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We took it all we brought

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them to on live. And

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and last night, Emperor Hot

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It now with game pass. From

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the Free Press, this is Honestly, and

0:33

I'm Barry Weiss. What's the deal

0:35

with homework? What's the deal with decaf? So

0:37

what's the deal with brunch? What's the deal with Aquaman?

0:40

What's the deal with those guys? What's the deal

0:42

with airplane peanuts? And what's the deal with lampshades?

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I mean, if it's a lamp, why do

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you want shade? What's

0:50

the deal with Jerry Seinfeld? The

0:54

first episode of Seinfeld aired in 1989. Do

0:57

you know what this is all about? Do you know why we're here? To

1:00

be out. This is out. And

1:02

out is one of the single most

1:04

enjoyable experiences of life. People, you

1:06

know how we have people talk about, we should go out? This is

1:08

what they're talking about. And ran for

1:11

almost a decade. Very good. You know something? Nothing

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for you. Come back.

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One year. Next.

1:19

One large jambalaya, please.

1:23

35 years since that first episode,

1:25

the show remains at the apex

1:27

of American culture. Jerry, you are

1:29

promoting a benefit to clow the

1:31

homeless people. You

1:36

can't come out dressed like that. You're

1:38

all puffed up. You

1:41

look like a Katamani Kristo. I

1:44

have to wear it. The woman has orders for this shirt

1:46

based on me wearing it on TV. They're

1:49

producing them as we speak. People

1:51

speak in Seinfeldisms. Hello and welcome to

1:53

Seinfeld. Stay retrospective on all 180 episodes of

1:55

Seinfeld being hosted by two guys who can

1:58

barely run their own lives. They

2:00

rewatch old episodes when they're feeling blue.

2:03

Or in the case of my family, my

2:05

dad has appointment viewing for the reruns, every

2:08

night from 11 to 12 on

2:10

the local Pittsburgh station. After

2:12

what he calls second Seinfeld, he

2:14

does waddle. It's

2:17

a nightly ritual. People

2:19

around the world literally learn English

2:21

watching Seinfeld. I mean, my producer's

2:23

friend who grew up in Saudi

2:25

Arabia even loves the show. It's

2:28

not hyperbole to say that Seinfeld is

2:30

one of the most influential shows of

2:32

all time. Now, there

2:34

are a lot of reasons for this phenomenon. The

2:37

main one, I think, is that the whole

2:39

idea of the show was that it was

2:41

about nothing. But that's what

2:43

made it so universal. Because

2:46

everyone, regardless of where you live, can

2:49

relate to trying to find your

2:51

car in a mall parking garage.

2:53

Everyone knows the feeling when their book

2:55

is overdue at the library and

2:57

they don't want to pay

3:21

the overdue fee. Everyone

3:43

can relate to the frustration of waiting for a

3:45

table at a restaurant that's not ready. This

3:52

is special because they've been chosen. It's

3:56

enough to make you sick. Boy,

3:58

you are really hungry. If

4:01

you don't love Seinfeld, something was wrong

4:03

with you, which is

4:05

why it was strange when a few

4:07

months ago, Jerry

4:11

Seinfeld suddenly became controversial.

4:20

Here's what happened. In early October,

4:23

Seinfeld signed a letter condemning Hamas

4:26

and calling for the return of

4:28

the hostages. For that

4:30

supposed crime, the crime of saying

4:32

that terrorism is evil and innocent

4:34

people should be released, crowds

4:37

started protesting the events he was attending,

4:39

the speeches he was giving, even heckling

4:41

him in public. A few

4:43

weeks ago, when he gave the commencement address at

4:46

Duke University, over

4:49

the weekend, dozens of Duke University students

4:51

staging a walkout as comedian

4:53

Jerry Seinfeld began his commencement

4:55

speech. Some

4:59

students walked out in protest, and

5:01

last week his stand-up set was disrupted

5:03

by protesters calling him Genocide Jerry, to

5:06

which Seinfeld quipped, I love a little

5:08

Jew hate to spice up the show.

5:11

The crowd applauded. Jerry

5:14

Seinfeld made the most successful show

5:16

about a Jew to ever exist.

5:19

This was no small feat. One

5:22

NBC executive, after watching the Seinfeld pilot

5:24

for the first time, didn't even think

5:26

it should go to air. He

5:28

said it was, quote, to New York and

5:30

to Jewish. And

5:32

yet, it worked. And

5:35

as Seinfeld made Jewishness an iconic

5:38

part of American pop culture, Jerry

5:41

says he experienced not a

5:43

drop of anti-Semitism. But

5:45

now, 35 years later,

5:48

during a time that's supposed to be

5:51

the most inclusive, the most sensitive, the

5:53

most accepting, the most tolerant, the

5:56

most free of microaggressions in all of human history,

5:58

Jerry Seinfeld, the author of the book, was a very successful actress. Jerry

6:00

Seinfeld is being targeted for

6:02

being a Jew. Jerry

6:06

often says that the audience is everything.

6:09

That's the entire point of comedy. There's no

6:11

joke if nobody laughs. It's

6:13

what he calls a binary outcome event.

6:15

They either laugh or they don't. But

6:18

to them, honestly, I ask Seinfeld if he

6:21

feels he can still trust the audience in

6:23

an age where the audience can start to

6:25

feel like a mob. Now

6:28

you've probably heard or seen Jerry somewhere recently.

6:30

The New Yorker, GQ, literally any podcast in

6:32

the world. And that's because he has this

6:35

new movie, Unfrosted, on Netflix, which I highly

6:37

recommend. It's really delightful. So he's certainly been

6:39

on a media blitz. So much show that

6:41

he went on SNL to make fun of

6:44

it. Guys, oftentimes when

6:46

an actor is promoting a new movie, let's

6:48

say a Netflix movie, they have to do

6:50

a lot of press, sometimes too much press.

6:52

Here to comment is a man who did

6:55

too much press. But

7:01

today's conversation with Jerry is unlike the

7:03

ones you've heard. He's unfiltered,

7:06

he's emotional, and he's speaking

7:08

his mind. I love this conversation.

