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Speaker 1: see everybody. We've got a great shop for you tonight.
Speaker 1: Take a seat. Let's get into it. So many things
Speaker 1: to talk about. The planets is flooding and drying up.
Speaker 1: A mystery guest will tell us why lawn Musk was
Speaker 1: sent here from the future and from this is us
Speaker 1: here to talk about his brand new movie, Starling Cape
Speaker 1: Brown is joining us on the show. Everybody not right,
Speaker 1: So let's do this. Let's jump straight into today's headlines.
Speaker 1: All right, Before we get into the big stories, let's
Speaker 1: catch up on a few other things going on in
Speaker 1: the world. First up, Scotland has just become the first
Speaker 1: country in the world to make tampons and pads free
Speaker 1: to anyone who needs them. Yeah, that's amazing. Period products
Speaker 1: will now be given away in pharmacies and other public buildings,
Speaker 1: not to mention there are sheep everywhere in Scotland and
Speaker 1: those are pretty much just walking tampons, so this is
Speaker 1: working out. Meanwhile, America will continue its policy, which is
Speaker 1: that women are welcome to steal all the extra napkins
Speaker 1: and Starbucks that they need. Moving on to some other
Speaker 1: international news, Australia has learned that its former Prime minister
Speaker 1: had secretly appointed himself to five other government positions without
Speaker 1: telling anyone. This is such a strange story. Yeah, because
Speaker 1: because it's one of those scandals that's like, is this
Speaker 1: a scandal? Not because I'm outraged, but I'm also kind
Speaker 1: of impressed apologism chose to do extra work and not
Speaker 1: tell anyone, How dare you? And also I'm voting for
Speaker 1: you again. But for real though, that's not how government works, right.
Speaker 1: Just give yourself a job. You have to earn it
Speaker 1: by having your dad give you the job. Come on,
Speaker 1: there's politics here. In sports news. In sports news, the
Speaker 1: NBA has announced that, for the first time ever, they
Speaker 1: will not be playing any games on election day and
Speaker 1: instead will encourage their fans to go and vote. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think that's really good, I will say, or not
Speaker 1: not to sound cynical, but if the Timberwolves game is
Speaker 1: what was keeping you from voting, maybe, yeah, I think
Speaker 1: since there's no games on that night, the ESPN commentators
Speaker 1: they should cover voting like they cover the NBA. I
Speaker 1: won't just make it super interesting. Should be like Jeremy
Speaker 1: Wilkins coming up to the voting boot. Now it's his
Speaker 1: first season voting, he's really Oh no, he called it
Speaker 1: outside the bubble. That's gonna that's not gonna scare The
Speaker 1: reps are not gonna like it at all. Let's see
Speaker 1: the replay on that one. John. So, this is a
Speaker 1: big NBA. And they told all the teams, they said, hey,
Speaker 1: all the teams in the NBA, you will not be
Speaker 1: playing basketball on Election Day. And the Knicks were like, oh, no,
Speaker 1: no problem. We don't play basketball every day. That's just
Speaker 1: what we we do. Oh. He has some weird celebrity news.
Speaker 1: Snoop Dogg is launching a breakfast cereal for kids called
Speaker 1: Snoop Loops. Yeah, and you know the cereal is gonna
Speaker 1: be delicious, because no one knows good serial like someone
Speaker 1: who's permanently high. No one. Also, it's about time we
Speaker 1: got a chill cereal mascot, you know, I like this.
Speaker 1: Every every cereal mascot is high energy. They're like coked out.
Speaker 1: Now we have one who does not give a damn
Speaker 1: whether or not we eat his cereal. You know, it's
Speaker 1: just like try it today or don't. I get paid
Speaker 1: either way. Bag. By the way, do you ever do
Speaker 1: you ever think about how Snoop has had one of
Speaker 1: the most amazing careers of all time, Like this is fantastic,
Speaker 1: but you have to admit he's really screwed over all
Speaker 1: the people who started loving him for his rap. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm glad he's had such a broad career, but you
Speaker 1: realize they are now parents who are telling their kids
Speaker 1: are like my favorite gangster rappers, Snoop Dogg, and their
Speaker 1: kids are like the serial guy Martha Stewart's friend I
Speaker 1: loved you were cool dad. Anyway, let's move on to
Speaker 1: the big story of the day, and it's about climate change.
