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Josh Johnson's Insightful Comedy Highlights

you guys know and love him one of the most prolific comedians working right now put your hands together for Josh Johnson it's funny how sometimes people like enter your life without you ever meeting them like you don't you don't get to know them but you hear stories about this person through the people that you know or a friend of a friend but then they just keep coming up and you feel like they're in your life even though you've never met them you don't wouldn't know them on the street if you saw them right uh there was a guy like that for me named Marty I never met Marty um wouldn't have been able to track him down if you gave me a 23 and me and a genealogy test or something like that I I knew Marty through stories cuz Marty had an interesting life this dude spent a bunch of time in France was an American Born lived in France for a long time learned French super fluently and apparently he told one of his friends this is how I heard the story that he dreamed in French like he he spoke English obviously and he lived in the states again but his dreams would just be full of people speaking French at different points and stuff and it came up because here in the US he he met someone and they fell in love but she was French so went all the way to France didn't meet anybody came back here and met a French woman right and there was a a day where Marty um he basically in a nutshell forg his girlfriend's birthday uh you know it was their first year together so we're still like been dating some months but hanging out all the time and everything I said my birthday you're supposed to remember that's part of the relationship quiz and it kept seeming like maybe there was surprise waiting or he was pretending to have forgotten or something and then he went and took a nap yeah now only did you forget get my birthday you napping in my face and then I guess when she realized that he genuinely did forget she woke him up and she woke him up mad and when she was mad she'd go straight to French right cuz she'd be so mad she wasn't putting it in English for him and so he woke up to his girlfriend yelling at him in French so he thought he was still dreaming so wakes him up can't believe you forget my birthday what's wrong with you are you out of your mind you over here playing in my face all day all in French I'm paraphrasing and then he was squinting real tired and was looking up at her and just wonders I guess to himself am I having a dream right now and so he casually while she's yelling at him puts his finger in her mouth I don't know if I don't know if you ever had somebody forget your birthday before but you definitely have not had them put their finger in your mouth as you were letting them have it and there was there was like a felt like dozen funny stories like that about Marty Marty was an interesting dude and he just moved in different circles than me never met Marty or anything um but Marty got older got married had some kids and stuff and then Marty got sick and Marty Marty had cancer and you know there were some treatments that they could try but it wasn't looking good and his insurance wasn't going to cover it and he couldn't do it out of park pocket and Marty passed away and it's it's crazy CU one of the other things about Marty that people talked about was uh how he was like a good boss it's sometimes hard to be a good boss cuz people don't like being bossed around you know like people don't enjoy someone telling them what to do but somebody got to tell you what to do if we all work here do you like you can't just show up to work and be like you figure out whatever you feel like nothing would get done like there do need to be bosses sometimes in certain situations it's just how you are a boss you know like there are certain managers that I've had in my life that honestly I had the easy job and they still made it hell cuz they were hell to be around you know there's nothing like having an easy job that you know it's easy job I could do this in my sleep but I got to do it next to a jerk that's that's the worst you know you know those people got time to lean got time to clean and this is another thing I I have to accept about bosses I have to accept about managers there are some jobs where genuinely it's in the handbook it's it's it's like part of the job the job makes you kind of come off like or maybe turn into a bastard do you know I mean cuz there are there are policy handbooks of companies where if you got time to lean you got time to clean is in the book they just [Music] quoting so there are some jobs where you got to be a monster to do them and there's some jobs that make you a monster you know I was thinking about that when the shooting in New York happened I know cuz for me if in case you didn't know in case you somehow have not been on Earth there was a shooting in New York basically this dude walked up behind um CEO of United Healthcare and he shot him several times and then he went off right but apparently he had been camped out there waiting that dude walks past him he goes pop pop and then he jumps on apparently a city bike which is not advisable and then he heads over to Central Park and disappear into the night slash day cuz it was day it was broad daylight too that's also what felt so insane about it h it happened during the day you got to understand there's New York day things and New York night things we usually keep the shootings after dark and when it happened it it shook everything up everyone was obsessed the news was obsessed the news was obsessed when it happened the news was like finally we have something to talk about this not Trump oh wow what a day so the news talked about it all day the news talked about it nonstop the news would even have people on to