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Speaker 2: We got so much to talk about. Tonight, we find
Speaker 2: out who Joe Biden is going to pardon, Inflation is falling,
Speaker 2: and Fox News says voting for a woman makes you gay.
Speaker 2: Plus my guest tonight from Monty Python, the legendary Eric
Speaker 2: Idol is here. Let's get into a decision twenty twenty four.
Speaker 2: Let's kick things off with the number one issue for voters,
Speaker 2: the economy, everyone's favorite system of producing and distributing goods
Speaker 2: and services. Inflation has been a major headache for America
Speaker 2: the past few years. But for those of you who
Speaker 2: like paying less for things, today brought some welcome.
Speaker 3: News, some new economic info. Just today we have new
Speaker 3: inflation numbers. Annual inflation right now two point four percent.
Speaker 4: That's according to the.
Speaker 3: Consumer Price Index. It is inflation's lowest point in three years.
Speaker 2: Yeah, sucking inflation, Suck it. You get down and you
Speaker 2: stay down. Now, for those of you who aren't big
Speaker 2: CPI heads like myself, two point four percent inflation is
Speaker 2: getting pretty close to the Fed's target level of two percent,
Speaker 2: which was chosen because it's Jerome Powell's favorite kind of milk.
Speaker 2: Of course, good news for the Biden Harris economy is
Speaker 2: bad news for Donald Trump, who is campaigning against the
Speaker 2: Biden Harris administration. But throughout this campaign, Trump has had
Speaker 2: a very subtle way of casting doubt on positive economic reports.
Speaker 2: See if you can catch it.
Speaker 5: Wall Street ends the week on a positive note to
Speaker 5: daw and Acid P five hundred, both hitting record highs.
Speaker 6: We are a nation whose economy is collapsing into a
Speaker 6: cesspool of ruins.
Speaker 3: Twenty twenty four has kicked off with a.
Speaker 4: Bang, three hundred fifty three thousand jobs.
Speaker 2: We're out of the You're gonna lose your jobs, main
Speaker 2: street hiring, firing on all cylinders here.
Speaker 7: The economy has just been reported to be doing very badly.
Speaker 8: One month gainan job worth best since Jared twenty twenty two.
Speaker 2: Your economy is doing terribly.
Speaker 3: The numbers that we're getting on the real economy show
Speaker 3: that it's holding up remarkably well.
Speaker 2: The Biden economy is a nightmare.
Speaker 9: If look at that sparkling consumer staples, everything's looking great here,
Speaker 9: but keep.
Speaker 2: Hearing about their economy.
Speaker 6: Their economy is terrible.
Speaker 3: The Blue Chips make history for the fourth straight day.
Speaker 10: It's the worst economy that we've ever had.
Speaker 1: Jobs are up, the stock market hit that all time high.
Speaker 1: Do you acknowledge that the economy is improving?
Speaker 2: No, it's not no that the economy says what what now?
Speaker 2: Look in Trump's defense, just because the numbers are good
Speaker 2: doesn't mean people are struggling. I mean, just the other
Speaker 2: day I saw one very desperate American pawning everything he
Speaker 2: owns for chump change. You know, so sad that bitcoin
Speaker 2: was a family heirlome. His grandfather smelled it out of
Speaker 2: Europe and his ass But well, on improving economy is
Speaker 2: a boost to Kamala Harris. She's got another big problem
Speaker 2: on her hands.
Speaker 5: What is becoming a growing concern among Democrats and the
Speaker 5: Harris campaign that she is indeed struggling with with male voters.
Speaker 4: Among men, Trump.
Speaker 2: Has a sizeable lead. He's beating Harris by twelve points. Wow, wow,
Speaker 2: twelve points. Really, that's that's a lot. I mean, surely
Speaker 2: men would be open minded about having a female president.
Speaker 2: You know what, Hey, God, let me let me check something.
