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Join us for a hilarious, heartfelt, and unfiltered conversation with James Murray—comedian, author, and longtime member of Impractical Jokers. In this fan-driven Q&A, Murr shares behind-the-scenes stories from 15 seasons of Jokers, his path from TV development exec to TV prankster, and how a 15-year-old manuscript became a bestselling thriller and upcoming feature film.
💬 Topics include:
• The origins of Impractical Jokers
• Craziest punishments (including faking his own death)
• Writing and producing hit novels like Awakened and Don't Move
• How he met his wife at a book launch
• His favorite Taco Bell drunk order
• Legal troubles on set
• Whether he'd skydive again
• Childhood dreams, train clubs, and Harry Potter house debates
• And why Danica McKellar saw him greased up in a speedo
📅 Filmed live at GalaxyCon OKC 2025
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he is an actor and author whose works include Don't Move The Stowway and since
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2011 they are practical jokers today joining us to answer yours pre-selected questions please welcome James Murray
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hi everybody hi everybody i'm Mr the only skinny and brilliant Joker seriously the
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only guy's gotten fat as there kids here i wonder if I can curse i No is there a child this is
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Literally a child the child is seven months old that that uh little We have three
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Hannah's uh questions here that's little Hannah she has She has a question for you what's up little H
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okay all right so uh so uh first of all uh let's go to some stuff I'm curious about let's uh if I ever get a solo
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guest I say "All right let's get the origin story." How the origin story yes how How did How did you How did you fall
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into this show and um and was uh was
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authorship a parallel uh desire or did that sort of evolve uh during the the
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first career show uh in Brakers uh we're shooting season 12 right now we're halfway through shooting uh I think the
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season I just got the you guys want to see nobody was this recorded can I show this i don't know [ __ ] it
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it's your screwed up nobody record this part cover the
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camera the the artwork for season 12 pretty cool right it's like us pretty
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cool yeah anyways uh yeah we're filming season 12 uh it starts airing I think in a few weeks July uh and get this as of
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like 2 months ago we'll have been filming the show for 15 years straight gosh I'm just getting older and baler on
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TV i had so much hair in season one uh so now I just have so much back hair the
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go the ghost of Alan Funk's going to rise so how did the show happen the guys and I have been friends for a very long
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time 34 years I guess uh we met freshman year high school uh we were like 12 13
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years old became best friends and did comedy together and formed a comedy troop after after college and then uh my
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job outside of Jokers for a long time i was in TV development i did uh I ran development for the company that makes
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Jokers for about 10 years and uh so I sold and pitched a lot of TV shows and
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uh the guys and I created the show i pitched it and sold it and here we are 15 years later sitting together in
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Oklahoma City so it's just a case of showing people upstairs like oh what's this show and why does it have your name
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on it something like that yeah you know it was uh I knew the guys and I had like
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something special because we had like a very organic chemistry that I think reminds people of their friends when
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they grew up you know what I mean like I think the biggest compliment we get is that uh I feel like I could go go hang
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out with you guys at a bar have a beer with you or you're remind of the people I grew up with i think it's the or that you're the one show my whole family
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agrees on that's like the biggest comedy in the world you know although although a lot of people
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don't remember what our show is so one I swear to God this morning this morning
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I'm at Newark airport it's 500 a.m right i get through TSA security by the way I
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get through TSA security my license still has no eyebrows in case you in case you were wondering it is it is real
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this is I look like a see something say something i look like a Lex Luthther's a
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you know what you know what I'm saying it's crazy anyway so I go through TSA this morning a woman comes up to take a
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photo with me she goes "Oh you're you're excuse this." It's a mild curse it's not really a curse uh the woman come a woman
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comes up to me at my gate she goes "Oh you're you're on the show with those dicks right?" She didn't remember what
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the show name was she goes "You're on the show with those three dicks." I was like "Yeah that's us yeah carry that." Oh my goodness um
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when people often ask you know they'll ask you especially on project like this um you know you're always always going
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to be successful i always like to transpose that into when did you realize that not only was it successful that
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maybe it possibly eclipsed your ex personal expectations and hopes good question uh you know when you sell a TV
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show most TV shows last a few episodes get cancelled uh I I I I had sold a lot
