February 19, 2025 • 52 mins
The episode delves into the transformation of comedy, especially focusing on the shift of Saturday Night Live from a beloved pastime to a divisive political commentary. By sharing personal stories of how humor has shaped relationships and identity, we explore the importance of unity in confronting societal challenges.
• Discussion of childhood influences and comfort with humor
• Personal anecdotes of how comedy facilitated friendships
• Critique of the evolution of SNL into a political entity
• Reflection on the potential of humor to heal and unite
• Emphasis on the responsibility of comedians in today’s climate
Government inefficiency and political accountability take center stage as we confront the frustrations of skyrocketing net worths and mysterious Social Security payments to the implausibly aged. Is transparency across political lines achievable in a system that seems rife with fraud and waste? Join us as we critique the media's role in perpetuating division and delve into pressing topics like government audits, IRS scrutiny, and the need for a balanced approach to protecting personal freedoms. Through an engaging and critical lens, we aim to spark meaningful conversations about accountability and the path to a fairer system for all.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
How does it feel when one of your favorite childhood
TV shows identifies you as aracist?
And what does it mean when aunifying topic, an obvious call
to action, actually ends updoing the opposite and results
in yet more protesting, moredrama, more trauma, more hate
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and despair?
But thankfully, I'm here toclear the air that and so much
more on today's episode of Sharethe Struggle Podcast.
Let me tell you somethingEverybody struggles.
The difference is some peoplechoose to go through it and some
choose to grow through it.
The choice is completely yours.
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Which one you choose will havea very profound effect on the
way you live your life.
If you find strength in thestruggle, then this podcast is
for you.
Do you have a relationship thatis comfortable with
uncomfortable conversations?
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Uncomfortable conversationschallenge you, humble you and
they build you.
When you sprinkle a little timeand distance on it, it all
makes sense.
Most disagreements, they stemfrom our own insecurities.
You are right where you need tobe Back on time.
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We need to find what we need tofind.
We all take on what we find.
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh.
What a day.
What is hot, diddity-doo.
Good Lord Almighty, am I soexcited to be back with you?
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Oh, it's true, it is damn true.
How you doing, y'all, how'severybody doing?
Snowmageddon continues in theNortheast Yet another big-ass
storm.
Thankfully, I was able to getmy tractor back together and
handle.
That Also created moreopportunity for some deep
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thought.
Deep thought, tractor seasonssessions, whatever you want to
call it.
We've talked about it for a fewweeks now.
Y'all Take advantage of thatdowntime, and I mean it's not
downtime because you're busy,you're working, like if you're
on the Northeast and you'removing snow around.
I'm talking to you right now.
Okay, if you're doing thatmindless chore of moving snow,
whether you're in a plow truck,you're on a tractor, you're
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behind a shovel, whatever it isput some knowledge in your ears,
man, plug in, get thosewireless earbuds or old school
headphones, whatever it is, andjust filter in some positivity.
That's what I like to do.
So that's the benefit of allthis snow removal.
I've been cram jammingpositivity into my brain and
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it's got me feeling oh sopositive.
Except for partaking in mediamainstream media, nonsense media
, social media.
I don't know why I do it, y'all.
I don't know why I do it, andwe're going to start off this
episode of the podcast with alittle conversation about a show
that I used to love A show thatwas so critical to my
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upbringing.
I know that sounds ridiculous,but it's true, it's damn true.
Let me set the scene for you,america, as a young kid.
Let's just say that I struggledmentally with making friends.
I was a really shy kid growingup, believe it or not, and my
parents actually encouraged meto kind of come out of my shell
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and in doing so they actuallytaught me how to sell.
I know this sounds kind ofstrange, but when I was a little
kid you think back to theholiday season right, it's
Christmas time and I used tomake these Christmas ornaments
Like some were out of, likelittle beads and pipe cleaners,
and you make candy canes andwreaths and stuff like that.
So I would make these littleChristmas crafts as a young
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little lad.
And my parents used to always goto Dunkin' Donuts and hang out
with their friends and havecoffee every evening.
So, first off, my social groupwas a elder group.
Okay, I had no problem talkingto adults.
I think it was kids that I kindof struggled with, but even
then I still wasn't reallycomfortable approaching strange
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adults.
Does that make sense?
My parents' friends I had noproblem holding court and
telling jokes with them.
But if I didn't know you, Ireally got shy and just kind of
bottled up and just kind of shutdown a little bit.
So my parents actuallyencouraged me to do these arts
and crafts and I would standoutside the Dunkin' Donuts while
my parents were drinking coffeeand I would sell my arts and
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crafts and whatever I would makefrom those sales I would use
that on my Christmas gifts, likeI would buy my parents gifts
you know, siblings gifts, thingslike that.
So that tradition started withme as a really young kid and as
I got older that molded intolike more crafts, right, more
difficult things like going outin the woods and picking ferns
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and making wreaths and cuttingdown birch trees and making
Christmas candles, and it reallymorphed into a big deal where I
would be at flea markets on theweekends selling things and I
used to take all this money andfund my holidays or anything
that I wanted to do andaccomplish.
So my parents pushing me to getout there and sell really
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helped.
You think about I don't know ifthey still do it these days,
but old school back in the dayplaying football, like in my
middle school years you had togo sell those boxes of candy
bars, right.
You had to talk to strangers,you had to get out and sell
things, so doing those type ofthings, I think that really
opened me up.
But another thing that opened meup as I got older was comedy.
So I was always a big kid.
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There was times in my life whenI was picked on.
I overcame that.
I used to be bullied and Iovercame that and those
conversations and subjects andtopics are for another time and
maybe that's another greatepisode to hash out.
Now that we're in the 200s hereon episodes, maybe I can go
back and talk about some of them, topics that we've touched
early on.
But I overcame some of thosethings.
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But as I get a little bit older,I used comedy right, as I would
watch movies and things and asa young boy I was drawn to
sports and comedy from the veryearly onset and being around
adults and hearing them telljokes and seeing how they would
tell jokes, like I loved myparents, friends that were that
were comedians right, the onesthat were the showmans that
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could hold court and tellstories, and everybody loved
them and you could see everyoneget excited when they would show
up, Right, I was drawn to that.
I picked up on that and thosethings kind of kind of molded me
, right, it shaped my future andI was drawn to all forms of
comedy.
And as I got older I reallystarted to be hooked on Saturday
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Night Live, the weekly episodiccomedy show on NBC every
Saturday night at what was it?
1135 or something.
It started and I used to bedrawn to that show.
I used to watch it religiously.
I never missed an episode.
And Chris Farley Chris Farleywas my guy.
I loved Chris Farley To thisday.
I still think he's the greatestcomedian that's ever lived and
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you can hear, if you've beenlistening on to all these shows,
you can certainly hear thecomedic influence that Chris
Farley has had on me and I'venever strayed away from that.
So Chris was one of my biggestinspirations and there were so
many other comedians on therethat I fell in love with that
have gone on to become stars andcelebrities of today.
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Right, you think about AdamSandler, you think about Will
Ferrell, you think about thosepeople David Spade, you know
those those guys Norm MacDonald,kevin Nealon I just start
thinking um just back.
Molly Shannon, sherry Terry, orwhatever the heck it was all
these names, right Names Ihaven't even thought about in
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the longest time and before mygeneration of comedy.
I was on the tail end of ofEddie Murphy on Saturday Night
Live and I think John Belushiwas before my time, but I went
back and watched all thoseepisodes of Belushi and I've
seen a lot of Phil Hartman and Icould go on forever naming all
these cast members, chevy Chase.
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They were inspirations to me asI got into high school.
For me, I went to a small middleschool that does not my town
does not actually have a highschool, so we had to tour
certain high schools and thenyou could pick the one you want
to go to.
The city would pay, or yourtown tax dollars would pay for
you to go to any school in thestate, but they would bus you to
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three or four of them.
I chose one school, my localschool, biddeford High School,
which a few of my friends wentalong with me.
But you think about all thesekids you grew up with from
kindergarten now all going yourseparate ways.
It truly felt like we wereentering college, but we were
actually entering high schooland I'm going into high school.
I'm actually going and touringhigh schools at like age 12,
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right, I'm going into highschool.
I'm actually going and touringhigh schools at like age 12,
right, I'm going into highschool around like age 13.
So you're leaving all thesepeople and friends and teachers
that you're comfortable with,that you've grown up with,
you've become big man on campusin this K through eighth grade
setting, but now you're goinginto a freshman to senior
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atmosphere in a big city.
Coming from a small town.
It was intimidating.
The only way that I wascomfortable, the only way that I
could make friends, the onlyway that I could fit in, was to
be a comedian, and I leaned intomy Chris Farley roots, into
that like I don't even know howto describe it.
But that action-packed,in-your-face, heart-hating,
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moving comedy right, the onesthat use body language and
physicality, like running intowalls, hurting yourself, doing
dumb things, making fun ofyourself, which, ironically,
could make the situation worsefor you, because at some point,
when you're the type of comedianthat I was, where you make
people laugh at the expense ofyourself, eventually that
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expense becomes greater than thelaughter, because at some point
, even though you're the onetelling the jokes, you often go
home and cry yourself to sleepwondering are they laughing with
me or are they truly laughingat me?
Do they think my jokes arereality or they're jokes?
That's a vicious cycle to findyourself in, but that's again
another topic for another time.
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The point I'm making here is Ilove Saturday Night Live and
every weekend I would watchSaturday Night Live and I would
go back to school and I wouldjust throw back out all the
skits that I loved, like thegreatest latest Jim Brewer skit,
whatever it was.
I would throw it all back rightand then I became an integral
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part of this group of SNL fans,because the more you submerge
yourself into things and themore you show those things, the
more you find like-minded people.
We were talking about this onour love episode.
Common interests, core values,shared interests that's the best
way to find your soulmate.
It's also the best way to findyour best friends, and my circle
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of friends were highly drivenby by sports, by wrestling and
by comedy, and we used to gettogether on the weekends as I
got older, going to friends,friends' houses, partying, you
know, making dumb decisions,drinking beers, doing whatever.
I'm sitting around slugging a30-pack with my buddies and
we're watching Saturday NightLive and we're reenacting all
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the skits.
It then became this tradition.
Actually, if you listen to thebeginning of the show, every
week's show, that musicalbackground beats that get you
out of your seats, those, thoseyou know interlude gut checks
that come in when we need toswitch topics and conversations,
and the closing credits of theshows.
The background beats to thispodcast is led by one of my best
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friends, jeff Foran from theGut Truckers.
Me and Jeff.
I used to go to Jeff's houseevery weekend and we would throw
Saturday night live parties andwe would watch every weekend
and in between there we'd get acamcorder and we would record
our own skits and we would playthem back and we would watch
them and people would come overand watch them.
We'd throw parties and we wouldput on our own Saturday night
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live performances.
We had a whole cast ofcharacters that would join in.
