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This is our seventh night on the road across the country and I came decided to you know leave my lair and had out for a month for two reasons one because you cannot censor a live event

Which I'm grateful for and two because I just wanted to feel better about the country that I love and it's

worked. It's unbelievable. It's true. In fact I always think to myself I don't

we moved out of a city about five years ago and I thought I hate cities I'm never going back to a city again

They're all awful and this is our seventh city and they've all been great

I got a I mean I

It's incredible Wichita I've wound up in Wichita a lot in my life I know a lot of people here I'm not exactly sure why but I've had a wonderful time every time I've ever been here

We're Kansas Kansas City, Tulsa, Colorado Springs,

they're all great. And then I realized really it's just New York and LA are awful and

every other place is pretty excellent. So thank you. You forget that because if you read the news or watch the news

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