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St. Patrick's Day is this Saturday, and I'm reminded of a night many years ago.
I was in South Boston, which is a rather tough working-class Irish neighborhood.
It was winter, and I was walking out of a club after seeing a band.
It was pretty late at night, and in the dimly lit parking lot amidst the freshly fallen snow, numerous pairs of local youths were engaged in fistfights with each other.
I guess because it was nighttime.
As I made my way to my car, one of the young men called out to his friends, he said, why are we fighting each other?
Let's go beat up some guineas.
As Americans, we are constantly being tempted to, quote, go beat up some guineas.
Eventually, most everybody seems to fit in, but at first, nobody wants them here.
Like everybody else, the Irish were an oppressed minority, considered stupid and forced to take menial jobs to survive.
Eventually, things got so bad, many Irishmen had no choice but to become governor.
Of course, the Irish are no longer even considered a minority.
Must be all those kids they had.
Turns out they were not that stupid.
So if you go to a St. Patrick's Day parade, consider all your prejudices and note how many Irish people are walking in a completely straight line.
It's the Jimmy Dore Show.
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And now, here's a guy who sounds a lot like me.
It's Jimmy Dore!
Hi, everybody, and welcome to this week's episode.
I am joined in studio from a talented writer from the Daily Show, a hilarious comedian Steve Rosenfield, is with us.
Hey, Steve, how are you?
Hey, Jimmy.
Sorry to make you lean over and say hello like that.
That's okay.
Next to him from Mystery Science 3.
I always say that messed up.
From Mystery Science Theater 3000 and CinematicTitanic.com coming to a town near you.
It's Frank Connoff.
Hey, Frank, how are you?
Hello, there.
Wow, it's the rural Frank.
You're getting ready to go to North and South Carolina, aren't you?
I am.
Tomorrow.
You're going to be in Durham.
I'm going to be in Durham.
And Raleigh.
And No Mount Pilot.
Oh, Mom.
You're going to see Thalmalu and go get a pop.
I wish that was what was going to happen.
Next to him, the host of the Mental Illness Happy Hour podcast, chose one of the top 10 podcasts in the world by The Onion.
It's Paul Gilmartin.
Hey, Paul.
Hello, James.
Good to see you.
Good to see you.
It's St. Patrick's Day week.
You got your green on.
It's nice to see.
Oh, but that wasn't even.
And it says Irish yoga on it.
And it's people falling out of their chairs.
There you go.
Next to him, a hilarious comedian from Team Yasamura.
It's Robert Yasamura.
Hey, Robert, how are you?
I'm great.
Good to see you.
Good to see you.
We heard your laugh on a very controversial episode of Best of the Left.
Yeah.
We're going to be talking about it coming up.
The shame that follows me to this day.
There is a lot of shame in it.
I don't believe I was part of that kind of misogyny.
It was exactly what happened on Rush Limbaugh.
Okay, so coming.
So last night, Mississippi and Alabama, we're recording this on Wednesday after the Southern primaries in Mississippi and Alabama.
And last night, Mississippi and Alabama decided which GOP candidate is the most qualified to lead them into the 18th century.
And Satorum is very hopeful that last night's win in the deep south will give him the credibility he needs to win over the racists in the rest of the country.
But, you know, if you listen to the pundits, Mitt Romney's having a hard time.
They say that even though, well, here's the only thing he has going for him, according to Jonathan Capehart from Washington Post.
The thing that Mitt Romney has going for him is the fact that he's way ahead in delegates.
Yeah, the only thing he has going for him is that he's winning.
The only thing he has going for him is that he's way ahead of delegates.
You know, if it wasn't for the fact that he was blowing everybody away, he would be in trouble, this guy.
He's very lucky that he's winning and that a lot more people have been voting for him than the other guys.
Good.
That's very good observation.
Jonathan, Kite K Part, what would we do without you?
Okay, coming up on today's show, well, we're going to talk about how bad it is to volunteer in the Oh My God segment.
Very bad thing to do.
We're also going to talk about, well, there's a big controversy we talked about a little bit last week over at Best of the Left about Frank's joke.
And we're going to talk about that and the false equivalencies made between Frank's joke and what Rush Limbaugh did.
You're just alike, Frank, you have to admit.
You've always been a secret misogynist.
Yes.
Okay, coming up after that, Callista Gingrich, she lets us know what she's given up for Lent, and I bet it's something you thought she already did give up a long time ago.
Didn't she give up her soul for her marriage?
She gave up worse than that, Frank.
Then we're going to hear from Newt Gingrich on why we shouldn't apologize ever to Afghanistan for any of the things we do.
Plus, we got phone calls from Callista Gingrich calls in.
We got a phone call from Joe from China, who called into the best of the left, also calls into our show.
And Mitt Romney calls in because he got a new endorsement from Jeff Foxworthy.
He lets us know all about it.
That's coming up today on the Jimmy Dore Show.
Time for another installment of Oh My God.
Okay, well, you know, today in the Oh My God segment, how many churches emphasize serving the poor as much as the Bible itself?
I'm going to say not too many, right?
Instead, it seems the loudest Christians today have infected our culture with the idea that somehow capitalism, no matter what the results, equals holiness.
And in the results of capitalism, no matter how brutal are always moral, they preach the gospel of commerce.
And that when Jesus told us to serve our fellow man, he didn't mean volunteer at homeless shelters or directly help someone who was down and out.
No, what Jesus meant was that we need to set up unregulated markets that concentrate wealth in the hands of a few and then let the help and aid trickle down to the widows and orphans.
That's exactly what Jesus meant.
His problem with the temp with the money changers was that they were too regulated.
He was a big advocate of supply-side Christianity.
Very much so.
Very much so.
But enter Buddy Pilgrim, Bud Pilgrim.
Who is he?
Well, he's sick of all this be in service to your fellow man talk that people have been doing lately.
Buddy Pilgrim is unstuck in time.
He's Buddy Pilgrim or Bud Pilgrim.
He's the head of the Integrity Leadership called Integrity Leadership, a nonprofit Christian ministry he founded in 1998 specifically to teach God's work for the workplace, God's word for the workplace.
He teaches biblical principles of leadership, business management, and financial successes applicable to every Christian in the workplace.
What he really does is give Christians an excuse to be greedy and not help the least among us.
Here he is when he lets us know that important dates in our nation's history are being corrupted by do-gooders who use those dates for a call for service to our fellow men.
Think I'm kidding?
September 11th has been turned into a national day of service instead of day to commemorate what happened.
Yes, yes.
Which is a sneaky way of letting the Muslims off the hook.
We all know that.
Okay, here we go.
In this past, Martin Luther King's Day was talked about as a day of service.