So you could go to jeff's mom'shouse and hang out and we would
bust out our own personalsaturday night live skits for
you right there.
Ridiculous things I'm in jeff'smom's sweater, I'm breaking
family heirloom recliners, I'mfalling through tables, getting
hit in the head with toiletseats.
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Whatever the heck I had to doto make you laugh.
We would do it.
We had the most ridiculous,endless amounts of skits.
Saturday Night Live is anintegral part of me.
The comedy of that show hasbeen ingrained in me.
Now that's the long-windedversion of me painting the
photograph that we're about toframe.
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Here's the scenario.
As years go on, if you'reasking me, saturday Night Live
no longer was funny.
It lost its edge.
The best performers moved on.
They were big stars inHollywood and they just moved on
to greener pastures.
Either they passed on or theymoved on, and Saturday Night
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Live began to become extremelydifficult to watch.
So my weekly tradition ofwatching shows became maybe once
a month and then once everycouple of months.
Then, finally, I was like Idon't know if I can do this
anymore.
So I take some time off for theshow and then I go back to the
show and then I realized thenthat all it has become is a
political weapon.
That's all it's become.
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It's a political weapon withfull intentions of destroying
Donald Trump and downplaying anddisgracing any single
Republican on the face of theearth.
That's all the show became tobe.
When I then realized that LorneMichaels, owner and writer of
the show, is just a crazy,ridiculous, woke left-wing
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freaking jambalaya, right, Isaid I'm done.
Not only is this show not funnyanymore, it's now insulting me
and a great portion of thepopulation.
I'm done here.
I have not watched SaturdayNight Live in I would say 10
years, right, if you think aboutit.
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President Trump, four years,four years of Biden, and then
for a year or two before theirpresidency I just didn't find
the show funny.
So then you factor in thepresidency stuff and then I'm
out.
So, yeah, it's got to be closeto 10 years.
I haven't been watching theshow.
When I see a skit pop up forthe show or I accidentally turn
it on In 20 seconds, I realizedthis just isn't funny and I just
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move on.
Well, a couple weeks ago one ofmy best friends I just mentioned
to you, jeff Foran, the onethat we used to get together all
the time and watch all theseskits together he reached out
and he asked me hey, have youbeen paying attention to SNL 50?
And I said no, I really haven't.
I've given up on that show.
And he said you should go onand watch it back on Peacock,
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they're highlighting a lot ofthe old performers, like the
stuff that you and me used tolove.
I think that you would get akick out of it.
And I said well, if you'rerecommending it, then I can do
my best to go back on mycommitment here to boycott this
stuff.
I guess I'll make the exceptionif I'm going back and reliving
the good time.
So I agreed I would watch it,but I haven't found the time.
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Then over the weekend Jefftexts me and says SNL 50 on NBC
right now you need to put it on.
Reluctantly, I switch over.
I wasn't really watchinganything, I was working on my
phone anyways.
And uh, I switched over to SNLand I saw the tail end of a old,
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long running Will Ferrell biton um Robert Goulet.
That used to be funny and Iwatched it and it was.
It was kind of funny not whatit used to be.
And the very next skit was askit called Black Jeopardy and I
think Kenan Thompson was thehost of the actual show and I
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can't remember all thecharacters that were on it, but
one of them was Tracy Morgan andthe next one was Eddie Murphy
and Eddie Murphy was actually onthere pretending to be Tracy
Morgan and that was kind offunny.
Eddie Murphy was actually onthere pretending to be Tracy
Morgan and that was kind offunny.
Eddie Murphy was doing a goodjob being classic Eddie Murphy
and, uh, doing a great jobimpersonating, uh, tracy Morgan,
and I thought that that waskind of funny.
It wasn't got roaring funny,but it was kind of funny and I
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was like you know what, maybe,if they leave politics out of it
and they just keep bringing insome of the old characters like
Tracy Morgan and Eddie Murphy,I'll watch some of this and I'll
shoot messages back and forthwith Jeff like the old times.
Well, that didn't last very long, because about 30 seconds later
, tom Hanks comes out dressed uplike he's pretending to be some
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kind of slouch, lazy Republicanand what he deems to be so
right, and I'm not saying that'swhat he looked like, but that's
what he was trying to portray,because he was wearing jeans and
a t-shirt and a blue flannelshirt and a Make America Great
Again hat, which that outfitalone in itself is something
that you could very easily seeme wearing any day.
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So, number one, you're tryingto pretend to be a slob, but
you're also wearing what I'mwearing a lot of times anyway.
So you're certainly signalingmyself out and I don't remember
what the question is, but hemakes this comment about.
You know, I think thatsomething along the lines of the
world would be a much betterplace.
If you know, we all leaned intoGod a little bit more and Kenan
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Thompson was like you know, Iagree with you and he came over
to him and when he went to shakehis hand he backed up and was
fearful and scared and didn'twant to shake a black person's
hand.
I sat there staring at the TV,disappointed, and I realized
this shit is never going tochange.
It's never going to change Ifyou are Donald Trump or you are
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a fan of Donald Trump.
If you are a Republican, you, inthe eyes of Saturday Night Live
, are a racist.
You, in the eyes of so much ofthis mainstream Hollywood
personalities like Tom Hanks,you are a racist.
Tom Hanks, somebody that everysingle person listening right
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now has given that man money.
We've all watched Forrest Gump.
We've all gone to multiplemovies of his or rented movies
or bought DVDs wherever the heckit is.
We've recital lines for moviesforever.
I've impersonated Forrest Gumpfor the longest time, doing
jokes, always pulling that outof my back pocket.
Here you are calling me aracist Again.
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The show that I grew up on theshow that inspired me so much.
If I'd only known then that theowner behind the show the
financial dollars behind theshow thought I was a lazy white
piece of trash, I wouldn't havegiven my life to it.
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I wouldn't have given mysupport to it.
All the money I've spent onSaturday Night Live backed
things like movies and t-shirtsand you know just all the
nonsense.
I can't believe it.
I also really hope that, afterwe had a resounding yes in the
election, a resounding yes thatsaid America is ready for change
, a resounding yes that saidAmerica wants Donald Trump, a
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resounding yes that says it'stime to make a difference.
I thought this was theopportunity for some of these
shows, some of these Hollywoodpersonalities, to realize put
down the hate, accept the fateand move on.
But no, let's continue to dodumb shit, to alienate, to
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segregate, to call out and tocrap all over a large portion of
the society.
And think about it, folks.
Donald Trump won the popularvote.
That means that Saturday NightLive and Tom Hanks decided it
was a good idea to call themajority of the American
population racist.
I can't do it y'all.
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We are continuing to just breedhate.
I don't understand it.
I don't know why we continue todo this.
It's uncalled for, it'sridiculous.
My strike with Saturday NightLive continues.
Thankfully I didn't give themmore than two and a half minutes
of my time on a television.
I can't believe it.
Tom Hanks, you're a certifiedpiece of shit.
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And Lorne Michaels, you are thewalnut wheels in the turd.
You know what I mean.
If Tom Hanks is a piece of crap, then you're the trusty old
walnuts that nobody could digestas wheels on the poop log of
transportation.
I don't know.
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I hate it.
I'm disappointed.
I don't know.
I hate it.
I'm disappointed.
That's just it, folks.
I'm not fired up mad, I'm justdisappointed, man.
I'm disappointed that it alwayshas to come back to race.
I'm disappointed that theydecided to take jabs at the
majority of the population inthis country for no damn good
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reason.
Number one it wasn't even funny.
Number two, it wasn't evencalled for or there was no need
for it.
In the show.
You literally removed EddieMurphy, who was the one funny
thing happening on my television, and replaced him with Tom
Hanks' old decrepit ass tellingstupid shit.
None of it made sense.
You don't even in a game show.
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You're not just going to pull aperson out and throw somebody
else in.
None of it makes sense.
You don't even in a game showyou're not just going to pull a
person out and throw somebodyelse in.
None of that even made sense.
You were so hell bent on makingthat segment about race.
You were so hell bent on shittalking Donald Trump and
alienating the large portion ofthe population that is
Republican that you said youknow what?
I got an idea.
We're just going to do it righthere.
You know what?
Go fuck yourself, gotcha.
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The rain is kickin' his mind.
Business for the kids.
Thank you, jeff Fulman and theGut Truckers for that little
musical interlude and also thankyou, jeff, for the first
segment of the show, because ifyou didn't put my ass up to
watch on that garbage on Sundayevening, then, uh, I don't know.
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I don't know what else I wouldhave started the show with.
So thanks for that and thanksfor pouring salt on the grief of
Saturday Night Live for me.
I guess I appreciate that, butwho knows what I would have
started with if it wasn't forJeff.
Actually, I do.
Now I would have started withthe nonsense that we're about to
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talk about next, because thereshould be a unifying task right
now taking place in this country, led in the United States
government.
You know what that task isGetting rid of fraud and getting
rid of waste, getting rid ofnonsense, getting rid of
nonsense.
That should be the number onetask, no matter which side of
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the aisle it is you sit on,whether you're a Democrat,
whether you're a Republican,whether you voted for President
Trump or the other lady,whatever it is.
We as a society, we asAmericans, should be unified in
the quest to clean up thegovernment, to get rid of the
fraud, to get rid of the waste,to balance the budget Should be
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pretty unifying.
You know why I can say this isto get rid of the fraud, to get
rid of the waste, to balance thebudget Should be pretty
unifying.
You know why I can say this isunifying?
Because all the way back in theearly years of Obama himself,
he sat in front of all Americansand said we need to eliminate
the waste, we need to find ifthere's fraud and get it out of
government.
America is going broke.
It's time to balance the budget.
We need to get into the books.
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And all Democrats supported himand I'm sure all Republicans
supported him.
But what happened?
Nothing.
More waste, more fraud, moredeceit.
It all happened.
Here's the thing, folks.
President Trump ran on apromise.
He ran on a promise to get ridof the waste.
He ran on a promise.
He ran on a promise to get ridof the waste.
He ran on a promise to balancethe budget.
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He ran on a promise to fixAmerica and to drain the swamp.
All freaking campaign long andhalf of his rallies.
He brought Elon Musk with himand they stood in front of you
and they talked about Doge, theDepartment of Government
Efficiency, and what they weregoing to do and how they were
going to go, line item by lineitem, through the budget,
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through the books, through thecatalogs, through the papers,
through the computers, throughwhatever the hell it has to be,
to balance the budget, to findthe fraud and to take care of
the nonsense.
He promised this.
We, the American people, votedfor this.
You understand, we voted forthis.
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He won the Electoral Collegeand he won the popular vote by a
landslide.
That means the majority ofAmericans agreed it's time to
expose the fraud.
It's time to remove the waste.
Here's the only differencebetween Donald J Trump and Joe
Biden and Barack Obama and everyother president that came
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before.
This president is actuallydelivering on his campaign
promises and it's making peoplesick.
Now I could stand here rightnow and tell you how proud I am
to be American.