Speaker 11: Okay, let me see all right here, okay, all right,
Speaker 11: oh no series okay, whoa oh god, oh god, alright,
Speaker 11: oh my yeah oh okay no no, no.
Speaker 2: That checks out yet that checks out. So perhaps this
Speaker 2: shouldn't come as a huge surprise. There's a reason why
Speaker 2: America has the same number of female presidents as the Taliban.
Speaker 2: There's a certain type of person who thinks that voting
Speaker 2: for a woman makes you less of a man, and
Speaker 2: that type of person is on TV.
Speaker 4: No real men would ever vote for Kamala Harris.
Speaker 2: I don't see why.
Speaker 4: Any man would vote Democrat.
Speaker 5: That person has mommy issues or they're just trying to
Speaker 5: be accepted by other women.
Speaker 1: I vote like real men, and I vote for the Conservative.
Speaker 8: The Democratic Party has been emasculating men for decades.
Speaker 2: Kamala Harris picking up a shovel, It's like she's never
Speaker 2: ever used one before.
Speaker 5: If you want weak men and the angry women around them.
Speaker 1: Like, that's the party for you, for sure, exactly.
Speaker 2: Republicans are the party of real men, real tough men
Speaker 2: who are strong and love America and won't back down
Speaker 2: and hate Democrat run cities because there's so many scary
Speaker 2: people there Oh, mama, please don't let me get murdered
Speaker 2: when I'm going through the streets. Oh god, mommy, the
Speaker 2: streets are dirty and they were immigrants.
Speaker 6: Please please please demopt Mommy, I sound scared.
Speaker 2: That's how a real man feels. But that's what right
Speaker 2: wingers believe. If you're a man who votes for a woman,
Speaker 2: your penis evaporates and then you just walk out of
Speaker 2: the voting booth with a smooth mound with an eye
Speaker 2: voted sticker on it. But it's not just Democrat voters
Speaker 2: who aren't real men. The Democratic Party itself is so
Speaker 2: emasculated that not only is it it's presidential nominee not
Speaker 2: a male, but her male running mate isn't even a male.
Speaker 10: Women love masculinity, and women do not love Tim Walls.
Speaker 10: So that should just tell you about how masculine Tim
Speaker 10: Walls is.
Speaker 2: Tim Waltz trying to basically redefine what masculinity is.
Speaker 4: He's like the soft man. You look at the way
Speaker 4: that Tim Walls dances around on the stage.
Speaker 5: It's not someone who comes across as in this alpha male,
Speaker 5: someone who's a killer. Here's twitchy Tim on stage, waving
Speaker 5: profusely in a very unsettling manner, very unsettling.
Speaker 4: To Tim Waltz. Jazz hands and high kicking tour men
Speaker 4: should not move this way.
Speaker 10: The other day, you saw him with a vanilla ice
Speaker 10: cream shake had a straw in it.
Speaker 4: Oh again, that tells you everything.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, Real men don't drink milkshakes with a straw.
Speaker 2: You crawl your way into a cow and drink it
Speaker 2: from the inside, or you punch the milkshake then lick
Speaker 2: the remains off your head. Or and this one maybe
Speaker 2: is a long shot. Real men don't have opinions about
Speaker 2: the right way to drink of vanilla milkshakee I don't know,
Speaker 2: I don't know. You know, this really shows you how
Speaker 2: much they love moving the goalposts. Democrats nominated a deer
Speaker 2: hunting military vet football coach who can change a spark plug.
Speaker 2: And you're like, but have you seen the way he waves?
Speaker 2: You know? For a bunch of manly men, you guys
Speaker 2: are some catty little bitches. Look, I'm not here to
Speaker 2: condemn anyone as an impartial fake journalist. It's not my
Speaker 2: place to say that pointing at someone and calling him
Speaker 2: a worse is in any way inappropriate for a serious
Speaker 2: political party. But I should warn conservatives that some of
Speaker 2: the shots they're taking might be hitting one particular target
Speaker 2: they didn't mean to, because.
