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check the Saint. There are so many things

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happening in the news. President Biden is

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killing it, Nancy Pelosi is gonna

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get us all killed, and Donald Trump

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has endorsed twins. So

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let's do these people. Let's come straight into today's

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headlines. Right

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before we get into the big stories, let's catch up

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on a few other things that are going on in the world. First

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up, a passenger on a flight from Bali

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to Australia was fined

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more than eight dollars for having

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to undeclared egg mcmuffins

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in their luggage,

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And honestly, I don't

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know if they'll be able to pay for that, You know,

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no, because I mean the type of person who saves egg

1:37

mcmuffins for later probably

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doesn't plan and has lying around

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for fighters, you know what I mean. But apparently

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Australia is very concerned about bringing

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in food from Indonesia because there's an outbreak

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of foot and mouth disease and that's why they're being really

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strict. And when I saw this was like, damn,

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do you know how poisonous you gotta be to get banned

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from Australia. Yeah,

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their border patrol is like our pets. And come

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on, three killer spoiders right at this, right McMuffin,

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I could hurt someone, myke, that could really hurt

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someone. In sports

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news, the head of the Saudi Arabian

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Golf Tour revealed today that Tiger

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Woods turned down a seven

2:14

hundred million dollar offer to

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play for their league. Yeah,

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turned it down. Yeah,

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who to side the Woods? That

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is? That is really amazing. All these other golfers

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just taking the money from Saudi Arabia, you

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know, but Tigers stood up. He's like, no, I

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would do the same thing. In fact, Saudi Arabia

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offered me that's seven hundred million. Yeah,

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you'll see. Just putting my bank account, You'll see what I'll

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do the rest of you won't

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see me again. You'll see. Oh,

2:44

here's something fascinating. Here's something. A major new study

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of seventy two million people has found that

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poor children are much more likely

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to move up the economic ladder if they have friends

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who are rich. Yeah,

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I know, which seems kind of obvious, you

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know, I mean I feel like they didn't need you to a whole study.

3:00

They could have just watched fresh prints. But still

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now we know statistically that

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poor kids do better with

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rich friends, which shows you why it's so important

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to have different zoning when it comes to housing.

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To have schools that are integrated, you know, gets

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people on the same trajectory. I mean. On the

3:17

downside, it also means that you have some kids

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coming back demanding weird snacks.

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You know, it's like, what daddy's here

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do It has purshoot or wrap mentom balls

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like well, Theodore sounds like a little bit. Now eat your cheese

3:29

stick. But

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anyway, anyway, let's

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move on to the big news of the day, because

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there's a lot of it, a lot of news, starting

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with China, the original build

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the world country. Since jes paying roast

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to power in the communist regime,

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has steadily been increasing its influence around

3:47

the world. Right They've been advancing into Africa.

3:49

They've been claiming territory and disputed waters,

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and most importantly, creating the perfect algorithm

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to get us all hooked on pink sauce. But

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one thing China wants more than anything is

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for the world to acknowledge that they

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own Taiwan, which

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is why they've gotten super piste off at

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when Nancy Pelosi just booked her

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Expedia trip. How speaker Nancy

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Pelosi has arrived in Taiwan.

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The speaker arriving just really moments ago for

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a visit which has been controversial

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and speculated about four weeks now.

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She says that the congressional delegations

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visit is part of the unwavering commitment

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to support Taiwan's vibrant democracy.

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In the past few days, China launching the most

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aggressive military exercises in twenty

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five years, accusing the US

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of interfering in its internal affairs.

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Chinese President Shi Jimping warrened

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President Biden in a call last week about

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the US meddling in the contested territory,

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with Chinese officials reportedly communicating

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those who play with fire will

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perish by it. Two weeks ago,

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President Biden had warned the US military

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did not want Pelosi to go. I thiged

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the military fixure is not a good eye be there

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right now. Yeah, I would agree.