Speaker 1: The reason why hot in here is now considered a
Speaker 1: scientific study. Yes, all over the world governments are steadily
Speaker 1: taking action to reduce their combon emissions. In fact, just
Speaker 1: today President Biden signed the biggest climate change law in
Speaker 1: American history. It's it's that's everything. It it subsidizes electric cause,
Speaker 1: it funds wind and solar energy, and it changes the
Speaker 1: name of summer to extra spring. Hopefully Mother Nature falls
Speaker 1: for that one. And the reason leaders worldwide have taken
Speaker 1: these steps is because every day we're seeing what the
Speaker 1: world could look like if climate change gets out of hand.
Speaker 1: I mean, just look at what's happening in Vegas. You know,
Speaker 1: Las Vegas, the city surrounded by deserts that are filled
Speaker 1: with buried mobsters, that place, well some of those bodies, Oh,
Speaker 1: they're about to come floating back to life. Las Vegas
Speaker 1: is getting pounded with historic flooding in the wettest monsoon
Speaker 1: season they've seen in a decade. It's hard to tell
Speaker 1: this is the famous Las Vegas Strip, but that's Caesar's
Speaker 1: Palace right there, and that is the mirage. It's raining
Speaker 1: inside Planet Hollywood, pouring through the casino like fixtures holds
Speaker 1: the right underneath the high roller ferris wheel. The Las
Speaker 1: Vegas Strip has been swept by flash flooding. This rain
Speaker 1: coming down so fast, so heavy. This is video from
Speaker 1: Las Vegas in a parking garage. It's a downpour right
Speaker 1: onto the gambling tables. You can see that car struggling
Speaker 1: to get through the water on a street. Yes, that
Speaker 1: is a man floating down the Vegas Strip because of
Speaker 1: the flesh flood waters. That guy's allegend. He's just like, yeah,
Speaker 1: so you see that Las Vegas, of all places, is
Speaker 1: getting flooded. And you know who I blame for this?
Speaker 1: All the bachelor party is going to those strip clubs
Speaker 1: being like making rain. Look at what you did. I
Speaker 1: hope you're happy and rain rain too much. And if
Speaker 1: there's one thing we can all agree on, people, it's
Speaker 1: that we don't want casinos to flood alright, because can
Speaker 1: you imagine how hard it's going to be to evacuate
Speaker 1: those gamblers. The water level is rising. Yes, we're gonna
Speaker 1: be drowned any minute, which is just enough time for
Speaker 1: a couple more rooms. Come on, baby, come on, Daddy
Speaker 1: could use someone floaties. Come on. So, yes, Las Vegas
Speaker 1: has been wetter than a butt crack at soul cycle.
Speaker 1: But it's not just Vegas. We've seen historic floods recently
Speaker 1: in St. Louis and Yellowstone in Kentucky. And this is
Speaker 1: the thing to remember about climate change. It's not just
Speaker 1: gonna make everything a little bit hotter. All right, It's
Speaker 1: gonna make all weather more extreme. The hot will get hotter,
Speaker 1: the wet will get wetter, the wind will get window
Speaker 1: the wet will like swap places with the dry. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and then you you're gonna think that you're talking too hot.
Speaker 1: But then the heart will pull up its moss, gonna
Speaker 1: be like, I'm cold, and you'd be like, but we
Speaker 1: slept together. It's basically science. Are you're wondering, You're like,
Speaker 1: it's a bit of flooding. Is it that bad? Well?
Speaker 1: Over in California, things could get even worse than you think.
Speaker 1: Now to the new warning on climate change, experts say
Speaker 1: it's only a matter of time before a megaflood hits California,
Speaker 1: displacing millions of people. A new study shows that climate
Speaker 1: change is increasing the likelihood of a cataclysmic flood hitting
Speaker 1: in the next fifty years. The flood could turn California's
Speaker 1: lowlands into an inland sea, putting parts of cities such
Speaker 1: as Sacramento, Fresno, and Los Angeles underwater. It happened Sacramento
Speaker 1: in eighteen sixty one. This is incredible and I really
Speaker 1: didn't know much about this. Only five hundred thousand people
Speaker 1: lived in the Central Valley. Today it's thirty seven million
Speaker 1: thirty feet of water in all of Central Valley for weeks,
Speaker 1: arranged for forty three days, the equivalent of a trillion
Speaker 1: dollars in today's damage. They say the next one would
Speaker 1: probably be like a katrine at times five. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: Katrina times five. I was like, you carry the k that.