7:10

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Jerry Seinfeld, welcome to Honestly. Thank

8:18

you Barry. It's my pleasure to be here. How's the

8:20

coffee? That's pretty good. Yeah? Yeah.

8:24

We're meeting at a particular moment in which Trump's

8:27

probably going to be president, maybe. I don't

8:29

like that kind of talk. Okay. Trump

8:31

may or may not be president. Ivy League jihadis are

8:33

sort of marching through campuses in the street. You

8:36

know, it's not exactly a relaxing

8:38

moment and you go and make

8:40

a movie about breakfast. You've just

8:42

come out with this incredible movie

8:44

called Unfrosted. Unfrosted. Why?

8:47

Why a movie about breakfast and Pop-Tarts? In

8:49

the early days of comedy, we often

8:51

would get gigs called Nooners. Have

8:54

you ever heard of a Nooner? I'm guessing it's in the middle

8:56

of the day. It's in the middle of the day. A lot

8:58

of times it was a school of some kind and

9:01

of course we would do them. And

9:03

I remember doing one and I

9:05

was doing this bit and I think

9:07

it was about cereal. And

9:09

this big woman stood up in

9:11

the middle of the thing and

9:14

she says, why are you talking about this? And

9:18

I said, because I like to. And did she

9:20

walk out? No. And Paul

9:22

Reiser, a good friend of mine said to me years

9:24

later, he says, that's when I realized what a real

9:27

comedian is. That's

9:29

the answer to the question. You wanted to. Because

9:31

I want to. That's why I made a

9:33

Pop-Tart movie, because I want to. Well, it

9:36

has this amazing cast. It's Amy Schumer,

9:38

it's Bill Burr, it's Jim Gaffigan, it's

9:40

Hugh Grant, who's amazing. It's

9:43

so good. Oh, thanks. Thanks. And

9:45

it's just a total distraction from everything going on

9:47

right now. Yeah. We

9:49

started in COVID because I couldn't take the sad faces.

9:52

And in comedy, we hate that. We

9:55

can't fix the world, but we just want

9:57

to make a face happy. him

10:00

just for a few minutes. I was

10:02

saying to a friend of mine today at

10:04

breakfast that it's one of the greatest Jewish

10:06

traditions, why there's so

10:08

many Jewish comedians and such a great

10:10

tradition of comedy in the culture of

10:13

Jewish people is with

10:15

all their crap that they had to live with,

10:18

they used their incredible brains to

10:20

make each other laugh. You do

10:22

what you have to do and

10:24

save a big part of your head to

10:27

laugh because that will get you

10:29

through a lot of things. Here's

10:31

one thing I was thinking as I was watching

10:33

the movie laughing, my wife and I loved it,

10:36

is this. I'm watching Walter Cronkite

10:39

and I'm watching JFK and I'm

10:41

thinking like just this period of

10:43

like early 60s,

10:46

right stuff, calm wool

10:49

and obviously there were problems like

10:51

civil rights movement had yet to start like

10:53

a zillion. But the thing that was present

10:55

at that time that I feel like is

10:57

it now is a sense of one conversation,

11:00

like a common culture and I was

11:02

watching it and thinking on the one

11:05

hand maybe it's just Jerry Seinfeld wanting

11:07

to have fun and enjoy himself and

11:09

fulfill this many, many, many, many years

11:11

long development of his pop-tart bit. But

11:14

on the other hand I couldn't help

11:16

but wonder if part of it is

11:18

maybe your own nostalgia for this time

11:21

that feels like another planet or at

11:23

least another country. Well of course it does.

11:25

But there's another element there that I think

11:27

is the key element and

11:29

that is an agreed upon hierarchy,

11:32

which I think is absolutely vaporized

11:35

in today's moment. And I think

11:37

that is why people lean on

11:39

the horn and drive in

11:41

the crazy way that they drive because

11:44

we have no sense of hierarchy and

11:46

as humans we don't really feel comfortable

11:48

like that. Walter Cronkite,

11:50

we all agree this guy's a

11:52

real reporter. He's a real anchorman

11:54

on a real news show. Although

11:57

in Unfrosted he's like a drunk who's playing with

11:59

silly bloody... And he has some marital issues.

12:01

Yeah. He was so good. Thank

12:04

you. So that is part of

12:06

what I think is, if

12:08

you want to talk about nostalgia, that's part

12:10

of what makes that moment attractive

12:13

looking back. And the other thing is, as

12:15

a man, can

12:17

I say that? Are you sure you

12:19

are? Yeah. I always wanted to be. I

12:21

didn't ask your pronouns before. I've always wanted

12:23

to be a real man. I never made

12:25

it. But I

12:27

really thought when I was in

12:30

that era, again, it was

12:32

JFK, it was Muhammad Ali,

12:35

it was Sean Connery, Howard

12:37

Costello. You can go all the way down there. That's a

12:39

real man. I want to be like

12:41

that someday. Well,

12:43

no. Look at how I'm dressed like

12:46

an eight-year-old. You're not usually though. You're

12:48

old-school, I think in the way you present

12:50

yourself, and certainly in your comedy. Yeah. But

12:53

I never really grew up. I mean,

12:56

you don't want to as a comedian because it's

12:58

a childish pursuit. But

13:02

I miss a dominant masculinity.

13:05

Yeah, I get the toxic, thank you. But

13:08

still, I like a real man. And that's

13:11

why I love Hugh Grant, because he felt

13:13

like one of those guys I wanted to

13:15

be. He knows

13:17

how to dress. He

13:20

knows how to talk. He's charming. He has

13:22

stories. He's comfortable at dinner

13:24

parties, knows how to get a drink. You

13:27

know what I mean? That stuff. I love

13:29

those movements of style. I

13:32

like people that have a little style in

13:34

everything that they do. Have a

13:36

little style. No, I was talking to a young comedian.

13:39

We were talking about profanity in your

13:41

comedy. Why don't you curse? It's not

13:43

about, I find the words offensive.

13:46

Your job is to have a little style. That's

13:49

why you don't curse. Do you think it's a crutch? It can be.

