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the jurogan experience well i think that's because we are both seen as people who are sort of like commonsensical and that is what there is a hunger for i think in america more than anything is common sense yes the away from the extremes i mean when people say to me you know you're don't you think you've gotten more conservative no i haven't the left has gotten goofier yes so i seem more conservative maybe but like it's not me who changed yeah i feel i'm the same guy but five years ago uh you know we hadn't spent six trillion dollars to stay home i mean i understand we had to do something with the pandemic i'm not sure that was you know i mean i remember when a trillion dollars was too much to spend on anything we didn't spend a trillion to bail out the economy in 2008. um so we didn't do that five years ago no one was talking about abolishing the police you know there was no talk about uh you know pregnant men and you know i mean there was looting was still illegal right yeah you know and they're crazy there was just there's so like have i changed no because if someone had said 20 years ago i i'm not sure looting is a bad thing i would have opposed it then see i so i haven't changed but that i think is what there is this hunger for is this sort of common sense you know centrism is such a wishy-washy word but that's sort of what it is something people lean a little more to the left a little more to the right sometimes it's issue by issue but just you know i'm always saying to the democrats just don't be the party of no common sense and you will be surprised at how much amazing success you will have as opposed to what's going to have happen which is they're going to get their ass kicked in november well people like you are very important to
people like me because you represent what means what it means to me to be liberal what it means to me to be left-wing because you're just a normal person who cares about people's rights and wants a certain amount of freedom and wants the people to get along and work things out amicably right but the polarization of this country has made it so that people like you are rare it's weird it's like that's what i used to think of when i thought of the left i thought of like professors and you know intellectuals and these these people that would sit down and work through things with the understanding that free speech is like one of the most important aspects of communication possible and communication is everything communication is how we work things out like this idea of not talking to people you disagree with well guess what that just galvanizes them they just get hardened and they move further and further away and we get more and more associated with this idea of left and right and uh good and bad and one and zero and this side does not agree with anything that side says that's crazy it doesn't make any sense and if you're out there doing it it gives people hope and it's not just we're saying common sense you do have common sense but more importantly you have courage because courage allows you to speak your mind whether you're right or wrong courage allows you to take a chance and you're seeing the wave of people that are moving in a certain direction it doesn't necessarily make sense and you're like hey what the [ __ ] is going on and everybody's like finally someone's saying it on tv because maybe someone said it at a cocktail party maybe someone said it at a barbecue but they're not [ __ ] saying it on hbo until you say it on hbo well thank you i appreciate that i mean that's a lot i always say you know there's levels of courage there's like yeah i mean i will i will take that compliment as long as i can also say but there's like marines yeah you probably you're not a navy seal absolutely exactly you're not even a woman about to give birth i'm in
the d league yeah in the d league i have a lot of courage but i'm not playing in the upper league which you have is honesty but thank you yes you have honesty and people know that and that's why your show works and that's also i always feel like what my bond with the audience is you don't have when i started way back on politically incorrect almost 30 years ago people said you know this show will never work because a tv host can never reveal his politics i mean johnny carson never did leno didn't david letterman you they never said i'm voting for this guy whereas i mean you obviously know who all the late-night hosts are for now right i mean it's a completely one-sided thing they have to pander to the liberal audience which is watches them it's it's so it's so reverse of when i started it's bonkers when you couldn't be political and now you couldn't survive apparently in late night television unless you are political unless the audience knows exactly that you're and i would put saturday night live in this too it's i think elon musk uh took them to task he said it doesn't seem like a show that's about comet anymore so much is it a it is about declaring some woke doctrine yeah um and you know having people the people who go to those shows and uh are in there i guess where they film them and stuff my audience was was too doctrinated for a while we we have a much better audience now because we kind of got rid of the growners the people for whom i was always too politically incorrect and i was like i've been doing this forever the names of the shows politically incorrect real time and you still come to this show and groan when i say something too real what [ __ ] show did you think you were coming to because they do film the prices right in the same studio do you think that the way it's going right now with late night television where you you everyone has to be political is that what the audience wants or is that what the executives in the studio wants are they like who is are they one step behind like what where where is the the mandate coming from is it the person who's the
host who says you know what i know works in this town if i want to keep working i have to be like outwardly left-leaning progressive political look it's i think it's coming from both because corporations in america now um are they're leaning in they're leaning into woke hardcore they're they're petrified of some kind of backlash i mean you see with disney now i mean disney one of the most gay-friendly companies that we've had in a very long time as they should be old companies should be gay friendly but disney sort of they had gay days yeah at disney what is it world land i don't know i'm not at disney i think it was the la one right you'll never find land disneyland is the original that's right disney world is in florida right you'll never find me sitting in a tea cup joe i love teacups i mean it says in my category of things that only children used to do that now adults do i mean if i had a nickel for every time somebody said you know i'm going to disneyland and i'm like with your kids no we're just going okay but you know there is that there is corporations i think yes are always going to want to and look i'm glad they are progressive thinking of course like with everything on the left these days they just take it too far but i think it's coming from the audience more because the audience who goes to a taping of saturday night live or a show like that they're youngish and you know they um they believe what they believe a lot of the things i also believe uh but it's it's sort of an unexamined like they don't know too much about politics they just know that and again you mentioned trump doing this like he was so awful that it's just very easy to turn off to the details and go well i'm with the democrats in the left