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Hitman Talks to Comedian Joe Gatto · Classic Hitz with Hitman

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  Hey, how are you doing? It is hit Man with you and we
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  got right now in front of me right now. It's kind of weird because
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  I'm doing zooms. I'm so used to doing stuff, but you like people
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  in the studios and stuff like that. It's so cool. I got Joe
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  Ghatto with me. Hey, Bud, what's going on? Hey? Thanks
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  for having me. Man, how are you doing? I'm doing good.
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  Now. You're coming to the American Banks in a Friday, June sixteenth,
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  that's Joe Ghatto's night of comedy. You know, you're doing the comedy circuit
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  now be on here a parental discretion people expect that night at the American Banks
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  Center, Well, we suggest sixteen and plus because they don't beat me in
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  real life. But yeah, I mean I've got I've had kids as young
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  as eight ten years old in there. It's really up to the parent you
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  know. It's nothing too crazy, you know, just a couple of cursed
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  sports here and there. But for the most part, it's just it's been
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  great. Man. I just come out there and I love to make people
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  laugh and been able to do it in this stand up format. Now,
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  He's just been a dream come true to get in front of the people and
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  make everybody come together for an hour and a half and remember that life does
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  suck, but we're gonna have fun for this hour and a half anyway.
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  Yeah, yeah, yeah, everybody's looking forward to seeing you come to the
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  coastal Ben. You know, besides you now doing stand up, I noticed
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  that you. I did a little research on you, and so look at
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  you. Yeah you did. You're a writer, your producer, you're an
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  author, you're a director. You're doing it all man. Tell me a
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  little bit about you wrote a book. Tell me a little bit about that
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  book. Oh yeah, I did a dog Father book a little while back,
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  and it was based on It's called The dog Father in My love of
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  dessert Dogs desserts are growing up Italian. It's just a little bit more about
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  me. And it was a passion project I did because I'm big with dogs.
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  You know. Actually this we just launched my rescue and sanctuary now Ghetto
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  Pups and Friends that me and Bessie run out of New York here on the
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  island, and it's a not for profit like legit getting dogs rescued here.
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  I think we're doing our twentieth rescue this weekend. Which is fantastics that are
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  actually doing a good work out here. It's great. I noticed that was
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  it said something like, you have a lot of dogs yourself, and you
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  named them after like Italian desserts and stuff like that. All the dogs brought
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  that come through their name through Italian desserts or pastries or pasta dishes. We've
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  even dipped into uh, some coffee drinks, you know. We've had Afa
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  Gatto, We've had Cappuccinos getting adopted this weekend. So yeah, it's been,
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  uh, it's great. But yeah, I love the dogs, man,
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  it's been. It's been a real good thing. And then I'm actually
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  have a kid's book that's coming out next year as well, um, based
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  on the stories to an interaction I had with my son when he couldn't find
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  one of his favorite toys. So it's it's been great to be able to
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  do these other projects as well now and really tap into it. I've been
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  doing all this stuff my whole life. I kind of you know, just
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  got had a great decade tangent with with jokers, um, you know,
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  being on that, you know, that being a major part of my life.
