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Speaker 1: mid terms are getting people high. Sean Penn just won
Speaker 1: the war in Ukraine and thanks to Elon Musk, now
Speaker 1: you can be Elon Musk. Plus the one and only
Speaker 1: Jordan pill is joining us on the show. Star. Let's
Speaker 1: let's und straight into today's headlines. All right, people, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna be honest with all the news happening right now.
Speaker 1: I don't think we have enough space in today's show.
Speaker 1: And I tried. I tried everything, I promise you. I
Speaker 1: even put the news in the laundry hoping it would shrink,
Speaker 1: but then it just came out cleaner and smelling like lavender.
Speaker 1: And we still don't have enough time for it all. Fortunately,
Speaker 1: not enough time. It's just enough time for a segment
Speaker 1: week hall Ain't nobody got time for that? Alright, Let's
Speaker 1: kick things off with the mid term elections. A night's
Speaker 1: so disappointing for Republicans. Mitch McConnell is flying his jawls
Speaker 1: at half masks. As of right now, there are several
Speaker 1: big races that are still too close to call. For instance,
Speaker 1: will Republican Adam laxalt to hold onto his lead in
Speaker 1: the Nevada Senate race. Will Lauren Bobert's sleep squeak one
Speaker 1: out in Colorado? Will election deny a carry Lake accept
Speaker 1: the results if she loses the Arizona governor's race, or
Speaker 1: will she try to hang whoever? Arizona's Mike Pant says,
Speaker 1: nobody knows. And one reason it's so hard to predict
Speaker 1: the results is that Americans cost ballots in so many
Speaker 1: different ways, and they all come in differently and separately,
Speaker 1: all right. And Democrats tend to vote early by mail
Speaker 1: or drop box, Republicans show up on election day or
Speaker 1: use military ballots, and herschel Walker votes the way he
Speaker 1: fathers his children. Absentee. But there is one unfinished race
Speaker 1: that's not all that close and it's a real trip.
Speaker 1: We're still watching Proposition one two, which appears likely to pass,
Speaker 1: and if it does, Colorado would essentially legalize psychedelic mushrooms.
Speaker 1: Passing the proposition with decremine allized personal possession right away,
Speaker 1: and then it would allow license medical facilities to administer
Speaker 1: the natural medicine starting in Yeah, that's right. After being
Speaker 1: one of the first states to legalize marijuana, Colorado is
Speaker 1: not one of the first states to legalize mushrooms. And
Speaker 1: I think it's great. I think it is, Yeah, because
Speaker 1: of creating like a instead of creating a drug underworld,
Speaker 1: Colorado is bringing everything else and to the open. You know,
Speaker 1: you can legalize that, you can regulate it. It's like
Speaker 1: those parents who give their kids wine with dinner. You know,
Speaker 1: it's like, yeah, I'd rather they be drunk in front
Speaker 1: of me because it's safer. And also it's funny to
Speaker 1: watch them bumping into things. Girl, look at you, Tyler,
Speaker 1: And I know right now, I know, right now, there's
Speaker 1: some people seeing this low going into effect in that
Speaker 1: panic and they're like, shrooms, who are gonna be legal what?
Speaker 1: And I'm like but hey, hey, just relax, relax, breathe,
Speaker 1: You're gonna be just fine. Just drink more water and
Speaker 1: listen to some enya. Okay and yeah and yeah and yeah.
Speaker 1: It's a weird name. I'm freaking out again. But personally,
Speaker 1: I'm all for drug laws getting less restrictive, and if
Speaker 1: they do officially legalized rooms, I'm also excited for their
Speaker 1: next ballot measure. Why are my hands so big? Now?
Speaker 1: If we had more time, we could talk about whether
Speaker 1: the acceptance of recreational drug use can lead to increased
Speaker 1: understanding of the therapeutic value of psychedelics. Oh, how weird
Speaker 1: it is that drugs are like the one illegal thing
Speaker 1: we get to vote on to make legal, you know, Like,
Speaker 1: why don't we legalize jaywalking or even better, jay driving?
