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The New Face New Tour Starring The Brilliantly Funny And In Touch Kathy Griffin · Arroe Collins Like It's Live

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  Speaker 1: It's not about just creating one podcast these days. It's
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  Speaker 1: Enjoy your exploration. I'm so proud of you, Kathy, for
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  Speaker 1: doing this because I love the way that you've always
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  Speaker 1: been in touch with the people. I mean, it's like
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  Speaker 1: you go and you watch you and it's like, I
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  Speaker 1: feel like I was just sitting here with my sister
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  Speaker 1: or somebody that's very close to my heart because you
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  Speaker 1: are not afraid to talk about what we're talking about. I,
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  Speaker 1: that is the greatest compliment I could get because honestly,
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  Speaker 1: that's what I want.
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  Speaker 2: I am not a traditional joke teller, like, you know,
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  Speaker 2: knock down jokes and stuff, but I tell stories.
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  Speaker 3: And they're all true. I mean, I embellish a little bit, Arrow,
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  Speaker 3: don't get me wrong.
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  Speaker 2: But they're all true, and they're all stuff that either
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  Speaker 2: happened to me or stuff that I made happen.
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  Speaker 3: And, you know, I.
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  Speaker 2: Make fun of myself first, but everybody else goes down
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  Speaker 2: pretty hard too. In fact, the great Dolly Parton, last
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  Speaker 2: time I saw her, she pulled me aside and she said,
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  Speaker 2: I love watching you.
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  Speaker 3: You're so nasty. You say all the things I'm thinking,
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  Speaker 3: but I can't say.
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  Speaker 1: That's so true. I've had program directors that sat down
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  Speaker 1: with me and said, go watch Kathy's videos and learn
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  Speaker 1: what her pacing is, her inflection, how she's able to
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  Speaker 1: switch characters. She knows the way into the heart of
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  Speaker 1: somebody who's picking up her message. And so I study
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  Speaker 1: you like you're a book.
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  Speaker 3: Oh my God.
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  Speaker 2: That is so fantastic. I, that means so much to
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  Speaker 2: me because you know, when I was canceled and I
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  Speaker 2: couldn't work for seven years, I just lost my mind.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't know what to do with myself.
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  Speaker 2: I kept writing and I kept pitching and you know I,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if I'll ever be on TV or
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  Speaker 2: streaming or in a movie again because I've pissed off
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  Speaker 2: so many people, but thank God for live audiences and
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  Speaker 2: thank God for town hall and people just go into
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  Speaker 2: Kathy Griffin.com to get tickets and And watching my once
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  Speaker 2: a week YouTube show where I don't have, you know,
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  Speaker 2: I don't have a stuffy executive telling me all.
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  Speaker 3: The things I can't say.
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  Speaker 2: And it's every Tuesday and it's on YouTube for a
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  Speaker 2: half hour and it's called Kathy Griffin, talk your head off.
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  Speaker 1: But see, I expect that from you. And is that
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  Speaker 1: odd that we're all out here expecting you to do
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  Speaker 1: exactly what you do? Have you trained us that way?
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  Speaker 1: Or is it just that we go to you because
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  Speaker 1: you're so much better than a Red Bull?
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  Speaker 2: Both. First of all, it's all your fault because you
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  Speaker 2: encouraged me to be naughty from the first time I
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  Speaker 2: started doing stand up. I was I've been getting in
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  Speaker 2: trouble for decades. And yet then I had people come
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  Speaker 2: up and say, that's why I want to come see you,
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  Speaker 2: because we know you're going to give us the real story.
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  Speaker 2: It's going to be true. It's going to be juicy.
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  Speaker 2: You're going to piss off celebrities. You're going to piss
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  Speaker 2: off politicians. But I go out there for two hours.
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  Speaker 2: I write all my own material. I don't have an opener.
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  Speaker 2: And that's the way I like to do it. And
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  Speaker 2: I change my material up quite a bit. In fact,
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to do a residency in Palm Springs starting
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  Speaker 2: in January. I'm only doing one show a month at
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  Speaker 2: the Plaza Theater, but I'm doing a new 90 minutes
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  Speaker 2: every show. So you can get through the whole run
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  Speaker 2: and you're going to see a new 90 every show.
