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Dustin is Gaten Matarazzo, the lisping-yet-confident kid who plays Dustin on Stranger Things and subsequently got the role as pitch-boy for Verizon FIOS.


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Well, as usual, it's too big, but we have limited options for size control.



Plus, he has his hand on his crotch.


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Johnny Lunchbucket wrote:

Yeah I kinda want that kid to get run over by a car


No! He's a good guy on the show, I tell ya!


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If Rita Ora is gonna forget only one among her hat or her pants, I'm glad she erred on the side of the latter.



Because I like seeing the Mets hat, ya creeps.


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I've never seen stranger things. Or game of thrones. Or any of the last 5 star wars movies


But you watch a lot of hockey. Stranger Things is like hockey, but in the 1980s and with the Clash and less violence. You'll like it.


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John Oliver, in a Mets cap, on the telecast telling Gelbs no way either he or his son could ever be a MFY fan (Mets fan since arriving from UK in 2006).


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For posterity's sake, we've transcribed the interview below:



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Sunday, May 26. Tigers @ Mets. Top of fourth.



Gelbs: Gary, you know, there are very few people we get this excited about …



Oliver: OH! (Laughs)



Gelbs: … but John Oliver is sitting to my right, host of the …



Oliver: You're writing checks I can't cash here, but … thank you.



Gelbs: We'll see, we'll see. Um, host of the incredible Last Week with John Oliver on HBO, obviously. And now, listen, first of all, before we get to that: You're from England, you grew up in England, but you're a big Mets fan, we've heard, since 2006 — coinciding, I'm assuming, with when you joined The Daily Show with John Stewart.



Oliver: That's right. I think John made it pretty clear that being a Mets fan was mandatory. But also, as a real sports fan in England, I knew that it's just … not acceptable to come to America and support the Yankees. It's just not OK. So, uh, yeah, hence, by default, I was a Mets fan, because I knew being a Yankee fan was the wrong thing to do, morally.



Gelbs: Ha-ha! What do you, um, what do you like about the game?



Oliver: It's just … I like, you know, the pace of it. It was the first American sport I really got into, because it … you know, has some characteristics of some sports in England, and, uh, I just love the whole occasion. So, I brought my son. It's my son's first baseball game. I have a three-and-a-half-year-old and it's his first baseball game today. Because he also … cannot be a Yankee fan. There are other choices in his life. That's not going to be one of them.



Gelbs: You're really endearing yourself to the fan base right here. Um, John, about your show: It's so brilliantly done, obviously. You have the comedic side, but there's the journalism side, too. How do you view yourself? Do you view yourself as a journalist?



Oliver: Oh, no. Very much as a comedian. I'm not a … I don't have the skills or the training for journalism. But we have people trained in journalism who work for us. But it's a comedy show first, second, and last.



Gelbs: What is the split on your staff of comedians and journalists?



Oliver: It's pretty … It's a pretty good mix. Uhhh, we have five researchers who all have journalistic backgrounds We have British producers that have journalist backgrounds, also. But our comedy writers all come from the world of comedy.



Gelbs: How long does it take for you to really put a show together? Because those things cannot come together in one week?



Oliver: No, we used to do it, uh … We used to do one story every week, until we realized we were going to kill everybody in the building, So now, um, now we usually take a month on each of those long stories. So we're in four-week cycles. We're working .. we're working on four or five long stories at any one moment.



Gelbs: How do you go about choosing them? — as Dixon grounds out here. Two away. How do you. … What is that process of finding stories that your really want to dig into?



Oliver: It's whatever … whatever we feel we can bring something new to. It's like, we try to show people things that they nec... probably haven't seen before. There's a lot of eating from the same trough at the moment, so we try and investigate, and, um, focus on stories that perhaps people don't know much about. Hence, doing stories on lethal injection, which literally nobody wants to hear about.



Gelbs: What is your favorite one ever?



Oliver: The … the favorite story?



Gelbs: Yeah.



Oliver: Uh, I mean, my … my wife's a veteran, so we did a story about Iraqi and Afghan translators who work with the US military, so I was personally close to that, but also, whenever we do something, like, mind-blowingly stupid, that's normal. And buying Russell Crowe's jockstrap was not something I thought I wanted to do, but … boy, oh boy, it turned out to be a dream come true.



Gelbs: Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!



Oliver: It's just a dream I didn't know I had.



Gelbs: Yeah, that's one I thought would have come naturally, to be quite honest with you. Um, when you go about putting these together — now, especially when you're doing something that will be controversial — how much fact-checking and double-fact-checking goes into making sure you're presenting everything correctly?



Oliver: An absolute monumental amount. So we have … our scripts are pretty heavily lawyered, and, um, we're always in some degree of trouble. So, uh, they … our researchers and our lawyers don't let us make a mistake ‘cuz if we make a mistake, it's probably the end.



Gelbs: Well, this is the end of the interview. I wish we could talk to you the entire game.



Oliver: OH, what a SMOOTH link-out THAT was! Wow!



Gelbs: John Oliver, thank you very much. We're through three and a half here. Mets trail Detroit, three-nothing.


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One of the candidates for President is a Mets fan. Yes, this guy is running for President.



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Johnny Lunchbucket wrote:


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What's the frequency, Dan


880 AM


Ah. I was brain-dead, locked out, and not up to speed.


You should try the benzedrine.


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Liz Callaway, star of stage and song, talks up her Mets fandom on the Break a Bat! podcast devoted to the nexus of baseball and Broadway.



https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/9-now-batting-liz-callaway/id1465846187?i=1000457306333https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/9-now-batting-liz-callaway/id1465846187?i=1000457306333



Liz has performed the anthem and GBA many times at Shea and Citi.


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