Speaker 1: Why do the pedestrians have the sidewalks after themselves? But
Speaker 1: we don't have the time for any of that, because
Speaker 1: while the US is abandoning the war on drugs, Ukraine
Speaker 1: is still fighting its war with Russia, and its leader
Speaker 1: just got some really strange military assistance. The actors on
Speaker 1: pen most often doing the unpredictable. He did it again,
Speaker 1: this time loaning his oscar to the President of Ukraine,
Speaker 1: but it comes with a condition. Video posted online shows
Speaker 1: Pen handing the oscar to Ukraine in President Zelinsky. He
Speaker 1: said Zelenski can keep it until Ukraine wins the war
Speaker 1: against Russia. Penn has visited Ukraine several times since the
Speaker 1: fighting began last February. If I know this is here
Speaker 1: with you, then I'll then I'll feel better and strong
Speaker 1: enough for the fight when you when you win, bring
Speaker 1: it back to m Alba. Okay, I don't even know
Speaker 1: how to process this information, and am my own mushrooms?
Speaker 1: Is is it happening already? Like like already? I don't
Speaker 1: get it. How does the oscar help Zelensky fight the wall?
Speaker 1: It's supposed to use it as a weapon. I mean,
Speaker 1: if that's the case, at least give him too so
Speaker 1: he can use them like nunchucks, like on a chain,
Speaker 1: you know. And it would be strange enough if he
Speaker 1: just gave him an oscar to help win the war.
Speaker 1: But he wants Zelensky to return it. That was the
Speaker 1: weird part for me. He's like, make sure you bring
Speaker 1: this back to me. That's a lot of responsibility. The
Speaker 1: man is already running a war against Russia. Now he's
Speaker 1: gonna make sure that nothing happens to Sean Penn's oscar.
Speaker 1: It's like air raid sirens are going off there, like quickly, sir, quickly,
Speaker 1: everyone get to the bunker. He's like coming. I just
Speaker 1: need to find Sean penn'scar. Can you it back? Can
Speaker 1: needs it back? The only way I think this could
Speaker 1: work as if Zelensky gave the oscar to Putin and
Speaker 1: then while Putin gave the acceptance speech, the music just
Speaker 1: played him off and then he had to leave you crazy.
Speaker 1: But wait, I wasn't finished. Okay, good night, goodbye everybody.
Speaker 1: I actually hope that Zelenski is a fan of Sean
Speaker 1: Penn's movies, because because we don't know what else happened there,
Speaker 1: you might have gotten really awkward. You know. Sean Penn
Speaker 1: is like here, I want you to have my best actor.
Speaker 1: Oscar for Milk, Yes, Yes, one of my favorite film
Speaker 1: my I remember watching it and thinking, well that this
Speaker 1: lot of milk more where you come drink all the milk.
Speaker 1: Powerful story. Now, if we had more time, we could
Speaker 1: talk about the other major development in the war, which
Speaker 1: is that Russia was just forced into another embarrassing retreat
Speaker 1: from a major Ukrainian city, probably because they heard Ukraine
Speaker 1: has Sean Penn's Oscar now. But we don't have the
Speaker 1: time for that, because right now, the one thing being
Speaker 1: mismanaged worse than Putin's war is Elon Musk's websites. On
Speaker 1: Twitter has officially debuted it's verified blue check marks in
Speaker 1: the future, is already causing a lot of confusion. Subscribers
Speaker 1: who pay the eight dollar monthly fear now entitled to
Speaker 1: some additional perks, namely the blue check mark previously reserved
Speaker 1: for verified accounts. The problem is some of those users
Speaker 1: are using their newly acquired verification to impersonate celebrities and
Speaker 1: other public figures. Someone pretending to beat Lebron James tweeted,
Speaker 1: I am officially requesting a trade from the Lakers. An
Speaker 1: account that appeared to be from the pharmaceutical company Eli
Speaker 1: Lily announced that all Inland would now be free. Meanwhile,
Speaker 1: a user impersonating George W. Bush declared I miss killing Iraqis,
Speaker 1: and a fake account for Nintendo simply tweeted a picture
Speaker 1: of Mario giving the finger. Oh no, because anyone can
Speaker 1: buy verification, they're now impersonating famous people who could have
Speaker 1: seen this coming what everyone? Wow, where were you guys?
