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Speaker 1: I don't know.

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Speaker 2: Every day Iago clicks up the breakfast.

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Speaker 1: Club finish, y'all done morning.

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Speaker 3: Everybody is the DJ en Vy Jess hilarious, Charlamage the guy.

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Speaker 3: We are the breakfast club Law on the Roses here

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Speaker 3: as well. We got a special guest.

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Speaker 4: In the building. Yes, indeed we have a comedian, Jordan Clepper.

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Speaker 1: Welcome.

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Speaker 5: How are you feeling I'm feeling good. How you guys

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Speaker 5: doing I'm doing well, doing well.

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Speaker 2: You always keep a project. Last time you was here,

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Speaker 2: it was from your last field piece. Right this time

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Speaker 2: it's we're not field piece. You had a whole documentary documentary. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: now you're here for your special Jordan Clipper fingers. The

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Speaker 2: polls give demand a prize.

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Speaker 5: Let me tell you it's nothing about projects. Your heart.

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Speaker 6: It is to keep health insurance in this country. You

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Speaker 6: have to keep working constantly and contractually. I'm obligated to

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Speaker 6: go out in the field and do special after special

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Speaker 6: after special.

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Speaker 1: So that could make you sick. So you go need

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Speaker 1: all that healthcare.

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Speaker 6: I need that healthcare. Trust me, I'm getting old too.

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Speaker 6: I got bad feats, I got weird shoulders. I wake

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Speaker 6: up now my hip doesn't work. So yeah, I need

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Speaker 6: to keep I need to keep out there talking to

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Speaker 6: people about politics.

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Speaker 1: Are you really a people person, Jordan? Do you like

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Speaker 1: the people? Do I like the people or not like

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Speaker 1: the people? Do you like to people? I call it

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Speaker 1: people like.

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Speaker 5: You're using that as a verb. Yes, do I like

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Speaker 5: to people? I do.

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Speaker 6: I feel comfortable peopling. I think it's my Midwest nice

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Speaker 6: that makes me like jump into spaces, try to find commonality.

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Speaker 6: I've met a lot of people, though, I definitely have

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Speaker 6: I have a love hate relationship with people as a

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Speaker 6: general idea. I've seen they're good, I've seen they're bad.

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Speaker 6: There's a lot of them live somewhere in the middle.

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Speaker 6: But I like getting getting to know them a little bit.

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Speaker 6: I'll tell you, people off camera are so interesting to me,

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Speaker 6: and those are the people that I like the most.

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Speaker 6: You know, I go into these Mogel worlds. I go

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Speaker 6: into these these strange spaces, and the camera shifts the

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Speaker 6: way in which everybody talks about stuff, makes them more certain,

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Speaker 6: makes them more argumentative, makes them versions of themselves that

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Speaker 6: they see online. And then that camera goes off and

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Speaker 6: they got they got music interests, they got wives, they

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Speaker 6: have had issues with, they have food interests. They have

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Speaker 6: peccadillos that you just sort of gravitate towards. So people

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Speaker 6: without a camera on their face, those people, those are

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Speaker 6: the best people.

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Speaker 2: What about when you walk in a room and the

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Speaker 2: camera's not on and somebody says, make me laugh.

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Speaker 1: Yes, well you're just a gesture, you know what.

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Speaker 6: Sometimes that happens. Sometimes you want to come on the

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Speaker 6: breakfast club, you want to have a nice conversation, and

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Speaker 6: then you walk into.

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Speaker 7: A room and I say, you make me laugh.

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Speaker 5: The bar is set. Yeah, you get nervous.

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Speaker 8: Because he said, do I look good? And I was like,

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Speaker 8: you look great, just make us laughing. Because I thought,

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Speaker 8: as a comedian, when you're making people laugh, it makes

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Speaker 8: you feel good. I wanted you to feel comfortable and welcome.

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Speaker 7: You did, yes and happy.

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Speaker 5: Well, here's the problem.