Speaker 1: The point is, it's bad and we can't lose Los Angeles.
Speaker 1: And that's where America keeps all of his hot people.
Speaker 1: You know, also no offense. But if I'm caught in
Speaker 1: a mega flood the last place and lost people I
Speaker 1: want to be around. There is a bunch of l
Speaker 1: A actors. Can you imagine them? It's gonna be like,
Speaker 1: the flood is wiping away Los Angeles. Okay, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: try it again, but a little more introspective. The flood
Speaker 1: is wiping away Los Angeles, and I never knew my father. Now,
Speaker 1: if you're thinking, who cares if America's underwater, I'll just
Speaker 1: escape to Europe, well be my guest, because you're gonna
Speaker 1: miss the wet when you get there. In the midst
Speaker 1: of a historic drought, Europes rivers are running dry in Germany,
Speaker 1: the Rhinos dropped so low some cargo ships can no
Speaker 1: longer use it, with devastating effects for Germany's economy. In France,
Speaker 1: some parts of the Lower can now be crossed on foot,
Speaker 1: and then the Czech Republic, low water levels have revealed
Speaker 1: so called hunger stones, rocks carved centuries ago to get
Speaker 1: future generations a warning of impending famine. One such stone
Speaker 1: carried a chilling message from the early sixteen hundreds. If
Speaker 1: you can see me weep? Yeah, yeah, you hear that
Speaker 1: right now. Europe's drought is so bad that you can
Speaker 1: walk across some rivers, which isn't just bad for the
Speaker 1: economy and the environment, it also puts people like Moses
Speaker 1: out of a job. Yeah, Like, I know, I won't
Speaker 1: part the waters that ye man? Yeah whatever man, climate
Speaker 1: change did this wise, and I get out of the way.
Speaker 1: I also don't know about you, but that hunger ston't
Speaker 1: shrieked me out. If you see me weep, that's dramatic.
Speaker 1: I didn't even know they had emo in the sixteen hundreds.
Speaker 1: At the same time, though, you you've got to wonder
Speaker 1: about the person who decided to make these stones. No,
Speaker 1: because think about the whole poppy nation was stopping. Right.
Speaker 1: You've got one guys like I'll venture out to find
Speaker 1: more food, and other guys like I will russian our
Speaker 1: current stars. And there's one dude who's like, give me
Speaker 1: a hammer and a chisel. I'm gonna write a warning
Speaker 1: to people five years from now. Yeah, there's gonna be
Speaker 1: a good one. When they see when the water goes down,
Speaker 1: they're gonna freak out. Hold on, hold on. And by
Speaker 1: the way, not all of those hunger stones of that
Speaker 1: poetic Yeah, that one's really like cryptic has a vibe.
Speaker 1: Some of those hung hunger stones they just tell you direct, Oh, ship,
Speaker 1: you got the screw you see my face. That means
Speaker 1: you're gonna die. Talk, get your offens and know everybody
Speaker 1: you're gonna die, and you're gonna die, and you're gonna die.
Speaker 1: Oh you would already looked dead, brother, you already ha ha.
Speaker 1: By the way, if somebody sees Stonehead, you tell him
Speaker 1: he's ship. That dude. Don't be twenty bucks bullshit stone
Speaker 1: a y'all. Dad, All right, that's what the headlines. Before
Speaker 1: we go to break, it's time to check in on
Speaker 1: the weather. Fought about very own fantilic everybody. Yeah, very
Speaker 1: scarychised soul. What's the weather looking like, Trevor. I do
Speaker 1: not have time to do the weather today. My plate
Speaker 1: is full. I got like a million other things to do.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, what wait? Why are you so busy? Well? Look,
Speaker 1: I really admired what that Australian prime minister did, so
Speaker 1: I decided to give myself several other jobs here at
Speaker 1: the show. Okay, but you don't even do the one
Speaker 1: job I ask you to do, which is the weather. Thanks,
Speaker 1: But I can assure you that all of these other
Speaker 1: jobs are extremely important. Like I'm the new unlicensed therapist,
Speaker 1: I'm the screen time monitor. I'm the dry cleaner. By
Speaker 1: the way, how's that suit feeling? I made it extra dry?