Speaker 4: Wouldn't want strong man.
Speaker 2: We don't want these exactly woke that, you know, focus
Speaker 2: more in their hair. I'm just checking out the hairstyle
Speaker 2: as I'm talking.
Speaker 4: Men.
Speaker 10: Just look at another man and you can kind of
Speaker 10: know if he's an athlete, kind of look at the
Speaker 10: way he can go down the stairs. Being a real
Speaker 10: man is about having personal responsibility.
Speaker 2: January sixth, Is there anything you regret about what you
Speaker 2: did on that day?
Speaker 4: I had nothing to do with that.
Speaker 2: The hug is not the way you hug your wife.
Speaker 2: You hug your wife from the body. You don't hug
Speaker 2: like this.
Speaker 5: There's twitchy Tim on stage, waving profusely in a.
Speaker 1: Very unsettling manner.
Speaker 2: Men should not move this way.
Speaker 4: It's not the way we move.
Speaker 2: Lesson to those meanings, Donald, Lesson to them.
Speaker 4: Nothing is more manly.
Speaker 2: Than your dance moves, Donnie. Nothing for more on the
Speaker 2: gender divide, Let's go Live to Washington with Troy Iwana.
Speaker 2: Troy Roy, is this strategy of saying only real men
Speaker 2: vote for Trump really that effective? I mean, why do
Speaker 2: Republicans think this strategy works well.
Speaker 1: It appeals to men's top concern.
Speaker 2: Like, yeah, like the economy or jobs.
Speaker 7: No, not being called gay? Yeah, it goes prostate cancer,
Speaker 7: teens laughing at your cyber truck gay.
Speaker 2: I gotta say, you know, that's so sad. I thought
Speaker 2: in the year twenty twenty four other men would have
Speaker 2: moved past this latent homophobic fear that somebody will think
Speaker 2: they're gay.
Speaker 1: Well, of course, you know you and I don't mind.
Speaker 7: You know, as gay men were You're.
Speaker 2: A gay man. I'm not gay.
Speaker 7: Oh okay, Well, anyways, regardless, the Trump campaign is hoping that.
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm sorry, I mean, just what what what
Speaker 2: made you think I was? I was gay? Was it
Speaker 2: was it? It was like the palmade.
Speaker 1: That's part of it.
Speaker 2: What do you mean? What do you mean part of it?
Speaker 1: What's wrong? Jordan?
Speaker 7: You're feeling uncomfyed, You're thinking of voting for Trump?
Speaker 2: Now, I mean, I mean maybe, I mean if I
Speaker 2: did with that, would that make me straight? I mean
Speaker 2: I am straight. I just I can satisfy my wife.
Speaker 2: She'll tell you that you can call her. Feel free
Speaker 2: to call her.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to call your wife and ask her that.
Speaker 7: But you see what I mean, right, You're you're sweating,
Speaker 7: You're you're questioning.
Speaker 2: God, damn it, you're rights, You're rights, You're spot on.
Speaker 2: This is this is powerful stuff. See how are Democrats
Speaker 2: supposed to fight this?
Speaker 1: They shouldn't.
Speaker 7: You can't fight decades of ingrained homophobia. Instead, Democrats need
Speaker 7: to just go all in on gay Just lean into it,
Speaker 7: all right, Just tell straight men we don't want you anymore, okay,
Speaker 7: And I promise if they get into power, the government
Speaker 7: will go all gay. I'm talking no more state dinners,
Speaker 7: just long brunches. I'm talking Britney Spears doing her knives
Speaker 7: stance at the inauguration, you know, and no more war.
Speaker 7: Just let Eurovision settle it all, you know, Sure, try bud.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well we'll guys. Costs Democrats the straight mail vote.
Speaker 6: Who needs it?
Speaker 7: You get gay men plus women who like gay men.
Speaker 7: That's like, that's like fifty six percent of the country.
