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I don't need to take a minute.

We've started already.

Who's going to make this weird?

Am I going to make this weird or you're going to make this weird?

He's Ari Shafir.

You probably know him for over 15 years of allowing comics to tell their stories in a way that is really fun. And The New York Times says he's got one of the best comic specials going right now. The name of it is, and I imagine you're a lot. I'll give you permission. A lot of time on it. Jew is the name of it. and it's being watched a lot. It's particularly timely.

And thank you for joining us. Yeah, thanks for having me. How is it going over the special? How did

you feel about doing it? And how did you come about naming it? Because it is very simply perfect and

I'm surprised it hadn't been taken before. Yeah, Jew. Well, they make you in these specials pay by the letter.

So I decided to cut it down and save myself some cash because I paid for myself.

No, because that's what it was.

I had another title like Heretic or something like that or like, but yeah, it's just

true.

This is all about, it's me.

It's about my, I grew up Orthodox Jewish, which is like the Frisbee ones. And, yeah, it's all about just growing up like that, but also like filthy. Everyone from the Jewish community is like sort of seen it, but they were like, we're watching it, but we're worried. And then they're like, no, it's actually really respectful. It's far too filthy, but I don't know why I just say fuck so much. We need to talk about the Bible, but okay. It also games the algorithm, right? It gets a whole lot of people in these particular times to find you. Yeah, I guess so. I didn't do it for this Times. Times came up around me. I saw Kanye West last night. For real. He was playing his new album at the comedy store. It was wild. How does that happen? He's with Dave Chappelle. Dave Chappelle's like, let's go to the Comedy Store. And then he's like sticking his phone in the ox and playing his new... I was like, this is nutty. Well, you started at the comedy store.

We'll get to your special in a second.

You started at 15 years old, 16 years old answering.

When did you start answering phones?

No, 24, 25, but right out of college.

Right at University of Maryland, Terps, practice player.

Actually, that would be weird if it was 15 or 16 years old,

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