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of shows before Joker so I had a different kind of experience than the other guys i saw it firsthand i sold the
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show it ran six episodes got cancelled on A&E sold another show ran 12 episodes got cancelled on uh TLC right it's just
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the way it goes you know networks are so riskaverse so um for me like the fact
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that the show kept going and succeeding is is such a a unicorn in this day and
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age and I I thank God we got on TV when we did because I don't think our show would sell anymore uh I I really don't
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think you could sell in practical Jokers in this day and age just it's just different the network's different and and um yeah I think that we knew from
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touring like the guys and I pretty early in like season two started going out on tour and um and we would we just booked
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comedy clubs and they would sell out like that and then I was like okay and after like a few months we're like we'll graduate to small theaters like 800
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person theaters and those sell out and then we went up to larger theaters and then eventually uh graduated up to
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arenas and then we still have Madison Square Garden and Radio City uh is the tour that made us feel like
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"Holy [ __ ] something's hitting with people in a way that we didn't anticipate." You know
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still still selling out Madison Square it was a dream come true man i was in tears when I got out of the subway to
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the subway to the show of the garden and uh and I come out of the garden and the whole side of the garden said Impractical Joker sold out and I started
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crying was pretty wild for a New Yorker you know because I remember there was a show the guys and I did a year before
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impractical jokers a year before we did a comedy show in New York City and two people bought tickets to see us perform
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and the tickets were five bucks each so we made $10 at theater cost us $65 to rent so we lost
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$55 we split four ways you know a depressing night it's like performing
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for half a person each i used to have on my wall a check for $2
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for a comedy there you go go out the door what uh talk a little about about
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about your novel writing in the books and stuff like that like I said was that something that was just always kind of in the back or did it sort of come
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forward and concurrent with the uh the say the comfort that the show gave you so uh I always wanted to write thrillers
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like horror books or novels you know uh I went to uh college for thriller for writing and um it was always my dream
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and and I wrote my first book 23 years ago on a dare i wrote a short story i
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had an idea i was taking the subways home uh uh to my apartment in Brooklyn at the time and uh back then like 2001
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2002 when you lose connect uh the connection to the third rail you'd be plunished into complete darkness in the
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New York City subway system and sometimes you come home late from work what have you and you're alone in the car it is scary as hell so I went home I
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thought of a horror story based on that i wrote it i emailed it to my buddy and he called me back like 20 minutes later
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he goes "Mr this is this is a book you should write a novel based on this what what led to this event?" So on a dare I
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spent a year of my life in 2002 writing my first thriller which is called Awakened and I could not get a single
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person to read the book uh I sent it out to every publisher they returned it to me unopened only Q read the book and my
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mom read the book and they both loved it and so a full year of my life sat on my computer for 15 years um in the meantime
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I proceeded with other parts of my career uh and we sold the product from Jokers and it was years into jokers and
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we were sitting around one day the guys and I were the guys like mur with Q said why don't you do something with that book it was freaking great so I was like
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you know I did I I reread it i was like this is really good it was like from 15 years earlier so I sent the same book in
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to Harper Collins and they immediately bought the trilogy and that very first book hit number one on the Sunday Times
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bestseller list all around the world so all those publishers 15 years ago that passed on it as Joe would say they can
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go suck it just to show you man and that led to me writing thrillers and so I've got
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nine out now and um my seventh novel Don't Move comes out in movie theaters
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at the end of this year it's pretty freaking cool it's scary as hell uh in the movie is Rob Wiggle T Payne Russ the
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Rapper q is in the movie movie's already shot it's in the final stages of editing vfx is being loaded in the mix is being
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done composer the score is being done uh the sound mix is being done and uh it uh it premiere Toronto in September it
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comes out after that it's freaking awesome it's really good well it's it sounds like you're very happy with it
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which sometimes not all authors are with adaptions of their book work books but uh that good on you yeah people are
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respecting that and that way too so plus I'm sure they probably The movie is better than the book which is weird it's
