Inside Thoughts Episode 3 Ft Kathleen Madigan

Comedian Kathleen Madigan talks with Nick about her standup career and bbq

Episode Transcript

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Still speaking that that should not havemade it to the rest of us.
This is inside thoughts check. Wealive. Back to inside thoughts, Nick
Jordan, are you doing still gettingthrough twenty twenty three? Still doing your

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new Year's resolution? Mm hmm sookay. I think my New Year's resolution
was to get back in shape.It's going slow, baby, it's going
slow. Still need to drink Westbeer and be on the internet West.
But we're working, man. Ijust every time I get on the internet,

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the way people have started typing,like if I got to see another
we love this, Like, hey, you were thirty one years old,
Stop typing, we love it.It's giving slay stopped that. Why are
you talking like a fifteen year old? I mean why everybody has their way

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that they they type, you knowwhat I mean, or like the slang
that they use. But you can'tkeep using the younger generations slang, man,
because if you do it, itmakes you sound like an idiot.
Like I still use like bet andI say whoa key sometimes And even because
I'm thirty now, I'm getting tothat point where I'm like, gosh,

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should I start using adult words?I gotta go pick up a dictionary now,
maybe go buy itth thesaurus, getone off Amazon. Just skim through
it real quick, you know whatI mean. Get some different words,
some corporate words, so I knowhow to shake hands and wear a suit
or whatever you gotta do as anadult investing in a four oh one?
K my roth Ira, how's thatlooking? Yeah? Not good, buddy,

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not good. So bet you justsay that. But every time I
get on the internet, it's mostlyTwitter or captions. But ladies, why
why are y'all talking like that?Okay, you're grown women. It's giving.
What is it giving? Just saywhat it is? It feels like
this or this reminds me of that. That's how we used to talk,
right, It's giving. It's giving. You're an idiot, That's what it's

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giving. Why does that make youmad? I don't know, because I
just I'm on the internet all dayand that's what the internet does. It
just makes you mad, bro,It just makes you mad. Like there's
there's a fine line of things thatare on the Internet that don't get you
mad. It's just like stupid animalvideos, cooking video. Well, actually

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no, you can. You canget mad at anything because even the cooking
videos I'll watch and it's just somebodymaking the most ridiculous thing just to get
views, or somebody will be makingsomething real good, but you go through
the comments and everybody's like, ohyou and wash your stove wire their crumbs
next to the food. I wouldnever it's giving poor. That's why I

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would never put anything that I cookedon the internet. Y'all are some heathens,
bro some straight hayting heathens. Notthat anything that I make is good
enough to be put on the internet. I can't. I can't cook,
dude. I'm a single dude.And my Italian mother hides all the recipes
from me. That's why I askedher for a book. I was like,
hey, mom, let me letme get a book, just full

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recipes. You can just text themto me. That's what I want for
Christmas. She's like, I don'tuse recipes. Oh my god. Okay,
well then I guess I'll just keepfollowing protein TikTok or whatever they're doing.
It's like, okay, so thisis the seven hundred and twenty fifth
different way you can make a breakfasttaco. Get the macros down, okay,
but we're getting maximum protein. Andthen you go to the gym you'll

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be good, dude. I'm like, all right, I'm just gonna keep
eating breakfast tacos. How much morecan you just eat turkey ground chicken with
like lettuce and you put eggs in? Like? Dude, you can cheat.
You can use the little finger wingingpotatoes, Chop those up, throw
some hot sauce on their dog.Your caloric intake's not gonna be that hot.

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You're still gonna be good for thegym. It's giving lazy shut up.
I don't know why that makes memad, but everybody the Internet has
just made us all mad because apparentlynobody likes their own wife. So what
you do in elementary school when youdidn't like something about you? Somebody had

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somebody had the sixty four pack ofcrans and your mom only got you,
like the twelve pack. So everybodywas like, that's the poor kid.
So what did you do? Youhad to get in front of that.
You're like, I'm gonna give thedude that's got the pencil sharpener in his
box of crayolas, why, becauseit makes me feel better about only having
the twelve pack. Buddy, youhave color? Why do you even need

