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  1. I'm going to write a medium article about this. And I'm going to tell people that I'm going to start giving back to the community you

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  2. Oh my gosh, I just got back from Africa. And did you know that there's poor people in the world? I had no idea. I was going to start a country, I would call it North Africa because there's a South Africa, but there's no North Africa. Just had that conversation.

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  3. I just have one impression. I just have one impression, and this is a CEO who just got back from Africa, a tech CEO who just got back from Africa.

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  4. Somewhere in high school. Yeah, it's on High Street. And yeah, and you can just check out SarahCPR.com to see my upcoming events and things like that.

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  5. You just type into Google How do I get to the Cooper Review.com and it'll take you there. I'm performing this Saturday at the setup, which is a comedy show that goes on in San Francisco. Okay.

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  6. Plastic gorilla on it. Yeah. Maybe we should just revive. It's interesting because I do think people don't like to laugh at themselves here as much. Yeah, no, I agree with that. Oh, that hurt my feeling. They're not mad at you. They're like, you hurt my feelings. I don't make jokes about them. I just flat out and stop them. I like that the answer.

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  7. Making fun of. Oh. No, I think it goes back to people just taking it a little bit too seriously. I think when it first started, you know, it was kind of this funny thing like, ha, how we're going to give each other these silly awards. And now people gave real speeches and they really took it seriously. I was like, do you know where you are?

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  8. Chelsea Peretti, who opened up for the crunchies, she's one of my favorite comedians, and I think she did some hilarious jokes.

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  9. No, I think I'm sick On Google Syndrome Yeah, yeah I don't think he's funny at all. I think he's very robotic. Than someone could play like Mark Zuckerberg, and it would be a believable robot. And I think that that's going to happen soon. There's going to be a robot character on television. Well, he's.

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  10. No, I think I'm sick. No, that's another one, I think. I don't know. Anyway, it's a syndrome. You have a Google syndrome. I have Google Syndrome. Yeah, everything's funny in the plex. Yeah, yeah. Food is so delicious. Mark Zuckerberg, you think it's not funny?

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  11. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. For example, the telling of it is amazing and like genius. And while it's happening, you're thinking, wow, this is just a train wreck. Yeah. I mean, I guess maybe that's the point of it. But it takes a while. It's long gone by the time everyone realizes the genius behind it. Yeah.

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  12. Andy Kaufman. When you're kind of in it in the moment, it's not funny. It's true. Some of the Andy Kaufman stuff is great in hindsight. And when you see the story of it being put together, but in the moment, it's kind of like, what's going on? It's weird and not hilarious.

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  13. Andy Kaufman. Yeah. It's so funny how a lot of those things, it's funny when you sort of look back on it, but when you're kind of in it in the moment, it's not funny.

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  14. Yeah, I mean, not really. I did see the Gilbert Godfried documentary recently, and I thought it was very good. And I actually didn't appreciate him when he was kind of bigger and was doing more stand-up.

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  15. But then there's this other strain of millennials that gets offended by a lot of different things. And so even like saying, hey guys. Would be offensive to a millennial maybe in an office workspace because they're not everyone is a guy. And so little things like that where that would have just rolled off my shoulder. I didn't care about stuff like that in the workplace. They get offended by. So it's kind of weird. It's like these two extremes of like super offensive but hysterical. But then like, oh, you can't say this because, you know, that's not, you know, correct enough.

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  16. Yeah, and just wearing like the hat and the whole garb and stuff from walking through the city and being really, really loud. And I just, that's not funny to me, but it's very like in your face, quick editing, like, like kind of crazy stuff. And I think there's some millennials that like that kind of stuff. So I think it's just more extreme. But then at the same time, yeah, Gen X is that.

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  17. But it's interesting that's what they watch Not the traditional thing. Yeah. I find that there's a lot more extremes, like things that are things that are funny to a lot of millennials are like kind of scary to me. Like a tall guy. Yeah, like that stuff.

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  18. No, see, I mean, that would be what you had to do, right? And now you've got vehicles like podcasts and Twitter and all these other platforms. So I think that's certainly enabling this sort of new generation of comics. Do you think, I know we've got to wrap up soon, but do you think there's a generational difference in like the way people think about being funny now and maybe because of or through the new technology and what they like?

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  19. We were talking about this before last week or so, but one of the advantages now of technology for comedians is you have so many more ways of getting your material in front of people, a Twitter podcasting, of course, is really taken off again as this amazing resurgence in comedy, especially. And, you know, like, I mean, what was the name of the place you performed in Atlanta?

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  20. Yeah, it does. I mean, if people know that I have a platform and that I can help promote any show that I'm on and things like that, it definitely works. And I'm also doing speaking engagements and doing panel discussions and things like that. And for any conference that needs some humor or some levity, yeah, they're allowed.

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  21. I'm putting myself out there for free, and I recommend everyone do it because you need an audience in order to get anywhere, you need an audience. So I don't mind putting things out there. This has been stolen a million times, and it's just going to happen.

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  22. Maybe, yeah, maybe their seventh one, but they have a paywall system where if you write something that's for members only, you get paid for it depending on how much attention it attracts. And so I think that might be another way for people to create content online and make money. But it's still a lot of the big get is traditional media, the HBO special, the Netflix special, the book. So you're putting your stuff.

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  23. Because I'll cross you. Yeah. Now, the onion is great. And I think college humor is also really good. There's a lot of good video content that they do. Is there any

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  24. And so it was just this whole article where And do this, but I will crush you But I will crush you. It was the whole thing. Phil Gates used to be that character. Really? Yeah. Oh, yeah. No, he actually said that to AOL years. I only know this because it was the opening of a book I wrote where he said you could either sell to me.