Speaker 1: Is that what that smell is? Wait? Are you on
Speaker 1: your mark here? Look at me? Okay? Looking care camera?
Speaker 1: All right? The shot is all wrong. As the camera supervisor,
Speaker 1: I have a very high standard. I'm gonna have to
Speaker 1: fix Cara. I got this, I got this, I got it.
Speaker 1: What you doing? That's defer? DESI? What are you doing?
Speaker 1: Are DESI? Okay? Now this is good. Trevor. Can you
Speaker 1: just pop up into the shot. No, I'm not. That's
Speaker 1: where I'm down. Yeah, no, just pop up into I
Speaker 1: can't What do you mean, what do you mean I
Speaker 1: can't if I pop up? No, this is what you
Speaker 1: must come down. You have to. Yeah, yeah, I got it. No, no, Desi, Desi, no, no,
Speaker 1: sorry I lost you, Trevor. Yeah, I could see that.
Speaker 1: Just this was fun before you Okay, there you go.
Speaker 1: Can you just say crunched out? Okay, No, don't go.
Speaker 1: That's a little further, Desme. Just can you just find
Speaker 1: the frame? I can't do your job too. No, don't.
Speaker 1: You don't have to find my job, dest Just can
Speaker 1: you leave it the camera? You know, the camera person
Speaker 1: was doing a great job. And then now, Desi, that's
Speaker 1: the shot. There it is. That's good enough, Desi. But Trevor, no,
Speaker 1: come on, you didn't even let me tell you about
Speaker 1: my favorite job. I got a whole other job that
Speaker 1: I didn't even get to tell you about. What is that? Well?
Speaker 1: I was also inspired by Scotland, so I appointed myself
Speaker 1: as the show's Czar of menstrual hygiene. What does that
Speaker 1: even mean? It means read damon for everyone audience, and
Speaker 1: oh yeah, he's a people in the face with guy
Speaker 1: there gently use light new almost like new. What did
Speaker 1: you say gently? Usually don't worry about it. You can't
Speaker 1: just launched temple. You don't, des Ca you call you can't. Also,
Speaker 1: I'm Trevor noa now, so can you do? You can't
Speaker 1: beat no, no, no Deslon like everybody like, alright, when
Speaker 1: we come back, we're gonna figure out. We're gonna figure
Speaker 1: it out. We're gonna figure became became the way that
Speaker 1: welcome back to the day to show. Let's talk about
Speaker 1: Elon Musk. You know, it feels like every day the
Speaker 1: richest man in the world isn't the news for something.
Speaker 1: He's buying Twitter. He's not buying Twitter. He's colonizing Mars,
Speaker 1: he's reinventing travel, and he's on a strict no Sun diets.
Speaker 1: The point is he's always doing something. But how did
Speaker 1: Elon Musk get this way? Well that's the subject of
Speaker 1: our latest daily show ography. What do you think of
Speaker 1: when you think of the future? Is it space travel, robots,
Speaker 1: trucks with the word cyber and friend of them? Whatever
Speaker 1: your vision, there is one man working to make it
Speaker 1: a reality. He's part Thomas Edison, part tireman, part annoying
Speaker 1: dude in the group chat and is anything but your
Speaker 1: standard CEO. I changed my title to too techno king um.
Speaker 1: And by the way, this is a formal SEC filing.
Speaker 1: It's I'm legally or whatever techno king um. I just
Speaker 1: did that as kind of like a joke. Yes, he's
Speaker 1: a techno king, but as a joke, and soon we'll
Speaker 1: all be it served that, you know. Funny way, because
Speaker 1: while he may be an eccentric satellite launching terminally on
Speaker 1: line billionaire who wants to plug people into computers and
Speaker 1: build a best network of underground tunnels, it's not like
Speaker 1: he's some kindness super villain. Eventually you can transforms into
Speaker 1: an earthlike planet, dropped them nuclear weapons over the polls. Well,
Speaker 1: maybe a little so strappy. Turn on the autopilot, but
Speaker 1: keep your hands on the steering wheel in case of pedestrians.