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Now, it's not a great time to start World War

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three. I mean the world has so

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many other things to deal with right now. All the

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drama on Love Island. You know, I

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can't believe that it cans. You ended up with Davide, Are

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you serious? And it's

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crazy that Pelosi just ignored Biden

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like that. Well, I mean I assume

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she ignored him. Maybe she just couldn't

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understand him. Yeah,

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he was like, listen, Jack, don't skin ahead all over the town

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and the Taiwan he is. I mean, come on, man, when

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in here in American you read me? Skip on. She's like, you

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got a Joe, I'm on my way. No. So,

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now, because Pelosi has defied Chinese

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warnings not to visit Taiwan, the Chinese government

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is conducting military exercises in

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Taiwan's backyard. Yeah,

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which is a scary escalation. But

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at the same time, when you think about it, it's also kind of ridiculous

5:51

that countries do this. You know, they fly their

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planes past in their guns, but they don't shoot.

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It's scary, but it's also ridiculous. You know,

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it's like threatening someone by standing outside their

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house. Jelly, you want to mess with me, Look at

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what I'm capable of. Imagine

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this is your face. Yeah,

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think about what you did. But

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let's move on from the war. America maybe about to start

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to the one it is still trying to finish.

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The war on Terror, as you know,

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it started on September eleven, two one,

6:23

when the Twin Towers were destroyed by George

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W. Bush. No, I'm kidding, I'm kidding.

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I'm kidding, I'm kidding.

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It was Dick Cheney. No, I'm

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no, No, I'm no, it was

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al Qada. It was al Cada, and

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the plotters of the attack included Osama

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bin Laden, Khalid Sheik Mohammed,

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and i'm An al Zawahiri. And

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America swore revenge, and over the next twenty

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years, America killed Bin Laden, captured

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Sheik Mohammed, invaded Afghanistan,

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invaded Iraq, bombed Pakistan,

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Syria, Yemen, Somalia

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and Libya, the prey troops to Marley,

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Kenya and Nigeria, and completely

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obliterated the big shampoo bottle

7:06

industry. Only tiny bottles

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for you. But

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in that whole time, the U

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S never managed to find Amen

7:16

al Zawahiri until

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yesterday. The US has now killed

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the world's top terror target

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more than twenty years after nine eleven.

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The hunt for bin Laden's number two

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is now over. He has been in hiding

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for more than twenty years, one

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of the world's most wanted terrorists.

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But tonight the United States finally

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caught up with i'm in al Zawahi. Justice

7:42

has been delivered and this terrorist

7:44

leader is no more. Senior officials

7:46

say the US government used an unmanned

7:48

drone and health fire missiles to target

7:50

the third floor balcony of a residential

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apartment building in downtown Cobble.

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Experts say health fire missiles do not explode.

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Instead, the missiles are with razor

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like blades extending from the fuselage

8:03

which slice through a target. So

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it will go through and essentially vaporized

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a human body, but somebody standing within

8:10

sheet of this person would not be injured at

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all. A senior administration officials

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saying authorities spent months identifying

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Alsware's patterns to avoid

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civilian casualties. Strike

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was so precise from a drone it

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killed him. On a balcony without

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harming any family members in

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the building. God damn America

8:34

kipt the walls most wanted terrorist off of his

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safe house balcony. I

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mean, also, at this point, maybe we should stop calling them safe

8:41

houses. Every terrorist

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gets killed in a safe house, they

8:45

should they should quote it a house that you think you're

8:47

safe in, but you never know. What's

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crazy is that America didn't just killed him. They killed him

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with a razor blade missile,

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which I didn't even know it was a thing, did you? I

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don't know. The weapons America

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has sounds like things that kids just make up

9:02

on the playground. I'm shooting

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you with a laser. Guy did miss out with razor

9:06

blades and the sharks body. Meanwhile

9:09

the CIA is up in the tree like with the sharks

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body. You get that voice. We gotta

9:13

go make one of those rais

9:17

the missile that's experienced especially genius

9:19

because like, if it hits, you kill the target. But

9:22

even if it misses him by a little he

9:24

gets like a really shitty haircut, and

9:27

that's just as good. No one's gonna be loyal to a guy with the

9:29

bowl cuts. I

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will say, though, I will say, you know, when you see stories

