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Speaker 3: Kamala Harris is speed dating vps jd Vance might get
Speaker 3: to sleep on the couch and on Trump techs. Something
Speaker 3: a bit racist? Can you believe it? Now? Let's find
Speaker 3: out in our ongoing coverage of Indecision twenty twenty four. Now, look,
Speaker 3: when this selection started, I thought it would be mostly
Speaker 3: about abortion or maybe immigration, But things took a weird
Speaker 3: turn this week, and now it seems like the most
Speaker 3: dominant issue is Indians. As you all know, Vice President
Speaker 3: Kamala Harris is of Indian and Jamaican descent. And who
Speaker 3: better to understand the nuance of being mixed race than
Speaker 3: this guy.
Speaker 5: Former President Donald Trump now facing backlash after questioning Vice
Speaker 5: President Kamala Harris's racial identity during the National Association of
Speaker 5: Black Journalists annual convention.
Speaker 6: She was Indian all the way, and then all of
Speaker 6: a sudden, she made a turn and she went she
Speaker 6: became a blacker.
Speaker 7: Just after the event, the former president posted a video
Speaker 7: on his social media where Harris called herself Indian and
Speaker 7: a cooking video with comedian Mindy Kaling.
Speaker 3: Okay, so what we're going to cook today? Okay, is
Speaker 3: an Indian recipe?
Speaker 8: Yes?
Speaker 3: Because you are idiot? Yes, but actually we're both South Indian. Yes,
Speaker 3: you look like the entire one half of my family. Damn,
Speaker 3: I forgot how weird the office got after Michael Scott left.
Speaker 3: So Trump posted this video, But I'm like, how did
Speaker 3: he even find this? Was he doing deep apple research
Speaker 3: on Mindy Kaling's Instagram page? Like how far down the
Speaker 3: Mindy rabbit hole did he go? Is he gonna come
Speaker 3: out next week? Like Kamala Harris is not black and
Speaker 3: Mindy and bj Novak belong together? Okay, do the right thing,
Speaker 3: BJ make an honors Indian out of her. And also
Speaker 3: this doesn't even prove his point. He's saying that Kamala
Speaker 3: identified as Indian and not black, and this is a
Speaker 3: video of her saying I'm half Indian, Like what does
Speaker 3: Trump think the other half is woman? She's half Indian
Speaker 3: and half one and that's one That's one thing. How
Speaker 3: does this guy understand what half means? Like he constantly
Speaker 3: tells us he's a genius, but he can't comprehend a
Speaker 3: golden doodle. Also, by the way, Trump doesn't get to
Speaker 3: decide how black a black person is. Only Kendrick Lamar
Speaker 3: can do that, Okay, Kendrick way in here. Meanwhile, the
Speaker 3: Trump campaign has Indian problems of its own. Jd Vance
Speaker 3: has been getting attacked by white supremacists because his wife
Speaker 3: is Indian. And if you're thinking, wow, if someone insulted
Speaker 3: my wife, I go ape shit on them, then you
Speaker 3: are not jd Vance.
Speaker 9: Look, I love my wife so much. I love her
Speaker 9: because she's who she is. Obviously, she's not a white person,
Speaker 9: and we've been a cute attacked by some white supremacists
Speaker 9: over that. But I just I love Usha. She's such
Speaker 9: a good mom.
Speaker 3: Yeah, wow, way to casually defend your wife against white supremacists. J.
Speaker 3: I mean, I'm not a romance expert, but I don't
Speaker 3: think everyone wants to hear she's not white but I
Speaker 3: love her. Right, That's that's not a message you're going
Speaker 3: to see on those Valentine's Day candies. I mean, look,
Speaker 3: I mean I hold those one his wedding vows like, look,
Speaker 3: you're obviously not whites, but I do enough about Indians.
Speaker 3: Let's move on, because while JD. Vans is doing JD
Speaker 3: Van's stuff, Kama still needs to announce her running mate.
Speaker 7: We now know we are just days away from finding
Speaker 7: out who Kamala Harris's running mate will be.
Speaker 2: Har is now moving at warp speed. Her campaign just
Speaker 2: over a week old, but she's already expected to announce
Speaker 2: her running mate in the coming days. The two will
Speaker 2: then hit the road together, visiting several key battleground states,
Speaker 2: starting with a rally in Philadelphia on Tuesday.
Speaker 4: Matter by President, Have you comed in your VP yet?