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those colors you're using? Magenta.It's giving us. Not that there's anything
wrong with that. I'm just sayingthat's the stuff that you had to use
or say, an elementary school,and we have brought that to the Internet
because as mature as everybody wants toact, we want to act like fart
jokes aren't funny in the office,but we get on the Internet and we

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act like elementary school children when somebodyposts something, Okay, I just if
you could be hypocrite, just justsay you're a hypocrite. It's fine.
I am. I am. I'ma hater. I hate things. But
people just they get mad at everything. Like dude, I was watching this
U cat video on TikTok because that'smostly what my algorithm is because I'm a

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man child. And there was thisvideo of this super fat cat. It
was so funny. This cat wasfat, he was a chunky boy.
He was fat, and he wastrying to get up on the counter but
he was too fat get up onthe counter. And they played like some
tuba music behind. He was like, yeah, we'll cut that out.
Kevin got the SpongeBob reference there,but this cat couldn't get up on the

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counter. It was hilarious. Yougo to the comments and everybody's like,
oh, so we're laughing about animalabuse. I was like, what are
they beating this cat? And I'mnot aware of it? Like what what
kind of abuse is going on here? So I got to scroll down to
the comments to figure out where becauseI don't see any mike Vic activities going
on in here. Bro, nobody'sbeating the cat. It's just happy and

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fat and it wants some more chickenthat's up on the counter. But kid
to get up and the killed nus. He's just too fat. He ain't
got that dog at him a boy. So I go in the comments and
I find out that making your pettoo fat is a form of animal abuse.
And that's where I was like,all right, I know we all
like to get mad at everything onthe internet, but a fat cat,

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that's animal abuse. I had afat cat. Where we abusing it?
No, we gave it a greatlife. You want to know why,
because as a pet owner, you'reautomatically better than anybody else, right,
because I'm taking care of a lifethat I don't have to love, Like
parents always want extra credit, likeI watch my child, you have to
that's got your DNA in it.I'm just looking after this thing and feeding

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it because I was bored. Idon't know, I need something in something
else in the house. We neededa distraction to save the marriage, or
try ow to see if how wewould do as parents, Like let's just
try on a dog first, honey, that'll be well, Like you're you're
already in the green as a petowner, because if you weren't that pet's

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owner, it's got a chance ofgetting eaten or it's gonna get put down
if you don't take it out theshelter. That's right, That's what happens
when the pet shelters are always like, well we're having a sale on pets.
We are at capacity right now,so this Saturday, come down and
get a dog or get a cat. The sale only lasts this weekend.

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You know what that means. Right, They're not just like, oh we
didn't get them on the sale thisweek. That keep getting animals in.
So the dog that's been serving aneight week sentence in that place, he's
got half his ears missing. Okays, they're putting him down. That's what
happened. So if you go tothe pet shelter, by the way,
if you're gonna go get a pet, go to the pet shelter. But

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I want to spend fifteen thousand ona dog. If you got money like
that, cool, But I'm talkingabout the rest of us poorers. Okay,
don't save up three grand for adog just because you want it to
have a birth certificate that says thisis their Winston Charles the Third, I
can truck his bloodline all the wayback to just go get a free dog,
bro. So you go get that, and you are saving it from

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death one way or the other.All right. So you're already in the
green. You want to make itfat. You want it, You want
to give it food? Does itme out all the time? At you
give it some food? That's whatit does. But people are like,
this is abuse, this is whocares? You got a fat animal?
It's funny. Fat animals are nevernot funny. I have on my lockscreen

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I got a picture of a fattiger. You want to why, because
fat animals are funny. I lovewatching There's this one orange cat on TikTok.
He's huge, hitch fat cat.And he's got thumbs too. He's
got little thumbs that he's fat.So It's like, who cares. Just
have a fat animal. That's notanimal abuse. Animal abuse is when you

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beat this thing or don't feed it. That's that's animal abuse. You're allowed
to, you know, smack yourpet up a little bit if it's doing
something because animals respond to pain.But don't you know we're open handing our
animal discipline. You're just flicking thehead, not beating up this dog.
Oh man, just just enjoy videos. Nobody gets mad at fat people.

