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Speaker 1: of the last fearless bastions of humor in this country.

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Speaker 1: They will ridicule and lampoon anyone in a position of power,

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Speaker 1: regardless of race, gender, ethnicity. Many of their ridiculous commentary,

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Speaker 1: they're one of the few media outlets I wish Buck

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Speaker 1: media attention by doing more and more interviews, more and

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Speaker 1: new best selling book. Here is a clip from South

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Speaker 1: Park absolutely eviscerating Harry and Meghan enjoy. You've lived a

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Speaker 1: but you say your life has been hard, and now

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Speaker 1: you've written all about it in your new book where yes,

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Speaker 1: it and then started like journalists. So you hate johnalists,

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Speaker 1: we just want to be normal people. All this attention

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Speaker 1: My Instagram loving pitchwife has always wanted a privas there

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Speaker 1: Republicans could be the party that says, we like jokes,

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