13:53

So if that's what you're after, if your goal is

13:55

to be a stylish speaker, I don't

13:58

know what else a comedian would be. stylish

14:00

speaker. Maybe use

14:03

finer fabrics. You said

14:05

something the other day that I just stuck out to

14:07

me. You said, film doesn't occupy the

14:09

pinnacle in the social, cultural hierarchy, speaking of hierarchy, that

14:11

it did for most of our lives. When a movie

14:14

came out, if it was good, we all went to

14:16

see it. We all discussed it. We quoted lines and

14:18

scenes we liked. Now, and this is

14:20

the part I really liked, we're walking through a

14:22

fire hose of water just trying to see. Disorientation

14:25

replaced the movie business. Everyone in show business

14:27

every day, and we're here in LA, is

14:29

going, what's going on? How

14:31

do you do this? What are we supposed to do

14:33

now? I wanted to put the question to you. What

14:36

are we supposed to do now? Because I

14:38

imagine young comedians are asking you that, and

14:40

they're studying your old Wikipedia page as I

14:43

did for journalists I wanted to be like.

14:45

I realized they were all irrelevant

14:47

because the old stepping stones had

14:50

evaporated. All of the old rules

14:52

seem to be gone. So what

14:54

is the way forward? Well, I assume you're not

14:57

speaking about the culture in general because I don't

14:59

feel qualified to- I'm talking about comedy in movies.

15:01

Okay. Let's talk about comedy and

15:03

or movies. Luckily, mercifully,

15:07

those rules are immutable. The

15:10

rules of comedy are immutable, and

15:12

the ecosystem of comedy is

15:14

the most, not

15:16

the most, but one of the most self-correcting

15:19

ecosystems. The only

15:21

one that is way, way better would

15:23

be the NFL. If you don't belong in

15:25

the NFL, and you are in the NFL,

15:28

how long does it take them to notice

15:31

you really don't belong on that field?

15:34

Fast, right? Comedy is

15:36

a slower, the wheels

15:38

of justice grind slower, but they do

15:40

turn. So same rules as always.

15:43

The rules are either

15:45

you're funny or I'm not getting in

15:47

my car to go see this.

15:52

Let's talk about your work and the philosophy

15:55

you have around your work. A

15:57

decade ago, you did this interview with the New York Times. And

16:00

you talked about how you didn't use computers. You

16:02

used a legal pad and a big ballpoint pen. Is

16:05

that still true? It's still true, yes. Why

16:07

do you like to write like that? It's nice. You know, when

16:09

you write comedy, it's, forgive

16:11

this pretentious analogy, it's a little like poetry.

16:14

You don't do a lot of writing. It's

16:16

90% thinking, 10% actual

16:18

writing. But the feeling of a

16:21

ballpoint pen on a thick yellow

16:23

pad is very pleasant. It's

16:26

like a warm bath to me. Do

16:28

you have a special place that you like to write? Yes,

16:31

I do. But I could write right here if you all

16:33

would leave me alone and give me a

16:35

flat surface. I'm good to go. This

16:37

is the other thing I believe in. There's

16:40

no writer's block. There's no

16:42

writer's block. It's lazy, they're scared,

16:44

but there's no writer's block. Just

16:46

sit down and realize you're mediocre and you're going to have

16:48

to put a lot of effort into this to make it

16:50

good. That's what writing is. Everything

16:53

I've read about you makes

16:55

me feel like if you were an

16:57

animal. You're a lone wolf. Do

16:59

you agree with that? If I wasn't,

17:01

I'd have a rough go in this racket. It's

17:05

a lone wolf racket. I'm

17:07

only really comfortable, really comfortable

17:09

with another stand-up comedian or

17:11

a love. You have compared

17:13

the way you write jokes to mastering calligraphy

17:16

or building, and I loved this because I

17:18

had to look them up, tiny Japanese cricket

17:20

cages. You said, that's it

17:23

for me. Solitude and precision, refining a

17:25

tiny thing for the sake of it.

17:28

Someone that likes to be alone and

17:30

mastering something very much, is everything else

17:32

that you do with other people a

17:35

kind of suffering? Yes. Is

17:37

it? Thank you for that. I'm

17:39

acknowledging you. Thank you for that. I'm seeing

17:41

you. That really felt good. Yeah. So

17:44

how do you do it? Life. Well,

17:46

I'm married. My wife needs

17:48

a human being, so I have

17:50

to impersonate one. Well, that was one of my

17:52

questions. Hearing about what truly gives

17:54

you pleasure. You've talked a lot

17:57

about how you watch surfers and sort of

17:59

like their math. And how

18:01

what all it's all right and how the

18:03

thing for you is not it's not the

18:05

money. It's not the stuff No, it's the

18:07

solitude and the mastery right right I could

18:09

imagine someone like that actually never getting married

18:11

and have kids be dead because of that

18:13

woman I met if I hadn't

18:15

met Jessica. I don't think I could have done

18:17

it. Yeah, I met someone that I could never

18:19

leave and Second that looked

18:21

like she could handle the nightmare

18:24

that I was gonna be There's

18:26

this Flow

18:30

bear quote. I can't believe I'm saying that but

18:32

I'm saying it. Wow. You just beat

18:34

me in pretentious. I did I'm gonna

18:36

see if I can even outdo myself I've obviously

18:38

never read madam Bovary But I do really really

18:40

love the sentiment of this quote Which

18:43

is be regular and orderly in your

18:45

life so you can be violent and

18:47

original in your work I've heard that one you think it's

18:49

true No, but you

18:51

do seem very old-school and disciplined in

18:53

the way you live your life, do

18:56

you think that that sort of Discipline

18:58

allows you to be risk-taking in your

19:00

comedy comedy by definition is risk-taking.

19:03

Mmm Thanks. I mean that you think is

19:05

funny expecting it to get a laugh. That's

19:08

a crazy bet. Yeah, make yeah in

19:11

any context Yeah, any context

19:14

the bets that I see people making just in

19:16

conversation Regular people are insane to me

19:18

like what like they tell you a story and you

19:20

go Why would you tell

19:22

that story? It's a horrible story. It has

19:24

no finish. It wasn't interesting in any way

19:27

I'm thinking of something specifically. Well, of course,

19:29

but let's just go back a bit about

19:32

discipline. Yeah all endeavor in human

19:34

life is You

19:37

find chaos and you try and create some order

19:40

even if it's a chaotic order it

19:42

could be a pleasing chaos or a Beautiful

19:46

chaos, but it can't be as

19:48

you find it. Here's one of my favorite jokes

19:51

This would encapsulate worldview.