Speaker 4: Have you come in yet?
Speaker 9: Wow?
Speaker 3: What a change? The Democratic nominee for president walked up
Speaker 3: a flight of stairs while talking with a head turn.
Speaker 3: She turned her head while walking and none of us
Speaker 3: while covering our eyes and clenching our assholes, I mean
Speaker 3: compared to buy then she's like someone balls up there.
Speaker 3: Kamala is expected to pick a running mate any day now,
Speaker 3: and according to reports, it's come down to about five
Speaker 3: finalists who all bring different strengths to the table. You've
Speaker 3: got Pete Buddha judge or the only man in America
Speaker 3: who goes viral on Fox News for non racist reasons.
Speaker 3: It's also Andy Basher. He's the popular governor of Kentucky
Speaker 3: and the first person with his accent to ever say
Speaker 3: the phrase. Trans writes, You've also got Minnesota Governor Tim Waltz.
Speaker 3: He's actually the one who started calling Don Trump weird,
Speaker 3: which again I just don't see it. The lake great
Speaker 3: have ab elector. He's a wonderful man, totally normal. Here.
Speaker 3: Another top candidate is Mark Kelly aka Senator Clean. This
Speaker 3: guy is a fighter pilot to an astronaut, which is
Speaker 3: extremely badass. I mean, how would Trump even attack this guy?
Speaker 3: Look at this top gun loser who went to space.
Speaker 3: Lah shit. This guy would be so good against Vansa
Speaker 3: the VP debates. He'd be like, oh, you wrote a
Speaker 3: memoir about your hillbilly family. That's cool. Iack Dolph in
Speaker 3: space checkmate. Plus, he's got an identical twin brother who's
Speaker 3: also an astronaut. Like, how cool is that? This is
Speaker 3: just like the Kelsey brothers if they stayed in school.
Speaker 3: I mean, just think of all the crazy pranks they
Speaker 3: could pull. They could switch places. And now the other
Speaker 3: twin is the one doing absolutely nothing as VP. But
Speaker 3: as of today, it looks like the front runner is
Speaker 3: Pennsylvania's Josh Shapiro. He's popular, He's the governor of a
Speaker 3: pivotal swing state. And I know I'm a foreigner who
Speaker 3: can understand English, but just listen to this guy speak,
Speaker 3: because I mean, is he is he doing an Obama?
Speaker 8: You could not have a clear contrast in this race.
Speaker 9: You could not have a clear contrast between Kamala Harris
Speaker 9: and Donald Trump.
Speaker 3: And let me tell you something.
Speaker 8: He's pretty afraid, yo sees he's backing out in the bank.
Speaker 6: He's afraid to stand tone to tone with our vice
Speaker 6: president because he.
Speaker 3: Can't run away from his record any long. Okay, that's
Speaker 3: not just me, right, Like we all we all hear that.
Speaker 3: Like I was always expecting him to be like and
Speaker 3: that's why you should vote for me, Josh Hussein Shapiro.
Speaker 3: It's like he's hyping himself up for politics by listening
Speaker 3: to Obama's old speeches, and the cadence is like getting
Speaker 3: stuck in his head. I mean, I bet if I
Speaker 3: put a photo of Obama up on the screen, you
Speaker 3: would have no idea it was a Josh Shapiro speech.
Speaker 8: He knows what he's doing, He's got no guardrails around
Speaker 8: him anymore, and he's told us what he wants to do.
Speaker 3: What my angelous say. When someone tells you who they are,
Speaker 3: believe them. I mean even the Maya Angelo reference is
Speaker 3: laying on a little thike. I wouldn't be surprised if
Speaker 3: Obama asked him for his birth certificate. I'm like, wait,
Speaker 3: are you me at this? And it could be smart
Speaker 3: for Harris to pick him. I mean she could be like, hey, Trump,
Speaker 3: you think I'm pretending to be black, Well check out
Speaker 3: my VP anyway soon soon. Well, no, which one of
Speaker 3: these guys it is? And there was some other names
Speaker 3: thrown around, like Gretchen Whitmer or west Wall or Gino Romondo,
Speaker 3: but there's just something about them that the news media
Speaker 3: doesn't think will work.
Speaker 7: Sure would help if there was a reassuring white guy
Speaker 7: who looked like all of our most of our past
Speaker 7: presidents to help her out.
Speaker 8: She needs a southern white male to balance out the ticket.
