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Thank you. Hello and as as always I am your host dear Prudence also

known as Daniel Mallory Orberg with me in the studio this week is Mike Kaplan who has

been a guest on the show before just as he was the last time he was, he is a stand-up comedian who has appeared on Conan,

Comedy Central, Letterman, and in his own one hour special on Amazon.

His new podcast is called Broccoli and Ice Cream, and he'll be making his UK debut at the

Edinburgh Fringe Fest this August. Mike, welcome and congratulations.

Thank you so much for having me back.

It is, I have been looking forward to this for a really long time and I also realized as I was doing

the intro, I can't remember, I think last week I just did Daniel Ortberg and I'm still going back

and forth between like Daniel Mallory Orpberg sounds like such a great

sci-fi author and I do kind of like that middle name and I can't I can't figure

out basically if I'm going to go by Daniel Orberg in regular conversation or Daniel

Mallory Orberg and I don't expect you to help me solve that mystery. I just

realize I don't really know what I'm doing. I affirm whatever decisions you make.

Well, thank you.

Yeah, it is funny, I realized too, I had forgotten to mention the first time I did the new name

on the air to just sort of say or acknowledge like,

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