19:54

I think it's a you know, some Pastor

19:56

vicar one of those things, you know, I don't

19:58

know why those makes jokes It's funnier when it's

20:00

a vicar. Vicar's a buddy. Yeah. So

20:03

he's got this beautiful garden, magnificent garden. And

20:05

this other guy walks up and he's admiring

20:07

it. And he looks at the garden and

20:09

he goes, boy, God's

20:11

best work, huh? And the vicar

20:13

looks up to him and says, you should have seen it when he

20:16

was in charge of it. That's

20:20

how I look at what you should do with

20:22

your life. It's all beautiful,

20:24

but not really until we do

20:26

something with it. Make

20:29

something, do something. The hard is the good. I

20:32

think I was about eight. And

20:34

I remember where I was, I remember the exact

20:36

street and I was on my bike just

20:39

pedaling. I remember it hitting

20:41

me that there was a lot going on

20:44

and I just, I want to do something really hard. And

20:47

then I thought, what would be the least work?

20:49

And you thought stand up. And comedy is the

20:51

least work. That's crazy. How could you

20:53

say that? Because I fell in love with it. But it's

20:55

not. I don't even think about it. I

20:57

don't even think. No. I

21:00

felt like a fish and I finally got into the

21:02

aquarium. And once I was in it, I

21:04

thought, just tell me what you have to do to

21:06

stay in this aquarium and I'll do it. Sarah

21:09

Silverman once called you the least neurotic Jew

21:11

on earth. I don't know inside

21:13

if you're churning all the time, but you

21:15

seem kind of unflappable. I would enter that

21:17

contest. Should they organize it? I'll organize

21:19

it. I would like to enter it. Who else would

21:22

compete with me? I don't know. Paul

21:24

Rudd? No. I didn't even know he was

21:26

Jewish. That's how neurotic he is. He probably

21:28

is. Who else? Who

21:31

else? Name another insane Jew

21:33

that somehow seems calm. No,

21:36

I almost know what I know. They're the

21:38

most neurotic. So I'm the one. So why

21:40

are you so unflappable? I don't know. I mean,

21:42

who knows why we're the way we are. I don't know.

21:44

But I've been doing transcendental meditation since 72.

21:48

I know. Religiously. That's

21:51

got to have affected my nervous system.

21:54

But I'm so dedicated to it. So

21:58

it really keeps the feathers down. It

22:00

keeps the quills down. Do you

22:02

do TM every day? Multiple times. Really? Day,

22:05

night, morning. Are you doing it like- I did it

22:07

right before I came here. Really? Because I was up

22:09

till two last night. We did the Hollywood Bowl. I

22:12

was drinking and pizza and laughing and

22:14

madness. I slept three hours,

22:17

but I want to be good for you. Thank you. I

22:19

did a nice TM and I feel great. TM

22:22

and coffee is

22:24

my solution to life. If

22:27

you want to succeed in life, number one, learn

22:29

TM number two, get a good cup of coffee,

22:32

and then get to work. And Mary Well?

22:34

Is Mary Well even part of it? No,

22:36

it's everything. We always say, of course,

22:38

that's the most important thing. Do you think

22:41

it's the most important decision that a person can

22:43

make? No, a thousand percent. Okay. I

22:45

want to talk about New York for a second because we're sitting in

22:48

LA and it's gorgeous. How important is

22:50

place to your work? I was with

22:52

you up till two your work. Take

22:55

two your work off and I think you

22:57

have something. How important is place? Yes. Jerry,

23:00

how important is place? Hugely

23:04

essential, cataclysmically relevant

23:06

and potent to

23:08

your psychophysical

23:12

well-being and productiveness. Here's

23:15

my analogy. One of my great

23:18

friends and writers on the TV series was

23:20

a guy named Larry Charles and he dubbed

23:23

me analogy lad. If I was a superhero,

23:25

I would be analogy lad. An

23:27

analogy lad can't help you with

23:29

anything but he can tell you what

23:31

your situation is like. So

23:35

as analogy lad, the

23:37

importance of place to me, the analogy

23:39

is the tuning fork. You

23:42

have a rhythm. You

23:46

have a frequency. You have a vibration

23:48

as a human being. When

23:51

you are in the place that

23:53

your frequency vibration matches the frequency

23:56

vibration of the place, you

23:58

feel comfortable. agree

24:00

with this, but there's another school of thought,

24:02

which is that you should be

24:04

in a place that somehow, like if you

24:06

are run hot, that

24:08

somehow being in a chiller,

24:10

more relaxed environment is

24:13

healthier for you. What

24:16

school of thought is this? I don't know. This is

24:18

how Nelly convinced me to be in LA and I'm moving

24:20

back to New York. Okay, I agree.

24:22

Schools of thought. How about it's just a

24:25

thought? Well, sure. There's no school based on

24:27

it. I'm making a school. Okay, you're the

24:29

only one. I would like to be in

24:31

a jail cell with you for the rest

24:33

of my life. I don't think that's true.

24:35

I would. If we were in prison together,

24:37

I would think... Because I'll talk at you

24:39

the whole time? Yes, we'll just talk our

24:41

heads off all day. We would talk our

24:43

heads off all day. I'd be very happy.

24:45

That's so nice. Thank you. You're welcome.

24:48

Okay, well, you wrote this

24:50

op-ed in COVID. Mm-hmm. It was so much

24:52

fun because you were taking aim

24:54

at, well, one specific putz who doesn't need

24:57

to be named, but you took aim

24:59

at... I like that handle. Why not?

25:01

Specific putz. Why do we need to name?

25:03

But it was more broadly at all the

25:05

people that had decamped for whether it was

25:07

Austin or Miami or whatever. And you said,

25:09

when I got my first apartment in Manhattan

25:11

in the hot summer of 1976, there was

25:13

no poop or scooper law and the streets

25:15

were covered in dog shit. You said crap.

