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Kalaroga Shark Media busy one today and there is a
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pretty large Stephen Colbert interview in GQ. I will cover
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that tomorrow because it's election day. And hello, I am
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Johnny Mack with your daily comedy news. Please vote today.
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I don't care who you vote for. You gotta vote
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or I'm gonna yell at you tomorrow if you didn't vote,
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So go vote. Hit stop on them. Why are you
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even listening to me unless you're on your way to vote?
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Go vote. As a big New York City mayoral election today,
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Harry Condobolu told nola dot com he doesn't think there's
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much of a Condobolu bump, but Harry Condobolu has made
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an endorsement in the New York City mayor's race. He
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is supporting Zoran Mumdanni. You may be familiar with Mumdanni
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from such things as Rama Yusef playing him on Saturday
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Night Live. We'll get into that. He's a young dude,
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a progressive, making a lot of noise, and will probably
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be in New York City's next mayor. Now, if you
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don't like mister Mumdanni, go vote and vote for one
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of the other candidates see how this works, and then
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if you don't vote, you don't get to be mad
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about it. Harry Condobolo said, I've known Zoran since he
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was like eighteen years old. He went to my alma
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mater vote in college in Maine, and his mom asked
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me if i'd tell him what the school was like
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before he went. During his four years, we kept in touch,
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and we kept in touch after that. I did a
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fundraiser for him when he was running for assemblymen. I've
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known for a while this kid was special, but I'll
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be honest, I didn't think he'd be mayor now. Harry's
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gotten involved with New York area politics before. He has
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told a story about AOC reaching out to him. In
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twenty seventeen, she sent the ever so serious Harry condoboulu
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who a direct message on Twitter. This was before she
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was famous. She shared that she was running a grassroots
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progressive campaign to represent Ports of Queens and the Bronx
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and would Harry collaborate with her. He wrote back, I'm
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pretty busy right now. When he get back to me
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next year. He also called her Alexis in the message. Oops,
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she won, and he said on the night she won.
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He direct messaged her back, you did it. I knew
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you'd win. Harry says, when candidates reach out now, I'm
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likely to say yes when they're asking me to do it.
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Did you watch SNL? It was a pretty good episode,
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by far the best of the season. It opened up
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with a mock New York City mayoral debate. Miles Taylor
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played former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo. Romy Yusef was
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Zoe ram Mandani. He joked, happy to be here, and
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I'm ready to spend the next hour hearing my opponents
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pronounce my name in ways you couldn't begin to imagine.
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I'm probably getting it wrong. And then, shockingly to me,
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and people don't seem to be making a big deal
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of this, I think this is a big, big deal.
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Shane Gillis played Curtis Sliwa. You know, the Guardian Angel
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guy with the red beret. If you're from New York City,
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you're like, yeah, John, we know. But maybe if you're
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in an other part of the country, you don't know
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this guy. Back in the eighties, when New York City
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was basically hell, the Guardian Angels were like guys that
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would ride the subway wearing red berets and would stick
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up for you if bad guys were trying to do things.
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So Curtis, like to New Yorkers, has been known forever.
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I met him once when Bob Grant's time WOR Radio ended,
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Curtis came by to help Bob Grant move boxes. This
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is the only time I met Curtis Leiba on that
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particular day. He was cool, But I digress. Shane Gillis
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on SNL like it's nothing. You may recall he was
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on the cast and then not on the cast. That's
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the thing that happened. So I don't understand why the
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world was like, oh yeah, Shane Gillis was on SNL,
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like that's a big deal. Also a big deal. Now
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here's the opening sketch. We've got Keenan Thompson as the moderator,
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and just Keenan proves Saturday Night he is the glue.