9:34

like this, you see stories about what America

9:36

is capable of. This is where you realize there's really

9:38

no excuse for the amount of domestic

9:40

terrorism in America, right because

9:43

Zoaheri Zoaheri

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lived all the way in

9:49

Afghanistan, right in some random

9:51

safe house in the middle of nowhere, and America knew

9:53

what time of day he liked to go out

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onto his balcony. But

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when a white supremacist post on Facebook that he's gonna

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murder everyone and then buys an air fifteen,

10:02

Everyone's like, oh, there was no way to stop there. Oh

10:06

if only he liked balcarnies, right. And

10:11

I know some people are saying, oh, who cares America

10:13

killed elkta's leader, But ELKDA isn't even

10:15

in the game anymore. They're like taking out Tom from my

10:17

space. That's not the point. The point is

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America never forgets

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unless it's slavery, but everything else, America

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never forgill. He

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thought it was over, America

10:37

came back. America's

10:39

a kid who never stopped playing Hide and Seek decades

10:41

after the game is done. Yeah, you're

10:43

at a retirement party giving a speech in

10:46

America pops up behind you like sound you bitch

10:49

talp with my grandkids not anymore?

10:53

Still know this is like one hell of a strike. They got

10:55

him with a missile. I'm still stuck on this. A missile

10:57

filled with swords. This

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is how I know I'm not cut out for the war room

11:03

and like all of the things you need to just commander in chief,

11:05

all these I know if I was in that room,

11:08

I would not have been able to keep my cool

11:10

in there. All

11:12

right, talking to

11:14

quiet, Mr President, they

11:16

say contact in three two

11:19

one? Oh ship God damn?

11:21

Oh? How do you see the source

11:23

and stuffing coming out of it? Oh? There's like fruit ninja.

11:27

How are you watching this? How's everybody's watching

11:29

this? You're not even gonna flinch. Nobody's gonna flinch.

11:31

Oh I'm the only one. Okay, you're acting like you've

11:33

all seen the missout that souls come out of it. Okay, I'm there,

11:35

only watch you guys aren't even moving here? You know you

11:37

do see that yet? You see that specially was wild?

11:40

Wow, that was crazy. That missile. I just knew it can find

11:42

anyone. Wow, even you coming

11:44

out with us. I'm just playing.

11:46

But where you hiding? I've got to see you go, oh yeah,

11:48

that was crazy. Finally,

11:55

today, it was a big day for the mid term primary

11:58

season with a lot of closely watched races

12:00

that will tell us a lot about the direction

12:03

of the Republican Party. You know,

12:05

will it be filled with the crazy extremists

12:07

to worship Donald Trump like a god? Or

12:10

will it be filled with traditional conservatives

12:12

who worshiped Donald Trump like a god. And

12:15

one race that everyone is talking about

12:17

is the Republican Senate race in

12:20

Missouri, and the reason that's getting so much

12:22

attention is because Donald Trump

12:24

decided to give one of the

12:26

weirdest endorsements of all

12:28

time. It is primary day in

12:31

America, former President Trump hedging

12:33

his bets in a Missouri Senate race, simply

12:35

endorsing Eric, a first

12:37

name shared by two rival Republican candidates.

12:39

Trump has triggered confusion in Missouri

12:42

after endorsing Eric in the state primary

12:44

without providing a last name. There are

12:46

two Erics in the race. Both Eric

12:49

Grynds, who has been accused of abuse and blackmail,

12:51

and Eric Schmidt, the current attorney general,

12:53

have claimed the endorsement as their own. Now,

12:56

both Eric's are saying the former president

12:58

is supporting them. Each posted

13:01

a statement online thanking Trump for his

13:03

endorsement. A source close to the former president

13:05

told NBC News leading off

13:07

the last name of the Eric he

13:09

was endorsing was intentional, saying

13:12

it was a quote epic troll. Just

13:16

when you think you've seen it all from Donald Trump, he

13:19

does something like this. There are two Eric's running

13:21

against each other in the primary, and

13:23

Trump put out a statement endorsing Eric.

13:27

Just Eric. He

13:30

could be supporting any Eric in

13:32

the world. Well, not any

13:34

Eric, but you know what I mean. You

13:37

know, I'm not his father to

13:40

me. The best part of the story is that before

13:42

he made the announcement, Trump called

13:45

Eric Schmidt and told him that he was

13:47

getting the endorsement. Then he called

13:49

Eric Greeten's and told him

13:52

he was getting the endorsements. But

13:54

he didn't mention to either of them that he

13:56

was endorsing both of them.

