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Hello, Alex. I'm a first-time caller. I'm a huge fan. I love your work. Knowledge Fight.
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I love you.
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Hey, everybody. Welcome back to Knowledge Fight. I'm Dan.
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I'm Jordan.
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Uh, we're a couple of dudes that like to sit
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around and worship at the altar of Celene and talk a little bit about Alex Jones.
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Oh, indeed we are, Dan.
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Jordan.
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Dan.
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Jor-dan.
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Quick question for you.
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Sup?
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What's your bright spot today, buddy?
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My bright spot today is actually a podcast that I think I,
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I'm not supposed to talk about. I can't tell anybody about this 'cause it's a secret.
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Is it the secret unknown podcast that you're not supposed to talk about?
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Yo, it's a secret one that I'm not, you're not supposed to tell people about.
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Oh, okay.
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Uh, Tiny Dinos has a second season.
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I know, I, I-
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I'm very excited about that.
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I'm surprised... You know what? I almost texted you about it 'cause
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we hadn't talked about it. You turned me onto Tiny Dinos in the first place.
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Yeah, yeah.
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And then a second season popped up and I started listening-
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We're not supposed to be talking about this, though.
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And I didn't text you about it, which is wild.
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But then, 'cause you're not supposed to tell people.
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It seems like that's why.
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(laughs)
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And it doesn't make any sense, at all.
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People can't find out about those, those Tiny Dinos (laughs) .
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They're very small.
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Um, so anyway, I'm very excited. I, I enjoy it quite a bit.
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Yeah.
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Uh, what's your bright spot?
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Uh, do you like, uh, did you listen to the first, uh-
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I listened to the first two. I'm, I, I, I am a little bit late.
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All right, all right.
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But I've been catching up.
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I got you.
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Yeah, yeah.
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All right, all right. Uh, it's very exciting.
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Mm-hmm.
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You know what? I'll say one thing about it.
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Okay.
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Just from the op-, from the opening-
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Yeah.
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... there's a moment that makes season two valuable for me.
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Hmm.
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And that's just the moment where
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you get him going like, "Oh, you made them." You know? And it's like, it validates him.
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James?
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Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's, it's kind of... It's very sweet, in a way.
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Sure, yeah.
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It is, it is.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Their friendship, they're best friends.
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Exactly. (laughs)
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And they're scientists.
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It does, it, it is kind of sweet. It's very sweet, in a weird way.
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Very much.
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(laughs)
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There's a lot of heart in this dumb show.
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But very good.
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Yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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So what's your bright spot?
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Uh, my bright spot is that, uh, uh, tomorrow, or
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you know, the day that you're listening to this, uh, my cousin and I
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are, uh, going out for lunch. Uh, I, I know that seems like it should be that big of a bright spot, but
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I... That we always wanna get together, but uh, uh, you know,
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my wife has school. And th- there, you know, there, there is the whole thing. And then we just don't go out.
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Sure.
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I mean, honestly, we just stay inside.
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It's so easy to just not leave your house.
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Ah, just close the doors and lock 'em. That kind of thing.
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Now, now that people mail me marshmallows-
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Exactly. Why?
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... why do I, why would I leave? (laughs)
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Why? Why? Make me go outside.
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Right.
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Oh, no, no. It's gonna be fun.
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It's cold out.
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There's more people. Wrong.
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I went out the other day and it was snowing. Fuck that.
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Wrong. Yeah, get out of here.
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Yeah.
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Uh, so this is a perfect time for us to actually go out, be with them. My wife's on holiday. It's gonna be great.
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What, uh, genre of food are you gonna get?
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No idea. That's their, it's their business. Every-
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Do you like, do you like how I called food a genre, a type of food?
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I did. I, I did because I, I th- is it? It's, I feel, feels appropriate, right?
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It is, yeah.
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Yeah.
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Mm-hmm.
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'Cause there's not just like, oh, this is Ethiopian food, or
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Chinese food, or something. Now it's like, this is, this is fusion...
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This is post-modern food.
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Exactly. This, this, this is food that defies authorial intent.
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Right.
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(laughs)
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Um, well, I hope you have a great time.
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I will. I'm sure we will.
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Um, so today, we're not gonna have as great a time here.
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No.
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Um, so yeah, we have a, we have a bit to unpack.
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Sure.
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And so I'm gonna unpack all this.
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All right.
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But first, let's say hello to, uh, some new wonks.
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Appropriate for Christmas.
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Yes.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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There's gift wrap all over this.
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Gift wrap. (laughs)
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Pile of shit.
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(laughs)
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Um, but, uh, hello to some new wonks.
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Ooh.
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First, Reich and Celene's feline acolytes, Maya and Flock. Thank you so much. You're now a Policy Wonk.
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I'm a Policy Wonk.
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Thank you very much.
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Thank you. Next, condolences to the
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Fahey brothers for extending their losing streak to
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five. Better luck next year. Thank you so much. You're now a Policy Wonk.
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I'm a Policy Wonk.
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Thank you very much.
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Thank you. And Kay from Wisconsin sending this on the
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eve before the 2024 election, "I hope we'll all be better tomorrow." Uh-oh. You're now a Policy Wonk.
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I'm a Policy Wonk.
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(laughs) Thank you very much.
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I have bad news about this and Dawn de Grandpre.
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I
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sent her, uh, or Kay, I sent Kay an email, uh, before I put it in, like,
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"Hey, just so you know, you were covered
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up, but maybe it is..." They were like, "Ha, ha, ha, ha, yeah!" So I'm down.
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All right.
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Yeah, I'm with, I'm with it.
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Well, we also got a technocrat in the mix, Jordan. So thank you so much to
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The Thought Police at the Musk Opticon
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Think. "I'm installing a rainwater
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collection system while stockpiling hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin.
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But thanks to my trusty bone conduction headphones, I'm secretly
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dialed into Knowledge Fight and contemplating whether to begin my
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11th run of Stardew Valley." Thank you so much. You're now a technocrat.
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I'm a Policy Wonk.
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Four stars. Go home to your mother and tell her, "You're brilliant."
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Someone, someone sodomite sent me a bucket of poop.
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Daddy Sharp. Bop, bop, bop, bop, bop. Jar Jar Binks has a Caribbean
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black accent. He's a loser, little, little titty baby.
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I don't wanna hate black people. I renounce Jesus Christ.
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You ever, you ever play Stardew Valley?
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I have not played Stardew Valley.
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It's very relaxing-
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Yeah.
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... and mellow.
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Mm-hmm.
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Um, I think it's a great game. But I don't understand why some people are so deep into it.
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Okay.
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There's a, there's a, there's people who can play it like 11 times. I'm not sure why.
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I get, I get it that it, that some people really, really get into it.
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Sure.
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And I, I'm glad for them. I'm not judging them.
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No, of course not.
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Uh, but for me, I think I played it maybe once or twice through.
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You know, it occurs to me, I don't know if I like any game that is like relaxing in that, in that-
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Hmm.
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... sort of way. I like it, I l- all games that I appreciate have an edge to them, like I should be, I
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should be afraid to lose in some fashion.
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I should be afraid.
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I should be afraid!
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Right.
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(laughs)
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I think you can be afraid of things... And it's less about
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maybe dying, though, and more about like missing windows of opportunity.
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Ooh, boy.
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Those are, that's-
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That's even worse.
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It's more, I guess, maybe stressful-
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Yeah.
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... uh, in the, in the way, in that way.
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Interesting.
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Yeah, but you know, you farm stuff. You, uh, you plant crops. You
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go down in a cave.
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That's life.
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You date.
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It's a life simulator.
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Yeah.
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Yep, all right.
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More or less, but then there's like
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little monsters and stuff.
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I mean, that's not too different.
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So, like I said, we gotta unpack something.
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Sure.
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And that is that Alex is still out of studio.
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Sure.
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Um, and so we don't have a- uh, Alex stuff to cover.
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How long has he been out of studio in total?
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A bit, a bit.
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A bit.
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Yeah.
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A bit?
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About a week, maybe.
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About a full week?
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Give or take, yeah.
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Hasn't said, uh, like, "I'm in."