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  25. Yeah, I love the onion. I love it to death. No, they had an article recently that was like business advice from Jeff Bezos, no matter what you do, I will crush you. And so it was this whole article where it's like you could diversify and do this, but I will crush you. You could try this industry, but I will crush you. It was the whole thing.

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  26. So I think there's a lot of different types of humor. There's kind of like crazy characters that are kind of zany and all over the place.

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  27. Um, yeah, I mean, just the whole fake news thing and just things being so crazy that they could be believable, but they're not real. And there's really no, like no one has no one knows what's true anymore. And I think Trump is just taking advantage of that. And that's because You can't believe your eyes. Pictures can be manipulated. Video can now be manipulated. And so I don't know if that's funny, but it's just kind of scary.

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  28. I would just hate for all the Trump supporters to have to move and leave the country. That would be the saddest part about it.

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  29. Yeah. I mean, come on. It was even. Don't you think she would hire a lot of internet people? Cheryl would be Secretary of Treasury. Bezos would be Secretary of Commerce. Michelle Obama would be the Attorney General

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  30. Yeah, I mean, I it's Oprah. I know. You know, I just, everyone seemed so surprised and shocked that she was so amazed. She was in Oprah for a while.

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  31. Yeah, format. So I felt horrible. So say there are no dumb questions, but then make the person feel like an idiot for asking that question.

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  32. Have you taken one on one for? I'm like, yeah Well, maybe you should go back and look at what you learned. I mean, he made me feel awful.

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  33. I said, I have a dumb question. Oh, there are no dumb questions immediately. He was like, There are no dumb questions. And I said, Well, what's this, how the herald works? What's the exact layout of it? And he said,

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  34. And we had a man, and the whole getting him there was funny because he arrived in a cab and he wasn't showered and stuff like that. So we get him in the room. And one of the editor of the Washington Post, who time was let down, he said something to him. We asked him a question. And Bill Gates looks at me and goes, that is literally the stupidest question I've ever heard to this guy. And I was like, first of all, you just don't do it at the time because that is the stupidest question I've ever heard. So I was like, oh my God, oh my God, I can't do that. Now what's going to happen? So I go, the stupidest? The stupidest, really? Really? Come on. It can't be the stupidest. Like, really of all the questions you've heard. And I was like trying really hard to do it. But that was gaslighting. I didn't realize that.

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  35. One time years ago, Bill Gates in a meeting did this, who was at the Washington Post and the editor of the Washington Post at the time, the Washington Post was super powerful. It is again, but it was really at the height and Bill was not, he was pre-Microsoft monopoly trial. So he was sort of up and coming.

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  36. There's a few. One of my favorites is my husband does this to me all the time. I'll say, I don't think this works. And he'll be like, literally, no one has that opinion.

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  37. Yeah, just all kinds of stuff about how to take care of yourself while also stressing out about everything and wearing it. You know, it's all just the imposter syndrome, gaslighting. There's a whole chapter on gaslighting and how we can do it.

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  38. My favorite is the takes on Trump, where it's like maybe it's good to have a president who's a little off kilter and you don't really know what he's going to do or say. I'm like, would you ever say that about a woman who is like hysterical going crazy? Maybe it's good to have a woman that you just don't know what's going to happen with her. You'd never say that.

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  39. All right. Let's see you dance. I know. He dresses like Alan. No, you get that. I'm moving back to taking it away from me again. You get that, wow, so ambitious. You never hear that said about any of the dudes in the company.

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  40. About that book again. Well, yeah, it's based out of the non threatening leadership strategies, and it's going to have different chapters on being authentic by hiding yourself.

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  41. My mom is like, better wish her happy birthday because if I don't, she's going to see that I didn't wish her happy birthday. No, but that's funny. That's funny. That's funny. But then you think about it and it's just sad that it's just there's always

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  42. Look at her. Look what she's wearing. Oh, I guess I better like it because if I don't like it, she's going to see that I didn't like it and I better like seeing the shoulder.

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  43. So, you know, everyone's mom's, Facebook was cool at one point. It was really exclusive. It was when nobody could get on it and you were waiting to be able to get on it. That was cool. And now everyone's on it. And I watch my mom scroll through Facebook and she's just like.

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  44. No, they don't. They'll take everything seriously. They're on Snapchat. They wanted Ephemeral. They want stuff like that. So let's talk a little bit about what you think, back to the funny companies. I mean, do you find Facebook funny at all?

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  45. Generation is telling us that we're losing focus. That's not good. I'm good with the next Gen Z, forget the millennial. I know move them on out, but Gen Z is really smart. They don't put up with any shit kind of stuff. But I do think Twitter is funny. Will Gen Z.

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  46. Just has anything. Like stable genius. I know you're right. At some point, right? My 12 year old was like, I'm like, what do you think of stable genius? He goes, Mom, it's just a distraction. You need to stop paying attention.

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  47. He has no shame and he just has anything. And it's just like continuous fodder. And you can just continually make fun of it. But we got to get off of this at some point, right?

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  48. I'm not up caught up. So you're not caught up. So apparently Trump is requesting less of a rigorous schedule and more executive time for tweeting, watching television, and talking on the phone with friends. But he's calling it executive time.

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  49. You know who did a good one was the real sloppy filmmaker, Michael Moore? He called him sloppy Michael. And he goes, I'm the original sloppy. He's sloppy seconds. And he says, I'm suing Trump and I'm sloppy.

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  50. So, Instagram is better for visual. Yeah, Instagram's better for visuals, but I think a lot of there's a lot of really great cartoonists on there. Sarah Scribbles is one that I just love and she does these little stories. But I'm just more text. And I just think that that was the original dream of Twitter was that people were just sitting around making these jokes and they were so funny and non-sequiters. But now it's just laugh, cry, laugh, cry. It's really not truly fun.

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