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We're like a nation's kidney. We help everyone metabolize not just facts but feelings around facts or ideas. And jokes are just a shorthand for all of that.
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The speaker compares this role to a nation’s kidney: it helps people process both facts and the feelings attached to them. Jokes serve as a compact way to express that mixture, allowing a complicated idea and its emotional meaning to be understood quickly.
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