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I’ve known Rick Austin for 30 years. We have worked together over the years on various projects From MTV movie awards to the Mark Twain Prize . W’ve worked in Venezuela - in Miami. I stayed with him in New York when I had a short job there.@10th and University. He has been an executive at Fox and the Sci-Fi Fi channel. Worked on all the Comedy Central roasts - the guy never stops working.

He’s got a story with Eric Clapton and Bob Dylan that will make your jaw drop.

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Matteo, my youngest son, joins me in the Casita for an uncensored talk about things. No politics.

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Starts with a fun song I wrote.
Jody Hill came over and we had a great conversation.
Do know what ES stands for when it comes to guitars?
Throbbing Gristle and Melt Banana are discussed.

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Tom Clark has been on Conan. This is a very funny man. I produced and directed his hour long special Tom Clark: Outraged which is on Amazon. H e has been doing stand-up for a long time.
He holds fallopian tubes in one show. That should be enough for you to listen.

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Juan Alfonso is an actor who golfs. We met golfing. He speaks Spanish. I speak Spanish. We got along. Simple as that.

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Rebecca Donahue has some great stories.

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Petey Hentrich, my editor friend, joins me in the backyard for a chat. There is porno-adjacent story that is worth it. Porno!

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Today on the show John Melendez also known as stuttering John Melendez from Howard stern Fame- from the Tonight Show with Jay Leno Fame from stand Up comedy fame - a true cult figure.

we found the perfect combination of beer and cannabis that allowed John to articulate with amazing clarity the difference between Howard stern and Jay Leno

John talks about his top 4 comedy films of all time

His favorite guests on the Tonight Show are revealed.
he talks about when he directed Quentin Tarantino in a cold open .
he talks about how it went down on the Stern show and let us in on some never before heard conversations -I think there’s a scoop here.

-oh and he gets me to talk about my biological father which is relatively interesting. So buckle up convicts,

This one is all over the place.

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Dave Edison and I met on the Kennen Ivory Wayans show in 1996. We've kept in touch and he has some great stories.

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