Speaker 2: He's gonna need a white male, and if you can
Speaker 2: get one from a swing state, I think it's really important.
Speaker 3: I do wonder if it is inevitable that this is
Speaker 3: a white man summer as far as it can as
Speaker 3: it concerns Tamala Harris's running name. I mean, that is
Speaker 3: so blunt. At least be subtle about it. They should say, like, hey,
Speaker 3: if Kamala wants to win, somebody who wears cargo shorts
Speaker 3: and can play wonder Wall on the guitar and some
Speaker 3: white guys. For more analysis on the importance of a
Speaker 3: balanced ticket, let's go live to the Harris campaign headquarters
Speaker 3: with Desi Lighteggie Degie. Does it have to be a
Speaker 3: white guy? I mean, why can't there be two women
Speaker 3: on the ticket?
Speaker 7: Whoa whoa, whoa whoa Ronnie an all female ticket. America
Speaker 7: couldn't even handle an all female Ghostbusters. No, no, this
Speaker 7: is not the time to push voters too far. Just
Speaker 7: pick a white guy. You can still have diversity. You
Speaker 7: got the backwoods white, the space white, the eggshell white,
Speaker 7: the medium beige white. It's a whole paint swatch book.
Speaker 7: If you're painting your kitchen Caucasian.
Speaker 3: Okay, Desi, I don't think you're giving people enough credit. Okay.
Speaker 3: America elected Obama twice, Hillary won the popular vote, and
Speaker 3: I think America can handle two women on a ticket.
Speaker 7: Oh, Ronnie, you sweet optimistic guy who can't vote here. Look,
Speaker 7: I would love to have an all woman ticket, but
Speaker 7: people would lose their minds. What if they sink up
Speaker 7: their periods with every woman in the country every month
Speaker 7: will be like the purge?
Speaker 3: Okay, okay, but doesn't this limit Harris's options? Well?
Speaker 7: Perhaps, But a male VP benefits Kamala too. She'll need
Speaker 7: a white man by her side in the situation room
Speaker 7: so that when she has an idea, he can repeat
Speaker 7: it louder a minute later. That way, the joint chiefs
Speaker 7: will actually hear it.
Speaker 3: You know. That is a good point, Desie. I mean also,
Speaker 3: when she has an idea, he could repeat it louder
Speaker 3: a minute later, so that the joint chief will actually
Speaker 3: hear it.
Speaker 7: Great point, Ronnie, great point. This all comes down to
Speaker 7: a political science theory known as the law of presidential genitals.
Speaker 3: See, when it comes to.
Speaker 7: A campaign ticket in America, you can have a V
Speaker 7: on the top, or you can have a V on
Speaker 7: the bottom, but you can't have the two coming together
Speaker 7: like this.
Speaker 3: Well, see, you just can't.
Speaker 7: You can't do you see when I'm doing, Ronnie, do
Speaker 7: you understand this is graduate level stuff.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I guess I do. I just don't get why
Speaker 3: Americans have been okay to have like two to two
Speaker 3: peas on one ticket like this. I mean, what about this?
Speaker 7: Oh no, Ronnie, you got to stop doing that. That
Speaker 7: looks like two dicks.
Speaker 3: No, this is serious. Okay, I'm sorry, You're right? Does
Speaker 3: it lie? Like everybody?
Speaker 10: When you come back, Adam Pinsinger will be joining us,
Speaker 10: I don't go away.
Speaker 3: Welcome back to Darry Show. My guest tonight is a
Speaker 3: former GOP lawmaker who is the Advisory Council co chair
Speaker 3: of Power the Polls, a national, non partisan effort to
Speaker 3: recruit the next generation of POE workers to ensure safe
Speaker 3: and fay elections for all voters. Please welcome Representative Adam Kinsinger,
Speaker 3: now Congressman Congressman. Thanks, will be on the show. Great
Speaker 3: to be here. Thank you. Stuck your neck out politically
Speaker 3: and personally to put politics over personal benefit the party.
Speaker 3: Some would say country over party to speak against Trump
Speaker 3: despite being a congressman for the Republicans. Why the did
Speaker 3: you do that? I ask myself that every day.