13:59

Yeah, national turns

14:02

out the dude even brings infidelity into his endorsements.

14:04

You know, he's the first politician to

14:07

have a side. Eric, You're

14:09

the only Eric from me. Eric, don't

14:11

listen to those other Erics. They're just jealous.

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All right, that's it for the headlines. But before we go to a break,

14:16

it's time to checking on all the latest social media trans without

14:18

very on running chatting. Everybody so

14:29

glad to see you running. So what's

14:31

happening online? What's trending? Another

14:34

day in hell, Trevor, I guess

14:36

what's trending today is what? What is it? What is

14:38

it today? Tuesday vibes?

14:42

Whatever that means? And

14:44

when you have a pH d and stupid, maybe

14:46

you can explain it to me. Okay, because as

14:48

far as I'm concerned, every day on the Internet is

14:50

hasteg stupid vibes, even

14:53

even you, Trevor, participating in this. Was

14:55

this, Trevor Or, three days till

14:57

the weekend? Prayer

15:00

emoji, pray

15:03

your hands, Pray, pray your

15:05

hands. Even if God heard you, he'd be like,

15:07

what am I supposed to do with this? In

15:10

fact, I'm gonna start a new internet challenge right

15:12

now. Yeah, it's called the smash a phone against

15:14

your face challenge. All right. What you do is

15:16

you take your own phone and then you smash it on

15:19

your place. Runny, RUnni okay, Runnie

15:21

Ronnie. First of all, I don't know why you keep going off

15:23

to my social media post. Secondly, if you

15:25

hate the internet. You really, you don't have

15:27

to do the segment right Wait? Wait, what are

15:30

you talking about? I live for this ship. Yes

15:35

that and by the way, by

15:37

the way, that guy, that guy who got a fine for

15:40

bringing McDonald's mcmuffins into

15:42

Australia. Yo, that punishment wasn't

15:44

hot enough. Okay, they should have given him the

15:47

death penalty. Okay, what

15:49

kind of idiot brings McDonald's

15:51

to another country? Every

15:53

country has McDonald's. Okay,

15:56

that's McDonald's in every airport. In

15:59

fact, most airports

16:01

now just some McDonald's.

16:04

Just like, we're just flying from McDonald's to McDonald's.

16:07

And he smuggled it in his luggage. YO, smuggle

16:10

it up there, asked like a professional. Okay,

16:14

oh yeah, yeah yeah. Tiger Woods and Tiger

16:16

woodsn't didn't take the money from the Saudi Gulf

16:19

whatever, Tiger Asian to Asian.

16:21

You take the money. Take the

16:24

money. I'm telling you, take it. I

16:26

always take the money from the worst

16:28

people in the world, Okay, because

16:31

what better way to punish evildoers

16:33

than to take their money?

16:35

Yeah, take the money. I take everyone's

16:38

money. Know what oil companies,

16:40

big tobacco isis Comedy Central.

16:42

If I don't take the money,

16:45

bad people will just have more money,

16:48

all right. In fact, in fact, next week

16:50

I got asked to judge an episode

16:52

of The Mass Singer North Korea, And you

16:54

know you should come with me, Trevor. That

16:57

really, you know, Ronnie, I told you I

16:59

am not going to North Korea running. Okay,

17:02

So what you just want a dictator to keep all his

17:04

blood money? You're basically funding terrorism? No,

17:06

I'm not what you talking about. Also, I

17:08

want to get off. Nancy Pelosi is back, Okay,

17:11

she's causing world War three. Under that world War

17:13

three? Good? We need world War three, Runny,

17:16

How can you say that easily, Trevor? We

17:19

need world War three to complete the trilogy?

17:21

Okay? What if?