I could stand here right nowand preach to you how exciting
these changes have been for me.
I could talk for hours aboutthe fact that now every day,
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multiple times a day, I put onFox News to watch what my
president is up to.
I could stand here and preachabout how much I love
transparency president is up to.
I could stand here and preachabout how much I love
transparency.
We talked even in a relationshipepisode that you don't demand
trust.
The man himself, elon Musk,said that trust comes from
transparency.
This cabinet, thisadministration, is nothing but
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transparency.
When they do something, theyshow you.
They actually post the receiptsto social media.
It is un-freaking-believable.
I can't even count how manypress conferences I've seen with
Donald Trump Multipleconferences in a day.
We could talk for hours aboutall the inspirational leaders
that he's already met with,leaders of foreign countries,
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all the things that he's alreadydone.
The executive orders, themilestone changes, the fact that
he signed an executive order tokeep transgenders out of
women's sports, to keep littleboys out of girls' sports.
The fact that, instead of goingaround sniffing children, he
signed an executive order toprotect the little girls of our
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country.
That now has a real soft spotfor this proud freaking girl dad
over here.
When I watched President Trumpsign an executive order,
surrounded by dozens and dozensof little girls wearing their
basketball jerseys, all theirsports jerseys, their cheering
uniforms, in the Oval Officesurrounding the president as he
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signed the executive order, Ithink about the difference
between that moment in time andan old, creepy-ass president
sniffing kids and making themfeel uncomfortable.
I think about that and we couldtalk for hours about that.
And I could talk to you aboutthe fact that our president is
trying to end wars, that ourpresident is getting hostages
home.
I can talk about the fact thatat 10.30 at night, I watched our
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president stand outside in fullsuit greeting a hostage that he
rescued from Russia withoutgiving up a damn thing, a
hostage that President Biden letgo.
Let sit there and rot.
Instead, he wanted to bringhome WNBA star Brittany Griner.
Let me slow this down for you,star Brittany Griner.
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Let me slow this down for you.
Let's free the celebrity femaleblack gay activist Brittany
Garner.
Let's get her home.
The celebrity LGBTQ activist,let's get her home.
Let's get her home.
When we leave the white schoolteacher in prison to rot, just
we could sit on that for amoment.
But I laid in bed and watchedwhile I was getting ready to go
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to sleep.
I watched our president greetand receive that hostage 1030 at
night standing outside in asnowstorm in a suit, and then
holds court in the White Houseand lets him answer questions
and brings in his 95-year-oldmother to meet him.
I watch those things right, thepeace unifier that we have as a
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president.
I could stand on here on my highbox and I could gloat and boast
and yell and scream from thehigh heavens about how much I
love what our president's doing,all the great things that he's
doing.
I could go on for hours andhours and hours.
You already can feel thepassion and know that I can, but
that's not what I'm going to dotoday.
What I'm going to do today isI'm going to talk about common
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sense.
What I'm going to talk abouttoday is the fact that it should
take common sense and thereshould be a common agreement
between all Americans white,black, red, whatever color you
can think of, no matter whatside of the aisle Republican,
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independent, democrat, I don'tcare you should realize that you
don't want America wasting yourhard-earned dollars.
Right?
Can we say that for a minute?
If you can go to the grocerystore and complain about the
price of eggs because there'sbirds dying from flus, if you
can complain about the price ofthe gas pump, but you don't want
to complain about yourhard-earned tax dollars going to
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the government and gettingwasted on nonsense that don't
make any sense.
So we're going to talk aboutcommon sense.
I don't care what you stand for,I don't care who you voted for,
but what I do think is a commonground that we can all stand on
is that when we work hard everyday, when we work hard every
week, and at the end of thatweek, when there's money, hard
earned cash, coming out of yourpaycheck that you could use to
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feed your family, to overcomethose high gas prices, to
overcome the lack of eggs onyour store shelves, those hard
earned dollars that would go ahell of a long ways for your
family to feed and to provideand to do what is necessary.
Instead, they land in thegovernment, they go to the arms
of the government and you justmake in your mind the exception.
This is the way it has to be,and it's the way it needs to be
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because the government needs themoney and it's going to take
care of people like me.
The government is going to helpthose that need help.
I support those programs, Isupport those choices.
But when you find out yourhard-earned money isn't going to
the right places, when you findout nonsense like condoms being
sent to freaking all over thecountry right, what is it?
Gaza and Mozambique?
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We think about millions ofdollars for a Sesame Street
program to be built overseas,for drag queen shows to be put
on all over the freaking freeworld?
Think about these things,people.
You're sending money, yourhard-earned dollars to the
government and they're doingwhatever the hell they want to
do with it.
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There's places outside of ourcountry which we can argue.
I could argue all day longabout the fact that I'd rather
have all taxes be spent in ourcountry, because it's our
hard-earned money and ourcountry's suffering.
But if we want to go out andhelp other countries, we can
have a conversation about that.
But the difference is helpinganother country and going out
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and funding LGBTQ activities inother countries.
There's a big differencebetween spending millions and
millions of dollars on sexchanges overseas.
There's a big difference.
We can go on for hours aboutthe nonsense of these programs.
$59 million going to athree-star hotel in New York
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City to house immigrants Allthis nonsense.
Let me ask you this, boys andgirls Would you rather have the
money at home in your account,buying eggs, buying gas, buying
oil, buying propane, feedingyour family, providing for the
ones you care and love about, orwould you rather have it
housing immigrants in a New YorkCity friggin' hotel?
Would you rather have itfunding sex changes for field
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mice out in freaking Pakistan?
Think about it.
We can all agree that thereshould be accountability for the
money that comes from you andme.
I believe Doze has already foundand identified I want to say
it's $55 billion in fraudalready.
I've seen reports that it's 55billion dollars in fraud already
.
I've seen reports that it's upto 80 billion dollars.
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It keeps rising, but as oftoday, today, doge has found 4.7
trillion dollars in virtuallyuntraceable treasury payments.
4.7 trillion dollars that thetreasury has sent out.
That is, they're saying, atthis point in time, virtually
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untraceable Because thegovernment doesn't even follow
checks and balances.
They're sending out these majorpayments and not even filling
out line items to identify whatthey're for.
They're writing checks.
They don't even have anythingin the damn memo field.
Think about this, guys youwouldn't write a check for home
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heating oil without putting inthe memo field heating oil.
Our government does notprescribe the same checks and
balances that we do, but theydemand that we do.
We're talking right now aboutpeople that are going AWOL over
this.
There is protest.
There's protest in my homestate going on right now over
Elon Musk and President Trumpand how everything they're doing
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is wrong and corrupt.
And on President's Day, therewas protest in every state all
across the country about what'shappening right now.
And I ask you why, why?
Why are you okay with yourmoney going to waste?
Why are you okay with $4.7trillion virtually disappearing?
You realize that yourgovernment is broke, right?
You realize that this countryis on the verge of being
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completely, utterly broke, andyou do realize that President
Trump and Elon Musk can fix thatin a year.
Listen, there's a reason whythere's no checks and balances.
There's a reason why there's noproof to follow the footsteps,
because, let me just tell youthis when a politician enters
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into Congress, into the Senate,into whatever, and their average
pay is $50,000, $100,000,$200,000, and after a few years
their net worth is $4 million.
There's an issue there.
You don't get into politics toget rich unless you're screwing
the system.
I understand, I fullyunderstand, why these crooked
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politicians are in an uproar.
I fully, wholeheartedlyunderstand why these crooked
politicians are in an uproar.
I fully, wholeheartedlyunderstand why these deadbeat
politicians like Adam Schiff arein a freaking uproar about Elon
Musk and President Trump andwhat's happening.
Because their gravy train isgoing to run out, because
they're going to be exposed,because the American people, the
American voter, is going to seeand know that they've been
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robbing you blind.
What I don't understand is whythe common man and woman is
upset.
What I don't understand is whyfellow taxpayers are standing
out protesting what's happening.
I don't understand why you'renot okay with this.
I don't understand why youdon't prescribe to an audit.
Let me just tell you this thepeople that you're protesting
for, the people that you're onthe side of, let me just tell
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you this the people that you'reprotesting for, the people that
you're on the side of, are thesame ones that agreed to hire
80,000 IRS agents to audit youand to audit me, because they
have a hard time believing it'sokay for you to process over
$600 in Venmo.
You need a freaking receipt andyou better pay taxes on $600 in
your Venmo account.
We need 80,000 IRS agents tofind and seek out all the
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Americans that aren't payingtaxes.
But guess what?
The American government canlose $4.7 trillion and say
fucking oops, come on.
If the government can audit you, then we, the people, can audit
the government when we, thepeople, are.
The people can audit thegovernment when we, the people,
are paying the government andour money isn't going anywhere
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but to the wrong damn places.
What it's intended for isn'twhat it's going for.
They might put up this hope anddream and bubbly scheme on all
the great and good things thatit's doing how it's, you know,
taking care of the sick andfeeding the hungry but the truth
is, for every dollar that goesto the sick or goes to the
hungry, millions go into thepockets of cricket politicians,
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and it's time to expose it, andElon and Trump have been
exposing it, and I don't knowwhy we continue to be confused
by the nonsense.
I can't even watch local newsto see the spin and
ridiculousness that's takingplace.
It is hard to run from thefacts.
America Anytime they make astatement, they show the receipt
.
Here's the money, here's whereit's going.
It's $59 million going to ahotel room.
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Think about the difference here$4.7 trillion with no
ever-loving receipt.
If you can't give a receipt tothe federal government for your
Venmo account, you, sir, arescrewed.
I see all these people on TV,all these politicians and media
personalities and talking headssaying I don't want Elon Musk
snooping around my personalcredit.
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I don't want Elon Musk checkingon my Social Security dummies
and my bank accounts.
He is the richest, ever-lovingman in the world.
I don't think he needs your 250bucks, cindy.
Think about it.
If I could trust anybodylooking at my social security
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number and my bank accounts,number one I'd be the richest
freaking man on the planet.
Okay, because he doesn't needmy broke ass.
Maybe he'd accidentally stumblearound and leave a few bucks in
it because he felt bad for myfat ass.
I mean, what's the worst thatcould happen?
Right?
I'm not worried about that.
What you should be worriedabout is the fact that you're
fighting him, seeing it legallywhen he's on TV telling you it's
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very easy to find it illegallybecause we have no checks and
balances because we have nosecurities.
Think about this.
Why are people so ever lovingdumb?
Elon Musk and Doze is nottrying to snoop on you and your
bank account and where yourfunds are going, when it comes
to you and how you're gettingpaid.
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They're looking to snoop aroundon what happens with your
accounts when your money comesin, when your tax dollars comes
in, and it ends up in the pocketof a damn politician.
That's what they're snoopingaround for.
When I think about the factthat the government has been
saying they need more IRS agentsto snoop on you and me and
you're standing outside in thefreezing cold in Maine in a
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snowstorm protesting that wecan't let the government be
audited, this is notconstitutional.