Speaker 1: Forty four billion dollars ago? Look, I'm gonna be honest
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna be blunt. Here. Elon Musk is running
Speaker 1: Twitter into the ground, and it's the best Twitter's ever been?
Speaker 1: Are you kidding me? Fake Lebron leaving l a, Mario
Speaker 1: flipping the bird, George Bush telling us how he really
Speaker 1: feels the thing is an absolute train wreck and I'm
Speaker 1: here for it. The only reason we know that that
Speaker 1: wasn't the Mario was because Mario would never flip someone
Speaker 1: the bird. He's Italian. Come on, Yeah, he probably do this, right,
Speaker 1: But this is like, hey, Cooper, tell your mother said hello? Why?
Speaker 1: But who knows? Who knows? Maybe all of this verified
Speaker 1: real fake people on Twitter chaos is actually part of
Speaker 1: Elon's plan. Yeah, maybe this is what he's doing on purpose,
Speaker 1: so no one will know a real account from a
Speaker 1: fake account. And then he'll be like, guys, did you
Speaker 1: see someone impersonated me and spent four billion dollars on Twitter?
Speaker 1: That was crazy? Well, I'm just gonna take my money
Speaker 1: and be on my way. Okay, bye bye, now bye bye. Now.
Speaker 1: If we had the time, we could discuss how this
Speaker 1: verified fiasco isn't just hurting Twitter, it's also damaging Tesla Stock. Oh,
Speaker 1: we could definitely talk about how Rihanna just said on
Speaker 1: Twitter that she wanted me to perform with her at
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl, and no, it's not a fake account
Speaker 1: because she even asked for my Social Security number. But
Speaker 1: we don't have the time for any of that, because
Speaker 1: while Twitter is faking celebrities, a real celebrity is in
Speaker 1: trouble for faking his life. Vogue issuing rappers Drake and
Speaker 1: twenty one Savage for using a fake cover story to
Speaker 1: promote their new album Her Loss. So back in October,
Speaker 1: Drake shared what appeared to be a Vogue magazine cover
Speaker 1: featuring himself and twenty one Savage with the caption me
Speaker 1: and my brother on the newsstand tomorrow, thanking Vogue editors
Speaker 1: for their support. Well, apparently they did not like this,
Speaker 1: because the publishers they filed a complaint in federal court
Speaker 1: this week, saying the stunt was infringement of the company's trademark.
Speaker 1: So far, no comment on the law suit from Trade
Speaker 1: or Savage. Yeah, that's right. Vogue is suing Drake and
Speaker 1: one Savage for four million dollars for photo shopping themselves
Speaker 1: onto the cover of the magazine, which, to be honest,
Speaker 1: I don't know if Vogue has a case here. You
Speaker 1: can clearly tell that this was a fake cover. I mean,
Speaker 1: Vogue lighting black people properly. This is clearly not real. No,
Speaker 1: it's parody, but the beef is very real. The biggest
Speaker 1: name in magazines is going up against the biggest name
Speaker 1: in hip hop. That's no joke. This hasn't happened since
Speaker 1: Tupac got shot by Reader's Digest. That ship was no gang. Now,
Speaker 1: just for context, this Vogue cover wasn't the only fake
Speaker 1: promotion Drake in twenty one Savage I've been doing right.
