Comedian Ari Shaffir Drinks & Answers Tough Questions: YES or NO
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Summary
Comedian Ari Shafir, whose new Netflix special, America's Sweetheart, is out now, we'll get to see a teaser later. Today, I will ask Ari a Yes or No question. He will select his answer away from my prying eyes, then I will guess how he answered. If I guess correctly, I get a point; if I guess incorrectly, I lose a point. Then, it's Ari's turn.
Transcript
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Welcome to Yes or No, the bibulous battle to discover who knows whom better.
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My guest today is comedian Ari Shafir, whose new Netflix comedy special, America's Sweetheart, is out now.
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Today, I will ask Ari a yes or no question.
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He will select his answer away from my prying eyes.
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Neither of us has seen the questions beforehand.
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The questions cover various and sundry topics, from the philosophical to the anatomical, and everything in between.
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Do you believe that to be a real comic, you cannot be offended by anything?
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Do you believe that to be a real comic, you cannot be offended by anything?
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It's a real comic, you cannot, I think you're going to say.
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It's tough, you're actually, to really understand the question.
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You have to really think what the other guy is going to do.
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This is, sometimes you hear this, oh, pure, beautiful comedy.
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Someone can walk up and call your mother a whore and you have to applaud them for it or whatever.
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Oh, we just prefer people not be offended, but you can get offended.
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Yeah, my friend made a joke about 9-11 and there was somebody in the audience.
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And he was like, oh, this is never going to be for you.
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There's no, you're not going to, you can't tailor that joke to that guy.
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Comics get offended because of how lame they are?
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Yeah, sometimes it's like, you see it roasts, that's the best.
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You see it roasts, somebody make fun of you, but they'll do something bad.
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But then, you know, you're on camera, so you're going to go, meh, meh, meh, meh.
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Yeah, that's offensive when it includes you, too.
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I don't mind bad jokes, as long as I don't have to be part of it, yeah.
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I thought these were going to be printed on here.
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Like, Jews and Palestinians could solve their differences by bonding over their mutual love
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This is a comparison I have made a lot of times.
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And, by the way, Mexicans, you're invited to the table.
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Jews and Palestinians could solve their differences by bonding over their mutual love of digging tunnels.
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Could Jews and Palestinians solve their differences by bonding over their mutual love of digging tunnels?
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You either think that they could solve their differences through that.
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I think you're the kind of guy who says, get them to the table and we can work anything out.
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So, I'm going to say that you say, yes, they could solve those differences.
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They could, because the other thing is, right now, we're thinking two-dimensionally.
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You know, we're thinking, but really, what if you change the direction of the tunnels?
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So, like, for instance, the Palestinians are digging tunnels into Israel.
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And then they could have, like, a guest speaker, like someone from Vietnam.
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Yeah, like, let me show you about some barbecues we had down there.
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The only way I could really know is if I'm the one who started them.
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Did you think it was PG&E or even, like, Newsom himself?
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Oh, Newsom went in there and just started fire.
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It could also have been a fat chick who's learned to be okay with her body weight, having
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her thighs go together so fast that eventually it will start.
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I lived there for 12 years, been back for 10, and I never was up there.
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It's like New Yorkers with the Empire State Building.
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And then I realized it's because it can burn the whole city to the ground.
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They can't even smoke cigarettes in your car on the way up.
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Did they find out who actually started it, or is it just a bunch of theories?
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No, it's going to be like Notre Dame Cathedral.
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They're going to be like, wasn't it the Muslims?
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And they'll be like, no, it was, you know, just a random cigarette or something.
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No one's going to ever find out ever, but it was probably the homeless.
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I will say, it might not have been PG&A, but PG&A has started over 1,000 fires in California.
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The world would be better if everyone had at least one psychedelic trip.
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Michael, before you answer, I'm going to tell you something.
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We can't know them all, but he makes things for a reason.
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Why would he make mushrooms if he didn't want us to take it?
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The world would be better if everyone had at least one psychedelic trip.
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Yeah, but he also created, like, you know, I don't know, avocados doesn't mean I want
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Yeah, but now they won't because Trump is slapping tariff signs.
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No, because I'm going to quote Paul McCartney here.
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He said, John said, he said, John said, you know, if you have some LSD, then it'll rewire
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And I thought, you know, well, my brain's all I got, you know, and I don't want to lose
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Because listen, back in my wayward youth, man, I had a few puffs of the devil's lettuce
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every so often, you know, a couple of jazz cigarettes, but I had a bunch of friends
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And then I take some tab of acid, and then I think I'm a banana and start peeling my
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You get to view the whole world without, like, connection to it.
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And so you can look at yourself with, like, oh, that's a guy who's just going through
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this, and you're not, like, trying to defend your own actions.
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So you're like, oh, that guy should, like, tell his friends he loves them more.
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You know a little bit about lots of people, but you know the most about yourself.
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But because you're, like, trying to defend your actions all the time.
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I don't know if that's the ego or whatever, but, like, then you don't, you know, improve.
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Because, but if you can, like, you ever play golf?
