Honest Comedy In America ｜ Comedian Ryan Long
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Comedian Ryan Long ( ) joins Jemele to discuss the perils of being married to a woman who doesn't like to have sex, and why it's a good thing she doesn't have a husband who does. Plus, how to deal with a wife who won't let you go out on a Monday night.
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But increasingly, it is taking on the character of prophecy.
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And you've seen this before with his sketches about, I don't know,
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the vaccines or about COVID or about wokeism or whatever.
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Ryan did a masterclass on a neocon defense contracting war criminal nation building type of individual.
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And I don't know, like five minutes later, masterclass announces that it is in fact hosting a class with Hillary Clinton.
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This, I don't know how, unless he has a crystal ball, he could have known this.
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She was doing this speech that like would have been.
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You get married and then like the divorce goes and you go, you give a class on marriage and
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you go, you know, this is the speech I almost gave at my wedding before we broke up.
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This would have been my 50th anniversary speech, the toast at our party.
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Yeah, we broke up after two years, fairly dramatically, actually.
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But had we made it to 50 years, this is the kind of stuff I would have been saying.
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You know, this brings up actually one of my favorite sketches that you did recently that
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it was hilarious, but it got to a really important philosophical and anthropological point
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It was on the phrase, one of my least favorite phrases in the English language, happy wife,
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Yeah, there's a base and the gist was the guy that just consistently says happy wife, happy
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And by the end of it, you're just like 100% a simp.
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Because obviously, yeah, I mean, there's obviously a point underneath where any proper working relationship
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with like a person or, you know, a wife or whatever there, you're going to have to argue
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But I find that what people do, dudes, they go, they'll like bottle it all in and just
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take it, take it, take it, and then just blow up and they go, I'm putting my foot down.
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And then you got to make some big stink about nothing when really it was 100 issues at the
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same time where it's like, if you just know, just be kind of cool all the time.
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You know, this, you have like a fight about something, but you let it go.
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And then it's like the girl that says, hey, you can't, I don't want you going out with
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And then by the end of it, you're like, she goes, I need you to come out because my mom,
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Didn't that, you end up making a stink about something ridiculous.
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I have my wig night and I will change for nothing.
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If you, I am, I am putting my knuckles on the floor and drag it because you don't need
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The, the, the, just to your point, the phrase is not even true.
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If, if happy wife, happy life means appease your wife in all of her unreasonable and disordered
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demands and desires that will, that will not make your life happy.
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It's just, and the guys who tell me happy wife, happy life, they're generally not the
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Like, or it's a dude that his wife kind of rules and he's, you know, happy wife, happy
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You're like, well, yeah, easy to, you say, you're to say like, she's pretty reasonable.
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You don't have that battle ax, you know, that I've got hanging around.
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Even look, some man caves, they're very beautiful.
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I like, you know, they, some of my friends have incredible man caves.
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But the idea of the man cave is that you, you, you, you don't have any place in your house.
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You, you have to go to a subterranean dungeon so that you can watch football and eat wings
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or whatever, because your, your wife will just banish you.
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If you tried it, what happened to a man's home is his castle.
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It's always like a matching thing, even with employees.
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Cause I have like some bodies that are pushover guys, you know, whatever certain people it's
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A lot of times it's why people like them because they're, you know, kind of down for whatever.
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But in this, in like those kinds of scenarios and people are always like, well, you need
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It's like, the truth is if you're the type of guy that's always, you know, agreeable
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like that, what you really need is to find like a nice person that doesn't take advantage
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If I'm like the type of guy that's like, I'm down to argue.
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But if you're not, if you're the type of guy that's not, you need to find a person that's
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like a, that's not going to take advantage of you nonstop.
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Rather than totally change your own personality, you just need to not marry a predator.
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Yeah, that this is, well, you know, there's this weird thing where I was just talking
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to my friend, Michael Anton, who's a great political philosopher and writer over at Claremont.
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And he pointed out that we're living in kind of upside down world right now in this very
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unprecedented time where everything that is, is supposedly beautiful is actually ugly.
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And you look at it on the billboards and even, you know, even lingerie models.
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Now you look at a billboard in Times Square and it's like the ugliest, fattest, most
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Well, they kind of have no chill in this country, right?