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Nope, he's been shooting videos in his car periodically.
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(laughs)
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And
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I have not watched all of them. So forgive me
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if he has actually revealed this mystery, but I'm pretty sure he's in Arizona.
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Okay.
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I'm pretty sure he's at America Fest.
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Okay.
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... in Arizona.
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Okay.
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'Cause it looks like the desert that he's in. And it's clearly
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some other location. So I think he went to America Fest.
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Yeah.
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The Turning Point USA conference.
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Yeah.
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That they've been throwing. Trump just spoke today-
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Okay.
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... as we're recording.
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All right.
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It's been a who's who, uh, of all of these folks.
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Trash heads.
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Charlie Kirk.
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Sure.
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Jack Posobiec, uh, uh, Donald Trump Jr.
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Yeah.
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Cenk from The Young Turks.
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Sure, why not?
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Yeah. Uh, it's, it's-
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It's a- it's a b-big thing for the people in this form of the media.
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America Fest.
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And I thought for sure, like, "Oh, Alex is gonna pop up and he's gonna speak and then we can cover that."
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Yeah.
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And then he didn't.
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Oh.
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I, I mean, if he did, I can't... I haven't found video-
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Ooh.
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... of him speaking. (laughs)
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You think he's, uh... You think he's
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being relegated to the, to the club tents at Lollapalooza? You know what I'm saying?
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Yeah.
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Like, "Oh, everybody, you can go inside and hang out. Oh, this is great. Yeah."
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Yeah. He's running the chill, uh, chill out tent.
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Yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Not good.
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Um-
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Not good.
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I don't think... Yeah, var- definitely junior varsity if, if booked.
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Mm-hmm.
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But, like, I don't think he spoke, um, and so that kind of is a problem.
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(gasps)
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So I was looking at the speakers who were there-
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Mm-hmm.
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... 'cause I'm like, "Alex is there,
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whatever."
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Right.
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"Let's see what's going on over there."
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Right, right, right.
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And I saw that Tucker spoke.
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Hmm.
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And so I was gonna cover that, but that's two Tucker episodes in a row.
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That's a lot of Tucker.
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And I felt a little bit like, "Ah, I don't know if people are ready."
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If you get two Tuckers, they're too furious.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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People will be too furious.
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Yep.
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'Cause I did get a little bit of feedback from people that was a lot of, like, "I can't listen to his voice."
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(laughs) "Squeak!" That's all I hear.
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"I can't listen to his voice."
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Yeah.
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"What are you..."
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(laughs)
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Like, I don't... You... I can't understand that criticism or that feedback because, like,
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the alternative is listening to Alex's voice.
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No, I mean, he-
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He's not, like, super relaxing and delightful tones.
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You know, there's, there's flavors of trash.
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Yeah.
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I mean, and you know when you're used to a
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certain flavor of trash and then somebody gives you a different flavor of trash,
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sure, objectively, you know they're both trash, but the unfamiliar trash is worse.
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Right. But I guarantee that that is an illusion. And-
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Well, yeah, obviously-
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If-
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... you know they're both trash.
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Well, but also the... I, I... You, you... If you've gotten used to listening to Alex's voice-
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Sure.
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... you can get used to listening to Tucker's.
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(laughs)
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That's a very small hill for someone to climb.
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Obviously. Obviously. (laughs)
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I, I, I have no qualms with
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challenging that perception-
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Sure.
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... that you can't listen to him or whatever.
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Sure. Sure, sure, sure, sure.
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I think we can make it entertaining.
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Sure.
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But I still just didn't wanna do two back to back.
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Yeah.
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Um, and so we'll save that for later.
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Mm-hmm.
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Maybe if we... Maybe if Alex did give a off-to-the-side speech
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at, uh, America Fest, we could cover that-
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Oof, that'd be sad.
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... with, uh, with Tucker.
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Did a little after-party.
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Um, but there's something else that I saw at, uh, America Fest.
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Man, I... You can just unironically call it America Fest and then everybody goes on with their day.
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Mm-hmm.
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It's not like everybody goes, "Hey, you remember when this was a dystopian
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future that people imagined in the '80s?"
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Like, any punk band would be like, "Hey, we'll play at America
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Fest, ha ha ha," because that's only what jingoistic monsters would do.
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Yep.
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Now, we're just like, "Yeah!" That's it.
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The America Is Awesome And It's Only For Us Fest.
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Great.
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(laughs)
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Cool, cool, whoo!
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So I was looking at the list of speakers, and obviously, like, a
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lot of them, I don't really care.
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Sure.
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I don't really care about what Don Trump
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Jr.'s got to say. I don't... I'm not particularly interested in Glenn Beck's speech
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or Cenk from The Young Turks.
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(laughs) I
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love that Glenn Beck had a good couple of years where people were like, "He's changed."
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Yeah.
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"That's great, fantastic."
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Yep.
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"Everybody should be very proud of themselves."
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Well,
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he seemed convincing when he cried.
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See, there you go.
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Right.
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(laughs)
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So I, I thought there was one name that stood out among the rest.
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Yeah.
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And I regret this. I don't even know why we're doing this.
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Okay.
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Um, and it's Alex's fault 'cause he's been into...
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middle of the desert somewhere and not doing a show. Uh, but Rob Schneider spoke. (laughs)
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Oh,
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wow.
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Yeah.
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You know what? Here's what's crazy about this. I think I've come through to the other side
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where I am now interested to hear what Rob Schneider has to say.
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Yeah.
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Do you know what I mean?
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Definitely.
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Like, now that we've... Now... Like, what's there to argue
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about or fight about? Let's see what Rob Schneider has to say. That dude's nuts now.
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Sure.
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Yeah.
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And I think that a lot of times when there have been comedy acts at-
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Yeah.
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... these, like, Trump events, sometimes it's, um, uh, Jim Breuer.
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Sure.
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And I don't particularly care 'cause he doesn't... I'm not convinced he
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delivers sentences. I'm not c- I don't think he communicates... There's a lot of noises-
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Sure.
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... and stuff.
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(imitates goat bleating)
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Sure.
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Like that.
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Famously goat boy.
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Sure.
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Uh, but he does a lot of, like (imitates chicken clucking) kinda stuff. (laughs)
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Those were the days. That was when comedy used to be great.
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Right.
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(laughs)
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And so, like, I don't know, I don't know if I wanna delve into the waters of, of, uh, of him.
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Yeah.
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But, you know, we listened to Tony Hinchcliffe on the, uh... at the Madison Square rally, and so I felt like
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I know that Rob Schneider can make sentences. I know he has thoughts.
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Sure.
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So let's listen to him.
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Like, "You can do it"? Wait, no.
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You can do it!
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Was that, was that him?
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Um, that was... Yeah, that was him in the water boy.
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Okay. All right, all right.
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Yeah, yeah.
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I can, I can remember one thing.
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Would you believe-
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(laughs)
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... that that is the first thing someone yells from the audience when he gets on stage? (laughs)
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Yes! Yes, I would. Yes, 'cause it was the first thing I yelled. (laughs)
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Dude, the, the... I was shocked that no one yelled, "That's a huge bitch."
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Oh, that's what... Eh.
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From Deuce Bigalow.
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You know... Okay, so I'm gonna throw this out at you.
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Yup.
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While, uh, the, the comedians, uh, that we've seen associated with the, the whole movement
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have been of a lower caliber, I guarantee
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that there are higher quality comedians who are not doing it because they don't want the look, right?
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Mm-hmm.
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Not 'cause they don't
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agree. Do you know what I mean?
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Yeah, yeah, I think so.
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You know, like, these people, they... Like, what I don't think they realize is that they
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could be having good humor around. They're just so
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shitty that people don't even wanna be associated with it.
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Among our community of comedians, notorious dirtbags.
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Mm-hmm.
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It's amazing. It's amazing.
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I'm looking at the SNL Wiki.
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Yeah.
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And I'm looking at the characters that, that he played-
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Sure.
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... on SNL.
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All right.
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Famous characters.
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Okay.
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And the, the first... I guess it's alphabetical, so I can't be too mad about this.
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Wow.