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  Speaker 3: So let's see how that goes. But I love a challenge.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I would love to see how many radio jocks
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  Speaker 1: are going to secretly sneak in there and try to
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  Speaker 1: figure out what you're up to, because they would love
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  Speaker 1: to do a new 90 minute show every week. But
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  Speaker 1: they rely so much on their past. And that's why
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  Speaker 1: I've always been influenced by you is that you will
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  Speaker 1: take a chance on a story that's not yet tip
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  Speaker 1: of mind. But you're going to make sure that it
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  Speaker 1: is tip of the mind and we're going to score
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  Speaker 1: with it.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah. And I'll go on a rant. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: I am.
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  Speaker 2: Just improvising up there because I was really trained in improv.
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  Speaker 2: I went to the Groundlings Theater, which is like Second City,
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  Speaker 2: and I went there for years.
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  Speaker 3: And so I didn't have typical stand-up training at clubs.
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  Speaker 3: I started doing stand-up at theater.
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  Speaker 2: So My presentation is more theatrical and my act is
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  Speaker 2: still highly improvised.
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  Speaker 3: I don't always know what I'm going to say and
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  Speaker 3: neither do you.
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  Speaker 2: No, I don't.
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  Speaker 1: And that's why I have to sit down with my
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  Speaker 1: 14-year-old self and discuss it with him because as far
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  Speaker 1: as I'm concerned, that younger kid is still in charge
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  Speaker 1: of my life. What about you? Is it a younger self?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, my God.
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  Speaker 2: Younger and naughty and getting in trouble and getting yelled
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  Speaker 2: at by my parents and promising to never do it
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  Speaker 2: again and then never learning my lesson.
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  Speaker 1: Please do not move. There's more with Kathy Griffin coming
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  Speaker 1: up next. Thank you so much for coming back to
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  Speaker 1: the conversation. Let's get back into it with Kathy Griffin.
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  Speaker 1: I want to go horseback riding with you out in
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  Speaker 1: Wyoming because you and I out there, you know, just
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  Speaker 1: looking at the mountains and the prairie dogs, you and
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  Speaker 1: I could sit there and just talk about something and
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  Speaker 1: still make it very funny.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, we could just riff and get into it and
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  Speaker 2: make fun of it and pick a different angle.
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  Speaker 3: And that's what I love to do.
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  Speaker 1: How is it, though, that because I mean, you first
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  Speaker 1: of all, you spoil Charlotte. You come to Charlotte a lot.
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  Speaker 1: But every time that I have seen you, you make
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  Speaker 1: it about us. And it's like, what is she doing
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  Speaker 1: in her show prep that she makes it sound like
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  Speaker 1: that she's been living here the entire time?
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  Speaker 2: I do research and development. I do reconnaissance. I'm also
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  Speaker 2: a secret spy. But I work for the CIA.
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  Speaker 3: And so I.
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  Speaker 2: Look up everything I can about every single market that
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  Speaker 2: I play, every single city, every single theater.
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  Speaker 3: And there's always new stuff.
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  Speaker 2: There's always a local congressional representative that said something crazy.
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  Speaker 3: And then the audience totally knows what I'm talking about.
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  Speaker 2: And there's always, you know, some new store that something
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  Speaker 2: crazy happened at or something. And I love doing it
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  Speaker 2: because it makes every show different. But I want the
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  Speaker 2: audience to understand I want the show to be tailored
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  Speaker 2: to them because I don't want to be just some
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  Speaker 2: hack who goes out there and does whatever.
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  Speaker 3: The same, you know, two hours.
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  Speaker 2: In every city because it's an opportunity to write new
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  Speaker 2: stuff and people feel it's more personal and I feel
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  Speaker 2: it's more personal too.
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  Speaker 3: So I love doing it.
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  Speaker 1: Well, see, that's got to be the reason why I
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  Speaker 1: go through a moment where I feel like I'm mourning you.
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  Speaker 1: When you walk off that stage, I'm going, oh, it's
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  Speaker 1: like they're going home now. What did mom give her
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  Speaker 1: enough dinner to take home with her? What's going on?
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  Speaker 1: Why is she going home so early? It's not midnight yet.
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  Speaker 1: What's going on, Kathy? You know what I mean by that?
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  Speaker 1: You make it so personal.
