Joe Rogan and Katt Williams: menthol cigarettes, transgender people, and UFOs

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hi, I'm
Johnny Mack and I'm stupid. I came

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downstairs to record three days worth the
podcast without a drink, and I had

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a handful of peanut m and ms
before I started, So my throat's already

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closing up. That was dumb.
Joe Rogan had Kat Williams on the Media

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picked up on a bunch of things
I have pulled the clips. Topic number

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one, Joe Rogan asked, why
do black people like menthol cigarettes so much?

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Let's listen, Like, in California
they made flavored vapes illegal. Can

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you imagine? Yeah, Strawberry missed
is our number one? That was fine,

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but they let it also hurt black
people in that it counted menthol as

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a flavor and hurt Newport. So
you can't sell menthol cigarettes in California,

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right, they have their own cigarettes. Well, have non mentho on Newports.

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It's terrible. Why do black people
like menthol so much? About it's

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a totally different type of cigarette.
You're gonna get me canceled. Oh,

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this is very racist. This is
conversation, even even though neither of us

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are just talking about just saying why
do black people like Newport so much and

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a black and a black person actually
getting ready to answer this. It's terrible

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on all ends. I don't think
it is. Well, I don't think

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it is either, because we have
a news. It's like if you started

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asking me about spaghetti, I'm not
going to get offended you started asking me

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about Italian food or why why are
Italian people so loud? I'm not going

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not gonna get how many people have
ever died of pasta related? A lot,

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a lot of fatos out there kicking
the bucket. Bro, that's not

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because of pasta over abundance of carbohydrates. They were going to be fat wherever

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they live there. Maybe that's delicious
story food. They couldn't stop it.

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People are addicted to food like they're
addicted to anything. If there's a thing

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that I could ever be addicted to, it's that, right. That's all

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of us though, all of us, And what a blessing. Yeah,

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we have so much starving people are
addicted to anything, and they don't have

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food related illnesses exactly. But back
to where we were, Yeah, right,

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they ment all cigarettes. Oh that's
right, and the answer is we

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value strength in product. So there's
this whole thing with liquor and malt liquor,

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and the difference between the two and
one is richer and stronger, the

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more potent version, right, and
as a people, we tend to go

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with those products. Topic number two. Kat Williams explains that twenty years ago

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he knew that transgenders was gonna be
a thing. Let's listen. Everybody's like,

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oh, he keeps talking about people
wearing dresses. No, it's weird.

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It's not like that. Look at
it from a different way. Look

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at it. Show me one person
that ever wore a dress in Hollywood unsuccessfully.

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That's how you understand what the ritual
is. So twenty years ago I

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knew that transgenders was gonna be a
thing. It wasn't because I was a

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prophet. It's just I had gotten
so much information that I understood the path.

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Things are secular. It's topic number
three. UFOs especially, he tells

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your story and then you have independent
people who also used to work for the

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government now becoming whistleblowers and saying there's
a crashed retrieval program. Crashed UFO retrieval

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program. It goes back to what
I'm saying, Joe, these are this

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is how you say this without getting
canceled. Look, you do think they're

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doing something, don't you doing something? We want to believe like nobody's doing

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nothing. Like no, no,
we're doing stuff like they're doing something.

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So there's three hours of that.
I haven't gone through all of it yet.

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The transgender stuff is interesting. Tomorrow
I'm gonna play some clips from Jim

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Norton, who was on Neil Brennan's
Blocks podcast, a fantastic interview, and

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we'll see another way to discuss that
topic intelligently. Richard Lewis's wife tweeted using

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Richard's account, saying, Hi,
this is Joyce, Richard's wife, thank

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you for your loving tributes. He
would be beyond thrilled and so touched as

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am I. In response to the
many queries, I know Richard would appreciate

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donations in his memory to the Los
Angeles based charity Comedy Gives Back dot Com.

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Mark Marin shared his twenty eleven interview
with Richard Lewis. I started talking

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about eighties Letterman, which is like
one of my favorite things ever. Eighties

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Letterman and Star Trek are probably my
two favorite things. I learned a lot

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of valuable lessons to in these shows
once early in the eighties, it was

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I did more Lettermans than almost anybody. And I actually the panel guest.

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You were the guy that I was
like, I always look forward to you.

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Sitting down sound to me was a
respectable thing. Well, and Letterman

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was the guy who told me you'll
never do stand up on my show.