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That's not that's not people abuse.What do we call that? Just abuse?
Nobody says that. But I'm notgonna do that. I'm just I'm
one of the internet too much rightnow. Man, I've been I've been
realizing it because you know, theinternet's bad for you, right, so
like sugar for your So I've beentrying to put my brain back on manual,
you know, trying to read booksagain. You remember you remember reading

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books. I'm only saying that becauseif you're listening to this podcast, I
mean you were probably on the sameIQ level. And I know you don't
read that much because there's nobody that'slike, yeah, I read a book
a week. You're not listening tothis podcast that's just not who And there's
nothing wrong with that. You wantto know why, because we still have
fun? Is it? Is ittough? Do we have to reread sentences

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every once in a while when we'rereading a book. Yes, but we
get the book done or we can't, like four or five chapters in and
we put it down. It's becauseit was boring. Now it's because we
were lazy. That's that's what happens. But it's okay. I'm trying to
read again. But it's just it'stough, man, because it's it's basically
reading is basically like doing sit upsfor your brain. You know what I

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mean. You don't want to dosit ups. You got that beer belly
that you work that you put workin to get to that beer belly you
put work in to get it.Well, pooch, that's pasta. Pasta's
delicious. Well, guess what,my brain's been on the internet too long.
My brain got a little pooch.So I'm trying to I'm trying to
go back and get it in.But it's like when you're when you're going
back to the gym trying to getback in shape, and you go in

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there or you're thinking about going,and the whole time your body's just like,
nah, this isn't for us.Man, you're not a movie star.
You don't need to be in shape. Go home, sit on the
couch, eat a bunch of pizzarolls, have a six pack of beer
because you know you need to finishall of them. Okay, you crack
one beer in the six pack,it's a sin to not finish the whole
six all right. Same thing withreading, that's like every time you pick

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up a book after your brain hasjust been out of shape the whole time,
your brain's just like, I'm gonnastart daydreaming again. You know,
it would be better if we justhop back on TikTok. Just sit on
the couch, put the book down, get back on TikTok. Because you're
trying to concentrate on that one sentence. Man, trying to concentrate on that

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one sense. But I'm working gettingit back, getting my brain back in
the gym. He's got to getthat gotta get that shape. Son,
been getting too dumb for too long, being on TikTok. Speaking of TikTok,
they're trying to ban it right now, which is kind of hilarious because
on one side, people are sayingthis is a free speech issue and you

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can't ban TikTok, and on theother side, they're saying, well,
they're so in our information to China, and China is the bad guy of
our lifetime, so we need toban TikTok to protect our country. It's
like, dude, follow the money. I thank Zuckerberg when he was going
through all his congressional stuff. Ihave to cut some side deals with either

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some corporations or some politicians. He'sgot so much money. You think those
politicians are just like, you knowwhat, We're just gonna tell Mark Zuckerberg
what we think about him. Datamining is wrong. We shouldn't have to
take all this stuff for these consumers. It's like they're just mad ad that
TikTok is doing what they do better. That's all it is. So they're

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the new kid in class, andthe new kid in class is getting all
the girls. So now we gotto take this kid out back and beat
them up at recess. That's what'sgoing on right now. Kid's a good
kid. It's probably cool, buthe's new and he's doing what we wanted
to do better, and we can'thave that. We can't have it.
So that's what I was watching.I don't watch too much stuff just because

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I don't have the brain capacity tokeep up with the news because it's just
people yelling at each other, andthe whole time, I'm thinking, none
of this matters. Whoever has moremoney is gonna win. Why am I
watching this? But I did seea couple of clips and it was pretty
hilarious because these politicians are just firingoff questions like mister TikTok, is it
true that you have our American citizensinformation? You terrible piece of it?