Well, Martin Luther King didn't march on the mall for a day of service.
He marched on equality, where people would be judged by the content of their character and not by the color of their skin.
Yes, and anybody who knows anything about Martin Luther King knew he was totally opposed to any kind of personal sacrifice.
Yes, yes.
He was totally against that.
I mean, you know, all this, we'll keep going.
And all this talk about service kind of sounds good on the surface, but it's really all about collectivism.
And it's elevating volunteerism.
There's nothing wrong with volunteerism.
I believe in volunteering.
But we've reached this point where we demonize people who go out and earn a living and we elevate those who volunteer and don't do anything.
And I would say this: is it really?
Yeah, first of all, let me just say, all this talk about service, it really is code for collectivism.
And that's how the left suckers you into caring about other people.
Yes.
Uh-huh.
See?
And it's a slippery slope.
First, you start caring about other people, then you start helping them.
And pretty soon, you're making the world a better place.
Where does it end?
Exactly.
How do you get from volunteerism to collectivism?
He does it in one declarative sentence.
So I guess that's all you have to do.
Just say one thing and then say another thing, right?
It's like, you know how this whole thing, you know how this whole going to college, you know what it's all about?
Veganism.
It really is.
Okay, so there's more to this guy.
Ready?
It gets better.
He picks up.
He's getting ahead of steam.
Those who volunteer and don't do anything.
And I would say this is: is it really more noble?
What is more noble to go out one Saturday a couple of times a year and work the food line at the homeless shelter or to risk your capital and to invest your intellect and your life and your hard work to start a business that will employ the person that is at the homeless shelter so that they can provide for themselves and their family with dignity.
Thank God for business, man.
Thank God for businessman.
You know, if everybody had the courage not to help the homeless, it wouldn't be so appealing to go hungry and sleep in the street.
That's what he's saying.
I don't remember if that's from the old or the New Testament portion of Atlas shrugged.
You know, Jesus, if had he not been executed by capital punishment, had he not been executed by capital punishment, he and the apostles were planning an IPO, which they never got around to.
Well, I think, you know, if you think back to the miracle of the loaves and fishes, what happened was Jesus was preaching, people got hungry.
So what he did was he took a loaf and a fish from someone who had brought some, and then he opened a fish and bread stand.
And then he, you know, just charged the standard 33% markup so he could cover costs and just get a modest profit.
That's all he did, right?
Isn't that what he did?
That's how you do it.
Also, don't forget his seminar on wealth on the mount.
That's right.
And don't forget the Good Samaritan, right?
So when you know the story of the Good Samaritan, Jews and Samaritans are supposed to hate each other, and there was an injured Jew on the Samaritans, no Samaritans.
Samaritan.
Oh, okay.
They were supposed to, and they were supposed to hate each other, and there was an injured Jew on the side of the road.
And then the other Jewish people just went right past them.
But the Samaritan stopped and helped.
And in this guy's version of the Bible, what the Samaritan would have done was stopped, called some investors, opened up an ambulance company.
And then maybe the ambulance company would have some charity workers that would come and pick this guy up.
That's how Jesus wants it to work, you idiots.
I love the way he says we've elevated volunteers in this country.
You know how we've elevated them.
You know that volunteer show on the e-network?
That's all like, you know, how we're celebrating volunteers all the time.
Oh, sure.
It's and we need to stop.
Yeah.
Don't forget what Jesus said on the cross.
Forgive them.
They know not how to invest.
Exactly.
You know, what's more noble, Frank, to volunteer twice a year at a homeless shelter or to start a business that's so successful, it buys a homeless shelter and throws the homeless out of it, right?
That's that's progress.
You know what would be noble to start a business that helped a homeless person find a job.
If one businessman anywhere, even once, ever gave a homeless person a job, I might listen to what this guy has to say.
Hey, you know, all the business owners who go, I'm going to start a business so I can hire all the homeless.
Maybe he's tired of the jammed parking lot at the soup kitchen and tired of the empty parking lot at the mall.
That's what it is.
Too many.
That's right.
You can't get into that homeless shelter to help out.
And, you know, not for nothing, but just so this guy knows, very few entrepreneurs actually even risk their own capital.
Okay, you jackass.
That's actually why we have the construct of a corporation to protect personal assets from the risks of business.
I'm just saying.
So if you're going to extol the virtues of small business over, let's say, being a big brother to some poor orphan, then maybe you should understand the most basic mechanism of how small businesses work.
That's all.
I mean, maybe that's all you need to know.
Also, he doesn't like the fact that homeless shelters can't be sold as subprime mortgages.
You know, you know, what's really bizarre about this guy is that he could have made the point that entrepreneurship is vital to our society without concocting this BS division in the American zeitgeist.
It's like he just threw that part in to be a jerk.
You know what I mean?
Yeah.
It really, it's really, it's like you think he does this with every thought he has in his head.
Oh, I really like that paint color.
You know who wouldn't like that color?
The Iranian nuclear scientists.
They wouldn't like it.
Yeah, I think everybody at this table agrees that capitalism is good and necessary and there's free market economy is a good thing.
But why does that have to be?
False dichotomy between volunteering and starting a business.
Like they're mutually exclusive.
I was going to help the poor God, but I was running Microsoft.
You know how that works.
This might come back to the fact that Obama was a community organizer and they're trying to make a connection of that.
His secret plan is for socialism and community organization.
It's the same thing as helping the homeless, maybe.
Yes, so now.
Yeah, and also they've community organizing is one of their things that they present as this horrible thing.
That socialism.
Yes.
The other Christian principles that they somehow have managed of Jesus Christ, the original community organizer.
This has been, oh my God.
Oh my God.
Okay, so you know, I grew up Catholic.
Paul, did you grow up Catholic?
I was raised Catholic.
Sure, raised Catholic.
And, you know, I like to tell you, my parents were really Catholic.
They almost molested somebody.
And I go to church, but I don't molest.
I'm a lazy Catholic.
You know that.
You know that about me.
But Newt Gingrich is a new Catholic, right?
So he converted, right?
He got after, you get a new wife, you get a new Jesus, right?
That's how it works.
And so they asked him and Callista, or they asked Newt Gingrich recently what you're so Lent.
If you don't know, Catholics, it's the 40 days before Easter.
And to commemorate Jesus going into the desert, they have this thing called Lent, where you're supposed to sacrifice something you like.
You know, most people give up like a candy or an indulgence, right?
I guess that's probably why I stopped being Catholic because I didn't want to give up candy for 40 days.
Well, what I gave up was superstition before I give up.
I give up superstition for 40 days every year at Lent.
And so here is, they're asking Newt Gingrich, and here's what he said.