25:18

I signed the rental agreement, walked outside and my

25:20

car had been towed. I still thought this is

25:22

the greatest place I've ever been in my life.

25:24

I love that so much. Why

25:27

is it the best place? Well,

25:30

it's the clientele. You can't beat

25:32

the clientele. The

25:35

clientele that you interface

25:37

with just visually,

25:40

spatially on the streets,

25:42

they just get me going. I

25:44

love them. They're funny looking. They're

25:46

funny people. They're just what I

25:48

like as people. That's of course

25:50

the core of New York City

25:52

and they like it. And

25:55

I like it. I'm with them. It's like when

25:57

I go to a Met game. We all love

25:59

the Mets here. It's such a nice feeling.

26:02

But New York City to me is

26:04

a deep rooted core

26:06

of things I believe in, which

26:08

is overcoming intensity.

26:12

It's a very Jewish city. Jews

26:14

thrive there. When they

26:16

came from Europe and the Middle East, they

26:19

loved it because it's business, it's

26:21

work, it's complexity, everything

26:23

that Jews thrive on. I

26:26

did and I felt like I grew up

26:29

on Long Island, and I was never comfortable

26:31

there. I felt stifled for

26:33

some reason. I felt

26:36

like New York took me

26:38

and made me. I

26:40

wanted to be this guy. I

26:42

wanted to be a New Yorker. Every New Yorker, a

26:45

lot of them come from other places, wanting to be

26:47

this type. I feel like I

26:49

travel the world showing people, this is what

26:52

New Yorkers are like. If

26:54

you want to see something unusual, it's something

26:56

that you don't see every day. I

26:59

will represent that. How much

27:01

material do you get just from being

27:03

around other people on the streets? It's

27:06

the attitude. Everybody's funny in New York.

27:09

Yeah. To be a comedian, you've got

27:11

to be even funnier. You

27:14

got to really bring it. I'm

27:16

going into a Met game the other day,

27:18

and I get to the gate, and there's

27:20

a short woman at the gate, and I

27:22

go, oh, damn, I forgot my phone. I

27:25

go, ah, the hell with it. What do I need a

27:27

phone? I'm going to go watch a baseball game. She goes,

27:29

go get your phone. Get your phone. I

27:31

go, why? He goes, because your wife's going to

27:33

call, and she's going to go, why didn't you

27:36

answer? I kept calling you. This

27:38

is the lady that tears the ticket. Yeah. That's

27:41

how funny she is. This

27:44

is New York for me, and

27:46

that's my lifeblood. I

27:48

got to be around that. Yeah. How

27:50

do you feel when you're in LA? I did great here, and

27:53

I have all my friends are here. There's a lot

27:55

of comedy here, but it's not

27:57

a funny town. You also think it's a

27:59

dumb town? It's

28:02

not dumb, it's just the things that it's focused

28:04

on are dumb. They're not easy, but they're dumb.

28:06

You know, all your stupid

28:08

shows. Stop with your

28:10

stupid shows. It's not that

28:12

great. Stop

28:16

overselling everything. Everywhere you

28:18

go, they're selling. Yeah, they just really

28:20

exhaust themselves. I feel

28:22

there's, what's the word? Thirteen N.

28:25

Yes, the Desp, as my kids would say.

28:27

The Desp. I love that. The

28:30

Desp, it's Desp. It's the Desp. It's so thick.

28:33

It's unattractive. It's unattractive. Don't be

28:35

Desp. Be cool. Be cool.

28:38

I agree. Comedians

28:41

are not chic. We

28:43

are not stylish in our clothes or

28:45

in our manners. But you're not Desp.

28:47

But we're cool. I completely agree. After

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There's a lot of talk in your world, the

30:15

comedy world, about this idea of punching down. Obvious

30:25

example, Chappelle, in his most recent special,

30:27

The Closer, accused of punching down against

30:29

trans people. They try and get him

30:31

to apologize. He says, absolutely not. Netflix,

30:34

thank God, says absolutely not. Do

30:36

you think punching down is a thing? Is

30:38

that a real phenomenon? No.

30:42

I don't. Comedy

30:44

is an extraordinarily

30:47

simple binary outcome

30:49

event. Is

30:52

it funny? Or it isn't? And

30:55

nobody cares, really, about

30:57

anything else. They

30:59

talk. This is not a talk.

31:02

What we really hate is

31:04

when someone does something that's not so funny,

31:07

and we didn't laugh, and now I'm going to

31:10

criticize it. Because that didn't make me

31:12

laugh. The only thing I

31:14

want to read is the absolute worst reviews

31:17

that the movie received, because there's nothing funnier

31:19

to me than people complaining that I didn't

31:21

laugh, because they want to laugh. And I

31:24

relate to it. I get it. It's

31:26

funny that you hated it,

31:29

because you wanted to laugh and you didn't

31:31

laugh. Okay, but you actually

31:33

will read bad reviews. Oh, yeah. Really?

31:36

They're funny. Have you always been like that?

