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Trump _Bored_ with Iran War_ UFO Files Drop _ Hantavirus Boards Cruise Ship _ The Daily Show · Mic Drop Comedy

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  Speaker 1: I do think, just based on how everything comes full
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  Speaker 1: circle in this world we live in now, I wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: be surprised if aliens exist, but they were also on
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  Speaker 1: Epstein Island. It's all somehow interconnected.
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  Speaker 2: I think an advanced society would understand how the media
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  Speaker 2: landscape works. If you want to stay hidden, it's not
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  Speaker 2: that you hide behind the mountains or escape back to
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  Speaker 2: your planet.
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  Speaker 3: You just go to Epstein Island and trust.
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  Speaker 2: That the people in power will keep those files hidden
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  Speaker 2: and nobody will ever find out about you.
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  Speaker 1: Hello and welcome to The Precap, a daily show podcast
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  Speaker 1: where we sit down with this week's host to recap
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  Speaker 1: some of the latest news and preview what's coming up next.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Scott Herkman, a writer at the show, and I'm
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  Speaker 1: joined today by your host this week, Mr. Jordan Klepper.
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  Speaker 3: Hello everybody, happy to precap for you.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm very excited to be here.
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  Speaker 2: Scott, you've been here for a while.
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  Speaker 1: I've worked at the show almost 10 years. People don't
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  Speaker 1: know that by my face, usually.
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  Speaker 2: You look very young.
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  Speaker 1: They think I'm a PA.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you look like a PA.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: You have the air of somebody without authority or status.
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  Speaker 1: Exactly. That's how I look at myself every day when
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  Speaker 1: I walk into this building. But I was actually a
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  Speaker 1: PA when you started at The Daily Show, which was
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  Speaker 1: super exciting. I remember your first couple months there. Very vividly.
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  Speaker 1: I've always wanted to ask you this, and I never have,
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  Speaker 1: and now I finally have the courage to because I'm
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  Speaker 1: allowed to speak.
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  Speaker 3: Because there's cameras on us?
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  Speaker 1: Because there's cameras on us, yes.
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  Speaker 2: Because usually you won't talk to me when we run
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  Speaker 2: into each other in the hallways, and that's sort of
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  Speaker 2: by design, contractually.
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  Speaker 3: I believe.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you're too tall for me also. I'm scared. It
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  Speaker 1: is a height issue. My neck doesn't go that high.
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  Speaker 2: You can tell that you were brought on in the
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  Speaker 2: first John era because.
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  Speaker 1: Of your height. Yes, yes, Jewish and height. They're like,
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  Speaker 1: this person is perfect to be a VA at The
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  Speaker 1: Daily Show. But- My first year, when it was your
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  Speaker 1: first year also, I feel like every chat you did
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  Speaker 1: was you being mangled or physically harmed in insane ways.
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  Speaker 1: And as a PA, I didn't know what was going
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  Speaker 1: to be on the show. And it'd be like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: Jordan Kleber's coming down to the studio. And you would
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  Speaker 1: have like a waffle iron burn on your face or
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  Speaker 1: like green all over you. Did you feel like they
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  Speaker 1: were just trying to injure you?
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  Speaker 2: It's so interesting you bring that up because I think
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  Speaker 2: I blocked out most of that partially because... because it
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  Speaker 2: somehow affected who I am as a person, that they
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  Speaker 2: were just like, this is a piece of meat that
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  Speaker 2: we can make look ugly and strange, so let's do
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  Speaker 2: exactly that. And at the time, I believe, Jason Jones
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  Speaker 2: was like, I don't want to do these pieces.
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  Speaker 3: Give it to the new kid.
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  Speaker 2: I was so grateful, still am very grateful that I
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  Speaker 2: had the opportunity to be on the show, but I
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  Speaker 2: was sort of a blank canvas. Again, a blank canvas,
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  Speaker 2: I think, with the bare minimum amount of respect.
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  Speaker 3: So if the joke was.
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  Speaker 1: Waffle iron to the face.
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  Speaker 2: Let's paint this weird, gangly person, waffle iron the face,
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  Speaker 2: and then put them on camera. And that, I do think,
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  Speaker 2: is always a weapon of comedy, is a lack of
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  Speaker 2: conventional attractiveness.
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  Speaker 1: I think we're too harsh on yourself.
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  Speaker 2: I feel confident enough to say that, but my gangly
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  Speaker 2: weirdness was utilized by the great writers at the show.
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  Speaker 1: So in your head, it was, I already look weird
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  Speaker 1: at Please make me weirder so that it's funny.
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  Speaker 2: At some point, putting a waffle iron and a bunch
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  Speaker 2: of feathers on me. If I recall that bit, I
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  Speaker 2: have in mind, I think that was like a Home
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  Speaker 2: Alone reference of having to get maybe into the White
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  Speaker 2: House or something and being attacked by Home Alone weaponry
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  Speaker 2: and then doing a report. What the hell happened?
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  Speaker 4: Security is super tight here, John. I tried to enter
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  Speaker 4: through the North Portico, but the steps were mysteriously covered
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  Speaker 4: in ice. As I slipped, I grabbed onto a doorknob, which,
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  Speaker 4: to my surprise, was scaldingly hot. So I tried the
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  Speaker 4: back entrance, but when I opened the door, a bucket
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  Speaker 4: of glue fell on my head, causing me to stumble
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  Speaker 4: into a trip wire that activated a feather cannon.
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  Speaker 2: The iron mark on your face? Oh, just had some
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  Speaker 2: trouble ironing this morning.
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  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 2: Actually, this brings up another question now I have for you.
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  Speaker 2: Now as a writer on the show, going from intern
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  Speaker 2: to PA to writer on the show, one of the
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  Speaker 2: funniest writers we have. Oh, wow. We're done. I have
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  Speaker 2: a list in my office. You're number eight, for sure. Perfect.
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  Speaker 2: Number eight.
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  Speaker 1: That's still top nine.
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  Speaker 2: I wonder what number I was going to pick on.