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But the first, uh, uh, impression that he has is Adolf Hitler.
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Okay.
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So that's fun.
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Well, wait,
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Rob Schneider does a Hitler?
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There's a picture of it here, yeah.
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Okay.
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I mean,
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it's mostly the mustache, you know? Like...
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You know (laughs) what?
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It's not hard to tell. (laughs)
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Let's face it, (laughs) in, in history, most of Hitler is, is the mustache.
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I think...
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I, I mean, look.
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Okay.
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Rob Schneider
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is what he is.
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Sure.
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But he was a big part of, like, comedy in the period that we came up in.
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Sure, absolutely.
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Or that we grew up in.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Not came up in.
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No, but the... Like, SNL at the, like,
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really important time for SNL-
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Absolutely.
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... when it was a murderer's row of a cast.
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Yup.
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And then Adam Sandler is-
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Mm-hmm.
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... you know, one of the most influential people of the '90s-
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Of course.
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... in terms of comedy, and he was a hanger-on that was in all of his movies.
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Yup.
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Uh, you couldn't understand him. He was ar-ar-ar-ar, 'cause he was from the bayou.
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The Ca- the, the bayou guy.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Cajun bayou guy.
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Yep. Uh-
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His name was Bobby Boucher. I remember that.
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That was Adam Sandler's name. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Mm-hmm.
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You know, uh-
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There's an alligator, I think.
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What was, what was fun about them, I feel like, at the time, uh, for me, was that
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they were almost a...
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Okay, let me try and make this make sense, right? So you've got
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your, your like mainstream people and you've got your kind of alt kinda people, that kinda thing.
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Um,
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Adam Sandler and, and that kinda area were just
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mainstream enough
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that you could enjoy a Norm MacDonald
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as being like, "Oh, these are different," while at the same time still enjoying Adam Sandler, you know?
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Yeah, yeah.
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It was, it was like, oh, I'm allowed to rebel against this thing,
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and see comedy as something greater than that, but at the same time, this is a good thing. This is good. Yeah.
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Yeah. There's a, there's a only certain amount of distance between Dirty Work and-
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Absolutely.
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... Deuce Bigalow.
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Totally.
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You know, at that time.
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100%. Yeah.
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And, uh, you know, I, I think that that
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m- makes him, uh, uh, exist in a sort of place that's similar to how it's with Roseanne.
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Yeah.
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You know, like-
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Yep.
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He is, he's, he's somebody who is like,
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wow, you were around and you were actually important in a, in a pretty interesting place.
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Um, and so I, I don't know. Let's, let's hear the man out.
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Let's do, let's do what we gotta do and see if we survive.
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So here's, here's where we open things up.
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Okay.
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Thank you. Thank you so much, and I'm honored to be here.
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(laughs)
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President Joe Biden
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just pardoned Lee Harvey Oswald.
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Oh, God. (laughs)
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If President Trump
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wants to make Canada the 51st state, one stipulation:
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at least one of the senators has to be a moose.
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So it's tough to tell what the commentary on the joke is for his opener.
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The moose senator thing is just silly, but Biden pardoning Oswalt,
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there's supposed to be some meaning behind that, right?
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I guess.
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I mean, you'd think.
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I guess. I think it's, I mean, they, they, it's supposed to be like
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he would pardon the most evil guy, right?
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I don't think it's just that.
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Sure.
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I think it's supposed to be a play on the attempted assassination of Trump and Butler.
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Okay.
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And somehow it's meant to bring to mind the image that Biden's pardoning that guy
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because he would be, you know, he'd be letting people who shoot at presidents off the hook.
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Right.
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Right? I think that's what he's trying-
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There's some-
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... to evoke.
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There's something there, yeah.
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Rob should revisit this joke after Trump pardons people who tried to overthrow the government last time-
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Hmm.
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... around, but whatever.
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Mm-hmm.
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Biden's given out some bullshit pardons, and I could give a list of horrible people Trump pardoned
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in order to try and be like, but look at this.
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Eh.
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But that's actually, it doesn't address the issue.
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No.
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The problem is unequal access to clemency and the misapplication of the
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justice system, and that extends to pretty much all elected
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leaders ever, so we need to look at that holistically.
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Yeah, yeah.
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What gets me about this, uh, joke and this opener-
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Mm-hmm.
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... is how un-edgy it is. Like Rob Schneider's coming out and telling a joke at the place where
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joke-telling is legal now. They're, they're,
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you know, they're supposed to be the people who can say whatever you want.
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Yeah.
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This speech was on December 22nd, so Oswalt and the attempted assassinations,
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it's all kind of a cooled-off subject. It's a little bit, uh,
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dull. It feels like he should've done like a Luigi Mangione thing, if he wanted-
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Sure.
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... to be topical-
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All right.
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... and make a riff off of Biden's pardons.
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Sure.
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Like for example, he could've come out and said something like,
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"Can you believe that Biden pardoned his
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son? The only thing more shocking was that finding out he's got a secret son
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named Luigi." Something like that would've-
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Sure.
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You know, there's, there's ways that you could go with this Biden pardons thing.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. There's, there's an angle there.
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Yeah, but this is just, uh, just, uh,
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just dead on the floor.
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D- d- do you know what? There's a significant part of me
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that suggests that, uh, unless
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we start hearing the N-word more, they're all full of shit. You know what I'm saying? Like, now that
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we are where we are, really it boils down to these people,
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they wanna say the N-word more, so say it.
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Right. It's, it's, um, it's this bullshit of like, hey, you're all complaining about, uh,
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how you're the only ones who speak freely.
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There you go.
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But you're clearly not. (laughs) So...
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Speak freely.
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Yeah.
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Go for it. Toss it about. See what happens.
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And, and even more than that. That's just one signifier.
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Yeah.
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That's just one thing. There's so much more, like
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you should be talking about how you don't think some people should have rights.
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No, absolutely.
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Like, like just speak freely.
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I b- I mean, I-
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Be the truth-teller that you imagine you s- yourself to be.
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(laughs) I-
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This isn't edgy.
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I hardly believe that I'm going to say this, but
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I kind of wanna hear them say the N-word more. (laughs)
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At least would have less dissonance-
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Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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... to it of like, okay-
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Oh, you're actually just whiny little babies.
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Yeah.
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Ugh.
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Great.
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Yeah.
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So, uh, Rob, I think he's trying to, he's making a point in this next joke.
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Okay.
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But I, I don't, I think it's a little, uh, a little bit confusing.
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Okay.
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Unlike Oprah, I am not being paid to be here.
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(crowd cheers) I'm here because I love my country
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and because Donald Trump surrounds himself with intelligent women
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(crowd cheers) who are very good-looking.
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(laughs)
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What a crowd. Wow.
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What?
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Wow, wow. So the message that Rob was trying to send with that joke was that Oprah only
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showed up to Harris events for money, whereas he's actually there because he believes in
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Trump. Unfortunately, the way he decided to deliver that joke was a
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bit off, and he ended up implying a couple
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things that he might not have intended to. The first is that no one is willing to pay him an appearance fee.
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Even if he believes wholeheartedly in Trump, it's kinda
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silly to imagine that he wasn't paid to go to America Fest. Like if he's not getting paid, uh,
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something for this, there's something very wrong.
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Yeah, absolutely.
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Like
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Charlie Kirk may have pocketed his money or something-
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I, I mean-
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... if he didn't get paid. It's crazy.
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No, I mean, I, I, I'm, I
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would be angry on his behalf-
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Yeah.
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... if he wasn't paid for that.
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Who's your agent?
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Yeah, absolutely. This needs to be handled.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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The second thing that he's implying is that he was booked at America Fest because
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Trump surrounds himself with intelligent, beautiful women.
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Right.
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The implication was supposed to be that Oprah isn't intelligent or beautiful, but
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Rob is comparing himself to her as a booking
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choice. He should've said that Trump surrounds himself with intelligent, beautiful
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people, not specifically women, because now it seems like Trump booked Schneider, uh,
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due to his policy of booking intelligent, beautiful women. The way
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out of this is to say that Trump surrounds himself with intelligent, beautiful women, which is
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why Rob is there. He's drawn to the intelligent, beautiful women that are around Trump, which is why he said
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yes to appearing at this event. This unfortunately calls into question the sincerity of the
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claim that he's there because he really believes in Trump, whereas Oprah just wants money.
