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Hello and welcome to this episode of Kennedy Saves the World. It's happy hour, so it's time to have some fun. We've got a wonderful up and coming comic who has agreed to have a tipple with me. This beverage doesn't have a name, but you do. Your name is Chris Fried. Welcome to Kennedy. Save the world.
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Thank you. Thank you for having me. Great to be here. I'm sober, but, you know, whatever. Oh, my God.
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Ah, don't do that to me. Because I do make, like, mocktails if.
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There'S any time to relapse. It's.
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No cocktails. Yeah.
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Might be pregnant, though, so we'll see. I don't know. Well, you will be after, depending on how I identify.
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So you're from Pennsylvania?
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Yeah.
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Allentown. Billy Joel didn't really write about Allentown, but he changed the song.
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Yeah, well, it was more about Bethlehem, so I hear it's like Bethleh. It didn't sound as good, so Allen Tower. But I guess. I don't know. People work there from. I don't know how it worked, but yeah. Sound.
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Is your family like a steel family? Are you. Are you generations of Bethlehemians?
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Pennsylvania. My mom was Scranton, so close enough.
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Did she know Joe Biden?
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She did.
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Really?
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Yeah.
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No, he said a very casual.
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Yeah. I don't know.
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Okay. Yeah, because that's like his big thing. Like. Yeah, I'm scratching Joe.
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He's from four different areas, Delaware, Greek and Palestinian. He's all over the place.
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Yeah. Is he still with us?
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I don't know. Actually, we. There's. I think it's. I think he's AI now. I think they smart or a hologram or something. But.
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Yeah. I wonder if the Tupac hologram is going to become AI. Like, what if that. That's our new chat bottom.
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I hope so. I hope debates are just fake in general. They just send out an AI version of whoever the candidate is.
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Well, they say they're gonna start doing that with dating apps. That before you. You have any conversation with someone on a dating app, you upload all of your information to your AI and then the other person's AI, like, to decide whether or not, like, it's. It's a new layer.
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Yeah.
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Whether or not it's worthwhile for human beings to have any interaction at all.
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Yeah. Just like your AI bots go on a date and that's really great. That's awesome. I. That's. I would. I would pay for that service for sure.
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No, I think that's going to be.
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Like and it's safer, really. But then you could be faking too. You could make a microbes you could send in, you know, like in surrogates.
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Yeah.
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Where like you just create the person you want to be and it's not at all who you are. So then you're gonna find out, you know. But.
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Yeah, it's not. And every fantasy world, everything now it doesn't matter what it is. Like even did you see. So I guess I've kind of become not obsessed. That's. That's too strong of a word, but interested in the Brian Coburger case now that all the stuff is coming out because they had a gag order on the case for so long and now we're learning all this stuff.
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Yeah.
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And then someone who had access to the security monitors in his maximum security prison in Idaho took a video of him walking around his cell.
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Yeah.
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With his bright red hands because he supposedly washes his hands.
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And they were saying, like, we don't know if this is real.
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He's like Lady Macbeth. Like, out, out, damn spot.
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Yeah. Or he's just rubbing things. What a horrible. Everywhere he actually.
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But the prison said it might be an AI generated image and said, no, it's not. That's him. Okay, so you said he might be. You were gonna say he.
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No, this is true. Got caught right after leaving a bar in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Is seven. SIRENS SHOUT OUT and. Yeah, that was the big talk of the town for a little bit. Like, y'. All, he was just here. He talked, he said weird stuff to people and, you know, did he really.
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I mean, that would be wholly unsurprising.
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Yeah. You know, he was known as like a regular. That people were like, he. He would just stare at people and be weird and then, you know, cause a little. Little trouble. I think he got booted a couple times. And then we found out that, you know, killed people. And the owner was on the news talking about stuff.
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And what did the owner say?
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Just basically that.
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That he had been in there.
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He was like. I think we threw him out a couple. I don't know. He didn't do anything too crazy there. He just was weird. But so.
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Yeah.
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But every.
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Everyone who had any interaction with him said the same thing. Like his. Like his criminology professor before they knew.
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Yeah. Like, if anyone should follow or be followed, I mean, is this guy.
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Yeah.
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But there's also so many dudes.
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This person's going to be a professor at some point and will sexually abuse.
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Yeah.
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His female undergraduate students, which is cause for. And. And Said this before the murders, and it makes you think, like, because we've all interacted with creepy people, should. Should we have, like.
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Well, that's what I mean. So many weirdos.
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Where we report weirdos so they can be investigated and taken out of society.