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usually the other way around what it means is that the book sucks no I'm kidding no it's just that cuz I helped
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write the screenplay too and then I was up there on set every day when we were shooting it and my buddy was the director he's a well-known director he
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directed it and I produced it so uh with another buddy of ours and it came really good man and called in a lot of
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favorites and jokers to give cameos in the movie things like that awesome awesome what's uh What's been the best
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thing to just come out of all of this so far okay uh I met my wife at the when my
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book came out 15 years later my first book Awakened i had a a a haunted house
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in New York City i built the book into a haunted house i had afterparties and met my wife of uh six years now at that very
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first book launch so that was a pretty damn good thing so I can't imagine thank god I wrote that book on a dare 15 years
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ago right 20 years ago thank God you know cuz now I have a wife a couple of
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puppies these are not my wife's puppies don't be confused they're our puppies it's a little innuendo joke but I just
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want to
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say I just uh first of all thank you for joining here this weekend and uh thank you for your talent and and just all
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this fun it's freaking awesome it's my It's my I'm so jealous of your hair this
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is my Would you If I could grow that I would you look like a handsome shark
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you do sexy jaws this is my Jack Lord comb over cuz I'm getting this skin Yamaka back here god
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doesn't really annoy you here so but but thanks for all this the fine work you've done and I just so appreciate the fact
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that that you've got you do this insanity on Jokers and yet you come down
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and you get behind the computer and you're doing these literary pursuits at the same time it's like what a what a wonderful dichotomy you got going on man
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it's a lot of fun and we just bought a train house anybody see that on social media i just bought one of the country's
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oldest model railroad clubs oh wow they were uh it was this club called Pacific Southern Railway it's a 5,000 foot
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professional model railroad layout in Jersey and it was these guys that run the club for 75 years and uh the widow
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uh her husband was the president of the club he died sadly last year and so the widow was forced she's like 76 years old
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she was forced to sell the house and nobody that buys the house is going to let the train club still go into the house every week and run their trains it
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is professional the model railroad is bigger than the house itself they knocked down a foundation wall and kept
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going out into the yard it's unbelievable so uh one day before the widow was forced to sell the house
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publicly my wife and I bought it to save the club it just hit the press last week it's freaking awesome you have to come
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to Jersey to check it out everyone here book your trip right now you stay in my place
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i've been joking for years like the the type of mindset that would have like our dad's generation you know all the stuff
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like that and our generation going forward it's like those guys instead got into Warhammer 40k yep so I I keep
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joking all the time it's like we need to combine them both into one roof and see what happens all that fun stuff all
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right thank you for joining my capriccious curiosity uh I got almost shuff I've shuffled up these questions so let's go ahead and take our first one
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and Sarah where you at hi Sarah okay and she wants to know what was the process
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to design the punishments oh okay the process the punishments are
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very secretive i have no You just texted me literally today i don't know what he
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means by this it's a It's a crazy text so he texts Sal and I we know that he's
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planning some secret punishment against Sal and I this season i don't know what it is i It's a two-way punishment
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apparently James Gunn is involved so he texted me he goes "Uh uh he asks
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if I think that David Zucker who wrote the movie Airplane Naked Gun would be good for the two-way punishment between
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Sal and I." He goes "Um James Gun Gun was out gun James Gun was in then he was
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out then he's back in again but he's not sure he can book the date." What kind of two-way punishment is James Gun involved
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with so anyone this is what it's like you ask what the development is like it's Q with our writers planning who
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knows what and all I know is that James Gun president of DC is is going to be in
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the punishment possibly what could it be it better not be another prostate
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exam if I get a pro exam from James Gun I'm going to lose my [ __ ]
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maybe it's an unggainainely cameo that's what it's like it's a lot of very secret planning like last season I faked my
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death on the TV show i was on top of a race car and S believed I got thrown off the car it was a stunt guy i did a a