Are you giving up for Lent?
Have you decided?
I am going to give up desserts.
He's giving up desserts.
Isn't that it's about time.
I didn't know he was still eating them.
I'm going to guess Gingrich gave up desserts, but he's still having something after the meal.
Like he's just having a second helping of meat.
Well, he's just calling ice cream the meal now.
Okay, right.
There's no dessert afterwards.
And then a little salad to start, an ice cream float for an appetizer.
Okay, here we go.
But then he says to her, why don't you ask Callista?
And just quickly, on challenge you to ask her what she's giving up.
He goes, I challenge you to ask her what she's giving up.
And here's what Callista's giving up.
Good morning.
What are you giving up?
I'm giving up my opinion.
I had thought she had given up her opinion a long time ago, right?
She has opinions and she hasn't been giving them up.
And this has been what's happening.
Are you kidding me?
She's giving up her opinion.
First of all, I thought all Catholic women gave up their opinions immediately.
Because don't you have an opinion about being a member of a patriarchal sexist organization that doesn't respect you for your brains, but only the fact that you can produce a baby and make more Catholics?
That doesn't bother you?
You don't have that opinion?
Or your opinion is you like being a second-class citizen?
Because that's what Jesus said.
What?
I don't understand.
So that's what she was pretty stunning to me.
I'm giving up my opinion.
Yeah.
You'd assume she gave it up at the altar.
She sort of turned in her keys.
Yes.
I thought she was going to, just for those 40 days, call off the detective that she always has following him.
And she should have that protective.
She's going to call off any tests for cancer or multiple sclerosis.
I think that's what she's giving up, right?
Well, she actually left me a message.
Really?
Callista.
Wow.
Hi, Jimmy.
Callista Gingrich.
I heard what you've been saying about me, and I wanted to call and let you know that I just don't think it's my place to be doing a bunch of woman thinking, especially during Lent.
Sure, I'm chock full of opinions, but that's just my ego.
Jesus doesn't give one rat's ass about my opinion, and why should he?
I'm a woman.
I make babies, not policy.
Look at some of the decisions I've made already.
I married Newt Gingrich for Catholic Christ's sake.
Show me a guy dumb enough to do that.
Lady opinions hurt Jesus.
That's why liberal women are full of them.
Look what happened when Hillary Clinton went and started telling Bill Clinton her opinions all over the place.
We almost got universal health care.
But Jesus smited her and struck down her evil health care for everyone.
And now she has to wear pantsuits.
Catholic Jesus knows that men are better at deciding things than women, like war and peace, and how many times you should get married.
And how sick does your wife have to be before you leave her?
That kind of thinking hurts my Catholic head.
By the way, hey, listen to your show yesterday.
Newt hated it.
Newt said I hated it too.
It's Lent.
Okay, it's Lent.
That was Callista.
Thanks for calling in, Callista.
You know, so that was Callista Gingrich letting us know how she celebrates Lent.
You know what Newt celebrates is Ass Wednesday.
He's been married three times.
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And speaking of Newt Gingrich, we're lucky enough to have him show up in our next segment.
I don't know if you guys know that the Afghan war is still going on.
We're still fighting them over there.
It's not a short war like the Iraq war.
No, it's not.
It's ended within like almost 10 years.
Yes.
Yeah, so the Afghan war still happening.
Well, what happened last week was that a soldier finally snapped.
He's on his fourth tour, which that's something.
He had a brain injury and yet he was deemed fit for combat.
Yeah, they let him go back.
Or they let him go back in the fourth tour.
And I think that's how it's supposed to run.
You're supposed to be endlessly in a state of battle, right?
I don't think that.
How could that screw up your psyche?
If Americans could get jobs as easily as soldiers get called back to combat.
It's unbelievable how these guys really think about that, a fourth tour of duty in a war zone where people are trying to kill you every day.
You know, I mean, I take a middle seat from New York.
I got to take a couple of Zanax.
The other thing that I don't think is taken into account is the ripple effect that those people coming home damaged has.
You know, the fact that they have a difficult time participating emotionally or mentally as a parent or as a spouse.
Anything.
Yes.
Yeah.
I can't.
Honestly, you know, not kidding.
I can't deal with anything, and I've never been to war.
I can't deal with anything.
Yeah, you're either going to be killed over there or injured or come back and be haunted for life by the horrors that you saw during the war.
But you'll get your college paid for.
Come on.
Come on.
That's quite a fair trade-off.
So what happened was before this last incident with this sergeant snapping and he went and killed 12 was it 16 Afghanis in their house.
Just went house to house and started shooting men, women.
So what happened was before this last incident, they had, there was a videotape of American soldiers burning Korans.
Okay.
To me, it's all voodoo, okay?
You know, even with the American flag, you can't burn the flag except that's the way you're supposed to dispose of them properly.
So I don't understand voodoo, but people get, but we know that the Muslims in Afghanistan would be upset about that, right?
That we're burning the Quran.
So they did that.
So a stupid thing like this can undo all the good work they've been doing for years, right?
The head of the military apologized.
Leon Panetta apologized.
The president apologized, which, of course, that was the worst thing you could do in the world, according to the right wing.
And Newt Gingrich said the same thing.
In fact, but, you know, President Bush had apologized when we did something.
I forget what exactly, but he had apologized to the Afghani people over a situation just like this.
And Wolf Blitzer asked him about it.
Criticized President Bush in 2008 for apologizing to the Iraqis.
Oh, see?
Because he apologized to the Iraqis in 2008.
This is just shocking to me that Wolf Blitzer would ask a good question.
Here we go.
Look, I wasn't a presidential candidate at that point.
No.
Well, you're not now either.
No, he wasn't a presidential candidate when Bush apologized, so there wouldn't have been a payoff.
So better to wait till now when I'm running for president against a Democrat with a scarily Muslim name to demagogue it, right?
Better timing, bigger payoff.
I mean, look at the airtime I'm getting with it now.
That's really what he's saying.
Okay, there's more.
I wasn't a presidential candidate at that point.
What I will say.
But what you will say, I'm going to guess what he will say is something that is off point and muddies the issue without answering the question that exposes him as a hypocrite.
Let's see.
U.S. Army destroyed Bibles in 2009.
I find it reprehensible that we have this double standard.
Do you think Assad worries about destroying Korans in Syria right now?
Do you think Gaddafi worried about destroying Korans in Libya?
They were using artillery.
They're bombing people.
They're destroying mosques.
They're doing whatever they have to do to stay in power.
Do you see any riots over that?
Okay, so apparently, I guess because other people are horrible people other places, that absolves us from actually taking responsibility for any of the stuff.
