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I've been really snarky the past few weeks about Last Call with Carson Daly. The show has just seemed to be on an endless stream of repeats, even when all of the other NBC late night shows have been new, and I (and several readers) haven't understood why the show can't air some new episodes (or why the show is still even on, to be honest). Now I think I've figured out at least part of the reason why the show has been in repeats lately.

Daly has been touring America!

He was on the Today show this morning, talking to Hoda and Kathie Lee about the road trip he took with his best friend through Route 66. They went on motorcycles for a week, touring ghost towns and old bars and seeing how the rest of the country lives. They shot 50 hours of video and plan to make a movie out of it and show some of it on the show.

Of course, this was only a week-long trip, so maybe it doesn't completely justify having no new episodes in several weeks, and this wasn't a trip he did for the show either. But if you add in the planning of the trip and the fact that the show's crew probably gets a bit of a summer vacation anyway before the fall season is upon us, maybe I've been harder on Daly than I should have been.

The show is still lame though.