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His motivations are just as shallow as anyone else, it's just that no one wants to pay him as much to go places.
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They know that being around attractive women is enough payment for Rob.
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This is just poorly written no matter how you try and slice it.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, because
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just from a funny standpoint, it would be
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far funnier if he were blunt.
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Mm-hmm.
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If he were like,
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"I don't find Oprah attractive. I'm not getting paid.
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I'm trying to fuck." That's a good three-sentence bit right there.
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Sure.
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Comparatively-
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Yeah.
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... to what's going on here. This is a level of implication
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that I don't think anybody is prepared to, uh, unwrap.
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Mm-hmm.
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And I don't think he is prepared to deliver.
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No, but I think that that almost would be too edgy,
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if he was like, "I'm not getting paid and I'm trying to fuck."
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I am here to fuck.
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Because it would underline some of the misogyny that, that
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kind of underrides this entire-
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Speak freely.
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Right.
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... limit, man.
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Right.
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This is misogyny.
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Mm-hmm.
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Let's go!
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Sure.
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That's my new, that's my... You know what? I'm e- I'm embracing the, the sports people-
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Mm-hmm.
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... who say "let's go" about stuff now.
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Let's fucking go!
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Exactly! That's what we're doing.
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Yeah. So, uh, this next...
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Oof.
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Oh, boy.
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This is rough.
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I believe you.
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This is really hard to hear.
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Sight unseen, "I believe you."
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As somebody who has been on a stage before, this is tough.
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There's gotta be 5,000 people here, which is double MSNBC's primetime viewership.
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(cheering)
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Wow.
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Well,
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what an election.
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Wow. I haven't seen a man beat a woman that brutally since the Olympic Games.
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(laughing) (clapping)
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Yeah!
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We don't wanna be
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like the Democrats who wanna destroy American traditions like counting votes by hand. (clears throat)
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They don't care
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about you, they only care about themselves.
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I didn't edit that. Uh, that is a zero response-
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Wow.
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... to something that he very clearly thought was going to be a, a laugh line.
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Yeah.
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Um, tough.
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The- let's, let's, let's tease that out.
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Sure.
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All right. Why do you think he thought that the counting votes by hand
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was a, was a punch?
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Well, because the line right before that, the signaling to transphobia got a response.
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Right.
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I think he just th-
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But that's different.
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Right. I th- no, it's not, really.
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No, I mean, it is. It's a, it's a different reference to, like, a thing that these people care about.
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Right.
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And then it's confusing the, like, voting by hand.
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Right. But it's easy to imagine that
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i- in each instance all you're doing is pointing to some, uh, right-wing social media grievance, uh,
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uh, shiny set of keys, so you might think that you'd get the same kind of response.
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But, but there's nothing transgressive about the
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counting ballots by hand part, you know? Like, you have the, you have the edginess in, like,
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"Oh, see, people will be mad if I reference this Olympic thing where I call this obvious
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woman a man and it'll piss people off,
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and you'll recognize that I'm pissing people off and we'll both laugh at how
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I don't mean any of this bullshit and we're just pissing people off."
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I don't get the hand ballot counting thing, though, you know?
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Yeah, I think that it's something that's really popular
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with, uh, you know, excuses for why Trump actually won in 2020, uh, the
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bedrock of our democracy is in actually counting
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votes, and, you know, like, I think that there is enough of a, a twist
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in the, "We aren't like the Democrats, we support American values."
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Sure.
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And then that American value is a right-wing, uh, media complaint.
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Yeah.
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So, like, I think, I think that there's enough of a "eh?" in your mind that
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I could see how he would think there would be a laugh there.
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Right.
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But he miscalculated terribly.
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No, this is, this to me feels like a learning experience. Like-
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Hmm.
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... if I'm, if I'm an open-micer, and, and I'm, I'm delivering these back in
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back-to-back which is about the skill level required, um, I'm thinking, you know, like,
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"Oh, these people want me to be an asshole. They don't want me to be, like, slightly incisive."
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Well, I, I-
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You know?
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Yeah. I should, uh, give you a little peek behind the curtain.
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Mm-hmm.
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That if you watch this, it's clear he's reading this off, like, the piece of paper.
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Oof.
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So, like, there's a chance that someone else wrote these jokes for him and he's just-
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Oof.
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... uh, delivering them.
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Wow.
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I don't know. Or maybe he's just not that confident in his performance, but, like-
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Reasonable.
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This, uh,
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if I had to try and guess why these went off each other-
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Mm-hmm.
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... maybe it has something to do with, like, his beliefs and, uh, sort of, uh, transphobia and gender being
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something that he considers to be an American value.
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Okay.
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And then it's like, this is a tag off that.
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Oof.
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I don't know.
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Yeah.
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But it's, it's really tough to hear someone be like, "Hey, there's 5,000 people here
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and that's so much better than, uh, watching the mainstream media."
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Sure.
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And then just dead.
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He gets a big response to some social war bullshit
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that, uh, he's, he's pointing to, like, "I'm on the right side of."
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Sure.
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And, uh, it, it's actually an embodiment of the very thing that they complain is what's wrong with comedy.
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Yeah, yeah. He's virtue signaling and then-
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And then getting a big response.
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Yep.
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And then he does something that he thinks is a joke and there's nothing.
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Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. "You think this is a joke?
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Wrong. You're saying something that signals to us that you're one of us."
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Yeah.
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"And that we are here together without any of those weirdos. Hooray!"
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Yeah.
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Yeah, yeah.
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You know they say, you know, you wanna complain that, like, ah, woke comedy is all clapter and it's like-
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Yes.
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... this is all this is.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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There is no joke. There's no artifa- like, uh, uh, like-
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Yeah.
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... craft to this.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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It's ridiculous.
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Yeah, it is not good.
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So, uh, the basic structure that Rob goes down is, like, listing off the reasons that the Democrats lost.
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Sure.
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And so it's just a cavalcade of things for people to clap for.
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Yes.
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Like, it's, uh, "You told people the economy is good but they couldn't afford groceries."
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Ah, hooray!
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Woo!
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Uh, what are we doing?
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"You said that man or, men can get pregnant." Woo!
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Is he booked to be a comedian, or is this-
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Yes.
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... like, a weird speech?
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Well, here's the thing.
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Yeah.
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Like, this is why it's interesting on the back of the, like, To- Tony Hinchcliffe.
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Yeah.
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He was trying to do a comedy set.
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Yeah.
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In the setting where he shouldn't have done a comedy set.
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Wrong.
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And I think that Rob Schneider's trying to do both.
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Okay.
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'Cause obviously when he came out he was trying to do an opening joke.
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It was an opening bit.
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Yes.
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For sure. Yeah.
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And I think that he tries to maintain some of that, like, joke structure-
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Sure.
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... and shit.
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Yeah.
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But he's very clearly more, like, also doing a speech.
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Man!
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Um, but he does have, like, clear points where he's like, "Hold for applause. Hold for laughs."
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(clears throat)
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(clears throat)
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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So, here's a part of his list of why the Democrats lost. Here's one of the beats in that.
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Okay.
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You lost because flying Haitians into Ohio
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in the middle of the night just to increase your voting base is kind of a shady thing to do.
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And now,
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I have no problem with legal immigration.
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I'm just not sure Haiti is sending us their best cat-eating rapist cannibals.
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(laughs)
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Sorry.
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(laughs) That was too much even for me. I apologize. (laughs)
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Never apologize, Rob. What the fuck?
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Why was that too far even for him? Like, what about that joke was even edgy?
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This is exactly what they think Haitian immigrants in Ohio are. It's not really even an exaggeration for
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some sort of comedic effect. Their media sphere obsessed about Haitians being cannibals and
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eating everyone's pets for weeks as part of an electoral strategy to scare their
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white base into voting so they wouldn't get eaten next.
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Here's why that joke was too far even for Rob.
