This is a clip from the After Dark Show with Don Rogers.

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Being that we're coming into the Halloween season,

I have a question, and I'm trying to put it delicately.

What could be offensive?

I am so careful.

It's fall and Halloween.

So how closely related are alchemy and witchcraft?

Oh.

That was all.

I just didn't want to court you a witch, right?

Because some people might take the wrong way.

Witch is a funny term, because on one hand, a person could perceive me as a witch,

the same way that the Native Americans perceived the colonizers as like sorcery for being able to, you know, have steel bullets and all of that.

So I'm not offended by the term which.

I'm only offended by it when a person is using it in a way to defame or somehow tie and affiliate which

proper, like which in general with Satanism or with the dark arts.

So I have to protect myself from witches, literally.

So this is the irony.

On one hand, I'm over here going, witch wound, witches.

I'm totally fine witches.

But then on the other side, I'm like, shit, man, these witches are targeting me.

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