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And the guy's like, can Irespond No, It's like, okay,
then that's not a question, buddy. Do you want me to answer some
of this stuff or you just wantedto bring me here in front of everybody
and beat me up in front ofeverybody at recess. That's what's going on.
I hope they don't ban it becauseI like TikTok. And the thing
is, if they do ban TikTok, it's not like Facebook and Instagram are

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gonna make their app white TikTok orjust make it better. They're just gonna
do what they do anyway. Becausenow there's no competition. That's basically I
like, I don't want to callZuckerberg lazy or whoever's coding over at Meta
Metal World, but I'm just saying, once the competition's gone, you don't

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run fast. You don't run yourfastest if you're not racing anybody, you
know what I mean, unless you'resome psycho who can see themselves running next
to you. I know what mypr was, bro Unless you're one of
those people, which for the mostpart, I don't think anybody is.
But unless you have some competition,you're not gonna try as hard unless your

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activision and call of duty. BecauseFortnite is whipping there and they still continue
to put out the same garbage videogame. Hey, do you think we
should fix some of the stuff allof our customers are complaining about Now they're
just gonna keep buying the game anyway. Come that's an activision. But like

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a prime example is EA Sports.EA Sports has no competition in the sports
gaming world for the most part,and they just keep putting out the same
Madden every single year. You wantto know what, people keep buying it
because it's the only football game intown. That's what Meta is doing with
TikTok. They're like, hey,you made an app that is so good,
and we don't want to have totry harder, so we're just gonna

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kick you out of the park.That's all we're gonna do. But they're
taking our data. Dude, everybodyis taking your data online. If you
think that like whatever company doesn't havelike dude, Amazon, everybody uses Amazon,
right the data they have, theycan figure out what kind of person

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you are just based off what youbuy, and then they put you in
a wood box and they go,Okay, this person's this old, they
have this amount of people in theirfamily, and they like these things.
You know what we're gonna do.We're gonna sell this data on out to
every company that wants to buy itfrom us, so that they in turn
can sell more stuff to this person. We're just just let them, let

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them farm us out. Who caresat this point? Do you like the
stuff that you like? Would youlike it to be readily available to you
all the time. That's what we'regoing towards. Just hey, keep feeding
them stuff and taking their money,fatten them up, fatten them up so
they can't move, and they justneed more stuff. Now we can do
everything with drones and deliver it rightto them. They won't have to move.

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That's all we're doing. Who cares? Can you stop it? No,
unless you do something where you're likeliving in France, dude, The
French are insane, bro, Iknow, as much as we call them,
we were just smoke his cigarettes andhate the miracles like that. That
is what we think about the French. Anytime there is a problem in France

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that the majority of people are notokay with. They're like, we're going
out stumming the streets and chopping somebody'shead off. I'll be sick of this.
Who is my cigarettes? That's whatthey do. So anywhere else though
to my knowledge because I'm stupid Odon't know everything, but everywhere else to
my knowledge that it just it flies. It's like, Okay, we're gonna

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keep having this stuff happen and we'regonna pretend that we're crying about it.
But at the same time, welike when they know exactly what we want.
Like how many times you've been sittingaround with your friends and you say
something and then like thirty minutes lateryou hop on Instagram and it's an ad
of whatever you're talking about. Dude, do you think the phone's listening to

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me? Yeah, it is,dude. Government, man, they're all
in my business. You're gonna it'snothing that sinister. They just want to
sell your stuff, and are yougonna buy it? Yes, you are,
because what else is there to do. Let's work real hard, let's
go do stuff, and we gottabuy stuff. That's that's life. I'm

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not trying to make this seem dark. I'm just saying, why do we
care about TikTok stealing our information?Google? Amazon, Meta? They all
do it. They're just mad.The TikTok's doing it better. And you
can see more stuff on TikTok,Like, dude, you can see who
like I Honestly, at this point, I wouldn't care if there was a
channel called this is exactly what's goingon in the world dot com, I

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still wouldn't believe a hundred percent ofit, you know what I mean?
Like, that's what when you geton the Internet. Unless you see it
in real life with your own eyes, you just gotta be like, yeah,
that could be true to not beYeah, do I care that much?
No, whatever you see around youin real life at this point is
about all you can one hundred percentsay is real. I'm not I'm not

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trying to be conspiracy theory. I'msaying that more for like the people who
are super into conspiracy theories, becauseI love a good conspiracy theory. They're
interesting. And the government definitely doesn'ttell everybody everything because we're dumb. Why
would they tell us everything? Butthe people that everything that happens, they're
like, but do you think that'sthe official story? No? Probably not.