Speaker 1: Because this is the daily shiography of Elon Musk, visionary
Speaker 1: future man. Elon Musk was born in Pretoria, South Africa,
Speaker 1: in earlier nineteen seventy one. His father made a fortune
Speaker 1: in construction and emerald mining. Because Africa's resources are like
Speaker 1: free money for white people. Badly ability in school, Elon
Speaker 1: overcame many hardships, although unlike other South African celebrities, he
Speaker 1: didn't make his childhood into a whole thing. By age ten,
Speaker 1: he was learning to program computer. At twelve, he built
Speaker 1: a video game he called blast Arm, which started his
Speaker 1: lifelong love of inventing thing that already exist. Soon after,
Speaker 1: he left South Africa and made his way to a
Speaker 1: booming Silicon valley, where he launched his first company, Zip two,
Speaker 1: which he eventually sold a compact computer for three d
Speaker 1: five million dollars. Like so many tech entrepreneurs, he earned
Speaker 1: his unimaginable wealth by doing something invaluable for society. Selling
Speaker 1: a startup you've never heard of to a company that
Speaker 1: doesn't exist anymore. Must celebrated by buying himself a million
Speaker 1: dollars supercar. There are sixty two of the currents in
Speaker 1: the world, and I will earn one of them. Yes,
Speaker 1: Musk was so rich he could afford to have a
Speaker 1: midlife crisis while he was still in his twinies. Sadly,
Speaker 1: his new toy wouldn't last long. I didn't really know
Speaker 1: how to drive for McLaren because it's like a difficult
Speaker 1: cart a dryer, and I floored it and the lane
Speaker 1: change on the black wheel Brooks and the costs fund
Speaker 1: around and uh, and then we hit the embankment and
Speaker 1: knocked the car into the air, which continued spinning like
Speaker 1: a discus like three ft in the air. That's right, Musks.
Speaker 1: McLaren crashed worse than dotch Coin. After Saturday Night Live.
Speaker 1: For his next act, Must created x dot com, which
Speaker 1: would later become PayPal, the app your uncle had to
Speaker 1: use because Benmo and cash app won't work on as Nokia.
Speaker 1: Must took the money you made from that business and
Speaker 1: build an empire of cool lash ship rockets, its electric cars,
Speaker 1: solar farms, artificial intelligence, europe technology, and underground highways, all
Speaker 1: while dating celebrities and starting a record label to release
Speaker 1: his own b d M track down a Banker, All
Speaker 1: the more impressive considering Must had clearly never heard music before. Yes,
Speaker 1: Elon Musk refuses to stainless Lane, much like a Tesla
Speaker 1: on autopilots downward is changing lands by itself. Tesla's groundbreaking
Speaker 1: cars Looting for Me brought unprecedented power range from sexiness
Speaker 1: to electric vehicles, a market previously reserved for nerds who
Speaker 1: cared about the environment, and Must even promise the dream
Speaker 1: of full self driving technology and feed nothing like promised repeatedly.
Speaker 1: I'm confident that in less than a year, uh, you'll
Speaker 1: be able to go from highway on ramp to highway
Speaker 1: exit without touching any control. Sh It, it just ran
Speaker 1: that red light over. In three years, um, the call
Speaker 1: will be able to take from point to points. Jesus,
Speaker 1: I think we're basically less than two years away from
Speaker 1: complete autonomy. Oh shit. We we had that across country
Speaker 1: from l A to New York by the end of
Speaker 1: the year, fully autonomous. Extremely confident of achieving full autonomy
Speaker 1: uh and and releasing it to the Teslent customer base
Speaker 1: next year. But Must can't stop drinking big even when
Speaker 1: he probably should. Oh my god, like when SpaceX made
Speaker 1: history with the world's first reusable rocket technology and then
Speaker 1: use it to launch the first car in the space
Speaker 1: technically the second if you count the Elon Lusk's McLaren.
Speaker 1: Must special brand of achievement is one of a totally
Speaker 1: normal and healthy fan base around the world. But success
Speaker 1: didn't come easy. He had to overcome a lot of doubters,
Speaker 1: starting with himself. I don't want to give the impression
Speaker 1: that I thought ts there would be successful. From the beginning,
Speaker 1: I actually thought we would fail. We were only a
Speaker 1: few days from bankruptcy. It's literally two days. It pushed
Speaker 1: him to the brink. Musk could have gone from being
Speaker 1: a multi billionaire all the way down to the very
Speaker 1: lowest rung of society millionaire. But through the years must
Speaker 1: kept as many ventures going with a little more than
Speaker 1: his can do attitude and billions of dollars in government subsidies.