Did you know that, hey, should you apologize for kicking that girl?
Did you know Hitler killed six million Jews?
What is the far-right fear of ever apologizing about anything?
Is it looking weak?
Is it what did they think that liberals apologize too much?
And that's the reaction?
What?
Looking weak, Paul.
It would be looking weak.
Yes, it's an immature reaction to a complex situation.
But Nick Gingrich has apologized to some of the women he's been with.
I'm sorry, this has never happened before.
That's why I'm giving up desserts.
Are you kidding me?
You don't think he blames it on how they look?
I'm sorry.
I usually have a string tied to it.
I can't find it either.
Okay.
Okay, there's, I think he has some more to say about it.
Ready?
This was our excuse, just like the Danish cartoons.
And I think we ought to be clear about this.
This is an excuse to have anti-American hatred whipped up.
Yeah, it's an excuse.
This is an excuse.
You know how the fact that we've been occupying their country for over a decade and we've been desecrating their most holy books, videotaping it, peeing on their dead soldiers.
This is just another one of those excuses to get them overreacting.
Yeah, what did we do?
What did we do?
We said, go ahead.
You know, I was listening to NPR or something yesterday, and this expert was saying how we have to be careful about not pulling out of Afghanistan because it's going to become a breeding ground for terrorism.
And I'm just so tired of that arrogant attitude that is presupposing that we can control what other people are going to do in their country.
And ignoring the fact that us being in their country is probably a bigger contributor to terrorism.
It's just such a nobody even knows what the mission is over there anymore, Paul.
No one knows.
No one cares.
What's the mission?
Well, they were supposedly harboring bin Laden originally.
They were harboring terrorists.
So, you know, naturally we caught him in Pakistan, you know.
And that was the, you know, everyone was so mad about 9-11.
Well, you know, that way it made more sense than Iraq, you know, but it still is completely.
Why don't we do what Israel did after Munich, which is just find out who it was that did it and just do targeted killings?
We did it already.
It's done.
But why wasn't that the war itself?
Because that's not, you can't publicize that as much.
You can't present.
You can let it come out in a way that's unofficial that lets people.
But the way the public, though, was being whipped up by Bush administration and the media, after 9-11, there was no way in terms of public relations on the part of the government.
They needed to go to the USA.
There was no way we couldn't go to war.
We had to go to war.
Somebody was getting mine.
And the Bush administration sees that as, oh, good, we want to go to war with Iraq.
You know, they had nothing to do with this, but we want to go.
And the public is demanding that we go to war.
But they had to go to war with Afghanistan, too.
Yes.
They had to go there.
Imagine a foreigner coming into our country assuming that they're going to change.
You mean Obama?
So he called in.
He wanted to talk about it.
Jimmy Dore, it's Mitt Romney.
Say, I bet you and your smarty pants, friends, in the Los Angeles alternative comedy scene.
Never thought I'd be hip enough to be embraced by one of your own.
Well, guess what?
I have now received the support of none other than edgy, in-your-face, iconoclastic comedian, Jeff Foxworthy.
Yes.
As you know, Jeff is a real comedian's comedian, like Dane Cook.
Thought you were cooler than me, huh?
Jimmy?
Well, not anymore.
As you know, there are few funny men with more street credit than Jeff Foxworthy.
Except maybe Tom Dreeson, Rich Little, and Byron Allen.
Jimmy, guess what?
I've been getting some comedy pointers from Jeff.
Well, ladies and gentlemen, without further ado, please enjoy the button-down irreverence of me, Mitt Romney.
Sip of water.
If your only experience with science is your common-law wife's crystal meth lab, you might be a redneck.
If you don't know if you are a 99%er or a 1%er, because you have no idea what math is, you might be a redneck.
If you're morally opposed to your sister using birth control when you have sex with her, you might be a redneck.
That's a little dirty, but I still have humorous quality.
If every time you go near one of your farm animals, they use a rape whistle, you might be a redneck.
Oh, that's certainly prescribed behavior, but still fodder for comedy.
If you have no teeth because you can't afford to go to a dentist and yet are opposed to Obamacare, you might be a redneck.
If while watching your girlfriend's state-mandated sonogram, you ask for a remote control so you can change the channel to Walker Texas Ranger.
You might be a redneck.
I bet they do have that technological capability, though.
If nobody can hear you when you say Obama is a Muslim because your face is covered with a white sheet, you might be a redneck.
Yes.
Hate.
If the only time you socialize with black people is when you lynch them, you might be a redneck.
Wow.
Wow.
Too far.
If the highest grade you've ever gone is a hepatitis C, you might be a redneck.
That's one that's fun for the family.
Well, Jimmy, that's my time.
Thanks for coming out and supporting live answering machine comedy.
There's a small amount that reveals your insensitivity to the needs of working people.
If you've had too much to drink tonight, be sure to strap the dog to the roof of your car and drive home as fast as you can.
Good night.
Okay, that was Mitt Romney letting us know.
Mike McRae doing the voice written by Frank Conniff.
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Welcome back to the Jimmy Door Show.
I'm joined in studio by hilarious comedian, former writer for the Daily Show, Steve Rosenfield, from Mystery Science Theater 3000 and CinematicTitanic.com.
It's Frank Coniff from the Mental Illness Happy Hour podcast.
It's Paul Gilmartin.
And from Team Yasamura, it's hilarious comedian Robert Yasamura.
What's coming up on the second half of today's show?
Well, we got a phone call coming up.
We had two phone calls.
I can't tell you who they're from.
It's a surprise.
But we're going to talk about this controversy that's been happening over at Best of the Left over Frank's joke.
Okay.
So, well, it all started off.
Let's go.
First of all, I got a phone call from, well, I think you might know who this guy is.
Hey, it's Jimmy.
Who's this?
Hey, Jimmy, how you doing?
It's moron.
Hey, Moron.
How are you doing, buddy?
What's happening?
Hey, Jimmy.
Good to talk to you.
Where you been, buddy?
We got caught up in a tornado last summer.
And, you know, I just been trying to get my life back together.
And then Eric Cantor ain't making it any easier.
But I thought you were against the federal government relying on the federal government for stuff.
Yeah, I am.
I'm against that.
But this is a tornado.
We got freaking wiped out, Jim.
We need some help.
But you don't see how that is contradictory.
No, move on.
Well, there was a storm with the tornado.
Then I jumped in the bathtub.
Did you think that was going to save you hiding in the bathtub?
No.
Then why did you hide in the bathtub?
I was trying to save the tub, Jim.
If that goes, I don't want to live.
So what's up, Moron?
I just wanted to ask you about why you don't call for Obama's to give back the Bill Maher money since Bill Maher called Sale Sarah Palin a dumb twat.