This is unconstitutional.
Listen, they audit you all thetime.
As a young man that had hishouse and livelihood and
everything he owned and hisfamily worked so hard for to own
when I grew up having threatsfrom the IRS that that would all
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be taken from us.
I remember coming home andhaving answering machines
messages from the IRS that thatwould all be taken from us.
I remember coming home andhaving answering machines
messages from the IRSthreatening things.
I remember the meetings myparents used to have.
I remember the discussions.
I remember all the things wesold to keep the things that
were most important, because theIRS said that we owed them
money.
Them dirty sons of bitchestried to take every single thing
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we own and tried to put us outof home.
If you think for one iota of asecond, I feel bad about the
government being audited you cansuck on a Coney Island footlong
.
I can't believe it.
I can't ever love and believeit.
Why are so many Americanspissed about this?
Let's find the one thing thatthey could remotely try to
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complain about people losingtheir jobs.
All these people are losingtheir jobs.
I can't deal with it.
I can't get behind this.
Well, I do believe the finalnumber was about 75,000 people
that President Trump said if youresign, we'll give you $20,000,
right, or some of them, I think, was $30,000.
$20,000, right, or some of them, I think, was $30,000.
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You're getting paid for them ahalf a year's pay to just walk
away, to go do something else,to take your resume that you
boosted working for thegovernment, that big fat check
and get a reset and a start over.
Number one I didn't even agreewith paying these sons of
bitches.
But what I'm going to say toyou is, if there's people out
there that are saying, hey, Ihave a problem, All these people
are getting laid off, well,here's the deal, man.
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Here's your cash.
This is what you can do.
Can you imagine that factoryreset for me?
And you, if someone said, hey,guess what, try something new?
Here's 30 grand, go, knockyourself out, take a chance,
dream big, do something amazing.
Wouldn't you jump for joy overthat man?
I wish I had that freakingoffer.
But here's the thing.
Here's the facts.
America, when a business isn'tdoing good, when a business is
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suffering, you lay people off.
As somebody that ran a HarleyDavidson dealership, I can
honestly tell you, when thenumbers suck, when the business
can't pay its bills, it isforced to let good people go.
Here's the thing America can'tpay its bills.
America, the business is goingbroke.
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Before America, the businessgoes bankrupt, it has to do
what's right for business.
Unfortunately, that's letpeople go.
We're letting people go.
It happens, and a lot of thesepeople deserve to be let go.
Because government jobs ifthere's one thing that is clear
as day, is redundancy.
There's so much nonsense,bullshit, jobs in government
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that it's ridiculous, andthey're all overpaid on it.
I'm not saying that therewasn't good people that lost
their job, but good people losetheir job every damn day in this
country.
That's the facts of life.
That's the facts of life.
That's part of this world.
We all lose jobs from time totime.
I've been fired over a dozentimes, you understand, but they
didn't have a damn pressconference for me saying, oh my
lord, keith Liberty was firedfrom Radio Shack on New Year's
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Eve over the telephone.
There wasn't no damn pressconference for me.
Where was the press conferencefor the 14,000 people that, on
day one in Joe Biden'spresidency, got fired when he
said no to the Keystone Pipeline?
There was 14,000 people thatlost their job with a soup of a
freaking pen.
And you know what he said tothem Learn to cope.
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That's what he said, presidentBiden.
Learn to cope.
You lost your job.
Learn to cope.
Here's the thing.
All y'all dumbasses out therein the snow, sleet and freezing
rain protesting my president,elon Musk, I got a little piece
of advice from your personalpresident Learn to cope.
We're cutting the bullshit,we're losing the weight.
It's time for America to getback out there and date.
You understand what I'm saying.
It's the great rebuild.
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It's a beautiful comeback, thegolden age of America, and I
couldn't be any more ever-lovinghappy for it.
I hope y'all jump on the goshdarn train, toot, toot, all
aboard.
It's the American Express,mother trucker, and I love my
president and I love Elon Musk,and if you don't love that, then
fuck you.
Sorry, I got a little deepthere.
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That was a Will Ferrell line.
That's how I tied SaturdayNight Live into the back half of
the podcast here, because WillFerrell used to be one of the
greatest characters on SaturdayNight Live and he went on to
become a big movie star.
And when he was a movie starwhich I guess he still is one of
his best movies was TalladegaNights.
And one of his commercials onTalladega Nights, when he
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started winning races and doingsponsorships, was for Big Red
and he stood there in his littlerace uniform and he said if you
don't chew Big Red, then fuckyou.
So here's the thing.
If what I just said about mypresident, elon Musk, offends
you, well, I guess we're eventhere Saturday Night Live,
because a few days ago youcalled me a racist.
That, boys and girls, is howyou tie in the first segment of
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the show to the back end of theshow.
Good God, almighty.
In all seriousness, outside ofthat ever-loving beautiful,
powerful rant that I just wenton, I want to thank Elon Musk
for two things.
Number one saving free speechfor all Americans, because when
he bought Twitter and he exposedthe nonsense, he saved free
speech for America, and now he'ssacrificing everything about
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him, his reputation, hisbusiness, to save America, to
balance the budget, to find thefraud and to give American
people back the power.
For years, your government hasbeen lying to you.
Your government has beenstealing from you.
Elon Musk is only here toexpose all that to you.
Your government has beenstealing from you.
Elon Musk is only here toexpose all that to you, to give
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back the American people thepower that we so deserve.
Because the truth is, us asAmericans, us as American
taxpayers, should have a lawsuittowards the American government
for our damn hard-earned moneyback, because right now we could
all use it, instead of themhaving inexplainable excuses on
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why they lost it, on where itwent and how it was spent, and
all the receipts that they lostand the checks that weren't even
signed.
You know what?
Speaking of checks, before wego today, before we close the
show today.
Let's talk about a few checks.
Let's talk about some Socialsecurity checks, because I
thought it was real interestingwhen Elon Musk was standing in
the Oval Office of PresidentTrump and a little ex was
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standing there and he was givinga little roundabout you know
impromptu Q&A session and hestarted talking about social
security and how he's seenpeople in the age of 150 still
cashing social security checks.
They shouldn't be gettingsocial security checks.
It should be in the GuinnessBook of Records for being the
oldest person alive and thatkind of piqued my interest.
And then recently Elon releaseda list of people on social
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security.
Let me just point this to youreal quick.
Folks I'm going to run down somenumbers here.
People, americans, from the ageof 120 to 129, 120 to 129.
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We have given $3.4 billion topeople age 120 to 129.
Is there some people out therearound 130 years of age?
Maybe $3.5 billion worth, Idon't know.
Let's speed it up a little bit140 to 149 years old how many
Americans do you know that are140 to 149 years old?
I don't know.
Well, $3.5 billion worth ofSocial Security payments are
getting cashed by people in that.
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140 to 149 years old, 150 to159, $1.3 billion, freaking
dollars.
There's people in here that are170 to 179 years old $6 billion
worth.
What about 180 to 189?
$695.
That's got to be the highest,right.
There can't be anybody in herefrom 190 to 199.
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Well, you're wrong.
There is.
There's Americans up to the ageof 199 years old $448 Social
Security checks.
That's got to be it, right,nope, wrong.
We got Americans from age 200to 209, 879 bucks worth, I might
add.
We've even got Americans fromthe age 210 to 219.
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How in the hell has the USgovernment not realized they're
writing Social Security checkswith $866 to Americans age 219
years?
Oh man, that's got to be it,right?
Nope?
Actually, there's more peoplein this country that are between
the ages of 220 and 229.
$1,039 worth heading to someindividuals between the age 220
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and 229.
We've got people on here age240 to 249, and we even have
somebody from the age 360 to 369.
America, if you can stand up andbe okay with this kind of
bullshit, then get out the way.
America, if you don't thinkthere needs to be an audit,
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because we're sending thousandsof dollars to people ages 200,
we're sending billions ofdollars to people that are
cashing social security checksthat are age 150, 160, 180, then
something's wrong with y'all.
Some of the shit that's beenexposed is ridiculous the fact
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that there's no paper trail, thefact that there's checks with
no memos, the fact that there'sthese accounts that are getting
fed, or these little feederprograms, too, that, in a
roundabout way, just end upright back with some freaking,
crooked deadbeat politician.
It's not okay To all the peopleout there saying we didn't vote
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for Elon Musk.
We didn't elect Elon Musk.
Well, I didn't elect AnthonyFauci.
I didn't elect his deadbeat assto run the CDC, but instead all
Americans had to sit back ontheir couch and watch Fauci tell
you that you couldn't leave thehouse today, to watch Fauci
tell you you needed to wear amask when you went and took a
piss in the bathroom today.
That son of a bitch wasn'telected by you, wasn't elected
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by me and we all took ordersfrom him.
I don't want to hear nobodytelling me oh, we didn't vote
for Elon Musk.
I'm not going to listen to ElonMusk Y'all.
We didn't vote for Fauci and hetold our ass that we couldn't
get together for Thanksgiving.
He told you you couldn't spendtime at Christmas with your
family and the ones you love,because it wasn't safe, because
you were putting all Americansat risk spending time with your
family, that son of a bitchrunning the CDC.
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He put more people out of jobsthan Elon Musk and President
Trump will do with theircutbacks.
You understand, I know goodbusinesses and great people that
lost their jobs because theyfolded, because the economy
folded.
I know tons of people that losttheir jobs because they
wouldn't take the vaccine thatFauci said you needed to take,
that Biden mandated you to take.
How many healthcare workers inthis country lost their jobs?
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How many military, how manyfirefighters, policemen, how
many people lost their job inthis country because they didn't
take the damn vaccine thatFauci who nobody voted for said
you had to take?
You can put this bullshit upyour ass.
I'm sick of it.
I'm tired of it.
I'm tired of protest.
I'm tired of nonsense.
This is a topic that we shouldall be unified on.
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We should all have checks andbalances, because, god damn it,
the government demands that youhave them for yourself.
We, as the people, shoulddemand they have them too, and
whatever comes of it, so be it.
Put it all on the table.
That's how I feel about it.
That's my two cents.
I hope it made a little bit ofsense.
I hope you're feeling a littlebit angry, because maybe I am,
but it's all for a good reason,because all that's going to come
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out of this is nothing but thedamn best America.
We're on to big, bold,beautiful things.
It's the golden age of America.
All aboard, sons of bitches.
Until the next time.
Thank you for supporting myAmerican band.
That's it and that's all.
Biggie Smalls.
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If you're a Loud, proud Americanand you find yourself just
wanting more, find me on YouTubeand Facebook at Loud Proud
American, or the Face page, asmy mama calls it.
If you're a fan of the GrahamCracker, you want to find me on
Instagram.
Or all the kids aretickety-talking on the TikTok.
You can find me on both ofthose at loud, underscore, proud
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underscore American.