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  Speaker 2: You thought eight. That's good. You'll take it. As a
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  Speaker 2: very funny writer on The Daily Show, you get to
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  Speaker 2: utilize the bodies of all the correspondents and hosts for
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  Speaker 2: comedic purposes.
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  Speaker 3: What do you see as your palette?
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  Speaker 2: Who is the most interesting to put in weird physical situations?
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  Speaker 1: You guys all do it tremendously. If I was ranking it,
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  Speaker 1: you're definitely in the top seven or eight. I'm not
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  Speaker 1: sure how many correspondents we have. But yeah, I think
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  Speaker 1: that's probably the most fun we have at the show
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  Speaker 1: when it's like, oh, we're going to put Jordan in
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  Speaker 1: something crazy today. I can think of at least three
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  Speaker 1: examples I've done with you. You were in a Superman
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  Speaker 1: costume once.
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  Speaker 3: That was a great one, yes.
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  Speaker 2: You were in.
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  Speaker 1: What were you, that denim bachelorette jacket?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, is that the one that had a, there was
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  Speaker 2: something on the back?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, in bedazzled denim, we do so many of these.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I think that was a Cash Patel reference to
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  Speaker 2: a super tight jacket. Yes, yes.
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  Speaker 1: So we put you in a girl's bachelorette jacket. And
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  Speaker 1: then I remember you wore a giant cowboy hat that said,
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  Speaker 1: I heart boobs. And that's got to be one of
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  Speaker 1: my favorite bits.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: Do you remember Joe Biden shared a MAGA hat with somebody?
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  Speaker 1: So we did the bit where you and Kosta are
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  Speaker 1: trading hats.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, that's right. I heart boobs.
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  Speaker 1: And you were like, oh, I'm going to trade you
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  Speaker 1: my favorite hat. I heart boobs cowboy hat.
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  Speaker 2: There's so many good hat bits. One of my favorite
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  Speaker 2: bits was with Hasan Minhaj back in the day where
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  Speaker 2: we were wearing team One Direction or No Direction. It
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  Speaker 2: was a joke about the band One Direction, but also
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  Speaker 2: about pigs who were stuck in chutes and were being
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  Speaker 2: led to slaughter and could only move in one direction.
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  Speaker 2: And then perhaps my favorite physical bit is i we
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  Speaker 2: i was on a did a piece in the virgin
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  Speaker 2: island where i was walking along the shore and the
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  Speaker 2: joke was that i was i kept buying uh local
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  Speaker 2: like novelty t-shirts like female body inspector what have you
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  Speaker 2: and it was the shirts kept changing as i walked
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  Speaker 2: along the shore and so they got more and more
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  Speaker 2: like offensive and touristy and by the end i was
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  Speaker 2: i was sporting shorts a visor and a shirt that
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  Speaker 2: just said tits on it a lot of boob jokes
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  Speaker 2: a lot of boob you realize yeah okay it's We
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  Speaker 2: love genitalia here, and we love body disfigurement. We use
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  Speaker 2: it to satirize the world that we're in.
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  Speaker 1: What an eloquent way to put, my feeling is, it's
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  Speaker 1: just funny.
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  Speaker 3: It is funny.
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  Speaker 2: Boobs and penises, they are still the baseline of what
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  Speaker 2: we do here.
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  Speaker 1: All right, we should probably talk about what's happening in
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  Speaker 1: the news this week. We are still in the middle
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  Speaker 1: of a war. Donald Trump has rejected Iran's latest offer.
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  Speaker 1: to end the war. And there's also an Atlantic article
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  Speaker 1: that says Donald Trump is reportedly bored with the war.
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  Speaker 2: Spoiler. Shocker.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, shocker of the year. Who would have thought Donald Trump,
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  Speaker 1: a man with laser focus, would get bored with something
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  Speaker 1: he's doing?
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  Speaker 2: He loves to see things through till the end. So
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  Speaker 2: this is really, it's really devastating to people who haven't
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  Speaker 2: been paying attention. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Now that it needs more strategy, he's just like, nah,
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  Speaker 1: too much work.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, interesting, but not at all surprising with this man.
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  Speaker 2: This is definitely the kind of guy that was like, ah,
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  Speaker 2: we were able to pluck a South American leader and
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  Speaker 2: steal him and bring him over here. And it seems
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  Speaker 2: like everybody forgot about that because, you know, news and
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  Speaker 2: everybody's a goldfish in a bowl. So what if we
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  Speaker 2: just do that over there in Iran? And now it
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  Speaker 2: seems to be a bit more complicated. He looks bored.
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  Speaker 2: If you read his true socials, if you hear him
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  Speaker 2: hop off a helicopter and talk. I was in D.C.
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  Speaker 3: This weekend.
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  Speaker 2: I did a show on Friday at the lovely Warner
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  Speaker 2: Theater and the wonderful people of D.C., were warm and kind.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you to lovely Washington, D.C. But I was staying
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  Speaker 2: right next to the White House and you could very
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  Speaker 2: much see that it is a construction project happening. You
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  Speaker 2: see this ballroom is being built. I was watching cement
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  Speaker 2: trucks go in and out of the White House, which
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  Speaker 2: to me articulated something that I don't think I had
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  Speaker 2: noticed until I really was right then and there is
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  Speaker 2: this man is living next to a construction project, which
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  Speaker 2: Donald Trump has for his entire life. But Just imagine
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  Speaker 2: having the role of President of the United States and
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  Speaker 2: understanding that you're going to make some of the most
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  Speaker 2: consequential decisions in anyone's lifetime. And there's been another article
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  Speaker 2: that came out recently that saw himself as one of
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  Speaker 2: the most important people who's ever lived. He sees himself
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  Speaker 2: as one of the most important and consequential people who's
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  Speaker 2: ever lived. And he chooses... to instead of create a
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  Speaker 2: space where he can be alone with his own thoughts
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  Speaker 2: and perhaps think through things, he chooses to create a
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  Speaker 2: space that is nothing but jackhammers.
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  Speaker 1: It's like white noise for him.
