Hey, wonderful's welcome to episode 562 with my wonderful guest Josh Gondelman.

Oh my heavens, I'm so excited for this episode to finally out.

We've got a boy of summer, his name is Josh Gondelman. He is tremendously wonderful and

funny and charming and dear and kind and I cannot wait for you to dig into this episode.

I mean, listen, he's a comedian he's a writer he's delightful and

and we've had many fun times on the Joko Cruz together so please enjoy the heck out of this episode and I will

talk to you next week on the podcast. Oh, What's the poster behind you that has small items on it that I can't quite see?

It is from the Eugene Merman Comedy Festival and it's like a cooler full of

beverages and every beverage has one of the performers names.

Did we accidentally copy that without meaning to?

Because for Sketchfest last year,

we did a vending machine.

Oh, I don't know.

This is more like a bodega.

There's like, you can see a little cat and stuff.

I feel like it's different.

And also, like, even if you fully ripped it off it's like yeah I mean I guess

Eugene was literally at our last festival so he probably would have said like

if he was mad and he's very litigious.

Very litigious.

He has sued multiple comedy festivals.

He sued the human genome project for working with genes because it infringes on his character for Bob's

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