A big old thank you to the boysfrom the Gut Truckers for the
background beats and the themesong to this here podcast.
If you are enjoying what you'rehearing, you can track down the
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Gut Truckers on Facebook.
Just search Gut Truckers.
Give them, motherfuckers, alike too.
Make it bleed, I hate to say Itold you so.
Feel the pain.
Make it bleed, I hate to say Itold you, so I truly thank you
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for supporting my American dream.
Now go wash your fucking hands,you filthy savage.
How does it feel when one of your favorite childhood
TV shows identifies you as aracist?
And what does it mean when aunifying topic, an obvious call
to action, actually ends updoing the opposite and results
in yet more protesting, moredrama, more trauma, more hate
(00:21):
and despair?
But thankfully, I'm here toclear the air that and so much
more on today's episode of Sharethe Struggle Podcast.
Let me tell you somethingEverybody struggles.
The difference is some peoplechoose to go through it and some
choose to grow through it.
The choice is completely yours.
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Which one you choose will havea very profound effect on the
way you live your life.
If you find strength in thestruggle, then this podcast is
for you.
Do you have a relationship thatis comfortable with
uncomfortable conversations?
(01:02):
Uncomfortable conversationschallenge you, humble you and
they build you.
When you sprinkle a little timeand distance on it, it all
makes sense.
Most disagreements, they stemfrom our own insecurities.
You are right where you need tobe Back on time.
(01:26):
We need to find what we need tofind.
We all take on what we find.
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh.
What a day.
What is hot, diddity-doo.
Good Lord Almighty, am I soexcited to be back with you?
(01:46):
Oh, it's true, it is damn true.
How you doing, y'all, how'severybody doing?
Snowmageddon continues in theNortheast Yet another big-ass
storm.
Thankfully, I was able to getmy tractor back together and
handle.
That Also created moreopportunity for some deep
(02:08):
thought.
Deep thought, tractor seasonssessions, whatever you want to
call it.
We've talked about it for a fewweeks now.
Y'all Take advantage of thatdowntime, and I mean it's not
downtime because you're busy,you're working, like if you're
on the Northeast and you'removing snow around.
I'm talking to you right now.
Okay, if you're doing thatmindless chore of moving snow,
whether you're in a plow truck,you're on a tractor, you're
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behind a shovel, whatever it isput some knowledge in your ears,
man, plug in, get thosewireless earbuds or old school
headphones, whatever it is, andjust filter in some positivity.
That's what I like to do.
So that's the benefit of allthis snow removal.
I've been cram jammingpositivity into my brain and
(02:51):
it's got me feeling oh sopositive.
Except for partaking in mediamainstream media, nonsense media
, social media.
I don't know why I do it, y'all.
I don't know why I do it, andwe're going to start off this
episode of the podcast with alittle conversation about a show
that I used to love A show thatwas so critical to my
(03:14):
upbringing.
I know that sounds ridiculous,but it's true, it's damn true.
Let me set the scene for you,america, as a young kid.
Let's just say that I struggledmentally with making friends.
I was a really shy kid growingup, believe it or not, and my
parents actually encouraged meto kind of come out of my shell
(03:38):
and in doing so they actuallytaught me how to sell.
I know this sounds kind ofstrange, but when I was a little
kid you think back to theholiday season right, it's
Christmas time and I used tomake these Christmas ornaments
Like some were out of, likelittle beads and pipe cleaners,
and you make candy canes andwreaths and stuff like that.
So I would make these littleChristmas crafts as a young
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little lad.
And my parents used to always goto Dunkin' Donuts and hang out
with their friends and havecoffee every evening.
So, first off, my social groupwas a elder group.
Okay, I had no problem talkingto adults.
I think it was kids that I kindof struggled with, but even
then I still wasn't reallycomfortable approaching strange
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adults.
Does that make sense?
My parents' friends I had noproblem holding court and
telling jokes with them.
But if I didn't know you, Ireally got shy and just kind of
bottled up and just kind of shutdown a little bit.
So my parents actuallyencouraged me to do these arts
and crafts and I would standoutside the Dunkin' Donuts while
my parents were drinking coffeeand I would sell my arts and
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crafts and whatever I would makefrom those sales I would use
that on my Christmas gifts, likeI would buy my parents gifts
you know, siblings gifts, thingslike that.
So that tradition started withme as a really young kid and as
I got older that molded intolike more crafts, right, more
difficult things like going outin the woods and picking ferns
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and making wreaths and cuttingdown birch trees and making
Christmas candles, and it reallymorphed into a big deal where I
would be at flea markets on theweekends selling things and I
used to take all this money andfund my holidays or anything
that I wanted to do andaccomplish.
So my parents pushing me to getout there and sell really
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helped.
You think about I don't know ifthey still do it these days,
but old school back in the dayplaying football, like in my
middle school years you had togo sell those boxes of candy
bars, right.
You had to talk to strangers,you had to get out and sell
things, so doing those type ofthings, I think that really
opened me up.
But another thing that opened meup as I got older was comedy.
So I was always a big kid.
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There was times in my life whenI was picked on.
I overcame that.
I used to be bullied and Iovercame that and those
conversations and subjects andtopics are for another time and
maybe that's another greatepisode to hash out.
Now that we're in the 200s hereon episodes, maybe I can go
back and talk about some of them, topics that we've touched
early on.
But I overcame some of thosethings.
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But as I get a little bit older,I used comedy right, as I would
watch movies and things and asa young boy I was drawn to
sports and comedy from the veryearly onset and being around
adults and hearing them telljokes and seeing how they would
tell jokes, like I loved myparents, friends that were that
were comedians right, the onesthat were the showmans that
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could hold court and tellstories, and everybody loved
them and you could see everyoneget excited when they would show
up, Right, I was drawn to that.
I picked up on that and thosethings kind of kind of molded me
, right, it shaped my future andI was drawn to all forms of
comedy.
And as I got older I reallystarted to be hooked on Saturday
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Night Live, the weekly episodiccomedy show on NBC every
Saturday night at what was it?
1135 or something.
It started and I used to bedrawn to that show.
I used to watch it religiously.
I never missed an episode.
And Chris Farley Chris Farleywas my guy.
I loved Chris Farley To thisday.
I still think he's the greatestcomedian that's ever lived and
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you can hear, if you've beenlistening on to all these shows,
you can certainly hear thecomedic influence that Chris
Farley has had on me and I'venever strayed away from that.
So Chris was one of my biggestinspirations and there were so
many other comedians on therethat I fell in love with that
have gone on to become stars andcelebrities of today.
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Right, you think about AdamSandler, you think about Will
Ferrell, you think about thosepeople David Spade, you know
those those guys Norm MacDonald,kevin Nealon I just start
thinking um just back.
Molly Shannon, sherry Terry, orwhatever the heck it was all
these names, right Names Ihaven't even thought about in
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the longest time and before mygeneration of comedy.
I was on the tail end of ofEddie Murphy on Saturday Night
Live and I think John Belushiwas before my time, but I went
back and watched all thoseepisodes of Belushi and I've
seen a lot of Phil Hartman and Icould go on forever naming all
these cast members, chevy Chase.
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They were inspirations to me asI got into high school.
For me, I went to a small middleschool that does not my town
does not actually have a highschool, so we had to tour
certain high schools and thenyou could pick the one you want
to go to.
The city would pay, or yourtown tax dollars would pay for
you to go to any school in thestate, but they would bus you to
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three or four of them.
I chose one school, my localschool, biddeford High School,
which a few of my friends wentalong with me.
But you think about all thesekids you grew up with from
kindergarten now all going yourseparate ways.
It truly felt like we wereentering college, but we were
actually entering high schooland I'm going into high school.
I'm actually going and touringhigh schools at like age 12,
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right, I'm going into highschool.
I'm actually going and touringhigh schools at like age 12,
right, I'm going into highschool around like age 13.
So you're leaving all thesepeople and friends and teachers
that you're comfortable with,that you've grown up with,
you've become big man on campusin this K through eighth grade
setting, but now you're goinginto a freshman to senior
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atmosphere in a big city.
Coming from a small town.
It was intimidating.
The only way that I wascomfortable, the only way that I
could make friends, the onlyway that I could fit in, was to
be a comedian, and I leaned intomy Chris Farley roots, into
that like I don't even know howto describe it.
But that action-packed,in-your-face, heart-hating,
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moving comedy right, the onesthat use body language and
physicality, like running intowalls, hurting yourself, doing
dumb things, making fun ofyourself, which, ironically,
could make the situation worsefor you, because at some point,
when you're the type of comedianthat I was, where you make
people laugh at the expense ofyourself, eventually that
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expense becomes greater than thelaughter, because at some point
, even though you're the onetelling the jokes, you often go
home and cry yourself to sleepwondering are they laughing with
me or are they truly laughingat me?
Do they think my jokes arereality or they're jokes?
That's a vicious cycle to findyourself in, but that's again
another topic for another time.
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The point I'm making here is Ilove Saturday Night Live and
every weekend I would watchSaturday Night Live and I would
go back to school and I wouldjust throw back out all the
skits that I loved, like thegreatest latest Jim Brewer skit,
whatever it was.
I would throw it all back rightand then I became an integral
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part of this group of SNL fans,because the more you submerge
yourself into things and themore you show those things, the
more you find like-minded people.
We were talking about this onour love episode.
Common interests, core values,shared interests that's the best
way to find your soulmate.
It's also the best way to findyour best friends, and my circle
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of friends were highly drivenby by sports, by wrestling and
by comedy, and we used to gettogether on the weekends as I
got older, going to friends,friends' houses, partying, you
know, making dumb decisions,drinking beers, doing whatever.
I'm sitting around slugging a30-pack with my buddies and
we're watching Saturday NightLive and we're reenacting all
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the skits.
It then became this tradition.
Actually, if you listen to thebeginning of the show, every
week's show, that musicalbackground beats that get you
out of your seats, those, thoseyou know interlude gut checks
that come in when we need toswitch topics and conversations,
and the closing credits of theshows.
The background beats to thispodcast is led by one of my best
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friends, jeff Foran from theGut Truckers.
Me and Jeff.
I used to go to Jeff's houseevery weekend and we would throw
Saturday night live parties andwe would watch every weekend
and in between there we'd get acamcorder and we would record
our own skits and we would playthem back and we would watch
them and people would come overand watch them.
We'd throw parties and we wouldput on our own Saturday night
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live performances.
We had a whole cast ofcharacters that would join in.
So you could go to jeff's mom'shouse and hang out and we would
bust out our own personalsaturday night live skits for
you right there.
Ridiculous things I'm in jeff'smom's sweater, I'm breaking
family heirloom recliners, I'mfalling through tables, getting
hit in the head with toiletseats.
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Whatever the heck I had to doto make you laugh.
We would do it.
We had the most ridiculous,endless amounts of skits.
Saturday Night Live is anintegral part of me.
The comedy of that show hasbeen ingrained in me.
