{"id":7537,"date":"2011-01-20T14:26:37","date_gmt":"2011-01-20T19:26:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johntedesco.net\/blog\/2011\/01\/20\/"},"modified":"2017-09-05T21:35:26","modified_gmt":"2017-09-06T02:35:26","slug":"im-famous-colbert-report-mocks-john-tedesco-wait-what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johntedesco.net\/blog\/2011\/01\/20\/im-famous-colbert-report-mocks-john-tedesco-wait-what\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m famous! Colbert Report mocks John Tedesco! Wait, what?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"background-color:#000000;width:720px;\">\n<div style=\"padding:4px;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/media.mtvnservices.com\/embed\/mgid:arc:video:comedycentral.com:352ddb3c-ed01-11e0-aca6-0026b9414f30\" width=\"720\" height=\"380\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>It sounds too good to be true, but did you know there are two John Tedescos roaming around in the world? It&#8217;s true!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johntedesco.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/spock21.jpg\" alt=\"Good Spock, Bad Spock\" title=\"Good Spock, Bad Spock\" width=\"240\" height=\"188\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-7547\" \/>If you recently Googled &#8220;John Tedesco&#8221; and wound up at my blog, you&#8217;re probably looking for this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.colbertnation.com\/the-colbert-report-videos\/371414\/january-18-2011\/the-word---disintegration\">Colbert Report episode<\/a> that made fun of the other John Tedesco, who is a school board member in Wake County, North Carolina.<br \/>\n<em><strong><br \/>\nRelated: <a href=\"https:\/\/johntedesco.net\/blog\/contact\/\" target=\"_blank\">Contact the real John Tedesco<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>This is all very confusing and for now I&#8217;m going to think of me and the other John Tedesco as the Good Spock\/Bad Spock in that one Star Trek episode about an alternate universe. 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