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Wicked Radio 5-13: Pope Jokes And Trump Cracks - World Leaders Use Humor Now And We Should, Too! · Wicked Radio with Bill Adams

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Speaker 1: You might have noticed something about the news cycle yesterday. Boy,
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Speaker 1: I sure did, because it's kind of continued into this
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Speaker 1: morning and later on today. Our world leaders like the
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Speaker 1: most important people. Whether you like them or not, it
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Speaker 1: doesn't matter. They're world leaders. They're funny now, or at
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Speaker 1: least they try to be funny. And it's a great
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Speaker 1: takeaway because it opens up the door for everybody. And
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Speaker 1: this proof positive here because the most viral thing that
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Speaker 1: Trump said yesterday, out of all the important things, that
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Speaker 1: all the announcements and doctor Oz was there and the
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Speaker 1: head of the FDA and everybody, the one takeaway was
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Speaker 1: his fat joke. It's just the way it is. We
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Speaker 1: didn't write the rules. We gotta use humor too. A
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Speaker 1: lesson in that, I'm telling you, all right. Also, the
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Speaker 1: Pope is cracking some jokes. There's a feel good story
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Speaker 1: about the last American hostage who had been alive freed
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Speaker 1: and his mom's reaction just today was boy as a parent.
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Speaker 1: If that doesn't bring tears to your eyes, we'll talk
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Speaker 1: about that as well. And another story to talk about,
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Speaker 1: so who says that we're against legal immigrants to our
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Speaker 1: country and asylum seekers, but this particular group from South Africa. Boy,
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Speaker 1: the media hates this. Oh they were in a tizzy
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Speaker 1: about this one. They hate it. We get it to
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Speaker 1: all of that stuff in more. But there's that field
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Speaker 1: good story in there too. Thanks for finding me. Welcome
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Speaker 1: to Tuesday Wicked Radio livestream. All part of Wicked Wisdom
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Speaker 1: with Me Bill Adams. All the channels, YouTube, Facebook, the
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Speaker 1: audio podcast always posted there. And don't forget a lot
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Speaker 1: of you found that interview I did with doctor Steven
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Speaker 1: Sideroff about turning your stress into a superpower, little extended intry.
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Speaker 1: It's about twenty five minutes long. It's on all those
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Speaker 1: channels as well. Check it out. Guy's got some great stuff.
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Speaker 1: But let's get to the stuff. So this press conference
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Speaker 1: yesterday supposed to be nine nine thirty, rolls around getting
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Speaker 1: close to ten o'clock. They're always late all the time, right,
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Speaker 1: So never account on a White House press conference to
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Speaker 1: mean anything. But there was an amazing takeaway on this.
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Speaker 1: So in the middle of of Trump's rambling, He's going
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Speaker 1: on and on, I had it, you know, onto the
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Speaker 1: background while I'm doing some other stuff, and I'm like,
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Speaker 1: all right, he's gotta he's got to get to this
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Speaker 1: he's rambling a little bit. He's you know, he's talking
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Speaker 1: about the big and big major announcements. I mean, he
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Speaker 1: talked about the trade deal with China. He was talking
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Speaker 1: about the prescription drug prices being reduced for Americans, the
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Speaker 1: freed American hostage, who will get to her in a second,
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Speaker 1: all important stuff. But he's kind of rambling, he's going
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Speaker 1: off script until one thing broke the background noise and
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Speaker 1: got everybody's inclinging my maybe yours to attention. And I
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Speaker 1: turned around away, looked at the TV, and I actually laughed.
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Speaker 1: And this is the moment that went viral. Trump's made
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Speaker 1: a fat Joe at a friend, not himself or you know,
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Speaker 1: American citizens, just at a friend and he said, this president,
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Speaker 1: he calls me.
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Speaker 2: He used to call me Donald.
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Speaker 1: Now he calls me President.
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Speaker 2: So that's nice respect. But it's a rough guy, smart guy,
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Speaker 2: very successfully, very rich.