Just because that's why I wanted to ask you.
Come on, Moron.
You know the difference between what Rush did and what Bill Maher did.
It's exactly the same thing, Jimmy.
It is not.
It's exactly the same thing.
And that just shows you to be a lefty hypocrite, liberal, lefty hypocrite.
That doesn't, you know what?
I'm not even going to get into that.
Oh, wait till I tell Teresa.
Those are different in at least a dozen different ways I can think of off the top of my head immediately.
Oh, those are completely different in a dozen ways.
Well, how about, for instance, when Bill Maher was ridiculing Sarah Palin, calling her a twin.
It was for dumb stuff that Sarah Palin had actually said and done.
And she was a governor, so she had a lot of power.
All right.
Rush Limbaugh completely distorted and lied about what Sandra Fluke had testified about.
Attacked her at least 57 times over three days.
And Sandra Fluke has no power.
Okay.
So you followed me so far?
So you could see how those things aren't equivalent.
It's the same thing, Jim.
Exactly the same thing.
Moron, can't you at least tell a difference between a joke and an attack?
Are you saying one's different because it's comedy?
Yes.
Well, that's what Rush says.
He says he was doing comedy.
But he's not a comedian.
Who's to say that he's the world?
He makes me laugh.
What else makes you laugh, Moron?
Car accidents and those sports of trees.
Hey, Moron, what did you get?
Trees for Valentine's Day.
You know, she was complaining that the clothes were damp all the time and everything.
She thought there was something wrong with the dryer, but...
Sounds like a dryer.
I just got her the lint lizard.
What?
The what?
Yeah, the lint lizard.
It's a lint trap cleaning tool.
I never heard of it.
How does it work?
It's flexible and attaches right to any vacuum hose.
Oh, well, that sounds pretty convenient, right?
Clog dryer works harder.
You don't have to tell me, buddy.
It's 40 inches long and grabs all that packed in lint that's choking your dry.
40 inches.
That sounds long for bugs or anything.
Old-fashioned lid brushes.
Pull out the lint lint.
It's everywhere.
Okay, granted, good point.
How is a lit lizard different?
Oh, that is different.
You can vacuum in between machines and under appliances, too, in a snap.
A dust lizard?
Yeah, dust lizard.
What's that for?
Well, you can use it for dust.
Oh, I guess so.
Right in the name, huh?
Okay, Jimmy, I know you're busy.
Listen, I gotta go.
I gotta go pick up Tree.
She's getting her back bleached right now.
Okay, Moron, good to talk to you.
Don't be a stranger.
Talk to you soon.
Okay, bye.
I haven't heard from him in a while.
Okay, Tuesday with Moron.
Haven't heard from him.
Good to hear from Moron.
Okay, so let's get to the controversy that happened over at the best of the left.
Okay, so it all started with this.
Hey, Jay, this is Joe calling all the way from Nanjing, China.
On your last episode, the Jimmy Door show was talking about Rick Fantorin at the TPAC convention.
And they were talking about his family and that he had seven kids and that they were all up on stage.
And then they started talking about his eldest daughter, who they found attractive.
By the way, his oldest daughter looks like a hot Ruth Buzzy.
She is a slice of joke.
She's really attractive, right?
And she's got such a nice smile.
I felt so sad.
And I hear she really puts out.
I felt very sorry for her to standing behind her father, like giving that look.
She's stuck with that father, and he's just shaming her sex, sexuality, and not telling her.
Oh, the damage is done.
He no longer has to shame her.
She's self-shaming.
She's pointing.
I know.
And one of the people on the Jimmy Dore show said, and I hear she really puts out.
See, if we're going to, you know, show our righteous indignation towards Rush Limbaugh about calling somebody a slut and a prostitute.
And then we have a progressive podcast basically doing the same thing, but not being called on the carpet sport because they're not as highly recognizable.
Exactly the same thing.
Exactly.
Frank, basically, what you did was basically the same thing.
Okay.
Okay.
I just want you to know, Frank, that I don't know if you know that, but what you did, you tried to demean a woman.
You tried to sexually shame her.
You tried to intimidate her.
You tried to bully her, and you had a lot of malice behind what you were saying.
You have to talk into the mic.
The thing is, is this whole thing, this guy called in from China, and he was outraged, and it would have blown over, but an hour later, he was outraged again.
Okay.
Okay.
So this is where it goes off the rails when people say that stuff.
Like, you can talk about your joke about whether it was appropriate or inappropriate.
Right.
But once you put it in that category of it's the exact same thing.
Yeah.
I mean, if it's like you now have, you've now just, you've revealed yourself to not be a serious person and not to know what you're talking about.
Yeah, if you're offended by the joke, which I can understand how some people would be, and also not think it's a good joke, that's perfectly reasonable.
But to say that it's the same thing as what Rush Limbaugh did is ridiculous.
You know, if he thinks I should apologize, the truth is, is I realize that at the end of my career, I'm going to look back and there's going to be a lot that I need to apologize for.
And I don't think that's going to be it, by the way.
I don't think it's going to.
So, so, okay.
So then Jay from Best of the Left responded to him and said, hey, you know what?
I don't think that that, I didn't find the joke funny, but it wasn't offensive to me.
So this guy called back in and said this.
Now, this is what they're playing this week on the show.
Hey, Jay, it's Joe from Nanjing China again, just listening to the last podcast.
Okay, I'll grant you, maybe the comparison is a little, you know, it's not necessarily balanced.
But a couple points.
So what, so what, though?
So what, though?
Which was your point.
That was your original point.
The whole point was it's exactly the same.
Okay.
Okay.
So it's not the same at all.
So.
And I said maybe.
I don't necessarily agree with you.
Sure, we can call what they did on the door show a joke, but that's also what Rush Limbaugh said about his and other people are saying about his, that it was satire, that was a joke.
And you may think that, you know, the comments were made not towards the daughter, but towards Rick Santorum itself.
Okay, that's great.
But then we're just going to make his daughter the sacrificial lamb.
We're going to make jokes about his daughter, which were distasteful to get at Rick Santorum.
I don't know.
It doesn't seem quite right to me.
And the other thing, too, now that this is all, you know, going on with Rush Limbaugh, the right, the self-righteous right, are just looking for ways to deflect from themselves and from what Rush Limbaugh said.
And they're looking for anything.
They're going after Bill Maher now for what he said and that he donated a million dollars to Obama.
But from somebody looking from the outside into what you are saying about it's not comparable, it was just a joke.
What if they're not enlightened enough to see that?
And they take what was said on the Jimmy Dore show and they conflate it and they, you know, make it bigger than it was.