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It's not that it was edgy or pushing the boundaries of what you're allowed to say, it's that it was too
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close to a reductio ad absurdum of his entire belief system.
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These people don't believe that American
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cities are being overrun by cannibals, they're just beholden to a political machine that
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benefits from making them pretend to believe that.
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Delivering what's a sincere argument of their political media in the form of a joke like this
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kind of lays bare how it isn't even really a belief.
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This is a joke to Rob, a joke where the actual punchline is that people
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actually had their votes swayed by shitheads pretending that Haitian immigrants were cannibal rapists.
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The joke is on the audience, and the really lazy way that Rob does comedy
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is a little bit close to making that punchline too clear.
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Yeah.
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And that's why he's like, "Ha ha, sorry, that was a little bit much even for me."
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Yeah.
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I think it's
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almost impossible to understand
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the joke except as a joke on the people it's being told to.
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Right.
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'Cause if you believe that, like, half of a population in a city is, is cannibal-
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... uh, uh, rapist-
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Sure.
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... uh, monster folks. Like what do you... Is it, is it... Is there a political solution-
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Well, then-
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... you're, uh, you're advocating for this?
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Then the bit though is, they did send us their best, cannibals. You know, like, "Oh,
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they, they sent us their best cannibals, now they're starving." You know what
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I'm saying? Like, the, the bit is that you go even further than you could imagine.
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Well-
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That's where the humor comes from.
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Sure.
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In terms of like a joke.
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There's an inter- yeah, okay. I, I-
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As oppose to like, I get that maybe it's not funny or whatever.
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I ag- I agree-
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But in terms of like how a joke works.
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I agree that there's a better way to approach this if your point is making a joke.
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Yes.
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I agree with that.
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Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah.
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But what's being communicated really isn't like a good or bad joke.
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Right. No, that's, that's-
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What's, what's being communicated is, uh,
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Rob realizes kind of like,
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this is
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an insane thing to say.
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Yeah.
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To imply that this immigrant population-
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Yeah.
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... these refugees are cannibal, rapist, animal-eat, like pet-eating folks. That's insane.
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Yeah.
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But that is actually what they have been
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d- demanded that they believe.
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For sure.
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And perpetuate as part of Trump's electoral strategy.
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Sure.
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So, living in that space and that moment on the stage (laughs) has got to be kinda tough.
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You know, there's a, there's a part of me that wonders
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if it is... Like, one of the things that we're constantly running up against
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and, and that whole concept of like, "Oh, conservatives aren't funny," it has more to do with just simply
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joke structure tilts toward the powerless.
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Mm-hmm.
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If you can't
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find a way to make the powerless powerful in your
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joke, then you have failed, you know? Like, anything that's punching down is just
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ultimately not funny or only funny to the people who are punching down-
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Right.
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... together, you know?
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Mm-hmm.
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So it's just, it's just like you can't
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tell a b- you can't tell a, uh, joke like that and not understand that it's not a joke.
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Right.
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'Cause it's not... Do you know, ev- I'm s- I'm struggling with it, like, just like... Because
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the structure of the joke is the transgression against-
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Mm-hmm.
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... the status quo. And in this case, the status quo, as you pointed out, is
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we think they're cannibal rapists (laughs) .
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Yeah.
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So you're just going like, "Oh, those people we think are cannibal rapists were there."
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Right.
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That's not a bit.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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No, it's not. It's, um... And, and I think that, um,
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it's kind of tough
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to imagine thinking that it is.
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Yeah.
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Uh, but, hey,
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I guess he didn't get paid to be there, so (laughs) good for him.
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I mean, I, I... Listen, A, I get it, comedy's hard.
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It is.
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Yeah.
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And so... But, but that's, that's one of the dynamics that I, I, I thought was
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actually kinda interesting about this, um, this set.
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Mm-hmm.
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Uh, or this speech. More than just being like, "Ha ha, this is bad comedy-"
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Sure.
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... or whatever, there's something that's happening in terms of the language of comedy.
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Mm-hmm.
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Like, that, uh, is an example of
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your comedic exaggeration is actually exactly what-
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Yeah.
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... your media says is the reality.
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Yes.
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There is no exaggeration here, there is no point.
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Right.
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This isn't a bit, the way you're constructing it.
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Right.
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However, at times, there is the like, "Oh, hold on.
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This is kind of like what a joke is."
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And lastly, you lost
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because you can't give $100 billion to Ukraine and only $700 to American fire victims in Maui.
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(cheering)
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And only $800 to American hurricane victims in North Carolina.
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(cheering)
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Zelenskyy is obviously a cokehead.
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All the signs are there.
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You give him a billion dollars, the next week, he's broke.
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(laughing)
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He's always wearing the same dirty T-shirt that Sean Penn gave him.
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(laughing)
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(laughs) He's always saying delusional shit like, "I'm gonna defeat Russia."
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(laughing)
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(laughs)
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Well, 29 days until President Trump takes office.
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(cheering)
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Giving money to Ukraine and not to US citizens is a fine complaint, but
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he's speaking at Turning Points America Fest on a lineup full of speakers who have absolutely, uh,
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nothing but contempt for government spending on public welfare.
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They don't want the government giving money to hurricane or fire victims.
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That's what insurance and charity are for, according to them.
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It feels really good to point at Americans not being taken care of, because that
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sucks and it doesn't feel right. But
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Rob would probably get roundly booed out of the building
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if he wasn't just doing that to attack
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supporting Ukraine. If he just got up there and advocated for public works administrations or
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universal housing for Americans, I don't think he would be getting this unpaid gig.
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Now, that bit about Zelenskyy is pretty close to dro... joke structure and I gotta tip my hat a little bit.
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The premise is that Zelenskyy is like a cokehead, which is then expanded upon by giving examples of how
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things he does are similar to things that you associate with people on coke.
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They need more money, they wear ratty clothes, they associate with Sean
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Penn, they think they can defeat Russia. These are all solid beats for a
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joke, but this is still bad, because there's no
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punchline. If the punchline is supposed to be that Zelenskyy is like a cokehead, then the
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setup is the punchline. The examples aren't building to anything, they're just tags being added onto the
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setup, which feels incomplete. That's why Rob gets lost in a laugh
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there. He knows, f- from his time being a comedian, that this is actually how a joke works. This is
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building and the audience is on board. This is what it's like
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to do comedy; you establish an idea, take the audience
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along with it, and then you land the plane. But Rob realizes mid-flight that he has no
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landing gear, so he just laughs weirdly.
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This is a joke that's on the open mic level.
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It's the kind of thing that you might
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say at an open mic and then later that
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night, you and your friends would get drunk and think of some way to crack the nut, try to find some
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angle that would take what you've got and
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elevate the point into being something that's like, "Oh, that's a bit now."
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Yeah.
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But it's not. This is just an unfinished, unpolished piece of shit.
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Yeah, there's, there's too much, there's too much, uh, personal bullshit in there.
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You can edit out tons of that where you're like, "Oh, I'm talking to my weird shithead friends."
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You've got four examples, so you've already cut it down to rule of threes.
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But I think he combined the ratty shirt and Sean Penn in a way that makes it three, and I think that's okay.
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I, but I disagree, because I think the third one should be, "I can defeat Russia."
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Yeah.
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So you cut down, you get rid of the money, you go, uh, "Zelenskyy,
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he's exactly like a cokehead." You give him money. All of a sudden, the next day, you see him wearing a
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worse shirt. The day after that, he's doing the whole thing.
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Then he comes to you, scratching his neck, going,
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"I bet I can defeat Russia this time!" That's your, that's your bit, because that's the escalation
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beyond what you expect from just a cokehead.
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Y-
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Sure.
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Yeah.
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Yeah. No-
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Yeah.
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... I think you need something else. I think that-
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(laughs) I th- I think you need a whole lot of something else.
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Right, but this-
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(laughs)
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This, unlike a lot of the stuff that you end up seeing and a lot of the, the
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shit that just ends up being like, "Ha ha, clap for this complaint"-
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Sure.
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... "that we all have on Twitter."
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Sure, sure, sure.