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  So it's been great to be able to tap into these other things now
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  as well. Yeah, yeah, I know a lot of people know you
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  from the Tender Wines and also from Practical Jokers as a matter of fact,
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  because I just thought it was just a weird coincidence when I was doing your
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  research. You know, this weekend, the Little Mermaid comes out to theaters
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  nationwide, and I saw your YouTube short of the Little Slutty mermaid slight a
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  Little Mermaid, Yeah, yeah, that we made back in the day,
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  a sketch comedy group back in the day, and we used to deal a
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  bunch of sketches. How we got you know, we got launched on the
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  internet through when MySpace was big YouTube and whatnot, and we got a lot
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  of traction that way. And that's actually how eventually we found our agents was
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  through our sketch comedy that people had found us online with. Yeah, Joe
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  Ghetto's Night of Comedy. It's happening Friday, June sixteenth at the American Bank
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  Center. Tickets available now at the American Banks that are box office, ticketmaster
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  dot com. You can get your tickets right now. It's going to be
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  great. Tell me a little bit about your short film called Nightmare. Oh
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  yeah, Nightmare Yeah, there was a short film that I had did after
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  Covid. I was, you know, I've always wanted to be a writer
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  and director. That's what I want to be when I grow up. And
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  I've been you know, chasing that pretty hard now because the time is right,
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  and you know, that's why I got into entertainment. I had moved
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  to Alai to chase the dream, and I decided I had this short script
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  that had written a while ago about a nightmare killer of that is in his
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  own nightmare and it just is a funny short. It actually has stars Scott's
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  Scott Ceesison and who was just in Cocaine Bear a really funny stand up comic
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  um and he's a he's a great dude. And uh yeah, it was
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  just a fun script that I did. I wrote and produced U Doran Covid
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  and it was a lot of fun to be a director and get that,
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  you know, worked that muscle, so it was really fun. Yeah.
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  Now, like I said, I was just watching your Two Cool Moms podcast
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  and you were talking about you you were writing a summer blockbuster, which actually
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  I thought the opening sequence that you talked about was really exciting. Actually,
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  I was like, man, I wouldn't mind watching that. Are you still
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  working on that right now? No, I had given up on that one.
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  I have two other ones that I'm doing. It's an action comedy,
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  one a heist one action comedy heist movie, and then another one is more
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  of just like I always loved like the Guy Ritchie films and like that kind
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  of like you know, lockst To Two Smoking Barrels, you know, or
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  Rock and Roll or even like Bullet Train that just more recently came out like
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  that, those kind of films, And I wrote something based in Chicago around
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  that. I want to do an American version of that based in Chicago because
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  I love that city. So that's another action comedy that I've written. I've
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  kind of fallen into like action comedy ideas because I just love those genres so
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  so on your action comedies, who would be your dream cast that you would
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  love to have for that? Then? For the Chicago I threw David diggs
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  Is. I'm a huge fan of him. I think he's phenomenal. I
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  think he'd be great um in that, And you know the act There are
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  so many good actors now too, but there's already so many unknowns too.
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  I just like the whole process of finding people and you know, people come
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  out of nowhere and we see a lot of that now, which is good,
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  Like a lot of people chasing their dreams. And I think the pandemic
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  has realized people like want to do what they want to do, which is
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  kind of cool in a cool way of kind of freeing. Yeah, Like
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  especially see that in a lot of stand up comedy. You know, a
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  lot of people came out and you know, start your dreams and it was
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  very accessible that way. You know, you see a lot of good stand
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  ups coming out that way as well. So I just think I think it's
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  really cool just to find people that are passionate and fun to work with.
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  And that's how I've always lived my life and it's always worked out pretty well
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  so far. So kind of cool. Have you ever thought of, I
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  know, you want to do action comedies and stuff like that. Have you
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  ever thought about maybe what if all of a sudden, like let's say,
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  ABC calls you and says, hey, we want to do a sitcom on
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  your life and you star in it, kind of like like what Gabriel and
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  Glescias did and a couple of people did on Nels and the way would you
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  do that and and what would you think about that? I don't know.
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  I've never saw myself as an actor really. I mean the thing about it
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  in Practical Jokers was I was just myself, Like I never played a character.
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  You know, I'm not Chandler bing so like that's why people also know
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  me and like me. So um, I don't know. I mean,
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  if it was true to form and I got to be myself possibly, you
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  know, if it was you know, and I got to be involved in
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  the comedy of it because I enjoy writing comedy. Um, you know,
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  I would say anything is possible, but that's probably not where my passion lies.
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  For some word reason, last night I was sitting there thinking of some
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  of the stuff that talked to him for some more and I kept on kept
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  on coming up in my mind about how you originally from Staten Island and then
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  you're originally from there, and then I remember Pete Davidson is also from Staten
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  Island, and for some word reason, I picture you two doing something together
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  promoting Staton Island, you know, like some type of thing that it's like
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  you guys get together and do like some type of Staten Island type Selton.
