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Speaker 1: I love autumn in New York. I love autumn all

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Speaker 1: autumn in New York. But anyway, I am really excited

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Speaker 1: this autumn. But it's for a different reason. I'm excited

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Speaker 1: because it means the election is just around the corner,

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Speaker 1: when seriously, what is it, What's going to fill this

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Speaker 1: watching late night television, and if you've been watching Samantha

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Speaker 1: b lately, you've been laughing a lot. I've said some

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Speaker 1: foolish things, but there's a big difference between the words

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Speaker 1: and actions of other people. Bill Clinton has actually abused women.

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Speaker 1: Stop Jesus Christ, Donald, who is advising you on how

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Speaker 1: to deal with your misogyny crisis. Let's also remember that

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Speaker 1: one of the men who are is advising Donald Cruck

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Speaker 1: is Roger Ales. Of course, Roger Ales of the Esteemed

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Speaker 1: pr Firm Ales Cosby Polanskian Gift. They're good. I hear

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Speaker 1: me to call Samantha or Sam? I like, whatever I

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Speaker 1: Sammy b I like, whatever falls out of your mouth

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Speaker 1: and feels natural is what we will establish. Sam. That's perfect, Sam,

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Speaker 1: I am it um So. I mean, you start this

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Speaker 1: show and this gift from God descends, and Donald Trump

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Speaker 1: very spot on. I know they were all gifts though.

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Speaker 1: I mean, the primaries were amazing. There were some amazing

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Speaker 1: want to talk about sort of how you've approached this

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Speaker 1: how you got into this crazy business of comedy. Um.

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Speaker 1: I started doing comedy in Toronto. I started doing sketch comedy.

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Speaker 1: It wasn't like in my blood or anything. But how

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Speaker 1: Let's listen to this bit from two thousand four. Have

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Speaker 1: advocates for liberal views or special commentators rather than just

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Speaker 1: comedians who are making us laugh. I mean, it's I

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Speaker 1: think it's a lot. I think it's legitimate to say

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Speaker 1: it's a long way to go from Jay Leno's humor,

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Speaker 1: which was very kind of down the middle. Isn't this

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Speaker 1: all crazy? Both sides are nuts to the position you've taken,

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Speaker 1: which is much more about one side as nuts. I'm

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Speaker 1: not really a super huge fan of things that are

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Speaker 1: middle of the road. I don't That's not what I

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Speaker 1: personally respond to as a viewer. I don't like things

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Speaker 1: that are focus grouped to death. I like a strong

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Speaker 1: point of view. That's what I respond to. That's the

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Speaker 1: material I like. The show is not for everybody. I

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Speaker 1: would certainly assume I don't really care. I'm sure tb

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Speaker 1: scres that's great that they don't care for for that,

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Speaker 1: But um, you know, I think what makes it niche

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Speaker 1: or special in some way is that we're not holding back.

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Speaker 1: And that's that's all we have, is the purity of

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Speaker 1: our voice. And if you can't handle it or you

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Speaker 1: think that we're pushing you know what some people call

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Speaker 1: political correctness, I just call progress or decency, decency I

446
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Speaker 1: call well, I'm sorry that the world is not your

447
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Speaker 1: liking anymore, and that you feel stripped of your power

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Speaker 1: and authority to speak, But we are tired of not

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Speaker 1: having a voice, and so we will now speak. Do

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Speaker 1: you think any of this has gone too far? Like

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Speaker 1: the rhetoric about safe spaces and universities and only certain

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Speaker 1: ideas are kind of allowed to be disseminated in particular communities.

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Speaker 1: I don't I don't you know, it's hard to it's

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Speaker 1: hard to talk about in general terms. I think that,

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Speaker 1: you know, it is a fine line. I mean, I

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Speaker 1: obviously I'm all for being sensitive to people. But I

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Speaker 1: think what find troubling and I have at times is

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Speaker 1: the squelching of sort of free conversation, free speech, and

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Speaker 1: and and and the exchange of ideas that I think

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Speaker 1: will move the ball forward in terms of having these

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Speaker 1: discussions that help, you know, at least acknowledge problems and

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Speaker 1: then come up with solutions. I think that's when maybe

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Speaker 1: the quote unquote political correctness can be an impediment rather

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Speaker 1: than something that builds sensitivity. You know. But people have

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Speaker 1: accused me of silencing them on our show, and I

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Speaker 1: tend to disagree with that. I think I'm just I

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Speaker 1: think I'm just presenting an alternate viewpoint. I understand that

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Speaker 1: it's difficult, and I understand that it's challenging to have

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Speaker 1: your expectations of the world challenged. But we're you know,

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Speaker 1: we're not trying to silence anybody. We're not trying to

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Speaker 1: squelsh conversation. We're trying to have conversations, and we're just

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Speaker 1: expressing ourselves and all we're doing is presenting things on

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Speaker 1: a t V show. We're not shutting anybody down, per se.

