the interview that you're gonna see, he was, he made it on the Saturday Night Live. He was like a, became a cast member on Saturday Night Live, which is,


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[Assistant] I don't know how long, it's been running for like at least 30 years, probably, probably a good bit more actually, I'm probably way off on that. In fact that's, it's probably like 50 years, I don't know.


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[Assistant] But anyway, so many people have come through, Eddie Murphy, Will Ferrell, Adam Sandler, you could list about 50 people. Shane, who I think is like younger than me,


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[Assistant] Became a cast member. He successfully got onto the show. He was on the show for four days. And then, thanks to like, media, like a media...


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[Assistant] Trial almost, he got sacked, so uhm, he never actually made it onto an episode of the show. And this at the time was massive news, so I did the stand after this had happened, like a good bit after, with Shane.


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[Assistant] The line-up was unbelievable whenever I was out there, you know, you had Mark Norman, Joe List, Dan Soder, these are like huge name American stand-ups and of course, you know, the moneytower himself was on the bill as well, you know, so it was full of heavy.


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[Assistant] It was full of heavyweights basically, you know, the audience basically came to see us guys, I mean mainly them, when I say mainly them, I mean all them, but I was lucky that I got to do a spot. Anyway, Shane's set like really stood out to me, by the way that's not me talking in third person, Shane Gillis who's on this episode of the podcast, I just


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[Assistant] I think I was sitting with like my hands under my chin, you know, like together and then I may have just been lying on my front on a table, sort of kicking my heels behind me going, this is great. Really, really enjoyed the set and briefly chatted to him.


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[Assistant] A lot about stand up, a little bit about the SNL thing, but that's not why I wanted him to, in fact I'd asked him to do the podcast before I linked him with being that guy from that news story, you know?


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[Assistant] But we did talk about that a little bit, but we talk about stand up and loads of other stuff for you, just a real


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[Assistant] Easy, easy guy to chat to, just a very, like, naturally funny guy, and uhm, I, I really, really enjoyed talking to him, and we, we did speak a bit about him, you know, I asked him if he'd done stand-up outside of the States, and I think he'd just done Canada, so uhm, I told him he should come over here, and do some shows, and uh,


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[Assistant] You'll see that he just has a very, like, he has a way about him that I think he would do really well in stand up here.


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[Assistant] But, uh, but yeaah, I'll, I'll, I'll delay too long, let's just get into it. Uhm, we've got the Friday episode coming out, which will just be me by myself, and then every Monday, obviously we do the Patreon, which is patreon.com, slash T with me podcast, we do the bonus episode, where you get a, yea, weekly episode, me and producer Dan, and some other stuff as well.


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[Assistant] So without further ado, this is the Tea With Me podcast episode with Shane Gillis.


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[Assistant] I guess we have different definitions of tea because, you know, there's the American tea and then there's obviously the British and Irish tea. So have you ever gone like...


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[Assistant] Is it an experience you think you'd be open to, or are you just totally shutting off from it, like no chance? Nah, definitely I would.


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[Assistant] I think, I think it's just, it would have to be the right environment, you know what I mean? Like it's, it's very, it's, it's very, eh,


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[Assistant] I, uh, yeah, I just have a major problem anytime I'm in America. Just trying to, just trying to get tea. Because there's so many variations, whereas we just have like, your, your, your one tea.


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[Assistant] You and I share a first name as well as we share a first name. Would that buy me anything with you? Like say we'd never met each other and like I ran into you and I was like, these guys are chasing me. I'm also called Shane. Would you be more inclined to help me out or?


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[Assistant] I mean, you're probably going to have more loyalty with a surname. I don't know if a first name really like, really buys you anything.


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[Assistant] I used to do a, uhm, I think Shane's a far more common name in the States, but it's not, I wouldn't say it's uncommon here, but it's not that common.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I'm like, and uh, I remember my dad telling me about this cardboard film I was named after, how cool this character was. And he's like, we gotta, we gotta watch it sometime. I watched like two minutes of it. I was like, no, this looks so shit.


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[Assistant] Like if they remake it, like yes, I would definitely be up for it, but in its current format, like I know it would mean a lot to my dad, but I just fucking can't.


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[Assistant] If it was a short, possibly, but feature length, black and white.


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[Assistant] It's uh, it's not gonna happen. It is weird to be named after that film and I've met other shames who are also named after. Why were, why were our parents so like so buzzing about it to the point where.


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[Assistant] We can give somebody this name. I used to do a radio show on BBC and we had this feature where I would interview other Shane Todd's around the world and so just like email them and ask would they come on the show and I thought like seriously we're gonna have like such a


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[Assistant] Such a connection because we share this name. We maybe interviewed like 12 guys.


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[Assistant] Because it's a slightly unusual name, like it's not too very, very common, first or surnames, I just think like if I met, you know, even when I, when I went over to the stand,


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[Assistant] He's gonna seek me out, you know, but I dunno, I just thought like if I interviewed other people with like...


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[Assistant] No one else was excited about it. I would say like, oh, we've got the same name and they would say...


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[Assistant] Like some sort of film on Netflix that doesn't perform well, where like the four Shane Todd's who come together for one crazy adventure.


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[Assistant] You're, you're in Pennsylvania, you said, you're back. I'm in Pennsylvania right now. You're back with your folks. Did you, did you sort of like get out before the worst happened? Cause I was, I was.


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[Assistant] I mean, I enjoy that from Charles, you know, I think he might have known beforehand, but I like the fact that he's like, fuck it, if I have it, everyone's going to get it. He's giving high fives to the airport. To as many people as possible.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that's, I mean, what's it like being, what's it like being back with your, I mean, we're going to talk about stand up and stuff in a second, but what's it like being back with your phone? Like what age are you?


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[Assistant] Pretty much the same. Oh, that's so weird. We're both coaching. I mean, I'm 31, but we're still in the same, like, bracket. Say I'm three. I'm so excited.


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[Assistant] Even if it's not, even if it's not, that's just, that's like getting an apartment or something. So if, so let's say on three, one, two, three, ninth of June, December 11th, December 11th. Yeah. That's so weird. You got to do that.


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[Assistant] I mean, what's it like being back? What's it like being back with your folks? Like, do you fall back in this sort of?


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[Assistant] You know, teenage kind of behavior, like, you know, you can.


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[Assistant] Secret wanks all over the house. I've never heard of Americans having a wank. To the point where I don't know if we think of it as the same thing.


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[Assistant] It's a podcast and you can say absolutely anything. Absolutely anything.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean, I think you're just going to have to, you know, quickly pretend that you're just emotional, maybe emotional, like COVID in general. I mean, I like to think that when you had your first wank back in your parents' house, Charles Barclay appeared and just straight up high-fived.


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[Assistant] I find it weird that you guys have basements, like that's very much an American thing, like I just think of from films. I stayed, not the last time I was in New York when I gigged at the stand, but the time before, ehm, I stayed at my wife's cousin's house.