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Speaker 6: As a comedian, you complimenting the way I look made

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Speaker 6: me feel uncomfortable because my expectation, my expectation is I look,

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Speaker 6: I look strange, I'm ill fitting clothes. I think that's

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Speaker 6: how I see myself. So you set me off my

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Speaker 6: game by making me feel good about myself.

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Speaker 5: That's on you.

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Speaker 7: I'm sorry if you look if you want me to

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Speaker 7: wrock it.

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Speaker 5: What's wrong? Talk about the fit? Where did I go wrong?

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Speaker 7: You really really that?

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Speaker 5: No, you don't have to know. This is it's a

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Speaker 5: new jacket, is it okay?

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Speaker 7: I like the jacket. I just want to put it

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Speaker 7: with that shirt.

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Speaker 5: There it is.

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Speaker 1: She's wearing a full leather and you're.

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Speaker 8: Going to I just don't know what jacket though.

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Speaker 7: And I thought the hair was a good compliment to

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Speaker 7: the jacket.

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Speaker 8: But but if you want me to talk bad, I

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Speaker 8: just I felt you could with a lighter shirt.

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Speaker 5: Lighter shirt.

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Speaker 7: Thermal.

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Speaker 5: It is a thermal because it's cold. It is cold,

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Speaker 5: but it's texture. There's texture on texture. You don't like that.

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Speaker 7: The texture is just very different.

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Speaker 1: Wear a white T shirt?

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Speaker 7: I mean, do you do a unique well, I see,

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Speaker 7: I know your friends.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, they have really great T shirts that you could

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Speaker 8: have put the thermal under, put the white T shirt

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Speaker 8: and it would have with the sneakers. I looked at

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Speaker 8: your shoes and you talked about your feet, and I

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Speaker 8: just thought, why are you doing it?

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Speaker 5: Me to do it? I respect it, I respect it,

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Speaker 5: I need it.

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Speaker 4: It's just the part of people that you like.

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Speaker 5: Well, right on the line, right now, I gotta tell you.

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Speaker 6: But you know I do specials. I do specials because

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Speaker 6: I get health insurance. I do publicity so I get

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Speaker 6: fashion tips. I can't pay for a publicist. You're helping

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Speaker 6: me here.

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Speaker 7: Do you feel comfortable? You told me to do it.

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Speaker 5: You know, I like it.

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Speaker 6: I respect it. Now, you don't want a graphic tea.

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Speaker 6: You're saying a plain tea is the way to go with.

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Speaker 5: Something like this.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, I think a plain tea would have been rote too.

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Speaker 7: Like you seem like effortless.

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Speaker 6: Oh that's what you're getting out of this feel good thing.

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Speaker 6: I'll take effortless.

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Speaker 1: She said, you see effortless, but you actually tried this morning.

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Speaker 1: I'm trying.

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Speaker 6: There was so much effort put into this moment. Here,

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Speaker 6: you can see it. It's bled into the interview last night.

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Speaker 6: I can tell you did it last night. I'm gonna

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Speaker 6: kill with this, Like first day of school. Do you

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Speaker 6: know I iron into this corduroy jacket. Damn, I don't

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Speaker 6: even know if you were supposed to iron a corduroy jacket.

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Speaker 1: Jesus, the jacket.

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Speaker 5: This is good. This is good. Intel. I didn't know. Yeah,

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Speaker 5: you steam corduroy instead of ironing corduroys. This is helpful.

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Speaker 4: I have a towel over in his steaming through the tower.

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Speaker 1: You can do that too.

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Speaker 7: Did you put the tower?

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Speaker 5: I did not put the towel doves.

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Speaker 2: But you know Jordan's a real comedian because soon as

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Speaker 2: Lawrence said make me laugh, jo was like, I got

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Speaker 2: Type five.

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Speaker 6: I got it, like airline food, I got I got

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Speaker 6: thoughts on that.