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  Speaker 2: It relaxes him. I just need chaos. So I don't
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  Speaker 2: have to confront who I am as a human being.
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  Speaker 2: Can you just add a jackhammer outside here for the
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  Speaker 2: entirety of my entire time that I am president of
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  Speaker 2: the United States?
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  Speaker 1: And you know at night he's like sneaking out to
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  Speaker 1: the construction site with a hammer like, He's loving it.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, they're also not supposed to be working
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  Speaker 1: on it right now. You said there's just trucks all
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  Speaker 1: day long.
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  Speaker 2: They're going in and out. There's giant cranes. Walking through D.C.,
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  Speaker 2: there's so much construction happening on the Reflecting Pool, all
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  Speaker 2: across the National Mall. Walking by the White House, you
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  Speaker 2: can't even get a good look at the White House.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure there are safety concerns that are there, but
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  Speaker 2: also there's just so much construction going in and out.
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  Speaker 2: It is not a space that is built for people
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  Speaker 2: to contemplate their actions. Whichever, there was a city where
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  Speaker 2: perhaps we could, you know, ergonomically develop it so that
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  Speaker 2: people could sit with the consequences of their own ideas.
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  Speaker 2: We would aim for that to be the case, but eh.
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  Speaker 2: we got.
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  Speaker 1: Check out this bulldozer.
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  Speaker 2: We got a UFC fight coming. We better put up
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  Speaker 2: those stands, y'all.
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  Speaker 1: Which we were talking about also, like Trump is clearly
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  Speaker 1: bored by almost everything. The fact that he's kind of
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  Speaker 1: just like doing a little bit of everything and then
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  Speaker 1: moving on, you know, like this week, He released the
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  Speaker 1: UFO files. And that was just... Here's Wednesday. Here, tell
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  Speaker 1: me what's in them. He literally said, you go through them,
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  Speaker 1: tell me what's in them.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's not even vetting it. He just let it
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  Speaker 2: out to the masses. I think he had a truth
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  Speaker 2: that said, figure out what the heck is in here.
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  Speaker 2: Go on, have fun. He's throwing chum. It's just chum.
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  Speaker 2: It's like, go take a look. And it also shows you,
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  Speaker 2: we're not talking about the UFO files.
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  Speaker 3: Partially because.
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  Speaker 2: From my understanding, there's not any huge bombshells, although I'm
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  Speaker 2: excited because this week we have Neil deGrasse Tyson on,
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  Speaker 2: and we're going to go through those and talk about
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  Speaker 2: what Neil sees, what we might be missing.
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  Speaker 1: He said there's not evidence of aliens.
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  Speaker 3: DeGrasse Tyson says that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, which I think is he's nervous there's someone who's
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  Speaker 1: weirder about space than he is. He doesn't want them
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  Speaker 1: coming down. If you can ask him that, hey, are
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  Speaker 1: you afraid the aliens will supplant you as the weirdest
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  Speaker 1: dude about space?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. So should I, should I, Neil, as Scott would
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  Speaker 2: call you, the weirdest guy I've ever seen. Is that
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  Speaker 2: just because he has an interest in space that you
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  Speaker 2: see it as peculiar?
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  Speaker 1: I find it peculiar that he's so anti-alien now. Did
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  Speaker 1: you think? Because he's obsessed with space. Why wouldn't he
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  Speaker 1: want to speak to experts? He's an astrophysicist. Why wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: he want to get more information from the aliens on
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  Speaker 1: what else is out there?
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  Speaker 2: Do you think of Stephen Hawking, was he someone who
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  Speaker 2: was Obsessed with physics or weird about physics? Is that
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  Speaker 2: how you would have framed Stephen Hawking?
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  Speaker 1: I would not disrespect Epstein Island local Stephen Hawking.
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  Speaker 2: Wow, shots fired on Hawking. Is LeBron James weird about
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  Speaker 2: sports or dribbling?
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  Speaker 1: No, sports is awesome.
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  Speaker 3: Sports is awesome.
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  Speaker 2: Do you believe in aliens? Would you expect there to
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  Speaker 2: have been something, some smoking gun or I guess frothing
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  Speaker 2: orb to be in those files?
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  Speaker 1: I looked at the files and... I can be convinced
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  Speaker 1: either way on both. Either I'm looking at a sophisticated
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  Speaker 1: piece of technology or this is a balloon that's floating
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  Speaker 1: in a weird way. Space is gigantic. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: what's going on there. I'm not smart like Neil deGrasse Tyson.
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  Speaker 1: Respect to his name. There's got to be something.
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  Speaker 2: There's got to be something out there. Yeah, I'm optimistic
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  Speaker 2: there's something out there. Although I don't buy the fact
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  Speaker 2: that if there was something out there, it came here.
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  Speaker 2: shook for a little while 50 years ago, we caught
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  Speaker 2: a picture, and then we never saw it again.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, they were like, nah, not interested in what's going
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  Speaker 1: on here. I do think, just based on how everything
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  Speaker 1: comes full circle in this world we live in now,
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  Speaker 1: I wouldn't be surprised if aliens exist, but they were
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  Speaker 1: also on Epstein Island. You know, it's all somehow interconnected.
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  Speaker 2: I think an advanced society would understand how The media
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  Speaker 2: landscape works. And so if you want to stay hidden,
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  Speaker 2: it's not that you hide behind the mountains or escape
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  Speaker 2: back to your planet.
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  Speaker 3: You just go to Epstein Island and trust that the.
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  Speaker 2: People in power will keep those files hidden and nobody
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  Speaker 2: will ever find out about you.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: These aliens are smart.
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  Speaker 1: Even more things Trump's doing now that he's bored. He's
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  Speaker 1: complaining about the NFL kickoff rule, which it's not even
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  Speaker 1: NFL season. We're in the middle of a war he started.
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  Speaker 1: What do you think about the kickoff? I mean, that's
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  Speaker 1: the most important thing we could be discussing right now.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I think it's something that if you were complaining
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  Speaker 2: about the NFL kickoff rule during the NBA playoffs, you
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  Speaker 2: are an old man with nothing better to do.
