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Jimmy Failla, WOR weeknight host Interview · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: We're now joined by Jimmy Fallon, WOR host from Nine
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  Speaker 1: to Midnight and Fox Across America with Jimmy Fallon and
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  Speaker 1: host of the Fox News Saturday Night Show with Jimmy
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  Speaker 1: Fallon on the Fox News channel. I was thinking about
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  Speaker 1: you over the last couple of days because I felt
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  Speaker 1: really bad for Katie Zachariah, who got the press secretary's job.
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  Speaker 1: And it was almost like a setup. She flew in
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  Speaker 1: from L.A. She got off the plane and she was
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  Speaker 1: basically put at the podium. with not much of a briefing.
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  Speaker 1: But now the job's open, and I'm thinking, you know,
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  Speaker 1: Jimmy Fallon, I've seen pictures of him at the podium before.
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  Speaker 1: If you were the press secretary, would you start with
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  Speaker 1: a set?
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  Speaker 2: I think it would lower the temperature. But if I
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  Speaker 2: wanted to make the room laugh, I wouldn't write material.
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  Speaker 2: I would just read them my background check. Once they
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  Speaker 2: saw the results, like, wait, you did what when you
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  Speaker 2: were 22?
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  Speaker 3: You once drove a man to wear in a taxi? Well,
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  Speaker 3: this is great.
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  Speaker 2: Think how much heat it would take off the president
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  Speaker 2: if I opened by saying that I've met a time.
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  Speaker 3: Traveler from another solar system.
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  Speaker 4: You know, it definitely takes the edge off him, doesn't it?
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  Speaker 5: So do you have any suggestions since she actually beat
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  Speaker 5: the record set by Scaramucci, that's Skifosa. What was he,
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  Speaker 5: 12 days? She was, what, five days? Obviously better looking
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  Speaker 5: than him. Do you have any suggestions?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Well, first of all, she beat the record that was
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  Speaker 4: set by the Goldfish.
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  Speaker 2: I won at the Carnival at Island Trees, Long Island
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  Speaker 2: in 1991. That thing at least gave us 48 hours
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  Speaker 2: before they told me that story about how it swam
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  Speaker 2: away to go see his family.
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  Speaker 3: I heard the toilet flush in the other room.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, man.
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  Speaker 3: Golding missed his family. He's going for a swim flush anyway.
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  Speaker 5: No wonder why you've been traumatized. There's no doubt about it.
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  Speaker 5: That was it.
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  Speaker 3: That was the defining moment.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I will say this. They need, like, you
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  Speaker 2: need a public speaker. Being on TV enough is not alone. Because, like,
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  Speaker 2: as you can tell, poor Katie, she's used to being
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  Speaker 2: one of four panelists, which is not the same thing
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  Speaker 2: as leading every journalist on Earth knowing they hate you.
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  Speaker 2: You know, that's not a friendly gig. If you're the
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  Speaker 2: Trump press secretary, you know every question is, you literally
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  Speaker 2: work for Hitler.
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  Speaker 3: What's going on with the tariffs? And you're like, wait, what?
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  Speaker 4: Where do I even start with that, you know?
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  Speaker 2: So... You need somebody who actually has live experience. That's why,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, a comic is not a bad choice in theory,
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  Speaker 2: but they're going to have to get someone who is, like,
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  Speaker 2: more of a public speaker. You know, somebody who goes
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  Speaker 2: on the road a lot. Like, if you wanted a
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  Speaker 2: serious recommendation, Kurt... I think it should be somebody who
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  Speaker 2: kind of ran for office and isn't doing a lot
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  Speaker 2: right now.
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  Speaker 4: Can we think of anybody like that?
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  Speaker 3: I mean like– I don't mean like locally. I mean
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  Speaker 3: like nationally. Like I was thinking of like Tudor Dixon.
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  Speaker 3: Do you know Tudor Dixon?
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  Speaker 2: I do.
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  Speaker 4: I do.
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  Speaker 2: She ran for Senate in Michigan, and she was one
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  Speaker 2: of the old-fashioned women.
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  Speaker 3: She didn't have a penis. She didn't hate Israel.
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  Speaker 4: You know, so she doesn't fit in in modern Michigan politics,
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  Speaker 4: but she.
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  Speaker 2: Has a good command, and I think she would do it.