31:38

Yes, it doesn't matter what you think of

31:40

me. Why would I think that I'm going

31:42

to make something that everyone will like? What

31:45

sense does that make? Okay, but- You've got

31:47

to be insane to think that. But hold on. When you were

31:49

just starting out, just in the

31:52

very, very beginning, do you

31:54

feel that way? Or is this a luxury of having the

31:56

kind of success that you've had? That

31:58

it's funny. Right. Yeah

32:01

as a stand-up comic. Yeah, you

32:03

don't give up flying what anybody

32:05

thinks of me. I'm

32:07

doing this gig I'm getting my

32:09

laughs. I'm getting the money and I'm getting

32:11

the hell out of here and when your

32:13

review comes out I'm in another

32:15

city Doing the same

32:17

thing So there's

32:20

no one Opinion that

32:22

has any value Comedians

32:24

live on its group

32:26

think whatever the group says that's

32:28

the vote We don't have to

32:31

take a vote the vote has been taken

32:33

on that joke. Mmm, you can hate it

32:36

It's still a great joke because the laugh

32:38

is there For your

32:41

audience any audience if

32:44

you get your laugh This

32:46

is no debate. No discussion. We had a we were

32:48

doing a shot in the movie one time and I

32:51

go I love this. This is so funny and

32:54

Somebody else goes I don't

32:56

think it works. It's just like five or six people

32:58

standing around the monitor I go play the shot. They

33:01

play the shot everybody laughs

33:04

What is on the adult? I don't

33:06

have to say I'm not gonna talk about it. My

33:09

opinion doesn't matter They

33:11

decide. Mmm So

33:14

the show is written by the audience. Everything's

33:16

written by the audience. That's what's difficult about

33:18

movie making You don't have the audience. You

33:21

don't have the guy the way you do in stand. Yeah, you don't

33:23

have the guys Yeah, so what do you end up is so easy

33:25

in Quotes because

33:27

their audience is guiding you every

33:29

second You're the only person in the

33:32

history of humanity that gets a grade

33:34

every seven seconds a

33:37

grade You have to

33:39

be a certain type of person that is comfortable with that

33:41

I mean do you ever have

33:43

a situation at this point in your career?

33:46

Were you actually bomb in the

33:48

way you know early? No, I'm not bomb but

33:50

I I have a lot of shows that I'm

33:52

not happy with really Yeah, cuz

33:54

I'm trying to get to a rhythm

33:56

and a flow and a feel and a mood

33:58

and you know I

34:00

seek this kind of feeling in the

34:02

room. If you can get there 85%, that's

34:04

pretty good. There's

34:08

no a hundred. Nobody

34:10

bets a thousand. I mean, you know, comedy, it's a

34:12

live show. Yeah, of course. Walking into a room in

34:14

Toronto, you've never seen it in your life. It's

34:18

hard, you know, but that's, I like the difficulty

34:20

of it. I know that

34:22

the formula for comedy, as you've explained to

34:24

me, is so simple. It's binary. Do people

34:27

laugh or not laugh? But the

34:29

nature of what comics will do, you could

34:31

argue has changed. And I'll give you one

34:34

tiny anecdote. I was at the olive tree

34:36

above the comedy cellar a few nights ago,

34:38

a bunch of comedians there was super fun.

34:40

And this guy comes up and we're talking and

34:42

you know, he's like, he basically is talking really

34:44

freely. And I'm like, wow, not, not what I

34:46

thought this guy believed based on the kind of

34:48

material he does. And he goes, oh yeah, I

34:51

would never say any of this on stage. I'm

34:53

like, why? He's like, Oh, cause I want to

34:55

have a career. Right. Talk

34:57

to me if you could, and I

34:59

understand your grandfathered in, so it's a different

35:01

thing, but like you're

35:03

around young comedians, you're around comedians.

35:05

Like how much of the censoriousness

35:08

has seeped into what you think

35:10

comedians will talk about, will play

35:12

with on stage. Is that

35:14

a real thing or is it not

35:16

a real thing? It's not a real thing.

35:18

Okay. It's not a real thing because culture,

35:21

as we know, it's not a solid. It's

35:23

a liquid. Yes. It does not ever stay

35:25

anything. And if you want to be in

35:27

this, you better be able to pick

35:29

up on it and play with it. I

35:32

apologize for yet one

35:34

more surfing analogy. We

35:37

don't make the waves. You ride it. We ride them.

35:40

That's the game. But

35:43

you would agree, I think that

35:46

there are certain places

35:48

or subcultures, let's say campus

35:50

where it wouldn't be

35:52

that fun to play as a comic because the

35:55

audience, no, tell

35:57

me. It's

36:00

so hard to explain comedy. Okay,

36:04

last night, Nate Bargazzi,

36:07

everybody was going crazy over this bit he was doing.

36:09

You know what the bit was about? No. It

36:11

was about a man

36:13

fighting an orangutan, that this was a thing

36:16

in the 50s, that

36:18

people would go in a cage and fight

36:20

an orangutan to entertain other people. Now,

36:23

what does that have to do with anything?

36:25

Nothing. It was fantastic. Everyone

36:27

was roaring. We're going, oh,

36:29

Nate, the orangutan bit is so great. That's

36:33

comedy. So you're looking

36:35

at a culture on a textbook

36:37

page. This guy's looking at orangutans

36:39

in the 50s. No, I'm

36:41

thinking, okay, fine. Okay. That's

36:44

where the gold was for him

36:46

last night. But you

36:48

could imagine, pick your

36:50

person. I don't know if it's Louis C.K. or

36:53

Shane Gillis or whoever it is, that

36:55

whether because of their personal behavior or

36:57

even their material happening at

37:00

the wrong time for the gatekeepers of the

37:02

culture that they were punished for it.

37:04

Yeah. Guess what? If you stumble over

37:06

one word, you're punished for it. My

37:09

punch line is, and that was just

37:11

in the lobby. But

37:14

I go, and that was just in the lobby.

37:17

If I do that, no laugh, zero. Same

37:20

idea, same words, they get it,

37:22

but that little hitch. Dead.

37:25

You go from one to zero, binary

37:27

outcome. That's the comedy

37:29

game. So what you're talking about

37:32

is so irrelevant, totally irrelevant. A

37:35

lot of whining and excuse making for,

37:37

it's just not funny. It's

37:39

not funny. You're not funny. Really?

37:42

You don't think that there's been a wave

37:45

of people getting the shit

37:47

end of the stick over the past few years, 10 years

37:50

even? If you're funny, genuinely

37:53

funny, none of these things are difficult

37:55

to overcome. If you're kind

37:57

of funny. Then

38:00

you got problems. But that's what

38:02

it comes down to. It's the funny. The

38:04

funny is it. If

38:07

you talk and we laugh, we're all

38:09

good. But if we

38:11

don't laugh, or we're offended and

38:13

don't laugh, whatever the reason, you know how

38:15

many reasons there are to not laugh? A

38:18

lot. A lot. And there's only one

38:20

to laugh. Which is

38:22

that it's funny. It's funny. Okay. Let's talk about some

38:24

of the things that make us not laugh right now.