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Speaker 1: I wouldn't even know how we would know this, but
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Speaker 1: because he's got comments the president. Could I ask you
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Speaker 1: a question. What I'm in London and I just paid
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Speaker 1: for this damn fat drug I take. I said, it's
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Speaker 1: not working, he said, because now he's not talking about
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Speaker 1: the drug itself. He just said for his quote unquote
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Speaker 1: fat friend. Yeah, well for you, it's not working. He
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Speaker 1: made a fat joke. It probably his biggest, honestly, his
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Speaker 1: biggest press conference from either of his administrations so far.
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Speaker 1: Now prove positive why humor is so effective with world
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Speaker 1: leaders and why I think the game has changed. He's
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Speaker 1: a big part in changing it. But he's not the
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Speaker 1: only one. Out of all the important stuff, ask yourself.
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Speaker 1: Out of all the important stuff in the announcement, doctor
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Speaker 1: Oz was there at the head of the FDA. Everybody
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Speaker 1: talking about the trade deal with China, prescription drug prices,
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Speaker 1: the freed American hostage, an announcement about this new air
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Speaker 1: force one, all of this stuff, what's the thing? What's
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Speaker 1: the clip that what the most viral, has the most searches,
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Speaker 1: it has the most views, And the one thing out
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Speaker 1: of that entire what was an hour press conference, the
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Speaker 1: entire thing, what do people remember? Because it's everywhere you
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Speaker 1: guessed it, the fat joke. That's what works because that's
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Speaker 1: what cuts through the white noise throughout all of it.
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Speaker 1: And he understands that, and he gets that, and he
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Speaker 1: gets them some extra play, and it's a great takeaway
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Speaker 1: for everybody. All of us. If you're in charge of
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Speaker 1: anybody at any capacity. You own a small business, you're
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Speaker 1: a manager, you're any kind of a leader. You're just
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Speaker 1: a leader of your your family, household. Humor always works.
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Speaker 1: But he's not the only one there, not the only
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Speaker 1: world leader that's understood this. The pope's making jokes. Now, okay,
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Speaker 1: they're not a fat joke, thank god, and it's not
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Speaker 1: exactly worthy of opening up, uh, you know, open mic
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Speaker 1: night at a comedy club or anything. But still he's
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Speaker 1: using humor. And I gotta tell you, I didn't see
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Speaker 1: this live. I wouldn't even know where to find it.
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Speaker 1: But this, this is another clip that went viral. Apparently
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Speaker 1: there's some kind of papal thing where you present to
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Speaker 1: the world journalists and they're all there, and he sits
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Speaker 1: there and he, you know, does a prayer with them,
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Speaker 1: and he can it's the it's a well, it's a
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Speaker 1: it's a pope news conference, is what it is. And
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Speaker 1: the entire world media is there. So Pope Leo, our
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Speaker 1: new pope, the American Pope, is there. And I gotta
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Speaker 1: tell you, I'm still this is still wild to me
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Speaker 1: to hear a pope speak in English in an American accent,
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Speaker 1: in any sort of media event. It's still wild to me.
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Speaker 1: It's it's pretty cool. But for some background in this thing.
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Speaker 1: When Pope Francis did his last time, his very first one,
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Speaker 1: he did it in silence. He prayed in silence because
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Speaker 1: apparently he said a lot of you aren't Catholic, and
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Speaker 1: I don't want to offend your boundaries or something like this.
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Speaker 1: This guy took a completely different approach. He opened it
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Speaker 1: up with a joke. Okay, his version of a joke.
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Speaker 2: Thank you for this wonderful reception. They say when they
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Speaker 2: clap at the beginning, it doesn't matter much if you're
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Speaker 2: still awake at the end and you still want to applaud,
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Speaker 2: thank you very much.
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Speaker 1: Okay. I know, I know it's not exactly going to
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Speaker 1: put him on Comedy Central, I understand that. But as
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Speaker 1: far as popes go, for him to attend to attempt
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Speaker 1: a little one liner there, it's pretty good, right, And
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Speaker 1: it got a lot of attention. Again, just like the
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Speaker 1: Trump thing of this whatever the hell you call it,
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Speaker 1: the papal press conference, whatever it is, I don't know
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Speaker 1: what that thing is called. But of all of this,
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Speaker 1: the one thing that people took away from it. Isn't
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Speaker 1: him praying for the journalists, isn't him praying for anybody?