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  Speaker 2: It's so funny you said that because I'm in trouble
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  Speaker 2: for my agents because I've been accidentally doing two and.
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  Speaker 3: A half hour shows. I'm in trouble.
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  Speaker 2: And so now I have to keep my shows to
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  Speaker 2: an hour and 45, but I can't stop coming up
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  Speaker 2: with ideas.
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  Speaker 3: But I'm going.
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  Speaker 2: To try to learn my lesson and, you know, give
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  Speaker 2: people bathroom breaks, let them have a life. But then
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  Speaker 2: they can go out afterwards and hopefully discuss the show
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  Speaker 2: and laugh. And, you know, people are laughing at different
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  Speaker 2: parts of the show, which I always find entertaining. I
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  Speaker 2: never know which bit is going to work or not work.
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  Speaker 2: Every market is different. Some people want a lot of
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  Speaker 2: political stuff. Some people want a lot of family stuff.
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  Speaker 2: Some people want a lot of relationship stuff. And I
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  Speaker 2: love to.
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  Speaker 3: Hear the audience.
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  Speaker 1: Yep.
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  Speaker 3: As you know, you can feel it.
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  Speaker 2: It's almost like they're telling you, do more of this,
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  Speaker 2: do less of this.
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  Speaker 3: And I love doing that.
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  Speaker 1: Well, see, that's got to be fun going from city
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  Speaker 1: to city because, I mean, Charlotte, Atlanta, and then you
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  Speaker 1: go out to Seattle and you go out to the
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  Speaker 1: West Coast. That's two completely different people right there. But
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  Speaker 1: you figure it out, don't you? And it's very quickly.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, I don't have time.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I'm about to go on a run where
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  Speaker 2: I've got New York and I've got, of course, Buckhead
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  Speaker 2: and I've.
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  Speaker 3: Played Buckhead twice.
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  Speaker 2: And I can't wait to play there because Atlanta is
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  Speaker 2: comedy gold. I mean, there is always something going down
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  Speaker 2: in Atlanta. And I've worked there. I worked on a
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  Speaker 2: TV show there in Peachtree City. And, you know, I
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  Speaker 2: want to talk about that because I.
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  Speaker 3: Can make fun of Peachtree City.
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  Speaker 2: And that's something, obviously, I wouldn't do when I go
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  Speaker 2: to town hall and play New York. I would make
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  Speaker 2: fun of the New York stuff. And I like doing
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  Speaker 2: the research and development. I read the local papers. I
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  Speaker 2: look online. I try to find stuff that isn't old. Like,
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  Speaker 2: I don't want to do a joke about something that
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  Speaker 2: happened two years ago. Yep.
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  Speaker 3: So I like boning up, pun intended. I like boning
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  Speaker 3: up on every city and I get to learn stuff too.
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  Speaker 2: So I want to find the good mom and pop
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  Speaker 2: restaurant that isn't a chain and go have a meal.
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  Speaker 2: And then maybe I'll get five minutes out of just
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  Speaker 2: going to the local restaurant.
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  Speaker 1: See, you are a silent watcher then. Someone who goes
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  Speaker 1: there to study people and because people will say the
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  Speaker 1: darndest things and all of a sudden you're going, oh,
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  Speaker 1: that's in my show. In my show, absolutely.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I ran into Sean Penn last week and I
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  Speaker 2: had a conversation with him and I was one step
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  Speaker 2: away from after we had said goodbye.
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  Speaker 3: And all I thought was in my show.
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  Speaker 1: Where can people go to find out more about everything
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  Speaker 1: that you're doing? Because they've got to catch you live
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  Speaker 1: because it is the lifetime experience.
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  Speaker 3: Okay. Go to Kathy Griffin.com for tickets. Go to my
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  Speaker 3: social media.
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  Speaker 2: And like I said, watch my YouTube show every Tuesday.
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  Speaker 2: Watch my special Kathy Griffin, my life on the pizza.
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  Speaker 2: list on youtube for free and come see me live
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  Speaker 2: and bring your friends and for god's sake bring an
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  Speaker 2: open mind.
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  Speaker 1: That's right you'd be brilliant today and come back to
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  Speaker 1: this show anytime you want all right i will
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  Speaker 3: Thanks so much i appreciate it