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But also, who cares what you'regonna do about it? You're just
gonna be mad. Go back toyour nine to five? Bro, What
are you mad about? Because dude, like, you're slowly I know,
but what are you gonna do aboutit? Not? Then, so just
have a coke and a smile.That's what it's time for the headline of
the week. This is actually thefunniest thing I think I've ever seen in

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my entire wife. I got topull this up so if you missed it,
Kanye apologized to the Jewish community.Kind of where is this picture?
This is, without a doubt thefunniest thing because I was seeing it circulating
on Twitter and I was thinking,ain't no way this is for real,

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heat, No, no way,this is a real thing, Like somebody
just created a page and they're tryingto get some likes. But then I
went to Kanye's actual Instagram and it'sit's real from what I can I went
to the primary source and I foundout that is in fact an official document.
Kanye West posted a picture of twentyone Jump Street. But what did

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this movie come out? Ten yearsago? Fifteen years ago? I don't
remember there was a twenty two JumpStreet. So he's not even watching like
a new movie. He's just watchingtwenty one Jump Street. And he said
watching Jonah Hill in twenty one JumpStreet made me like Jewish people. Again,
that's a real sentence, bro,No way, he said that.

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He said, no one should takeanger against one or two individuals and transform
that into hatred towards millions of innocentpeople. Glad you found out how to
be a person, Kanye. Like, dude, I don't even know if
Jonah Hill's Jewish. I mean,I'm assuming Kanye knows who every Jewish person
is. But like, I justit would be hilarious to me if Jonah

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Hill was not even actually Jewish andhe was just like I don't know something
something about that performance really made melike Jewish people. That's gotta be the
funniest apology of all time, Ithink about it. Back up if you
will, If you will, goback to a time where Kanye lost his

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mind in a real way, LikeKanye is a crazy person, right because
no one ever tells him no.And he fumbled a bad Like that's what
happens. You know, you're goingout with a good looking girl, start
getting crazy, nobody tells you know, you go off the rails, you
lose her. It messes with yourhead a little bit. I can understand
that. What I can understand ishaving that happen and go, you know
what, I'm going deaf con threeon the Jews. Bro. That's a

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wild statement to make right there.And then he went on a bunch of
podcasts and dude, he went onAlex Jones's podcast, one of the craziest
human beings on the planet that hasa platform, Alex Jones, and he
made Alex Jones uncomfortable. You knowwhat kind of crazy stuff you gotta be
saying to make Alex Jones uncomfortable.They were talking about all this stuff Kanye

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was saying He was like, Idon't know, Hitler had some points,
bro, excuse me, I justI really understand what he was saying with
his paintings. You can't say thatkind of stuff, bro. Even Alex
Jones was like, well, Kanye'sI don't know. Let's let's get back
to the topic. So that allhappens. Kanye gets ostracized, he loses

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all his endorsements, says some morecrazy stuff, and then months pass and
he goes, you know what,Jonah Hill made me like, jusy.
I don't know if he actually believesit or Adidas hit him up. It

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was like, hey, Kanye,we we've been losing a lot of money
since we dropped out of our dealwith you. Can you like apologize a
little bit so that we can bringyou back and not look like, you
know, we don't care, eventhough we're a corporation that one hundred percent
doesn't care. And Kanye was like, I can't do it, and like,

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Kanye, please, it's a billiondollars. Will you apologize for a
billion dollars? I'll try one hourand four already five minute comedy later and
Kanye apologize. Thank you, JonahHill. That's just the most ridiculous thing
I think I've ever. The Internet'sa funny place. Man. I can't

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wait until we've done more studies onit. Like they're already starting to do
studies like, hey, you know, if you're a team and you get
on the internet a lot, Yeah, get depressed, Yes, because your
brain is not fully formed and youhave all these wild opinions being thrown at
you. But that makes sense.But I'm waiting for like the lifetime effects
of Internet. I think my generationwas like the first one that they can

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study long enough where it's like,oh, well, now we have a
sample size of before internet and afterInternet, so we know kind of what
he was in target classes, andthen TikTok happened and now he has a
stutter. Okay, what do youthink happened there in between? I don't
know, but it's gonna end upbeing like smoking, where we all knew