Speaker 6: No, look, I really had no other option. I mean,
Speaker 6: so I wear on my wrist the name of a
Speaker 6: guy Andreas O'Keeffe, who I knew who was killed in Iraq,
Speaker 6: and I'm an Iraq veteran, and I just remember thinking
Speaker 6: when I ran for Congress the first time, if we're
Speaker 6: going to ask young people to be willing to die
Speaker 6: for a country, like to be willing to fight and
Speaker 6: die the ultimate sacrifice. If I go into politics, I
Speaker 6: have to be willing to give my career for the
Speaker 6: same cause. It's such a minor sacrifice in comparison to
Speaker 6: what we ask people to do every day.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but what was what was your problem with Trump?
Speaker 6: Well?
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 6: You know, the fascism, the overthrowing the government, you know,
Speaker 6: those kinds of things.
Speaker 3: I mean, you would think that's a pretty big issue,
Speaker 3: but I guess not big enough. I mean, you have
Speaker 3: insight because you were in Congress from twenty eleven until
Speaker 3: twenty twenty three, I think, and so you have kind
Speaker 3: of behind the scenes access. You talk to these people
Speaker 3: all the time. And I think it's very popular to
Speaker 3: say America has never been more divisive than is now.
Speaker 3: You have perspective on it. You know, you've been that
Speaker 3: UF a long time and you were working day. Is
Speaker 3: that true? Was it device way Flass went in. Yeah.
Speaker 6: I mean, look, it's you know, behind the scenes. It's
Speaker 6: kind of like any job. So people will fight on
Speaker 6: the air, you know, within Congress, and then when the
Speaker 6: cameras come off, shake each other's hands, maybe go out
Speaker 6: for drink. That's happened less lately. I mean there's a
Speaker 6: real division that started to creep in where people just
Speaker 6: hate each other now because of political differences. I mean,
Speaker 6: they can't stand to be around each other. But I
Speaker 6: think if America actually saw the behind the scenes of
Speaker 6: what was happening, they'd be like, man, I can't believe
Speaker 6: they're manipulating us to fight each other as deeply as
Speaker 6: we are out here when they back there are just
Speaker 6: kind of playing the game, and it's really a sad
Speaker 6: state of affairs.
Speaker 3: Okay, so you'll experienced opinion is that it is getting
Speaker 3: more divisive.
Speaker 6: I think Congress, I think the country certainly, and in Congress, yes,
Speaker 6: I think they're just starting to I mean, you got
Speaker 6: Marjorie Taylor Green there for goodness sake. I mean, like,
Speaker 6: who would get along with her in real life?
Speaker 3: Well, I mean would the potty people get along with her?
Speaker 6: They love her now because she raises money for him
Speaker 6: because she goes out there and gets attention and so yeah,
Speaker 6: but when I when she was there, When I was there,
Speaker 6: initially she was a pariah until she started getting on
Speaker 6: TV and tweeting and ever, and then she became pretty
Speaker 6: popular in the party.
Speaker 3: Somehow, but like genuine like you know, professionally popular or
Speaker 3: would they actually be now they're now friends, But I
Speaker 3: think there's.
Speaker 6: Probably some that, like to you know, that would be
Speaker 6: a friend with her because access to power. But yeah,
Speaker 6: mostly it's just professional.
Speaker 3: And in your again expert opinion, how much of this
Speaker 3: is I like to believe that it's just internet bullshit
Speaker 3: that gets taken into real life. And in real life
Speaker 3: we don't behave like this, But for some reason, these
Speaker 3: people have managed to take the comments section and bring it,
Speaker 3: you know, So how much of that is is real?
Speaker 3: And I'm all say, how much of it is this
Speaker 3: internet mentality? Yeah?
Speaker 6: I mean, look, I think a significant amount of it is.
Speaker 6: It's this is kind of the untold secret Titians watch
Speaker 6: Twitter and so when you see things happening on Twitter
Speaker 6: this way, I mean Donald Trump was the master at this.
Speaker 6: You'd see some conspiracy pop up and he'd give a
Speaker 6: nod to it. And what's happened is leaders have gone
Speaker 6: from like supposed to be leading and talking about, you know,
Speaker 6: trying to direct opinion right, trying to lead us to
Speaker 6: a better place, to now following insanity. And it's basically
Speaker 6: like a dog now chasing its tail out in the
Speaker 6: middle of traffic. And I think that's what you're seeing.
Speaker 3: On that note, like what what what is the solution?
Speaker 3: I mean, in your opinion, how how can Americans come
Speaker 3: to get and bridge this kind of.