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Speaker 1: Isn't him talking about world issues? It was the joke
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Speaker 1: he made at the beginning. Humor works, So that's the
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Speaker 1: takeaway for all of us. Is it ever appropriate if
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Speaker 1: you're a boss or a leader of any kind to
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Speaker 1: use humor in the workplace? Not only is it appropriate,
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Speaker 1: it's required now Now, I don't think I do any
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Speaker 1: fat jokes with your people like Trump. Did you know,
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Speaker 1: read the room and everything. Humor does a couple of
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Speaker 1: different things. It personalizes you sure makes you more accessible.
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Speaker 1: It also does this people understand I think inherently that
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Speaker 1: you've got to be smart and you have to be
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Speaker 1: confident to have a sense of humor. And people know that.
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Speaker 1: So when you're able to kind of open yourself up
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Speaker 1: and allow yourself to be funny every once in a while,
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Speaker 1: it goes a long way towards credibility. Now you would
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Speaker 1: think it's the opposite, right, You would think with the
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Speaker 1: old school management style where it's like you're always here
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Speaker 1: this all the time and yelling it, so you never
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Speaker 1: joke around unless it's like a real digging kind of
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Speaker 1: joke that doesn't work every once in a while, making
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Speaker 1: every once in a while, not too much, making fun
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Speaker 1: of yourself, not other people, not your people, but laughing
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Speaker 1: at a certain situation, lightening the mood. Humor always works,
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Speaker 1: and everybody has humor in them. I took a professional
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Speaker 1: speaking course one time years ago, and somebody in the
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Speaker 1: class and they were making this very same point, when
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Speaker 1: somebody in the class goes, yes, but Tom, do we
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Speaker 1: have to be funny to be a professional speaker? And
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Speaker 1: this structure goes only if you want to make money?
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Speaker 1: Just does it? Just it just works? Yes, So that's
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Speaker 1: our that's my wicked wisdom tip of the day. Use
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Speaker 1: humor because the game has changed. Now. Look if the
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Speaker 1: Pope and the President are cracking jokes, or at least
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Speaker 1: trying to, it's not Not only is it a tip,
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Speaker 1: it's required. Now. All right, let's get onto this. Here's
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Speaker 1: you feel good story of the day, Idon Alexander. This
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Speaker 1: is also part of Trump's press conference. He announced he
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Speaker 1: was going to be freed, and shortly after that he
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Speaker 1: did reunited with his mom. Is a little loud, but
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Speaker 1: it's a screech of joy, So that makes it a
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Speaker 1: little difference. This is when Adan's mom reunited with her son,
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Speaker 1: who had been held by Hamas for over over five
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Speaker 1: hundred days. Got it done. And you know what else
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Speaker 1: got it done, got him home without giving up an
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Speaker 1: arms dealer, a terrorist, you know, any kind of leverage
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Speaker 1: with us got him home. I don't care how you
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Speaker 1: feel about the war, the Agaza situation, Palestine, Israel, whatever,
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Speaker 1: Let's be thankful that an American is home. And if
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Speaker 1: you don't hear that mom's reaction, in his family's reaction,
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Speaker 1: and it doesn't tug at your heartstrings, I don't know
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Speaker 1: what to tell you. And also this, you know what
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Speaker 1: else goes a long way. Maybe the only thing that
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Speaker 1: goes further than humor is gratitude. Did you see the picture?
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Speaker 1: And I only saw this this morning of Idan was
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Speaker 1: on the plane, the military plane, and he was coming
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Speaker 1: back to the States and he had on a whiteboard.
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Speaker 1: I guess he was writing a bunch of messages. One
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Speaker 1: of them was and he held it up and he said,
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Speaker 1: thank you, President Trump. I would do I don't care
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Speaker 1: even if it was like, even if it was Biden,
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Speaker 1: you know, if he freed me from Hamas, I'd shout
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Speaker 1: it from the rooftops. Thank you, Biden, Thank you everybody,
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Speaker 1: anybody that got me home safe and sound. I'd be
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Speaker 1: thanking him. That goes a long way, and it's just
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Speaker 1: good to see, and it's nice to see that somebody
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Speaker 1: had the guts and the balls to actually thank the
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Speaker 1: current president. Oh despite despite maybe what his friends, his
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Speaker 1: college age friends think at home or whatever. Who the
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Speaker 1: hell cares. Somebody saves your life in that direction, and
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Speaker 1: this was Sorry if this offends you, this was from
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Speaker 1: a lot of pressure from this administration to get that
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Speaker 1: kid home. And he's home, so thank you. A lot
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Speaker 1: of gratitude is own there absolutely, speaking of gratitude, how
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Speaker 1: about this, Well, this is a different kind of scene.