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That'd be like minority Report, though, right?
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Y.
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Like, sort of preemptively pre crime. So if it were up to me, yes, I would. I would point out a lot of people that I know, but, you know, what are you going to do?
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But it makes you rethink people you meet in your life and conversations that you've had. You. You look back on those and you're like, man, maybe that person.
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Like, that person definitely did something. So maybe. I don't know about it. They're in, like, a smaller town or something, but they were definitely a problem.
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It's the opposite.
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Or it's like, just. They're gonna snap at some point. There's so many people. I know that.
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Yeah.
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Are one little sip away from snapping.
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What do you think that is? Because I noticed that more on planes now than ever. Oh, that, like, people are so ready. They're ready for a fight. They're ready to snap. They're. They're ready to perform.
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Traveling's. Traveling's tough because sometimes people that in normal life would never look like that. That. That's the, like. Instead of Planet Fitness, like, an airport should be the no judgment zone, because everyone is in a state of. You're in pajamas or you don't. You know, but you're also, like a rich businessman, you know, so, yes, everyone looks unwell.
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Everyone. That's such a great point. Everyone at the airport looks like they've escaped from rehab.
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But it is like traffic where it's. You're. It's very snappable. Anyone could snap quickly on a plane or in traffic.
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But is it because of the pandemic? Because it's definitely like, masks.
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There's been, like, made it worse.
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A marked increase in crazy behavior. We're five years out now, so it's like, we can't keep blaming the pandemic for everything, but it, like, changed people.
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I'm actually surprised there weren't as many, you know, murders or, like, in public, almost murders during the whole mask thing. Yeah, people were kind of pretty. You know, they hated it. But there wasn't, you know, as many snaps as I thought.
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Yeah, but people were. They were frustrated.
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Yeah. If it would have gone on another, you know, three months or so, maybe, but.
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Yeah. But even, like, kicking people off of Planes. Who had a two year old who wouldn't wear a mask.
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Yeah.
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And it's like that. That's the most irrational being on the planet.
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Yeah. There should be a movie where it takes place during COVID that, you know, the things I wanted to happen just happen in this movie.
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Like what?
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Oh, like. Like that type of a thing where a person on a plane that just has a real big problem with, you know, a baby or whatever the rules are. And, you know, everyone just sort of gangs up and says, hey, who votes that we, like, throw this lady out of the plane? Or. I don't know why I am picturing it's a lady, but. I'm sorry, it could be anyone. I'm just saying, I.
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There's no, like, I feel like the ratio is equal between crazy men and crazy women on plane.
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Yeah. No, I'm just a horrible person. I thought of the.
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There was the crazy Karen getting off the plane, and she beelined from the back to the front, pushing people out of the way.
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Yeah.
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And she's like, well, I'm surprised you're not doing it too. Like, we should all just try to get off the plane as quickly as possible.
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Yeah. I also, I'm someone that just. Even if a horrible tragedy is happening, I just accept my fate right away and go, well, I'm done then. I don't. I just. I don't want to battle my way to safety. I just. If I live, I live. If not, you know, yeah, whatever. And I don't think Covid was going to do it. So that's why I was fine with most of all of COVID Yeah.
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What was it like in comedy clubs when they started reopening?
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Well. Oh, when they started reopening.
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Yes.
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Well, it depends where you were. Because in, I mean, cities, it was like a big deal. Like, you know, whoa, they're reopening. And the people were still nervous and. But everywhere else, you know, didn't care. They've been open for psychology.
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Like, everyone's riding mechanical bulls.
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They were disregarding the rules for a while, so it didn't really matter.
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But do you think that's when people realize, like, I want to move to those places. I want to move to places where people are more relaxed, less uptight, or.
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Just spend, you know, spend time there where you'd go to a comedy show or something. But. But yeah, for. Also, in cities, it helped because you could keep your Covid material longer because it still made sense to them. Making fun of mass or the comfort level. Whereas, you know, in the outskirts of Pennsylvania. It got pretty old really quick because they were like, we don't even know what rules you're talking about. We haven't done them ever. So that was helpful. But I didn't love the city vibe.
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New York was a scary place during COVID Yeah, it sucked. I mean, now it's just a dream come true because we're gonna have a socialist come in and raise taxes.
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And I'm so in favor of it, only just because I love, I'm always a big fan of just let's see what happens. And whether I disagree or not, it's so fun to just be like, let's just go, you think this is right? Let's see what happens. And when it goes, I don't know if I'm allowed to curse to then it'd be fun to just go, well, there you go. Like we tried and now we have an example of.