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  Speaker 3: My guess, he has something better to do.
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  Speaker 2: First of all, though, I'm so glad Trump is focused
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  Speaker 2: on this as opposed to other things. Let the old
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  Speaker 2: man spin in a corner. Let him build a ballroom.
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  Speaker 2: Let him bitch about The wings for the big Super
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  Speaker 2: Bowl that's coming up next year. Like, great.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I think that's going to give some other countries ways
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  Speaker 2: in which they can figure out how to defend themselves
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  Speaker 2: against our worst instincts. So I'm all good for that.
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  Speaker 2: I also don't think a lot about the NFL kickoff world.
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  Speaker 2: It seems like it was put in place to stop
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  Speaker 2: murders from happening on the field.
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  Speaker 3: That seems to be a good thing.
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  Speaker 1: It's probably the least exciting part of the game, and
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  Speaker 1: it's somehow the only thing Trump wants to talk about. Just.
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  Speaker 2: Which is what... Help me out here. The NFL kickoff
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  Speaker 2: rule is essentially they've staggered the way in which people
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  Speaker 2: can run down the field when the ball is kicked
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  Speaker 2: because of head injuries, right?
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  Speaker 1: Because of... So there weren't a lot of kickoffs. This
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  Speaker 1: is why I'm on the podcast because we're talking sports.
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  Speaker 3: We're talking sports.
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  Speaker 1: This is the only reason they invite me on the podcast.
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  Speaker 2: They.
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  Speaker 1: People were fair catching all the kicks because of all
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  Speaker 1: the injuries. So in order to create some action on
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  Speaker 1: the kickoff, they created this rule that makes it safer
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  Speaker 1: for the players and maybe... the team tries to run
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  Speaker 1: it back for a touchdown. To try to create more excitement,
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  Speaker 1: which I think it has, but somehow Trump has turned
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  Speaker 1: this into like, I'm not ending the war with Iran
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  Speaker 1: unless the NFL gives up the kickoff rule.
• 14:52
  Speaker 2: This man, he's such a unique human being, but everything,
• 14:56
  Speaker 2: you can zoom in on everything about Donald Trump and
• 14:59
  Speaker 2: it articulates something about what is so uniquely broken about
• 15:02
  Speaker 2: this human being. Because I think about that kickoff rule
• 15:06
  Speaker 2: and You know, I love watching a football game, but
• 15:10
  Speaker 2: if you watch a football game, you're inundated with commercials.
• 15:13
  Speaker 2: And the one thing we know about kickoffs is they
• 15:15
  Speaker 2: always happen in between commercials. They're the easiest thing to
• 15:19
  Speaker 2: miss if you're at all engaged in something other than
• 15:22
  Speaker 2: watching advertisements beamed into your eyes. If you have friends,
• 15:25
  Speaker 2: you're talking to friends and you miss the kickoff. If
• 15:28
  Speaker 2: you have bodily needs for food, you're eating wings before
• 15:32
  Speaker 2: coming back to the kickoff.
• 15:33
  Speaker 3: If you have family members.
• 15:34
  Speaker 2: Or children who are playing, you're playing with your child,
• 15:37
  Speaker 2: the game comes back, you've missed the kickoff. So the
• 15:39
  Speaker 2: only people who are truly that invested in the kickoff
• 15:42
  Speaker 2: are people who are not spending their time with family, friends, communicating,
• 15:47
  Speaker 2: or feeding themselves. They are instead watching advertisements and propaganda
• 15:51
  Speaker 2: beamed into their eyes, and they are obsessed with the
• 15:53
  Speaker 2: little minutia of the game in front of them.
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: Which goes back to Trump is bored and alone in
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: the White House.
• 15:58
  Speaker 2: He is bored and alone in the White House. Get
• 16:01
  Speaker 2: this man a worthwhile hobby.
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: Well, I said to you earlier, I think the way
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: the East Wing got destroyed was one night he was
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: walking around thinking, I don't like this wall here. He
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: just took a hammer.
• 16:13
  Speaker 2: The man tinkers. The whole wall with the auto pen,
• 16:17
  Speaker 2: that's a tinker. That's a tinker. You got the... I mean,
• 16:20
  Speaker 2: the signage outside the Oval Office is the most low-class
• 16:23
  Speaker 2: funny shit to put Oval Office outside the Oval Office
• 16:27
  Speaker 2: like it's a ballroom at the Sheridan.
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: But that's the tinkering man. It's a man who can't sleep.
• 16:32
  Speaker 2: It's a man whose wife doesn't want Him in bed,
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: it's a man with no children who are calling them.
• 16:36
  Speaker 2: It's a man who walks around, and yeah, he's hammering,
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: he's touching. There's also a report, I believe, of him
• 16:42
  Speaker 2: sticking up challenge coins onto doors.
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: What does that mean?
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: There's challenge coins that are often handed out. Veterans often
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: will hand them out, or people have been in the military.
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: I think some people work for governmental offices, get coins with, like,
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: the presidential seal. His would have the seal on it,
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: I assume, and his name, often handed out to people
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: who would visit the White House or.
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: They're pretty and thick pieces of coinage that he sticks up.
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: I mean, the man's got like a glue gun and
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: puts it on the door.
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: Take the glue gun away from him.
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: He's adorning too many things. Why is this man so
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: into adorning?
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: Why does he have a toolkit that he can put
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: these things up?
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: Get this 80-year-old man some decoupage so he can be
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: a normal weird old person.
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: Two months ago, he said on camera, They'll say Trump
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: wants it quick and he'll get bored. But don't worry,
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: I never get bored. And now there's reports he's bored.
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: It's like he's just walking around doing nothing.
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: That may have been the first contradiction in the things
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: that Trump has said that I've ever heard him say.
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: And frankly, I think the man's slipping.
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's slipping.
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: He's slipping.
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: He should not get that third term.
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: He should not. He's got a bunker to wait it out.
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: But I.