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Speaker 3: Let's go have no special fingers the polse, give the

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Speaker 3: man a prize.

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Speaker 4: Fingers the pole sounds crazy, but let's talking about his name.

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Speaker 5: Have you met Figers the balls? That guy?

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Speaker 6: Oh boy, it's a bit handsy.

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Speaker 5: Okay, stay away, all right, he's got a rap sheet.

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Speaker 5: Don't look into him. Don't google the guy.

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Speaker 1: Are you messed with Macca?

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Speaker 5: People?

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Speaker 1: To get man?

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Speaker 4: What's wrong with you?

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Speaker 5: You just like just you know what? I like getting

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Speaker 6: This one was wild because we're trying to figure out

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Speaker 6: what to do a special on and two things were

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Speaker 6: happening simultaneously, Like Trump was sending troops into cities because

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Speaker 6: he said it was World War two in Portland and Chicago,

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Speaker 6: and at the same time he wanted the Nobel Peace

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Speaker 6: that's that's a hypocrisy. That makes for comedy and a special.

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Speaker 6: So it's like, let's go after this Nobel Peace Prize

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Speaker 6: desire and let's talk to people about like what's actually

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Speaker 2: Is chaotic, absolutely, And it's intermeing to do because the

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Speaker 2: special blend stand up with what you do in the field.

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Speaker 1: What did you want audiences.

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Speaker 2: To understand about America that you couldn't capture just through

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Speaker 6: Well, I mean, I think when you look at something

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Speaker 6: which was supposedly World War two, and if you're watching

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Speaker 6: all you're seeing is this is a war zone.

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Speaker 5: This is chaos. You never want to visit.

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Speaker 6: We went there on the Naked Bike Ride, which was

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Speaker 6: all of them going outside an ice facility to protest.

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Speaker 6: that's what America feels like right now. It's this absurdity,

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Speaker 6: And so that's why we go out and do these

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Speaker 6: field pieces. That's why we go and do these specials.

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Speaker 6: Is it's one thing to sit behind a desk and

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Speaker 8: How do you measure the success of your pieces that

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Speaker 8: you do? Because it's it's comedy, but there's also like

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Speaker 8: a deeper conversation that you want to start, Like, I

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Speaker 8: know you want to ind me for your last one.

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Speaker 7: So is it okay?

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Speaker 6: Got congratulation, thank you, thank you, Emmy wise I I

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Speaker 5: That's pretty nice, pretty nice.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, And even with all of that, I'm still so

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Speaker 6: nervous about what I wear. You know exactly that you

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Speaker 6: can't you can't get you let me you think so,

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Speaker 6: but you still care. I measure success with clicks that's

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Speaker 6: all that matters, just clicks. Who is watching? How many clicks? Yeah,

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Speaker 6: I'm healthy, I was a supportive snort.

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Speaker 5: I'll take it.

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Speaker 1: That's honest, as.

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Speaker 6: I wish I didn't look at it, and I can't say.

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Speaker 6: I mean, you know what, there's truth in that comedy.

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Speaker 5: I'd like to know. I I what I tried.

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Speaker 6: Our intention in this is to find we're comedians in

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Speaker 6: this crazy, strange role. I came up an improv comedy guy,

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Speaker 6: a comedy dude who suddenly thrust on the Daily Show,

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Speaker 6: and I love it, and then the world sort of explodes,

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Speaker 6: and our job is to find comedy in these chaotic times.

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Speaker 6: And I think using comedy as a way to add

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Speaker 6: might not be interested in politics, suddenly to be paying

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Speaker 6: attention to the Nobel Peace Prize race and what's happening

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Speaker 6: in Portland. Like that's that's our intention. It's like engage

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Speaker 6: in that conversation. I'm then late at night, when I

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Speaker 6: go on YouTube and I see how many people have

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Speaker 6: Although here's that is a benefit of the cold is

444
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Speaker 6: you don't necessarily have to choose. If it's cold enough,

445
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Speaker 6: you there's a recession that takes place with everything, which

446
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Speaker 6: makes choice irrelevant. You have small piness, is what I'm saying.