Speaker 1: He also released a fake interview with Howard Stern, a
Speaker 1: fake SNL performance, fake appearance on NPR like Tiny Desk,
Speaker 1: which is a little weird because he's Drake. He doesn't
Speaker 1: have to fake any of these things. You know, it's
Speaker 1: so weird to me. It's like, Drake, if you want
Speaker 1: to be on NPR, I'm pretty sure you can be
Speaker 1: on NPR. This would be like Obama photoshopping himself at
Speaker 1: a Buffalo wild Wings. You know, It's just like, look, Michelle,
Speaker 1: it almost looks like I was actually there. How cool
Speaker 1: would that be? Come on, you're the pregnitt and you
Speaker 1: can go to the Buffalo Wild Wings. Now, if we
Speaker 1: had the time, we could talk about how Vogue has
Speaker 1: inadvertently given Drake in twenty one Savage way more than
Speaker 1: four million dollars worth of publicity by suing them, making
Speaker 1: this the most successful marketing campaign ever for their brand.
Speaker 1: But we don't have to talk about that because we
Speaker 1: have some brands who would like to sell you about
Speaker 1: some very real products they'd like to sell you. We'll
Speaker 1: be right back, Welcome back to the day's show. Tomorrow
Speaker 1: is Veterans Day in America, and to commemorates it, we
Speaker 1: look at a group of veterans who sometimes get looked over.
Speaker 1: In another edition of Ronnie Chang teaches you about Asians. Hello, class,
Speaker 1: thanks for coming, although you really had no choice, since
Speaker 1: if you don't come to school in America, your parents
Speaker 1: get arrested. Today we're gonna learn about some of the
Speaker 1: great Asian veterans in US history because Asians have served
Speaker 1: in the US military for almost as long as America
Speaker 1: has fought in wars, which is basically the whole time
Speaker 1: America loves war soul much it wants to have its
Speaker 1: babies and then send those babies to go fight in
Speaker 1: the next war. Anyway. First top is Augustine Feliciano, who
Speaker 1: fought in the War of eighteen twelve, which happened in Yeah,
Speaker 1: the tess guy doesn't actually say so, nice going morons.
Speaker 1: Feliciano was the first Filipino to serve in the U. S. Navy.
Speaker 1: But before he sailed with the navy, he sailed with pirates.
Speaker 1: That's right, American history has Asian veterans and Asian pirates.
Speaker 1: I'm blowing your freaking mind today. What's next Asian werewolves? No,
Speaker 1: that's beneath us. Let's fast forward to America's Civil War,
Speaker 1: the first one, not the one currently happening every day
Speaker 1: in your Twitter feed. The Civil Wars, where Chinese American
Speaker 1: soldiers began to make their mark. Of the roughly two
Speaker 1: Chinese Americans living in the Eastern US at the time,
Speaker 1: fifty eight of them served in the war. That's fifty
Speaker 1: eight two hundred. Can you calculate the percentage from that number.
Speaker 1: It's easy. You just cross out of zeroes, you move
Speaker 1: to this one point over. You fit the whole thing
Speaker 1: you multiplied by a hundred, and you play your phone
Speaker 1: and used a calculator. Math is easy, especially for me,
Speaker 1: a teacher. One of the most distinguished Chinese Civil War
Speaker 1: vets was Joseph Pierce. He rose in the ranks to corporal,
Speaker 1: the highest rank of any Chinese American in the Union Army,
Speaker 1: which I can also relate to because I am the
Speaker 1: highest ranking Asian at the Daily Show, though sadly I
Speaker 1: do not have as many confirmed kills. And yeah, there
Speaker 1: were white soldiers in the eighteen hundreds who are taking
Speaker 1: orders from an Asian guy because those guys were hashtag
Speaker 1: allies and they didn't even need to brag about it
Speaker 1: on Instagram. All right, Julia, we get it. You tell
Speaker 1: your dark Cantonese, but not every veteran god what they deserve.
