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Mark interviews comedian and actor Kevin Nealon. · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: It's the Mark Simone Show on sevent tenor well, the
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  Speaker 1: great actor comedian Kevin Nelan hasn't been with us in
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  Speaker 1: a long time. Good to have him back. Kevin Nlan
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  Speaker 1: busier than ever. Make sure you watch his special Loose
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  Speaker 1: in the Crotch. It's gotten millions of views on YouTube.
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  Speaker 1: Loose in the Crotch a great series, a very funny
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  Speaker 1: series called Hiking with Kevin. Make sure you watch that.
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  Speaker 1: And he's coming to New Jersey this weekend, Friday night,
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  Speaker 1: Saturday night. He's at the Stress Factory, New Brunswick, New Jersey.
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  Speaker 1: And get the tickets now because he sells out fast.
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  Speaker 1: You can go to Kevin Niland's website. He'll be at
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  Speaker 1: the Stress Factory Friday night, Saturday night, New Brunswick, New Jersey.
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  Speaker 1: Kevin Nilan, how you doing well so far? It's a
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  Speaker 1: hell of an interview with Kevin Nelan. Can we get
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  Speaker 1: him back? Oh, he's gonna call us back. See if
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  Speaker 1: he's smart, he won't call back. This is like three
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  Speaker 1: tries already. I as see him there. He's calling back,
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  Speaker 1: so hopefully this will sound better. But make sure you
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  Speaker 1: go see him Friday night, Saturday night, Stress Factory there's
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  Speaker 1: actually a few of them. But he's at New Brunswick
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  Speaker 1: in New Jersey. Kevin Neeland, are you there, yes, sir,
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  Speaker 1: oh much better. Sorry about that, but great to have
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  Speaker 1: you with us. So you've been to New Jersey many times?
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  Speaker 1: You've played there, right.
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  Speaker 2: I have played there? Yeah. I love the stress actually
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  Speaker 2: in New Brunswick and always a great crowd. And it's
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  Speaker 2: just one of those clubs I've been to quite a
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  Speaker 2: few times and I just love it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, everybody goes see him Friday night and Saturday night. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: I love your show Hiking with Kevin. It is a
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  Speaker 1: great show. And were you a big hiker before that?
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  Speaker 2: You know what, I wasn't really a big hiker. I
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  Speaker 2: love to hike in the canyons. I live in Los Angeles,
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  Speaker 2: so you know it's for me. It's very meditated to
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  Speaker 2: go on a hiker walk through the canyons. And I
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  Speaker 2: get a lot of work for him. You know, I'm writing,
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  Speaker 2: like to write while I'm hiking and work on my
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  Speaker 2: line for whatever show him on with its Weeds or
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  Speaker 2: you know whatever I'm doing that time. And you know
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  Speaker 2: I came up with this show which is on YouTube.
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  Speaker 2: I would be walking I hear these interesting conversations from
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  Speaker 2: people passing me by, and I almost want to follow
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  Speaker 2: them to hear the rest of the conversation. So I thought,
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  Speaker 2: you know, that might be a nice twist on a podcast.
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  Speaker 1: See, I love I walk a million miles a day,
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  Speaker 1: but in the middle of Manhattan. I think that's more
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  Speaker 1: interesting than being out in the woods. It's a little
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  Speaker 1: You must have had some stars, You've had all every
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  Speaker 1: great comedian on, but there must be some who don't
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  Speaker 1: want to go hiking. Have you ever had that problem?
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  Speaker 2: Oh? Yeah, I've've done a few times. Like I asked
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  Speaker 2: Larry David I to who you want to go, and
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  Speaker 2: he texted me back just simply, no.
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to.
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  Speaker 2: Now side Da Da Davis Spade is like pulling teeth,
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  Speaker 2: you know, because he doesn't want to climb up the hill.
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  Speaker 2: They had to be perfectly flat, and he doesn't want
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  Speaker 2: to go during rush hour traffic.
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  Speaker 1: Now, Seinfeld, comedians and cars getting coffee, that's easy because
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  Speaker 1: you just get coffee and he even picks you up.
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  Speaker 1: So didn't you think about something simpler like lunch with Yeah? Yeah, cigarheads.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry, No, I mean, it's a lot of work
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  Speaker 1: on this show. Do you ever have anybody who surprised
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  Speaker 1: you how how good they were hiking?