447
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Speaker 6: At that point, we know, Okay, I want to be clear.

448
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Speaker 6: I'm trying to paint a picture. All stereotypes aren't true. Okay,

449
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Speaker 6: this is good to know.

450
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Speaker 5: Let's do.

451
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Speaker 7: Y'all hug each other at the end, like get through.

452
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Speaker 5: The process the naked bike ride.

453
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Speaker 8: Yes, Like what's the celebration at then when you get

454
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Speaker 8: you I mean, here's the reality of it.

455
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Speaker 6: So you ride these bikes naked through the streets of

456
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Speaker 6: Portland with what our editor is described from just watching

457
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Speaker 6: the footage with a soupy smell.

458
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Speaker 5: Right, it's sweaty and it's it's human.

459
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Speaker 6: But you ride through there is Suddenly a downpour takes

460
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Speaker 6: place in Portland and they ride in front of the

461
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Speaker 6: ice facility. It's the wildest thing. It's we caught it

462
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Speaker 6: all on taper like this is It's it's bonkers. Literally

463
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Speaker 6: coming down a hill, hundreds of naked people honking, a

464
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Speaker 6: band dressed as bananas playing protest music, and on top

465
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Speaker 6: of the ice facility is a bunch of guys in

466
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Speaker 6: ice apparel, wearing a kevlar and holding a paintball gun

467
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Speaker 6: to shooting pepper bullets into into the crowd. So they're

468
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Speaker 6: coming down and they're cheering and they're all hugging. I'm

469
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Speaker 6: not hugging. I'm keeping my space as a respected comedian.

470
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Speaker 6: They start hugging, shots start to get fired into the group,

471
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Speaker 6: and then the Ice agents push in and they shove

472
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Speaker 6: people into the ground, and so it's it literally was

473
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Speaker 6: like celebration, and all joking aside, like kind of inspiring celebration.

474
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Speaker 6: We were laughing at how absurd it was, but that

475
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Speaker 6: was the points.

476
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Speaker 1: Do you want all this for health coverage?

477
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Speaker 6: And you fucking believe it in this day and age,

478
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Speaker 6: you think Obamacare worked more effectively that I wouldn't have

479
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Speaker 6: to do this, but it's still the case. I'm out

480
00:20:15,160 --> 00:20:15,720
Speaker 6: there hustling.

481
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Speaker 1: Do you feel like Donald Trump overlooks the Daily Show? Yes?

482
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Speaker 6: Yeah, I wonder why, Thank god, thank god. I don't

483
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Speaker 6: think he has gable. I think that man.

484
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Speaker 5: I think that man, that man.

485
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Speaker 6: He's got NBC, he still watches the channels he watched

486
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Speaker 6: thirty years ago.

487
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Speaker 5: He watches Fox. He definitely watches Fox.

488
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Speaker 6: But I don't think he's like the grandparent who's got

489
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Speaker 6: those few channels, knows how to get through those few

490
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Speaker 6: channels and doesn't know how to get to the other channels.

491
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Speaker 6: And so, thank the Lord, he's not paying attention to

492
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Speaker 6: the Daily Show. He's got his own fish to fry.

493
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Speaker 2: I wonder, though, with his influence that he clearly had

494
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Speaker 2: that paramount. Will he you know, maybe flex his muscle

495
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Speaker 2: behind the scenes.

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Speaker 6: I just don't want him to pay any attention to us. Well,

497
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Speaker 6: there's different rules with the FCC and cable TV, and

498
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Speaker 6: so I think that may play into it as well.

499
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Speaker 6: But that man fixes his eyes on the stuff that's

500
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Speaker 6: right in front of him at all times, and it's

501
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Speaker 6: pretty clear the things that he watches and gets angry about.