Speaker 1: Today Musk isn't merely the richest man in the world.
Speaker 1: Is net worth is higher than the GDP of most countries.
Speaker 1: Should must be a country does have a national anthem down,
Speaker 1: But don't worry. It's not like he's got an army
Speaker 1: or any thing. I went to Russia to look at
Speaker 1: buying a reposed i CVN, which is a very trip
Speaker 1: the experience. Okay, maybe we're a little and he's not
Speaker 1: just great at making them, he's also an expertence saving
Speaker 1: it by paying almost nothing in taxes for three years
Speaker 1: and then actually nothing in Of course, there's always haters
Speaker 1: like to nitpick musk business methods. There are charges of
Speaker 1: unreported injuries, excessive hours, abusive conditions, injuries on the job,
Speaker 1: breathing toxic fumes over a hundred ambulance calls. I don't
Speaker 1: think that's correct. I mean it's literally living in the factory.
Speaker 1: Um if these, if those like toxic fumes, I'm breathing
Speaker 1: them exactly? Does Musk seem like a man who is
Speaker 1: inhaling toxic fumes? But Elon Musk also understands it all
Speaker 1: working no play make X as a twelve a dull boy,
Speaker 1: and like any well adgen the person, his favorite pastime
Speaker 1: is spending twelve to fourteen hours a day on Twitter.
Speaker 1: So it made sense when Musk announced that he would
Speaker 1: buy the social media platform, and even more sense when
Speaker 1: the deal spun out of control and crashed into an
Speaker 1: em back. But Musk doesn't only use Twitter for funny
Speaker 1: uses to make the world a better place, or at
Speaker 1: least promised to. It's where he promised to solve world
Speaker 1: hunger and draftic, fight COVID and fixed Flint's water, and
Speaker 1: when a Thai soccer team was stuck in a cane,
Speaker 1: Elon even promised to rescue those kids from the guy
Speaker 1: who rescued. That's why Musk is such a champion of
Speaker 1: free speech. If you can't randomly accuse someone who was
Speaker 1: saving people's lives of being a petal guy. Does civil
Speaker 1: discourse even exists? The Elon Musk is dedicated to building
Speaker 1: a brighter future for old humanity. It's why he backed
Speaker 1: the most futuristic presidential candidate of It's why he's so
Speaker 1: dedicated to turning every aspect of our lives into a
Speaker 1: platform for his dumb jokes for robots to cybernetic implants,
Speaker 1: to AI into space travel two unfettered social media. Elon
Speaker 1: Musk is building a future that humanity only imagined in
Speaker 1: the movies. And who wouldn't want to live there? You? Basically,
Speaker 1: I think about to hate humanity if you don't like
Speaker 1: that future. And that's why Elon Musk fruly is a
Speaker 1: visionary future man runs. Because when we come back, sterling K.
Speaker 1: Brown will be joining me on the show Don't Go Away,
Speaker 1: Welcome Back to the Days. So my guests Mike as
Speaker 1: Emmy winning actor and producer Sterling K. Brown. He's gonna
Speaker 1: talk about playing a megachurch pasta in his new film
Speaker 1: Honk for Jesus, Save Your Soul, which will be in
Speaker 1: fancies and streaming on Peacock September two. Please welcome Starling
Speaker 1: K Brown, Miss Dublin k Bride, what's going on? Brother on,
Speaker 1: what's going on? Wow? Man, it's nice to see you.
Speaker 1: Look you look like you're living your best life. I
Speaker 1: appreciate it. Feel good. I'm trying to grow my hair
Speaker 1: out like you see it. It's looking looking like the
Speaker 1: Black Bonds. Man. Let's let's talk a little bit about
Speaker 1: about the movie. Let's do it. Um. A lot of
Speaker 1: people know you from This is Us first of all
Speaker 1: before we got into the movie. Congratulations, congratulations on wrapping
Speaker 1: it up and stuff. Because a lot of people were
Speaker 1: sad that the show ended, but they appreciate it that
Speaker 1: it ended well because there's a lot of pressure. You know,
Speaker 1: people watch Game of Thrones and like what the hell happened?