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It's, it went straight from, uh, there's no, there's no moderation.
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It went from every model looks like a twig and she's puking out breakfast, lunch, and
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I got to go throw up cause I ate a grape to like, I'm modeling the biggest piece of
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Cause I was trying to think, you know, it, it hit me with, it hit me with the marriages
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because we went from this world in which a man's home is his castle and, you know, man
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is the ruler of the roost to if a man, a man ever expresses an opinion in his home that
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he, he's basically a psychopath patriarch and needs to be booted to the street.
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In comedy now we're told that, you know, jokes are not there.
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Jokes are not funny, but Nat Nat and that woman, the least funny woman of all time is
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And then it just got me thinking about the billboards and like even the buildings, you
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know, hideous, brutalist buildings are beautiful buildings and all the beautiful classical architecture
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It's like, I sort of live like a weird pirate life.
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And a lot of it comes to like normalizing outliers where it's like, you know, that's
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actually the good thing, but it never, it doesn't really help because even if you think
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of Nanette, like, yeah, I guess they like pushed it, but it also, they created like
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And so they've always, on these shows that are essentially a bunch of hot people, they
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pick the people they've been trying to introduce, like, you know, non-traditionally attractive
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people and like pretty decent looking for normal.
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But so they'll have like supermodel, supermodel, supermodel, Walmart customer, supermodel.
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And then, so the dudes don't want to get in trouble.
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So you see the guys, they kind of go up and they go, you know, everyone was good.
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I felt that I had a bit more of attraction with the five supermodels.
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And then every year a girl like kills herself because they get bullied on the internet and
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But also it's like, if you said a 12 year old was like pretty good at basketball.
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And then you put them in the NBA and then every day you were like, he's the best player in
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And all of a sudden everyone's like talking trash on the 12 year old.
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And then the kind of idea is like, why are you guys being mean?
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It's like, no, because they're mad that this thing's getting like pushed in their face.
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So I don't know if you try to just like upset like reality too much.
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I think it generally kind of backlashes, even when you're talking about that, you can't say
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jokes and stuff like the truth is like, there's probably more of a, like a want for people
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to hear like wild stuff when you do comedy clubs because of that, you know, because people
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feel like maybe you can't say it at jobs or whatever.
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Whereas probably the, in the nineties or whatever, when it was like most accepted, there was
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almost like a, a genre of like the wild comedy.
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Like it's kind of like when you do like an edgy show and they go, this is the like edgy,
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And then you like, your instinct there is like, I don't want to say it now.
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No, well, this is, that was what Norm Macdonald did at the Bob Saget roast, right?
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Everyone was just saying all these filthy, disgusting anatomical things.
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And Norm gets up and does a joke about how Saget's head looked like cauliflower.
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And he was doing all these like Dean Martin roast jokes and it totally subverted.
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So actually that, yeah, that's the exact, that's like the perfect reference.
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Cause he's, you know, he's saying the whole thing is it's the funniness stems from in
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that genre, like the opposite of what expected.
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And once it's like really expected, it just feels disgusting to do.
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So, you know, I was joking at the top about how you're Nostradamus and you keep kind of
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Well, I think the reason for this is a priest friend of mine from New York pointed out that
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prophets are not people who have a crystal ball and they predict the future.
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Prophets are just observing the world as it is while other people are imagining a world
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And then this seems like they're predicting the future because they're telling the truth in
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The fact that you, you seem to be predicting all of these things, Nostradamus, please tell
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Well, you, I think there is something to be said about, or you could maybe make it less
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important where you just say, Hey, things are like moving in a direction.
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And then like the satire I do is like, I just do an extreme version of it.
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And then as long as we stay on that path, we'll get there.
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But in terms of like predicting it, it's always like a predicting a stock market, right?
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Like on a trend, is this the top or is this, you know, keep going?
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I would say in my opinion, culturally, I remember to some degree, I was like switching on some
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of the things I was talking about in like around 2016.
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And then it felt like we went back a few years and I would say right now, culturally, we're
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sort of like, we were here for my hand where you can see it.
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And then if there was a peak, it sort of went up and then back.
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So I feel like we're back, you know, like 20% from the top right now.