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  So I could I gos doing that? I mean, represent where a fellow
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  statn islnder you know of a funny statn is ounder, I wouldn't mind.
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  Nopee's great. So all right, It's happening on Friday, June sixteenth at
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  the American Bank Center Joe Gatto's Joe Gatto's a Night of Comedy Man. Tickets
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  are still on sale right now. You know, like you said, you're
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  doing comedy the comedy circuit right now. Do you have any advice for like
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  up and coming com mixed it or wanting to get into this and you know,
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  want to want to take that next step to go out and start doing
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  the comedy circuit and stuff. Yeah, I would. I would say the
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  hardest part of all of it is like you just have to do it.
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  You know a lot of people and you hear that all the time. It's
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  like, oh, the hardest set is your first set, like getting up
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  of there and doing it. You're gonna work it all out, You're gonna
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  be bad, You're gonna have a good nights, you have bad nights,
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  you know. But if you're doing it because you want to, it's something
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  you want to pursue, you know, and it's something that makes brings you
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  joy, And I mean that's why you should do it. I think that's
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  always pure as and echoes with anything. You know, if you know,
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  if you feel like you're meant to do something, go to do it.
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  But also, like people, I started comedy on the side, like it
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  was just I had fun doing it. So it came from all place of
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  just enjoyment for me. You know, I didn't start out as a comic.
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  You know, it took me. I didn't get famous in comedy until
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  I was like thirty four years old. I was doing all these side gigs
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  and you know, I had other careers, full careers, and comedy was
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  always the side side gigs. So I think it's important to remember, like,
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  do what you love if you like to make people laugh or work out,
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  but it doesn't have to be a career too. You could just do
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  it for fun. You know. Well I think you're doing I'm just gonna
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  sit now. You're doing a kick ass job. I like. I've seen
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  your I've seen your podcast, and I've seen some of your other great stuff,
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  some of your work. I'm looking forward to seeing your short films and
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  reading your book. I want to actually read the book. I think the
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  book's going to be kind of cool. Do you have any plans from a
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  Moorial Day weekend? Yeah, yeah, we gotta. I'm going to see
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  h Taylor Swift, to bring my daughter to see Taylor Swift and out New
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  Jersey, so we're going to see that and then getting together. Every year,
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  I got to get together with my sister at her house for the Sunday
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  and then the Monday's at my house, so it'll be it'll be nice to
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  get with a fan, get the cousins together and stuff. So now I
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  gotta ask, are you a swifty? Are you a swifty? I don't
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  mind her music. I'm not gonna lie. I think. I think she's
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  a powerful woman and she does some great things and she knows she's a great
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  It's it's with with having a daughter. It's good to have somebody that you
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  feel like could be a good role model, you know, or somebody that
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  your daughter enjoys and brings out aside of her. That's joyous. So that
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  for me is why I enjoy Taylor. Like to see my daughter singer songs,
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  you know, have fun, and that's really, really cool. So
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  yeah for that part of it, for sure. My daughter is twenty seven
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  and I have two grandkids that are now three and six. And one of
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  the highlights I love doing was taking my daughter to concerts so she was growing
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  up. I mean, the look on her face when she saw Michael Boublet
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  o amazing, great man. Yeah, I took my daughter to see Imagine
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  Dragons. She's a huge Imagine Dragons fans. Wow, and she lit up.
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  It was great. That was one of the coolest things to hear her
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  singing their songs and just like doing it. She was like five years old
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  to the point five are just almost six, and yeah, it was crazy.
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  Yeah. Yeah, Well, I appreciate you taking the time today to
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  talk to us about your show. Of course, Joe Gado's Night of Comedy
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  happening Friday, June sixteenth, American Banks Iner. Get your tickets now.
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  Any last words you want to tell your fans before we sign off, Come
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  out, stay strong, be kind, Let's do it.