discuss it who clearly were just finding stuff out in the moment with us on the news they would bring the expert on and then play the clip and then the expert would watch the clip and be like damn it's like you you were supposed to know sir that's why you're on the [Applause] news the news was absolutely obsessed right the news even did a thing that I've I've never seen before that I very much resented because I'm just going to be honest with you this entire time I'm just be telling you how I feel I'm not going to tell you how to feel I'm not going to judge how anyone feels I'm just talking about myself right when I saw it happen when I saw that video footage that they played when I saw that dude walk up and pull out a gun and point it at that CEO I thought to myself thank God those are white [Applause] hands oh [Applause] oh when I saw those Lily white hands [Applause] when I saw those pearly white hands I thought to myself what a white sight what a what a beautiful white thing to happen that does not have anything to do with me that should not blow back on me at all what a white moment in America America and then in their Obsession continually over and over again describing what happened going over what happened the news did something CBS This Morning showed the clip they showed this man walk up pull out the gun and they said on CBS in the morning a light-skinned [Applause] man that's no no no [Music] no no no light skin when when has [Music] When what when when has the news ever said light skinn oh what's next CBS red [Music] bone lightskinned I was horrified no you know you know if it had been a black person they would say black cuz they love saying black anytime a black person does something the news is like this black this black was last seen at the scene of the [Applause] crime you know this black this black if you've seen this particular black call this number so you can report him for his Blacky black crying guys light skinn the news was obsessed with it top to bottom you couldn't you you could not watch anything else I'm sure stuff was happening everywhere in the world but you wouldn't know it just kept circling this one block in Manhattan and people were obsessed with it we us were obsessed with it it's all I heard people talking about people who I know don't watch the news people who I know don't really care about current events everybody was talking about it everybody was debating it on social online everyone was talking about it people were so obsessed that the backpack that the shooter was wearing sold [Music] out because in America everything is an ad including murder people were so obsessed you know like those Timothy chalam lookalike contests they've been having in New York a bunch of white people got together cuz they knew he was white a bunch of white people got together in the park and all dressed like the shooter and had a shooter lookalike contest and it's been done in comedy before I understand it's a joke that's well worn why white people be like this black people be like this but can I just say as a black person we have never as black people watched the news seen the suspect and then went outside specifically dressed as the [Applause] suspect we've never watched the morning the 8:00 the 10:00 the midnight news and been like oh that's a good fit right there let me make sure I got it right a rare bandana okay I need a red one that's just how you can tell being white is a different experience because these white people racially profiled themselves for fun that [Applause] was that's just having a time so the news was obsessed and people were obsessed and CEOs were obsessed CEOs were like what what what what happened oh my God oh my God are you serious and they didn't know each other kids he just did that in broad daylight to one to one of us CEOs started making moves man CEOs of all the healthcare companies started taking down all of their profiles all of their LinkedIn were just back to factory settings and look I need to be clear about something I mean you're you're going to get you're going to gleam this off of me the entire time I I don't want anybody to die right I don't celebrate death in any way right but I I will say if you feel in the in the wake of this thing happening like you have to scrub all mention of you all all knowledge of your existence off of the internet then maybe just maybe take a look at how you do business take a look at the person do you know what I mean [Music] because because I've SE seen this thing before in a different way okay so I had a buddy who I went to his apartment went to his apartment for the first time and this dude I understand taking precautions cuz that's what they will say they were doing they were like we don't know the motive we don't know why this person would do this thing we don't know who they are we don't know if they're going to come for one of us so we we try to protect ourselves you know take everything off and that's what this guy was doing I went to his house for the first time went to his place and he had six locks on his door at six locks something needs to change at six locks you either need to move or change your ways all right cuz this dude was had six locks he was dealing a little bit of drugs and stuff but I was like six is come on what are you doing it takes you a minute and a half to open the door I can hear it I can hear you hear chains you hear all stuff you know I was like isn't this worse for you you really worried somebody coming to get you you got six locks you sure you won't get killed trying to get in but that that happened and the News was having trouble thinking of a motive the news they were like H why why would anyone why who could it be you know police were having trouble coming up with a motive when they went on the news they were like we have no idea why this individual