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Like without Trump, it feels a little, a little calmer.
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People aren't as, you know, fired up in general.
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Like, does this go back down or does things get like fired up the way it is before?
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Like, I was loving the idea of just, you know, at peak, like how much you could just every
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And I was loving the idea of just going up to a family gathering and you, whatever people
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think, just show up and go, Hey, who do you guys think's the bigger hero?
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Anyway, got to go to the bathroom and just, just try to get people fired up.
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That we get, there's this, there's this big chasm between what we're being told is real
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on this, you know, George Floyd is the greatest hero or whatever, you know, there's this great
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chasm between what we're being told by the whole establishment and the, the reality of
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You see, you know, Biden's at 38% and he's basically the most popular guy in his administration.
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Kamala Harris is at 27%, which is lower than, than Dick Cheney was after the Iraq war and
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And yet we're being told it's the most popular thing ever.
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Pete Buttigieg, who's now being hailed as the, the next great presidential candidate.
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He was asked, Hey, what are people supposed to do about gas prices?
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And he basically said, go buy a Tesla with a straight face.
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And, and so what's the react, you know, what's the reaction when we're living in this kind
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of clown world from the propaganda of the ruling class.
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And yet we, we still can look around and we still have eyes to see that that's not what's
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I feel like every, every president is just like the, the, the like team that likes him
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puts out press releases about how much he's killing it.
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And then the, cause I remember that with, you could say the same thing with Trump where,
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Like the left would be like, look here, we did a poll and actually it's negative 5% people
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And then people will be like, and then you'd go and it's like everyone from, you know,
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all these States loves them, but Biden doesn't have, that's one thing that's like interesting
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with people that are like commentary that like hate Biden.
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Cause they're kind of like, I, you know, he's the worst or whatever, but I feel like he
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Like there's not even really people that are really left wing.
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I think even people that like were super liberal are kind of like, you know, maybe like some
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And I think in general, there's no 25 year old that's all in on Biden, no matter what you're
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No, we're in the, I don't even know what the version of the MAGA hat for Biden would be,
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It's just wearing, just these young people wearing blue nightcaps to express their support.
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And actually in the, in the polling, this is left wing polls now of Democrats, only about
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37% even want them to be the nominee going forward.
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So you don't, you don't know who's going to come up.
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So you kind of just before, so I find whenever it gets like that, then you notice all the
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Like I feel like all the left wing people are fighting with each other and all the right
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wing people are fighting with each other a little bit now.
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Don't you kind of, haven't you noticed that more in the last four months?
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It was like so clear who was, you know, on which side or whatever.
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And then once it became wishy-washy, everyone kind of looks at, it's like the, I imagine
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like being in a church and then like no one's paying attention to you anymore.
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And then you're kind of like, she's having sex without marriage.
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All these, all these people start arguing with each other.
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And then the left wing people are kind of like, this guy doesn't even, he's not even
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This guy, man, he's not even wearing the hammer and sickle.
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Well, so what I, what I need to know from you and your expert opinion in comedy is Donald,
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it seems to me Donald Trump was a very funny president.
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He had the, have you seen his like stuff, the press releases there.
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It's not the one that he released the other day.
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He came out with one and it was just like, just want to say that people at the view were
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He goes, something, it was like the McCain's daughter.
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And he goes, you know, her, her dad like made me do the world's longest funeral of all
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And it was like, and the fact that he's like writing it down and putting it out at a press
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The fact, I remember there was one time he was at a state dinner.
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He was, he was having dinner with, with the queen and he sent out a tweet back in those
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He sent out a tweet at what would have been about one 30 in the morning, his time after
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this beautiful dinner with the Royal family in which he called Bette Midler, a washed up
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So I think, okay, I think, I think Trump is probably the funniest, best comedic chops
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It was kind of like they both, they both were kind of, uh, you know, could have been TV
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presenters, you know, or I guess Trump was, but like, no, Obama was, uh, comedically like
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That's like, uh, that's why, you know, Obama had everyone who was, they liked him the way
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that, you know, people that like Trump, like Trump, because he was like a guy everyone kind
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of like wanted to be like, he was cool and he was funny.
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He did have that line about the predator drones.