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  Speaker 2: Well, you know, it's funny. It is a lot of work.
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  Speaker 2: But people will get to the trailhead where I meet
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  Speaker 2: them and they'll say, where's your crew? And I say, well,
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  Speaker 2: it was just me. I have a self you know,
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  Speaker 2: selfie stick with it, gopron at the end and I
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  Speaker 2: quiet drone and I go home and I edit it. So,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I think communities and cars might be a
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  Speaker 2: little slicker looking because they have a whole crew and
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  Speaker 2: staff and all that. But that's what mine's meant to be.
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  Speaker 2: It's meant to be more homespun. Yeah, some of the
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  Speaker 2: hikers I've had have been you know, I mentioned Spade before.
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  Speaker 2: He's not a hiker. He's not a hiker at all.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes the people show up with a cup of coffee.
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  Speaker 2: I know that they're not into it.
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  Speaker 1: You know, Well, I like your technique better because Seinfeldt
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  Speaker 1: show is great, But they have like seven cars all
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  Speaker 1: around and with cameras come out of every window and
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  Speaker 1: at twelve cameras in the restaurant. You really don't need
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  Speaker 1: all that anymore.
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  Speaker 2: Do you. Well, you know, I think it works for him.
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  Speaker 2: People that love cars, I think like to watch that show.
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  Speaker 2: But no, it is You're right. Nowadays you don't really
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  Speaker 2: need a lot of technology surrounding you because it's all
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  Speaker 2: kind of crammed into one thing now and with AI especially,
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  Speaker 2: it's getting more and more easy.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, because when you do a movie and you show
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  Speaker 1: up there there's like forty seven trailers and nine trucks
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  Speaker 1: and six hundred people working, like what it is kind
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  Speaker 1: of waste of mind. Look, look how much you get
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  Speaker 1: done by yourself with a selfie stick for twenty two bucks.
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  Speaker 1: Much easier, right, I know it, I know it.
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  Speaker 2: I love doing it. It's fun to do it too.
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  Speaker 2: I've done over one hundred and fifty hikes I think
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  Speaker 2: over the last seven years.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so everybody go on line watch it. It's great. Also, Hey,
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  Speaker 1: I love you and the Conan O'Brien together. You did that,
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  Speaker 1: you did the podcast, and he's now the oscar host.
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  Speaker 1: Looks like permanently right.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that way, but nothing's from it, of course,
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  Speaker 2: but he seems like he's got a good gig going. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I've known Conan for thirty five thirty seven years, you know,
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  Speaker 2: since he was a writer in ESNL. Yeah, so we
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  Speaker 2: have a good kind of rapport with each other and
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  Speaker 2: good chemistry and it always seems to make people laugh.
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  Speaker 2: So I enjoy visiting him whenever I can.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. So there's a million comedians in the world today.
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  Speaker 1: Nobody's ever heard of their younger. But see, you guys
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  Speaker 1: are like I don't mean an age, but you guys
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  Speaker 1: are like status wise, you're like the elder statesman. You
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  Speaker 1: and Conan, you're like the the grown ups in the bunch.
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  Speaker 1: So they must feel good.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I don't know if you could call any comic
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  Speaker 2: or grown up, but yeah, we've certainly have been around
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  Speaker 2: quite a bit and we have become the older statesman.
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  Speaker 2: I guess over a period of time, but we finally
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  Speaker 2: slid into that spot others.
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  Speaker 1: Now, I like that Conan podcast. You do some great podcasts.
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  Speaker 1: But don't you think there should be some sort of law, Like,
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  Speaker 1: shouldn't every amateur in the world now has a podcast.
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  Speaker 1: My dentist has a podcast. Everybody's got a podcast. Don't
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  Speaker 1: you think they should be Like you have to be
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  Speaker 1: licensed from now on, a licensed professional to do this.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, certainly, as a dentist you should be licensed but yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I remember. I don't know if you remember this, but
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  Speaker 2: you used to have to get Element nine passed to
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  Speaker 2: be a disc jock euro Radio.
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  Speaker 1: How did you know that? Wow?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, because in college we had a radio station and
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  Speaker 2: I failed that test. I could. Yeah, but now I
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  Speaker 2: guess you don't need.