would do something like this CEOs could not think of a motive they were like but we're us I thought everybody loved us everybody wants to be us why would somebody come after us right you see it on the news and that this is also I'm not going to lie this is how you can tell the news is owned by billionaires because the news was like this uh this devastating terrifying harrowing attack in New York and I'm not saying I'm look a murder did take place I'm not saying that it couldn't have been those listed as those things I'm just saying you're the news like you are the like mainstream media you play horrific stuff all the time you're the same news that when those pages were going off on those people in the Middle East exploded you were like check this out isn't that wild the moment a thousand Pages went off and killed a bunch of people you know what I mean that same news is like we still don't know who or why or what or how no police couldn't think of a motive CEOs couldn't think of a mo CEOs of other healthc care companies couldn't seem to think of a motive that this thing happened the same week as one of the one of the main insurance providers was saying out loud with their full chest we going to stop doing anesthesia if you take too long you better [Applause] which by the way is not up to the patient that's also one of the most insane things about that new policy they were going to try out I've never had to administer anesthesia to myself that's just heroin yeah if your surgery takes too long it's not like they're there by the way it's not like they have to wait on you in the in the waiting room or something if your surgery takes too long we're going to charge extra to put you back under if your surgery takes too long we might not cover more anesthesia what in what world did we think you could pay for health insurance and then you wake up during who knows whatever serious surgery you're having and then your doctor has to be like hey do you have like 650 cuz cuz if not if not look if not I know you're a little groggy but can you understand me right now I know I know you're literally open but can you understand what I'm saying if if you don't have it that's okay I got a stick we can Civil War this right now the stick is $20 though so couldn't think of a motive you know and and the CEOs as well when when you look at this guy you look you look at this dude I don't think anyone was ready I don't think the news was ready I don't think the police were ready I don't think the rich were ready for how like on the shooter side the public was do you know what I mean like how absolutely unequivocally on his immediate I didn't know it had happened and there were already jokes do you know what I mean immediately you know the people I'm not going to say as a whole because I'm not going to speak for everybody but for the most part were on the shooter side they don't know the motive they don't know why I did this thing but they were glad that it happened and so out of it you get these CEOs you get these rich people going on the news and and really campaigning being like look the CEO he this man was a father this man was a husband this man and they and they really appealed to the humanity of the CEO and there were people who heard that who heard that appeal and they said yeah no I I know I know he was he was a person so was my cousin so was so is my brother so is my sister so is my friend you know I mean this man had children he leaves children behind this is a senseless death it did not have to happen and it's like yeah no I know about un I I know about avoidable deaths you know I'm a customer I know people who have died these avoidable deaths cuz it took too long to get their medicine tooko too long to get the treatment Maybe wasn't covered maybe it's they're on the phone forever this man was a father he was a husband okay so was Marty you know what I [Music] mean and I think the thing that people are wrestling with the thing that we're all trying to contend with and how we feel about this thing cuz people want to feel like good people we know that that murder is wrong we know that that death is a tragedy right because to me personally when I when I look at any death when I look at at any killing in in that way I personally look at it as a loss and a tragedy because as long as someone is alive there's potential there's potential to turn things around there's potential to change and then if you lose that potential then your story gets cut short and maybe things would have turned around I'm not saying that they would have but the thing that we're all wrestling with is that a a murder did happen someone killed someone In Cold Blood they just didn't kill an innocent man do you know what I mean that's also what feels so conflicting about it like a killer killed a killer this dude was the CEO a lot of people died under his watch through his policy through through what United Health does you know there are a lot of people that are that are gone and when you can when you can see an act happen in real time it's very easy to look at it be shocked by it and call it murder when you can spread all of the culpability when you can spread all of the the actions across thousands of individuals and a whole system now somehow it's nobody's fault you know and like you look at someone like Brian Thompson that CEO that dude was to himself probably I'm assuming just good at his job it's his job to make the company money I don't know what CEO outside of maybe like a gun manufactur wakes up and wants people to die like I don't know I don't I don't know what CEO wakes up these CEOs they they they work 80 hour weeks and they and they don't see their families and everything but they do it because of their OB Obsession to succeed and to build up the company to make the company successful to give back to the shareholders