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[Assistant] In their basement and they, you don't need to know this, but they went to Columbia on a, on a, to a wedding.


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[Assistant] Yeah, what's scary is when Mr. Pepe's upstairs, you don't know if it's a guy or a dog, and all you hear is, aaaah, you know what's bad?


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[Assistant] It's very off, it's very off, but you know. Yeah. Work out, but uh, show that to Mr. R.I.P. Mr. Pepe, isn't he? Sadly, no longer with us.


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[Assistant] Oh man. So yeaah, you and I, we did a gig at the stand, and I've been over to New York a couple of times for stand up, but I've kinda...


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[Assistant] A bit, a bit more of a feel for the scene out there, like it was just like, I couldn't believe the lineups because I listened to a lot of podcasts in New York and LA and on that lineup, you know, you hear so many, I think the lineup that night was like you, Mark Norman, Dan Soder, Joe List, like,


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[Assistant] You know, you guys are all headliners, you go and do clubs for a weekend or whatever, and you're all on the same bill, like the way it works, like we have such a small scene here where like, you've got like one headliner, that's it.


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[Assistant] And it's more about solo shows, but, and the fact that you guys can gig every night of the week as well, like, well, multiple times.


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[Assistant] Like you're doing well here, like we have a good scene here, but it's very new, so like you're doing well at the gig like four times a week.


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[Assistant] And there's no weekend clubs, which is crazy, but have you always been based in New York or did you move there from somewhere else?


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[Assistant] And, uh, I mean, it's just fun, you know, I went, I went on like with zero expectation, you know, and it was lovely, like the stand and, and Chris who runs it, like I, when I go, I go chatting to Chris, I tell you, I didn't know Chris, like,


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[Assistant] Was the guy who runs it and I don't think I've ever, I don't think I've ever struck up a friendship as quick with someone just for


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[Assistant] No reason, we got talking about music and he's just the nicest guy, like, you know.


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[Assistant] I would sort of like a couple times a year I'll go over to America to different parts and do like very small solo shows to just Irish people that live, that live over there.


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[Assistant] You get like formalities, that's kind of it, but Chris, like, I just chatted to Chris like all night, like what a guy, and the staff, like a proper authentic club, like even the brickwork behind, behind the stage. Oh, so good.


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[Assistant] Yeah, just hanging out all night there was great and I think I got like more of a...


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[Assistant] Flavor of the style there, if that makes sense, like, I think the other place in America being for stand-up, so many of the acts that I saw were kinda, not gimmicky, but everyone was like more of an exaggerated,


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[Assistant] version of themselves, like everyone, whereas in New York it just felt like the material was more important than anything else.


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[Assistant] It just felt like in New York, it was just more, more about the stand-up, less maybe about profile as well, like even though they're big.


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[Assistant] You can tell that no one was booked just because maybe they have certain credits. It was just...


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[Assistant] Just, just killers on. I did stand up in Philly for the first time.


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[Assistant] No, this, so I, so the way I work is like put it out on social media and say like, does anyone know anyone who like owns a bar in Philly and I can put on like a small show for like 30, 40 people?


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[Assistant] I got over and the guy was like, listen, we're going to have to do it on Sunday afternoon instead of Sunday night. Cause there was like a double booking. So I had to do like two o'clock on a Sunday afternoon.


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[Assistant] I was like, I'll go with how to warm up my back. But on a Sunday afternoon, man, it was...


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[Assistant] I was like, this is, this is going to be good. And you know, it wasn't, but it was nice cause like, um.


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[Assistant] A really nice part of town, like not really downtown, just somewhere slightly more outside, but it was good. I did Philly, Chicago and Boston.


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[Assistant] And, uh, yeaah, really nice. Did the Laugh Factory in Chicago, which is...


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[Assistant] Where I live, it was mainly just British comedians and you would get the odd American comedian, but with the success of podcasts now, like, you know, you guys could do Belfast, Dublin, maybe Galway, somewhere like that. Do you have an Irish background?


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[Assistant] The scene is probably here, more about material as well, less about like the showy kind of side of it.


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[Assistant] Um, yeaah, New York is just being able to go up so many times, like...


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[Assistant] The idea, like it's, it's difficult here to like have a bit of material.


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[Assistant] Sometimes I kind of hear, get stuck in a little bit of a rut of...


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[Assistant] Uh, like in New York every year because you kind of have to if you want to, if you want to tour in Ireland. Uhm, so you don't really get the...


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[Assistant] You spend maybe like two months working on new material and then you get it and then go into it. So you're not actually spending the whole year working on new bits, if that makes sense?


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[Assistant] Yeah, well, I, at the start of this whole Covid thing on the lockdown, I thought, this is going to be great, like I'm going to ride 10 minutes of material a day, you know, I'll do like two hours riding a day, I'll have something to come out of it. And then up until pretty much this week,


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[Assistant] Like the last thing I wanted to do was write stand up and I'm not even in like a down mood about the whole thing, I'm just kinda...


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[Assistant] Because there's no, there's no one set, like there's no automatic, oh I can go and test this material tomorrow. It's difficult because what's the, what's the motivation then to, to just write?


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[Assistant] That surprised me because from, I don't watch a lot of news but,


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[Assistant] Like it seems that you guys are probably like started to isolate like slightly after us. So I would have thought like your clubs would be coming back like way later. Like there's no, there's no even talk of our entertainment venues reopening, but I guess in America there's way more of a fucking open everything, you know, like.


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[Assistant] There's people outside the white house being like, let me get it, you know, with signs being like.


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[Assistant] To get back to stand up like my god. It almost, it almost feels like the longer this goes on for, the less I kinda...


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[Assistant] We'd be, we'd just jump at the chance to go and do it.


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[Assistant] I'm a bit hesitant, like of course I would walk anywhere, I know how to go and do a show, but like,


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[Assistant] It just feels like that's so long. Like we're, we're being like, so I was supposed to start touring in September in Ireland, but it's, we just put it back to February straight away. Just.


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[Assistant] It seems like anything that opens here is going to have like 30-40% capacity, so.


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[Assistant] Oh, definitely going to do stand up, but like in terms of like, so like the way you guys go on the road, like we, we don't do that. You would do like a.


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[Assistant] A two or three month tour and that's like Friday, Saturday shows. That's it.


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[Assistant] I'd love to just do stand up for a bit, not to work, uh, just to, just to get back to it.


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[Assistant] People are so desperate for it. So like you, you would imagine there's going to be like a lot of room for error. You know what I mean? Like from audiences.


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[Assistant] Although the other side of that is not to jinx your show, but they might be like, I waited three months for some form of entertainment.


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[Assistant] 100% be in the show. One thing you'd probably like...


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[Assistant] So like, I had heard so many people on podcasts, the podcasts that I listened to.