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the whole time, Like I thinkour grandparents knew about smoking. They're like,
yeah, we know this is bad, but everybody's doing it. Well
you're not. You're gonna be anot smoke. Come on, smoke,
smoke, you can do it.That's like how it is with the Internet,
because have you ever met somebody that'snot on the internet. You kind
of look at them like they're aweirdo. Wait, you're not on the

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internet. But then you realize theyhave their wife altogether, It's like,
Oh, you'd wake up at sixin the morning, go work out,
have a cup of coffee, andyou kill it at work. What is
your secret? It's a disciplint Iget from not scrolling for two hours on
fifteen second videos that make my brainimmediately happy and then immediately sad when I
lose interest. Oh, it's acrazy secret. You know what, You

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should get a TikTok and make afitness page. All right, I've been
talking walking up. I got anawesome guest, super super funny comedian,
a comedic legend. She's coming toNorth Carolina. She's gonna be in Durham.
Kathleen Madigan, Kathleen, how youdoing it? I'm good, I'm

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excited to be coming there. I'ma big I'm a big vinegar monster.
So hide your barbecue sauce North Carolinaon my way. Now. See,
are you just saying that just becauseyou're coming to North Carolina? Do you
tell no in Texas that you're moreof a no, because no, because
I'm from Missouri and I'm actually justturning my back on my people in Kansas

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City, and so it's a it'sa real statement. I'm not from a
state where barbecue is not a thing. It is, but I prefer the
vinegar. All right. So ifyou had to rank the top three barbecue
states, North Carolina, Missouri,Texas, where where are we falling?
Well, yeah, that's exactly youguys are one. Then I'd say Missouri

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to Texas is just too sweet.I can't go that far. No,
it's like they found all the sugarin the south of it put it in.
Yeah, I will say Memphis hasa Memphis has a good is a
good in between two, but theNashville doesn't. So it's just Memphis.

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That's not enough to be in thestate rankings, right right, Yeah,
that's just an off. That's aone off in Memphis. All right.
So we'll get you some good barbecuewhen you come to town. But I
wanted to ask you about when you'recoming because you just released a special Hunting
Bigfoot that's on Amazon. So haveyou been building a new hour or what

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can people expect when they come tothe show. Well, here's what I
usually do, because this is whatI want. If I go see a
show, I do some super oldI call it a classic joke or whatever
that I know people want to hearsome new and then some will be from
the special. So it's a comboplatter. So you're making everybody happy,
trying to because people will complain ifyou do everything on a special, Well,

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I just saw that. And thenif you do all old stuff that
you don't have any new job,so it's it's hard to you know,
it's not like a band like Icould go see Stevie Nicks sing Landslide and
at just seventeen, the rest ofmy life, I don't need anything new.
But if I did jokes from twentyfive years ago, people be like,
what did you go into a coma? Like on a Lifetime movie?

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The thing about why two K Youcan't right, I can't believe Mike Tyson
is retiring, dan Quail doesn't knowhow to sell potato? Who's dan Quail?
So going into that, like yougotta make everybody happy? Are you

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noticing like there's a difference in thecrowds comparative, because I know everybody likes
to hop on social media and saycomedy's canceled. You can't laugh at anything?
Are you seeing that? Having No, it's ridiculous. Nobody's canceled.
Who's canceled? Maybe Cosby, buthe's also a hundred. I mean,

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you know, it's not like hewas going to be out on the road
still. Um No, people,I don't, I don't know. I
don't feel any complaints. I feellike everybody just wants to go have fun.
Okay, nobody seems to care,so that's good. So as long
as forbody's still paying me and peopleare showing up, it's all fine.
Yeah, it's really easy to smilewhen the crowds are packed and the wallet's

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fat. Exactly. So you've beendoing this now, I mean you're a
legend. Um. I'm not tryingto say that, you know, disrespectfully
what I'm calling you old or anything, but that's okay. You can what
what keeps you going? Like tokeep touring because touring's got to be exhausting
at some point. Yeah, Ican grind you down. Um, I
just like I still like going around, Like I'm going to Milwaukee this coming