502
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Speaker 6: So so as I promote this, I pray to god

503
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Speaker 6: he's not listening to the Breakfast Club because again, oh,

504
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Speaker 6: I know he's not been super happy with Charlotte.

505
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Speaker 1: But that's because I was on Laura Trump showed up.

506
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Speaker 6: That's what it was, right, Yes, yes, did you did

507
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Speaker 6: you get blowback from the MAGA circle?

508
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Speaker 5: Did you have any interaction with people?

509
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Speaker 1: Oh?

510
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Speaker 2: You know what's so interesting when I did that conversation

511
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Speaker 2: with Laura Trump, and my business partner said this to me.

512
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Speaker 2: He was like, there's a lot of people that are

513
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Speaker 2: agreeing with the thing that you're saying because I'm not

514
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Speaker 2: on there talking right or left or even black or white.

515
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Speaker 2: I'm just talking about affordability and keeping people safe in

516
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Speaker 2: this country. And I don't feel like he's doing a

517
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Speaker 2: good job with that. Right now, It's a simple conversation.

518
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Speaker 2: We often connect over the economy.

519
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Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, I think that's it was amazing to

520
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Speaker 6: see like Zoran in the Oval office and how like, yeah,

521
00:22:03,000 --> 00:22:05,440
Speaker 6: the economy and affordability that that speaks to the right.

522
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Speaker 6: If people can get on those spaces and talk about that,

523
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Speaker 6: I think there's an effective lane for a lot of

524
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Speaker 6: those Fox viewers or what have you who are in

525
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Speaker 6: that bubble to be like, oh no, this is a

526
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Speaker 6: conversation that's happening across party lines.

527
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Speaker 1: Yeah.

528
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Speaker 2: I love people like you joined because you actually be

529
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Speaker 2: out in the field talking to people. When you're out

530
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Speaker 2: in the field from your vantage point. Does America feel

531
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Speaker 2: more divided? Are just more recorded?

532
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Speaker 6: Can I say both? We are more divided. We are

533
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Speaker 6: one hundred percent more divided. We are pushed to that space.

534
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Speaker 6: But like I said, it's the recording of the divisiveness

535
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Speaker 6: that that takes away our autonomy of thought. I think

536
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Speaker 6: you can break through, but people are angry, and there

537
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Speaker 6: are less people who are excited about the MAGA machine

538
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Speaker 6: than there ever were beforehand. There were less people excited

539
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Speaker 6: about the democratic machine than there ever were beforehand. I

540
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Speaker 6: think that's what happened in this last election, and so

541
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Speaker 6: you go out there now and yeah, people are. People

542
00:23:03,760 --> 00:23:06,600
Speaker 6: are pissed off, they're angry, and they're more certain than

543
00:23:06,640 --> 00:23:09,879
Speaker 6: they've ever been because there's recording devices on them. But

544
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Speaker 6: they's still a glimmer of hope of like they want

545
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Speaker 6: to talk about affordability. I went to Mississippi and I

546
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Speaker 6: talked to a bunch of MAUGA supporters. What was curious

547
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Speaker 6: is they're all afraid of places like Portland and Chicago

548
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Speaker 6: because of what the magospher has told them about these

549
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Speaker 6: big cities.

550
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Speaker 5: Afraid of all big cities.

551
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Speaker 6: And the older people were afraid of Antifa because that's

552
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Speaker 6: the narrative that Trump pushes. The younger people every time

553
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Speaker 6: I ask them about things like Antifa, no interest, didn't

554
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Speaker 6: care and realize in that moment, you're like, oh, some

555
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Speaker 6: of these narratives that are being ginned up to be

556
00:23:41,040 --> 00:23:45,440
Speaker 6: divisive and push people apart. The boogeyman, the Antifa boogeyman.