all the reasons they come up with and some people die along the way then that's that sort of is what it is right but this dude make no mistake he was a killer he was such a good killer that the company was like damn Brian damn you cold blooded we need to make you CEO wow you don't care you don't care at all women kids you get them all wow Brian he got promoted the way a gang member becomes a leader you know you're the coldest one out here you know it's tough It's really tough it's hard it's it it's also hard cuz when you talk about it or whenever you're feeling what you're feeling you don't want to we're all human but you don't want to lose your Humanity you know like you don't you don't want to get so spiteful that you lose some of yourself you know and so this dude they're they're looking for him and it's it's hard cuz the people are on his side there's literally people dressing up as him right and I'm not going to lie I I feel like some of the cops were even on his side because the cops were on a man hunt for him in Central Park and they weren't looking hard dude they weren't like did did you if you saw the news and you saw them in Central Park they I've never seen a more lacad isical hunt in my life this there were cops in Central Park this is being shot they see the camera and they know what going on the news and they were still like he ain't in this bush where else is there to look no oh it's hard you know and it's it's also difficult because you want to you want to have empathy for for everybody if possible you want to see every angle if possible but this this one is is tough in a way because because of what Brian was just a representative by the way that D that dude just is one of the dude nothing changed he's one of the dudes and he's he can be one of the dudes because the system's already there so it's not as if doing anything to him does anything to the whole right I mean I will say I do think they roll back that anesthesia thing that did [Music] happen maybe they'll go through it with it later but for the time being it seemed like they were like [Music] ooh [Music] okay know but it [Music] but he's he's allowed to be where he is how he is because the system at play a system by the way who didn't care about Brian either let's be honest about that you know because that man was headed to a meeting when he was murdered and investors still had the meeting that's how it works they they were getting notifications on their phone that Brian was outside and they were like uh so the minutes uh how's next quarter looking I mean that's why it's not it's not worth it you know when you put when you put like that much profit over the person you you you were also lost in that thing right and I think that's a harrowing thing I think I think for for CEOs that was like a a terrifying moment because it was the first time that they saw that we see them the way they see us do you know what I mean like that like that's that's got to be scary because for them make no mistake for them we're we're not clients we're not consumers we're not customers we're not even users none of the names that they put in their reports none of the things that they say to their shareholders were numbers were account number were this thing which is why when we go away when we disappear when we die it doesn't really mean anything to them because they never really saw us and then the the the response to this shooter this like overwhelming positive response on social I'm not saying it was everybody but a lot of people it was a it was kind of this wakeup call that we don't see them as people either which is that's scary that that's a that's a scary place to be in you know cuz when you would see it on the news and the News described it let's let's not mince words it was a murder the man was murder you know what I mean and the News would describe it as if it was the singular event in history this horrific this horrific crime that took place in the streets of New York in broad daylight this harrowing attack and I'm not saying that it wasn't I'm just saying that the woman in the video with her coffee that got out of the way didn't spill [Music] [Applause] [Applause] it was one of the most New York things I've ever seen for someone to get shot and then a bystand be like he ain't shooting at [Applause] me and so then they um they they catch the the shooter right and when they caught the shooter I was at a coffee shop and everyone got a notification on their phone we we weren't all talking to each other just you could see everybody was either already on their phone or pulling their phone but I heard beeps I heard all the little notification noises and then in this coffee shop not even kidding there was a collective a all that's the noise you make if the baby hippo mudang dies that was wild a yeah they caught him in a McDonald's and there there was footage of him on the news later in that McDonald's eating a hash brown and when I saw that I was like what wait he's eating a hash brown at McDonald's he's eating McDonald's hash brown so it had to be before [Music] 10:30 he's eating a McDonald's hash brown which means somebody woke up early to s Mitch damn barely awake at 9:00 I don't know blinking oh that must be him let me make the call you know and what's even crazier about that is apparently at least of as of the time I am talking to you it looks like that that McDonald's worker that called him is not going to get the reward money which wow is not going to get the reward and people were looking it up the person was like why why wouldn't I get the reward money everything apparently they what they were told and what the internet says is like actually the process of collecting reward money for turning someone in is very complicated um because there there's a an amount that has to be it has to be approved by two different