Ben Palmer

What do you think of that?

The real people being the real ICE and the real DHS.

Since we spoke with him, Ben has continued to release videos from this hotline.

And they continue to rack up hundreds of thousands, if not millions of views.

I wonder if how you have thought about your role as a comedian, seeing that you started well over a decade ago at this point, and how you view your role as a comedian differently in...

this America that we're living in right now as opposed to 2008 when you were getting into stand-up?

And some people are allergic to it and most people are not.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Thank you for using your superhuman amygdala for comedy goals.

I hope you've never felt better about your amygdala in this day.

Before we go, we should say we did reach out to the politician Ben Palmer trolled for months, the guy who called AOC an expletive, former Representative Ted Yoho, to hear his thoughts on how his relationship with Palmer played out.

We didn't hear back from Yoho in time for this episode, but if he wants to talk, he can reach us troll-free.

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