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: I hope the American people finally see maybe he's not
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: the man for the job.
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: Another thing going on in the news is the Hanta virus.
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: Are you concerned?
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: As somebody who has worked on a cruise ship, done
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: sketch comedy on a cruise ship, which is perhaps the
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: most noble thing to do.
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: On a cruise ship. And you came to do this show?
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: I did.
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: At this point, I was like, I've... I've served the people.
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: I've given them what they wanted, which is short-form comedy
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: and sketch comedy in an open-air arena to a bunch
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: of people who leave halfway through to go see the
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: sleight-of-hand magic show that's happening next door.
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: Was it only cruise ship-based sketches, or you guys did
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: other stuff?
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: Great question. It was material culled from the Second City's
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: archives that I believe had some classic relationship dramas, some
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: short-form physical bits. And some original material written for the
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: cruise ship. What you realize when you're doing comedy on
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: a cruise ship is you have a lot of non-English
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: speakers as well, so you have to do a lot
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: of physical comedy.
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: Got it.
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: Going back to, again, adorn me. Put me in something
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: weird and let me shake it for a bunch of people.
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: who have neurovirus. And I will make you laugh until
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: your body has explosive diarrhea because of the uncooked chicken
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: you had an hour and a half earlier.
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: At least, at least while their body has diarrhea, they're
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: laughing to whatever you're doing on stage.
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: That's what they're doing. They're laughing to keep them thinking like, oh,
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: should I have eaten all of that soft serve? I
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: don't think so. So I, I've lived, I've lived that life. I'm,
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: It seems as if we've been told over and over
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: again this is not something we need to worry about.
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: So I'm going to choose to worry about other things
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: like the NFL kickoff rule.
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: Because if we look at our commander-in-chief, there are more
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: important things on the docket.
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: Are you nervous?
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: I'm nervous that people keep going on cruise ships. I
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: feel like, at some point, we've got to, as a society, say, hey,
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: not worth it.
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: Bad idea. Yeah. People get sick of it, although that's
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: part of the risk. I guess you can get those
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: deals on cruise ships, and part of it is because,
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: you know what, you're rolling the dice.
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, now's the time to buy, so maybe I'll
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: buy a few cruise ships.
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: This would be the time.
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: Should we invest in a cruise ship?
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: You want to invest?
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: Didn't Pete Davidson do that with a ferry at one point?
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: They haven't figured it out yet.
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: But we already have the entertainment.
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: Maybe we could buy the Staten Island Ferry from Colin
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: Jost and Pete Davidson.
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: Turn it into a Disney cruise.
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: Turn it into a Disney cruise.
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: Then just print money at that point.
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: Come for the Hantavirus. Stay for the Jordan Klepper short
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: form sketch comedy.
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: It was great. All physical comedy. Look at this weird,
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: strange looking man shaking his stuff for your benefit.
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: I will invest but not go on the cruise.
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: I'm going to look for somebody to take my place
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: as well.
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: All right, let's look ahead to this week and what's
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: coming up that you might cover on the show. Trump
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: is going to China. What do you think? You think
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: he's going to get the deal done?
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: Oh, that may.
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: It sounds like he's bringing a bunch of CEOs. If
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: he ends up taking the trip to China, perhaps he does.
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: We will cover that. I'm curious. I think we're going
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: to hear big talk, big deals. Seems like we're not
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: in the making deals phase of the Trump presidency.
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: He's bringing an entourage with him of all the top
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: CEOs thinking that would help. Why aren't these CEOs running
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: their companies? Why are they?
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: They do. That is one of the benefits of this
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: Trump administration is we get to see the travel plans
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: of America's biggest CEOs.
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: I guess the globe's biggest CEOs. Especially those first few months.
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: It was like Mark Zuckerberg spent a lot of time
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: in Mar-a-Lago, Washington, D.C., hanging out also at like boring dinners.
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: Apparently that's part of the job is to kiss the
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: ass of the person in charge and or just eat
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: bad chicken.
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah, because we didn't see that first term. First term
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: CEOs seem to like step away. All right, we're going
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: to wait this out and see what happens. But now
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: that he won this term, it feels like they're all
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: coming out and they're all pledging money to the ballroom
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: that either they're paying for or we're paying for. Still unclear.
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: Imagine that.
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: If you take the politics out of it, your CEO,
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: you've achieved massive amounts of success, at least financially. You've probably,
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: you've probably done it in unorthodox and perhaps immoral ways.
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: But you know what?
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: You've done it. You've achieved the American dream. You have
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: financial freedom. You can do what you want. And they're like, also,
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: you have to hang out with this 80 year old
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: man who eats McDonald's, his farts smell bad, and he
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: wants you to come to all of these meetings so
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: you can be an embarrassing prop for photos.
• 22:50
  Speaker 3: He's like, oh, so I have to do that once?
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: It's like, No, you'll probably have to do that every
• 22:53
  Speaker 3: week and a half.
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and there's a good chance that he just thinks
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: your last name is the company you work for. Exactly. Oh, look,
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: it's Tim Bowen over here.
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: Oh, look, Jim Palantir's over here. Come on over here, Jim.
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: Oh, come on, Jimmy Target. This guy, he does the
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: best targets. Paul Walmart, get your ass in here. Come on.
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: These poor, poor billionaires.
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: It's not even worth being a billionaire anymore.
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah. I thought I was going to have fun.
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: I was going to bounce around to private islands. Occasionally
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: hop on a Zoom call where I give some financial advice.
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: Instead, look at this.
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: I'm hanging out with Grandpa over here, bitching about the
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: NFL nonstop.
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: For the last time, I have nothing to do with
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: the NFL. Stop telling me.
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: I'm not Roger NFL. I told you this. That's not
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: who I am. All right.
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: Well, to the big thing that's happening this week, the
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: real reason I'm on this podcast is because the New
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: York Knicks are going to the Eastern Conference. Me and
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: you are two of the biggest Knicks fans in the office.
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: I say that because we wear Knicks gear year-round.