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I do remember he did that bit, uh, for one of the dinners where he acted as Daniel day
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But so then looking forward, who is the funniest presidential candidate that we can look at for
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I know that you said, I don't really know them that well.
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Uh, but the, the, I remember I met Andrew Yang at the stand and he's kind of, I always
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thought it was funny that, uh, he was, he, his whole thing is like, you know, wearing
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And then when I saw him, he was all like, cool.
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I didn't realize that he was like different in real life, but the, um, Buttigieg, I just
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remember it is kind of what you said where they were always, it seemed like every
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He skateboards like they're always kind of pushing.
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Like that was kind of the vibe of, of the push on Buttigieg.
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Um, so 2024, I guess that's, there's kind of a couple of years away.
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It seems like if the Democrats want to win, they need like someone that's very charismatic
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I mean, I look, I think there are good candidates, uh, on the right.
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I think at this point at the governor level, there's no one can touch him.
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I think at the Senate level, no one can touch Ted Cruz.
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I don't just say it cause we're buddies, but he, uh, you know, he's just got the infrastructure.
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He's done it before he's kind of leading in the Senate, but sort of the rock.
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Well, this is the thing you get these kind of, you know, random candidates would be thrown in,
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but then none of it really matters in my view, because if Trump runs, that's it, right?
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No one's going to, no one wants to become the next little Marco.
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If you're like a Republican and you want to run and Trump's running, you're like,
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ugh, I got to go have him call my wife fat now.
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I mean, he, Trump went on this whole thing about how, how disgusting Kasich looks when
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I don't, I don't, I think everyone might be like, I guess there's a lot of people that
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are hardcore fans, but I think he, I think a lot of people even that were like Trump
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guys kind of don't like him as much because of like the vaccine stuff.
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Well, that is, it is a weird spot that he's in because a lot of conservative, I mean,
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I'm, I'm obviously extremely skeptical of all the vaccines and having to take the 17th
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Fauci ouchie, you know, just to get, because it's so, so very effective.
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You get just a few more and then you're pretty close.
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My buddy, I'll quote my buddy, Danny Polishuk's thing, but cause they're giving everyone free
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stuff and he goes, New York's like not the city to be giving people free ticket, free
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And it was like, we're giving, Hey, we're giving out Yankees tickets now.
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And Danny said, Oh, uh, uh, I guess I'm going to find out what it, what happens when you
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Did you see in the, in the Netherlands, there's a brothel that's giving a free 30 minute session.
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No, there's a, yeah, I, I, you might be booking your tickets right now to Holland, but they,
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there was this brothel was giving away a free 30 minute sex session.
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If you took the shot, which means that there are people now who are, who are more Pfizer
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I, to be honest, I think that like who, it would be probably even more tumultuous than
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But, uh, I, I think right now it's like a little calmer.
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I was, I think it's more likely that Trump has a podcast and he's selling like Patriot
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For the top tier subscribers to like the Truth Social and he's selling like Freedom Water
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And he's just making, just making more, like Truth Social, Trump, I think he quadrupled
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his net worth overnight with just like people pumping that stock.
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Just sending out one, because he can't even put it on Twitter.
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Well, I guess this, this raises the question about that then though, if the guy is not
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allowed on any social media, if the guy, if the SEC is looking into him and all the kind
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of bureaucratic arms are trying to shut this guy up, I would subscribe to his podcast, but
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are, are they, are they going to let him, are they going to let him do anything?
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I have one, I have a, you know what a funny thing was?
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This was, so we're at this like, uh, there's this thing in New York and one of our buddies,
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Oh, it was like a fancy, like party kind of thing.
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I'm not really like, I don't know these people, but I knew like one guy and then, uh, Trump,
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And then I guess because of that, the secret service has to like travel with you.
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So we're at like a party and we had to go to get like white claws from like a bodega
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I was like, this is, I guess they follow him forever.
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So we're at a bodega and there's like secret service guys outside of the bodega, making
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sure that we're safe when we're getting white claws.
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I was like, that is so, that is so embarrassing because as a fellow, just absolute lover of
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white claws, I consider myself a white claw aficionado.
