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The Jim Jefferies Show Podcast

Bonus: Live at Gotham - Jim's Terrifying Flight Into Baghdad

The Jim Jefferies Show Podcast

Comedy Central

Tv & Film, Comedy, Comedy Interviews

4.31.8K Ratings

🗓️ 26 November 2019

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

In this 2009 Live at Gotham appearance, Jim recounts his harrowing helicopter ride into Baghdad on the way to his standup performance for U.S. troops. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Now I like being in America.

0:38.0

I used to be an American hater and now I'm all for this place man.

0:42.0

I've come out here. This is the greatest country in the world I've been out to Iraq

0:45.6

and Afghanistan I've actually met American soldiers and entertained them and a great

0:51.2

bunch of people I tell you what you don't want to go out to that wall man it's scary I flew

0:56.6

in they flew me into Kuwait they picked me up in a helicopter to fly me into Baghdad

1:01.6

now they give you a bulletproof vest and a helmet. Now all the soldiers have

1:07.0

camouflaged bulletproof vests and helmets. My one blue. And I ask ask him why is my vest and helmet blue and they go that's so the enemy knows that you're a civilian

1:22.3

Does the enemy care? That's what I'm really concerned about it. They care because I've never been a sniper, nor am I planning on being a sniper any day soon, but I know that every time I got off a helicopter I was surrounded

1:34.7

by men with guns that protected me and walked out.

1:37.6

Now if I was a sniper I'd be going, geez the bastard in blue looks important.

1:42.0

Now they pick us up in a helicopter,

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