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  Speaker 2: But I don't think she's listed in the odds.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think so.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm so sorry I asked that question.
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  Speaker 3: I really am. That's the first time.
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  Speaker 1: I've ever said that.
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  Speaker 5: So let's get to the field that you are an
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  Speaker 5: expert in comedy. Two of the greatest of all time,
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  Speaker 5: Seinfeld and Larry David. couldn't be any more different as
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  Speaker 5: they have now plunged themselves into the political realm. With Seinfeld,
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  Speaker 5: he's up front, he's IDF, he supports Zionism, he goes,
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  Speaker 5: I'm a Zionist, and he's still touring. So he's on
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  Speaker 5: that stage in Chicago, and right away, pro-Palestinian folks have
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  Speaker 5: paid the tab to get in, and they start giving
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  Speaker 5: him grief.
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  Speaker 3: Seinfeld!
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  Speaker 2: Seinfeld! Listen to me! You're a racist!
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  Speaker 5: There are 74,000 dead Palestinians! So now, how would you
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  Speaker 5: deal with that if all of a sudden you're doing
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  Speaker 5: your stand-up?
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  Speaker 3: Packed location, like 4,000 people. Yeah, make that funny.
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  Speaker 2: Well, first of all, the guy sounds like Larry David.
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  Speaker 2: It kind of sounds like a sketch and curb your enthusiasm.
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  Speaker 3: But what I love.
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  Speaker 2: About these situations is like it's such like a misappropriation
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  Speaker 2: of protest because nobody at a Jerry Seinfeld show makes
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  Speaker 2: Middle East policy.
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  Speaker 3: They don't make it for Israel.
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  Speaker 2: They don't make it for America. They're just there to
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  Speaker 2: buy the two drink minimum, watch the show and laugh.
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  Speaker 2: So it just seems like the wrong thing to do.
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  Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying?
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  Speaker 2: Like, you know, you wouldn't show up, you know, to
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  Speaker 2: my kids flag football game this weekend and protest climate change,
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  Speaker 2: would you?
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  Speaker 3: Because nobody there, you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 1: Is in it.
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  Speaker 4: You know, it's again, it's like the no king thing.
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  Speaker 2: We don't have kings. So it's like them protesting no
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  Speaker 2: abs on The View. It's like you've already accomplished what
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  Speaker 2: you're there for.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, listen, as someone that tours the country and plays
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  Speaker 1: some big arenas, I am always impressed by Donald Trump.
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  Speaker 1: Forget the poll numbers for one minute. Just as a performance,
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  Speaker 1: I have never seen a politician so quick in the
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  Speaker 1: moment and so comfortable on the stage as he talks
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  Speaker 1: to arenas.
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: He's a crowd work comedian. The difference being like Seinfeld
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  Speaker 2: is a material comedian.
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  Speaker 3: He has an act.
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  Speaker 2: He has an hour and 20 minutes that he's written,
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  Speaker 2: and it's really well polished.
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  Speaker 3: And he's, for the.
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  Speaker 2: Most part, going to stick to the script unless a
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  Speaker 2: free Palestine guy heckles him as you played. Trump, on
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  Speaker 2: the other hand, shows up with no script, meaning there's
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  Speaker 2: a teleprompter. But as you know, the teleprompter is just
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  Speaker 2: a suggestion. And he's very comfortable going off script. Look
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  Speaker 2: at this guy in the front row. My friend over
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  Speaker 2: there is fat. You know, he's more of a Rickles.
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  Speaker 2: Does that make sense?
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  Speaker 1: He is.
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  Speaker 3: You know, we elected Don Trump, as I always say,
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  Speaker 3: and we got Don Rickles. That's what he is.
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  Speaker 5: Well, don't you remember the roast when they roasted Donald
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  Speaker 5: Trump at the old Friars Club? It was Don Rickles.
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  Speaker 5: You know, hey, you hockey puck. He roasted not only Trump,
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  Speaker 5: but everybody that was on the dais.
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  Speaker 4: Yep.
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  Speaker 3: That's how it works. I mean, that's the thing about
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  Speaker 3: going with Trump rally.
