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Even though there's moments where people go, oh man, I'm props, man. You really skewered them.

You really gave it to them. To me, one of the things that I think I've been missing from all this

dialogue, especially because everything gets re-blogged and so-and-so eviscerates the right

and vice versa, is personal sort of empathy in putting your own skin in the game.

That was this week's guest, Hassan Menage. He's a stand-up comic, a former correspondent on the

Daily Show, and he's a Muslim American. At the Republican National Convention, he went looking

for some of that empathy. If I'd have Trump were to become president, I'm going to get deported,

so I just wanted to say goodbye to all the delegates from the states that I'll never get to visit.

So I went up to, you know, the delegate from Alabama gave her a big ol hug and said,

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