All I'm saying is if we're going to call people on the carpet for what they say on a radio show, just like they did with Rush Limbaugh, then I think we need to hold ourselves to the same standard.
You know, that's a good point.
What if people don't know you're joking, Frank, or don't understand the nuances of the joke and falsely and incorrectly charge you with being just as bad as Rush Limbaugh?
You know, like this guy Joe just did right there.
What if that happens?
He's saying right-wing people are doing it, but he's doing it right now.
So if someone is going to distort what you say for political purposes, then you should never say that thing, right?
I agree with Joe there.
You should never do a joke that 100% of your audience aren't going to fully understand or comprehend.
Without that kind of thinking, we never would have had Full House or Two and a Half Men.
That's the kind of thinking that brings us such great comedies like Two and a half men.
We wouldn't have those, we wouldn't have horrible people like George Carlin and Richard Pryor.
Yes, we could have got rid of them a long time ago.
Because comedy, comedy that is subtle or hard for dumb people to understand, it's too risky.
I don't think that this applies only to comedy, but to life in general, which is why this whole thing is kind of Sandra Fluke's fault in the first place, isn't it?
Using Joe's logic, I mean, had she just taken Joe's advice and never said anything that your enemies can misrepresent to cause the ignorant to be outraged, she should have known, just as Joe has pointed out here, that her enemies were going to misinterpret what she said and use it against her.
Same thing goes for Shirley Sherrod.
She knew Breitbart was just waiting for her to say something about race relations so he could selectively edit a video to make it look like she said the opposite of what she was actually saying.
So yeah, I mean, Joe's right.
If we're going to call out Rush for what he said, then we have to call out Shirley Sherad for what she said too.
Just like Joe from China, I also didn't take a logic class.
And so this makes perfect sense to me.
Two things.
It's Limbaugh, not Limbaugh.
Okay.
And secondly, if you, I think, if I'm not mistaken, that conversation, we were talking about how disgusting it is that candidates bring their families on stage and how they bring them into the public eye that way.
So there was a genuine reason why we were talking about his family because they were brought into the public eyes.
He put them on stage.
And the whole point, let me just say, Frank, the whole point of that.
See, the difference between Rush Limbaugh, the biggest difference is Rush Limbaugh meant what he said.
He was trying to be injurious to her.
There was a lot of malice in his voice.
There was a lot of evil intent behind what he was doing.
He was trying to bully and not only intimidate her, but intimidate other women from coming forward and speaking.
None of that was present in Frank's joke.
None of that was present.
The only overlap.
But the one thing that I would, you know, that I would take to heart is I know that my intention in that joke was directed at Santorum and his insane anti-contraception, anti-women, anti-sex thing, and the irony of that, his daughter, of his daughter being that way.
But I do agree that I think that when it comes to the children of the candidates, you know, it's not quite fair to make them a target.
And even though he Santorum was the target of my joke, but I did use her in the joke.
And if I had to do it again, I might not, just because I don't want to, you know, as a general rule, I don't want to, you know, I would never do a joke about Obama's daughters or whatever.
Okay, before we move on, before we move on, there was one more call that was played on the best of the left that I thought we should play here and then address it.
Okay, here this is from someone named Mara.
Okay, here we go.
Hey, Jay, this is Mara from Pittsburgh.
And I'm calling about your response to the college Joe from China.
So just so you know, when Jay responded to Joe from China, I didn't play it, but he said that he found the joke not funny, but not offensive either.
Did John from Cincinnati call in?
I must say I was a little disappointed.
You tried to explain the joke, but I take it that we all know it was a joke, but that's not the point.
So what if instead of talking about Santorum's daughter, the joke had been about his son, Day, or some other politician's done.
Okay, well, first of all, let's say that is the point, that it was a joke.
So when you know someone's joking, you know the intention isn't to harm, maim, or demean.
So that's why that's how you know.
Okay.
And he said, oh, you know, I heard he's a faggot, or I heard he's a fag.
It doesn't matter whether he was trying to be funny.
It's offensive and unacceptable.
First of all, it makes all the difference in the world whether he was trying to be funny.
That joke was meant to be demeaning to Rick Santorum.
Right.
I'm talking to make a point about talking hypothetical, right?
But also, you know, she says, what if, you know, and then she uses a worse word than I think it's.
A great worse word that it's the same thing, but it all depends on the context of something.
For instance, for instance, we've all done a lot of jokes about the sexuality of Michelle Bachman's husband, Marcus Bachman.
And you could say, well, that's, you know, that's mean of you to do that.
And I wouldn't do that.
I wouldn't think of doing that except for the fact that they're so virulently anti-gay and that they want to take the rights away from all gay people and they're hateful in their attitudes towards gay.
The fact that he seems gay to everybody, to me, makes it a worthy topic of comedy.
But if it was just some person's husband or just someone's husband who was a feminine or something, to just do a joke about that, you know, about him being gay, that would be mean.
Right.
But it's not mean if that person is doing everything he can to hurt gay people and to take rights away from them.
So the context, that's the context of that.
So when this woman says, what if he had called his son a faggot?
Well, I'd have to look at that joke and I'd have to see the context that he said it in.
You can't just have a blanket statement.
He used the word faggot.
And that's one of the reasons why college, you would think like college audiences would be really fun to perform in front of.
They're the worst of it.
Often because they just listen for buzzwords and they don't listen to context.
They don't understand this subtlety and irony.
Okay, so there's a little bit more to what she has to say.
Why?
Because these words have traditionally been used to target gay people as bad, dirty, not quite human, etc.
The parallel here is that calling a woman a slut or saying that she's picked out has also been used in the same way to marginalize, demonize, or otherwise put down women.
We don't generally call men sluts or say that men put out, even when we may be criticizing our sexual behavior.
No, those words and phrases are reserved for women in order to target them for ridicule, shame, or exclusion.
So I think you were right that it's not the same thing as Limbaugh calling Sandra Fluke a slut and a prostitute.
But it's not okay just because he's a progressive trying to make a joke.
Every time we use those words, even in jest, we're perpetuating stereotypes that's harmful to women.
Even in jest.
Even in jest, you can't ever, there's never a situation ever where she can think of where you could use those words.
Well, that's the end of comedy, Jimmy.
Good night.
Okay, so now, so now I will.
Can I just say something?
Did anybody listen to that bit?
Because hard upon Frank's joke, we're talking about how we feel badly.
Well, that's the woman.
For being raised in a family where her sexuality is shame.
Right.
And I would, if she was a sexually active young woman, a 20-year-old young woman, I would, to me, that's preferable.
And I would hope that for her as opposed to living under the extreme medieval sexual repression of her family.