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Speaker 1: People are free to speak. We're just also free to

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Speaker 1: criticize them for doing so. I mean, you're former colleague.

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Speaker 1: Jeff Sucker, who now runs CNN gave a speech or

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Speaker 1: was interviewed at Harvard recently and he said if his

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Speaker 1: network made a mistake last year, it was putting on

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Speaker 1: these unfiltered Trump rallies and that he regretted doing them. Um,

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Speaker 1: what do you think the media's role is in all

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Speaker 1: of this, besides NBC and kind of building up the

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Speaker 1: Trump candidacy. Well, I think it is a little bit

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Speaker 1: like that, you know, putting a frog in a pot

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Speaker 1: of cold water and turning the burner on. I mean,

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Speaker 1: we how could anyone have known? I mean, really, how

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Speaker 1: could we all have known? But there were enough times

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Speaker 1: when it's funny actually being away. It's something that you

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Speaker 1: always notice when you're out of the country and you

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Speaker 1: watch Al Jazeera, or you watch BBC CNN International or

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Speaker 1: BBC you know, or BBC b see. You see that

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Speaker 1: they don't necessarily fill their airtime with two hours of

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Speaker 1: an empty podium at a Trump rally. Okay, there's other

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Speaker 1: things going on in the world. They will air documentaries.

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Speaker 1: There are global issues we could be talking about, there

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00:28:16,880 --> 00:28:19,960
Speaker 1: are stories we could be telling, things we could be seeing.

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Speaker 1: But that camera was very often trained on the tarmac

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Speaker 1: of an airport with the Trump plane, you know, an

498
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Speaker 1: hour and a half away from arriving, and we're talking

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Speaker 1: about that NonStop for hours and hours. So I generally

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Speaker 1: object to that kind of coverage. It's not specific to Trump.

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Speaker 1: I generally think that that is a waste of everybody's time.

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Speaker 1: Do you ever wonder if humor propelled this candidacy of

503
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Speaker 1: Donald Trump's or lack thereof a lot of people like

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Speaker 1: trace trace back to the White House correspondence dinner in

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Speaker 1: two thousand eleven, President Obama famously mocked Donald Trump, and

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Speaker 1: we have a clip of that. We thought we'd play

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Speaker 1: it for you and get your take. A kidding aside,

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Speaker 1: obviously we all know about your credentials and breadth of experience.

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Speaker 1: Um for example of seriously, just recently, in an episode

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Speaker 1: of Celebrity Apprentice at the Steakhouse, the men's cooking team,

511
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Speaker 1: uh did not impress the judges from Omaha Steaks, And

512
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Speaker 1: there was a lot of blame to go around, but you,

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Speaker 1: Mr Trump, recognized that the real problem was a lack

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Speaker 1: of leadership, and so ultimately you didn't blame Little John

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Speaker 1: or meat Loaf. You fired Gary Music. And these are

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Speaker 1: the kind of decisions that would keep me up at

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Speaker 1: night out. It was brutal, brutal. And I don't know

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Speaker 1: if you've watched to that video tape, but they're showing

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Speaker 1: Donald Trump throughout completely stone faced and not laughing at all,

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Speaker 1: not even pretending to laugh at himself. I guess it

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Speaker 1: was an article that George Herbert Walker Bush was someone

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Speaker 1: brought in Donald Trump as a potential VP candidate for him, right,

523
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Speaker 1: and he said thanks, but no things. So I think

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Speaker 1: he had political aspirations early on. But many say this

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Speaker 1: moment is what it really revenge, right, the idea was catalyzed.

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Speaker 1: You know What's so by this moment and Trump being

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Speaker 1: determined to show people, no, no, I'm a serious force

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Speaker 1: in politics. I'm not somebody who should just be laughed at.

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Speaker 1: I know someone who was. It was a joke writer

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Speaker 1: for you know, for those at those speeches, and I

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Speaker 1: we it's so funny because we were all laughing, where like,

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Speaker 1: oh my god, he wrote the did he write the

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Speaker 1: joke that that started this whole goddamn s and he

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Speaker 1: might have, he might have. You know, we have another

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Speaker 1: we have another listener voicemail with a question. So here

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Speaker 1: we go, uh, Stephen Colbert, Larry Wilmore, John Oliver, and

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Speaker 1: Samantha by all disciples of John Stewart and The Daily Show.

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Speaker 1: What does that say about John Stewart and after his

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Speaker 1: trump rant on The Late Show? How nostalgic and enjoyable

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Speaker 1: was that to watch? Thank you? That's a great question too.

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00:31:26,520 --> 00:31:28,920
Speaker 1: I love I love watching John I was. I loved

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Speaker 1: watching him on Coldbert. You know. I when he's done

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00:31:32,200 --> 00:31:34,080
Speaker 1: a couple of things on Colbert, I've really enjoyed it.