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Like, I think that this actually is what a lot of pretty basic joke, uh, writing-
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Sure.
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... is. This has a f- like a recognizable form.
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Sure.
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It's just it doesn't lead anywhere.
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No.
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But, but I think he knows that in the moment
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as he's delivering this, which is why he just gets lost in a laugh, of being like, "That was kinda funny."
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I-
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Like, he's reading off this page (laughs) -
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Yeah.
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... and he's like, "That is kinda funny. Oh, man, he is like a cokehead. I don't have a point there."
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I wonder-
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Like, what?
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I wonder what it would be like to, like...
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And I, I, I, I'm not comparing it to, to some sort of Alzheimer's in a way, but like,
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to gradually age to the point where you can remember
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joke structure, but only in the form of like a Mad Libs. Like, you can't understand what goes
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where and why, but you can understand
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what it's supposed to look like from space. You know what I mean?
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Like that would be, that would be horrifying.
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I guess, but I mean like, I, I, I don't... Ugh,
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gun to your head, I don't think you could remember a single, uh, Rob Schneider
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joke. I think you could definitely remember characters-
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(laughs)
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... and like, "Making coffee."
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(laughs)
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You know, like, you could do that, but you couldn't remember a single joke.
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Oh my God, that's right, to be boiled down to making coffee.
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Right, but he did a number of making coffees. You know, like, in terms of the characters-
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That's the worst part of this.
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... that you have in your mind of little moments
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and stuff, he has a fair amount of utility that he served in that space.
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Yes.
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But I don't think there, there's ever been like a, "Goddamn, that was a
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really well-constructed Rob Schneider bit." So I think that he knows, like, some of the sketch ideas-
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Totally.
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... some of the A and B and C, and, and
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whatever, but like, th- this is, this is a guy
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who it seems like he caught a fish here, and he's not reeling it in. (laughs)
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Yeah. No, I think you've inadvertently revealed the whole thing by saying he's made a
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bunch of making coffees, in so far as, yeah, it's, it's a
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bunch of different characters, but it is reduced to the same basic thing.
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Mm-hmm.
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He goes, "Eh!" That's it.
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"You can do it!"
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Exactly, that's it. He goes, "Eh!" in a different way than you.
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Right, but they're words, whereas with Jim Breuer-
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Right.
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... it's noises.
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Right. (laughs) It's right. Right, right, right.
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It's different.
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But it's the same.
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Kinda is.
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(laughs)
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So anyway, uh, the, I was confused by this sort of like cokehead runner.
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Okay.
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Um, and then it didn't really have a punchline.
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Right.
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Here's what happens right after.
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Okay.
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(laughs)
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Well, 29 days until President Trump takes office.
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And the Bidens
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are already starting to pack up, they're going
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through their drawers, checking under beds, looking, you know,
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they're looking under clo- in closets, and that's just, you
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know, gathering up Hunter Biden's, uh, coke stash.
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I wrote this late last night.
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(laughs)
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That was a huge missed opportunity.
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So Rob has delivered this incomplete
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joke about Zelensky being a cokehead, and then he gets distracted by his own
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joke kind of being a joke, and it leads him to completely botch the delivery of this Hunter
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Biden coke stash joke. He tries to save it by saying he wrote this material late last night,
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and the audience lets him off the hook, but there would've been a
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perfect opportunity here if he put a finger up to his nose.
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He just made two coke jokes in a row, and he needs a bomb-saving line because he screwed the second one up.
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He had the sense to say he was up late writing the set, but why not just
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say that he was up doing coke writing these jokes?
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Yep.
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The audience probably wouldn't take it seriously enough to care. And even if they did, he was
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Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo. It would've tied everything up nicely, but oh well.
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No.
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I was like watching it, and I'm like, "Put your finger to your nose, put, do it, do it, make a
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joke, do something." And he doesn't.
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It sucks. This sucks.
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Yeah. Damn.
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It sucks. It sucks, like, in the way that it sucks if I went back and watched like, uh,
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uh, Dave Chappelle's Block Party, you know, that, that, like, what, like 2000,
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you know, you got The Roots, you got, you got everybody, and you got Dave Chappelle at the height of his
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Chappelle Show powers. And then you watch shit now, and you're like, "Ah, fuck me. Time kills, man."
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This does not suck in the same way.
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No, this sucks in a hugely worse way.
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Right.
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But in the same way that like Deuce Bigalow was not Chappelle's Block Party.
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No.
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You know what I mean?
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No.
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So like the, the relative quality, the highs are, are different highs and the lows-
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Yes.
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... are different lows.
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Yes.
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(laughs)
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That is true.
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Yeah.
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I don't think that... Oh, you know what was Dave Chappelle's Block Party with Rob Schneider though?
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Sure.
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Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo.
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(laughs)
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(laughs) The sequel is really where they figured it out.
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Was that the one?
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Yeah, they put the-
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Is that the one where they put it all together?
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Yeah.
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Finally.
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I, I just was bummed out that he, like, I even thought that if he was like, "I was up late-
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Yeah.
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... uh, doing, uh, you know, uh, writing this set," I think even that would've been kinda edgy in this room.
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Yeah.
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I think like that would've been a comedic choice that would've been challenging to the audience.
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Totally.
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And I, I just got fucking sad.
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We're making fun of Hunter doing coke, but also, guess what? I'm a little fun guy too.
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You were on SNL in the '90s-
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Yeah, have a little-
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... you dick.
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Have a little impish, like, "Listen, I'm,
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I'm the bridge between what you think is evil and g-... I'm the comedian," you know?
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Not holier-than-thou us, Rob Schneider.
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Oh, I'm, be a clown for fuck's sake.
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So, uh, this next, uh, joke I thought was like, "Well, there's some potential here," but I think the audience
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maybe doesn't care.
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Okay.
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La- you gotta give credit where credit is due though. Last week, Joe Biden achieved a major
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foreign policy breakthrough, and a literal Al-Qaeda terrorist is the new president of Syria.
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Come on, man, I'm serious. Um, come on, man, I'm serious. Look, man,
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he's a bad dude.
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Why? Probably dementia.
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You know how senile people sometimes, you know, they put like,
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you know, their clothes in the oven, you know? They do weird shit.
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Sometimes they install a literal Al-Qaeda terrorist as president of Syria.
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We are the party of compassion, the Republicans.
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Boo.
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(laughs)
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Boo.
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So Rob shouldn't have tried to get a laugh on the
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line, "A literal Al-Qaeda terrorist is the new
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president of Syria" twice. I, I think the first time when it just
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laid there on the floor, he shouldn't have gone back to the well.
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Yep.
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A couple of missed shots here too, though. One, uh, is that his
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Biden impression kinda sounded more like George W. Bush.
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I thought it was Bush.
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Yeah.
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Was it supposed to be Biden?
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That was supposed to be Biden.
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Jesus, man.
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Yeah, he has dementia. He's a good guy. He should've said Jack at least or something.
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Sounds, sounds like somebody else. Uh...
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Some malarkey, uh, just throw something-
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Something, yeah, yeah-
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... in there to signify Biden.
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... instead of like literally doing a Bush impression.
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That was a Bush impression.
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Yeah, that was a Bush.
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Another problem is that it felt like he was gonna play around with how
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Syria sounds like seriously, but then that went nowhere.
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It went nowhere.
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Yeah. (laughs)
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I think, I don't, I think he, he, I think he heard it in the moment and was like,
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"Is there something there?" And then just went-
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Yes.
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... "Nope, there's nothing there," and then moved on.
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Well, because this whole, like, set-
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(laughs)
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... is essentially being delivered off a page.
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Yeah.
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Right?
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Yeah.
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It, it feels kinda dead. Whereas that Syria,
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seriously, it felt like, ooh, playfulness, is there playfulness here?
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Is there something? Ah, ah, nah, quit.
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Is, is there a little-
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I'm lazy.
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Fuck it.
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I'm an old man, I don't give a shit.
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I'm gonna do a George Bush impression-
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Fuck me.
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... and pretend that it's Biden.
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Why, why, shit, man.
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I just, I don't even...