Speaker 1: People watch, like, know it can happen, can happen? Happen? Anybody?
Speaker 1: You little worry? Did you know it end well? I
Speaker 1: knew it was gonna end because he had a plan
Speaker 1: to end it in six seasons all along from the beginning,
Speaker 1: like the story was complete. He knew where Rebecca was
Speaker 1: going to be at the hand, like you knew, like
Speaker 1: there's this whole timeline that he had from the beginning
Speaker 1: of season one of how things were going to play out.
Speaker 1: So there was a beginning, middle, and the end that
Speaker 1: made me feel secure as an actor. Okay, okay, I
Speaker 1: like that. And then and then you decided I've done this.
Speaker 1: I've cried a lot. I've cried a lot. You have
Speaker 1: a lot of visine up in the your Boy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's a viazine. I feel like
Speaker 1: you can do it. I can do it. No, but
Speaker 1: I'm saying to get my eyes back clear, get them back.
Speaker 1: I was like, I just wanted doing people to think
Speaker 1: that you like faking it. Yeah, it's really um. And
Speaker 1: then and then this movie, I was like, Wow, starting
Speaker 1: doing doing comedy now, Okay, no, it's amazing. It's amazing.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you why it's amazing. I'll tell you what amazing.
Speaker 1: Tell you I've been lucky enough to meet you in
Speaker 1: real life, and you're one of the funniest, most charismatic
Speaker 1: people I know. But everyone on TV knows you. You
Speaker 1: you you know, you stoic and you know, and then
Speaker 1: here you are playing a pasta in I mean, the
Speaker 1: movie is ridiculous. It's extremely funny. Tell me, tell me
Speaker 1: how the project came about when someone who came up
Speaker 1: to you and said, you know what's starting. I want
Speaker 1: you to play a pasta of a megachurch that's involved
Speaker 1: in the scandal and it's trying to bring it all back. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So my manager read it first and then she said,
Speaker 1: you should check it out. I think it's something you'd
Speaker 1: like because I also sole variety and doing something completely
Speaker 1: different than randall right. They did a short you can
Speaker 1: find a short Hunk for Jesus short on YouTube. So
Speaker 1: I watched the short and I was like, this ship
Speaker 1: is hysterical. I would like to do something hysterical. So
Speaker 1: then I read the script and it's funny, and it's
Speaker 1: also deeper than just being funny too, because it's like
Speaker 1: a critique of the church for people who actually love
Speaker 1: and grew up in these mega churches, which I did,
Speaker 1: but also say there's something that can be improved quite
Speaker 1: possibly definitely, and something's something I always talk about. Anyone
Speaker 1: who's grown up in the church knows this. They're there
Speaker 1: are many aspects of religion that have been abused by
Speaker 1: certain people for their own games, you know, So my
Speaker 1: mom would complain about My mom is one of the
Speaker 1: most religious people I've ever known in my life. I
Speaker 1: would go to church six or seven times in a
Speaker 1: weekend and my mom would say, we're not going back
Speaker 1: to that church. And I'll say why, and she'd be like, why?
Speaker 1: Why does that pass to have a Ferrari? Now, what's
Speaker 1: going on? Where's the ferrari coming from? He doesn't have
Speaker 1: another job, so where's the ferrari coming from? I don't
Speaker 1: see anything in the Bible about ferrari's, do you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying? And and and so what's what's interesting
Speaker 1: in this is you're not poking funded religion. You're talking
Speaker 1: about people who use people's love of religion to make
Speaker 1: a buck. That's right. I feel like all human institutions
Speaker 1: are valuable, whether they're secular or non secular. You know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. There's messages that can be gleaned from
Speaker 1: them that are important. You take the good, you leave
Speaker 1: the rest. Like you can't find a perfect church, you
Speaker 1: can't find a perfect government, you know. So that's the
Speaker 1: way I do. And so my band is more spiritual
Speaker 1: than religious at this particular time, because I just pick
Speaker 1: and tooth. My mom praised for my immortal soul because
Speaker 1: she thinks I'm going, are we cool? That's chick because
Speaker 1: she loved me. It's a it's a it's a power
Speaker 1: it's a power house team. You know, you're playing the pasta.