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Texas switch going around the bend and came out as the EMT worker and he had no idea i That was the biggest punishment
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we ever filmed uh I planned that for 5 years i I wanting to fake my death to mess with S for 5
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years and I rehearsed that punishment for hours before Sal arrived on set with the whole crew reacting in the moment
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every screaming running toward the scene of the accident and it it shows man but that and so me faking my death took
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three real years off my friend's life so that's what it's like it's like a lot of very secret conversations with planet
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cool sarah thank you for that one all right round of applause for Sarah that was a good one
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you mentioned race and uh hand number three what's your favorite race my favorite race
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monster City Marathon my favorite race i just want to see your
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race i ask that question my favorite my favorite race is the movie The Great Race
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which if you haven't seen it is a great race it's a You're like Caucasian
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don't put words in my mouth it's right i'm the moderator i can blame for
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everything goes wrong all right all right hannah was uh you did a NASCAR event you got to say ready
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set go yes i got to say uh racers start your engines is wild yeah as the grand
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marshall of the uh Sonoma Raceway last year and uh she wanted to know did you stay for the whole race i I I
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I stayed for a lot of the race but I had a flight to catch home uh I did stay for
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maybe like an hour of the race i was also I don't know if you can tell in the video I am deathly sick with COVID in
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that video i uh my wife and I uh were there we were in Soma uh for a few days
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before the race and I caught CO and I did not want to bail on the network they had all this activation they spent a lot
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of money for the launch of the new season so I went and I'm deathly sick if you look closely you see me just
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drooling in the interviews and uh I stayed for an hour with a mask on i took it off when I did the the the speaking
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the mic and whoever used the mic after me they're screwed they're done they are dead now
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and uh and then we uh about an hour into the race we had to take off to catch a flight home which I should not have
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flown either okay Hannah number three thank you round of applause for Hannah
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ah here's one from Autumn autumn where you at that's right uh she wants to know uh what is your go-to uh Taco Bell
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order a funny question okay my I'm going to pull up my Door Dash right
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now together okay so my my the only times I order Taco Bell are when we're
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very drunk okay we just happened to order it two weeks ago
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it was my birthday two weeks ago right and uh and we were uh it was one of those nights where um we ended up
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drinking my friends and I three bottles of Johnny Walker Blue which will knock you one so and we're in the pool i open
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the pool and uh so this is what I ordered 3 weeks ago at 2:00 in the
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morning while we're in the pool okay i ordered four cheesy fiesta
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potatoes six crunchy taco supremes eight crunch wrap supremes five beefy layer
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burrito five layer burritos two chicken quesadillas three crunchy taco supremes two soft tacos and uh apparently I
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drunkly ordered another a full Mexican pizza there was four of us in the
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pool there you go it was a That was a whiskey decision
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where is this pool so I I know never to swim guys you're all coming in my pool
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all right Autumn that boggle the mind good one a round of applause for Autumn
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oh and this one's from little Hannah over there hi little Hannah hey uh she wants to know for you what was the worst
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punishment the worst punishment okay so
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uh did you ever see the episode where they threw me out of an airplane i I had to go scott can I show you
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come here can I share this so
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have you ever seen like a ferret you know what a ferret looks like i look like a ferret being thrown out of
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an airplane ready i show
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you what I look like [Applause]
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that was my worst punishment you're a freaking awesome kid give Hannah a hand there everybody
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all right CJ where you at okay what's up buddy uh CJ uh wants to know um if you
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uh if you played D and D um or if you did uh what's your favorite class of
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character to play i have no
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freaking I don't know i I wasn't I wasn't a nerd i'm kidding i'm kidding i'm kidding i'm joking i'm joking i
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don't know what was my favorite class i
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sophomore i don't play Dungeons and Dragons this Yeah I played Legend of Zelda but I I play video games but I
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don't play D and D i in my house in my house for real i've got connected
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working an Atari 2600 Nintendo NES Sega Genesis PlayStation Xbox