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Like if you're standing next to GI Joe, you know, and you go to the bodega to order your,
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and you order, you know, raspberry flavored hard seltzer that can't, that can't make you
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That, that I didn't, I didn't realize that they all get it forever.
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And could you imagine if, if he does run again, could you imagine the, the riots?
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Can you imagine just if you think the people would have to like dust off their Molotov cocktails,
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like people that, you know, left that life and just have like went back to their normal
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job and then have to go back to the closet and be like, all right, we're writing again,
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Like, so I don't know as far as like, it feels like that chapter is closed up a bit.
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And he should, you know, he could, uh, it's like, he's so, you're so old.
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It was like, I think it's time to potentially do something else.
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So I think, well, it is hard if you, if the, if you're running against a guy for being 80,
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Joe Biden, and then you're like, look at, and he's a bit younger.
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When they asked him about Biden's age, he did say, they said, you know, he said, I'm not
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going to attack Biden for his age, you know, but look, all I know is I'm a, I'm a young
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And certainly there's, there's obviously not a ton of youth or vibrancy out in most of
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the political landscape, but what's, what's your, so you're in New York.
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Like if Shumple was like, he's like writing this speech and he's like, dude, I'm like young
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They've got, he's got, it's pumping through his veins.
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You've survived the smash and grabs and the peaceful arson and the de Blasio administration.
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And it's like, uh, it really has become like a pretty wild.
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Like, and when I used to, I used to film these videos on the street and at first it was like
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But by the end it was like the people that kind of just lived there, like took over the
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And this is, this is, I said this on stage, but this is the argument that I heard a guy
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The girl goes, the guy and she goes, Hey, I showed you the, now give me the McFlurry.
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And so these are the kind of deals that are taking place like outside of my house.
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And by the, this is actually, I've, this is actually true.
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We were just talking about this, but this is, might be the Canadian in me, but there's
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a guy and I live in like, not by the way, not a, you know, some like dump, right?
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Very, I realize it's not like wildly expensive, but it's, you know, how New York is.
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And then outside my house, all these people like smoke crack.
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And then I noticed after doing this like three or four times that I'm very, when I
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walk by being like, Hey, sorry guys, like really sorry.
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And now I'm just like, why am I apologizing to these people?
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But they're, they're clearly pretty evil people because I was just thinking about the
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guy who bribed the woman to flash him with the McFlurry.
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Everybody, everyone who goes to McDonald's knows the McFlurry machine is always broken.
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So if you're offering a woman, that's, that's dark, man.
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He finds out when the McFlurry machine's broken and makes all these McFlurry deals.
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So you, you move from Canada, you make it here to America.
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But now I got to ask most of my friends, I'm a New Yorker born and raised.
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Most of my friends from New York, I'm in Nashville now.
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A lot of other people are, are you now that you're an American, are you going to, are you
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No, New York's still the best place in the world for comedy.
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Um, I know a lot of, every once in a while, unfortunately, like every, everyone will always
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be like, actually there's a comedy scene and, you know, Memphis, they like just pick a place.
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Like I do, you know, the stand and the comedy cellar and Brooklyn comedy club.
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And like, these are, you know, the best comedians in the world.
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And Austin has a little pocket, you know, of, of, of people and their, every scene has
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a little pocket, but unfortunately it's like, there's nowhere where you could do five, six
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sets a night and really be, you know, there with the best of the best.
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So it's just like the same reason if you, you know, now it does shift.
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Like if you want to be in tech, like I think it used to be San Francisco.
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Now you can move to Austin and there's always people moving and shaking, but New York, as
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far as like art goes, as far as comedy goes, it's pretty back to normal.
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And still all, all of the people that during COVID were like, I'm the hell out of here.
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I'm going to go, you know, this comedy scene, I'll be in Miami comedy scene.
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And they're all slowly coming back one by one and being like, yeah, I mean, that's not
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I mean, you know, it would be obviously better to live somewhere where you have a big, you
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know, house and it's warm and, but it's unfortunate.
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I even went to LA like recently and I'm just like, man, New York is better comedy.
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So I don't think that I would, I would leave for the next little bit unless my life changed
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drastically and I gave up on, you know, trying to be the best of the best.