Speaker 1: Edward de Cohotel was a Chinese immigrant adopted by an
Speaker 1: American ship captain who founded the Civil War and then
Speaker 1: served for another twenty six years. But get this, America
Speaker 1: still refused to make him a citizen. Do you believe that?
Speaker 1: I mean, this guy risked his life in the military
Speaker 1: for almost thirty years. Most citizens never do anything close
Speaker 1: to that. They automatically get citizenship just by getting pooped
Speaker 1: off of their mom's But that's right. I threw in
Speaker 1: some sex head for free. You're welcome. Let's move on
Speaker 1: to World War One and one of his greatest Asian
Speaker 1: American heroes a lousing Key. He was a runner, which
Speaker 1: means he ran messengers to the front line, all while
Speaker 1: dodging gunfire and flamethrowers. That's right, this guy risked his
Speaker 1: life to send messages. I hope this makes you grateful
Speaker 1: for texting. In fact, I wish this was still how
Speaker 1: we had to send messages. You probably think twice if
Speaker 1: you have to run across a battlefield to give someone
Speaker 1: a picture of your dick. Now, let's turn to World
Speaker 1: War Two. We saw Asian American heroes like Daniel in Newey,
Speaker 1: who fought the four hundred for his Second Regiment, a
Speaker 1: unit made up completely of soldiers of Japanese descent and
Speaker 1: one of the most decorated regiments in military history. During
Speaker 1: a combat mission in France, a new escaped death when
Speaker 1: a bullet to his chest was blocked by two silver dollars.
Speaker 1: Try doing that with bitcoin, you crypto bitches. Daniel he
Speaker 1: knew it is why I carry two silver dollars in
Speaker 1: my breast pocket at all times. Wait where are they?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I got that vending machine coke. Okay, nobody
Speaker 1: shoot me until I can get to the bullion exchange.
Speaker 1: Even after his military service, he knew it, went on
Speaker 1: to serve fifty years in Congress. So congrats to him
Speaker 1: on finding the only job worse than combat. But maybe
Speaker 1: the biggest Asian bad has to come out World War
Speaker 1: two was Captain Nieves Fernandez, a Filipino school teacher who
Speaker 1: became a guerrilla warfare fighter and led a squadron that
Speaker 1: killed over two hundred Japanese soldiers. You hear that class
Speaker 1: school teachers can become guerrilla assassins. Do not mess with us.
Speaker 1: Oh goddamn shop. The last veteran we're gonna learn about
Speaker 1: today is a living legend, and not how that term
Speaker 1: is usually used, like if your friend Jake wins a
Speaker 1: stupid flip cup tournament. I mean an actual legend. Tammy Duckworth.
Speaker 1: She served as a Black Hat helicopter pilot in Iraq
Speaker 1: until two thousand and four, when her aircraft was hit
Speaker 1: by a rocket propelled grenade. She lost her legs and
Speaker 1: partial use of her right arm. For her sacrifice, she
Speaker 1: was Arnold with a purple heart. I don't know why
Speaker 1: it's purple. I guess whoever designed there was a huge
Speaker 1: Prince fan. But her service didn't end with the military.
Speaker 1: She went on to become the first Ti American woman
Speaker 1: and disabled woman elected to Congress. She also became the
Speaker 1: first woman to bring a baby onto the Senate floor,
Speaker 1: although it definitely wasn't the first diaper. Those dudes are
Speaker 1: old as ship so class. In conclusion, from now on,
Speaker 1: when you think of Asians in American history, don't just
Speaker 1: think of railroads and that guy from Breakfast Actiphanies who
Speaker 1: isn't actually Asian. Think of Tammy Duckworth, Losnki and Jeves
Speaker 1: Fernandez who killed build half an army. Speaking of which,
Speaker 1: I gotta go tend to this neck wood. Knowing how
Speaker 1: cheap these school districts are probably have lead poisoning class dismissed.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much about running, I say, because when
Speaker 1: we come back, the one and only Jordan Hills will
Speaker 1: be joining me right here on the show. You don't
Speaker 1: want a mission. Welcome back to the Data Show. My
Speaker 1: guest to Mike is an Academy Award winner who create
Speaker 1: the hit films get out to us and most recently Nope.