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uh Oculus Apple Vision Pro uh a Terminator 2 video arcade game Switch
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and and yet I still found a woman to marry me
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what's uh what's your go-to in the Atari huh uh Atari 2 2600 go to Pitfall
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pitfall [Music] yeah we're
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old all right well CJ that was that was good attempts thank you you know and the the opinions of our guests
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do not reflect those of young i'm kidding i'm going to play invite me to play bud we'll play in the
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pool at Taco Bell be great uh yeah cleric Berserker yeah yeah
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that's what we're going to choose all right angie where you at hi Angie angie would like to know um while uh filming
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uh uh your episodes have you gotten into uh legal troubles yeah i mean uh gosh yes i mean for real
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when S climbed the statue uh for real Homeland Security sent the TV show a
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letter saying "What the f are you doing?" like that's a federal monument and we then took it further we kept we
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saw the letter from Homeland Security uh the TV show explained it was just for a prank or blah blah apologies they didn't
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they didn't charge us or anything like that but we didn't tell S that we kept the joke going we kept replicating the
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letter after letter after letter over the course of a year coming in from Homeland Security until S had to testify
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in a deposition before Homeland Security it was all on the TV show he thought it was real it was all BS right so that was
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for real we got in trouble uh what other times uh I mean this was not on TV
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because the woman threatened to sue the whole TV show we were filming at a a
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like a supermarket and S's behind the counter ring customers up and a woman comes up to pay she gives him her credit
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card and I said to S I was like "Buddy do me a favor nonchalantly take out your cell phone and snap a photo of her
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credit card swiping." Unbeknownst to us this woman had just had her identity
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stolen like nothing earlier we didn't know that she lost her marbles right she
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started screaming at the top of her lungs how dare you we tried to calm her down explain some prank show what have you no harm no foul she didn't wouldn't
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stop she called the cops on us the cops come in they're like you know they they combo them down take her outside they
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come walking back in we're like shoot man we're going to get busted right the cops come in they're like "Guys guys guys we're huge fans can we take a photo
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with you [Applause]
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thank you Angie round of applause for Angie
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and a one from Derek where you at derek derek okay Derek hey buddy um oh this
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this this kind of dubtales into that one uh was there anyone who may have like
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sussed you guys out but still just played along hoping that we got a chance in hell not a chance in hell did no
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because keep in mind buddy like let's say uh I see you the kind and I want to go up to you long before you see me
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there's 60 people on the crew watching you right the cameras all hone in on you
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when we identify you as a target so long before you've ever seen me before I'm even in the playing field we've honed in
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on you we're watching there's just no way like if you see me from 100 yards away we've already spotted you so
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there's just no way to trick us right and you can tell people are different when they when they recognize you they
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change they don't walk normal they don't talk normal anymore you know they're like like you know there's something
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changes and we also have like little tricks to keep the show real it has to be real of course right so like for
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example let's say you get called into a focus group uh you have no idea that you're walking into impractical jokers
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uh and uh we don't bring you in the room all at once we bring the marks in one by one you walk down you're in a real focus
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group place in a real waiting room with real employees of course those employees are our employees and the producer of
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our show uh who you think is an employee of the focus group company will walk you down the hallway to get into the room you have no idea that when you walk in
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the room that's impractical jokers and there's S waiting to do something crazy with you as you walk down the hallway
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I'll be in the hallway as well we call it the sniff test i'll be in the hallway doing some BS and some nonsense as you
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walk by I'll engage the producer in conversation and all we're doing is watching you and if we see a spark of
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recognition in your eye we we know you're a fan of the show right we uh if if if you walk by there's no recognition
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no problem as the producer will pass by he'll turn around i'll give him a thumbs up that means you don't know me you're
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not going to know S you're not going to know the TV show you're good if you do recognize me I give it a thumbs down the
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producer take you outside will kick the [ __ ] out of you i'm kidding i'm kidding no you know