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: Fashionable Knicks gear. I've followed your Knicks gear apparel choices.
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: You have good ones.
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you. I pride myself on that. If
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: my writing is top eight, my Knicks gear is top one.
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: You are.
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: I think you're number one Knicks fan in the office.
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: What do you think?
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: It's up. Definitely. I didn't know it was a question.
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: It is exciting to be in New York when the
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: Knicks are winning. Totally. I grew up a Michigan fan,
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: a fan of a lot of the franchises from that area,
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: and I have no shame. I have loved a lot
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: of different teams, usually based on my location. I lived
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: in Michigan and still have a lot of love for
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: Michigan-based teams.
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: I love the Pistons.
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: I'm rooting for the Pistons to To play the Knicks,
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: but then I'm going to have to root for the Knicks.
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: I want the Pistons to do well. I was a
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: fan of a lot of Chicago teams when I played
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: there as well. I've become such a fan of what
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: sports can do to a community when teams win. My
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: buddy Seth is a Celtics fan, and he lives here
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: in New York and has a kid who's here in
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: New York. And I'm like, I know you want the
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: Knicks to lose because that is part of who you are,
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: but If they win, there's something so beautiful about wearing
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: a Knicks hat, going into a bodega, and talking about
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: Josh Hart to whoever sees you wearing that hat. A
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: winning team showing that you support that team in a town,
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: it just elevates every conversation. You meet your neighbors.
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: People yell, let's go Knicks at you. Oh, let's go Knicks.
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: It's amazing. You get to just scream it back. People
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: at this office who I've never spoken to before are like,
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: so Scott, how are you feeling about the Knicks? And
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: I'm like, I'll talk to you for the next two
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: hours about the Knicks. Let's go. Deuce McBride. He had
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: a great game.
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: This is the thing. I'm a Michigan fan. I wear
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: any Michigan apparel all over the globe. If you pass
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: somebody with a Michigan hat on or shirt, they say,
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: go blue. My wife is always like, what is it
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: with you weirdos? But it's such a life-affirming thing. Not
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: to make everything about politics, but there is something about
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: putting on the hat of the team you root for
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: and seeing people in the wild wearing that hat that
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: makes you feel like you are a part of something
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: larger than The MAGA movement, they got the freaking hats.
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: The hats. They nailed it with the hats.
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: And it's how you feel when you go to an
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: event like that. It's like how I feel.
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: You go to MSG and you wear the hat. You
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: go to outside Michigan Stadium and you're wearing Michigan apparel.
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: Everybody's wearing it. You have one thing in common. You're
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: excited about that. You have a connection there. It's a
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: wonderful thing when it is a sporting event that happens
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: at your time. You extrapolate that and then you weaponize
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: it for overall power. It gets a little dicey, but
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: there's something very human about it all.
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: Well, if that weaponized power gets the Knicks a championship,
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: I have this thing. I'm a very superstitious fan. Since
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: the Strait of Hormuz has been blocked, the Knicks have
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: been winning. And I need everything to stay exactly the
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: same until the Knicks win the championship.
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: So you're rooting for an elongated.
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: I'm rooting for the Knicks to win the championship. That
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: is what I'm rooting for. That is the goal right now.
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: I don't know if I would get super superstitious about
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: extended global conflicts.
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: Everything needs to stay the same, Jordan. We are finally
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: winning for the first time. Maybe cut that part.
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: I'll root for high gas prices as well. I think
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: it's all worth it. If we all go through a
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: little bit of financial... Duress for the short term. In
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: the long term, it means that the Knicks get to
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: be champions. I think we could all agree that it's
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: a worthwhile endeavor.
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: As someone who was covering the January 6th rally, you'll
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: see where I'm getting.
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: Let's see you get there.
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: Knicks fans infiltrated the Philadelphia 76ers arena. What do you
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: think about it? That infiltration of the arena taking over.
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: You went from eight to nine on that one.
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: You got to see them.
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: You know what? As an insurrection witness, check my FBI file.
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: I know what it's like to dive into a foreign
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: space and take it over.
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: Hearing about that in Philly is wild. For those who
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: don't know.
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: the Knicks played in Philadelphia and it became like a
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: home game in Philadelphia.
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it was like 75% Knicks fans for
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: game four.
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: That's wild. That gives me some New York pride. If
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: I was a Philly fan, I would be totally pissed off.
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: I remember, but I do love that stuff about it. Again,
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: in the sports arena, I think that's also where you
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: get out some of that, you put it in the
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: political world and it gets cruel and mean and can hurt.
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: You can get it out in the sports. You can
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: get out that angst and that energy and that tribalism
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: and hopefully you can let it just live there. There
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: was also a story how New York wasn't selling Philly
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: cheesesteaks in certain places because it being Philly. And again,
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: as a Michigan fan, whenever the Michigan-Ohio State thing happens,
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: I know OSU, they will cover M's on campus.
• 28:57
  Speaker 3: I know there was a story, too. This is props
• 28:59
  Speaker 3: to Ohio State. I give it to you. It always
• 29:01
  Speaker 3: made me laugh. They wouldn't.
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: There's a story of, like, the Ohio State bus unwilling
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: to pay for gas in Michigan because they don't want
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: to spend any money there. It's just that kind of shit.
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: I love it. I love that local pride.
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: Well, politics has, like, real-life consequences where, like, as someone
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: who spends way too much time watching basketball, basketball is
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: ball and hoop. And then game over.
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: Well, the only real-life consequences are the time you spend
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: there as opposed to with your family, which has real-world consequences,
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: and you should spend more time with your family.
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: Well, the Knicks can be family.
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah. you've expanded your family.
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: I would say the other issue is maybe the online gambling,
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: but as long as you're winning, as long as you're winning,
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: it's not a problem. It doesn't matter.
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah, people don't talk enough about that with online gambling.
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: If your team's winning, you're good.
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: You're good.
• 29:55
  Speaker 3: Yeah, the problem's not me. It's with the efficacy of
• 29:58
  Speaker 3: my team.