Speaker 1: He's here to talk about his new Spotified original audio
Speaker 1: horror series called Quiet, Part Loud. Please welcome Jordan Peele
Speaker 1: of that field. That field absolutely under for the appropriates
Speaker 1: you think so, because appropriates, that's what we're gonna It's
Speaker 1: just gonna be now of applause for you. That's overwhelming.
Speaker 1: That's what you deserve. That's how you make people feel.
Speaker 1: You know, That's what you deserve, my friend. I mean,
Speaker 1: I mean this honestly, I knew this. I want to say,
Speaker 1: you don't. I was. I was scrolling on my TV
Speaker 1: the other day, and you know, I was bouncing around
Speaker 1: everything between like YouTube and then going through Netflix and
Speaker 1: then bouncing like different apps and watching. It's amazing to
Speaker 1: see the impact that you have had on the culture.
Speaker 1: You know, obviously not really with Key and Peel. Some
Speaker 1: of the funniest moments and ideas still existing on TikTok
Speaker 1: kids loving them today, and then you move into like
Speaker 1: what you did with Keanu and then the new range
Speaker 1: of movies. I don't understand this. One of the funniest
Speaker 1: people out there. You were for a very long time
Speaker 1: putting out some of the funniest content and now it's
Speaker 1: just like like scary ship. Is this fullbalanced? What what happens?
Speaker 1: Is it weird that I think it's funny? Is it? I?
Speaker 1: You know, I think the comedy part of my career
Speaker 1: is still going. I think it's still active. Wow, And
Speaker 1: part of that, you know, part of I talked about
Speaker 1: it as sort of like the difference between comedy and
Speaker 1: horrors the music, and it really does it does feel
Speaker 1: like that, you know, when when we uh sorry, I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: Now I'm picturing the ceiling get out with the guys
Speaker 1: running like you know, he's running at the camera. He's
Speaker 1: like head on. But now I'm pretty like, I mean,
Speaker 1: it's like Benny Hill and it's funny. It's funny, and
Speaker 1: it's very funny. And I could have done I was
Speaker 1: at the finish line with that film. I could have
Speaker 1: gone either way. It would have been a very different film. Um.
Speaker 1: But but thank you for saying that. Yeah, no, I
Speaker 1: I I'm I love comedy. It became very uh complex
Speaker 1: somehow making comedy in this world as it is complex.
Speaker 1: I think making anything or getting anything accomplished in this world,
Speaker 1: it feels like you were the only person who wasn't
Speaker 1: surprised about the filmmaker you would turn into, you know,
Speaker 1: And I think it's because you came from this world
Speaker 1: of sketch, and sketch always seems unplanned and unprepared. It
Speaker 1: seems off the cuff, but there's so much work that
Speaker 1: goes into it. And and now you you turned into
Speaker 1: or rather you've been revealed to us as this film maker.