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it's like little tricks like that works no way to fake being on the show
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what does happen to people that get a thumbs down they just like you know oh we don't need you for the society well they uh Well we that's one of the
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hardest parts of the show because as the show's gotten more popular we have to book over book more and more marks so to
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get a focus group that doesn't know us um to get five people in the room that don't know us takes 20 people right so
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but we all those people get paid no matter what if they're attending a focus group you're getting 100 bucks to attend a focus group not knowing you're about
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to be on TV so that's why we try to do real world challenges as much as possible it's just cheaper like a mall
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food court but it's very hard to film in a mall anymore it was we filmed there a week ago we we did a we do a a challenge
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called Lauren Order instead of Law and Order it's Lauren Order uh like this you
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know spin on TV show and uh we're casting directors trying to cast for Law and Order filming upstairs and uh and it
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was absolute chaos there were kids it was 500 people watching us from different Loes of the Wall it was chaos
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to get real people that didn't know us but we did and they're going to be on TV and they're going to look horribly
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embarrassed crap derek fun question thank you for that one round of applause for
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Derek and here's one from Barry where you at Barry hi hey buddy was there any
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challenge or punishment that was just flatout refused and how did that conversation go down
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uh flat out refused no uh we've never
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refused punishment uh but uh they came close skydiving uh what's not on TV is
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and this is my number one fear i don't think I'm afraid of heights anymore what more what more can they do to me right like I've had every orifice pierced in
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some penetrating subway i've been thrown out of heights for multiple times uh I had to fly outside of an airplane in the
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Joker's movie so uh but back then when we filmed the skydiving what's not on TV
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is for real you see me on TV running off camera what you don't see is what happened after that i ran off camera i
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locked myself in the bathroom of a place for a half hour crying hysterically i would not come out but from the bathroom
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I FaceTime my mom to say goodbye and I love her and she rejected the a minute later a minute later she
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text me back she goes "It's the Macy's one day sale i'm shopping i can't talk." She rejected me for the Macy's one day
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sale so uh you know but I decided to do it but they had a backup they were going to throw S out of the plane in case I
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legit said no i ultimately decided it would be funniest if I did so I did so
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no we've never said that all right Barry round of applause for that one good one i think the show is
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going to end when the water just freaking dies go punish me this is probably going to be me
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uh Hannah where you at the other okay yeah uh fave punishment uh well maybe
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let fa punish might be the wrong word but maybe the a punishment you wouldn't mind repeating if you had to got it
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uh you know Joe's Captain Fat Belly god his big blue belly or him is the genie
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is so funny to me um S in the corn field is so freaking funny to me he's such a
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wuss if you ever met Sal's father his father's a freaking strong guy his father's probably 78 years old now and
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he could dismantle his own son in a heartbeat s can't hang a picture frame you know that's very funny to me q with
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the tarantulas is very funny to me uh and then I would love to fake my death again for sure i would not like another
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prostate exam were there any other Yeah any others that you enjoyed that ones that others
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had to do that you found particularly amusing uh yeah uh let's see i tell you
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what I I would like to relive my Dracula punishment when I'm on stage and I had no idea and I'm playing a vampire or
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whatever i I I'm very proud of my Oh I would like to relive my thunder down under punishment too where they injected
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me with histamines and I had every SD on the planet and I had to dance in front of like 500 women half naked that was
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amusing to me that was all looped up
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nice all right Hannah thanks that was a fun one okay ah Mary where you at okay mary
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wanted to know um did they smash your actual TV yes what yeah i lost all that
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stuff did that wasn't the worst punishment though there was a punishment where they had me compete against a
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fifth grader like is Mr smarter than a fifth grader which by the way what's not on TV is all the many many questions I
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got right that the stupid kid got wrong that's not funny to watch her destroy a kid in the IQ test okay so they cut all
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those questions out and only kept the questions that I lost and the kid got right little bastard he took my
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Georgetown diploma okay he still has my real diploma from Georgetown but the