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah. They should cover my losses.
• 30:01
  Speaker 3: You got to figure it out.
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: Let's go to, it's time for something we call Daily
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: Show and Tell. So, Jordan, what's something that you've watched, read,
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: listened to, argued about, or just been on your mind lately?
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to give two things. Two things that happened recently.
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  Speaker 2: Because we slagged off Philadelphia. Yeah. I went to Philadelphia recently.
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  Speaker 2: I enjoy that city. And I went to the big
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  Speaker 2: museum they have there. And they have an art exhibit
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  Speaker 2: on the Rocky Monument that famously was created for the movie,
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  Speaker 2: then lived outside the art museum, and became one of
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  Speaker 2: the most visited monuments in all of the country. And
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  Speaker 2: had a sort of tumultuous relationship even with the museum.
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  Speaker 2: The museum itself was like, is this art or is
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  Speaker 2: this just a movie prop? They moved it around. And
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  Speaker 2: then they finally just moved it inside and they've curated
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  Speaker 2: this curated exhibit by a guy named Paul Farber who
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  Speaker 2: works for Monuments Lab, which is a really cool group
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  Speaker 2: that focuses on monuments, the history of them, also facilitates
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  Speaker 2: a lot of monuments. And it asks a lot of
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  Speaker 2: interesting questions about like, what is a monument? What does
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  Speaker 2: it represent? What are we choosing to hold on pedestals?
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  Speaker 2: What does it say about who we are? And this
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  Speaker 2: one in Philadelphia is really kind of fun. It looks
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  Speaker 2: very much at boxing, but also the history of putting
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  Speaker 2: people on these pedestals and what it means when you
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  Speaker 2: take something that is a movie story and not a
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  Speaker 2: real person and you put it inside a museum and
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  Speaker 2: it becomes art and something that people reflect and see
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  Speaker 2: themselves in, especially at a time when we are talking
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  Speaker 2: a lot about building arches in Washington, D.C. and Donald
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  Speaker 2: Trump is releasing big gold statues of himself at Mar-a-Lago.
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  Speaker 2: There's going to be monuments built in Washington, D.C. to
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  Speaker 2: who our heroes are. I think As a kid, I
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  Speaker 2: grew up thinking monuments were just built to people that
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  Speaker 2: everybody agreed was the person that we respect. But they
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  Speaker 2: are all political acts, and they are reflections of our
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  Speaker 2: society or what people want our society to be or
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  Speaker 2: pushing on our society. And so this was just a
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  Speaker 2: great exhibit that allows you to ask some of those questions.
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  Speaker 2: I don't want to say it's an apolitical exhibit, but
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  Speaker 2: it allows you to ask it through the framework of
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  Speaker 2: politics boxing in the city of Philadelphia and not just
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  Speaker 2: the politics of Confederate statues. So it gets at it
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  Speaker 2: in a very open, surprising way. So I highly recommend
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  Speaker 2: going down to Philadelphia and checking that out.
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  Speaker 1: So we need more movie-based statues is what you're arguing?
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  Speaker 2: I think yes. I think you will walk through that
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  Speaker 2: at the end and be like, you know what? It
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  Speaker 2: is time to build statues.
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  Speaker 1: What characters do you think need statues?
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  Speaker 2: Give me a Buzz Lightyear. Everybody's going to love a
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  Speaker 2: Buzz Lightyear. What else are we going to love? I
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  Speaker 2: would love all the characters from Bottle Rocket, my favorite movie.
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  Speaker 1: Just a cast, gold cast photo.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, just give me Owen and Luke Wilson. It's like,
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  Speaker 2: what is this? Oh, that's Owen and Luke Wilson from
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  Speaker 2: the movie Bottle Rocket. Not Tenenbaums, not Tenenbaums, Bottle Rocket
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  Speaker 2: was one of their earlier films. That's just what I want.
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  Speaker 2: I want them to reflect the stories that are important
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  Speaker 2: to me. What would you do? What film character?
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  Speaker 1: Oh, man. Too many Adam Sandler movies to pick through
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  Speaker 1: for just one statue. Oh, man. Yeah, maybe Billy Madison
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  Speaker 1: just in the middle of New York City.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, that would be pretty iconic.
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  Speaker 1: No one would try to tear that thing down.
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  Speaker 3: You know what?
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  Speaker 2: I had a framed poster in college of Jeff Daniels
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  Speaker 2: from Dumb and Dumber on the toilet.
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  Speaker 3: Screaming, if you remember that image.
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  Speaker 1: That's a good statue.
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  Speaker 2: I was like, that would be a great statue. I
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  Speaker 2: don't know where you put that. I don't know what
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  Speaker 2: it says to us about who we are as humans, but.
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  Speaker 3: Fucking why not?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, if everyone's getting a statue, I might as well
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  Speaker 1: put these up. And what was the other thing?
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, the other one too. I just started Lord
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  Speaker 2: of the Flies.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, nice.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm very early on in it, but I forget
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  Speaker 2: how I read that book in high school and enjoyed
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  Speaker 2: it then. But it seems this remake was immediately compelling
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  Speaker 2: and fascinating. And watching kids create society is.
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  Speaker 3: Great and fascinating.
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  Speaker 2: So based on the first 30 minutes of it, I
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  Speaker 2: think they might have a hit over there. Good for
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  Speaker 2: that upstart Netflix, too.
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  Speaker 1: I was rooting for them. I wasn't sure they were
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  Speaker 1: going to make it a while back.
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  Speaker 3: They might figure it out.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, they might figure it out. What do you got?
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  Speaker 3: You got a show and tell?
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  Speaker 1: I got to show and tell. I'm going to keep
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  Speaker 1: it consistent, and I'm going to say that everybody listening
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  Speaker 1: should take some time from their day and watch Jalen
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  Speaker 1: Brunson play with a basketball for the New York Knicks
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  Speaker 1: because it's awesome to watch.
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  Speaker 3: It's a beautiful thing.
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  Speaker 1: It's really fun to be a Knicks fan right now.