As long as she pays for her own birth control.
You're saying that you don't feel that a person who's sexually active, there's anything wrong with that.
I don't meet enough of them personally.
Right.
That's what's wrong.
Yeah.
Yeah, so, you know, but yeah.
So here's my response to Pulfil's calls.
And I appreciate you being thoughtful about this and wanting to get it right.
And as much as I like to deconstruct comedy, I fear that talking about what Frank said in the same context of what Rush Limbaugh did does a disservice to everybody involved.
We can talk about Frank's joke, but in any discussion of it alongside of what Rush Limbaugh did, except to point out how completely different they are, is far more egregious than Frank's joke.
It also does real harm to the cause by diminishing the horribleness of what Rush did by equating it with a joke made in passing that some people find at worst mildly offensive.
Stuff like this is the reason lots of people write off the far left and feminists and dismiss them as being as crazy and delusional as far right-wing religious extremists.
And that's coming from a feminist.
That being said, I appreciate that Mara is trying to stand up for women and what is right.
And I agree with her in principle, but not in practice.
Mara ignores context and context is everything, and so is intention.
Rush falsely hides behind the phony veil of doing satire to excuse his history of hate-filled, misogynistic rhetoric and lies.
Whereas Frank actually is a beloved comedian from one of the most iconic comedy shows of a generation and has a history of progressive thought and using his comedy to support women gays and the disenfranchised.
Rush intended to humiliate, demean, bully, slander, and lie about Sandra Fluke.
That was his intention.
Frank's intention was to make fun of Rick Santorum for backward thinking.
No malice or ill will intended toward the woman at all.
So that is more than a huge difference.
To continue to speak of them in the same context is very, very irresponsible.
Mara is implying that certain words are off limits, not only for conversation, but for comedy and artists, too.
She stated the words put out is on the list of unallowed words, a list that I can now only imagine stretches from here all the way to Joe in China.
According to Mara, the words put out are not to be spoken and can never be funny or used comedically.
So that's where it went from reasoned discussion to completely off the rails into crazy land.
And I can't believe that I have to explain how wrong this is, so I won't.
There is another part of comedy that is hard to understand And even harder to explain, but it's something that every real comedian knows that at any given time, the funniest thing to say is also the most inappropriate thing to say at any given moment.
I know this is hard to understand, but everyone knows that the juxtaposition of something being inappropriate in polite society is the bread and butter of comedy.
Think the Marx Brothers or the Blues Brothers or Rodney Dangerfield for good examples.
Sometimes saying the most absurd thing is also the funniest thing to say at any given moment.
And sometimes the most mundane thing to say is the funniest thing to say at any particular moment.
Comedy is tricky.
That's why it requires real talent to handle such things.
It's important to remember that lots of people get offended by truly great comedy all the time.
American culture still finds George Carlin's seven words not only too offensive to say on TV or radio, but illegal.
That doesn't make the seven words a bit unfunny or wrong.
It just makes it inappropriate to certain people and cultural mores.
And comedians are the ones who stick their necks out and risk being scorned for comedy's sake all the time.
Shit, piss, cunt, fuck, cocksucker, motherfucker, and tits.
I'm guessing at least three and possibly four or five of those words are on Mara's list of words you can't say.
Yet when a talent comedian says them in a certain way, they make people laugh uncontrollably and cheer.
How can that be?
Which is why Louis C.K. can say nigger on stage and it's funny and thought-provoking, even though I'm sure nigger is on Mara's list of words you can never use in a joking way too.
And it is also why Louis C.K. and George Carlin can joke about wanting to rape someone.
And it's also funny because they are actually funny.
They actually have a rare gift and a talent that most people don't possess or understand.
Some would say they're being absurd.
And just because a hate monger like Rush Limbaugh falsely hides behind the cover of satirist and being absurdist, that doesn't mean that someone who actually is a legitimate satirist and who actually is being legitimately absurdist can no longer do so.
Words are not bad or good.
It's all about context.
Lots of horribly ugly things came out of Archie Bunker's mouth.
Do you think that Norman Lair and Carol O'Connor should apologize?
Goodfellas would never make it through the PC filter either.
Should Steven Spielberg apologize for E.T. because they said the word douchebag in the pejorative.
Art reflects culture, and you can't make art PC no matter how good your intentions are.
Culture is not sanitized, and so your art can't be either, although some people want it to be.
Always try to think of Archie Bunker, and you'll get why you can't sanitize real satire.
I really wish the conversation would have ended with no, those two things are not in the same category for at least dozens of reasons that I can rattle off right now.
And it does a great show like Jimmy's and a great comedian like Frank's a serious disservice to do so.
That would have been great, but I'm reminded that any publicity is good publicity.
So I say thank you.
I got a phone call.
You're not going to believe who called me.
This guy's got some time on his hands.
Hey guys, it's Joe again, calling all the way from China because, you know, I'm in China.
I'm interesting like that.
So I have been thinking about even more about these so-called jokes from that patriarchy over there at the Jimmy Dorset jokes they make.
And you know, the more I think about things, the more thoughts I have on them.
Look, since bad irony is what the Russian Limbaugh people do, I think it's clear that we who are not Rush Limbaugh people really need to start being totally sincere in everything we say.
Because look, I'm smart.
I'm in China.
I speak conversational Chinese to Chinese people.
By the way, I found out recently that here you don't even have to call them Chinese Americans.
Here you just call them Chinese.
I do not send it at all.
So I'm smart.
And I didn't even understand that the Jimmy Dork comedy show hadn't actually heard rumors about Elizabeth Santorum's sexual activity.
What chance do the filthy mouthbreathers in the Republican Party have?
They could totally make it sound like Frank Conif was just trying to sincerely spread vicious rumors about Ms. Santorum's having intercourse out of wedlock.
And where would we be?
With the right-wing demonizing us?
That's where.
But if we never again make jokes about women, and that's women with a why, thank you.
If we are totally sincere and thoughtful in everything we say forever, I'm pretty sure Republicans will never again have a bad thing to say about reasonable liberals like us.
Well, thanks for all the great work.
I haven't made a lot of friends here in China.
So I often fall asleep clutching my laptop, saying your podcast on a continuous loop, and it feels like someone likes and supports me.
I can't even explain to people here what fast of the left is.
I mean, the whole terms left-wing and right-wing, those terms stem from the French Revolution.
And I would never dare to be so ethnocentric as to use a European paradigm in conversation here.
That would be as bad as what Rush Limbaugh did.
I'm not that kind of person.
I hope I've made that clear through my continuous voicemails to you from China.
Okay.
Bye-bye.
Okay, Joe from China letting us know how he feels.
And now it's time for our end of the show, Rant.