Speaker 6: The solution is in all of us. I mean, and
Speaker 6: I'm not trying to sound like esoteric and like big
Speaker 6: word like really, we control government. It's truly government for
Speaker 6: even by the people. We've got to quit voting for
Speaker 6: these clowns that decide they want to go there and
Speaker 6: be more famous than they want to do good those
Speaker 6: for this point, we need to We need to make
Speaker 6: sure our presidents actually care about something more than their
Speaker 6: own ego and more than their own narcissism. They care
Speaker 6: about it, I'm sure, and I mean that like I
Speaker 6: really am soking. I just I truly believe that America
Speaker 6: can take our political system back. We have to believe
Speaker 6: we can, and we have to say, enough of you
Speaker 6: abusing us for money, for followers, for likes. We demand mature,
Speaker 6: grown up government.
Speaker 3: So and you'll here to talk about Power the poll
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Speaker 3: Up to do this. Yeah, it's it's kind of a
Speaker 3: civic duty. It is. It is paid. Oh you get
Speaker 3: paid you can yeah, Okay, I then forget my question.
Speaker 3: I was going I was gonna say I was gonna say,
Speaker 3: it feels a bit like a thankless task at the
Speaker 3: moment they try to power American democracy is like, ugh,
Speaker 3: you know, why go through that right now?
Speaker 6: It does feel like a thankless task. And that's the
Speaker 6: sad thing is, especially the next generation, which is what
Speaker 6: power the polls is focused on. They have been They've
Speaker 6: been so beaten down on democracy. Democracy to them is
Speaker 6: just like, well, it's just what people say to go
Speaker 6: after each other. We have to inspire that generation because look,
Speaker 6: I really believe this next generation is going to be
Speaker 6: the ones to take the keys out of the hands
Speaker 6: of the people that have been holding the keys to
Speaker 6: power too long. And there's no better way to get
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Speaker 6: democracy works in the nuts and bolts.
Speaker 3: Right, And if you're fitting fused, raided by the system
Speaker 3: and you don't know where to start, this sounds like
Speaker 3: a way to kind of Look, I just want to
Speaker 3: get involved. I don't want to get bogged down in
Speaker 3: some weird cultural war. I just want to help my country.
Speaker 6: And look, and you're going to be working with people
Speaker 6: that have different political views in you all committed to democracy.
Speaker 6: If we can all agree on that basic thing. I
Speaker 6: think there's seriously, there's no limits to the future of
Speaker 6: this country. We just have to convince ourselves in it.
Speaker 3: So what And you know, as someone coming from a
Speaker 3: conservative background, like, why is it that whenever we talk
Speaker 3: about like voting access, election access, why does that always
Speaker 3: feel like a left issue? Right? It's crazy.
Speaker 6: It's because for whatever reason, there's a they feel threatened
Speaker 6: in the GOP that the more people vote, the more
Speaker 6: in danger they are. And I think we know why
Speaker 6: because what they're talking about today, what you see them
Speaker 6: out there discussing, is not what the vast majority of
Speaker 6: Americans wants. The thing they can hope is to turn
Speaker 6: that the base out.
Speaker 3: Look.
Speaker 6: I think it should be a nonpartisan or bipartisan or
Speaker 6: whatever issue to say, if you have a right to
Speaker 6: vote in this country, we should make it as accessible
Speaker 6: and easy for you to vote. And then, by the way,
Speaker 6: if you can't win, then go out and get better
Speaker 6: ideas to get people to vote for you.
Speaker 3: That's going through life. And what I love about having
Speaker 3: you on the show is, you know, we get to
Speaker 3: talk to people outside of on a go chamber. I
Speaker 3: think a little bit. I mean, what is your conservative
Speaker 3: argument for voting for a democratic president.
Speaker 6: Oh, it's really easy. I believe in democracy. I mean
Speaker 6: democracy was I was there on January sixth. I had
Speaker 6: to live through that, standing for the constitution, standing for democracy.
Speaker 6: There is nothing more conservative than that. And Donald Trump
Speaker 6: is the exact opposite of that. So for me, Kamala
Speaker 6: Harris is going to defend that democracy. And I think
Speaker 6: every Republican that takes their views viewpoint seriously, old school Republican,
Speaker 6: not whatever this new thing is, should be voting the
Speaker 6: same way.