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But I just worry that people aren't going to be that pragmatic when it goes to. That's my worry is that we're going to, you know, keep pushing it and get cute and keep going.
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That's true.
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Until, you know, it gets past the point of no return and then there's no way to reel it back in. That's what scares me. And also people.
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Don't you think people would leave like throughout the course of. Of it going whichever way people will start to leave that. So I mean, you know, you're only, you're left with the ones that are super in it, trying for it, but.
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Or the people who can't leave because they don't have any money.
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Well, that's true.
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And so if that's your tax base that's left and you've promised them all these great things by taxing the rich and all the rich have left.
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They're gone.
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So yeah, it's like that's how you put a city on fast track to, to cratering.
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Well, I'm all for the experiment. It's just, and that's what I say to, to like Trump stuff too. With people that hate Trump. I'm like, just, it's so fun to just let him do what? Just let's see. Let's see what happens. And I think it's been fine for them for the most part. So.
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You know, I've never seen people numerically in my life who. Apolitical people, so angry and activated about Trump. Like, every day, like, I follow Jack White on Instagram, and every day he's so mad at Trump, and he's posting every single day. And I'm like, you're just mad. Like, go. Does. Does the anger help his music? I don't know that it does.
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If you literally just, like, didn't pay attention for months and then just woke up and looked around and you would be like, oh, okay, I guess. I don't know. I guess we're fine.
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Yeah.
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But if you're on there every day, you know, thinking of the worst scenario for listening to the. The most hateful on both sides, you know, it's just stupid. It's gonna play out how it plays out. Probably fine.
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Yeah.
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So that's where I.
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So you want Mom, Donnie, and Trump at the same time.
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Yes. How awesome would that Mothra and Godzilla. Yeah. How fun will those tweets be? And discussions of, you know, any. Or. I mean, I guess they wouldn't debate, but, like, you just organize one for fun. Just.
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I just don't want my taxes to go up.
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Well, that is.
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I hate high taxes.
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But see, Pennsylvania is only an hour 20 out of the tunnel, so that's a long ways. I'm in and out. Oh, well, that's true. You have more of a life than I do.
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So you live in Bethlehem?
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Mostly, yes. And then I mooch off my brother in the city here.
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Where was Coburger caught?
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In Bethlehem.
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Okay, so it was Bethlehem.
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Yeah.
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So that's.
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Oh, no, wait. Caught. I'm not sure.
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Yeah.
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Where does his family meant the. Oh, I don't know the story well enough to do that. I just know he.
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But it's got to be around where you were.
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Yeah.
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Do you worry there's something in the water and you're gonna snap at some point?
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Probably. There probably is. I don't think if I ever snapped, it would definitely be in traffic. I think that's where I. But I wouldn't like. It wouldn't be a, you know, killing a group of. It would just be one person that did a very mundane thing that I felt deserved.
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Deserved the ultimate justice.
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Yeah. And I think a jury of my peers might agree if I explain the situation. Situation well enough. But.
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Yeah. I think road rage is one of those things. Like.
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Yeah.
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If someone hurts Your kid or someone cut you off without signaling.
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Yeah, like, exactly.
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A jury's gonna look at that, go, well, you know, if I were in the exact.
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You know what it is? It's the people that. It's the people that drive, like, they look kind of. Do you know what I mean? And then it's just when I think that they think they can get away with it. Just. There's something. Something in my brain just hold on the horn. And you just ruin their day somehow. So, I don't know.
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Someday we all have our context.
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Yeah.
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Where we're going to snap. I had a guy. That's the only place yell at me because I was. I was trying to cut through a line of people. I wasn't trying to cut through the front of the line. I was trying to walk through, and he was like, say, excuse me. I'm like, I did. Like, you have headphones on.
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Yeah. You're not paying attention to the world.
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Like, you can't even hear the 17 times I said, sorry, excuse me. I was like, what are you talking about?
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Yeah.
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And he was like, do better. And I'm like, are you my life coach? Like, no, no. You don't get to give me advice when your observation is wrong.
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Yeah, you so even. Okay, so here's another scenario that I usually go super big with horns. I hate horns. I never do. But if I ever make an honest mistake, like, if you're at, you know, to stop signs and, like, you don't see the guy, you start to go. And then he maybe doesn't have a. You just didn't. Whatever. So you stop and you let the guy go, and you go, I'm sorry. You know, and you're making motions of, I'm sorry.
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Yeah.
