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Hello, I'm Johnny Mack with your daily Come News. Can
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I tell you President Trump is right? Stephen Colbert should
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be taking off television and never allowed on television again.
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Now what is making you say this, Johnny Mack? Is
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this some sort of political stance? No, Stephen Colbert has
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signed up with the new Star Trek series Starfleet Academy.
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Have you seen this trailer? Complete garbage? Why do comedians
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insist on destroying Star Trek? I'm looking at you, Tig Nataro,
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I'm looking at you. Patton Oswald has dug the Vulcan
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and now Stephen Colbert has sold out to Alex Kurtzman
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and this horrible, horrible, horrible crap that they call Star Trek.
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I love my Star Trek. You've heard me rant about this, Steven,
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What are you doing to me? Why did you do this?
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Stephen Colbert will voice Starfleet Academy's digital Dean of students.
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According to the press release, He'll begin having daily announcements
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to the students and alerting them of anything that needs
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their immediate attention. President Trump, get this guy off TV now,
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thank you for your attention. Let me just before I
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tell you this next story. Let me do a quick
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google of Bill Burr. We got to talk about Bill
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Burr again. Okay, it is twelve fifty on Monday. I've
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been looking for updates on this story. But before I
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took the weekend off there I saw fans had said
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that Bill Burr had canceled a plan to tape an
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episode of the Monday Morning Podcast that would have been
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taped in front of a live audience on Saturday. Burr
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was supposed to tape a live episode of Monday Morning
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Podcast at the Gordina Cinema in Los Angeles. I was
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in Los Angeles this week and I could have gone.
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So the venue had posted the cancelation for about forty
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five minutes. Then, as I understand things, they took it down.
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The speculation is that they caught some negative comments about
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mister Burr, so they were just like, ah, let's have it.
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But fans and the Bill Burr subreddit noticed it. One
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fin asked why postpone the show? Bill? Another said, but
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I thought Billy blood Money said it was bots. How
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can they come to a show if they're bots? Now,
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I just looked when I said, let me google Bill
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Burr at twelve fifty on Monday, there was no episode
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of the Monday Podcast. So first of all, I hope
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Bill is okay and everything's okay with his family and
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he's healthy. We can disagree on ideas. We don't wish
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anything negative on anyone except Stephen Colbert, who should be
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taken off television immediately for signing up with the Star
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Trek people. So hopefully all is okay with the Burrs,
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but just interesting that he canceled the taping and there's
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no episode on Monday. Omid Jee Lily wrote a piece
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for The Guardian. Omid writes, after fifteen years of turning
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down offers to perform stand up comedy in Saudi Arabia
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do to the country's human rights record, this time it
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took the gig. Why there's a push for change in
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Saudi and signs are discernible, yet many from the outside
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world would rather comedians in the West state away skipping ahead.
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I am no stranger to cancel culture. I was canceled
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after nine to eleven simply for being Middle Eastern, as
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Arab terrorists were behind the attack on the Twin Towers.
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This is despite the fact that I am not Arab
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nor am I, contrary to popular opinion, a terrorist. In
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certain circles there have been caused to boycott my UK
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tword Manamastay, a show in which I try to explore
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their nuances of the complex geopolitical landscape of the Middle East.
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After explaining the restrictions on performing in Saudi were exactly
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the same as in Dubai, basically no jokes about the
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royal family, no disrespecting Islam and no humiliation of the government,
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a concern friend texted me, I think you're at risk
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of invalidting You're right to make jokes about anything important.
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My show in Riod had a lot of material about
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the Saudis themselves. The perception that we as comedians were
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all being paid to be silent was as laughable as
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the idea that Dave Chappelle, a hugely successful comic with
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an estimated worth of seventy million dollars, was doing his
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show and Riod for the money skimming ahead julily writes
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the comedy guide Shortal erroneously reported that the pay was
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between three seventy five and one point six million for
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those doing solo shows. One thing East and West can
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agree on is you don't talk about your fee publicly
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because it is likely to cause consternation among the other performers,
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most of whom rereceived a significantly smaller amount than the
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American podcaster was purportedly set to receive. I assume that
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means Tim Dillon, which is where the three seventy five
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number comes from. Again, skipping ahead here, Julily writes, if
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I had an inkling that changes similar to those emerging
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in Saudi Arabia right now where are happening inside Iran?