17:24

What if? What

17:27

if more of the Rings ended

17:29

that number two? We'd be like, yo, are these

17:31

guys gay or not? We never know? All

17:33

right? Also, at to sick all these

17:35

World War two movies, like, we need something

17:37

new, We need some fresh ideas China

17:40

versus America. Tons of roles for

17:42

Asian actors. Yeah, actors

17:45

who can do everything, Actors who can

17:47

do intense or sad

17:52

or happy. If

17:54

you care about Asian representation, Trevor, you

17:56

would support World War three anyway?

17:59

That's us trending Solar has tag Tuesday

18:01

Vibes, Ronnie check everybody, h

18:05

No, we'll walk through all right. When we come back, we're

18:07

gonna be chatting to a civil rights lawyer who tells us

18:09

why public safety doesn't mean more cought.

18:11

So don't go away.

18:33

Welcome back to the Daily Show. My first guest

18:35

is an award winning civil rights lawyer and founder

18:38

of Civil Rights Corps. He's here to talk

18:40

about his work challenging the money bail

18:42

system, holding prosecutors, judges, and police

18:44

accountable, and finding a non punits of approach

18:47

to public safety. Please welcome Alec Carrigtanis

18:51

Holly, thank you for having Thank you so much. Welcome

18:53

to the show. You you

18:55

have a really interesting story, Alec, because

18:57

you know you worked as a public defender.

19:00

You've worked in the justice system for a long time. You're

19:02

part of many organizations that fight for people

19:04

who are incarcerated unjustly or in

19:06

a way where they can never find their way out

19:08

of the system, which is unjust in a in a different

19:10

way. Um, but a lot of

19:12

your notoriety has come from your Twitter threads

19:15

and how you break down the world, the way

19:17

we see policing in the country, and the way

19:19

even liberal organizations, funny enough, are part

19:22

of the problem. So let's let's start with that

19:24

part. You know, what made you decide

19:26

to not be looking at Fox News, not

19:28

be looking at you know, right wing outlets,

19:31

but rather say no, New York Times, l

19:33

A Times, Washington Post, you

19:35

need to change the way you talk about

19:37

policing in America. I

19:39

began this work because I care

19:41

so deeply about safety, everyone's safety.

19:44

I care about violence in our communities. And as

19:46

I was going around the country fighting these

19:48

injustices, the cash baiale system, police

19:50

abuse all over the country, we're running into

19:52

obstacles. And one of the main obstacles

19:55

was this status quo approach that many progressive

19:57

people have. And it's not their fault, really, right.

19:59

We're b barted constantly in the media

20:01

with what we call capaganda, and capaganda

20:04

has really, I think three main functions. The

20:06

first function of capaganda is

20:08

to narrow our conception of what safety means.

20:11

We're constantly being told that there's quo

20:13

of these threats around us. But the threats that

20:15

the media and police and certain large

20:17

corporations want us to be focused on, are

20:19

not the things that actually most determine our safety.

20:21

So, for example, you've seen all over the

20:23

country UM taught conversations

20:26

about retail theft or a wave

20:28

of crime, right, but you don't hear is

20:30

about the epidemic of wage theft. Wage

20:32

theft costs fifty billion dollars

20:35

every single year. Wage

20:37

theft alone is about five times

20:40

the value of all robbery, burglary,

20:42

larceny, shoplifting combined.

20:45

And why are we not hearing about it? And I think

20:47

it's because you have this law enforcement

20:49

system. I use that system in quotes because police

20:51

want us to call them law enforcement, but in reality

20:53

the only enforced some laws against

20:56

some people some of the time. So

20:58

let's let's let's talk that that.

21:03

You know, there's a disconnected feels

21:05

like sometimes in the conversations we have

21:07

in America, because on the one

21:09

hand, many people will agree

21:12

that law enforcement needs overwatch.

21:14

You know, many people will agree that law enforcement

21:17

UM that isn't in some way regulated

21:19

by by an outside body will

21:22

run rampants. But at the same time, there are many

21:24

communities who will still say yes, but we

21:26

we still need some form of law enforcement.