Speaker 1: That's the whole sports game.
Speaker 2: You said you said sports game. I think you mean ballgame.
Speaker 1: Oh I keep forgetting your straight Why do.
Speaker 2: You keep forgett Why do you keep her getting? Why
Speaker 2: do you would look how much I can weightlift?
Speaker 4: Do you see this?
Speaker 1: Yeah, right, yeah, because all gay men hate working out.
Speaker 2: Okay, damn all right, joy one everyone, we'll come back Ricky.
Speaker 2: We'll give up to his opinion.
Speaker 4: A president as a barn.
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Speaker 4: Hi.
Speaker 8: We are one month away from a presidential election, and
Speaker 8: people are really nervous that Donald Trump is gonna win.
Speaker 4: Not me, though, I think Kamala has it in the back. Okay, yeah, wow.
Speaker 8: She's been endorsed by the most beloved Americans of all time,
Speaker 8: like Liz Cheney. Every barbershop in this country there's always
Speaker 8: three photos Biggie Obama and Liz Chainy.
Speaker 4: But still people believe Trump.
Speaker 8: If Trump wins, he's going to abuse the criminal justice
Speaker 8: system to go after his enemies and pardon all his friends.
Speaker 8: And when they said that, I was like, WHOA, that's
Speaker 8: not the Trump I know. But then they made me
Speaker 8: do some research and I looked into things and it
Speaker 8: turns out that the last time he was president, he
Speaker 8: pardoned a ton of people.
Speaker 3: President Trump, on a pardoning spree.
Speaker 8: Granted reprieves to Paul Manniford, Rogerstone and Michael Flynn.
Speaker 2: Two people convicted by Robert Muller's prosecutors.
Speaker 4: Three former Republican Congressmens.
Speaker 2: Junk Bond, King, Michael Milkin.
Speaker 6: Dared Kushner's father, Charles Kushner.
Speaker 4: Denish Tsuza scherk, Joe or Payo.
Speaker 8: Bernard Kerrick, Rod Blagoyevitch, Lil Wayne, and Kodak Black.
Speaker 4: Dang ah Is did he just sitting in jail alone
Speaker 4: right now? No, no wonder.
Speaker 8: Trump wants to be president again so he can finish
Speaker 8: the job. And he's going to pardon Diddy, Google Ditty
Speaker 8: and Trump pictures. I dare you they have more pictures
Speaker 8: together than I have with my own family. Seriously, I've
Speaker 8: seen these pictures. He's at every party. I don't understand it.
Speaker 8: He doesn't drink, he doesn't smoke.
Speaker 4: What is he doing there? What's the vice? I think
Speaker 4: I have found it out. It has something to do
Speaker 4: with baby oil. Who else does he want to pardon?
Speaker 8: Maybe his homie Steve Bannon but I'm guessing that Bannon
Speaker 8: doesn't want I want to leave prison. He's in there like, uh,
Speaker 8: these are my people. And I didn't know there's so
Speaker 8: many Nazis in prison. What is this utopia? That's where
Speaker 8: he's at. Oh and Trump will also.
Speaker 4: Pardon the January six soldiers right right.
Speaker 8: He asked me no, because you know he needs them
Speaker 8: for the next January six. You don't want all your
Speaker 8: star players sitting on the bench, right, And he's being
Speaker 8: very coy about it. But there's another guy that I
Speaker 8: think Donald Trump is definitely gonna pardon.
Speaker 10: Mister president, if you were reelected, would you pardon yourself?
Speaker 6: Let me just tell you, I said, the last thing
Speaker 6: I'd ever do is give myself a pardon.
Speaker 11: Uh.
Speaker 8: I think he's lying. This dude is going to pardon himself,
Speaker 8: and he should. The pardon is the coolest power a
Speaker 8: president gets, and every president doesn't, even my boy Abraham Lincoln.
Speaker 8: He pardoned his wife's sister, which I totally understand.