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Okay, maybe, maybe I'm, I'm, I'm, I guess I'm just expecting
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too little,
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because I'm not even asking for base
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funny.
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Mm-hmm.
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You know, I'm asking for base competency.
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Yeah, yeah.
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And this is worse than that.
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I'm, I'm asking for comedy on your terms.
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Yeah.
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Like when I say that that Zelensky bit is a bit-
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Yeah.
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... I'm not saying it's funny.
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No, no, no, no, no.
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But I am saying that, like, this is what the expectation is
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of you're introducing an idea and you're making it funny.
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Yeah.
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You're adding these details in a way that expand your thought
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and, and umbrella it out in a way that the audience can go along with your train of thought.
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Yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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I expect that.
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Yes.
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I, I, I want something. And, uh, yeah, this is not... (laughs) This is not that.
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Yeah. Yeah, yeah. If we were in the Comedians' Guild, you know-
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Mm-hmm. Friars Club?
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... we would be like, uh, no, different, but
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more, more like medieval Comedians' Guild, we would be like, "Hey, don't
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take those words that you just said outside of this room." But
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they do have the language of a joke, so now we can work together to make them a language.
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Right, it's an, it's an open mic j- level joke.
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Exactly, exactly.
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And the rest of this, a lot of it's not even open mic level jokes.
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No.
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It's, it's barely a tweet.
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Yeah.
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Like some of this stuff.
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It's, it's brutal.
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It is.
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It is brutal.
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But he does have some decent points
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here and there.
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Okay.
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And, uh, and maybe this is one of them.
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All right.
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Nancy Pelosi fell down and broke her hip, and as much as I disagree about her politics, I feel horrible
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about her fall,
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because I had all my money on Mitch McConnell in the office broken hip pool.
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(laughs)
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(laughs)
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That's a joke.
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Yeah.
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It's a bit of a misdirect.
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That's not terrible.
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Sure. And the point that he's making is essentially that the leadership
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in the country is too old. That's fair enough.
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R- I mean, relatively speaking, you know.
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But I mean...
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That's not... That's a... That is a bit.
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No, when we were talking about-
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Yep.
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... baseline competence-
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Yep.
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... I was like, "That's baseline competence."
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That is baseline competence.
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It's... Whatever. (laughs)
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Thoroughly.
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Some perspective though, like, Mitch McConnell's 82.
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These guys, the, the, these ding-dongs, they all love Trump
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and he's 78. And he's gonna be the oldest president, uh, ever at the end of his term.
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So, like, uh, I think that the point that's being made is good. It's, you're missing the
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forest for the trees a little bit. Um, but at the end of the day, all you can ask for is a joke, and he gave a joke.
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That was, that was,
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uh... Yes.
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Mm-hmm.
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Yes. If I was at a place in the back of the room, having listened to the rest of the set, my ears would perk up
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at the sound of like, "Aha! I see, sir. So there... So it is somewhere."
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Right.
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"You do know what you're failing at, l- the rest of the time."
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Or whoever wrote this. (laughs)
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Yeah, exactly. Yeah, yeah. "Oh, I hear it now. You are failing. You're not just bad at this." Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, yeah.
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Well, you know, like, hey, uh, Nancy Pelosi
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fell and broke her hip. That's really bad, it's really terrible. Uh, you know, I feel so awful about this
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because I lost money on a bet that it was gonna be McConnell.
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Totally.
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Perfect.
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Yeah.
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At, at least in terms of A, B, C, D, like, aha, we have, we have a joke, folks.
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If it, if it could be boiled down to something so very base, it would be just
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good at the end where they thought you would zig, you zagged.
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Yeah.
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Condrag- congratulations.
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I performed compassion-
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Yes.
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... and then I turned it into something else-
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There you go.
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... for the sake of a joke.
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Done.
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Tada.
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Yeah. Yes.
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The next-
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That is about (laughs) as good as it gets. It's a magic trick. Yeah.
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And this, this, the next joke is not.
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I did not get paid to be here, like I said, like Oprah got paid because-
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You shouldn't have said that.
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... I got doged by Elon and Vivek.
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(laughs)
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I'm just grateful that the American people saw through Oprah's lies
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saying that you will never
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vote again if Trump wins.
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America didn't fall for Obama and his
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mama genes, trying to shame Black men into voting for Kamala just because they may have mommy problems
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or issues.
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I'm glad nobody listened to Kamala Harris because
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she never really said what she stood for.
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Because at the end of the day,
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just like her party, she stood for nothing.
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The Democrats (claps)
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had no policy this year.
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I mean, that's just clapped her there. I mean, like, there's nothing... There's-
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That wasn't even-
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Yeah.
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They, they weren't even interested in clapping for that. (laughs)
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I feel like some of that applause was like, "We gotta give him something."
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"We gotta give him something."
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Some... There's a... Something rough's happening on that stage.
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He's talking about Obama being in mom jeans. (laughs)
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Yeah. It feels like this is a moment to give him support.
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Yeah.
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That's what it felt... That's what that applause felt like. It felt like,
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"No, you can make it to the end, buddy."
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Yeah.
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(laughs)
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Are you trying to say that Black people voted for Obama because they have
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mommy issues? It... 'Cause that, that felt like what he was saying.
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Yeah. I didn't know we could just, uh, like,
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as far as offensive stereotypes go, I didn't know we could just alter those at will.
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Uh, yeah, I do- I don't fully understand what he's, he's hitting on here.
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Absolutely no idea.
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No.
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Nope. I d- I, I think, I think it comes back to, like, I remember
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very early, starting out, and
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being in these low stakes showcase rooms
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where the headliner, quote unquote, would be the guy who could do 10 minutes-
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Mm-hmm.
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... compared to everybody else doing four or six or whatever, you know?
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And then I would watch that, and that guy would do four minutes of,
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"Here are the Family Guy impressions I can do."
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Sure. I know exactly who you're talking about.
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Yes, you do.
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Yep.
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Yes, you fucking did.
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I opened for him once. (laughs)
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Yes, you did. Yes, you fucking did.
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(laughs)
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We all did. We all opened for that guy.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Me and Nick Roley down in, um...
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(laughs)
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Where was that?
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Oswego, I believe.
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Yeah, probably Oswego.
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Yep.
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Yep, probably.
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Yep, yep. (laughs)
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Am I getting too specific?
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(laughs)
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I had a fine set.
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I'm sure you did. But I remember, I remember just
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y- sitting there with, like, a certain amount of awe
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that, in all reality, it was just the spark of recognition.
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Mm-hmm.
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That's what it was. It was like, "I recognize that from elsewhere."
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Right.
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"You have brought it here. Now, we laugh together." And I feel like so much of
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these words are just like, "If I say this word, I think these people will have the
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spark of recognition," and it's him doing his, "Hey, Peter." Like, it's that. That's all it is.
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But doing an impression of, like, a Family Guy character or whatever-
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Sure.
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... in the context of something that is interesting-
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Sure.
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... is not... 'cause that's nothing to be ashamed of.
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Sure.
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If you can, if you can say something through that impression, it is what it is.
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I suppose.
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But the recognition, the pure recognition where it's just, "I have a
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laugh because I sound like Peter Griffin-"
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Yep.
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... is exactly the same thing as Alex taking, uh, Adrian Ditman seriously 'cause he sounds like Elon Musk.
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Yep.
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It's like this recognition, this surface level shit is, uh, enough. And it's not.
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Listen to me deliver this line from that show you watched-
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Mm-hmm.
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... in the exact same way that you watched it.
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Yeah.
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Boom.
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"Let me, uh, give you a complaint that you all have from social media."
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Yep.
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We'll clap.
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"Remember when we saw this yesterday?"
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Mm-hmm.
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It feels like that... It feels like, it feels like what he's doing
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is a version of, like, America's Funniest Home Tweets-
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Mm-hmm.
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... where he goes through Yesterday and he goes like, "Hey, guys, I don't know if you saw this yesterday,
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or if you did, you'll also enjoy it. Nothing really matters here."
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But that's why, uh, the, like, Biden pardoned Oswald is, like-
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Oof.
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... uh, as an opener, is even weird, because
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if you're trying to, uh, get applause from familiarity and all that stuff-
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Yeah.