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Speaker 1: And there's another reason why I say you can't despise
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Speaker 1: traditional corporate media enough and how they're spinning things in line.
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Speaker 1: Look at the reaction now right, speaking of gratitude of
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Speaker 1: the latest set of asylum seekers that came to our
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Speaker 1: country yesterday, do you see any of this South African
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Speaker 1: farmers were granted asylum or their asylum was kept here
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Speaker 1: because they're systematically being slaughtered and targeted in South Africa,
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Speaker 1: the result of apartheid going away and then them. I mean,
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Speaker 1: it's happening. And a neighbor who was one of these
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Speaker 1: people who years ago, about fifteen years ago, had escaped
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Speaker 1: the situation. Has He told me directly one day, We're
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Speaker 1: in the sideyard doing long work and he said, they're
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Speaker 1: from South Africa. I had just struck up a conversation.
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Speaker 1: I said, what brought you here? He said, we didn't
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Speaker 1: want to be killed. Okay, tell me more. He goes
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Speaker 1: systematically because they're white South African, mostly farmers in rural
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Speaker 1: communities being targeted. This is why the administration granted them asylum.
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Speaker 1: So yesterday a whole bunch of them were given citizenship,
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Speaker 1: given given asylum or on the way to citizenship anyway.
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Speaker 1: And they were there in the processing center in DC
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Speaker 1: whatever the hell it is. Did you see the difference?
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Speaker 1: Did you see what they look like? Now the media
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Speaker 1: has focused on the fact that the well they're all white.
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Speaker 1: More on that in a minute. Forget about color, forget
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Speaker 1: about race, forget about background. Just look at some of
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Speaker 1: the video in the still shots of these people who
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Speaker 1: are the newest Americans and what they are holding up
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Speaker 1: American flags. Sure they were handed to them, I get it.
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Speaker 1: Whatever holding up American flags, thank you signs, and what
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Speaker 1: were they saw A lot of kids, saw a lot
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Speaker 1: of families, saw a lot of women. Huh, that's different.
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Speaker 1: That's a different kind of situation. And they were all
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Speaker 1: happy and grateful and thankful. You think those are going
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Speaker 1: to be patriotic Americans. Yeah, I'm pretty sure. I think so.
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Speaker 1: Oh but don't let that. Don't let that stop MSNBC
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Speaker 1: from calling this one of the most horrific things to
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Speaker 1: ever happen. I mean, truly, really this was MSNB I
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Speaker 1: promise you I didn't watch this life, but this is
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Speaker 1: the clip of MSNBC covering the story of the South
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Speaker 1: Africans give an asylum as they as they arrived in America,
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Speaker 1: thankful with their families. You ready, this is unbelievable.
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Speaker 3: Virtually halted refugee admission in America for people fleeing war
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Speaker 3: and famine in places like Sudan and the Democratic Republic
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Speaker 3: of Congo. Back with brick mark.
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Speaker 1: And heading the students, listen to this.
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Speaker 4: Yes, so deeply and morally wrongheaded and repulsive. These are
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Speaker 4: the descendants of the people who created the most diabolical
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Speaker 4: system of white supremacy in human history.
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Speaker 1: There's the there's the MSNBC. First of all, they toss
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Speaker 1: it back to him in the studio and he's oh,
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Speaker 1: and they're shaking their heads in there. They're all down trodden,
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Speaker 1: the most diabolical. And how about the point there at
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Speaker 1: the end, these are the descendants, These are the descendants
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Speaker 1: of one of the most diabolical racist things in history.
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Speaker 1: They can't they won't ever let go of that issue.