First up, Paul Gilmartin.
You know, I watched the HBO movie Game Change, and I got so angry realizing again what the Republican Party had tried to foist on us in 2008.
You see behind the scenes what really, really how ignorant she was about many, many issues.
And the fact that their campaign was country first, and they were willing to put somebody a heartbeat away from the presidency who didn't understand why North and South Korea were different countries.
It made me so angry.
And then I thought about Barack Obama, who passed himself off as a guy who was going to bring America back as that beacon of hope for rights.
And then he allowed habeas corpus to be taken away.
He's a constitutional lawyer who allowed that to be taken away.
And that actually hit me even harder than with Sarah Palin because he should know better.
Wow, that's a good point, Paul.
Wow.
He's a constitution.
Think about that.
So he knows exactly what he's doing.
He knows that he's undermining democracy.
And he does it anyway.
Yeah.
And I voted for him.
And you're going to vote for him again, aren't you?
Sadly, yeah, you know, that's what we're going to be voting against somebody, somebody else.
Our choice is more than voting for you.
Vote for the guy who's against democracy or the guy who's against democracy.
So go ahead, Robert.
In the vein of what we're talking about, the thing that really bothers me about academia was a quote that used to float around my college, which was a concerted effort to miss the point.
And I got to tell you, this talk about the language we use is a concerted effort to miss the point in the sense that there's actually a war on what happens with women's bodies right now.
There are many, many state bills that are designed specifically to eat away at a woman's right to choose and how she interacts with her doctor and how she gets birth control and all these things that have to do with her health.
Most recently, yesterday, a bill passed committee in Arizona that would not only permit corporations from not providing birth control, if they were taking anything that could be used for birth control, they would have to provide to their employer a letter from their doctor saying that they suffer from an illness that requires this particular treatment, which is a huge violation of Dr. Patient Privilege.
And the reason why these things are going on, in my opinion, is because there is, and I really hate to say it this way, there is a huge conspiracy right now, nationwide, on the part of the right wing to get something in front of the Roberts court that will overturn Roe v.
Wade.
They want these new state laws to be challenged and for it to go all the way to the Roberts court because they're pretty sure they can get away with it and that the Roberts court will overturn a woman's right to choose.
And I can't honestly say that they're wrong.
And then the other reason why this is infuriating is it's also clearly designed to be a wedge issue in the upcoming election.
People shouldn't fall for it.
It's dangerous.
And quite frankly, if you're a woman who is sexually active living in one of these states, get to the most liberal state you can as quickly as you can because there is a good chance that they're going to want to see you barefoot and pregnant as soon as they can.
Quick, sell your possessions, quit your job, and move to California.
You could so get laid right now.
I'm offended by that language.
By the way, you'd be surprised how little I could.
Okay, I don't know if you noticed, but the podcast shows are longer than the normal shows that I heard on the radio.
So I have to, these shows go longer.
I have to cut out stuff for the radio.
I don't cut it out for the podcast.
So isn't that a nice little bonus?
And let me apologize for the quality of my voice right now.
As you can tell, it sounds weird.
I'm on the road right now in Cincinnati, and I had to edit the show in Cincinnati.
I don't have the equipment I have at my home studio.
So we're doing this very much on the fly.
And I hope you can get past the bad audio on my voice.
So thank you for the indulgence.
And before I get to the closing credits, I want to let you know if you want to help out the show, we have a great way.
We have a great promotion that we do every once in a while.
Here's one other one of them.
It's for Sherry's Berries.
If you don't know what Sherry's Berries are, they're these huge freaking strawberries.
They're big.
And then they cover them in chocolate, white chocolate, and regular milk chocolate.
And I like the white chocolate ones better.
And I'm not even a fan of white chocolate.
How could that be?
Something about the marriage of the strawberry and the white chocolate really goes together.
Anyway, so Sherry's Berries, they're these huge strawberries.
They send them in this nice box.
It's really a gourmet thing.
And you can get, here's the deal.
I mean, I send these.
I just sent some to my sister Cindy as a gift all the way back in Chicago because she did something nice for me.
And what a nice way to say thanks.
I send her, this is the deal I sent her.
I send her half a dozen berries and you get those for 19 bucks.
It's a great deal.
Half a dozen of these huge things.
You send them to somebody, whoever they get, whoever you send them to will be impressed.
So that's, and it's a great way to help the show.
So how do I do it, Jimmy?
How do I get these mouths?
And I got to tell you, these are the juiciest strawberries.
They're huge.
You bite into them.
I don't know if this helps sell it or not, but the juice from the berry will get on your face.
That will happen.
Okay, so, all right.
So maybe that's a selling point.
Maybe it's not.
So how do you like, how do you get the deal?
Well, all the links and all these things will be at jimmydoorcomedy.com, but I'll tell you how to do that.
You go to berries.com, B-E-R-R-I-E-S.
You click on the microphone in the upper right-hand corner and you type in Jimmy D, and that gives you that deal.
You're going to get that deal, half a dozen of these huge strawberries covered.
Oh, they're going to be decorated up like it's Easter, too.
Like if you want them for the Easter eggy kind of a thing, they're going to decorate your strawberry like that.
Isn't that something?
So anyway, so that's, you're going to get that deal.
Half a dozen of them for $19.
Great deal.
And this deal is starting on Monday, March 26th.
So it starts on Monday.
I dropped this podcast on Fridays.
If you want to get this deal, please do it starting on Monday.
It's good for the whole week.
And all you have to do is you type in Jimmy D, you get the deal.
If you can't remember the website, you just go to my website and I'll have the link up there.
Plus, I'll have instructions on how to do it.
And the instructions being you just click on the microphone in the upper right-hand corner, you type in Jimmy D. Okay, that's it.
I want to say thanks, everybody who helped.
Today's show was written.
This show is written by Robert Yasabura, Frank Honiff, Steve Rosenfield, Mike McRae, and Steph Samurano.
And I want to take time out to thank the two people who will donate their time and talents to our show.
Frank Pulaski at Dreamtime Films takes the bits we do on the show and he puts video to them and they're amazing.
They're amazing.
I don't know how he does it, but he's really great.
Frank Pulaski at Dreamtime Films, great video editing.
And I also want to thank the guy who makes our computers run, Sean James.
If you've got a problem with your Macintosh, he can fix it.
And how do you get a hold of him?
You send him an email at MacHelp at SeanJames.com.
How do you spell Sean?
S-H-A-U-N.
And he can fix your computer over the internet.
How?
Watch.
Okay, we'll see you March 24th.
That's next Saturday, March 24th at the Improv Lab for Left, Right, and Ridiculous, the funniest video hilarious show ever.
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