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worst part of the punishment was for real they did everything they did on this in that episode they took the door
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handles off of my apartment they took the showerheads off i rented the apartment i had to pay that back they
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did not give those things back the kid still has my diploma he still has my door handles whatever it cost me like a
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thousand bucks that punishment i had to buy them from the building it's not regular maintenance to replace your
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doorork knobs your shower heads little bastard cost me 1,000 bucks but uh well I forgot the question
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yes they my TV but they did not burn my blankie by the way my blankie uh when I
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went home from that punishment where they burned my blankie it was safe and sat on my bed the whole time it is here in Oklahoma City right now
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nice mary good one round of applause for Mary
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angie where you at hi Angie angie okay uh all right we're going another one of the nerdy sides of things uh what
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Hogwarts house do you think you would belong to hogwarts house oh wait hold on slytherin hold on well damn it i was
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going to try to remember it what is called Slytherin slytherin slytherin slytherin
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slytherin they're kind of wait Slytherin slitherly slither
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slytherin and the other that's the bad guys this is the guy from Die Hard hans Guber no way he's a good guy
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and then the other one is Gryffindor so hold on there are more
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there's more i can't I can't play my audio it's there would be curses in it um I only watched Harry Potter for the
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first time during co I'd never seen a single movie i just missed them right so my wife and I
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during co we're home we're all home the show's down so we started watching the Harry Potter movies and I liked them a
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lot right but we we would drink like two bottles of wine and watch them so we got
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we were drunk for every Harry Potter movie and I would drunkly send audio messages to our cousin and the audio
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messages from Harry I don't know if I can play them i don't know what the content is let's see
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because when you're drunk watching Harry Potter hold on let me see if I can play any My wife and our cousin it's a group
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text let's see what happens they're here let's see if I can pull any up um I I So
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what how should I be uh can I play i can't believe this i
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can't get too crazy i don't know what I say all right audience all right who's Who Who thinks
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agree don't you think okay who desents uh who say who says who says Gryffindor
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no I think Hufflepuff hufflepuff no that's Here's my I don't
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know i I don't know the house names what are
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the house names what's the What else ravenclaw ravenclaw oh Ravenclaw that's a claw
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one i know that too yeah i'll tell you what here's my question i forget which which was Harry Potter it was after the
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big battle on they're on the bridge they're handing out hot cocoa if you go back and watch it where did they get the hot cocoa from go back and watch it
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makes no sense and also why would they bury Dobby on a sand beach that's crazy
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that's not good what that's where he died but they bury him in a sand beach he's been washed away in two
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days man you bury Don't be free elf
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it was a It was a It was a magic bear put him up further dumb
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sorry i was very drunk when I watched all that
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um we got a few minutes left uh we or if you want I could go out there and take some more questions what I'll do is I'll
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have them whisper in my ear question uh well you just asked a question so the
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gentleman right here have
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as vendors okay all right what's your name bradley what you got to tell me
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i already heard the question again
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so it is weird knowing you've all seen me naked weird i That was the most marriage
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moment of my life right like I I you have to understand like I'm in my 40s right so when I grew up in the '8s she
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was it like that was Winnie Cooper from the Wonder Years i never imagine years imagined she was a fan of the show or
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the guys were in touch with her i never imagined that when I walked through the door there would be Danica Mckeler
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Winnie Cooper still looking gorgeous she's aged well i have aged like a raisin you know what I'm saying and she
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and I walked in and my nipples were out i'm greased up i had a little American flag speedo i felt like this big and and
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and then I have to like do freaking squats and it was so embarrassing and and and it was so embarrassing there's
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like my life before and after that moment right and then and then we became friends legit but she's married and I'm
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married and and you know so forth but uh a few months after that episode airs