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  Speaker 2: Is like you're all in the splash zone. You have
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  Speaker 2: no idea where the thing is going to go. So
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  Speaker 2: it's weird because the things they do at a Trump
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  Speaker 2: rally that are predictable are I always say to people
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  Speaker 2: because I've covered a lot of them. It's like the
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  Speaker 2: new Rocky Horror Picture Show in that you'll hear people
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  Speaker 2: in the crowd go, hey, we can't go to the bathroom.
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  Speaker 3: They're about to do lock her up. You know what
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  Speaker 3: I mean?
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  Speaker 2: And they're like, we'll go during drain the swamp and
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  Speaker 2: we'll come back for build a wall at the end.
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  Speaker 3: Let's go.
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  Speaker 2: Come on.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, Bill Maher is getting a lot of blowback from
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  Speaker 1: people like Larry David and other comedians for going and
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  Speaker 1: meeting Donald Trump now twice. He's had two dinners at
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  Speaker 1: the White House. And I think he's been brilliant in saying, look,
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  Speaker 1: I still rip the guy all the time, but I'm
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  Speaker 1: not going to turn down an invitation to meet the
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  Speaker 1: president of the United States. How do you feel about it?
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  Speaker 1: How do you feel about the meetings?
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  Speaker 2: Well, he's being one of the adults in the room
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  Speaker 2: because What they're doing is they're not legitimizing this pretend
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  Speaker 2: hysteria that Trump is like a Hitler or an existential
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  Speaker 2: threat or living in this unprecedented moment.
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  Speaker 3: None of that is true.
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  Speaker 2: And when you refuse to meet with Trump, when you
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  Speaker 2: refuse to show the humanity of the other side of
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  Speaker 2: a political position.
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  Speaker 3: You further this manufactured hysteria.
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  Speaker 2: Like, there are a lot of people that believe we're
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  Speaker 2: living in this perilous moment where Trump's, you know, going
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  Speaker 2: to wipe out the Republican.
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  Speaker 3: None of that's true.
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  Speaker 4: Again, I always make the same point.
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  Speaker 2: NBC employed this man for 15 years as the host
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  Speaker 2: of Celebrity Apprentice, okay? So imagine when an NBC anchor
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  Speaker 2: gets on TV at least one time a day and calls.
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  Speaker 3: Him literally Hitler. They are literally paying him royalties. You know,
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  Speaker 3: and you can't separate that. That is the truth.
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  Speaker 2: That is the truth, which means everything else that comes
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  Speaker 2: after it is pretend. So what Bill Maher is doing
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  Speaker 2: is he's forcing the conversation back to reality.
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  Speaker 3: So I actually applaud that. I'm glad he does that.
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  Speaker 5: I always say, Jimmy, when you were vice president in advance,
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  Speaker 5: you called him Hitler. You became the vice president years later.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, there is there is an ability to get
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  Speaker 5: beyond that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, he doesn't care.
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  Speaker 2: As he famously says, he's like, if I refuse to
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  Speaker 2: work with everybody who's ever taken a shot at me,
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  Speaker 2: I'd be alone in the White House right now. And
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  Speaker 2: it's true, because everybody has taken a shot. And it
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  Speaker 2: depends on your entree into the conversation. Like when Vance
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  Speaker 2: got started in politics, Trump had just come down the escalator,
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  Speaker 2: and every op-ed in the media was Trump is Hitler.
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  Speaker 2: Louis C.K.
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  Speaker 3: Wrote one. Do you remember that? Louis C.K.
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  Speaker 2: Wrote that he is literally Hitler. And I don't mind,
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  Speaker 2: you know, Louis C.K., nice enough guy. He's touring again,
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  Speaker 2: although you have to wear a poncho if you're in
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  Speaker 2: the front row. Because, you know, sometimes there's a splash
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  Speaker 2: zone with Louie. But the point is, he was swept
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  Speaker 2: up by the same dopey zeitgeist as everybody else.
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  Speaker 5: Well, I'll tell you what. Tell you what, Jimmy. I'm
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  Speaker 5: the Sandman at the Apollo. I'm coming out and giving
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  Speaker 5: you the hook. Every night, 9 to 12, Monday through Friday,
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  Speaker 5: you go to sleep with Jimmy Failure. You'll wake up
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  Speaker 5: with Larry and Curtis at 6 in the morning at
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  Speaker 5: 710 WR. Thank you, Jimmy.
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  Speaker 3: You're the best. See you guys. November 5th.