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And then they. They do this, and. And I'm like, I just apologize.
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Yeah, exactly.
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So then it makes me want to chase them down.
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My bad, my bad.
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And be like, it's a mistake.
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Yeah.
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You know, but.
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No, but that people are so. But they're looking for a fight. They're unforgiving. They're going to snap. We have to report them now. We have to have a bureau.
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We can't have a bunch of weirdo reporting no sleeper sleeper bombs waiting to go off.
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Absolutely not. Absolutely not.
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Has anyone finished the whole drink?
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During the podcast, Mike, Ro, and Brett Bear took their drinks with them, and I had to very slyly follow them. And then get the glass.
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Hey, you can't just, like, go throughout the building.
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I've had people where I've poured the Drink in a plastic cup and gone like, would you like this to go? And they're like, no, no. Yes.
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Yeah.
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And then they just go ahead and take the plastic cup and that's fine.
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I could never thank you, though.
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But no, the bigger the name, the more likely they are to absc with the. The crystal wear.
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Oh, okay.
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Which is, by the way, a gift from Langen's.
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Well, that makes sense. That comedy special I have.
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Where can people see you? Well, I have two before you snap and are incarcerated.
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Yeah, they can see me almost everywhere once that happens. No, I have two albums on Spotify and itunes and all that. And then I got.
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And it's Chris with a kid.
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Chris with a K. Yeah, Freed spelled.
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Like fried, like Max Freed. Yeah, the Yankees ace.
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Oh, okay. Yeah, yeah. And then, yeah, I have a sitcom thing on YouTube. It's called collecting. It's about a dude milking the unemployment system. We have a few episodes of that.
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Did you do that? Did you milk the unemployment system?
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Very briefly, a while back. Although during COVID the whole gig worker thing. So they give you. Whatever it was. It was like $9,000. It turned out to. And then I looked at my account and I had another 9,000 some dollars. And they were like, oh, there's been a mistake in the thing. Like, you should, you know, start returning the. And then I looked into it and they were like, they. You can just keep it. They. No, one, they can't.
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We don't really have anywhere for you to send it.
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Yeah. So I got like 20 grand from COVID Just kind of chicken around. Yeah.
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And what was your gig worker status? Are you a TaskRabbit?
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No, just. Just stand up gigs and whatever I was doing.
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I see. I never. Because I was working the whole time. So I did not apply.
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Oh, yeah.
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For any of that stuff. Because I'm like, this is highly illegal. I'm gainfully employed once again, more of.
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A life than I have. Yes.
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I wouldn't go that far.
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We know.
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But I would disappear into a van for an hour at a time in full hair and makeup, and the doorman at my building was like, what's going on? And I was like, prostitution, man. Yeah, it's Covid. Can't just hang out on a street corner.
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Gotta make money somehow. Geez.
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But it really did look like I was.
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I was driving the van and I was just like, I gotta. Gotta do something in the city.
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Five stars, please. I need that rating to stay up. Dropped to 4.6 a few months ago.
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Do they have stars? For hookers, you think or no?
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I would like to think so. I mean, I think if there is.
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Like, there's got to be a hooker app that somehow gets away, like under the laws and, you know.
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Yeah. Will you please fill out this customer comment survey? We're going to send you an email on survey monkey and you go ahead and let us know from 0 to 9, how likely are you to recommend this hor service? Dear friends and colleagues, whoring service. Well, with that, where can people find you? What's a website?
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Oh, well, there's chrisfreed.com.
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That'S right.
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Instagram is chris.freed. and then just whatever, search things.
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Search it, love it, figure it out, Live inside of it.
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Sure.
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Until you get honked at and strangled. Chris Freed, to your continued success.
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Oh, you as well.
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Gig, work and beyond.
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Well, hold on. Someone has to finish their drink during the thing.
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You win, you win the prize. Here, start on that one.
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Oh, my God.
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Suspic Kennedy saves the world. Along with a very thirsty Chris breed. I'm Kennedy. Listen ad free. With a Fox News podcast plus subscription on Apple Podcast and Amazon prime, members can listen to this show ad free on the Amazon music app. Oh, go ahead and leave me a review while you're there. I'd love to hear what you have to say. You've been listening to Kennedy Saves the World on the Fox News Podcast Network.
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Hey, I'm Trey Gowdy, host of the Trey Gatti Podcast. I hope you will join me every Tuesday and Thursday as we navigate life together and hopefully find ourselves a little bit better on the other side. Listen and follow now@foxnewspodcast.com.