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Both of you hit a shot, then you decide which shot to hit from there.
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Everyone ends up, there's some point in the golf course where you hit one here in the
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sand close, and I hit one further away in the fairway.
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And we both argue about which one's ball is better.
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But if you looked at it with, like, I don't know, here's two balls, we'd agree.
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But because you're, like, looking at your own thing, you want yours to be better.
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Did you find, this is my big objection to mushrooms.
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I've had friends who got into psychedelics, and one thing they tell me.
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One thing they tell me is, you know, man, I've heard this from multiple people.
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They'll be like, oh, yeah, you know, man, oh, you know, man.
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They'll say, I just, I felt so much more at peace with myself.
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I wasn't so worried about, like, sin and guilt and shame.
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My superpower, I don't like superpower, I read not to be able to feel shame.
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What they don't know is that we're not going to my house.
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I'm not going to ruin the surprise, but we'll be there in a minute.
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I didn't realize I was in the presence of royalty.
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This is every 14-year-old boy's, like, first foray into the internet.
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We did it for National Lampoon's, and then, uh, and then, like, right at the beginning,
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So, people with no context, you're like, what the F is this?
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Those people all got, you know, gave them all 50 bucks.
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And I'm a Jew who still has an article of clothing from 20 years ago.
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My friend Duncan Dressel put up, uh, it was, like, early, early internet, man.
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And he just put in, um, artistic terrorism was his website.
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He put in, like, hey, prank call my friend, Ari Shaffir.
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And, uh, and then the first thing would come up.
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Like, I'll build a deck in your ass, Holmes.
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How did you not get deported from a music town for that?
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And right now, like, for instance, have you heard this term, the woke?
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But I, the, so you ever heard of the woke, right?
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Have you heard of this new phrase, the woke, right?
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So, so it's, but if that, if it means that the extreme edgy hip, if that means that woke
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Woke is the new based, which means straight is the new gay.
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And then I was even thinking the etymology of the word.
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It, it, etymologically, it's related to fascist, like bundle of sticks.
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Like instead of being based, straight, patriotic, should we be, is it now cool to be woke, gay?
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I can see someone goes, hey, how about we do a take where you get on the table?
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Throw yourself at the court and the mercy of them.
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They initially wanted me to wear a turtleneck too.
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And by the way, I'm not gay, even though my boyfriend is.
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If you play these on mushrooms, it'll hit far harder.
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Expanded it so much to where it has no meaning anymore.
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So you have different people arguing about different meanings.
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It was that you'll never have an ability to work again.
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Other people are like, are you losing work over it?
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Other people are like, is it just mean you got in trouble?
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Even, I think 15 years ago, people would be like, you're a racist.
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I should have been like, they're like, why would you not go to...
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You just need to be hefty, dykey, or Jewish.
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You didn't shy away from dykey, but you shied away from fat.
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By the way, the twist of orange in here, whoever made this, that's a solid, that's great.
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I heard you didn't know who Nate Bargatze was until a week ago.
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He's the number one grossing comedian in the world.
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I think you're going to say yes, but I don't know.
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Because what if you say yes, and then I say no, and then you look like you think it?
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I think you're going to say yes, but there's definitely more to it than that.
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I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt, and then you say no.
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You don't think I know fat, lesbian, Jew comics?
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Would you say at least that is the minimum condition required?
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Actually, the guy whose opinion that was, he wrote an essay in Vanity Fair.
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His view was that they have to be hefty, dyke, or Jewish.
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After that started, so let me just tell you what happened.
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After that started, a bunch of women who hadn't even started yet got into stand-up.
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So, these 15-year comics that are now like running the world were post that.
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Because I could name, I could name some exceptions to the rule, but exceptions prove the rule.
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Who are the female comedians who are funny, who are actually funny?
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Who are, who don't fit one of those three categories.
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She was like the best female comic in the world at some point.
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Because we can, you know how they're like, well, you can't say that about black people
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or the military or whatever, because you're not in there.
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She's the white chick going, you have to calm down.
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When I used to work at the comedy store, people would call in, I'd work the phones, they'd be
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And it was like, hey, listen, anyone you've heard of is bad now.
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But I also know a lot of like lesbo comics that are really funny, but that's not the
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It was rare that you will play a homosexual comedian on this network.
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I don't know if you guys know this, but there's literally a floating island of garbage
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Technically speaking, is Puerto Rico, in fact, a floating pile of garbage?
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Well, so the way they played it, you'd think he was doing a buddy routine with Trump on stage.
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That was like six hours before Trump got there.
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So he goes, he gets there and he does this whole like 30 minute thing about it.
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I have this, these notes I wrote like on this tiny piece of paper because I can't let the lady next to me see what I'm writing on the plane.
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Well, I got to memorize these jokes real quick.
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He said he saw afterwards everyone coming in with like all the, all the, like the, the tweets were coming in.
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And he goes, and then he looks up and there's a magician on stage.
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You got to figure out he's playing at this point.
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80% is empty because people aren't getting there for four more hours.
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I mean, there, there are still a lot of people.
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There's still probably, I don't know, 2000, 3000.