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00:31:34,120 --> 00:31:35,800
Speaker 1: He did something on our show. Actually, he did a

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00:31:35,880 --> 00:31:39,720
Speaker 1: cold open for us that was really funny. Yeah. You know,

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Speaker 1: I don't have much. I don't have nostalgia for the past,

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00:31:42,160 --> 00:31:43,960
Speaker 1: but I do think of it. I think of it

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Speaker 1: all the time. It informs everything I do. Really, Um,

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00:31:48,440 --> 00:31:50,320
Speaker 1: I miss you know, I do miss him. I'm looking

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Speaker 1: forward to his new project, whatever it is. I guess

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00:31:54,040 --> 00:31:56,680
Speaker 1: we'll all find out. We have to hear one more

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00:31:56,760 --> 00:32:00,520
Speaker 1: Samantha by moment before we say goodbye, and you've been

553
00:32:00,560 --> 00:32:02,960
Speaker 1: so nice and generous. We can't let you go without

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00:32:03,040 --> 00:32:06,520
Speaker 1: playing a little of your bit on the excess Hollywood

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00:32:06,520 --> 00:32:11,720
Speaker 1: tape from two thousand five. Let's listen, that's two thousand

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00:32:11,800 --> 00:32:15,240
Speaker 1: five Access Hollywood tape. Wasn't just lewd remarks. Trump was

557
00:32:15,360 --> 00:32:19,520
Speaker 1: literally explaining a time tested strategy for sexual assault. In fact,

558
00:32:19,720 --> 00:32:21,440
Speaker 1: take a tic tach and grab him by the pussy

559
00:32:21,560 --> 00:32:23,680
Speaker 1: is the closest thing to a plan. Donald Trump has

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00:32:23,720 --> 00:32:28,240
Speaker 1: described this entirely. What did you think when you first

561
00:32:28,320 --> 00:32:31,520
Speaker 1: heard that tape? I it's so funny. Someone at work.

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00:32:32,040 --> 00:32:34,000
Speaker 1: I hadn't heard it. I don't I was. I guess

563
00:32:34,040 --> 00:32:35,720
Speaker 1: I was busy doing something and I hadn't heard it

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Speaker 1: un till the very end of the day. And he

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00:32:39,160 --> 00:32:40,760
Speaker 1: gave me the laptop and he was like, I'm just

566
00:32:40,800 --> 00:32:45,880
Speaker 1: gonna watch you watching this video. And wait, John was

567
00:32:46,160 --> 00:32:49,560
Speaker 1: my jock had completely dropped. And he was like, it

568
00:32:49,640 --> 00:32:55,960
Speaker 1: gets better. And then it happened, and then the world

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00:32:56,240 --> 00:32:59,640
Speaker 1: shifted ever so slightly to the left and nothing's been

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Speaker 1: the same since. So after the election, are you going

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Speaker 1: to be sad? Brian and I started this by saying,

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Speaker 1: I can't wait till it's over. Ryan said he's going

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Speaker 1: to be sad when it's over. So you're in my camp,

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Speaker 1: in your camp, one dent. I can't wait. There's so

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Speaker 1: much other stuff. There is actually so much other stuff

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Speaker 1: to talk about, but we can't. I mean you can't.

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Speaker 1: We can't talk about it. It's completely We're paralyzed until

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00:33:30,920 --> 00:33:33,000
Speaker 1: this thing is over. There are so many other stories

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00:33:33,040 --> 00:33:39,400
Speaker 1: to tell you discussion of the sweating. I don't want to.

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00:33:39,440 --> 00:33:41,840
Speaker 1: I can't handle it anymore. I just want to know

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00:33:42,000 --> 00:33:44,600
Speaker 1: who the winner is so I can live my life.

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Speaker 1: I feel like we are going to need a period

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Speaker 1: of recuperation. We have a great national anxiety. I'm hearing

584
00:33:52,640 --> 00:33:55,520
Speaker 1: it from everybody. You should have seen my offices on

585
00:33:55,600 --> 00:33:58,280
Speaker 1: the day of the first debate. We were all pale.

586
00:33:58,560 --> 00:34:03,200
Speaker 1: People were shivering. I shivering. I've never hit it out.

587
00:34:03,440 --> 00:34:07,720
Speaker 1: Had we all somehow had the flu just watching with

588
00:34:07,760 --> 00:34:11,520
Speaker 1: so much fear in our hearts. It's time for it

589
00:34:11,560 --> 00:34:15,400
Speaker 1: to end. We need I just we all need to nationally.