Speaker 1: You've got Regina Hole who's playing you know, the first
Speaker 1: Lady of the church. She is one of the funniest
Speaker 1: human beings have exist, really is. And then it's produced.
Speaker 1: I didn't know this, and so it's produced by Daniel
Speaker 1: Coloya and Jordan's him power house. We got a good thing.
Speaker 1: We got a good tinge. It feels good. So so
Speaker 1: talk me through this because in the click that we're
Speaker 1: watching that you know you're seeing it, it looks a
Speaker 1: little bit like a documentary, but the film is is
Speaker 1: mockumentary style. It's mocumentary style. What happens is the scandal
Speaker 1: happens before the movie starts, and we're trying to figure
Speaker 1: out what the scandal is. The pastor and the First
Speaker 1: Lady decided to decide to hire a documentary film crew
Speaker 1: to sort of chart their sentence back to prominence, or
Speaker 1: so they hope, because the documentary film because was like,
Speaker 1: all right, I want to see what's going on with
Speaker 1: these people and what makes them tick, whether they get
Speaker 1: back to their church or not. Maybe secondary. So what
Speaker 1: he hopes that the use the documentary for it. How
Speaker 1: many takes did you did you have to redo because
Speaker 1: you were laughing at what Regina was saying. I'm pretty
Speaker 1: good at not breaking. Really, yeah, I'm pretty good at
Speaker 1: not breaking. I don't know what it is because, like
Speaker 1: I feel like when an actor is being funny, I
Speaker 1: don't want to ruin their take. You understand what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: So if I break, it's like Nigro, I gotta do
Speaker 1: this over again. Right. But if you stay in it
Speaker 1: and just keep the vibe going and feed the more,
Speaker 1: you never know what kind of like oxygen their fire
Speaker 1: needs to like burn even hotter. So that's that's all
Speaker 1: you're trying to do, is just feed the fire. Okay, okay, So,
Speaker 1: so do you feel like loud? Do you feel like
Speaker 1: you have a little bit of like this pasta and
Speaker 1: you do like, did you pick up some of that
Speaker 1: that that mega church swag? I would say so a
Speaker 1: little bit. He likes his clothes. I'm starting to like
Speaker 1: clothes more. Yeah, yeah, I did. You're funny story. My
Speaker 1: son growing up in the nineties, I used to sack
Speaker 1: a lot like size stirs these six, you know shorts,
Speaker 1: even though my waist is like a thirty two. My
Speaker 1: son now when he sees me sagging, he's like, Dad,
Speaker 1: people can see your under. My son's eleven, people can
Speaker 1: see your under and literally comes up to me, pulls
Speaker 1: my pants out and holds them up at their waist.
Speaker 1: That's crazy. It's a generational it's a generational ship. So
Speaker 1: now you know, people try to put your boy in
Speaker 1: like type fit, Like this stuff is type right. Um,
Speaker 1: but I'm starting to get used to close it fit.
Speaker 1: I came home one day after o J and I
Speaker 1: had like some new clothes and my mama said, well,
Speaker 1: you're finally wearing clothes that fits your body. I'm selling that.
Speaker 1: You also have one of the strongest topless games. You
Speaker 1: take your shirt off in this movie. No, no, no,
Speaker 1: this is like one of those things where you just
Speaker 1: have to give the credit. You take your top off
Speaker 1: in this movie, and you are one of the most ripped,
Speaker 1: not just pastas but human beings. I was like, wow, Sterling,
Speaker 1: you've been you've been, You've been holding out on us.
Speaker 1: You looking good. I appreciate it. Man. I try to
Speaker 1: take care of myself That's that's it. You know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. I got an eleven year old and a
Speaker 1: seven year old, and my get My whole plan in
Speaker 1: life is to be able to play with them as
Speaker 1: long as I can. I waited a little longer to
Speaker 1: have these kids. I'm enjoying them so much. They have energy,
Speaker 1: so you have to have energy to keep up. That's
Speaker 1: that's the whole game. Play the man, this gut over here.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much for joining me on the show again.
Speaker 1: It great to see you. Such a parting movie. You
Speaker 1: can't tell everybody man try to copt the film over
Speaker 1: right back, don't go away? Thank you? So I how
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