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[Assistant] And talk about the, there was a stand up Shane on Shane Gillis on Saturday Night Live, um, sacked from the cast or, or asked to leave, um, because of comments made on a, on a podcast. I didn't put two and two together. So even when we did the stand, and I briefly said a load of you and stuff and watched you on stage, it wasn't until


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[Assistant] Very recently, even after I'd probably asked you to do this podcast, I was like, fuck, that's who that was.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean, I know you're, you seem very cool with talking about it, but... No, I don't mind about it. It's gotta be, it's gotta be, it's gotta be...


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[Assistant] I feel like there's probably, you can't keep saying the same thing, I'm sure, on podcasts when people ask you about it, but uhm, from the outside in, you were on Saturday Night Live.


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[Assistant] And a podcast clip resurfaced from how long before was that like?


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[Assistant] So you made comments that, that some, you were talking about the Chinese community in, in New York.


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[Assistant] Sippers, I'm very quickly going to interrupt the podcast to tell you that my next Big Belfast show is on the 4th of February. It's been rescheduled from September. We put it back to February just to make sure it 100% happens. There isn't that many tickets left. On that, you can get the tickets on the Waterfront Hall website.


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[Assistant] You know, just search Shane Todd Waterfront Hall. I back you to find it. I have every confidence in you finding it. It's my brand new stand-up show, Somebody Told Me, and I think this week we'll have all the rest of the tour shows rescheduled for about that time, and they'll all go back on sale.


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[Assistant] It is, of course, Mashedirect. Do you like mash? Yes, we all like mash. We like spuds. We like potatoes. Do you like them direct? Yes, you do. It's the best kind whenever you get it direct. Let's see what Mashedirect are talking about here.


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[Assistant] Uh, uh, oh god, I feel so much pressure.


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[Assistant] Oh yeaah, here we go, here we go. So uhm, we've got a 10% off code on MashDirect's website, which is mashdirect.com slash shop, if you use the code tod10.


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[Assistant] Alright and I enjoy that because that's my name and it's a wee discount code and you put it in and you can get money off any of my direct stuff like turnip, like carrots, like croquettes, you know, and if that doesn't get you excited, I don't know what sort of person


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[Assistant] So that's mashdirect.com slash shop, use the code Todd10 for 10% off. And if you ask me how well this podcast is doing generally, I say we're offering discount code for potatoes.


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[Assistant] So that's where we're at. That's where we're at. Also, the other one thing I gotta really quickly plug before we get back in, and even now you're probably like, eh man, it's been too long, can we just get back? Or maybe you've just skipped through, in which case I think that'd be pretty sly, but uhm, we've got one more sponsor.


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[Assistant] Please bear with me guys, come on, I'm doing my best here, I'm a one man organisation. Producer Dan is in here because he's in isolation. Big Mike, I don't know what's happening to him, I don't know if that guy's still alive, even though I was talking to him on WhatsApp this afternoon, but it might have been somebody who has his phone. Anyway, anyway, anyway.


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[Assistant] We gotta plug materialgoodsco.co.uk. The company's material goods, but it's materialgoodsco.


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[Assistant] Merchandise partners on this podcast. Go check out the website. They, they, they, they do like customized work uniforms or if you've got any sort of business or company and you just want some sweet gear, you go to Material Goods Co. Okay, and you, you, you say you,


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[Assistant] You say you're a sipper, alright, and there's no discount code, but we'll get one, cause I like the idea that you go into any shop or business, no matter where, where it is in the world.


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[Assistant] But also, I want you to go anywhere and just say, hey, Todd 10. You know, there could be American people listening because Shane, Shane Gilson on the podcast. Go into Walmart, pay for, just as you're about to pay for all your shopping, they say like, that's a hundred dollars. First of all, you go, that's unreal that it would come to exactly a hundred dollars. But secondly, I want you to just go, hey, Todd 10.


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[Assistant] Is it almost like a settlement? You know, where you're like, hey, stop him. Like, yeah, that's it. I'm good. I'm good.


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[Assistant] When you realized that it was all, it was all like kicking off. I don't know if you guys use that phrase in America.


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[Assistant] Like bad, like, like what was the point where, where like, was it an email that you got from someone or did it just blow up on, on Twitter one day?


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[Assistant] Sorry for your loss. Sorry for your loss.


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[Assistant] To take it back, like a little bit, like getting on Saturday Night Live, like that is, like we, we, I think most people in Ireland, like we definitely know that show. We know about like everyone who's come through and gone on and maybe in a stand up and like listen to podcasts and stuff.


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[Assistant] Big, it's probably like being like, wanting to, the thing here for people that are into comedy would be like, people who want to play from Manchester United, like,


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[Assistant] It's like, it's, it's the equivalent of that. Like it is, it is the pinnacle, I guess, for- Yeah.


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[Assistant] I mean you hear about so many, so many legends, so many people who have gone on to be just the biggest stand up stars who crumbled that audition or got to that stage and just didn't make it on. How long were you actually on the show for?


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[Assistant] In a way, do you look at that and go, well, that's, that's maybe better because you didn't have a chance to like properly like be like, this is the best thing ever or- Oh yeaah.


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[Assistant] Sorry, can I ask, do you think that if you were a little, like if you had done shows and people were like, he's the guy that does this character, whatever, do you think you would have been better supported if you feel like you didn't?


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[Assistant] So, I mean, you used the phrase yourself, uh, cancelled, because I, the reason that I started looking back into this again a little bit was, um, Charlamagne was from the Brexit club, had Joe Biden, is that who?


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[Assistant] And Joe Biden made just a ludicrous comment that I'm sure a lot of people saw, um, about race and, you know, you pointed out that, you know, you were cancelled for, for something that, that was.


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[Assistant] You know, a lot, a lot less, a lot, a lot more innocuous than that, probably.


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[Assistant] Two final questions about this. What was the reaction from


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[Assistant] Stand-ups, especially the guys that you have been doing shows with in the likes of The Stand, for example, and the New York clubs.


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[Assistant] I guess it's like, yeah, when you see your friend get into like a little bit of trouble in school on a far bigger scale, you know, you can kind of be like, one day he's going to laugh at this, one day he's going to laugh at this. My, my final question on, on, on that is, um, you know,


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[Assistant] The, the phrase like being counseled and being like a counsel comedian.


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[Assistant] I'm doing stand-up. Obviously like, you know, you're, you're a stand-up. You just ploughed on with stand-up.


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[Assistant] Did you, or do you still get like anybody coming to shows getting the wrong idea? Do you get anyone coming to shows being like, like this guy's cancelled, he's going to say something in a set?


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[Assistant] Shock comedians, because to me, like, it seems forced, but did you get anyone that had got the wrong idea and thought that's what it was?


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[Assistant] Depending on how long Lockdown goes on, we might have to look at it.