(29:48):
weekend and I haven't. I haven't. I've been going there for thirty years,
but I didn't know you could tourthe Path's Beer Mansion. I just
found it online. I'm like,well, I just bought a ticket from
me an opener fifteen bucks. I'mgonna go to it. I just I
can see in what's out there inMemphis last weekend and I went to Graceland
again. I've been there like threetimes, but it's still fascinating. Look
out of Willie Wonka tour they gotgoing on in Milwaukee. You can just

(30:11):
in there, that's the thing.Well, I've already toured the miller Lite
Brewery like ten times, because Ican't believe in Milwaukee. If I say
to the guy, can I tastethe miller Lite? Oh, my age
that drinks beer has not ever tastedthe miller Lite. They act like it's
some exotic beer from somewhere, butthey give you a free one. So

(30:33):
off stand there and saying, hey, can I chase the miller Lite?
Sure? Can I have that?What's that is that? High Wife?
I've never heard of that before.I know the only one that's off campus
is lunen Kaigel, but I've alreadyhad that leaning. I can't even say
it right, But I've had theone with the L That's hard to say.
I've had a million of those,but I always like to act like
I haven't. So you you whitegoing and traveling across the country. Is

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there a face favorite city or favoritecouple of spots that you got other than
coming to Durham? Like? Doyou have a second, third favorite kind
of city that you always like goingback to? I love New Orleans.
It's probably my favorite city in America. It's not very good for comedy because
there's so much free music, butwe sneak in there every now and then.
I like Charleston. It's mostly theSouth and the Midwest. Like,

(31:22):
I'm good anywhere Milwauka, anywhere inWisconsin. It's just beer and cheese and
browers. It's just heavenly if that'swhat you like, and the people are
nice. Yeah. I tend notto love the West so much. It's
just so spread out. You know, what am I? What am I
doing in Boise? I don't know, but it doesn't really resonate with me

(31:45):
as much as I love Charleston,you know, just the I don't know,
the older cities that seem to havean identity. I guess I got
you. That makes sense. Onemore question then I'll let you get out
of here because I'm know you're busy. But thinking back on your career,
do you remember anytime you had likea damn I made it kind of momentum.

(32:08):
It probably had nothing to do withjokes, but more like looking at
a bank account and I had alreadypaid the rent and there was still like
two extra grand still, and thenI thought I did I did the math.
I thought I did the math wrongbecause I'm really bad at math,
and I'm like, oh, Imust have not done that right. So

(32:28):
I had my brother check it andhe's like, no, that's right,
you got twenty two hundred bucks inthe bank. And then I thought I
did it. I made it.Yeah. I can go out as many
beers tonight as I want my friendJim, and I can pay for Bob
by his too. It's it,really, it's it's very nerve wracking.
Like the first ten years, youdon't know. Every month it gets tiring

(32:52):
thinking can I pay the rent?You know, I mean every million people
feel that way. But it's niceto get over the hump, right.
That's when you think, okay,if I just keep doing what I'm doing,
I'll still have some money in thebank, right, So that's like
the there's no moment where I waslike standing at the Tonight show or none

(33:13):
of that, because that all justkind of I don't know, you start
doing the cable shows and then youdo the late night shows, and then
it all just becomes a thing.It's not the money, is what I
was like. Yeah, and Iwasn't even like rich. Yeah, yeah,
I have enough and I don't haveto worry this month or next month,
not beyond that, you don't know. But it was a two month

(33:36):
reprieve of worry. That's why whenpeople say the money doesn't make people happy,
well, you've probably never been poor. Yeah, that's just something rich
people make up to make poor peoplefeel better about themselves. Exactly. Oh
we're not happy. Excuse me,my jet just arrived. Yeah, it's

(33:59):
a lot less strustful to be tohave money. I can say that.
I can't imagine it is, butI appreciate you. Um, you got
a special out right now on Amazon. You have your Madiquan Madigan's podcast.
Where can people find you? Onsocial media everywhere? On Twitter, Instagram,
even TikTok Now I'm trying to figureit out. I'm new on TikTok,

(34:22):
but I'm there. But Twitter,Instagram, all that stuff, yeah,
all of them. Well, Hey, Katherine Hirod, we appreciate you
talking to all right, thank takeit easy. We'll see you soon.
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