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But I think if you want to, if you're in this zone and you're in your years where you go,
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I want to try to be the best comedian in the world or one of the best means in the world.
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I think it's hard to properly do that somewhere else.
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You've got about a bazillion views on YouTube, but how, how is your reception in Brooklyn or in
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You know, I'm not saying you're some like buttoned up tweed wearing bow tie conservative,
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but you obviously contradict a lot of the liberal orthodoxies that are, I think, I think I used
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to just think it is like masculine and feminine, like, but most people are like pretty receptive.
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Like there's obviously people at every show and this is, I know, I know that over the last
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like little while it was probably liberals that were the wild, but like, you know, there's,
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I would say it's depending on where I am, it's like they're conservatives can be just
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But like, and then there's people that, that are, there's always like a difference between
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like you were trying to get mad and you know, you were trying to get mad and then you actually
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Cause you know, conservatives have their topics like, you know, pedophile jokes, like troop
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Like obviously some of that stuff can be very testy or, but sometimes there'll be
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like, I've, I've been where it's my fault too, where you go do a show and you know, maybe
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You're talking about, you know, even it could just be something similar as like sex stuff.
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And there's like a old bunch, like way too many old people in the crowd and, and they
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And you could come up where I'd be like, yo, there are just afraid of real cop.
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But that's very, and not that you have to tailor it always, but like, that's different
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than a bunch of old people saying like, Hey, there's this comedy show where people are
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So I think that, so it's, it depends on where it is, but most comedy clubs, I think people
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I switch a little what I'm doing based on red States and blue States because I'm more, my
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general like tone is to be against what I'm talking to.
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Just whatever the audience is, just find a way to piss them off.
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But I, I even think of it as like, think about with your friends.
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It's like, imagine you were hanging out with your friend and you're all making fun of him,
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And then, or like even your girlfriend or whatever, and then they leave and you're all
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And then some other people that don't know them that well, they're kind of making fun
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You're like, well, you don't get to really do that.
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You're not like, well, like you, you have to be pretty close to make fun of them when
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So I kind of think of that, the same comedy principle where it's like, let's say I was
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doing like a really hard thing on LGBTQ or whatever.
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I wouldn't want to do that in front of a room of people that were, you know, actually thought
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It was all just Mike Pence with the electrodes.
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But yeah, it also felt like, it feels funner to even like, you know, let's say you're
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a trash and Trump, like that feels way funner to do at places where they like him.
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And if you go to somewhere where they hate him, like if they hate him, it feels like gross
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if, you know, you're just pandering at that point.
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So a lot of times my general tone is to kind of make fun of, but I didn't find that with
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like, uh, you know, like, uh, even like TV shows or, or, or friend groups or like music
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genres, like, let's say everyone's into punk, right?
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When everyone's into punk music and you get together, you don't generally talk about what's
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You kind of talk about what's wrong with your thing.
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So I think that a lot of the stuff that I've been making fun of, even, you know, when
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people were getting wild in the Trump years was like, I know these people and I grew
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So I think there's kind of, uh, I try to have some of that stuff in the comedy or else
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it, it comes across as, um, you know, more propaganda.
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That's a, that's a great, that's a great distinction, a profound prophetic as usual
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I've already taken up too much of your time as I often do, uh, but I look forward to the
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Where can people find you if they haven't found you already?
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Um, so I do a podcast every Friday called the boys cast with Ryan long.
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Um, and there's a, and patrion.com slash the boys cast.
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And then also I do a video every Monday at youtube.com slash Ryan long comedy.
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And I'm releasing a standup special in January.
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Oh, also I saw that, uh, right before I started, I saw you like this tweet, but you see the Jordan
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It's going to become a woohoo girl on the back of one of those buses.
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Like Jordan Peterson, like every day he was posting like, Oh, look at this beer.
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Like he's one step away from having like Mardi Gras beats on.
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You're just like at a bar in Nashville getting like, uh, like just drinking and stuff.
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And you look over like Jordan Peterson's on the dance floor.
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This is just an actual description of what happened.
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One of the premier public intellectuals in the world was at Kid Rock's big ass honky
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Go get, uh, first of all, listen to the boys cast.
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I look forward to the comedy special and Ryan, I will see you soon.