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[Assistant] When you, when you, are you still like aware of it when you do stand up or, or is this just like something you're able to be like, you know what, it's kinda done now and, and you're...


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[Assistant] With stand up comeback, have you, I think since this whole break, like I've never really had a break from doing stand up, like I started doing stand up maybe


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[Assistant] 13 years ago, which in like New York or LA years is probably about six years worth of shows. Because it's spread out, you know.


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[Assistant] But I've never, I've been lucky, I've never had to take a break from it, I've never thought about not doing it, I've just always been doing it.


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[Assistant] And the first couple of weeks of lockdown I was really panicking, I was like...


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[Assistant] I only know how to like go and do stand up and it's such a great release. Uhm, but I actually have started thinking the last couple of weeks, it's actually not, not a bad thing because the way I'm writing is a little bit different.


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[Assistant] Like, I very much got like to the point where I was just writing notes on my phone and I thought that's the best way for me to do it. And now I've been able to watch them on my stand up back and I'm like, I'm taking so long just to get to the point.


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[Assistant] That's what was good about New York, about watching New York stand up.


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[Assistant] It was, it was, it was a little bit of a setup and then boom. Whereas...


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[Assistant] It's a long bit, like if I'm, when I was going to do The Laugh Factory in Chicago, if I had a five minute set, I was maybe doing one bit, you know, just one five minute story.


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[Assistant] Which is fine, but if it doesn't kill, like.


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[Assistant] You're stuck in it, you know, you're stuck in it. So has anything changed?


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[Assistant] For you, for you, do you think, or when you come back to stand up, will you do anything different?


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[Assistant] I just think in a way it can be a good thing because you obviously think about your material a lot but


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[Assistant] I'm having like a big proper think about it and I know friends that are doing that and it's like a negative, you know, friends are like...


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[Assistant] There like ability or whatever, but I think it's a good chance to like really have a think about the way, the way I'm doing it and just be like.


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[Assistant] So I don't know, I think like getting back to it's going to be great, but I heard the analogy of like, you know, it's like expecting UFC fighters and boxers to...


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[Assistant] Take, you know, months off and then just like straight go straight back into a fight. You gotta be able to go and work out, but.


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[Assistant] I just can't, I can't wait, like I think it'll be ages before I can come over to like New York or LA again. I just think that's, that's gonna be a good while.


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[Assistant] It was so like gotten in a way because when I did that trip and did the stand and just a couple of other places, I was thinking like I'm going to come straight back. So probably around this time, maybe like a month ago, I probably would have come back and sort of


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[Assistant] Do you think, is like, I always thought LA was the place to be, so I was like, I'm always gonna go over to LA and watch stand up and like, have short trips of doing comedy, but,


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[Assistant] Do you think as someone who's played probably everywhere in America, do you think New York is like the place, like would you say New York comedy is better than LA comedy?


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[Assistant] I think New York comedians definitely, there's like a, there's more of an openness, you know, like as, as like a complete outsider who, you know, like I also am not like,


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[Assistant] You know, the way you see standups in a new place that like go straight up to all the acts and think they're best friends. Like obviously I want to say hello to everyone, but I will just say like, say hello and kind of, but people will bring you more into conversation, ask you where you're from, that kind of thing. I did the, the Laugh Factory, no, the comedy seller in Las Vegas. I was in.


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[Assistant] I was in Vegas for my honeymoon and, uh, I said to my wife, I was like, listen, if I can get like a five minute spot, can I go and do this gig? I was like, it's, it's the comedy seller. Like it's, I said, it's the best club in the world. No, I didn't know. I just thought the one in Vegas would be.


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[Assistant] Just the same, you know, I was like, it's, it's because they said it's, it's built like a model, the model for the New York one. So I was like, this is, I'm going to play the best club in the world. And I didn't know it was in a casino and the real casino. And I went to it and I've never had a worse interaction in a green room. Like I showed up, nobody like, I like it was in


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[Assistant] Who's the English guy, who's like Russell Brand, but he's not Russell Brand? Uhm, tall guy? Jeff?


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[Assistant] He was there, uhm, the, the owner was there with like a load of other, there was maybe like eight acts. I didn't recognize anybody else, but the only person, so I like, they were already there, but I wasn't on the bill, but they'd let me come on. So I kinda said hello, but I didn't want to say like,


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[Assistant] I hear it said, I'm a comedian too, cause that's just a terrible sentence.


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[Assistant] So I just kind of stood there and they continued their conversation. I just had to like stand in the room.


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[Assistant] The only person who like came up to chat to me and...


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[Assistant] You know, had a lovely conversation with Tony Woods. You know Tony Woods?


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[Assistant] He, he, he kinda, I think he sensed, that was kinda just awkward, like sort of Irish weirdo just kinda standing in the shadows of the backstage bit. He knew I had a bad set and he chatted to me for like 15, 20 minutes and he was just like the nicest guy. Then I saw him on the Dave Chappelle.


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[Assistant] It was weird. It was like a lot, a lot more like international guys. It was maybe two newer comedians, but I didn't recognize anybody else's name. But just when I was in New York that time, like you, Mon, Norman, Joe, Joe List, like just a, just really like nice, like just.


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[Assistant] Hey, what's up conversations? And it, it just felt, it just felt good. And eh, you know, I don't want to, we were talking about sucking dicks there just cause we're both called Shane, but, but your, your set that night in particular was 10 out of 10, like,


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[Assistant] Like great, really great. You were doing the, uh, maybe the Special Olympics bit, a little bit of like...


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[Assistant] Like what's crazy is that would, that's gonna, that would work just as well here. You wouldn't need to adapt anything. Like I see a lot of comedians out there and I don't think their main worry is would this work in Northern Ireland? You know? Yeah, yeah, yeah. But that set and that authenticity I think would do really well here.


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[Assistant] Yeah, £15. I don't know if you know the conversion rate, but...


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[Assistant] Uh, Shane, thanks very much for doing the podcast. Really, really appreciate it. And, uh, yeah, hopefully I'll see you in New York in the next, in the next two to three years.


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[Assistant] And remember, like, let's just get like a few more shanes. What if I, I know you're sceptical, what if I just bring a few more shanes with me next time I come to New York?


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[Assistant] I'm like, I don't want to put any, no, I don't want, no, I don't put any pressure on you. One, like, yeah, you're doing a couple of nights in the stand. The first night, I just bring one Shane. Next night, I'm coming back. I'll ease you in.


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[Assistant] There's a Shane Torres, he's good. I think, I think he may be open for Bert Kreiser in Dublin when I saw him. Yeaah, yeaah, yeaah, he would've, yeaah. Right, so we start with the three of us. Sure. Don't put you under any pressure, but we do a tour.


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[Assistant] And like we do like a US tour, we're at Canada, we'll do a couple more places. And then we just pick up Shane's as we go, you know, kind of like.


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[Assistant] You know, sometimes I can be, not the first one, but like,


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[Assistant] What about Shane, what about Shane McMahon if we just fired him in?