Speaker 4: I have a wife. You know how hard it is
Speaker 4: to argue with them. Imagine, oh, so you'll free the slaves,
Speaker 4: but not my sister. That has to be But Lincoln
Speaker 4: sitting there just being like she's a bitch.
Speaker 2: She said my hat was gay.
Speaker 8: For the love of God, I hope I die at
Speaker 8: this play tonight. The only president who has been boring
Speaker 8: about pardons and is our boring President Joe Biden. He
Speaker 8: won't even pardon his son because supposedly.
Speaker 4: It wouldn't be right.
Speaker 8: It's right, It doesn't matter. It's you're right, Joe. How
Speaker 8: bad was Hunter Away?
Speaker 3: The President's done guilty of three felony counts for illegally
Speaker 3: possessing a gun while he was addicted to crack cocaine.
Speaker 8: Hunter Biden spent money on strippers, on luxury cars, on drugs.
Speaker 4: Smoking crack every twenty minutes or so.
Speaker 8: Biden wired an employee money and labeled it a golf
Speaker 8: member deposit, when, according to prosecutors.
Speaker 1: It was used to purchase a membership in a sex club.
Speaker 8: Okay, okay, before we go any further, I just want
Speaker 8: to put this on record.
Speaker 4: I would party with Hunter ride Hunt, hit me up, dog.
Speaker 8: I'm about that much. Come on, Joe, he's your own
Speaker 8: flesh and blood. You know, flesh and blood. That's stuff
Speaker 8: that used to be in your face. Just pardon him
Speaker 8: instead of wasting all your pardens on shit like this.
Speaker 9: Thanksgiving is less than a week away here in the US,
Speaker 9: and two turkeys won't be on the dinner table thanks
Speaker 9: to your presidential pardon. US President Joe Biden pardoned peanut,
Speaker 9: butter and jelly on Friday.
Speaker 8: Turkeys. Dude, Seriously, that's what we're doing, turkeys. Do you
Speaker 8: feel bad for them just because they look like you?
Speaker 4: Listen.
Speaker 8: If you think the pardon power is unfair, then change
Speaker 8: it in the constitution.
Speaker 4: But until then you can't hate on it. I'll tell you.
Speaker 8: Something, If I was president, I'd be throwing pardons left
Speaker 8: and right. I'd be the Oprah of pardons. Look underneath
Speaker 8: your seat, Tiger King, your pardoned. I need another season.
Speaker 2: Pregre the lads, everybody a week. Come back, Eric over,
Speaker 2: don't lead.
Speaker 4: All about the day show.
Speaker 2: I guess today is an award winning comedy legend and
Speaker 2: founding member of Monty Python, whose latest book is The
Speaker 2: spam Alot Diaries. Please welcome Eric Idyl WHOA.
Speaker 4: I have to get it out of the way.
Speaker 2: This is a huge treat for me. I would not
Speaker 2: be doing comedy in this world if it wasn't for
Speaker 2: you and the folks at Monty Python, So thank you.
Speaker 2: There was a fifteen year period before I actually got
Speaker 2: legitimate employment in comedy, and during those fifteen years, I
Speaker 2: would have cursed you if I saw you on the streets.
Speaker 2: But once I found a little bit of employment in comedy,
Speaker 2: now you've become a get once again. So thank you.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 6: Yes, well that's very kind of I'll take all the
Speaker 6: praise for that. Thank you.
Speaker 4: You get it off, I get it.
Speaker 6: Thank you.
Speaker 4: Yeah, this book is fascinating.
Speaker 2: You said you kept a diary while you were working
Speaker 2: on Spam a loot on Broadway, and then you found
Speaker 2: it years later as you were cleaning out the house.
Speaker 6: I found it two years ago where we were moving
Speaker 6: and my wife and I were moving out of our
Speaker 6: big house to a smaller house. We call it downsize Abbey.