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Speaker 1: They won't ever not see race. This is where it
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Speaker 1: all comes from the media outlets like them. I can't
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Speaker 1: you can't hate MSNBC, CNN, these disgusting propaganda networks enough
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Speaker 1: because of examples just like that. They didn't look at it.
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Speaker 1: They didn't look at the situation with their families. Right,
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Speaker 1: it's all in the beginning and the lead in there
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Speaker 1: when she was doing the field report before she threw
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Speaker 1: it to the studio, she's making the point that the
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Speaker 1: Trump administry is halted, has halted immigration from all the
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Speaker 1: other countries. Never once in that whole segment did they
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Speaker 1: point out the difference. Yeah, here's the thing. When Biden
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Speaker 1: opened the border, those people mostly were looking for a
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Speaker 1: better economic life. They weren't systematically from all different countries.
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Speaker 1: They weren't systematically targeted because of their color and their race.
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Speaker 1: These South African folks with their families yesterday, they are,
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Speaker 1: trust me, they are. But you didn't hear that at MSNBC.
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Speaker 1: They didn't bother to bring that up at all. No, no,
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Speaker 1: not whatsoever. And they also didn't bring this up. What
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Speaker 1: with the difference. Remember all the video four straight years,
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Speaker 1: four and a half straight years, what we saw of
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Speaker 1: the wide open southern border of people coming across when
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Speaker 1: the thing that struck me the most was wow. I
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Speaker 1: at the beginning it was different, but very quickly it
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Speaker 1: turned into this. I don't see a lot of families
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Speaker 1: seeking asylum. I see mostly young, fighting age males. And
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Speaker 1: here's the other kicker. You know what I saw for
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Speaker 1: years on end in the previous administration. You know what
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Speaker 1: I saw personally? Maybe you noticed it too, carrying the
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Speaker 1: flags of the countries that they came from. Hmm, well,
15:11
Speaker 1: let's compare that to them, the South African farmer folks
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Speaker 1: with their families yesterday who were granted asylum in the
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Speaker 1: United States, carrying American flags that they were handed I
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Speaker 1: get it, But carrying American flags and thank you signs
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Speaker 1: and smiling. Let's compare, who do you think is going
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Speaker 1: to be the more patriotic American And we'll fight to
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Speaker 1: the death for this country because they were given light.
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Speaker 1: Literally it saved their lives. But MSNBC didn't care about that.
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Speaker 1: They just focused on the way. Oh, this is what
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Speaker 1: they call it a diabolical Oh, diabolical moves in American history. Oh,
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Speaker 1: it's just awful because it doesn't fit their narrative. That's
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Speaker 1: why don't ever listen to media outlets like that. Gratitude
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Speaker 1: goes a long long way, and the people who come
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Speaker 1: to this country are the most grateful. And there are
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Speaker 1: a lot of people like that from South America, Mexico
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Speaker 1: and even Canada, even Europe whatever, who are incredibly grateful,
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Speaker 1: for sure, and the South American being but we all
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Speaker 1: know there's plenty of people who have come to this
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Speaker 1: country that have no interest whatsoever in assimilating. They have
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Speaker 1: no interest whatsoever in being grateful, they have no interest
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Speaker 1: whatsoever in carrying the American flag. That these folks did,
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Speaker 1: none of them did. But that doesn't fit the media narrative,
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Speaker 1: all right, But don't let that stop you from the
16:21
Speaker 1: good news. Just wanted to point that out because that
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Speaker 1: is good news, and so is the freed American hostage.
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Speaker 1: That's a grateful kid too, no doubt about that. But
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Speaker 1: the takeaway game has changed. World leaders cracking jokes now,
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Speaker 1: or at least they're trying to. And it does have
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Speaker 1: a trickle down effect. This means corporate leaders, media leaders,
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Speaker 1: people in your office, people in your family. It's okay
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Speaker 1: to at least try to be funny now. It's not
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Speaker 1: only effective, it's not only suggested. I think it's a
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Speaker 1: prerequisite now. You bet it be funny these days, or
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Speaker 1: at least try to be. If the Pope is cracking jokes,
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Speaker 1: we should too, all right, Thanks for finding it Welcome
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