Speaker 3: Well, you know, thank you, Congressman. I really wish you
Speaker 3: want former Congressman. I wish you are current Congressman. I
Speaker 3: wish you could run again. Thank you so much for
Speaker 3: coming and speak to us, and thank you for trying
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Speaker 3: back to the Daily Show. My next guest tonight is
Speaker 3: an Oscar nominated actor who starts in the new film
Speaker 3: The Instigators. Please welcome hometown and to be on the show.
Speaker 3: You're the first OSCAR nominated actor I get to interview.
Speaker 1: Really, yeah, that's really shocking.
Speaker 3: It's not that it's pretty hard to get nominated. I
Speaker 3: mean you you have like a I feel like you're
Speaker 3: in a great place in culture right now because you're
Speaker 3: in all these shows that like.
Speaker 1: I wake up every morning and think I'm a great
Speaker 1: I'm in a great place in court.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think you are. You got, you got. You're
Speaker 3: in the You're nominated for your work in The Whale,
Speaker 3: you are in ASTROI City, Wes Anderson, You're in the Menu,
Speaker 3: You're in Watchmen. They're all these kind of like really oddy,
Speaker 3: like uh creekly acclaimed films and TV shows, And I
Speaker 3: mean I feel like, are you purposely going a little
Speaker 3: bit under the radar or is the system suppressing agents?
Speaker 3: Like which one is it? What is?
Speaker 1: I try not to wake up every morning thinking that
Speaker 1: the world is against me and because I'm Asian, but no,
Speaker 1: I honestly wish that I knew that I had more
Speaker 1: control over what I did. But all of the work
Speaker 1: that comes to me, it's come really organically. Every job
Speaker 1: that I've gotten has been because the director has seen
Speaker 1: me in something prior. I got Watchmen because Damon saw
Speaker 1: me and Downsizing, and you know, those two characters are
Speaker 1: very different. I was in Kinds of Kindness, which came
Speaker 1: out recently because your ghost saw me in Kelly Reichhardt's
Speaker 1: movie showing up again, two very different movies.
Speaker 3: So just by being super talented and uh yeah you
Speaker 3: just yeah cloud Through. Yeah, it's amazing. It's super cool.
Speaker 3: Because I say that just because I feel like you're
Speaker 3: non social media really or you're not you know.
Speaker 1: Who has the time? I mean a lot of people
Speaker 1: have the time.
Speaker 3: Cares nothing but time for social media. No, I agree
Speaker 3: with you. I think it's different, Like it's so nice
Speaker 3: to be able to pull yourself into your craft. I
Speaker 3: feel that's that's my impression of you. It's my first
Speaker 3: time meeting you, but just based on how you conduct yourself,
Speaker 3: you know, like the I feel like you devote someone
Speaker 3: to a craft and like the show the show business
Speaker 3: side of things. Is that a conscious decision? No?
Speaker 1: I mean I guess it's because I never grew up
Speaker 1: wanting to be an actor. I never saw myself in
Speaker 1: front of the camera. I was very introverted. I'm I'm
Speaker 1: still kind of introverted, if I'm being honest, and so
Speaker 1: I just always whenever I do my work, I just
Speaker 1: show up and I just want to be of service.
Speaker 3: You know, you're so introverted. You decided to become the
Speaker 3: greatest actor of all time for millions and millions of
Speaker 3: people in hit films and as no, I believe you.
Speaker 3: I'm not. I'm not sitting you. I'm not saying you're lie.
Speaker 3: I believe you. It's just funny that, like, how how
Speaker 3: do you you reconcile you know, being introverted, and I
Speaker 3: believe that you're genuinely like that with you know, being
Speaker 3: with Matt Damon. You know, you're messaging him, You're in
Speaker 3: his films and you're this your normal for an Oscar
Speaker 3: and all the press that goes with that, Like, how does.
Speaker 1: That well, Matt suggested me for the Instigator.
Speaker 3: On a first name basis of this, guys, inter us
Speaker 3: don't do that. Inter Us don't all my friend, Brad,
Speaker 3: I mean yeah, yeah, yeah, but yeah, like it was
Speaker 3: that thing your way of like getting out of your
Speaker 3: show or what.
Speaker 1: Made you Yeah, I am I took. I took improv
Speaker 1: classes in public speaking classes after work. After I graduated
Speaker 1: college as a full adult, I was doing this and
Speaker 1: it was just something that I did because I knew
Speaker 1: it would you know, I would be standing in my
Speaker 1: own way.
Speaker 3: Right, So you like you force yourself to kind of
Speaker 3: overcome it a bit. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I felt nauseous before every improv class, like really sick
Speaker 1: to my stomach.
