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note, but you wouldn't ask him to do it again. He would have to volunteer to do it again. So this whole weird etiquette of how to deal with different levels of celebrity. You just can't ask him to audition. He's got to volunteer. Anyway, he didn't get the job, but I will tell you he was very talented. The people who were successful professional actors and actresses—I'm not even sure if you use "a…

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n the ski slope. The jet pack was good. Did you see the jet pack one? Lifting off on the jet pack. The riding a tiny horse. He had the reins in his hands. He's on top of a miniature horse. Very good. Very good. And of course Cornholio was my favorite. Did I miss one? The llama. Oh, was there a Homer? Or the ice cream cones. That was actually my idea. He was holding two ice cream cones, and somebody photoshopped that in there. Holding corn dogs. I absolutely love this era where you can turn something into a video or visual meme in an hour. Oh yeah, the Rock 'Em Sock 'Em robots. That was a good one too.

All right, those are all good. What else is happening?

So CNN is covering the Alec Baldwin story and has a big article about it. And I guess we learned today that allegedly the prop person handed Alec Baldwin this gun and announced that it was quote "a cold gun." Now a cold gun in the lingo of the business means it's not loaded. And then allegedly—and this part is unclear—it looks like Alec Baldwin might have aimed it at somebody, but I don't know that that's true. I think that was debunked. So we've got some sort of conflicting stories. It's unclear if it was intentionally aimed at anybody even in jest or it just went off accidentally in some way.

Now here's the part where I had to be in the comments here. You know exactly where I'm going on this. CNN does this story without ever mentioning that it shouldn't have made any difference what the prop person said. Are you with me? Anybody with the smallest ounce of common sense or gun training, you know, gun safety training—you don't take somebody's word for it that a gun is unloaded. Is there anything more basic than that?

Do you know who I don't believe if they hand me a gun and tell me it's not loaded? Do you know who I

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don't trust? Everyone. Everyone. There's no exception. If the Pope hands you a gun and says "Don't worry, it's not loaded," check it. Check it. Because you don't know the Pope is telling you the truth. Don't take a chance. So somehow they can write that story without mentioning the most basic gun safety facts: that it shouldn't have mattered who made that mistake. There were ten ways for the acci…

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