Speaker 6: And it's something that happens as you get older. You'll
Speaker 6: find out and that you find all the shit you've
Speaker 6: accumulated for over twenty four years. And you know, and
Speaker 6: I found that this diary that I'd kept during the
Speaker 6: time we were rehearsing and making Spam a lot here
Speaker 6: in New York, and it was it was it was
Speaker 6: an eye opener. Actually, I rather enjoyed it because you know,
Speaker 6: and I tell about how how we quarreled and fought,
Speaker 6: and there were lots of arguments and things, which is
Speaker 6: which I find fascinating. And I kept it in the
Speaker 6: book because I think it's important that you can you
Speaker 6: can all you with people and disagree and fight and
Speaker 6: it's okay because you know you're making something creative.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, So wait, is that is it an argument
Speaker 2: for hoarding or an argument for cleaning?
Speaker 6: Well, I mean I went to boarding school, but my
Speaker 6: wife went to hoarding school. I am much bad as her.
Speaker 6: I have twenty seven guitars. I mean I only got
Speaker 6: two hands. So yeah, I mean, you just keep stuff.
Speaker 6: You just don't throw it away, is all you do.
Speaker 6: And then at the end you've got to try and
Speaker 6: decide what to do.
Speaker 2: Now, it's interesting to talk about, like the creative process
Speaker 2: is about bringing different ideas fighting, finding the best idea
Speaker 2: of the one that wins. Part of what I loved
Speaker 2: about reading this is the director Mike Nichols acclaimed director legend,
Speaker 2: Mike Nichols. You're working with Mike Nichols here, who uh who?
Speaker 2: You mentioned? He was looking for meaning in everything, and
Speaker 2: it felt as if correct me if I'm wrong. So
Speaker 2: much of Python and some of the creation that you're
Speaker 2: working off and came out of silliness. And he was
Speaker 2: trying to impose meaning on top of certain things.
Speaker 6: I don't think you mean meaning. I think what what
Speaker 6: he always was saying is you've got to believe in it.
Speaker 6: I mean, you really must believe in it, because if
Speaker 6: you don't believe in it, why should the audience believe
Speaker 6: in it? And I said, you're talking about the knights
Speaker 6: who say me. I mean he said, nevertheless, you must.
Speaker 6: They must believe that they are the knights who say me.
Speaker 6: Otherwise it's not funny. And I think it's true, like
Speaker 6: something like the Ministry of Silly Walks. If you don't
Speaker 6: take it seriously, it's not funny. It has to be
Speaker 6: serious ministry that's giving out awards for people to walk silly.
Speaker 6: If there's for any second you let on it's a joke.
Speaker 6: It's not funny.
Speaker 2: Now as you've gotten a claim and been writing comedy
Speaker 2: for half a freaking century.
Speaker 10: Uh.
Speaker 2: One of the things I respect so much about you
Speaker 2: is you're still out there, You're still creating, You're you're
Speaker 2: hitting the road in a week. Has your process shifted
Speaker 2: in that way. It's got to be harder to continue
Speaker 2: to write when you have you have legend status and
Speaker 2: the ability to do something is going to be it's
Speaker 2: going to be seen by so many other people and
Speaker 2: dissecting in different ways. Have you had to evolve and
Speaker 2: change with that?
Speaker 6: I think we learned. I was we were in a
Speaker 6: club called Footlights Club in Cambridge and I was nineteen,
Speaker 6: and you you learn I mean, what what I got
Speaker 6: used to was writing a new show and doing it
Speaker 6: in the fall. And I've still got into that, you know,
Speaker 6: that feeling and doing it and I think it's the
Speaker 6: same always. You still never sure whether it's funny or
Speaker 6: until you give it to the audience, and they're the
Speaker 6: ones who tell you whether it's.
Speaker 4: Funny or not.
Speaker 6: And then if you're lucky, you get away with it.