bodies and one body approved the $10,000 but when it got up to like 5060 it wasn't approved by both B so then when they turn them in they may not get anything at all actually cuz there's so much confusion around how much to give them or it's the full amount I'm like damn that's kind of wild to me because there was no confusion when they called and they were like here [Applause] um so y'all coming or that was very straightforward there weren't any other things you needed to check before you came and picked them up you know that's why they they they in my opinion they did it wrong you know if you going to call and you going to tell people that he's here don't call the police right away get your money up call Blue Cross Blue Shield call call Blue Cross Blue sh be like hey uh I know you don't know me uh but I think I might have eyes on your boy and uh we don't know what he going to do next so what are you thinking 50 [Music] 60 I'm just wondering how how how much he's worth to you you know what I mean cuz I could I could make some other calls if you want I now I I can call a couple different people about six providers y'all got a real Monopoly going on so okay cuz he might be here he might not uh up hurry up it looked like he leaving I always thought it was very straightforward you know there's a reward out for a fugitive and then you turn in The Fugitive and you get the reward that's how it happens in all the westerns you know I mean but then they're like oh no actually I I'm I'm I'm the FBI and the uh the local police have to decide on an amount and then um there's there's like an arbitration process and everything it's just so funny that like this whole thing happened and then them trying to get their money just sounds like an insurance claim know so then they they come and they catch the dude and and he has everything with him he's got his backpack with him gun in his backpack four fake IDs and everything and it's kind of wild because so many people when when the attack first happened thought this dude must be an assassin how do you how do you get out of New York new this man was in Manhattan and he did a shooting and now no one knows where to find him in New York a police state with surveillance everywhere the man was on an island and he got off and they couldn't find him he must be a genius and then you find him at 10:02 and McDonald's in Altuna Pennsylvania with hash brown crumbs all over his face and then people went from calling a Genus like oh he's so dumb he's the dumbest man that's ever lived look look I think all this proves is one thing when you read history and you look back um some of these people cuz cuz there have been individuals out there saying you say he's a killer I say he's a freedom fighter there are some people that think he's a revolutionary and everything let's just say this this is proof that even when you read a history book revolutionaries were just sort of figuring it out as they went you know what I mean I'm sure Shay guara had his days where he was like y'all I don't know uh whatever y'all want to do I guess um they they see the fake IDs they question them they bring them in and everything and his name is Luigi Manion or man Johnny or man Joan there's so many different ways I've heard his name pronounced that I'm not positive the name he going by wasn't just one of those fake IDs like that's that's the most cartoonish name I've heard in years Luigi Manion that's sounds like you're making fun of an Italian person Luigi already wild he don't even go by Lou Luigi and they put his picture all over the the news and everything and it turns out that he is very goodlooking like just upsettingly good-looking almost objectively in a way like crazy everything everything in its right place and everything good strong eyebrows with a big smile and everything and just all the picture cuz you know you know when the news catch you when the police catch you they try to put up some depending on who you are this usually happens to black people but it happens to white people once in a while to where they try to find the craziest picture they can of you and I think they tried but is it was tough work cuz he is a good-look individual every picture look good he would just be with model rockets looking like a model like it was it was crazy they take his mug shot and the mug shot look like a cologne ad like [Applause] that's that was upsetting to me as a fellow man I was like y'all got to get one bad Pi please one bad picture he was doing everything in that mug shot but biting his lip like you've seen the mug shot my man was [Applause] mug shot supposed to be simple mug shot supposed to be your face and your profile your face and your profile your height it's supposed to be very quick and easy you know this man was so goodlooking they took extra mug shots there's some that are like a little lower than him where he looking down like there's some up high where he just like you can you can tell even even the mug shop photographer was like now do it like you're a bad [Applause] [Applause] boy they tried so hard to get a bad picture of him that they took stills from video they tried to take stills from video cuz that that usually gets people you take a Ste from a video and somebody was blinking weird you okay normally people blink with both eyes at the same time every once in a while like let's say you mid yawn or something or you're chewing one eye might close before the other eye and if you catch me in this moment I look a little little off something going on with me and now if you tell people I killed a bunch of people you're like I can see it I can see it on that's what the other eye is hiding is secrets that's why it's closed like that okay they Tred this man was being led to the jailhouse through what looked like a tunnel and he getting pushed by police through