557
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Speaker 6: The old people buy in hook line and sinker and

558
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Speaker 6: they love it, and they're afraid and they're changing the

559
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Speaker 6: way they think because of that. The young people are

560
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Speaker 6: too smart for that shit, and they don't they they're

561
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Speaker 6: not as deep in as some of these other folks

562
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Speaker 6: who are in it to win it. And so I

563
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Speaker 6: see those moments I have I have optimism. We're like, oh,

564
00:24:01,920 --> 00:24:05,919
Speaker 6: these kids, these kids are easily swaying, but are not

565
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Speaker 6: But are not I haven't been watching the show for

566
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Speaker 6: twenty years. Like like the old folks were making some

567
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Speaker 6: of these decisions, this younger generation is just tuning in.

568
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Speaker 6: They're not buying some of these these boogeymen that the

569
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Speaker 6: Trump administration is putting out, and there's there is a

570
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Speaker 6: space to have conversation with those folks about things that

571
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Speaker 6: they care about. Maybe we see that in the midterms,

572
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Speaker 6: maybe we see that in the next year, but not

573
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Speaker 6: everybody's completely all in on that Trump train.

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Speaker 1: So that's a that's a great point.

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Speaker 2: What's scarier to union people who believe these wild conspiracy

576
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Speaker 2: theories that are people who knowingly.

577
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Speaker 6: Weaponize with the people who knowingly weaponize, though, I think

578
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Speaker 6: it's the people who wield it. I think that's where

579
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Speaker 6: there's like no moral core where you know, you it's

580
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Speaker 6: one thing to be afraid of stuff and then out

581
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Speaker 6: of self preservation, which hey, that's that's how most of

582
00:24:50,600 --> 00:24:52,359
Speaker 6: us move through life. What is the next thing I

583
00:24:52,400 --> 00:24:54,840
Speaker 6: need to do to pay my rent, to have health

584
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Speaker 6: insurance for my kids, to to keep food on the table.

585
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Speaker 6: What do I need to do? Are a way I

586
00:25:00,600 --> 00:25:02,920
Speaker 6: can believe the things I need to believe to sustain that.

587
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Speaker 6: I get that, I empathize with that. That makes you human.

588
00:25:06,720 --> 00:25:09,080
Speaker 6: It's the people who know better. Those are the folks

589
00:25:09,119 --> 00:25:13,199
Speaker 6: that are real scary here. And I wish our elected

590
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Speaker 6: officials would stand up and be the people who know better.

591
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Speaker 6: But you know, I've been around long enough not to

592
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Speaker 6: have that faith in those institutions anymore. Yeah, hope, you

593
00:25:24,280 --> 00:25:26,280
Speaker 6: hope a little bit some of that that morality we

594
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Speaker 6: always talked about in schools and the Declaration Independence talks about.

595
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Speaker 6: You hope that sort of makes its way back into

596
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Speaker 6: political discourse again. Yeah, that's a pretty good one, I

597
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Speaker 6: gotta tell you. And hearing all this religious talk on

598
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Speaker 6: the right too, it's like, Yeah, there's a lot of

599
00:25:39,640 --> 00:25:43,240
Speaker 6: good ideals there that you wish we believed in, and

600
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Speaker 6: I think a lot of people do. There's just more

601
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Speaker 6: focus on putting food on the table to actually engage

602
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Speaker 6: in that larger conversation.

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Speaker 1: So do you think Donald Trump should get an know

604
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Speaker 1: about these.

605
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Speaker 5: Price give that man?

606
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Speaker 6: A prize one hundred percent, not just any prize, Okay,

607
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Speaker 6: fair enough, No, I do not. I think he's deserving

608
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Speaker 6: of the Nobel Peace Prize. What we were what we

609
00:26:02,720 --> 00:26:05,119
Speaker 6: did discover though we went to Norway and talked to

610
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Speaker 6: somebody who's on the Nobel Peace Prize committee. You don't

611
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Speaker 6: have to be perfect to win a Nobel Peace Prize.

