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New York City, thank you so much.

Thank you so much. Welcome to the Bell House.

You can teach an old dog, new tricks. No, fucked it up already.

I feel like Chris Rock in his life special.

You can't teach an old dog, new tricks, but you can smear peanut butter on it. Welcome to Comedy Bang Bang.

Thanks to AJ. Hope that's AJ from the sopranos. Just a stone's throw from here in New Jersey.

People from Jersey here. And proud of it.

I have no idea. I've never been there.

Thank you so much for coming to the show. This is not only Comedy Bang Bang, but this is in celebration of Comedy Bang Bang, the podcast, the book.

Thank you. Did you all get a copy of the book coming in here? Feel free now. Turn to page 65 in your himnals.

We're going to have fun celebrating the book here tonight. We have some contributors here from it, as well as one other guy.

And by the way, now that you all were given something heavy coming in, if at any point you don't like the show, feel free to throw the books at us and say, I don't like this.

Totally get it. We do have a really great group here with us today. Some people. We are very proud of the book and hope you really enjoy it.

And sincerely, I'm really happy that you guys are interested enough to read it. And let's get to the show because we have some great people who contribute to it. What do you say?

I think there are too many chairs out here.

Don't expect seven.

All right, well, let's get to our first guest. He's not really a guest. He's more of a co-host for the show. You know him as one of the hosts of the How Did This Get Made podcast. Please welcome Jason Mantukas.

What's up, jerks? How are we doing, Brooklyn? That's right. Throw your books now.

Hang on, man. I've never seen you so amped. I love this side of you. That's it. That's all I had. Powered down. Hey, pal. Look at us. Look at us. I cut myself on your nipple. It's so erect right now.

I'm so happy to be back on stage. Turned on by this audience. Very sexy crowd here in New York. Hot crowd. I asked them to put an extra seat for Elijah. Who's doing Elijah tonight? You'll see. Jason's so good to see you.

I used to live right here at the Bellhouse. I don't care. What I was going to say. You go. You're thing. It's good to have you on the East Coast because you were supposed to do some of the East Coast dates with us on our tour last summer. And then what happened?

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