a tunnel and he's screaming and they took steals from that and those still looked good who looks good screaming this man is getting pushed through the tunnel yelling back at the media going like just I'll show you right now [Applause] what about that was [Applause] sexy and people already thirst tra me if we thought Ted Bundy got letters it was it was insane it's very aggravating and then every picture looked good to the point where editors editors and media consultants and stuff like that were like stop putting pictures out of him that's how good he looked they were like stop you botched it don't put out another picture and you could tell that the newspapers were getting aggravated because these newspapers and these these media companies are owned by billionaires billionaires who are terrified right now of what's happening and they see the public Laing this dude as a hero and they're trying to get at least something the cops literally had to tase this dude so he pissed himself so he took one bad photo but even in that one you're like [Applause] a I just know that there was somebody there was somebody at a newspaper flipping out going y'all can't do your job y'all can't take one bad follow of this man everything got to be in Focus you can't even make it boy but I'm not going to lie when when they caught that dude I I felt I I everything started to come back up top like surface level again where I felt bad for for a lot of different people you know I feel I did feel bad for uh for Brian Thompson's kids because you don't pick who your daddy is you know and to a certain degree I even felt bad for the shooter cuz I'm like you're 26 and you you have money something happened something something happened you're smart you have your whole life of have you with all of this opportunity you disappeared for some time and now you do something happened you know but I felt especially bad like really really bad for for women because finally there was a goodlooking rich well read man who has nothing to do with hollyood would but he does murder some so know I mean I could just see I can just see somebody trying to defend them just women defend their bed too hard sometimes just like he just did one it was just one murder okay he can't even he can't even murder a little like you judging me cuz my man Mur Your Man cheat all right how about that um felt bad for for a lot of people when it happened when it became like surface level real again it wasn't just this like spy crime mystery thing was like back down to earth with real people I also feel very bad for anybody else who got shot that day it's New York a lot of people get shot in New York every day imagine imagine you get shot New York ow they got me right and you holding it and let's say you're an artist so you actually do your own police sketch of your shooter and then you hobble your way over to the police station and you put it in from like look that's exactly what he looked like I had a lot of time to draw it uh can you go looking and then the police look at you and be like sorry this other thing's sort of a all handson deck you know but yeah yeah that's tough it's tough because you know there was even a lot of talk about which CEOs in this whole thing were were safe do you know what I mean because like healthcare CEOs were on high alert but I I'm not going to lie you know Luigi he went he went to Starbucks and then he did that murder and then he hopped on a city bike and he left New York and everything if you're the CEO of Starbucks you got to be like oh thank goodness you know Starbucks does stuff too Starbucks Starbucks they they love that labor they love that they love that cheap labor so for you to go go to Starbucks before you take out a CEO not going to lie you might as well shot that man with an iPhone like what are you doing and then he gets found at a McDonald's I'm sure CEO of McDonald's is like oh thank God okay I was always good yes you know the cosos are freaking out you know across the board who would have thought who would have thought CEOs were family do you know what I mean like and and let's be clear about something don't mistake the different CEOs that commented on this the ones that stayed scared the ones that that that appeal to to a different way of doing things while they keep doing everything the same way don't mistake their self-preservation for empathy right because those CEOs they know you know and it's not even as if people hated people because they were Rich they hated A system that destroyed people's lives you know cuz Luigi is Rich Luigi is so R when I found out how rich he was that's so rich did dude's family owns two country clubs look why do you think I came W this dude's family owns two country club this is just me outside looking in I didn't even know you could own a country club I thought it was owned by the country I had no idea cuz usually people don't put their name on The Country Club they own it's not like it's Rick's Country Club like that's crazy that Luigi's family had more money than the CEO but then the CEO comes from like humble beginnings and has more money than Luigi does person and so it became this whole thing where people some people started turning on Luigi and then rooting for the CEO it was it was odd cuz people got too wrapped up in the money but for me it's not the money specifically it wasn't about who's rich and who has more money than who it was about a system that destroys people's lives you know know it it was about the fact that some jobs make you a monster and there are some jobs you have to be a monster to do you know I mean and so for me I don't I don't even care that Luigi is Rich because people the people right the people that love that it happened the people that didn't care that happened the people that just wanted some Taste of Revenge for how healthc care and