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And a comedy festival were taking place in Tehran and
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pigs were flying. He adds, I can assure you I
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would be on the first pig over long piece here
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in the Guardian. Let me just wrap up here where
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he rates. And the gigs were great, packed houses, young crowds, popcorn, standing, ovations,
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even heckling. About eighty percent of the audiences were locals,
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many of whom had never seen a live comedy gig.
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Whitney Cummings on her podcast said, by the way, any
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comic that has ever worked with live nation, which is
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all of them, has taken Saudi money. But keep up
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with your little rants when you get a second Google
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Saudi Arabia Live Nations, so you can be informed on
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the fact that anyone who has worked with Live Nation,
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every stand up comic has taken Saudi money or bought
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a ticket through Live Nation, went to a Live Nation event.
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All the actors who were represented by William Morris Agency,
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which is all of them if you want to send
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them notes too. All right, let's google Saudi Arabia Live Nation.
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I had this. I'm doing this real in real time.
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I haven't done this before. The first thing that comes
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up is from Music Business Worldwide, which as Saudi Wealth
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Fund exits Live Nation steak. The second story, also from
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twenty twenty four, Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund sells Live
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Nation steak, and scrolling down from April twenty twenty, Forbes
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reported Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund buys five hundred million
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dollars steak. Her point may be valid between twenty twenty
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and twenty twenty four, but it doesn't seem to be
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presently valid or a valid prior to it. And I'll
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remind you there was a pandemic in twenty twenty, so
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I don't know how many comedy tickets you bought in
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twenty twenty or twenty twenty one. You may not be
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as guilty as Whitney Cummings says. She said, though I'm
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trying to help you sound less racist. She then discussed
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napple babies. People whose dads have points on huge television
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shows are like, I have a backup plan, a huge
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trust fund. You're a sellout for making money, And then
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I have a major, major problem with this next thing.
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She said. The same people who were like, if they
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found out a Fox journalist was murdered, they would truly
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throw a party. That is not cool, Whitney, that is
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not true that you're a jerk hole for saying that.
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I really don't think any comedian would be like, oh cool,
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a Fox journalist was murdered. That's just terrible. Also, the
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same people who are like, if they found out a
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Fox journalist was murdered, they would truly throw a party.
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How dare you? John Marcos Serresi spoke to Current Affairs
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dot org and said, the numbers that I've heard floid
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at the top were like one point six million, and
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I would imagine easily that if not more. I don't
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think George Carlin would have ever performed at the REDD
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Comedy Festival, but he was also never asked. These comedians
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used to not enter the sphere of influence, and now
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because of podcasting, the fact that comedians were kind of
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on the front end of that and social media has
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allowed our voices to expand their new questions. What are we?
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What is our role in America, let alone globally. It's complicated.
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I performed in places whose governments I did in align with. However,
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I do think you can make distinctions, and the distinction
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should be made at the gouvern is funding this a
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government that you know has this history of human rights abuses.
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It's easy for me to stand hi because I wasn't
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invited to Riod Trump didn't ask to go on my podcast,
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neither did Kamalaw. But I think we need to re
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establish what our expectation is. If a comedian like Theo
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Vaughn is going to go on his podcast and cried
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tears over Palestinian suffering and then two weeks later have
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JD vance on and joke about how he's going to
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go hang out at his poolhouse. I hope that we
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cultivate an audience that goes, Hey, THEO, what the F
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that's bs, I don't buy this. I hope that the
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stinkedestri Odd Comedy Festival is great enough that some comedians
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are forced to confront where they stand and what the
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responsibility is to themselves and to their audiences. Hopefully we
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can move on from this subject. I didn't want to
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talk about it today, but there were all those stories
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I just told you about what should have been the
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lead is. Mark Maron wrapped up his podcast his final
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guest on Monday, former President Obama. Maren was asked why
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Obama for the final guest. Mark Maren said, the first
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time was an important turning point, certainly for me personally.
