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standup comedian brad stein joins us now to talk about it. hers. and my sister. great to be back with you. >> ahhh! >> i remember! >> thanks for the shoutout. all right, what do you make of this whole thing? do americans want to get down and dirty and do the tough jobs? >> well, the answer is are americans too lazy to do that? the answer is yes. more importantly why? who created this? because americans have always been the hardest working people on earth. as a matter of fact in the last 100 years every great invention we came up with. television, our idea. airplanes, our idea. computers, our idea. buffalo wing, our idea! why? because we believe in two things. the work ethic, puritanical work ethic. there's dignity in work. if you don't work, you don't eat. that's what we used to believe in. we used to make it shameful not to work. we call people that don't work hobos, what happened to the hobos? we need to bring these people back and make them feel ashamed but political correctness came in and said we don't want them to feel bad about not work

standup comedian brad stein joins us right now from nashville. u, brad. >> how are you? i hope you had a great thanksgiving, my brother. >> thank you very much. listen, so this is what's going on over in the united kingdom in certain parts. in the past, if somebody wanted to be a santa, they had to go through a criminal background check and now, parents are being told don't even bother with that because we're not going to let the kids sit on anybody's lap because there could be trouble. where -- how did we get to this point, brad? how, how, how? >> well, as you know, political correctness is responsible for every bad thing in america. you know, americans used to be driven by an idea called common sense. this was sense that was common to everybody. this is years ago before we needed signs warning us that coffee was hot. ok? and i understand, all right? so santa is something interesting to me. now, trust me, there are bad guys out there that hate and do evil to children. i understand that and i'm sure there's a special place in hell for them. hopefu