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You're much better on panel. You're
too physical, right, and you engage

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too. You know, he can
move you along. And because of him,

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it's set a precedent for me back
in eighty two, and I never

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even without a series, I said, no, Lewis doesn't do stand up

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if you want me to just sit
down, squirms in his seat, right,

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And that's because of Dave. That
was a great thing. But two

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things. Let Himan. Let Himan
really gave me my first real break.

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Yeah, and because I was on
like every six weeks for years, and

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you know, I had endless amounts
of materials, so that wasn't a problem.

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And the thing is, once I
was talking about Hawaii and I said

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to the woman during the how he
could ask me, I understand, you

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won't know why, I said.
The whole thing is so fraudulent to me,

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right, it just sounds fake and
a fun clip here where Richard Lewis

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was I think getting ready to be
on Carson and turned to Roddy Dangerfield and

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got a little nervous. Interesting stuff
there had had a feel of Roddy Hey,

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uh yeah, yeah, it's attitude. So yeah, I said,

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Rodney, I feel I can't.
I had. I just wanted to go

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home and hear the tape and time
it. It's all I can for Carson.

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Yeah, I mean that Carson because
David Brenna want to something when I

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was twenty three, says for one
five minute spot on Carson is like doing

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the improv every night full house three
shows a night for like he had an

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old figured out like eighteen years he
had the math done. Yeah, he

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had to hear he was in maniac
like, so I eighteen years, is

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it's right? Ricky Gervais is interested
in maybe perhaps possibly playing Herbie the Robot

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in the Fantastic Four movie. Remember
Herbie the Robot. When we were kids,

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there was a Fantastic four cartoon and
there you had Mister Fantastic, Sue

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Storm, the Invisible Girl, the
Thing, and Herbie the Robot. Where

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was the human Torch? There was
an urban legend that they were worried kids

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were going to sell themselves on fire. I've seen another version of that where

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there was something with the copyright.
There had been a fifties or forties version

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of the Human Torch comic book.
People. You can let me know,

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so that might have been the reason. Anyway, So you had the Fantastic

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Three and Herbie the robot. Ricky
Gervais interested in voicing Herbie if asked.

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The Internet people have also suggested Bill
Hayter, all right, that'd be a

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right Matt Berry done done in Matt
Berry, anything is awesome. I don't

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think he sounds like Herbie though,
but then again, does Ricky Gervas sound

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like Herbie? I don't know.
I don't remember what Herbie sounds like.

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Somebody else suggested tignets are, which
is of course a terrible idea, more

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terrible ideas. Bob Newhart and mel
Brooks, they're wonderful. They're both in

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their nineties. Cheryl Hines is on
Watch What Happens Live and was asked about

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Robert F. Kennedy Junior's reaction to
Larry David, saying that Larry does not

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support rfk's a presidential campaign, Cheryl
said, you know what's so funny about

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that, We actually had dinner with
Larry David that night and said it wasn't

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awkward. Weirdly, it wasn't.
Those two have been friends for so long,

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and I think when Larry said it, I think he was being Larry,

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like, oh, I support him, but I don't support him.

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And I think Larry and Bobby were
like, okay, and I'm just like,

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past the asparagus. This is a
weird night, but okay. My

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former coworker, Jamie Fox, may
be returning the stand up as on a

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side here. You'll notice I often
refer to Jamie as my coworker, and

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then I'll refer to other people that
I worked with it serious as my friends,

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like I would consider Larry the Cable
guy to be a friend. I

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always found Jamie to be nothing but
awesome, but like I didn't really know

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him well. He's usually behind three
velvet ropes and as an entourage and people

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around him, but it was always
a cool guy. He posted a video

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from one of his past stand up
specials on Instagram showing himself doing an impression

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of Prince. In the caption,
he shared that he plans to return a

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performing comedy, that'd be awesome.
Adam Sandler has been performing something that some

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people consider to be comedy. He's
been doing a residency in Glendale all week,

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tuning up for his new special,
The SFGate tells us, for most

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of the night, it seemed like
the theater was out to get Adam Sandler.

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I like this theater. First,
someone handed him the wrong coffee as

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he walked on stage. What's the
wrong coffee? Then the screens behind him,

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because of some incompatibility with his team's
gear in the venue, didn't work

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for almost all of his more than
ninety minute set, even though a lot

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of the show was supposed to have
a video component. Adam Sandler relying on

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video. Oh my goodness. When
leaning into a song, the keyboard fell.