Now that's the long-windedversion of me painting the
photograph that we're about toframe.
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Here's the scenario.
As years go on, if you'reasking me, saturday Night Live
no longer was funny.
It lost its edge.
The best performers moved on.
They were big stars inHollywood and they just moved on
to greener pastures.
Either they passed on or theymoved on, and Saturday Night
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Live began to become extremelydifficult to watch.
So my weekly tradition ofwatching shows became maybe once
a month and then once everycouple of months.
Then, finally, I was like Idon't know if I can do this
anymore.
So I take some time off for theshow and then I go back to the
show and then I realized thenthat all it has become is a
political weapon.
That's all it's become.
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It's a political weapon withfull intentions of destroying
Donald Trump and downplaying anddisgracing any single
Republican on the face of theearth.
That's all the show became tobe.
When I then realized that LorneMichaels, owner and writer of
the show, is just a crazy,ridiculous, woke left-wing
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freaking jambalaya, right, Isaid I'm done.
Not only is this show not funnyanymore, it's now insulting me
and a great portion of thepopulation.
I'm done here.
I have not watched SaturdayNight Live in I would say 10
years, right, if you think aboutit.
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President Trump, four years,four years of Biden, and then
for a year or two before theirpresidency I just didn't find
the show funny.
So then you factor in thepresidency stuff and then I'm
out.
So, yeah, it's got to be closeto 10 years.
I haven't been watching theshow.
When I see a skit pop up forthe show or I accidentally turn
it on In 20 seconds, I realizedthis just isn't funny and I just
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move on.
Well, a couple weeks ago one ofmy best friends I just mentioned
to you, jeff Foran, the onethat we used to get together all
the time and watch all theseskits together he reached out
and he asked me hey, have youbeen paying attention to SNL 50?
And I said no, I really haven't.
I've given up on that show.
And he said you should go onand watch it back on Peacock,
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they're highlighting a lot ofthe old performers, like the
stuff that you and me used tolove.
I think that you would get akick out of it.
And I said well, if you'rerecommending it, then I can do
my best to go back on mycommitment here to boycott this
stuff.
I guess I'll make the exceptionif I'm going back and reliving
the good time.
So I agreed I would watch it,but I haven't found the time.
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Then over the weekend Jefftexts me and says SNL 50 on NBC
right now you need to put it on.
Reluctantly, I switch over.
I wasn't really watchinganything, I was working on my
phone anyways.
And uh, I switched over to SNLand I saw the tail end of a old,
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long running Will Ferrell biton um Robert Goulet.
That used to be funny and Iwatched it and it was.
It was kind of funny not whatit used to be.
And the very next skit was askit called Black Jeopardy and I
think Kenan Thompson was thehost of the actual show and I
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can't remember all thecharacters that were on it, but
one of them was Tracy Morgan andthe next one was Eddie Murphy
and Eddie Murphy was actually onthere pretending to be Tracy
Morgan and that was kind offunny.
Eddie Murphy was actually onthere pretending to be Tracy
Morgan and that was kind offunny.
Eddie Murphy was doing a goodjob being classic Eddie Murphy
and, uh, doing a great jobimpersonating, uh, tracy Morgan,
and I thought that that waskind of funny.
It wasn't got roaring funny,but it was kind of funny and I
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was like you know what, maybe,if they leave politics out of it
and they just keep bringing insome of the old characters like
Tracy Morgan and Eddie Murphy,I'll watch some of this and I'll
shoot messages back and forthwith Jeff like the old times.
Well, that didn't last very long, because about 30 seconds later
, tom Hanks comes out dressed uplike he's pretending to be some
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kind of slouch, lazy Republicanand what he deems to be so
right, and I'm not saying that'swhat he looked like, but that's
what he was trying to portray,because he was wearing jeans and
a t-shirt and a blue flannelshirt and a Make America Great
Again hat, which that outfitalone in itself is something
that you could very easily seeme wearing any day.
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So, number one, you're tryingto pretend to be a slob, but
you're also wearing what I'mwearing a lot of times anyway.
So you're certainly signalingmyself out and I don't remember
what the question is, but hemakes this comment about.
You know, I think thatsomething along the lines of the
world would be a much betterplace.
If you know, we all leaned intoGod a little bit more and Kenan
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Thompson was like you know, Iagree with you and he came over
to him and when he went to shakehis hand he backed up and was
fearful and scared and didn'twant to shake a black person's
hand.
I sat there staring at the TV,disappointed, and I realized
this shit is never going tochange.
It's never going to change Ifyou are Donald Trump or you are
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a fan of Donald Trump.
If you are a Republican, you, inthe eyes of Saturday Night Live
, are a racist.
You, in the eyes of so much ofthis mainstream Hollywood
personalities like Tom Hanks,you are a racist.
Tom Hanks, somebody that everysingle person listening right
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now has given that man money.
We've all watched Forrest Gump.
We've all gone to multiplemovies of his or rented movies
or bought DVDs wherever the heckit is.
We've recital lines for moviesforever.
I've impersonated Forrest Gumpfor the longest time, doing
jokes, always pulling that outof my back pocket.
Here you are calling me aracist Again.
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The show that I grew up on theshow that inspired me so much.
If I'd only known then that theowner behind the show the
financial dollars behind theshow thought I was a lazy white
piece of trash, I wouldn't havegiven my life to it.
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I wouldn't have given mysupport to it.
All the money I've spent onSaturday Night Live backed
things like movies and t-shirtsand you know just all the
nonsense.
I can't believe it.
I also really hope that, afterwe had a resounding yes in the
election, a resounding yes thatsaid America is ready for change
, a resounding yes that saidAmerica wants Donald Trump, a
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resounding yes that says it'stime to make a difference.
I thought this was theopportunity for some of these
shows, some of these Hollywoodpersonalities, to realize put
down the hate, accept the fateand move on.
But no, let's continue to dodumb shit, to alienate, to
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segregate, to call out and tocrap all over a large portion of
the society.
And think about it, folks.
Donald Trump won the popularvote.
That means that Saturday NightLive and Tom Hanks decided it
was a good idea to call themajority of the American
population racist.
I can't do it y'all.
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We are continuing to just breedhate.
I don't understand it.
I don't know why we continue todo this.
It's uncalled for, it'sridiculous.
My strike with Saturday NightLive continues.
Thankfully I didn't give themmore than two and a half minutes
of my time on a television.
I can't believe it.
Tom Hanks, you're a certifiedpiece of shit.
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And Lorne Michaels, you are thewalnut wheels in the turd.
You know what I mean.
If Tom Hanks is a piece of crap, then you're the trusty old
walnuts that nobody could digestas wheels on the poop log of
transportation.
I don't know.
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I hate it.
I'm disappointed.
I don't know.
I hate it.
I'm disappointed.
That's just it, folks.
I'm not fired up mad, I'm justdisappointed, man.
I'm disappointed that it alwayshas to come back to race.
I'm disappointed that theydecided to take jabs at the
majority of the population inthis country for no damn good
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reason.
Number one it wasn't even funny.
Number two, it wasn't evencalled for or there was no need
for it.
In the show.
You literally removed EddieMurphy, who was the one funny
thing happening on my television, and replaced him with Tom
Hanks' old decrepit ass tellingstupid shit.
None of it made sense.
You don't even in a game show.
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You're not just going to pull aperson out and throw somebody
else in.
None of it makes sense.
You don't even in a game showyou're not just going to pull a
person out and throw somebodyelse in.
None of that even made sense.
You were so hell bent on makingthat segment about race.
You were so hell bent on shittalking Donald Trump and
alienating the large portion ofthe population that is
Republican that you said youknow what?
I got an idea.
We're just going to do it righthere.
You know what?
Go fuck yourself, gotcha.
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The rain is kickin' his mind.
Business for the kids.
Thank you, jeff Fulman and theGut Truckers for that little
musical interlude and also thankyou, jeff, for the first
segment of the show, because ifyou didn't put my ass up to
watch on that garbage on Sundayevening, then, uh, I don't know.
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I don't know what else I wouldhave started the show with.
So thanks for that and thanksfor pouring salt on the grief of
Saturday Night Live for me.
I guess I appreciate that, butwho knows what I would have
started with if it wasn't forJeff.
Actually, I do.
Now I would have started withthe nonsense that we're about to
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talk about next, because thereshould be a unifying task right
now taking place in this country, led in the United States
government.
You know what that task isGetting rid of fraud and getting
rid of waste, getting rid ofnonsense, getting rid of
nonsense.
That should be the number onetask, no matter which side of
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the aisle it is you sit on,whether you're a Democrat,
whether you're a Republican,whether you voted for President
Trump or the other lady,whatever it is.
We as a society, we asAmericans, should be unified in
the quest to clean up thegovernment, to get rid of the
fraud, to get rid of the waste,to balance the budget Should be
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pretty unifying.
You know why I can say this isto get rid of the fraud, to get
rid of the waste, to balance thebudget Should be pretty
unifying.
You know why I can say this isunifying?
Because all the way back in theearly years of Obama himself,
he sat in front of all Americansand said we need to eliminate
the waste, we need to find ifthere's fraud and get it out of
government.
America is going broke.
It's time to balance the budget.
We need to get into the books.
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And all Democrats supported himand I'm sure all Republicans
supported him.
But what happened?
Nothing.
More waste, more fraud, moredeceit.
It all happened.
Here's the thing, folks.
President Trump ran on apromise.
He ran on a promise to get ridof the waste.
He ran on a promise.
He ran on a promise to get ridof the waste.
He ran on a promise to balancethe budget.
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He ran on a promise to fixAmerica and to drain the swamp.
All freaking campaign long andhalf of his rallies.
He brought Elon Musk with himand they stood in front of you
and they talked about Doge, theDepartment of Government
Efficiency, and what they weregoing to do and how they were
going to go, line item by lineitem, through the budget,
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through the books, through thecatalogs, through the papers,
through the computers, throughwhatever the hell it has to be,
to balance the budget, to findthe fraud and to take care of
the nonsense.
He promised this.
We, the American people, votedfor this.
You understand, we voted forthis.
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He won the Electoral Collegeand he won the popular vote by a
landslide.
That means the majority ofAmericans agreed it's time to
expose the fraud.
It's time to remove the waste.
Here's the only differencebetween Donald J Trump and Joe
Biden and Barack Obama and everyother president that came
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before.
This president is actuallydelivering on his campaign
promises and it's making peoplesick.
Now I could stand here rightnow and tell you how proud I am
to be American.
I could stand here right nowand preach to you how exciting
these changes have been for me.
I could talk for hours aboutthe fact that now every day,
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multiple times a day, I put onFox News to watch what my
president is up to.
I could stand here and preachabout how much I love
transparency president is up to.
I could stand here and preachabout how much I love
transparency.
We talked even in a relationshipepisode that you don't demand
trust.
The man himself, elon Musk,said that trust comes from
transparency.