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  Speaker 1: It right Well, believe it or not. Back then you
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  Speaker 1: had in the seventies or whatever, eighties, you had to
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  Speaker 1: have an FCC license to be It wasn't to be
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  Speaker 1: on the air, it was to run the transmitter, which
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  Speaker 1: many DJs had to do. Yeah, it was elements one, three,
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  Speaker 1: and nine. Nine was the tough one. So were you
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  Speaker 1: ever thinking of being a radio person professionally?
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  Speaker 2: Oh? Yeah, yeah. Our college had a radio station, so
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  Speaker 2: I was kind of toying with that idea of, you know,
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  Speaker 2: working there as a DJ. But it didn't come to
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  Speaker 2: fruition because I couldn't pass that test. So I guess
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  Speaker 2: this was meant to be. Well, that's that's life. Unfortunately,
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  Speaker 2: you ended up being a big star on SNL. I
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  Speaker 2: think it turned out all right for you. So hey,
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  Speaker 2: I love your I've had a good run. Yeah, I
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  Speaker 2: love the special Loosing the Crotch. You got another one
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  Speaker 2: coming up. Oh well, I just shot that one, so
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  Speaker 2: hopefully I do have another one coming up eventually. But yeah,
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  Speaker 2: that one I just came out a couple of months ago,
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  Speaker 2: Loosing the Crotch, And you know, I haven't done a
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  Speaker 2: special in about ten years, so this is kind of
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  Speaker 2: some really well tuned material and a little different from
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  Speaker 2: my previous specials. So I was excited about that. And
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  Speaker 2: people are really you know, finding it and loving it
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  Speaker 2: and spreading the words. So I'm really happy about that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's good going YouTube you can see.
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  Speaker 2: Hey.
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  Speaker 1: Also, Kevin Neiland has a new film coming up, Mermaid.
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  Speaker 1: Robert Patrick, Johnny Pemberton. What kind of film is that says? Comedy, horror, thriller.
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  Speaker 1: That's a lot in one film.
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  Speaker 2: It is, yes, a comedy, thriller, horror, and it was
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  Speaker 2: really fun doing it. It's such a bizarre concept, you know,
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  Speaker 2: this these this mermaid is discovered by the character played
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  Speaker 2: by Johnny Pemperton. He's a percoset attict and he's on
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  Speaker 2: the run in from of these drugs. You got dealers
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  Speaker 2: that want money from him, and he finds this wounded
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  Speaker 2: mermaid who was shot. Because these mermaids are not just
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  Speaker 2: typical mermaids. They are kind of like killer mermaids. They
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  Speaker 2: the spaces are disgusting looking, and you know, so he
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  Speaker 2: has to kind of conceal this mermaid while the drug
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  Speaker 2: dealers are chasing him, and he's kind of just falling
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  Speaker 2: in love with this mermaid who he keeps doped up
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  Speaker 2: on percoset the whole time.
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  Speaker 1: Who the hell came up with this plot? That's that's
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  Speaker 1: pretty intricate. So, uh, hey, have you ever turned down
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  Speaker 1: a film and then it turned out to be the
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  Speaker 1: biggest hit in the world.
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  Speaker 2: No, I take everything that's offered to me. I've taken
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  Speaker 2: films that have turned out to be the biggest disappointment
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  Speaker 2: in the world to me.
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  Speaker 1: But everyone but hey, Kevin Nelon, we're out of time,
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  Speaker 1: but thanks for doing this. Now, everybody, go see Kevin.
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  Speaker 1: He's appearing this Friday night and Saturday night at the
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  Speaker 1: Stress Factory in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Stress Factory, New Brunswick,
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  Speaker 1: New Jersey. Friday night and Saturday night, you can see
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  Speaker 1: Kevin nealand go to his website. You can buy the
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  Speaker 1: tickets there and get the tickets because he sells out
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  Speaker 1: and Kevin Nealon great talking to you. Thanks for being
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  Speaker 1: with us, you tooing so much. Thank you all right,
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  Speaker 1: take care, Hey, don't forget. At noon today, Buck and
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  Speaker 1: China with the President. He'll be checking in from there.
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  Speaker 1: every night Jimmy Fayla really funny show, great host, great comedian.
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  Speaker 1: Jimmy Fayl is now on WR nine to midnight, seven
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  Speaker 1: to ten. WR