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[Assistant] Some good wrestling anecdotes, yeaah, and then he could jump off something like at the end of the shit.


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[Assistant] I'd say there's a lot of pressure, like, on him, like, when, you know, you do a live show because everyone's like, this is great, all your chat, but do you wanna, like, impale yourself or something?


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[Assistant] He's another guy, like, no matter what, like, at a funeral, whatever, like, you're, you're not going to allow Steve-O a day off from Steve-O. No. Always gotta be Steve-O.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean, mankind, he'd eat at Belfast, Mick will eat at Belfast as part of that tour.


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[Assistant] And, uh, I have a lot of friends whose Facebook profile pictures are still there. I'm just with the arm. Like, yeah, they have a belt on. Oh, that's awesome. And he, uh, yeah, I, I enjoy, I enjoy that you've done a gig with Mick Foley. I enjoy that a lot. I mean, I think, yeah, I, I,


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[Assistant] Was into wrestling up until I was like 60. I remember going to the States whenever I was 12 and going to Walmart. Uh, now our shops are like so much smaller than that, obviously.


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[Assistant] I remember seeing, like, we only had the official WWF magazine over here, and I remember you guys had like eight different wrestling magazines, and I was like, Mother, Mother, we're staying. I was like, this is, this is the spot. This is the spot. Mick Foley, yes.


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[Assistant] So we'll get Mick Foley and Shane McMahon, the sort of main event. Megan Headline with some sort of gimmick.


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[Assistant] I think he'd be up for it, like 100, like, I think he might be the only guy, like, on paper we could definitely get involved.


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[Assistant] Okay, all the best, see you soon, thanks. Sippers, there we have it, the Tea With Me podcast episode with my guest Shane Gillis, part of the Shane Gang. Oh my god, why did I not tell him that at the time?


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[Assistant] That is the ideal name for it, the Shane Gang, and we like, I don't know why, maybe we are all chained together, I dunno.


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[Assistant] Fuck, I dunno, but we're called, like, the Shane Gang. We're called the Shane Gang, and maybe we'll have, like, prison outfits, but like, customized with just Shane on the back. God, that'd be pretty great. I don't think he's keen for that at all. But that was an interview I absolutely loved doing. I think he, he spoke really openly about


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[Assistant] What he's kinda been through, in terms of the Saturday Night Live thing and being cancelled, as he puts it.


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[Assistant] I mean that was just, as you heard, a very small part of the interview, he's an absolutely brilliant stand-up, real


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[Assistant] Real funny, just, eh, you can catch loads of his, loads of his material on YouTube if you, if you go, if you search for Shane Gillis. You know, cause it would be weird if that wasn't, cause that's his name, you know what I mean, so I don't know why I've told you that, but ehm, you'll get it there. And also, eh, Shane has a podcast, which is called Shane and Matt's Secret Podcast, and I presume that it comes out everywhere.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I'm sure it does. Yeah, they have episodes of YouTube and yeah, everywhere. Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast, so eh, you can go check that out as well and they can be, you know, a podcast. It's a podcast friend of our podcast, if that makes sense. So uhm, yeah, I've got to thank Shane Gillis massively for doing that episode. Little bit of housekeeping on


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[Assistant] He likes to bronze, you know, he likes to get a little bit of color about the face, you know, because


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[Assistant] We're about to have a baby, so I think whenever you, from what I hear from other people, whenever you have a baby, you know, you kinda need to be like hanging about with it quite a lot.


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[Assistant] You know, I'm no expert from the reading I've done though. I'm from the people I've spoken to that are like new mums and dads. They've said like you have to like, yeaah, mess about with like...


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[Assistant] Be friends with the baby a lot, like, like literate, like, you know, just always be with it and stuff, so I don't think tannin', you know, I don't...


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[Assistant] I don't think my wife would be delighted if I'm like, as soon as it gets sunny, if I'm like, babe do you mind if I take off for a couple of hours here? And tan up. So I'm making the most of it now, and I don't think any sepper will blame me for that. You know, I think we're all for it.


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[Assistant] Uh, Mash Direct are offering 10% off, and the day's finally come. Todd Penn, mashdirect.com slash shop. If you wanna save money on, I dunno, chili bites.


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[Assistant] You know, they sent me a load of stuff and to be honest I had it before I had a chance to really take it in.


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[Assistant] Turnip, uh, parsnip, carrot, you name it, they have it, alright, and you can get money off using the discount code Todd10 anywhere in the world.


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[Assistant] Also gotta give a shout out to our merchandise partners as well, Material Goods Co. Material Goods Co.


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[Assistant] My man Roscoe there who is just brilliant and if you've got a business or whatever and you need to just get a load of merch, you need to get uniforms, you need to get customized stuff, that's where you go.


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[Assistant] Don't, you don't just have to be a business, like if you're a guy who wants to just rebrand himself and get a load of like branded gear, then do that, you know what I mean? If you're a guy, if you're a guy called, ehm, you know,


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[Assistant] Colin, for example, like we had congedis in the podcast last week, you gotta go Colin, you suddenly want to be rebranded as, eh, as


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[Assistant] Coco, you know, just get, like, we can get you loads of gear and material goods, co. Guys, we'll be back on Friday with, ehm, with the podcast Tea With Me. Thank you very much for listening and watching. Final reminder that Waterfront Hall tickets for my brand new show are back on sale on the Waterfront Hall website. The new show's called Somebody Told Me.


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[Assistant] I've heard it's pretty funny, you know, because I wrote it. So, uh, yeah, come see that. I'm missing stand-up so bad, so I can't wait to be back to it. Thank you very much for listening and watching the podcast. Big thank you to my guest, Shane Gillis. Sip sip.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that's a happy ending. No, that's what I thought, uh,


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[Assistant] Dental, no, no, no. Dental dams. Not dental dams, uh. Fuck. Transvaginal mesh.


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[Assistant] Which is, I thought it was, I didn't know what the fuck it was. It was just, there was just commercials. Pussies fall out, yea. Yea, pussies just break apart. Yea, I, I. Nobody's fixing dogs, dude.


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[Assistant] The commercials would come on. I remember it was always during Flyers games for some reason. I'd be watching the game and then there'd be a Transvaginal Mesh commercial. And I didn't know what it was. I never know what it was. I thought it was to catch cum.


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[Assistant] It's too bad the double standard doesn't apply to women when it comes to like getting raped. Like you know when like a guy gets raped by like a teacher?


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[Assistant] Everyone's like, nice, kids and man. Nobody ever says that to a female victim. They're never like, oh I got you in the parking garage.


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[Assistant] So when they hear a story of like a student fucking a hot teacher, they're like...


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[Assistant] There's no way that's a crime. I wish that was, I wish I could see that.


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[Assistant] Uh, and when it's a lady, a female student, they're like, we need to protect. That's my daughter.