This cabinet, thisadministration, is nothing but
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transparency.
When they do something, theyshow you.
They actually post the receiptsto social media.
It is un-freaking-believable.
I can't even count how manypress conferences I've seen with
Donald Trump Multipleconferences in a day.
We could talk for hours aboutall the inspirational leaders
that he's already met with,leaders of foreign countries,
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all the things that he's alreadydone.
The executive orders, themilestone changes, the fact that
he signed an executive order tokeep transgenders out of
women's sports, to keep littleboys out of girls' sports.
The fact that, instead of goingaround sniffing children, he
signed an executive order toprotect the little girls of our
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country.
That now has a real soft spotfor this proud freaking girl dad
over here.
When I watched President Trumpsign an executive order,
surrounded by dozens and dozensof little girls wearing their
basketball jerseys, all theirsports jerseys, their cheering
uniforms, in the Oval Officesurrounding the president as he
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signed the executive order, Ithink about the difference
between that moment in time andan old, creepy-ass president
sniffing kids and making themfeel uncomfortable.
I think about that and we couldtalk for hours about that.
And I could talk to you aboutthe fact that our president is
trying to end wars, that ourpresident is getting hostages
home.
I can talk about the fact thatat 10.30 at night, I watched our
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president stand outside in fullsuit greeting a hostage that he
rescued from Russia withoutgiving up a damn thing, a
hostage that President Biden letgo.
Let sit there and rot.
Instead, he wanted to bringhome WNBA star Brittany Griner.
Let me slow this down for you,star Brittany Griner.
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Let me slow this down for you.
Let's free the celebrity femaleblack gay activist Brittany
Garner.
Let's get her home.
The celebrity LGBTQ activist,let's get her home.
Let's get her home.
When we leave the white schoolteacher in prison to rot, just
we could sit on that for amoment.
But I laid in bed and watchedwhile I was getting ready to go
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to sleep.
I watched our president greetand receive that hostage 1030 at
night standing outside in asnowstorm in a suit, and then
holds court in the White Houseand lets him answer questions
and brings in his 95-year-oldmother to meet him.
I watch those things right, thepeace unifier that we have as a
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president.
I could stand on here on my highbox and I could gloat and boast
and yell and scream from thehigh heavens about how much I
love what our president's doing,all the great things that he's
doing.
I could go on for hours andhours and hours.
You already can feel thepassion and know that I can, but
that's not what I'm going to dotoday.
What I'm going to do today isI'm going to talk about common
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sense.
What I'm going to talk abouttoday is the fact that it should
take common sense and thereshould be a common agreement
between all Americans white,black, red, whatever color you
can think of, no matter whatside of the aisle Republican,
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independent, democrat, I don'tcare you should realize that you
don't want America wasting yourhard-earned dollars.
Right?
Can we say that for a minute?
If you can go to the grocerystore and complain about the
price of eggs because there'sbirds dying from flus, if you
can complain about the price ofthe gas pump, but you don't want
to complain about yourhard-earned tax dollars going to
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the government and gettingwasted on nonsense that don't
make any sense.
So we're going to talk aboutcommon sense.
I don't care what you stand for,I don't care who you voted for,
but what I do think is a commonground that we can all stand on
is that when we work hard everyday, when we work hard every
week, and at the end of thatweek, when there's money, hard
earned cash, coming out of yourpaycheck that you could use to
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feed your family, to overcomethose high gas prices, to
overcome the lack of eggs onyour store shelves, those hard
earned dollars that would go ahell of a long ways for your
family to feed and to provideand to do what is necessary.
Instead, they land in thegovernment, they go to the arms
of the government and you justmake in your mind the exception.
This is the way it has to be,and it's the way it needs to be
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because the government needs themoney and it's going to take
care of people like me.
The government is going to helpthose that need help.
I support those programs, Isupport those choices.
But when you find out yourhard-earned money isn't going to
the right places, when you findout nonsense like condoms being
sent to freaking all over thecountry right, what is it?
Gaza and Mozambique?
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We think about millions ofdollars for a Sesame Street
program to be built overseas,for drag queen shows to be put
on all over the freaking freeworld?
Think about these things,people.
You're sending money, yourhard-earned dollars to the
government and they're doingwhatever the hell they want to
do with it.
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There's places outside of ourcountry which we can argue.
I could argue all day longabout the fact that I'd rather
have all taxes be spent in ourcountry, because it's our
hard-earned money and ourcountry's suffering.
But if we want to go out andhelp other countries, we can
have a conversation about that.
But the difference is helpinganother country and going out
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and funding LGBTQ activities inother countries.
There's a big differencebetween spending millions and
millions of dollars on sexchanges overseas.
There's a big difference.
We can go on for hours aboutthe nonsense of these programs.
$59 million going to athree-star hotel in New York
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City to house immigrants Allthis nonsense.
Let me ask you this, boys andgirls Would you rather have the
money at home in your account,buying eggs, buying gas, buying
oil, buying propane, feedingyour family, providing for the
ones you care and love about, orwould you rather have it
housing immigrants in a New YorkCity friggin' hotel?
Would you rather have itfunding sex changes for field
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mice out in freaking Pakistan?
Think about it.
We can all agree that thereshould be accountability for the
money that comes from you andme.
I believe Doze has already foundand identified I want to say
it's $55 billion in fraudalready.
I've seen reports that it's 55billion dollars in fraud already
.
I've seen reports that it's upto 80 billion dollars.
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It keeps rising, but as oftoday, today, doge has found 4.7
trillion dollars in virtuallyuntraceable treasury payments.
4.7 trillion dollars that thetreasury has sent out.
That is, they're saying, atthis point in time, virtually
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untraceable Because thegovernment doesn't even follow
checks and balances.
They're sending out these majorpayments and not even filling
out line items to identify whatthey're for.
They're writing checks.
They don't even have anythingin the damn memo field.
Think about this, guys youwouldn't write a check for home
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heating oil without putting inthe memo field heating oil.
Our government does notprescribe the same checks and
balances that we do, but theydemand that we do.
We're talking right now aboutpeople that are going AWOL over
this.
There is protest.
There's protest in my homestate going on right now over
Elon Musk and President Trumpand how everything they're doing
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is wrong and corrupt.
And on President's Day, therewas protest in every state all
across the country about what'shappening right now.
And I ask you why, why?
Why are you okay with yourmoney going to waste?
Why are you okay with $4.7trillion virtually disappearing?
You realize that yourgovernment is broke, right?
You realize that this countryis on the verge of being
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completely, utterly broke, andyou do realize that President
Trump and Elon Musk can fix thatin a year.
Listen, there's a reason whythere's no checks and balances.
There's a reason why there's noproof to follow the footsteps,
because, let me just tell youthis when a politician enters
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into Congress, into the Senate,into whatever, and their average
pay is $50,000, $100,000,$200,000, and after a few years
their net worth is $4 million.
There's an issue there.
You don't get into politics toget rich unless you're screwing
the system.
I understand, I fullyunderstand, why these crooked
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politicians are in an uproar.
I fully, wholeheartedlyunderstand why these crooked
politicians are in an uproar.
I fully, wholeheartedlyunderstand why these deadbeat
politicians like Adam Schiff arein a freaking uproar about Elon
Musk and President Trump andwhat's happening.
Because their gravy train isgoing to run out, because
they're going to be exposed,because the American people, the
American voter, is going to seeand know that they've been
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robbing you blind.
What I don't understand is whythe common man and woman is
upset.
What I don't understand is whyfellow taxpayers are standing
out protesting what's happening.
I don't understand why you'renot okay with this.
I don't understand why youdon't prescribe to an audit.
Let me just tell you this thepeople that you're protesting
for, the people that you're onthe side of, let me just tell
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you this the people that you'reprotesting for, the people that
you're on the side of, are thesame ones that agreed to hire
80,000 IRS agents to audit youand to audit me, because they
have a hard time believing it'sokay for you to process over
$600 in Venmo.
You need a freaking receipt andyou better pay taxes on $600 in
your Venmo account.
We need 80,000 IRS agents tofind and seek out all the
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Americans that aren't payingtaxes.
But guess what?
The American government canlose $4.7 trillion and say
fucking oops, come on.
If the government can audit you, then we, the people, can audit
the government when we, thepeople, are.
The people can audit thegovernment when we, the people,
are paying the government andour money isn't going anywhere
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but to the wrong damn places.
What it's intended for isn'twhat it's going for.
They might put up this hope anddream and bubbly scheme on all
the great and good things thatit's doing how it's, you know,
taking care of the sick andfeeding the hungry but the truth
is, for every dollar that goesto the sick or goes to the
hungry, millions go into thepockets of cricket politicians,
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and it's time to expose it, andElon and Trump have been
exposing it, and I don't knowwhy we continue to be confused
by the nonsense.
I can't even watch local newsto see the spin and
ridiculousness that's takingplace.
It is hard to run from thefacts.
America Anytime they make astatement, they show the receipt
.
Here's the money, here's whereit's going.
It's $59 million going to ahotel room.
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Think about the difference here$4.7 trillion with no
ever-loving receipt.
If you can't give a receipt tothe federal government for your
Venmo account, you, sir, arescrewed.
I see all these people on TV,all these politicians and media
personalities and talking headssaying I don't want Elon Musk
snooping around my personalcredit.
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I don't want Elon Musk checkingon my Social Security dummies
and my bank accounts.
He is the richest, ever-lovingman in the world.
I don't think he needs your 250bucks, cindy.
Think about it.
If I could trust anybodylooking at my social security
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number and my bank accounts,number one I'd be the richest
freaking man on the planet.
Okay, because he doesn't needmy broke ass.
Maybe he'd accidentally stumblearound and leave a few bucks in
it because he felt bad for myfat ass.
I mean, what's the worst thatcould happen?
Right?
I'm not worried about that.
What you should be worriedabout is the fact that you're
fighting him, seeing it legallywhen he's on TV telling you it's
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very easy to find it illegallybecause we have no checks and
balances because we have nosecurities.
Think about this.
Why are people so ever lovingdumb?
Elon Musk and Doze is nottrying to snoop on you and your
bank account and where yourfunds are going, when it comes
to you and how you're gettingpaid.
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They're looking to snoop aroundon what happens with your
accounts when your money comesin, when your tax dollars comes
in, and it ends up in the pocketof a damn politician.
That's what they're snoopingaround for.
When I think about the factthat the government has been
saying they need more IRS agentsto snoop on you and me and
you're standing outside in thefreezing cold in Maine in a
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snowstorm protesting that wecan't let the government be
audited, this is notconstitutional.
This is unconstitutional.
Listen, they audit you all thetime.
As a young man that had hishouse and livelihood and
everything he owned and hisfamily worked so hard for to own
when I grew up having threatsfrom the IRS that that would all
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be taken from us.
I remember coming home andhaving answering machines
messages from the IRS that thatwould all be taken from us.
I remember coming home andhaving answering machines
messages from the IRSthreatening things.