38:27

So nice

38:29

transition. You made Seinfeld

38:31

during a period that I think

38:34

will be remembered as the golden

38:36

age of American Jewish life. Because

38:39

anti-Semitism was a relic. Seemingly

38:42

a relic of history books. I

38:44

think people felt like history

38:46

had ended and the American

38:48

Jewish experience was fundamentally singular

38:51

and different from any other

38:53

diaspora experience. Right. Of course. And

38:56

well, I wonder, A, if you

38:59

thought about the Jewishness of the show. Never. Okay. And

39:01

do you think about it differently now? Now that

39:04

that period's over. Yeah. Well, when

39:06

I first time I went to Israel after

39:08

I had done, finished the show and

39:10

I saw the way they reacted to

39:12

me and I realized this is not

39:14

just the normal interaction of celebrity public,

39:17

you know, interface. This is

39:20

different. How? I meant

39:22

something which I never knew

39:24

and it gave

39:27

me a wonderful feeling like,

39:29

Oh, I didn't realize

39:31

what I was doing had another

39:33

value that I didn't know about.

39:35

And I, of course, loved it.

39:39

You have always seemed,

39:43

forgive the comparison, but kind of like Dolly Parton

39:45

to me. Everyone loves you. I'm

39:47

not comfortable with this. Be comfortable. Just

39:50

go with me. All right. Go ahead. Can

39:52

you use someone else? Yeah, sure. Gandhi.

39:56

Sure. Just you're just like Gandhi. When

39:58

I see Jerry Seinfeld, I think. Gandhi,

40:00

I think, just as felt, just

40:03

as aesthetic, just as monastic. I

40:05

guess what I mean is just apolitical, I

40:07

guess is the word, like above the fray. And

40:12

everything feels politicized right now. And

40:15

so you yourself have become politicized

40:17

in a way. A little bit, yeah.

40:20

Do you feel that? I do. It's

40:22

so dumb. It's so dumb. In

40:25

fact, when we get protesters occasionally,

40:27

I love to say to the

40:29

audience, who's always so embarrassed, when

40:32

you walk out on stage, if they were like doing their

40:34

little thing in the front, the audience

40:36

just feels they feel so bad that

40:38

that happened. And I say

40:41

to them, you know, I love that these

40:43

young people, they're trying to get engaged with

40:45

politics. We have to just correct

40:47

their aim a little bit. They

40:51

don't seem to understand that as comedians,

40:53

we really don't control anything. No

40:57

one's really... No, you're pulling the strings

40:59

over the war in Gaza, right? That's

41:01

how I think of you. Yeah. Yeah.

41:04

So I just find it comical that

41:06

people would cast me in a political

41:08

light. But

41:13

I love to say, if that helps you. It

41:16

helped me when you signed this letter in

41:18

October, doing something that I

41:20

thought was just normal and sane. You signed

41:22

a letter condemning Hamas. Right. You

41:24

said, this is terrorism, or the letter did. This is

41:26

evil. Yeah. There's no justification for

41:29

Hamas's actions. These are barbaric acts of

41:31

terrorism. I mean, the most basic things in the

41:33

world. Right. And yet, that seemed

41:35

controversial to people. You've done a

41:37

bunch of shows, obviously, you're constantly doing

41:39

shows. You did one in Syracuse in

41:41

December that attracted protesters. And then they

41:44

were chanting that you're complicit in genocide.

41:47

Then when I gave this talk in February

41:49

at the Y, There was this

41:51

footage of you that I didn't see. But I

41:53

Thought later, were they were calling you a genocide

41:55

supporter and Nazi scum. And The thing that jumped

41:57

out at me was not the things they were

41:59

saying, of course, because they say it's not. anyone

42:01

here is that you were smiling and waving and

42:03

genuinely seems to be enjoying yourself. Year were

42:05

you Via was a. It

42:08

suffered so silly his

42:10

side's they want of

42:12

express this sincere intense

42:15

rage but again. A.

42:17

Little off target practice. Nice

42:20

little off target that's to

42:22

me comedic. Ten.

42:24

Years ago. In. Florida there was

42:27

this Nazi rally and they've had is T

42:29

V D's of Seinfeld and they threw them

42:31

through the windows that the synagogue the whole

42:33

spectacle of it's like freely crazy yes this

42:36

really happened. I guess I'm wondering like if

42:38

your perspective is shifting on them from the

42:40

funny to the oh maybe that was. I

42:43

don't I am not a oh yeah. Ok,

42:45

what would take you to a. More

42:47

things like Pittsburgh. A

42:49

cat. Tree of Life more

42:51

more of is that started in

42:54

a got ya the synagogue. I

42:56

mean you could certainly accused me

42:58

of being polio in his and

43:00

naive. I'm I'm weird

43:02

combination of incredibly cynical and irritable

43:04

and utterly optimistic and positive as

43:06

at the same time and kind

43:09

of a weird for a pay

43:11

but I don't have that the

43:13

oh of read the ah ha

43:15

and now we're going to the

43:17

Oh. You were in Israel. Yeah,

43:19

since the war started in. Hell is that track? Of

43:23

the most powerful. Experience

43:25

of my life. Real answer.

43:30

Why? I'm. You

43:34

know this is. Basic.

43:45

You know someone particular. Or.

44:00

One. Thing that I've been thinking about

44:02

is. How.

44:06

A huge part of the way you

44:08

think about comedy. Is. How the

44:10

audience never lies. The

44:13

great but what. Happens if

44:15

a lot of people. Are

44:17

wrong. In. Other words:

44:21

I don't think choose do well in

44:23

an age of math and I feel

44:26

that right now in our culture it's

44:28

really easy to for mass. Yes,

44:30

Really easy. But when does the audience

44:33

can a tip into the mob? you see where I'm going

44:35

with. I do. I do. Something Elon

44:37

Musk Three Salon which I think is

44:39

one of the wrong This thing as

44:41

it's ever been said where she tweets

44:43

Vox Populi Lox Day the Voice of

44:45

the People as the voice of God.

44:48

You know it's a populist movement and people.

44:51

A. Voice Of the People as the Voice of

44:53

God. I think that's like the opposite of

44:55

the truth. But

44:57

for someone that relies on the truth

44:59

telling of the audience to tell you

45:02

whether or not something is funny isn't.