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The PNIS said there's a hole in
the floor. I think there was

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just a really really cool ghost.
Sandler said, there's a hole in the

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floor. Can we get somebody out
here to fix this? At PA and

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then a second PA ran out to
prop the instrument back up. Sandler said,

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this doesn't feel like a comedy show. Johnny Mack said, you are

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right, Adam Sandler. Wait.
At one point, a dog ran out

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to the stage. But the Gate
tells us, despite Adam Sadler's obvious frustration

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with the technical details of the evening
and despite the fact that the early show

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came off more like a rehearsal for
the evening second set, when once again

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a rogue dog made it onto the
stage. Right now, I don't think

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it's such a rogue a dog.
The show is still great. Adam Saandler's

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side, the sf Gate says,
it's proved a theory that it's a great

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moment for stand up comedy in LA. All that time during the strikes gave

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comedians a lot of time to sit
at home and come up with new material.

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Now they're free to work again.
A listers are popping up in showcases

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all over the city. Two weeks
ago, I was at a showcase at

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the Comedy Store where Jeff Ross and
Andrey Santino were the biggest names on the

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roster. All of a sudden,
Ali Wong stepped on stage. Days later,

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an email popped up in my inbox. Adam Sandler would be performing two

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shows a night in Glendale for a
week. Anyway, awesome job, Ghosts.

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If you like what I do here, you can go to buy me

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a coffee. Dot com slash Daily
Comedy News and throw somebody in the tip

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chart and know what I'll do is
not get a nice coffee and not bring

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it to the studio when I'm planning
on recording three podcasts so that my voice

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can give out. Everybody is excited
that Matt Rife is gonna play Indiana.

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This from the Indiana Daily Student.
They quoted one of the college attendees who

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said, if Matt Rife's willing to
learn, then he should absolutely be welcome.

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But if he's not willing to learn
from what he said, then he

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has no business being on a campus
like Indiana University. We need to put

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our best foot forward, and that
starts by vetting who we invite onto our

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campus. Talked about this recently.
Comedians don't want to do college campuses anymore

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because of this stuff. Another student
said, if you're trying to cater to

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men by making a joke about domestic
violence, that's how you know you should

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not be in comedy. Indiana University
has the right to do whatever they want,

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but they need to also recognize they're
a host for so many different marginalized

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groups and that their students make up
those populations. Giving someone a platform that

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has said so many problematic things about
women and other groups as well, it's

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disheartening but not really surprising. A
different student, who is the member of

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the Ladies' Night Comedy group, said, I think real humor is humor that

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can make everybody laugh and not offend
a group of people. That's what makes

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a talented comedian, and Matt Rife
can't do that. Jimmy Kimmel is still

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thinking about what he might do if
he walks away from Jimmy kim alive.

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I don't think he'll walk away.
He's suddenly is what late fifties, mid

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fifties, he's fifty six. Come
on, what are you gonna do?

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Jimmy, sit home. You're not
gonna sit home. Do the show.

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You have the summers off already.
It's fine. Do a Carson deal.

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Tell ABC you'll do it three days
a week. Let somebody else host Mondays

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and you can take the summer off. That'll work, Yes, Sarah,

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Sarah will host Mondays in the summer
for you. She's been looking for a

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gig. There you go. I
just solved it. Everybody. Kimmel says,

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I don't know. What I'll do
might not be anything that anyone other

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than me's aware of. I have
a lot of hobbies. I love to

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cook, I love to draw.
I imagine myself learning to do sculptures.

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I know that when I die,
if I'm fortunate enough to die on my

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own terms, in my own bed, I'm gonna think, oh, I

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was neighbor to get to this,
so I was never able to get to

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that. I just know that about
myself. Feared us got into it with

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an airline. He was not happy
with airline indie Go. He went on

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Twitter and commented about a series of
recurrent flight delays he counted while traveling with

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indy Go. He questioned, when
did Indigo turn the board you on time,

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but keep you on the flight and
depart when you're supposed to land.

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Airline like fifth time in a row
this happened. Indigo has acknowledging inconvenience and

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responded to the tweet. They said, our inflight team also made the onboard

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announcement about the delay, rest assured
we're fully committed to enhancing our services.

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Thank you for your understanding and patience. And that's your comedy news for today.

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