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  Speaker 1: It seems like you're relatively new, but I've had a
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  Speaker 1: lot of pain, and it's awesome, and it's fun, and
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  Speaker 1: you should do it. And if you don't know what
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  Speaker 1: sports are and you're listening... I'm really sorry that you
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  Speaker 1: had to listen to that suggestion.
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  Speaker 2: Can I, you know, we're turning into a sports podcast,
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  Speaker 2: but there was a moment that made me, I was
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  Speaker 2: surprised by how emotional I got. Last week, I was watching,
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  Speaker 2: they've been all great series. I've been a big fan
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  Speaker 2: of the NBA. But whether you like the NBA or
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  Speaker 2: whatever sport, there's beautiful narratives that are happening. And I
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  Speaker 2: think basketball at its best feels poetic and beautiful. And
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  Speaker 2: I was watching LeBron play in this last series. You
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  Speaker 2: know who LeBron James is, but it's been a season
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  Speaker 2: that's been up and down, and it was going up
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  Speaker 2: and then lost all of their players due to injury,
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  Speaker 2: or most of them. And Luke is out, and Austin
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  Speaker 2: Reeves was out. And LeBron won some big games they
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  Speaker 2: weren't supposed to win. And in one of these games,
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  Speaker 2: he had an alley-oop to his son, Bronny James. And
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  Speaker 2: there's been a lot of conversation about Bronny being on
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  Speaker 2: the team, and they played, and they haven't played a lot,
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  Speaker 2: but because there were so many injured players, Bronny got
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  Speaker 2: to play in this game. And there was a moment
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  Speaker 2: where he threw an alley-oop, and After the game, they won,
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  Speaker 2: and they were talking to LeBron about the game, and
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  Speaker 2: they asked LeBron what it was like to throw. It
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  Speaker 2: was the first time a father had thrown an alley-oop
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  Speaker 2: to their son in a playoff game. And LeBron James,
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  Speaker 2: he flippantly said this, but when asked about it, he said, oh,
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  Speaker 2: I noticed he made a little shuffle step with his feet,
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  Speaker 2: and I've been watching him make that move since he
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  Speaker 2: was a baby, and so I knew.
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  Speaker 3: to toss it up to him, and he got it.
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  Speaker 2: And I immediately broke down and started crying. As a dad,
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  Speaker 2: I was like, that is one of the most beautiful
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  Speaker 2: expressions of parental love and attention. You watch your child grow.
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  Speaker 2: You watch every little face they make and the ways
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  Speaker 2: in which they move around the rooms. You are attuned
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  Speaker 2: to catch them.
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  Speaker 3: When they fall.
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  Speaker 2: That is what a loving parent does, is you become
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  Speaker 2: attuned to the way in which your child moves through
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  Speaker 2: space and time. And in this weird world, this, one
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  Speaker 2: of the greatest basketball players of all time is suddenly
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  Speaker 2: playing with their child on the biggest stage on the planet.
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  Speaker 2: And in a little moment, out of the corner of
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  Speaker 2: their eyes, saw their child do some tiny move that
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  Speaker 2: they recognize because they've been watching their own life. And instinctively,
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  Speaker 2: the poetry of basketball takes place that he tosses it
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  Speaker 2: up in the air. And he's been practicing basketball his
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  Speaker 2: entire life. And therefore, He executes it on the highest
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  Speaker 2: level possible because that's something he's cared so much about.
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  Speaker 2: But his instinct came from fatherhood and watching his child
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  Speaker 2: and his child is able to catch it, know what
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  Speaker 2: to do with it and make it.
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  Speaker 3: To me, it was like, that's, it's beautiful.
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  Speaker 1: It's awesome.
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  Speaker 3: And I wept and I was so happy I was alone.
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  Speaker 2: What are you doing? In fact, I told her a
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  Speaker 2: version of this and she, I don't think she was like, okay.
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, but, It hit me. I was like, that's
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  Speaker 2: a beautiful thing. And I forget that sports can do that.
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  Speaker 1: When they showed the parents when USA won gold medal
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  Speaker 1: at the Winter Olympics, I was hysterically crying. And my
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  Speaker 1: wife was like, why are you so emotional? I'm like,
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  Speaker 1: what if one day that's our children and I'm that parent?
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  Speaker 1: Because I've given up on that it'll be me playing
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  Speaker 1: on the ice. But there's still a chance for him
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  Speaker 1: to be there. And she's like, okay. Let's move on
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  Speaker 1: with our day.
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  Speaker 3: You see things differently.
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  Speaker 2: I think on this Mother's Day week, it's important to
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  Speaker 2: You know, a big shout out to the fathers. Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Who really, I think, get left behind on the Mother's
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  Speaker 2: Day weekend.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, they should get a little more credit on Mother's Day.
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  Speaker 2: Uh-huh.
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  Speaker 1: But also on Father's Day, they should get all the credit.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think this is, actually, this is a good start.
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  Speaker 2: Father's Day is coming up, so this is sort of
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  Speaker 2: like a few-week run-up to Father's Day.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, the run-up. It should be, it's a few weeks
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  Speaker 1: of celebration.
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  Speaker 4: Exactly.
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  Speaker 3: May it begin in earnest today.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, yes. Last thing I'm going to recommend is Jordan
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  Speaker 1: Klepper hosting The Daily Show this week because, as I
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  Speaker 1: mentioned at the top, I've been working with you for
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  Speaker 1: over 10 years, and it's still awesome watching you host
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  Speaker 1: the show. From the waffle iron face to hosting the show,
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  Speaker 1: it's really awesome.
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  Speaker 3: Well, Herkman, thank you for making me funny. We get
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  Speaker 3: to do this.
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  Speaker 2: It's the best job in the business, and we have
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  Speaker 2: the best team who makes us look funny and smart.
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  Speaker 3: And so let's do it this week.
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  Speaker 1: Let's do it.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 1: That's all the time we have for the pre-cap. I'm
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  Speaker 1: Scott Herkman. Catch Jordan Klepper hosting The Daily Show this
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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