I remember the meetings myparents used to have.
I remember the discussions.
I remember all the things wesold to keep the things that
were most important, because theIRS said that we owed them
money.
Them dirty sons of bitchestried to take every single thing
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we own and tried to put us outof home.
If you think for one iota of asecond, I feel bad about the
government being audited you cansuck on a Coney Island footlong
.
I can't believe it.
I can't ever love and believeit.
Why are so many Americanspissed about this?
Let's find the one thing thatthey could remotely try to
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complain about people losingtheir jobs.
All these people are losingtheir jobs.
I can't deal with it.
I can't get behind this.
Well, I do believe the finalnumber was about 75,000 people
that President Trump said if youresign, we'll give you $20,000,
right, or some of them, I think, was $30,000.
$20,000, right, or some of them, I think, was $30,000.
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You're getting paid for them ahalf a year's pay to just walk
away, to go do something else,to take your resume that you
boosted working for thegovernment, that big fat check
and get a reset and a start over.
Number one I didn't even agreewith paying these sons of
bitches.
But what I'm going to say toyou is, if there's people out
there that are saying, hey, Ihave a problem, All these people
are getting laid off, well,here's the deal, man.
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Here's your cash.
This is what you can do.
Can you imagine that factoryreset for me?
And you, if someone said, hey,guess what, try something new?
Here's 30 grand, go, knockyourself out, take a chance,
dream big, do something amazing.
Wouldn't you jump for joy overthat man?
I wish I had that freakingoffer.
But here's the thing.
Here's the facts.
America, when a business isn'tdoing good, when a business is
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suffering, you lay people off.
As somebody that ran a HarleyDavidson dealership, I can
honestly tell you, when thenumbers suck, when the business
can't pay its bills, it isforced to let good people go.
Here's the thing America can'tpay its bills.
America, the business is goingbroke.
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Before America, the businessgoes bankrupt, it has to do
what's right for business.
Unfortunately, that's letpeople go.
We're letting people go.
It happens, and a lot of thesepeople deserve to be let go.
Because government jobs ifthere's one thing that is clear
as day, is redundancy.
There's so much nonsense,bullshit, jobs in government
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that it's ridiculous, andthey're all overpaid on it.
I'm not saying that therewasn't good people that lost
their job, but good people losetheir job every damn day in this
country.
That's the facts of life.
That's the facts of life.
That's part of this world.
We all lose jobs from time totime.
I've been fired over a dozentimes, you understand, but they
didn't have a damn pressconference for me saying, oh my
lord, keith Liberty was firedfrom Radio Shack on New Year's
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Eve over the telephone.
There wasn't no damn pressconference for me.
Where was the press conferencefor the 14,000 people that, on
day one in Joe Biden'spresidency, got fired when he
said no to the Keystone Pipeline?
There was 14,000 people thatlost their job with a soup of a
freaking pen.
And you know what he said tothem Learn to cope.
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That's what he said, presidentBiden.
Learn to cope.
You lost your job.
Learn to cope.
Here's the thing.
All y'all dumbasses out therein the snow, sleet and freezing
rain protesting my president,elon Musk, I got a little piece
of advice from your personalpresident Learn to cope.
We're cutting the bullshit,we're losing the weight.
It's time for America to getback out there and date.
You understand what I'm saying.
It's the great rebuild.
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It's a beautiful comeback, thegolden age of America, and I
couldn't be any more ever-lovinghappy for it.
I hope y'all jump on the goshdarn train, toot, toot, all
aboard.
It's the American Express,mother trucker, and I love my
president and I love Elon Musk,and if you don't love that, then
fuck you.
Sorry, I got a little deepthere.
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That was a Will Ferrell line.
That's how I tied SaturdayNight Live into the back half of
the podcast here, because WillFerrell used to be one of the
greatest characters on SaturdayNight Live and he went on to
become a big movie star.
And when he was a movie starwhich I guess he still is one of
his best movies was TalladegaNights.
And one of his commercials onTalladega Nights, when he
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started winning races and doingsponsorships, was for Big Red
and he stood there in his littlerace uniform and he said if you
don't chew Big Red, then fuckyou.
So here's the thing.
If what I just said about mypresident, elon Musk, offends
you, well, I guess we're eventhere Saturday Night Live,
because a few days ago youcalled me a racist.
That, boys and girls, is howyou tie in the first segment of
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the show to the back end of theshow.
Good God, almighty.
In all seriousness, outside ofthat ever-loving beautiful,
powerful rant that I just wenton, I want to thank Elon Musk
for two things.
Number one saving free speechfor all Americans, because when
he bought Twitter and he exposedthe nonsense, he saved free
speech for America, and now he'ssacrificing everything about
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him, his reputation, hisbusiness, to save America, to
balance the budget, to find thefraud and to give American
people back the power.
For years, your government hasbeen lying to you.
Your government has beenstealing from you.
Elon Musk is only here toexpose all that to you.
Your government has beenstealing from you.
Elon Musk is only here toexpose all that to you, to give
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back the American people thepower that we so deserve.
Because the truth is, us asAmericans, us as American
taxpayers, should have a lawsuittowards the American government
for our damn hard-earned moneyback, because right now we could
all use it, instead of themhaving inexplainable excuses on
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why they lost it, on where itwent and how it was spent, and
all the receipts that they lostand the checks that weren't even
signed.
You know what?
Speaking of checks, before wego today, before we close the
show today.
Let's talk about a few checks.
Let's talk about some Socialsecurity checks, because I
thought it was real interestingwhen Elon Musk was standing in
the Oval Office of PresidentTrump and a little ex was
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standing there and he was givinga little roundabout you know
impromptu Q&A session and hestarted talking about social
security and how he's seenpeople in the age of 150 still
cashing social security checks.
They shouldn't be gettingsocial security checks.
It should be in the GuinnessBook of Records for being the
oldest person alive and thatkind of piqued my interest.
And then recently Elon releaseda list of people on social
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security.
Let me just point this to youreal quick.
Folks I'm going to run down somenumbers here.
People, americans, from the ageof 120 to 129, 120 to 129.
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We have given $3.4 billion topeople age 120 to 129.
Is there some people out therearound 130 years of age?
Maybe $3.5 billion worth, Idon't know.
Let's speed it up a little bit140 to 149 years old how many
Americans do you know that are140 to 149 years old?
I don't know.
Well, $3.5 billion worth ofSocial Security payments are
getting cashed by people in that.
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140 to 149 years old, 150 to159, $1.3 billion, freaking
dollars.
There's people in here that are170 to 179 years old $6 billion
worth.
What about 180 to 189?
$695.
That's got to be the highest,right.
There can't be anybody in herefrom 190 to 199.
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Well, you're wrong.
There is.
There's Americans up to the ageof 199 years old $448 Social
Security checks.
That's got to be it, right,nope, wrong.
We got Americans from age 200to 209, 879 bucks worth, I might
add.
We've even got Americans fromthe age 210 to 219.
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How in the hell has the USgovernment not realized they're
writing Social Security checkswith $866 to Americans age 219
years?
Oh man, that's got to be it,right?
Nope?
Actually, there's more peoplein this country that are between
the ages of 220 and 229.
$1,039 worth heading to someindividuals between the age 220
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and 229.
We've got people on here age240 to 249, and we even have
somebody from the age 360 to 369.
America, if you can stand up andbe okay with this kind of
bullshit, then get out the way.
America, if you don't thinkthere needs to be an audit,
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because we're sending thousandsof dollars to people ages 200,
we're sending billions ofdollars to people that are
cashing social security checksthat are age 150, 160, 180, then
something's wrong with y'all.
Some of the shit that's beenexposed is ridiculous the fact
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that there's no paper trail, thefact that there's checks with
no memos, the fact that there'sthese accounts that are getting
fed, or these little feederprograms, too, that, in a
roundabout way, just end upright back with some freaking,
crooked deadbeat politician.
It's not okay To all the peopleout there saying we didn't vote
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for Elon Musk.
We didn't elect Elon Musk.
Well, I didn't elect AnthonyFauci.
I didn't elect his deadbeat assto run the CDC, but instead all
Americans had to sit back ontheir couch and watch Fauci tell
you that you couldn't leave thehouse today, to watch Fauci
tell you you needed to wear amask when you went and took a
piss in the bathroom today.
That son of a bitch wasn'telected by you, wasn't elected
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by me and we all took ordersfrom him.
I don't want to hear nobodytelling me oh, we didn't vote
for Elon Musk.
I'm not going to listen to ElonMusk Y'all.
We didn't vote for Fauci and hetold our ass that we couldn't
get together for Thanksgiving.
He told you you couldn't spendtime at Christmas with your
family and the ones you love,because it wasn't safe, because
you were putting all Americansat risk spending time with your
family, that son of a bitchrunning the CDC.
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He put more people out of jobsthan Elon Musk and President
Trump will do with theircutbacks.
You understand, I know goodbusinesses and great people that
lost their jobs because theyfolded, because the economy
folded.
I know tons of people that losttheir jobs because they
wouldn't take the vaccine thatFauci said you needed to take,
that Biden mandated you to take.
How many healthcare workers inthis country lost their jobs?
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How many military, how manyfirefighters, policemen, how
many people lost their job inthis country because they didn't
take the damn vaccine thatFauci who nobody voted for said
you had to take?
You can put this bullshit upyour ass.
I'm sick of it.
I'm tired of it.
I'm tired of protest.
I'm tired of nonsense.
This is a topic that we shouldall be unified on.
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We should all have checks andbalances, because, god damn it,
the government demands that youhave them for yourself.
We, as the people, shoulddemand they have them too, and
whatever comes of it, so be it.
Put it all on the table.
That's how I feel about it.
That's my two cents.
I hope it made a little bit ofsense.
I hope you're feeling a littlebit angry, because maybe I am,
but it's all for a good reason,because all that's going to come
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out of this is nothing but thedamn best America.
We're on to big, bold,beautiful things.
It's the golden age of America.
All aboard, sons of bitches.
Until the next time.
Thank you for supporting myAmerican band.
That's it and that's all.
Biggie Smalls.
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If you're a Loud, proud Americanand you find yourself just
wanting more, find me on YouTubeand Facebook at Loud Proud
American, or the Face page, asmy mama calls it.
If you're a fan of the GrahamCracker, you want to find me on
Instagram.
Or all the kids aretickety-talking on the TikTok.
You can find me on both ofthose at loud, underscore, proud
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underscore American.
A big old thank you to the boysfrom the Gut Truckers for the
background beats and the themesong to this here podcast.
If you are enjoying what you'rehearing, you can track down the
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Gut Truckers on Facebook.
Just search Gut Truckers.
Give them, motherfuckers, alike too.
Make it bleed, I hate to say Itold you so.
Feel the pain.
Make it bleed, I hate to say Itold you, so I truly thank you
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for supporting my American dream.
Now go wash your fucking hands,you filthy savage.
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