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[Assistant] That's all it is. Cause either way it fucking rocks. I support both rapes. It almost...


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[Assistant] No, we realized that would be catastrophic for society, so we were like, that's immoral, but it's actually just bad for everybody.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I found out when my friend fucked a raggedy hand off. He's like, that's how you do it, huh? He's like, yeah, girls have holes there.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but he had an older brother that we were friends with. The three of us were friends. I was friends with two brothers. The older one obviously knew how sex worked and immediately was like, yeah, that's how it works. And I, I tried to pretend like I already knew. I was like, that you were interested in gingers.


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[Assistant] Ultimate warrior. Can I, uh, fighting, like one of those fighting guys?


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[Assistant] One was Hulk Hogan, one was Ultimate Warrior, and they were like little buddies you could fucking... And I stabbed mine.


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[Assistant] Look, here's a fact I just found out about a show we're watching that's on the background. Uh, in this movie, Baby Driver, right here, where they're all wearing, uh, Austin Powers masks. So they're wearing Michael Myers masks. Yeah.


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[Assistant] They had asked to wear the Halloween mask of Michael Myers to rob the bank. And they said no. So then they asked to wear Austin Powers Michael Myers masks.


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[Assistant] Marilyn Manson was the best one. He was. I think I had. That's fucking crazy.


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[Assistant] For, for something that I should hate. I should hate impractical jokers and I actually like it.


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[Assistant] If somebody's watching The Office, I'll watch it. I do like The Office and Mike.


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[Assistant] I think Jim and Pam are kind of fucking corny, but the show's good. Like the office relationship, I hate it.


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[Assistant] It sucks. She was like dating, she was like with a, I think she was the guy in the warehouse's like fiance.


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[Assistant] And then she starts flirting with some dude up in the fucking office. Every man should hate Pam.


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[Assistant] Hey, this is something. Men are allowed to cheat, women aren't. That's just how it is.


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[Assistant] I thought, I thought it was a heated debate. It wasn't like necessarily a fight, but it was definitely like a... It's fueled by alcohol. Yea, it was an alcohol, it was an alcohol debate.


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[Assistant] He's not a conspiracy. That was the whole point. It's not even close to a conspiracy. I think it's common knowledge. That's what I said to him today. Epstein didn't kill himself. Everybody in the whole, this was all I was saying, was the whole country knows he didn't, and we're all just like, alright, what are we gonna do?


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[Assistant] So that was one of my points. I was like, I'm not like telling you the earth is flat. I'm not even arguing JFK or the fucking moon landing. I don't fuck with any of that. This one, this one seems pretty cut and dry. The cameras broke and the security guards missed it.


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[Assistant] So it was like, I didn't want to have a real like- He was genuinely concerned. Yea, I know, he was worried that I was, no, I was, I was like, as soon as we got done, as soon as he left the room, I looked at Tracy and Chaley and I was like,


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[Assistant] Behavior. Yeah, that's why he came over to apologize to you. It was nice. Yeah. Everything was nice.


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[Assistant] No, it was, uh, I just think white people need to be educated about black people.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it was just funny to, and then the whole time I was like, oh yeah, there's cameras everywhere.


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[Assistant] Yeah, we can talk about that. There's been comics I've heard that, we were talking about that earlier. Cause I saw Doug's special, I was like, yeah, I see why Netflix.


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[Assistant] Uh, very cancelable special, which is a good, kind of a good thing to be as a comic, I think.


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[Assistant] Just jokes. It's not a story. Everybody that's listening knows you don't, like, you're not a part of it.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so, I was talking about this one time, a comic, uh,


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[Assistant] He was talking shit on me and then his, whoever was doing the podcast with him was like, how come you haven't been canceled? And he's like, I'm not cancelable. I was like, well, cause you're not saying anything.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's gonna be funny. I said it in the first one. I'm excited.


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[Assistant] But if every single comment about you online was just like, this fat retarded guy, he looks retarded. Retarded. Then you get a retarded haircut.


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[Assistant] I've just been chillin'. I've been hangin' out. I'll literally, I got no problem sitting in that room playing a dumb Civil War game until it's time to come out here and drink a little. You know, I'm not bored, nothing, this is good. This is perfect. I know, I know that you're, uh,


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[Assistant] Well it's actually, it's almost like if you gave him an ounce of credit to know what he's doing, which is, you know, no one's sure.


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[Assistant] If he is actually good at manipulating the media, but calling it the Chinese virus, making the entire media be like, that's racist, he wins. Cause everybody's tired of the media being like,


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[Assistant] Stop being racist, like shut the fuck up CNN. You racist, the news, the news is telling us to stop being racist.


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[Assistant] Ten years ago, you guys were like, black motherfucker murders white person again in a park?


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[Assistant] Shut the fuck up, you hypocrites. So I think he's good at that, maybe.


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[Assistant] Like, if he just said Chinese vines, like the hi to how inept he's been about, you know, testing and all that shit. Maybe he has, I don't fucking know anything. But, uh.


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[Assistant] To force journalists to be like, were you being racist? It's like, we have a pandemic going on. Are you worried about racism right now, you psycho? Anyway.


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[Assistant] Yeah, sober eye, especially if you have a guest on, I'm not gonna say anything. I'm just gonna sit there and... I watched, uh, baseball. That whole first...


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[Assistant] On the way out I was like, man I hope this isn't fucking nuts the whole time. I can't take it.


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[Assistant] This is good. This is the perfect speed. Perfect speed. I wish there were some drugs. Mom.


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[Assistant] Joan. I wish there were some that I would lie and not tell you about and I actually do. Oh. I wish there were some of those. Joan we're gonna do, is it Joan?


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[Assistant] It's funny, I'm not sure how she would handle this. Like us, uh, like the, the message you sent to her. You talked, remember when you were like, I like it more than you?


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[Assistant] Yeah, we'll see how I, I was, she's either gonna laugh or cry. And if she cries, I'll have to be like,


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[Assistant] Circle K? What else is there here?


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[Assistant] This is jail close to here. Real close. Right by a gas station.


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[Assistant] There's a gas, not far from here, there's a barbed wire building. Oh, that's just a scared


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[Assistant] Kill him in the vid. He was fucking holding off on those bear stories.


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[Assistant] And he woke up one night in a zipped up sleeping bag with a grizzly bear like breathing through it. He was telling dog shit stories. All night.


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[Assistant] When the, when the continents connected to Asia and North America, he was, he's digging up the oldest shit ever.


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[Assistant] Tell us about that. Tell us about you hunting grizzly- shooting grizzly bears and finding that shit.


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[Assistant] He's trying to tell a story, he's like, I'll have a good finish. I was like, damn, you jammed him. You fucked him up.


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[Assistant] No, I'm waiting till we get hammered. You should meet Olivia Grace. I'd like to. I'd like to. Has anyone heard from her recently? I was worried about the same thing.