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I know, we all know this, but he's so good
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at everything, steady, reliable, keeps the trains on time. So
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he's the moderator. And then we have in the three
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shiny spots the guest toast okay, that's fine, and two
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people that aren't on SNL, and I'm sure somebody could
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do a Curtis Sliwa. It's not like Shane Gillis nailed
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the Curtis Sliwa impression, So the whole thing is weird
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to me. Laurene Michaels, do you not trust your cast
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because you're not using them? Towards the end of the sketch,
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j Sames Austin Johnson came out doing his increasingly drifting
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Donald Trump impression. He actually addressed his Trump impression with
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The Hollywood Reporter recently and said the Sands shift he
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used to be not as terrifying when he had moderate
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people around him who were trying to stop him. Now
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they're all gone, and his enemies are powerless and paralyzed
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to stop any of it, which all comes across as
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super dark. How do you find what's funny within that?
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James said, I'm just trying to find new things happening
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with his speech and his brain and definitely the darkness,
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which is not easy with a guy who's been dominating
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every single day for almost ten years. He says, the
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subtlety is where the secret to his impression lies. He
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explains Hamlet is not saying I'm gonna kill myself because
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I suck. He says he's thinking about rivers and bones
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and ghosts. Amid all the soliloquies, you pick up on
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an undercurrent of really complex moral struggle. I don't want
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to call what I'm doing Shakespeare, but I'm trying to
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find the deeper forms of Trump, Who's a rich text.
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People were upset with Colin Jost once again. Colin told
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a joke about the President and wife Milania walking out
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to the White House's Halloween festivities playing the song Thriller.
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Joe said, my favorite part is when Trump and Millennia
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made a grand entrance to the song Michael Jackson's Thriller
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just the perfect soundtrack to lore kids to a famous mansion.
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Some wonder if that's a joke joke. Others wonder if
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that's some sort of Epstein commentary. I didn't write the joke,
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ask SNL Like I said. Good episode. Miles Teller was
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really good. The Property Brothers sketch was really good, and
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James Austin Johnson as Donald Trump was really good. In
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case you missed it, Miles Teller played both Jonathan and
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Drew Scott. The Property Brothers stars of the HGTV show
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Property Brothers. In the sketch, they were helping Donald Trump
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build his new White House ballroom. There was also a
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very funny NHL sketch based upon that there are three
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teams in the NHL. One is the Rangers, one is
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the Kings, and the other is Predators, and a lot
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of the humor came from Predators. I don't want to
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spoil it too much, but that's the setup and you
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should watch the sketch. They're all online. I set them
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out to my family on Sunday night when I finally
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caught up with the episode between Football and More Football,
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and I thought it was a pretty good episode. ALRP said, up,
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Michael Jay. Now this wasn't on SNL. This was on
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Instagram and Chay was commenting on snap benefits, which you
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may know as food stamps. Chay wrote, this, Snap Freeze
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is really fed up and I keep seeing a lot
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of racist videos celebrating mostly black families not being able
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to buy groceries. There's this weird idea that's in some
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people have taken advantage of welfare benefits in the hood.
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Nobody should receive help at all. Jay continued this country's
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built on greedy mf ors, taking shortcuts and gaming of
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the system to their benefit. But for some reason, when
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poor people find a way to turn nickel into a dime,
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they're judged more severely, especially blacks. I know the whole
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hustle is to hate each other here, so we can
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fight in the comments and upburn engagements, but let's draw
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the line to feeding the poor. I grew up on
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free cheese and powdered milk and waiting for your friends
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to leave the store so they won't see me pay
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with stamps. That's not as glamorous as it sounds, I promise. Yes,
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we are very political today it is election day, and
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I put all the politics things in today's show, and
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then tomorrow no politics. So that's why I moved the
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Colbert thing to tomorrow. Now, as you listen to the show, May,
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I could understand if you were, like, you know, John,
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sometimes I don't think you're down with President Trump. Well,
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I have newsview. Sometimes President Trump and I are quite aligned.
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For example, President Trump posted on social media about Late
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Night with Seth Myers. Why does NBC waste its time
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and money on a guy like this? I agree? Why
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does that show exist. Who's it for? Who's watching it?
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It has about seven more viewers than I have listeners.