21:28

We need some form of justice,

21:30

we need some form of protection. And this is something

21:33

that almost goes beyond law enforcement as

21:35

we know it's in the world today. So, so

21:37

what is an argument for a better world that

21:40

that doesn't subscribe to the notions of how people think

21:42

law enforcement needs to exist. Now, let's

21:44

just stirt with some of the very basic facts that

21:46

we know. If we care about safety,

21:48

we care about harm. The number one

21:50

thing we need to do is address the

21:53

actual root causes of violence

21:55

and harm in our society. The actual

21:58

root causes of harm in our society are

22:00

not the fact that we're not policed enough. Right,

22:02

we have the most police of any society,

22:04

with most prisons, prosecutions, courts, judges,

22:07

probation parole, if probation

22:09

parole, prosecutors, judges, and courts. If money

22:11

spent on that made us say we would have the safest

22:14

society in the history of the world, we don't.

22:17

What actually matters,

22:19

What actually matters for our safety is

22:21

investing in things like reducing poverty,

22:24

like safe permanent supportive housing, healthcare,

22:27

public health. I completely, I completely agree

22:30

with you on that. You know, I'm a firm believer

22:32

in that I think it's the you know, the cause

22:34

versus the symptom. There is

22:36

a confusing element that

22:38

that I think often gets overlooked, and it's the transition.

22:41

You know. I see it when people talk about electric

22:44

cause, I see it when people talk about policing,

22:46

and and it's the unfortunate truth that there

22:48

is always going to be a transition from one system

22:50

to another. Unless there is a revolution

22:53

that happens overnight, there needs to be a transition.

22:55

What do you propose for the transition in between? Because

22:57

we do have police now they are union

23:00

is that are very powerful that even the police say,

23:02

hey, we we can't say anything. The union

23:04

is controlling how this is doled out. So

23:06

what do you do for the interim? Because I think we can You and

23:08

I will agree on all of that. You know, those

23:10

are long term solutions, but in the in the in the short term,

23:12

what do you think we can do to keep people safe

23:15

and also find a way to move the system

23:17

over. The good thing is that we know exactly what

23:20

works and we have a lot of evidence.

23:22

So anyone who tells you that the solution even

23:24

in the shorter media in terms more funding for police,

23:26

that's like climate science denial there's overwhelming

23:29

research that the programs that already exist

23:32

UM permanent supportive housing, safe

23:34

consumption sites, violence interruption,

23:36

restorative justice, UM, investing

23:38

in safe places for communities to gather,

23:41

our at school, music theater programs, early childd

23:43

education. All of these things work, and they work

23:45

quickly. The problem is we don't have

23:48

the political power right often.

23:50

What happens is we identify, like in our work,

23:52

these enormous injustices, like there are five hundred

23:55

thousand human beings in cages right

23:57

now in this country because they can't afford to pay

23:59

cash to it out right, we identify that injustice,

24:01

and what happens a lot of prominent establishment

24:04

liberals they propose a reform,

24:06

but the reforms that are being proposed are

24:08

backed by those same interests

24:10

that created the current problem. And so we're

24:13

constantly being hit with short and medium term

24:15

solutions that are reforms that actually

24:17

exacerbate the problem. Let me give you an example.

24:20

Take the bail system. If you care about

24:22

the presumption of innocence, about people

24:24

being taken away from their children because they can't

24:26

make a monetary payment, like millions of children

24:29

from their parents every single year, UM, you

24:31

want to fix this problem. So enter the establishment

24:33

Democrats. What do they do? In most of these cities.

24:35

They're trying to replace the cash bail system

24:38

with privatized for profit electronic

24:40

monitoring, electronic incarceration. This

24:42

is enormously profitable. There are billions of dollars

24:44

to be made with private corporations who

24:46

want to convert our system of mass incarceration

24:49

to a system of mass electronic attention. I

24:52

as I say, I've I've always admired the

24:54

fact that you you almost have a start at home approach.