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[Assistant] It's weird, I'm smoking cigarettes and I don't feel that way.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it was just, uh, I'm pretty addicted to this, this game.


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[Assistant] I'm just trying to, you know, just trying to get the whole way through.


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[Assistant] I could, I could, but it would be, I'm fine eating the sandwiches I made.


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[Assistant] How awesome, how awesome would it be? Now this would never happen. How awesome would it be though if this trip ended with you wearing that thong into my, into the guest house and then I beat the fuck out of you and then laughed. It was like, he was violently homophobic.


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[Assistant] That's the end of it, we're good. Don't bring it up. Wait, he wasn't in the military? No. Well, he acts like he is.


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[Assistant] Is that a draft dodge? Cause he's all fucking like, there's nothing that happens to like, especially middle class white dudes that like,


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[Assistant] Since then he's been pretty funny. Oh yeah, I remember that. Like I remember, even in like high school I was like, well that was retarded. Like looking at my dad who I always like-


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[Assistant] No, it would go against, I don't wanna dye my hair, that's the only thing. I would be doing something I don't wanna do. That's the only thing.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, but there's no, uh, there's no shelving.


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[Assistant] And I'm pretty excited about it. They're pretty easy. Yea, you make them very clear, but now that we're comfortable enough as friends, you know, when I first show up, I'm not gonna be a dickhead immediately. That would be insane.


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[Assistant] But now I'm getting like today when I was like, hi, I watched a special finally.


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[Assistant] I enjoyed that, I enjoyed that. What was funny though is I closed the door, went back in and I was like, I hope that didn't foggle them.


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[Assistant] Pandemic apologies do not count. You were looking for something to do, officer. And you fucking came over and fake apologized. Epstein didn't kill himself and you know it.


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[Assistant] One more, here, here's the third party. It's Sal.


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[Assistant] She's gonna be furious, you call him. Yeah, she's gonna do morning weather. Let me guess, fucking sunny.


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[Assistant] God dammit, I'm just gonna have to hang up.


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[Assistant] I think I know how to un-pair. I'm shocked.


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[Assistant] Not to be, I hope I'm not sounding like a dickhead by saying that. You sound like a dickhead for saying that. Douglas?


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[Assistant] We were calling- And, and, we, we called a bunch of our, our friends, and then I was going through my phonebook and I said, fucking, Tom's a good friend, whole fucking answer. No one else answered Tom.


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[Assistant] I wanted to make sure I spread the virus. I'm an asymptomatic carrier.


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[Assistant] I thought about this before I introduced you two talking to each other. Tom's such a nice


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[Assistant] I gotta, I gotta be honest, I think I'll be at the Just For Spite party this year.


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[Assistant] Tom, and she won't hook up with me in the pandemic. You know when people are like, I wouldn't fuck you if you were the last guy on earth.


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[Assistant] Tom, I was, uh, the last thing, I was all fucked up one night, uh, I rented a lake house in Virginia. After we talked, I was after South Carolina, and uh, you were, you were just freestylin' on your Instagram Live.


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[Assistant] Yeah, how are you doing? How are you doing? Cause when we talked in South Carolina, I'd seem like- Where is he? Where's Tom? He's in LA. It seemed like- Oh, Jesus. It seemed like you were taking very, very intense precautions, which, understandable, and uh, how are you doing?


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[Assistant] Yeah, no, they'd already broken up. Yeah, they'd already broken up. And that's a covers album. All those songs are covers.


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[Assistant] Well, I mean, in any business, you're going to make money, but then it's chose, you know, then you choose like Willie Nelson as ecologically sound, you know, uh, touring vehicles.


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[Assistant] So you might be like, well, you know, he comes from the old school. Why does he care?


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[Assistant] This is a band that played some protest. You know, this is a band that like, you know, this is a, this is a meaningful band. I really don't think, even with The Clash, I don't think there's another band.


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[Assistant] That is this, that is this vocal about their beliefs and also this willing to put themselves out there for it, which we'll get into because there's some wild shit about them.


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[Assistant] You guys wanna, you wanna delight in Los Angeles because he hosts a jazz night on Thursdays where he introduces like jazz players and they come out and do some stuff at a club in Hollywood. Fred Durst is in jazz? Why, he did, not him, he just kinda comes out and goes, hey everybody, next up!


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[Assistant] Yeah, no, and he, and yeah, and he brings, he, yeah, he, he brings out, he has like a jazz thing.


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[Assistant] I have, here's my rage story. You guys will dig this cause you guys are younger. This is the only thing good about being older is you get to have seen bands and shit. I did a jam. I did, well, I maybe still do, uh, about 30.


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[Assistant] for almost 30 years this room at Cantor's deli,


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[Assistant] So my friend Brett Cantor, who sadly, uh, was murdered, but sadly passed away years ago.


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[Assistant] He was an A&R guy and he knew every new thing that was happening. And so he was the guy that was like smashing pumpkins are going to be huge. This new Coachella thing that's coming out, this new, I mean, Lollapalooza, this Lollapalooza festival is going to be huge. So one night we're at the Kivitz and we're jamming and everyone's playing and everything and he goes, I'm bringing in this new band.


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[Assistant] And this is literally a bar that's like the size of, you know, like a, like a tiny little New York bar.


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[Assistant] And he brought in rage before they'd ever gotten signed or anything. And I'm in a room with like, you know, 40 people.


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[Assistant] And we're talking about like on the level of them, like we're just standing there and I didn't get it at all. I was just like, I walked out of the room and I was like, I like hip hop. These guys are just yelling the same thing over and over and over and people went eight shit. I mean, we're talking about literally like you're, you're standing next to them.


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[Assistant] And they're just like, and I just did not get it. I was like, why? He's just chanting. It's just the same. You're in a fucking deli. I had no, no, but I'm saying I just


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[Assistant] So released on November 3rd, 1992 on Epic Records and produced by Garth Richardson and the group, this is the debut album from the Los Angeles based alternative metal rap rock band.


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[Assistant] In 91, after guitarist Tom Morello's metal band Lock Up broke up after one album, his drummer suggested he and drummer Brad Wilk, who had unsuccessfully auditioned for Lock Up, jam with bassist Tim Comerford,


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[Assistant] And vocalist rapper Zach Della Roca to possibly form a new group. The band gelled sonically as well as in their desire to express their shared revolutionary ultra left-wing political views. Morello's inventive guitar playing, including


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[Assistant] Emulating the sounds he heard on hip hop records and in addition to Wilkes and Comerford's solid and thundering rhythm section, De La Roca's vocals were a dynamic blend of whispered spoken word, machine gun rapping and brutal screams. As Morello described them, we were melding hard rock, punk and hip hop and I was the DJ.


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[Assistant] With the band completed, they needed a name. Della Rocca had previously been in the hardcore band Inside Out, who were potentially going to name their unrecorded next album after one of his songs, Rage Against the Machine.