Speaker 3: But obviously you something over it. I don't know how,
Speaker 3: because I wasn't you know. I'm again, I don't know
Speaker 3: you that well, so I don't know how much you're exaggerating.
Speaker 3: How introverted you know? No, it was bad.
Speaker 10: It was.
Speaker 3: It's pretty bad. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So I'm sure you could find some people that I
Speaker 1: used to work with or went to school with, and they.
Speaker 3: Would tell you like, oh, she's so quiet. Yeah, and
Speaker 3: the next thing you know, you're gegn So what is it?
Speaker 10: Like?
Speaker 3: What can you talk about process a little bit? Because
Speaker 3: I think it's very interesting, Like when you being so
Speaker 3: shy and introverted, how does that translate into into No?
Speaker 1: I think I just really love movies. I love films,
Speaker 1: I love directors, and so whenever I'm working on something,
Speaker 1: it really excites me who the director is and what
Speaker 1: the script is, and my preparation is just reading the
Speaker 1: script over and over again. That's really all it.
Speaker 3: Is, right, Yeah, Okay, Well it's easier for some people.
Speaker 3: Then all go I do is just I was a
Speaker 3: shy and I read a script in mad Dam and
Speaker 3: put me in a more and then next thing, I know,
Speaker 3: if Oscar's the season. So it's like you, it's like
Speaker 3: you tripped and fell into the best career of all time. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and it truly does like your work kind of speaks
Speaker 3: for yourself, which is really nice. You know, like you
Speaker 3: don't have to. I feel like you don't even need
Speaker 3: to promote it that much because everyone knows the face
Speaker 3: and the name and the wook.
Speaker 1: And that's good because I've been doing a lot of
Speaker 1: promoting all week and I wish I had known.
Speaker 3: I wish I had known. Can you talk talk a
Speaker 3: little bit about your background, because I just find it
Speaker 3: very interesting you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm Vietnamese and my parents left Vietnam after the
Speaker 1: war in seventy nine. They left by boat, part of
Speaker 1: the whole boat people boat Exodus, and my mom was
Speaker 1: actually six months pregnant with me and my dad got
Speaker 1: shot that night as they were leaving, and so they
Speaker 1: were on a boat for three days. My brother was five,
Speaker 1: my older brother, and somehow they landed up. They ended
Speaker 1: up at a refugee camp in Highland, and that's where
Speaker 1: I was born, and we had a sponsored family in
Speaker 1: New Orleans, Orleans. And now I'm here talking to you.
Speaker 3: That's such a good goal from Vitnamese refugees to New
Speaker 3: Orleans residents.
Speaker 1: To to Oh no, I know, I'm very scary, aren't I.
Speaker 3: And my wife's family is she's Vietnamese. Yeah, she's Vietnamese.
Speaker 3: The same thing happened to the end they escape South Vietnam.
Speaker 3: So I gone and went to Australia instead. And my
Speaker 3: wife always tries to like reconnect with the Vietnamese culture,
Speaker 3: and she bakes these cakes. And she baked this when
Speaker 3: she found out, my wife, Hannah, when she found out
Speaker 3: that you were on the show, She's like, ok can
Speaker 3: I make her a Vietnamese cake? And she made you
Speaker 3: a traditional Vietnamese bumble. Okay, yeah, look at my white
Speaker 3: hats bumbo. Okay, okay, did you try something I got
Speaker 3: to doing to earth? Okay? I hate I hate to
Speaker 3: go into the.
Speaker 1: Stereotype of this is this is one of my worst
Speaker 1: nightmares is eating on camera.
Speaker 3: It's okay, are you you got normal for an Oscar?
Speaker 3: You can? You can pretend like this.
Speaker 1: This could be like your thing, like what's the chicken
Speaker 1: wing show?
Speaker 3: The ones yours.
Speaker 1: Could be like or Hannah could do a Vietnamese Yeah,
Speaker 1: she got just featured in the New York Times.
Speaker 3: This is a New York Times bumbo? Wow, wow, can
Speaker 3: you tell her all delicious?
Speaker 1: Rocklan locklan long, come on, come.
Speaker 3: On, Okay, The Instigators well debut with select theaters August second,
Speaker 3: and then we'll be available on Apple TV plus August Knife.
Speaker 3: Everybody please go for Oscar Nomina. What about to take
Speaker 3: a quick break? Let me be right back after this.
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