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By the way, the last time he was there, he performed for his sold out match.
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So it's like, he's going into this jarring thing, but I thought it was so great.
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Did you watch anybody or were you kind of glancing at it?
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I was like getting my whatever hot dog and drink, but I was, I was listening to it.
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And it reminded me, I remember John Stewart reacted to Clint Eastwood doing the empty
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chair bit at the RNC and everyone was, was piling on Eastwood and John Stewart said, oh
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It was so different than anything you hear at these.
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People that friends there, they'd go like, no, you did well.
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No, in terms of the, like just the people sitting around me in a largely empty stadium.
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That's just like, that's political people suck.
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They just were just like, let's just offer this guy up.
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Let's just misrepresent what happened for our own personal game.
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Do you know any Puerto Ricans who were offended by that joke?
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His father was stabbed, but let's forget that stereotype, but Luis Gomez, but no, no,
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Also, there's almost no undecided voters that time.
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And they try to broaden it from Puerto Ricans to all Latinos.
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And other Latinos are like, you know, a lot of us hate each other.
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You guys are acting like one unit that's all going to be offended by humor.
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It's so like, it really made me hate all politicians that they'll do this to my industry.
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Take it out of context and intention, like offer someone's whole life up.
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Because you got to figure at that point, it was two weeks before the election.
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We're going to treat that guy like he's Trump's vice president.
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I've talked some, some comedians got upset about it.
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And I tried to reach out to them like compassionately, like, you know, not like publicly just like
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They got upset by the joke or the fact that he did a gig for Trump?
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And also he's like, Tony's like obsessed with the refuse problem in Puerto Rico.
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I mean, I'm also living in a very liberal area in Manhattan.
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And when Trump said that Puerto Rico is not part of America and everyone's like, all the
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But, um, so that, but they see him as Hitler, as Adolf Hitler.
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And it doesn't matter what the joke meant to them.
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You're trying to get Hitler back in, in charge of the United States of America.
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He could have gone up and said why the chicken crossed the road and you would have had half
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I mean, and imagine if they really believe that.
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It's like the guy who shot up the, who brought a shotgun to the pizza gate place.
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Like he really thought he was trying to free kids.
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And when they told everybody, this guy's a racist and trying to get Hitler elected, they're kind
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They're like the guy who shot up the pizza gate place.
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I was in Ecuador for like six months during the pandemic.
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A lot of Italians, you know, made it that way after a certain global conflict.
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If it is false, and for the good of society, and especially for the good of the poor people
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who have fallen prey to this confusion, transgenderism must be eradicated from public
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I know it was you, so you want to be like, not at all.
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Like arachnophobia is the irrational fear of spiders.
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Like, that they might, you know, make my style better or, you know...
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There was no way you would have said that was wrong.
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I will read three questions, one after the other.
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Do ghosts or other supernatural entities reveal themselves at cemeteries?
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For RFK Jr. to make America healthy again, he needs fat shaming to come back.
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Does he need that in order to make America healthy again?
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Transizer Bush needs to be made an example.
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Well, because how are you supposed to move fast with a martini glass?
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That was so great for the back half of the game.
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Do you think President Trump will make it to the end of his term?
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One, about the state of health care for elderly people in the United States.
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Also, what happened to American marksmanship has been on the downturn.
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So you think, or will he just be like, actually, this sucks.
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At the inauguration, I could have easily said, I'm going, nope, not doing it.
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So, Will, do I think you think, and do you think I think, that President Trump will make
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There might be different opinions of the Daily Wire.
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Are you ready to tell the American public that your original name was Cannolis?
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It was initially Michael Chocolate Sprinkle Cannolis.
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If you look in the old parish register in Sicily, it's Chocolate Sprinkle Cannolis.
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So will Donald Trump make it to the end of his term?
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Do I think you think Donald Trump will make it to the end of his term?
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But do you think that guy is like in heaven or whatever and hell?
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He's like, oh, wait, I made him, I got him votes?
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When you don't get anywhere ahead by engulfing yourself in this negative-
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I know somebody that was setting up a provisional government in Afghanistan in the army.
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And they had to negotiate on what's the percentage of Shiites, percentage of Sunnis, or percentage
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And they had to like, no, no, we should have a higher percentage.
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And then they finally, finally, after almost 11 and a half months, agreed, okay, these
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And they go, I'm not sitting in the room with a Shiite.
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And then his tour was over, and nothing was accomplished.
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You know, whether it's the joys of stereotyping or the beauty of drug addiction, Ari Shafir
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focuses on the positive in this darkly uplifting special.
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Check out this tease for America's Sweetheart.
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They don't contribute to the GDP, like, at all.
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Remember when you couldn't kill Asian people for three months four years ago?
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Black people, you've got to be white someday.
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Black people, honestly, I hope you get white privilege someday soon.
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But until that happens, man, you make excellent decoys.
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If I'm at CVS and three brothers walk in, I'm like, it's go time.
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Having not won or lost this game, I was feeling totally neutral.
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And guys, everyone in the audience, you're going home with a yes or no card game.