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For sitting president to come to my little garage at
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my house was a big deal, and I think it
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was a big game changing episode for podcasting in general
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in terms of the attention it brought to the medium.
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I was happy to see him again and talk about
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the current administration and the world we're living in now,
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but also, you know, to honor my show. The Times
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was curious any conditions for the interview. No, neither time.
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There were no conditions, no vetting of questions, and no
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request for a pre edit. Mark anythink it went last time?
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There was a morticaid, a secret service in many staff involved,
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and he was still disarming and grounded and present. This
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time it was more casual, just me and him in
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his office, so I know it would be even better,
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and that turned out to be true. He was very
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aware that he was our last guest and the last
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episode meant something to me, and culturally, I guess at
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some point in September and October, this podcast or reached
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a point where I just can't avoid the politics of
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it all. So jump in the pool here. Obama said,
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if you decide not to vote, that's a consequence. Let
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me start right there. Please vote whoever you vote for.
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Whoever you vote for, that's up to you. But please vote.
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Obama said, if you decide not to vote, that's a consequence.
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If you're a Hispanic man and you're frustrated inflation, and
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so he decided, you know what, all that rhetoric about
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Trump doesn't matter. I'm just mad about inflation. And now
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your sons are being stopped in LA because they look
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at Latino and maybe without the ability to call anybody
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might just be locked up. Well, that's a test. It'd
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be great if we weren't tested. This way, but you
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know what, we probably need to be shaken out of
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our complacency. Maren used the line he used in a
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special We've annoyed the average American into fascism. Obama responded,
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you just can't be a scold all the time. You
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can't constantly lecture people without acknowledging that you've got some
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blind spots too. And life's messy. I listened to about
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a third of it this morning. I was founded very compelling.
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I just had to get to work and didn't have
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time and to listen to more of it. But that's it.
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That's a rap. And at the end of the program,
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he thanked a few people and said that his Thursday
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show was actually the goodbye episode. But that's a wrap
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on Mark Maren for now. Anyway. I have not yet
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seen Saturday Night Live, but the Department of Homeland Security
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did any cold open. Amy Poehler reunited with Tina Fay
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to play Attorney General Pam Bom and Secretary of Homeland
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Security Christy Noam. Tina Faye's character said, I'm here to
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tell you this Democrat government shutdown needs to end now.
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By the way, you know what, I don't care I'm
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telling you this because this blew my mind. So I
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was out in California on the weekend and there was
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a National forest and I wanted to check it out,
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and I wanted to know, like, do I have to
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pay it and get in the forest. This is for real.
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You can look at this right now. This is on
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the US Forest Service web page. This is the phrasing. Again,
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what if your politics your politics, But here's the phrasing
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on a government website, the radical left Democrats shut down
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the government. This government website will be updated periodically during
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the funding lapse from mission critical functions. President Trump has
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made it clear he wants to keep the government open
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and support those who feed fuel and clothed the American people.
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I mean, just at a government website has the phrase
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the radical left Democrats. And now maybe you think the
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Democrats are the radical left. Maybe you do, maybe you don't.
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It's not why we're here. My point is, I can't
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believe we're using language like that. I digress. In a
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statement shared with Edgyentertainment Weekly, DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said,
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SNL's absolutely right, the Democrats shutdown does need to end gossip.
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Conna Spoons in the Street, Gossip Connor, Bobby Bobby Gossip Conna,
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where the meeting with Johnny mag It's only the Trees.
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On Gossip Corner. Pittsburgh Pirates Paul Skeens and girlfriend Libby
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Dunn were at LSU attending the football game. They were
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seen hanging out with famous comedian Theo Vaughn Levy. Dunn