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[Assistant] Within two months, they had written most of this album, were playing local shows and self-released a 12 song demo cassette. After a huge bidding war, they eventually signed with Epic Records, who offered them complete creative control and didn't ruffle any of their ideological feathers.


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[Assistant] Yeah, while this debut didn't get much airtime on MTV or radio, apart from the heavily censored single, it still went triple platinum and set rage as pioneers of the nascent rap rock hybrid.


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[Assistant] However, by 2008 years and three more albums, countless political statements, protests, and headline grabbing controversial events later, the band effectively broke up when Zack left due to creative differences.


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[Assistant] While a solo career hadn't really ever taken off like the rest of the band, they joined with former Soundgarden vocalist Chris Cornell to form Audioslave.


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[Assistant] So Audioslave had three successful albums and tours before breaking up in 2007, the same year that Rage reformed.


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[Assistant] It's almost backwards in a weird way. It's almost like a backwards version of rage as if you took like


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[Assistant] The style of rapping that it, that it sort of existed prior to rage and then put that in front of rage. If you put rage after that, it would sort of look like an evolution.


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[Assistant] into that was what it felt like to me. But the guys that were in the band were, you know, legends. Chuck D from Public Enemy, B-Real from Cypress Hill, and DJ Lord. So, Prophets disbanded in 2019, which is the same year Rage announced that they again would be reuniting for a world tour.


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[Assistant] Only to get postponed by COVID until next year, 2022. So, you know, hey, as of this moment,


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[Assistant] They're back together and they're going to be doing a world tour starting next year, according to their website. So you guys out there who are maybe just getting turned onto this for the first time, you actually have an opportunity to see the band that your friend got punched in the eye and miss seeing live.


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[Assistant] There's one more old person thing. So we used to rehearse at a place called Cole Rehearsal and


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[Assistant] Like Kiss rehearsed there, like whatever, you'd be in a room. And I remember walking down the hall one day and I'm like, these guys sound just like Rage. Like, but I mean like a record.


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[Assistant] And he goes, oh yeaah, Rage is in there. Because they, they were in there and they recorded some of it for the next album in the actual studio, like the rehearsal studio. They sound, I mean in a room with, you know, I mean in a concert, I can understand you guys. These dudes sound exactly the same if you're standing next to them.


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[Assistant] Like it sounded just like the record. There was no fat. It was like, there's, when you listen to the record, you realize how little is there, how much air is in it. Cause it's just what you hear. There's not like 12 overdubs and nine guitar tracks and it's just everything that's there is there. So that can, I can attest to even back then they sounded exactly.


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[Assistant] Like themselves, you know, outside of a rehearsal room.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I actually have a degree. Yeah. Why don't you stick to what you know? All right. Here's my diploma and my degree from Harvard. Yeah.


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[Assistant] There's a lot of effects. There's a lot of effects.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, he's a very inventive guitar player, you know, I mean, he...


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[Assistant] You know, early on, cause he's born in 64. So he's a little older than I am also. So he was in the first like metal wave of that stuff too, where you could, you know, where that shredding Van Halen


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[Assistant] And then, you know, once you hear hip-hop, you can either make the distinction of saying like, I'm going to stay with metal. Like I'm going to stay with rock and rolling. Or you go, what are those guys doing? What's a, what are those sounds? What's that scratching thing? What's that cutting and scratching? And, and then he was just, you know, very, uh, you know, prescient.


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[Assistant] To instill that into his playing, you know, which is really impressive. Not a lot of people ever did that. They might've just done the pick on the strings and gone,


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[Assistant] But he just took and went, well, I can shred and I can pay homage to, you know, this new culture that's coming out.


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[Assistant] It, it, it had a, you know, it, it, it had a definite impact because you were also kind of blown away there. We were just like, well, there it is. You know, it's like, there it is.


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[Assistant] Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me. Morty, you have a pretty interesting fact about this song.


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[Assistant] This is pretty rad, because, uh, uh, besides how it was created, if you want to get into that, the late comedian Bill Hicks, who was sort of...


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[Assistant] You know, God of comedians used to close his show with this, which Tom considered a badge of honor.


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[Assistant] But even weirder than that, this is the crazy thing about this. In 2009, so what you guys don't know in the UK, you know that, you know, like American Idol, Simon Cowell, like that shit. So in UK, they have this thing called X Factor that Simon Cowell does. So every year around Christmas time.


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[Assistant] They get the number one spot and everybody has to hear whatever, like the popular, whoever's about to win that thing. So these fans of rage go, nah, you know what we're going to do? We're going to lobby to get killing in the name to be the number one song at Christmas time.


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[Assistant] You know, the, just to get the song out there. So they go and they start this whole campaign.


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[Assistant] Beats for the first time in like five years, it beats Simon Cowell's thing and they become the first single to reach, uh, it becomes the first single to reach the UK Christmas number one on downloads alone. And it has the biggest one week download sales total in British chart history. So they rage went to England and played a show for them.


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[Assistant] To, uh, you know, to basically thank them for putting their song back in, in 2009, back on the, you know, back in the, in the height of thing. And then they did a show where they actually said, you're not going to curse, right? They're like, no, we're good. We're just going to do the song. And then they did it exactly like it was an annual.


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[Assistant] Like, and it's always Christmas songs, so it's gotta be the schmaltziest stuff or poppiest stuff available. Yeah.


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[Assistant] No, you've just been, uh, we just watched you organize. Your sock drawer is fantastic.


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[Assistant] Rage advocates for self-education to avoid being brainwashed by the Eurocentric views of schools and capitalist media. As an example at some shows, Zach would intro this song by saying,


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[Assistant] So yeah, so they're even rebelling against that machine. Yeah, they're rebelling, rebelling against a pencil sharpener.


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[Assistant] Yeah, well that's the thing, I don't even know what you guys learned. That's, that's a huge thing today with, you know, with school systems is that, you know, it's who I mean, literally at this moment, there's this fight about, you know, this stuff that's going on.


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[Assistant] You know, with the retelling of history or who, you know, listen, history is told by the winners.


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[Assistant] You know, and that's how they do it. And if you're the oppressor, you're not going to be like, oh, and then we did a whole bunch of bad shit. So maybe start thinking about, you know, maybe start thinking of overthrowing us next time you're down by wall street. You're like, no, no, no, we've always been really cool. What about all those horrible things that you did? Don't worry about that. You know, we got you tobacco. You got the railroad.


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[Assistant] Oh, I do. I took my kid to that. Well, I'm Jewish. I have to. I have to be like, and then they took all of us out. All of us? Well, you're half Jewish.


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[Assistant] So sociologically, philosophically, there are viewpoints of everything where, you know, the idea wasn't just originally to start something terrible.


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[Assistant] You know, the idea was to have a workable system, even capital, you know, we've seen it terribly out of control right now.