612
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Speaker 6: And in sometimes they've given peace prizes two people as

613
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Speaker 6: somewhat of a carrot to get to something good. I

614
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Speaker 6: think what's curious about Donald Trump is that man wants

615
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Speaker 6: a peace prize more than anybody else, and if he

616
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Speaker 6: can find peace on this planet in some way to

617
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Speaker 6: work towards it, like dangle that carrot like a big

618
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Speaker 6: mac in front of Donald Trump so that he chases

619
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Speaker 6: it in some sort of way. Like I I have

620
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Speaker 6: no problem using the Peace Prize as a political tool

621
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Speaker 6: to try to do good in the world. So maybe

622
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Speaker 6: if that, if that made him made him save some

623
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Speaker 6: lives anywhere, stop bombing boats off the coast of Venezuela

624
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Speaker 6: and give them in the Peace Prize.

625
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Speaker 7: That's gonna be the one piece that makes the lean

626
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Speaker 7: in and listen to you.

627
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Speaker 1: There you go, so no, you don't want.

628
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Speaker 5: That, You said, shoot, you're right, complicated him.

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Speaker 2: Jordan Klepper of The Daily Show said, Trump deserves there.

630
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Speaker 5: You go use it, use it.

631
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Speaker 3: You know, I need to get him chasing a big

632
00:27:01,800 --> 00:27:03,600
Speaker 3: man a long naked bike ride.

633
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Speaker 7: This was the revelation.

634
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Speaker 4: So what do you want people to get out of

635
00:27:06,359 --> 00:27:07,760
Speaker 4: this special that comes out next Monday?

636
00:27:08,160 --> 00:27:11,280
Speaker 6: Get out of the special man. That piece is hard,

637
00:27:12,320 --> 00:27:14,080
Speaker 6: but you don't need to be perfect to achieve it.

638
00:27:14,480 --> 00:27:18,520
Speaker 6: And then America in twenty twenty five looks like naked

639
00:27:18,560 --> 00:27:22,360
Speaker 6: people riding for a cause being shot by Ice agents.

640
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Speaker 6: It smells like soup, man, it smells like soup, cheap soup.

641
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Speaker 1: So what gives you hope about America? Right now?

642
00:27:31,119 --> 00:27:32,560
Speaker 5: You want me to find hope in all of this.

643
00:27:33,040 --> 00:27:35,600
Speaker 6: You know what what gives me hope about America is

644
00:27:35,600 --> 00:27:38,160
Speaker 6: a naked guy protesting out front of an ICE facility,

645
00:27:38,320 --> 00:27:40,120
Speaker 6: like you're wondering if people have tuned out.

646
00:27:40,520 --> 00:27:41,000
Speaker 5: Apathy.

647
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Speaker 6: That's what That's what the right, that's what the far

648
00:27:43,440 --> 00:27:45,760
Speaker 6: right wants. They want apathy. They don't want you to

649
00:27:45,840 --> 00:27:49,040
Speaker 6: care if you show up with your balls out, your

650
00:27:49,119 --> 00:27:52,520
Speaker 6: tits out in a rainy Portland day to like go

651
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Speaker 6: outside of an ice facility and be like, I don't

652
00:27:55,160 --> 00:27:56,919
Speaker 6: want them to use my image to be painted as

653
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Speaker 6: a bad guy, so much so that I'm willing to

654
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Speaker 6: be naked in front of all these folks to look

655
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Speaker 6: like a fool because I think what's happening inside is inhumane.

656
00:28:04,359 --> 00:28:05,840
Speaker 6: Like that that is helpful to me.

657
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Speaker 1: Let you not say literally, Jordan Clip.

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Speaker 3: Ladies and gentlemen, definitely check out the special and next

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Speaker 3: Monday on Comedy Central, and thank you for joining us.

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Speaker 1: Thanks did he make you laugh? Floren?

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Speaker 7: He did?

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Speaker 1: Okay?

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Speaker 6: Yes?

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Speaker 4: The Breakfast Club, good morning, Wake that ass up in

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Speaker 4: the morning.

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Speaker 1: The Breakfast Club