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fans love it it becomes an instant classic right one of those kind of episodes a few months later she's in Manhattan she was in in Midtown where we
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were filming whatever so her and I meet up for lunch one day we're in Central Park we're having a little picnic and
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fans were walking by in Central Park thinking we were like a thing but we weren't so and we will never be a thing
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but she's lovely and a friend uh for sure we're bonded by my nipples
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[Applause] bonded by my greasy nipples you know that young lady all the way in
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the back there you have to just talk in the mic it's okay
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hello oh we met earlier hold on your name was Kayla kayla i knew it was Kayla
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hi Kayla she's a little nervous sorry uh what was your favorite filming location
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location you know uh good question i I don't
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think I've ever been asked that question well we there's a lot of locations we can't go back to anymore we got kicked
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out we got our memberships taken away from Costco season one pilot episode we uh mustache
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yeah you know the mustache guy whatever we filmed the pilot episode of Costco
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but without the correct permission so the manager of the Costco was a friend of the producer of the show he let us in
36:28
he signed the release forms so legally we're in the clear but he didn't get corporate permission for his store to
36:34
let us be part of Joker it was season one and so they fired him i know i feel
36:40
bad screw so so but uh but we filmed at Costco and the Costco was so upset they
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took our memberships away but then years later the show takes off now they're fans of the show then we got thrown out
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of Six Flags uh at season one we also filmed a bunch of challenges at Six Flags we got escorted out of the park uh
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then they came back and they're dear friends of ours now uh where else we got thrown up a bunch of places uh but my
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favorite place to film I mean Six for Life is pretty amazing universal Studios is amazing all
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of our Universal Studios episodes have been so much fun and then we did our 100th episode uh a live episode walking
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a tightroppe in downtown Manhattan that was a great location uh it's Q1 and uh
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what's not on TV during the commercial break we had to walk a tight rope 70t up in the air on live television for
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charity we're the network has donated 100 grand to a charity of our individual choosing and uh Q successfully walked
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the tight rope uh with thousands of people watching Law and LA uh in New York City downtown Manhattan and uh
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what's not on TV is during the commercial break before the 4-minute commercial break before his turn he did
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five shots of whiskey in a row he had enough steely courage to do it and he's
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succeeded walking the tight rope across 70 ft up so there you go fun one thank you so um yeah round of
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applause for that good question so next season coming up yep few weeks
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filming caption of the book is going to drop so what else is in the pipeline you may be allowed to share uh I told you
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about the train house uh we're filming uh you know season 12 i'm on tour all over the country about to announce a
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whole bunch of fall tour dates all over America i was just in Oklahoma City 3 weeks ago on tour had great shows today
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was anybody there yeah thanks thanks for coming back uh so a lot of live tours uh will be a big slick in Kansas City the
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charity event next weekend uh next Thursday I'm hoping hosting the Golden Trailer Awards in LA um what else um uh
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I have an idea for a new book I'm writing um I'm a farmer the former farmers come great uh and that said I I
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would one thing I I know we're almost out of time so I I wanted to mention uh I it it's important mentioning this kind
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of setting when we're so intimate together the show has been on for uh we've been filming it for 15 years we've
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been on TV for 14 uh how many of you have been watching from season one so uh
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so for example uh so who just had the hat up uh so with the hat the cups hat
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this how how old were you when you started watching the show how old are you now 35 you're 35 so the
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show started when you were 20 years old right so just in college maybe just
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beginning college what have you i can't believe that like um I want you to hear from me directly like that we were
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regular guys when we got on TV i got on TV at 34 years old i'm 49 now and um uh
39:39
we regular guys with regular jobs i commuted two hours to work like I'm sure many of you do i was taking subway to work there were many months i had 800
39:46
bucks in the bank my rent in Brooklyn was $1,200 a month so I'd bust my butt to have enough money to pay that month's
39:52
rent uh because I'd be damned if I asked my parents to borrow money um where I had my friends to borrow money um so I
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guess what I'm saying is I know that all the good things that have happened to us in the past 15 years are because of you guys i don't cons you guys are fans i
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consider you my friends my family i feel like I've grown up with you and your families on TV so thanks from the bottom of my heart for the love you gave us
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appreciate you guys
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