and and health insurance has has destroyed their life we we use Healthcare and health insurance interchangeably but I think you know what I mean how these insurance companies take the good work of doctors the good work of of nurses and they they make it so it's inaccessible you know and I think that the CEOs were scared but let's be honest not all CEOs were scared I'm pretty sure the CEO of Ben and Jerry slept pretty good this entire time like nobody was calling for all the CEO nobody wanted to get Ben or Jerry we were both very happy with those individuals you know you also have a year where whistleblowers who who try to stand up to power and a system not just like one person right because that's why I think a lot of cosos don't understand and why a lot of news media didn't understand about how the people feel is that there were people who Tred to do things the right way they they whistle blue hey this company is doing this thing it's either put your life in danger or it's stealing from you and then all of a sudden 2024 seemed to be the year of whistleblowers turning up dead you know what I mean look at look at the Boeing look at the Boeing whistleblower that dude turns up dead when he's supposed to testify in the thing he already risked his life to do and you're telling me he just mysteriously died in the parking lot of his hotel room that nobody knew he was staying at come on on now come on and then my man is blowing the whistle on a bunch of stuff we already know he's like the door going to fly off we [Applause] heard and then another whistleblower dies and another whistleblower dies and then just today just today The Whistleblower that blew the whistle on open AI was found dead in his apartment and so yeah I think that people as in individuals just generally in the world are scared they're scared of what happens when you stand up to power they're scared of what happens when you try to do what seems like the right thing you know and these powerful people step in and we don't know but it looks pretty obvious what happens and I think I think I think for me at least to me people all of us are like mirrors of each other and right now the mirror is like shattered a little bit if you put up two mirrors next to each other you make an infinite image right in both directions but if you crack just one of the mirrors you've cracked the whole infinite image you know and so the way that they see us not as people not not as people who they should take care of because we are their customers we are their consumers we gave them money in good faith for insurance for our health and then you deny when I need something I've been paying all this money if I had just saved the money and put it aside I might have enough myself and now you're standing in the way of me and my health and you don't think that there's going to be any blowback with that you don't think anything is going to happen next that's wild we're in a time where you see like Josh Shapiro come up and be like this guy was not a hero let me be clear sure fair enough I'm with you all right but you have to pass legislation you have to get it through and don't let a lobbyist sway you and don't let a lobbyist sway your colleagues you have to do something [Music] then because I I I I cannot stress enough how scary it is how much of an inevitability we're heading to you know what I mean if you if you if if you look at history history alone all by itself is a playbook for some people is a cautionary tale for other people I I think a lot of the answer to what we're facing is is in history it's in it's in Versailles and when you when you read the history of Versa you read the the history of of French Revolution is it's very apparent that you know whether it's police whether it's an army guards whatever it is they protect the powerful not the people you know and the only reason that the people won in the French Revolution in my opinion is because the Army's guns took like a Seinfield episode to reload like say yeah you probably get them up out of there real quick like you you go to I went I went to Versailles I went there and it is beautiful it's so it's it's a testament it's a monument to like what people can accomplish but it it's it's all one man's wealth you know it's all for the king but the gardens are beautiful inside is beautiful the mirrors the everything it's decadent it's it's when I walked in I was like wow I get how this can happen I get how you could have everything in the world and you want to make something like this and it's still not enough you want to add to it you want to build more build better you see the king's you see the king's bedroom you see where Maran tette her her it's like you see so much and then you and then you walk through the thing and you also are like oh yeah I can also see how if you were hungry enough and you broke in here and you saw what they did you would probably grab everybody it doesn't make it right but France was headed towards an inevitability you know what I mean and if you if you get on TV and you say this is wrong this is absolutely wrong okay I agree with you but what are you going to do now what what's the plan like politicians cannot afford to do nothing CEOs cannot afford to do nothing and the people cannot afford to do nothing and if the last part scares you you might be on the wrong side of History you know but that's that's a tough thing too cuz now there's a lot of people saying like all right you got them but good luck finding a jury good luck finding a jury that wasn't wasn't hurt by Brian Thompson yeah he yeah that's a tough one cuz now to me all Luigi has to do is show up in court and be like y'all I tried to call and tell them I was crazy but they kept me on hold for so [Music] long they kept me on hold for so long I figured maybe I'll just go talk to him personally [Music]