45:05

Does that same principle applies?

45:07

To mass of people. Well.

45:10

You can't. Act

45:12

like we don't see this

45:15

every day in many Rome's.

45:18

Was. Just so politically left and

45:20

right. You're

45:23

watching mobs, Their. Mobs will

45:25

take their mobs believing their own

45:27

crap, right? Yeah, that's what a

45:29

political party is since we're going

45:31

to make up a bunch of

45:34

nonsense and will all agreed to

45:36

it, right? right? Ok, let's let's

45:38

put up some bumper stickers and

45:40

get out their kids. Thus far

45:42

as x were tribal animals were

45:44

social creatures, we look for agreement

45:46

and. Consensus were driven by

45:49

agreement and consensus and mob rule

45:51

gives us comfort, gives a certain

45:54

to yes, it's all bs. To

45:57

be and. I think there's something like almost

45:59

in there. About comedians that make them

46:01

allergic to I. Feel. Weird

46:04

is that come from inside a beer. For

46:06

here's where it comes from. The thing that

46:08

you are. Incredibly fortunate

46:10

enough to have. If you

46:12

spend your life. In

46:15

Comedy and Do well. Added the gift

46:17

that you were given. His

46:19

You see through the surface of

46:21

everything. Everything. Life

46:24

itself. If you could

46:26

hear. The. Conversations that comedians

46:29

have you would feel like

46:31

it took the most cleansing

46:33

rain shower of your life.

46:36

Because is there? It is

46:38

so peeled away of the

46:40

surfaces and the gauzy, phony

46:43

planes of existence that most

46:45

people deal with. and on.

46:48

And comedians just suck it all the residue

46:50

as yours comedy product in your act and

46:53

hopefully they laugh at of entering realize what

46:55

they're laughing at as I'm saying into your

46:57

life in a way you can even see

46:59

it. You. Know. So.

47:04

When. You have that life

47:06

itself. Of

47:08

quote the a Jimi Hendrix. There are many

47:10

here among us who think life is but

47:13

a joke. So.

47:16

As. Much as you might. Feel.

47:18

The pain and certain things that you see that

47:20

you hate the you think are bad and. There's.

47:23

Another perspective of the

47:26

is this is ridiculous.

47:28

This is all ridiculous.

47:31

And. Less joke about. So

47:34

if you heard. Comedy

47:36

conversation the profanity have a

47:38

z z z. Misanthropy.

47:41

Of it. I think you'd

47:43

find it incredibly refreshing and. Sadly,

47:46

I. Never hear it anyplace else. Never

47:49

know. Everybody else

47:51

is like eight layers

47:53

of sake. Cream.

47:55

And and veneers totally of in

47:57

a waterproof would coding limo. That's

48:01

where most people live. That's.

48:03

Why they come to see a comedian Had as they

48:06

added, they know these things. Matter.

48:08

They know about my life that. Years.

48:10

Ago I used to do a bit about. Of.

48:13

When you're showered someone elses house.

48:15

And. This a little hair on the wall

48:17

over and how you get a cup of

48:20

water middle in the throes s i will

48:22

had isn't know that I was doing that

48:24

you know. That

48:27

the comedic a gift of that.

48:30

It's the supervision we have actually

48:32

visit. The.

48:34

Other night when I saw you used to hit something

48:36

that made me laugh as I was thinking about it

48:38

later. there's like how are you and your like? I'm

48:41

done. So sad I got

48:43

a. I'm not really even looking at a

48:45

percent like I'm almost seventy. Undead I could

48:47

to I could die in a size. Of

48:51

used to fizzle out of goes okay

48:53

but as is what I'm getting her.

48:56

The. You use kids. Okay,

48:58

that's a layer. That's. A

49:00

little that's not a bullshit layer. Do.

49:03

That. The real thing? it's have to be fun

49:05

idea. I did. And the

49:07

kids who does? Yeah, and if

49:09

you loved further. Thought

49:12

were cool. But. It could end tomorrow. right?

49:14

Now before I get out of sight. A want it

49:16

to. I don't either. But. But.

49:19

But it is. Are you to This

49:21

was raised? I do. I also love

49:23

deficits. I have so much death in

49:25

my egg that I have the added

49:28

some of it out because it's just

49:30

too much. As you know to love that

49:32

you've never experienced death. Is so funny? Really?

49:34

Yes And bags I have a bit

49:36

now that I'm doing I'm just trying

49:38

to explore it about when someone dies

49:40

and someone tells you Had to do

49:42

here who died? Sometimes we have to

49:45

hold down our enjoyment of that moment

49:47

as. You

49:49

wanna? do not want to let people see

49:51

that a while as chemical? Done

49:54

with that guy. An

49:57

admission that he said. But.

50:01

When you get on a cool. To

50:03

that I'm looking for those. oh that's

50:05

cool as the funny part. Yeah, that

50:07

kind of cool is really ideas. So

50:09

what Now that I'm talking about, how

50:11

does he know I felt that way

50:13

right in? And so if you can

50:15

go that to me as you can

50:17

go all the way into someone's head

50:19

and and go hey look I know

50:21

you are no you do in this

50:23

specific. To

50:26

your very happy person that

50:28

hates everything. When. You hit the

50:30

most like where are his ammonia like top the

50:32

modem. Okay, but you never bored

50:34

white. Assume you are. A

50:37

lot knew. How can you ever be bored? Because

50:39

those are the to have conversations

50:42

with people that wanna talk about

50:44

things that are on the surface.

50:47

Wouldn't. Do when you're in that situation, drink.

50:50

Or. Do you ever just like, go

50:52

right to death or go right to something real? I

50:54

start asking them, you know what do

50:56

you weigh. Yeah, you know what He

50:59

way are you still allows you? I know

51:01

Xanthan runners requests and yeah, And.

51:04

I'm. Just trying to get some getting along with

51:06

at work. I do that on the two months

51:09

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51:11

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51:13

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51:15

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52:37

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52:40

I say to him boy you talk

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52:45

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52:49

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52:55

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53:26

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53:29

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53:31

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