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I don't know what this is for. So if you're
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like Johnya never backed Trump on anything, I'm backing him
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up on this. Trump declared that Seth Myers may be
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the worst to perform live or otherwise. Again, sometimes the
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President and I are aligned, sometimes we're not, the President continued,
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I watched the show the other night for the first
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time in years. In it, he talked endlessly about electric
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catabults on aircraft carriers, which I complained about is not
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being as good as much less expensive steam catapults on
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an Anyway, it truly deranged, lunatic. I don't think Seth
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Myers is deranged, and I'm not an expert on aircraft
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carrier catapults, so I'm not able to comment on that.
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The President continued, Why does NBC waste its time money?
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And I like this no talent, no ratings, one hundred
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percent anti Trump, which is probably illegal. I'm not a lawyer.
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I'm just a guy in the basement with a podcast.
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I don't think it is illegal at all to be
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anti Trump. Radar online sourcing Rob Shutter, who has a
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sub stack. They're suggesting friends of Jimmy Kimmel would like
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Jimmy Kimmel to run for president. That would be all
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sorts of interesting politics aside, just as somebody who hosts
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a podcast in their basement about comedians please do now.
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I am familiar with Radar Online because when I'm not
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doing this, I write for the Palace Intrigue podcast, and
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I find that Radar Online tends to be more gossipy
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than some other websites Anyway. Supposedly, insiders say that Hollywood
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elites see Jimmy Kimmel as a fearless contender for the
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twenty twenty eight presidency. A source says they're pitching him
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as smart, funny, fearless, but it's a tiny bubble casting
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this role, not thinking about real voters. Another insider said
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of Jimmy Kimmel, he's starting to believe maybe they're right,
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But to real Americans, Jimmy Kimmel and the White House
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sounds more like a late night punchline than a serious plan.
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It is election day. Did I mention that why are
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you still listening to me when you should be voting?
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And then you know you could be like, yes, we
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need more of this or less of this, and you
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could do something about it. Do not sit home today.
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I will scold you. Recently, John Stewart did that live
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conference with David Remnick from The New Yorker. They shared
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a full transcript. Remnick asked John Stewart, why do you
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think Trump won? Stewart said, because of the dissatisfaction of
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an analog system. In a digital world, the distance between
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how you feel about the world and the actual world
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has never been larger. We're victims of the circadium rhythms
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of social media, and social media is incentivized to what
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not to connect us. I've seen the Facebook commercial, and yes,
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it's true, if you do like a certain kind of cat,
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there'll be other people who like that certain kind of cat,
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and you will connect with one another. But the purpose
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of social media to keep you on his platform. That's it.
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That's all these companies care about. They want you on
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that platform. They want you there as long as they
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can possibly have you. And the way they've rigged our
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brains to figure out is that outrage and anger and
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hate and hostility are much stronger drivers of engagement than
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anything else. On the flip side of that, won't answer here.
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By jud Stewart, we have a political system designed as
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an analog. What is the Senate? It's the cooling saucer
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of democracy. And what's Twitter? That's the thing that makes
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you want to rip people's eyes out. You put those
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together and it's not a good mix. And so Trump
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was able to harness the anger and catastrophizing of that
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as a way of taking over the other things that
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we have. Remnick asked, and he didn't find Biden and
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Harris a good remedy for that. John laughed and said,
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I thought they were great. Stuart said, Look what's going
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on with Zorain Maundani. You finally got a guy in
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New York City who's getting people to vote in the
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affirmative for his positions, which is inspiring people and giving
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a certain amount of leadership. And what is the general
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status call the Democratic Party do with that? That guy's
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a communist like the party goes along with the characterture
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of this man. Look, we're in a bad situation. It's
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not just the crappiness of Trump. It's the passivity of
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the Democratic Party to stick with a status quo that
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most people felt were not working. It was a Legenday,
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did you vote yet? We are political today, Yes, we are.
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Stavros Halkias with Vulture. They were recapping the episode of
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Stave's World with guest Caleb Hearin. That was the one
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where Stavey said he was shocked and disappointed that Joe
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Rogan endorsed Donald Trump. Alkias said, what surprised me about
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Joe in particular is I do think we align on
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a lot. I don't think he's a far right guy.
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It was just shocking because he's an avatar for a