24:56

You know, you on spending your time fighting

24:59

with conserve those Republicans who believe in that

25:01

system. You're challenging liberals, you're

25:03

challenging progressive You're challenging Democrats

25:05

who claimed this to actually follow

25:07

through on it. So my question to you

25:09

would then be for for for the media

25:12

specifically, who you have a you know, a targeted

25:14

focus on, you know, for the newspapers,

25:16

for the publications, what do you think is a change that they could

25:18

make overnight, because that's

25:21

completely in house. What is something they could do right

25:23

now that could present a care

25:25

of vision of where America should be? I

25:27

think there are a few things. Number One, as they write

25:30

my newsletter recently, cover

25:32

the things that are most threatening to our health

25:34

and safety. Cover the hundred thousands,

25:39

Cover the one hundred thousand violations

25:41

of the Clean Water Act every year that are killing children,

25:43

that are killing families. Did you know that

25:47

there are one hundred thousand deaths

25:49

in the US alone and ten million across

25:51

the globe because of air pollution? That is five

25:53

times a number of homicides in the US alone. Did

25:56

you know how many people tens of thousands

25:58

die from eviction and and predatory

26:01

lending practices that put people into poverty. Um.

26:04

These are solvable problems. We know how

26:06

to solve them, but the people in this country

26:08

don't treat them urgently. And the reason is

26:10

because the volume of news stories they share

26:13

volume every single day is about shoplift

26:15

things, about this isolated crime. It's about that isolated

26:17

crime, and we're not talking about the threats

26:19

to our existence like the rise of fascism or,

26:21

for example, UM, the growing

26:24

right wing threat in this country to reproductive health. Did

26:26

you did you realize that? Um?

26:29

When you

26:31

know I've been looking and studying very carefully

26:34

how the media is covering Joe Biden's current

26:36

request for a hundred thousand new cops. When

26:38

I see liberal Democrats all over

26:40

the country, both in newsrooms and in

26:42

politics, UM talking about that

26:45

this isn't a big deal and we need to pass a hundred

26:47

cops just to have a little bit of talking points

26:49

and success for the mid terms. Understand this.

26:52

Voters who care about that and want a right wing

26:54

fascist force UM taking

26:56

over our society are going to vote for the Republicans

26:58

anyway. UM. People who care about

27:01

building and investing in communities are looking

27:03

for leadership on on things that we actually

27:05

know work, like better schools, early childhood

27:08

education programs in communities

27:10

run by the people who are most impacted by these problems.

27:12

I will say this story before

27:16

I let you go on. I know, I know why I'll let you go. I

27:19

will say this so this is where I will disagree

27:21

with you slightly. Time

27:24

and time again, You'll find when you actually

27:26

look at voting blocks, people

27:29

do not have access to that information and so they

27:31

do not vote accordingly. People will

27:33

say, you know what, I just want crime in

27:35

my neighborhood to go down. I feel like

27:37

the Democrats are not serious about crime. I

27:40

feel like, you know, we need better

27:42

cops or more cops. I feel like because

27:44

they maybe don't have the information or they haven't

27:46

been given any possible solution that

27:48

isn't policing, and so I think there's a difficult

27:51

disconnect that may go back to if they read

27:53

about it, if they see it, they would think

27:55

about it as a possibility. So Alex, thank you so much

27:57

for joining me on the show. They can tell me to thank you for your

27:59

time and hopefully we'll chat again.

28:02

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again and use that for three on top back. All right, stay

28:09

tuned because when we come back, they can larious Miss Pat,

28:11

I'll be journey on show. I'll go away. Thank

28:14

you God, thank you for the turn of pleasure. Welcome

28:24

back to here show. My guest to like is a very

28:26

funny comedian because you had to talk about her hit

28:28

BT plus series, The Miss Pat

28:30

Show. Please welcome Miss Pats. Chris

28:47

Pat welcomes to the Dinner Show. Thank you for

28:49

having me. I've been trying to get here for years. I

28:51

made it. You made it. Heard mean, you made I feel

28:53

like I made it talking to you. First things

28:55

first, congratulations, you know it is

28:58

so rare for a new show to come out in

29:00

this like flooded market and get the recognition

29:02

that yours has. Congratulations on the Emmy nomination

29:05

for It's

29:10

I don't know how to explain your should to people. I

29:12

go, it's hilarious. It is also

29:14

engaging. It feels like a sitcom

29:16

but for grown folk. Like if

29:19

you told me, if you pitched me and you said, I'm gonna make

29:21

a show that's about um a life

29:24

of selling crack, formally selling crack

29:26

and sexual assault and also

29:28

struggling as a single mother, and

29:30

it's all gonna be funny. I be like, that's impossible, but

29:33

you did it. I'd love to know how how do you

29:35

how do you think I can make all of this funny? Well?