Speaker 6: So we'll see. I'm going to New Zealand to give
Speaker 6: it a fair try. Actually I thought they said New York,
Speaker 6: but the line was very bad.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, very different.
Speaker 6: I'm appearing in front of a lot of sheep.
Speaker 2: How are you expecting that? You've been on the road,
Speaker 2: You've dealt with modern audiences famously, Your your money Python
Speaker 2: copatriot John Cleese has been prickly about some modern woke
Speaker 2: comedy audiences. Have you seen a shift in the way
Speaker 2: people are responding to your humor?
Speaker 6: Not to my particular humor. No, I mean I open
Speaker 6: Sketch Fest in January in San Francisco, and I think,
Speaker 6: I think, if you treat the audiences respectfully and you say,
Speaker 6: what's funny, I mean, if you you can't be hip
Speaker 6: and cuel and all that at at eighty one, you know,
Speaker 6: but you can also you can not be you can't
Speaker 6: be unthoughtful. You must be you must be mindful of
Speaker 6: what people are thinking. And I think you know, my
Speaker 6: job is to make them laugh, and I like to
Speaker 6: hear them laugh. And it's I think it's a sickness.
Speaker 6: I think you your desperately need real sure terrible weakness.
Speaker 6: But it makes me happy to do that.
Speaker 4: I like my job.
Speaker 6: And I also think my job is cheering people up,
Speaker 6: so I always have to see you always look on
Speaker 6: the bright side of life. But which is funny because
Speaker 6: it's become the number one funeral song in England. Whether
Speaker 6: that's a good.
Speaker 4: Thing or a bad pain.
Speaker 6: I mean it's a good thing, but the bad thing
Speaker 6: is they don't give any royalties.
Speaker 2: I consider it for my funeral, either that or loving
Speaker 2: the Elevator by Aerosmith. I haven't decided yet living it
Speaker 2: up while you're going down, but it is that, there
Speaker 2: is something about it. I joke about that, but it
Speaker 2: is true. What is it like having the last word
Speaker 2: on somebody's life?
Speaker 6: Well, I'm not that, you know. I actually I think
Speaker 6: it's rather good. I think it's very healthy. I think,
Speaker 6: you know, at these times of a great emotion, I
Speaker 6: think laughter and tears are very close together, and it's
Speaker 6: nice to be able to sing. Everybody sings, you know,
Speaker 6: and I think that's very I think that's very healthy.
Speaker 6: I think it's not it's much healthier than some dirgy
Speaker 6: old hymn.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I think. I mean you even watching the
Speaker 2: news today, people are so exhausted by what's happening globally climate.
Speaker 2: There's solar flares, there's an election that's coming up that
Speaker 2: everyone is, Oh.
Speaker 6: We're not wearing solar flares anymore.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, damn.
Speaker 4: I miss that.
Speaker 6: We have a new moon and everything do everything?
Speaker 2: Yeah every month. Yeah, yeah, it's a it's a dark,
Speaker 2: depressing time. How do you always look on the bright
Speaker 2: side of light when you're faced with a twenty four
Speaker 2: hour news cycle.
Speaker 6: I don't watch, but my wife watches everything. I don't
Speaker 6: get a vote, so you know, it doesn't matter what
Speaker 6: I think anyway, but my wife watches everything is very involved,
Speaker 6: and I like to read a book and play guitar
Speaker 6: and have a bit of a jam with some friends,
Speaker 6: you know. So I think it's healthier. I think this
Speaker 6: endless news cycle drives people crazy. It's too much. You
Speaker 6: can't you know, it goes on forever and it seems
Speaker 6: to be going on for four years already. Yeah, so
Speaker 6: I mean I'll be glad it's over.
Speaker 2: Oh it's it's never going to be. It's but you
Speaker 2: know what you have to do well, so always look
Speaker 2: at Thank you very much, okay, yes, yes, yes, it
Speaker 2: truly is a joint. Thank you for making me laugh
Speaker 2: and the world laugh for so long, and good luck
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