590
00:34:15,480 --> 00:34:17,560
Speaker 1: We need to cover the country in a dome and

591
00:34:17,640 --> 00:34:20,160
Speaker 1: pipe and spam music. And you know there is going

592
00:34:20,200 --> 00:34:25,080
Speaker 1: to be one more cathartic, slash disturbing moment before the

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00:34:25,120 --> 00:34:29,239
Speaker 1: election actually happens, which is the Al Smith Dinner here

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Speaker 1: in New York that actually happens the day that this

595
00:34:32,680 --> 00:34:36,360
Speaker 1: podcast is released. It's a white tie dinner in which

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00:34:36,440 --> 00:34:40,520
Speaker 1: both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. They sit on a

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00:34:40,640 --> 00:34:44,040
Speaker 1: dais rather near each other, and the tradition is that

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Speaker 1: they each give sort of self deprecating humorous remarks at

599
00:34:48,320 --> 00:34:51,399
Speaker 1: this dinner. I'm so fearful now I have to tell

600
00:34:51,400 --> 00:34:54,200
Speaker 1: you it is. I've gone for a couple of them,

601
00:34:54,280 --> 00:34:56,880
Speaker 1: and it is so much fun. I couldn't believe that

602
00:34:56,960 --> 00:34:59,880
Speaker 1: Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump agreed agreed to go to

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Speaker 1: this dinner. And they do about like a five minute

604
00:35:03,880 --> 00:35:07,319
Speaker 1: stand up five or ten minutes, and they obviously get

605
00:35:07,360 --> 00:35:10,560
Speaker 1: their best writers. So honestly, it is going to be

606
00:35:10,640 --> 00:35:14,520
Speaker 1: such excuse me for cussing such a ship show. I'm

607
00:35:14,600 --> 00:35:17,520
Speaker 1: actually pitted out thinking about it. This year, I am

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00:35:17,600 --> 00:35:19,960
Speaker 1: going you are going, Wait, do you want to go?

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Speaker 1: What day is that? It is? Thursday? Do you want to? God?

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00:35:25,520 --> 00:35:29,160
Speaker 1: I can't why you have to rerange your software? I'm

611
00:35:29,200 --> 00:35:31,920
Speaker 1: going to be in Miami. I wish you didn't invite me.

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00:35:32,120 --> 00:35:34,000
Speaker 1: Just for the record, do you have to go? But

613
00:35:34,160 --> 00:35:36,800
Speaker 1: on the other hand, why does anyone want to be president.

614
00:35:36,960 --> 00:35:40,600
Speaker 1: They have to do that. Oh my god, gonna be crazy.

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00:35:40,800 --> 00:35:44,759
Speaker 1: Oh no, well, if if your plans change and you

616
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Speaker 1: want to be my date, oh I want to be

617
00:35:46,640 --> 00:35:48,800
Speaker 1: your dates. And actually we can bring your husband and

618
00:35:48,800 --> 00:35:51,400
Speaker 1: because my husband's coming to really we can go on

619
00:35:51,440 --> 00:35:53,920
Speaker 1: a double date to the Al Smith dinner. We will

620
00:35:54,000 --> 00:35:59,719
Speaker 1: all be sweating. Sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, it's just

621
00:35:59,760 --> 00:36:02,400
Speaker 1: being mean girl. I'm sorry, Brian. I can try to

622
00:36:02,400 --> 00:36:06,480
Speaker 1: get you a ticket to the balcony. Our husband's will

623
00:36:06,520 --> 00:36:11,640
Speaker 1: sweat right through their jackets. Just well, you are so

624
00:36:11,760 --> 00:36:17,320
Speaker 1: generous to come and do our podist. Isn't she the greatest?

625
00:36:17,480 --> 00:36:21,200
Speaker 1: Now you're the greatest. There are some people who like

626
00:36:21,360 --> 00:36:28,080
Speaker 1: me too, like you, I think. Anyway, thanks so much,

627
00:36:28,080 --> 00:36:30,839
Speaker 1: and I want to get together with you all right

628
00:36:31,360 --> 00:36:36,759
Speaker 1: after the election. We'll be so happy. This color will

629
00:36:36,800 --> 00:36:40,920
Speaker 1: come back to our cheeks. We're going to live. That

630
00:36:41,040 --> 00:36:44,040
Speaker 1: was so much fun. I just love her. And by

631
00:36:44,040 --> 00:36:47,480
Speaker 1: the way, Full Frontal with Samantha b Airs Mondays on

632
00:36:47,600 --> 00:36:52,560
Speaker 1: TBS at thirty Central. Do you think she'll be my friend?

633
00:36:52,800 --> 00:36:54,160
Speaker 1: I think she'll be your friend. I think she already

634
00:36:54,280 --> 00:36:56,120
Speaker 1: is your friend. Actually I know, but I want to

635
00:36:56,120 --> 00:37:00,040
Speaker 1: hang out with her and with her maybe yeah, I

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Speaker 1: hope so she said she was, and all of you

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