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... th- that doesn't seem like the best route to go.
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Yeah. That sounds just like an insane person.
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Right.
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Yeah. That's an insane person's thoughts
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that were on the notebook, and then he was like, "Well, it's there, so I might as well say it."
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Right. Someone else wrote this here. I might as well say it.
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Yeah. I didn't, I didn't finish it or do anything, but I might as well say it.
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I, I also... I don't know about this, but I wonder, because that felt a bit racist.
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Yeah.
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Um...
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It was v- very racist.
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It felt like there was something going on there about... Like, I... Do... W- was there a
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stereotype of Obama wearing mom jeans?
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Never heard of it.
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I don't know that... I know, like, tan suit. I know-
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Totally.
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... some of these other references-
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Yep.
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... about Obama. Uh, but mom jeans is not one that I think of.
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Nope.
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So when I, uh, when I try and analyze what that means,
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he had a white mother, so Mom genes could be G-E-N-E.
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If, if... Okay, let me throw this back at you.
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Uh-huh.
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If what you are saying is true,
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and they gave this level of thought to those words that he spoke,
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I take back everything I said. We're operating on some sort of genius-level intellect here
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that has figured out a way to make a Sudoku puzzle out of bad jokes that will eventually c- culminate-
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A racist Sudoku puzzle. (laughs)
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... in some sort of racist... (laughs) Yes, absolutely. There's no
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way there is that much thought applied here.
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I... There can't be, but also-
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There cannot be. (laughs)
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But also, the surface of it doesn't make sense either.
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It makes no sense.
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I just don't know.
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It makes no sense.
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Rob.
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It just does not make sense.
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So, I got one last clip here.
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All right.
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Here's, uh, how the man, uh, the myth, uh-
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How we're gonna dismount... (laughs)
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Right.
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America has decided
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that Donald Trump will make America great again.
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Let's help get Donald Trump all... President Trump all of his appointments in by the Senate, and let's
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just like the, just like Americans stood up
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and said no to this bill, thanks to Elon Musk and
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Twitter, we need to get all his appointments in, including Tulsi Gabbard.
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(cheering)
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Let's get 'em all in.
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(whistling) (clapping)
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To make America great again. God bless you.
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God bless all of you for fighting and loving this country, and God bless America. Thank you so much.
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(cheering)
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We'll see you now. You can do it, America! Yeah!
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Oh.
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There we go. Just say that 15 times and leave.
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Right. That's all you need.
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Done.
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Yep.
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Worth every penny.
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Absolutely.
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(laughs)
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I would pay more for that than I would for whatever it was I just had-
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You can do it, Americas!
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Yeah! Yep.
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I don't know why he needed a speech spot.
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I would have given him shorter,
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I think.
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I think, I think he had too long to work with. I think he didn't have a lot of material.
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Sure.
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Um, I, I, I, I thought this was strange, um, because it's, it,
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it satisfies a lot of the complaints you have about Tony Hinchcliffe's-
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Sure.
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... comedy set.
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Sure.
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Which is like that's too much comedy.
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You know, you're trying to do something, and, and,
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you're pretending you're doing crowd work in Madison Square Garden.
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Right.
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What are you, what are you-
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Stop it.
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... fucking doing?
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Stop it.
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Right. This is less comedy, but still clearly trying to be funny.
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Yeah.
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Still trying to have some bit structure.
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Yeah.
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So it's solving that problem, but it's still bad.
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Um,
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I just, I guess I realized
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maybe, maybe we, I would rather just hear Jim Breuer make noises. (laughs)
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I 100% agree with you. I think Goat Boy is now the height of comedy.
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Yeah, maybe this is worse.
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It is, it has to be worse, and, uh, here's why to me it's worse. Because I don't care
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what you believe, period, in terms of being a comedian.
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Mm-hmm.
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If you are a comedian,
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and you are saying, "We need to get some blankety blanks appointments through," you have
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missed every part of what a comedian is.
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Right.
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Right? Like just,
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you, w- w- what are you doing?
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Right.
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What are you doing?
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It, there's a, there's a feeling of like I'm trying to grease the wheels of power for
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the elected president and the richest man in the world who (laughs) are clearly-
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What-
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... up to no good.
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What are you doing?
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Yeah, it doesn't-
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Yeah.
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It doesn't really feel like there's a comedic angle wor- that's worthwhile there.
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Mm-mm. Mm-mm.
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And it's interesting to see him try.
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Um, I, I, I would love if there was a good comedy thing at one of these.
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Sure.
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Like I would, I would be interested in seeing what like a gifted hand could do. Um,
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but-
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I mean, like, but here's the thing. The thing that's crazy about it is I think what
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Rob is
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secretly reacting to, and maybe is why we get where we get, is because if you did have somebody who shared
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these types of general beliefs, if you will, you know, uh, um, I
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don't know, I don't know anybody. Let's call them, uh, Big Bay Hokerson.
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Uh, uh, something, something along those lines, right?
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Who has, who has an angle on these things, and who escalates to the right points. These people would be mad.
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Probably.
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It wouldn't sound right to them.
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Probably.
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You know? Like it would be more alienating
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for them to live the comedy version of what it is they think they want-
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Yes.
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... then it would be for them to just suck.
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A good version that isn't based around just like clapper, clapter-
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Yeah.
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... and, and feeding, uh, these complaints right back to them for the sake of recognition-
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Totally.
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... would be somewhat challenging, even if it is closer to their belief system.
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Yeah. Even if they-
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And I think that that would be really difficult.
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Yeah, even if they leaned into like the, "We believe in your stereotype stuff-"
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Mm-hmm.
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"... but because I'm a comedian, I'm going to
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take what you think, I'm going to put it in a different angle and make you see it in a different way."
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It's the seeing it in a different way that's the problem.
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Yeah.
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To these people.
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Yeah.
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It doesn't matter how good you are at getting people to see it in a different way.
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The problem is, they just don't wanna see it like that, man.
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Yeah. And that's, uh, pretty indicative of,
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of, uh, th- this mentality, and I think why Rob Schneider is almost like a
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perfect, uh, comedy guest for this, this, uh, this event.
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'Cause when they say, "I don't wanna see it like that," he says, "You can do it."
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You can do it.
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(laughs)
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And, um,
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yeah.
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Anyway, um, maybe we'll, we'll cover the Tucker Carlson speech another time.
Unknown Speaker (01:00:34.795)
(laughs)
Unknown Speaker (01:00:34.835)
But like I said, I didn't wanna do two back-to-back.
Unknown Speaker (01:00:36.855)
Right.
Unknown Speaker (01:00:37.255)
So this, look, I, I, I, I'll be, I'll, I'll, I'll own it a little bit.
Unknown Speaker (01:00:41.755)
Yeah.
Unknown Speaker (01:00:41.755)
This is kicking the can down the road a tiny bit.
Unknown Speaker (01:00:43.815)
Sure.
Unknown Speaker (01:00:44.335)
Let's talk about Rob Schneider's dumb ass.
Unknown Speaker (01:00:46.255)
(laughs)
Unknown Speaker (01:00:47.215)
But, uh, hey, it is what it is. It's the holiday season. Enjoy.
Unknown Speaker (01:00:50.454)
Happy Xmas. (laughs)
Unknown Speaker (01:00:51.315)
Yes. Uh, we'll be back, uh, with another episode, but until then,
Unknown Speaker (01:00:55.195)
we have a website.
Unknown Speaker (01:00:55.795)
Indeed, we do. It's knowledgetry.com.
Unknown Speaker (01:00:57.295)
Yep. Uh, we're back, but until then, I'm Leo, I'm Leo, I'm DZX Clark. I am the mysterious professor.
Unknown Speaker (01:01:02.815)
Woo, yeah. Woo, yeah, woo.
Unknown Speaker (01:01:05.594)
And now here comes the sex robots.
Unknown Speaker (01:01:07.855)
Andy in Kansas, you're on the air. Thanks for holding.
Unknown Speaker (01:01:11.054)
Hello, Alex. I'm a first-time caller. I'm a huge fan. I love your work.