29:37

I mean, this show was in the working for five years

29:39

with Lee Daniels, and we went through three

29:41

writers and he found somebody that can catch

29:44

my voice and you know I'm a comedian,

29:46

you know. He came up. He was like, Joini COOPI

29:48

is my co creator. He's like, Oh, we're gonna do

29:50

a Cusin sitcom and I'm like a cousin

29:53

sitcom, I can curse And

29:55

he was like, I think that would be great because I cursed

29:57

in my real day life. You know, I cursed every

29:59

day. Him tell it. I'm save

30:01

on Saturdays, but because

30:05

I don't, I don't want to go to church on Sunday. You have to tie.

30:08

But we

30:10

talk. You know what's what's great about this show

30:12

as we talk everything that I've been through,

30:14

and we threw it in with comedy because that's what I do

30:16

with my real life stand up. I take the

30:18

darkest things and I try to find it funny

30:21

and then I tell people, you know, you can't change

30:23

the past, so why why cry about it?

30:25

So I talked to a less station and I made

30:27

it funny. I talk getting shout in the back of the head

30:29

and made it funny. You see the audience right

30:31

now. I was gonna like, wait, what I could I could feel

30:33

you? But but that is exactly what you do. Is

30:35

you you use and I mean as comedians we understand

30:38

this, but it's so rich to be able to translate that

30:40

to an audience. You know you It feels authentic.

30:43

You don't minimize the experiences and

30:45

and every every single episode

30:47

of the show brings you into a

30:49

world that you may not be familiar with, but it makes

30:51

you understand people, you

30:54

know. That's that's that's what I feel like your show does. It makes me understand

30:57

someone who hasn't lived my life exactly,

30:59

and well I take it. Well, we take it.

31:01

And even though you haven't been through what I've been through, you

31:03

probably know a miss pat or you probably know

31:05

a victim, or you probably know somebody been through what I

31:07

would have been through. You know, just because you haven't been

31:09

molested, on mean nobody else haven't been molested. Just

31:11

because you haven't been shot, don't mean nobody else haven't been

31:13

shot. So we all kind of been

31:16

through stuff with families and friend members.

31:18

I just experience did and put it on TV with

31:21

comedy. You put it on TV with comedy. You've been successful

31:23

at doing it. You've got a wonderful cost that tells amazing

31:25

stories. I would love to know where you see

31:27

the series going from here? What do you hope to achieve? It's

31:30

gonna show you the real path of my life

31:32

as a comedian because I'm a comedian this show, so

31:35

eventually, before they cut out the lights,

31:37

I'm gonna become a famous comedian. Yeah,

31:42

I'm no food trap. I

31:45

gotta end it before

31:47

they turned out the life and let me give you the last episode.

31:50

Let's end this thing right. It is such

31:52

a wild story, you know. I sometimes people

31:55

will hear my story and they go like, that doesn't sound real. I'm like, but

31:57

it is really, but it doesn't sound like Christ. And then I read

31:59

your story. I was like, this is this is not real. One

32:01

person couldn't have gone through all of this. What

32:03

what is What is your secret beyond the comedy

32:05

that you use as as a tool to process

32:07

this information? Like where does your

32:09

resilience come from as a human being? Um,

32:12

I don't dwell on things I don't have control of. I

32:14

cannot change the past. So

32:20

and I'm you know, I'm not a big church

32:23

going person, but I just learned

32:25

when I could forgive the people who hum

32:27

me, I can start to live. So

32:30

my mother, my first kid's

32:32

father, who shot me in the back of the head. Those

32:35

were the two biggest devils in my

32:37

life. So once I forgave

32:39

them, I found happiness. I

32:42

love that. I love that.

32:44

I love the show. It's an honor to have you here,

32:47

come back when you won all the Emmys, all

32:49

the awards, super famous comedian. Everyone

32:51

should watch your Netflix special and I hope you'll join us

32:53

again and again and again, again and

32:55

again and again. Miss Pat, thank you so much for Thank

32:59

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