Speaker 1: Like when I was watching Nope, you're sitting in that
Speaker 1: movie theater, nobody knows what's gonna happen, why it's gonna happen,
Speaker 1: how it's gonna happen. You successfully got people to not
Speaker 1: spoil any of the plot points. I don't know how
Speaker 1: you did that, because people who saw there like, have
Speaker 1: you seen Nope? I was like, no, I haven't, How
Speaker 1: is it? They're like nope? But you you create, like
Speaker 1: you create a feeling thank you well that you know
Speaker 1: I have. I just have this love of my audience,
Speaker 1: and I think of my audiences has been telling me
Speaker 1: in responding too, because that that very thing is something
Speaker 1: that they love and that they're going to, uh, they're
Speaker 1: going to show up for it, and so you know
Speaker 1: when and and you know you say I knew. I
Speaker 1: you know when I made when I wrote get Out,
Speaker 1: I didn't. I didn't even know if they would let
Speaker 1: me direct it. I didn't. Yeah, that's that's how how
Speaker 1: much has changed in my life. You know. I was
Speaker 1: trying to push this thing, and so I luckily I
Speaker 1: found a wonderful home and wonderful producers for it. But
Speaker 1: when I made Nope, that then I you know, I
Speaker 1: was like, Okay, now, hold on a second. They're gonna
Speaker 1: let me direct a film. You know, They're gonna let
Speaker 1: me direct a big movie, and so there's a responsibility
Speaker 1: there is there is there a pressure. Do you ever,
Speaker 1: do you ever like feel the weights of your own pressure?
Speaker 1: Because get Out is one of the greatest movies that
Speaker 1: has ever been made. From that moment onwards, everyone is
Speaker 1: expecting you to create the greatest movie ever made. There's
Speaker 1: always gonna be that pressure. There's always gonna be the criticism.
Speaker 1: Is gonna be the critics. Do you feel that as well?
Speaker 1: Or do you find yourself just making what you want
Speaker 1: to make? Well, you know a lot of people hate
Speaker 1: get Out, and there's a certain who these people, well,
Speaker 1: they're out there, they are out there. Wow, I get,
Speaker 1: I get I still get hate from from from that era.
Speaker 1: I mean, there's a lot of people that don't like
Speaker 1: the you know, the the agency that it brought interest
Speaker 1: me and other people. I truly feel that. And so
Speaker 1: you know, and and and and can you impeel as well?
Speaker 1: You know, you're you realize people are going to respond,
Speaker 1: but there's always going to be people who don't respond.
Speaker 1: And that's okay. That's part of the adventure of doing
Speaker 1: something risky, doing something you're not supposed to do, is
Speaker 1: that you're gonna be pissing people off. But that's okay.
Speaker 1: I wonder if some people are pistolf at what you
Speaker 1: illuminate in the stories that you tell, because it's one
Speaker 1: thing to create a horror movie. It's one thing to
Speaker 1: create thrill and suspense. It's another thing to to weave
Speaker 1: into that story everything that we're experiencing in real life.
Speaker 1: You know that there are themes of race, there are
Speaker 1: themes of of gender, there are there are themes like
Speaker 1: everything is encapsulated in the stories, Like you you went
Speaker 1: and went, what if there's racism, and what if there's sexism?
Speaker 1: And what if there's also a monster, which seems you know,
Speaker 1: which is the very much the real world once again
Speaker 1: a documentary, but no, I uh yeah, you know, I
Speaker 1: mean this one wanted to be about this, you know,
Speaker 1: this idea that was sort of forming in my head
Speaker 1: that there's some people, there are some things in this
Speaker 1: world that are these bad miracles. These are these things
Speaker 1: that are so entertaining that it uh that we're blinded
Speaker 1: to the danger of them. Wow. And so I wanted
Speaker 1: to make a film about the you know, the human
Speaker 1: response to these things and how we interact with and
Speaker 1: how we we will chase it off a cliff. Wow.
Speaker 1: You do that with everything though, because when they told
Speaker 1: me you had a podcast, I thought you were going
Speaker 1: to be interviewing people. I thought it was gonna be
Speaker 1: a conversation. They're like, no, he made a horror podcast.
Speaker 1: So I was like, but that's but that's not possible.
Speaker 1: And then they send it to me and I was like, Oh,
Speaker 1: this is terrifying because I just have to use my ears.
Speaker 1: This was something you know, all of us at Monkey
Speaker 1: Pot Productions were very excited about, like trying to make
Speaker 1: the scariest horror podcast of all time. And you know what,
Speaker 1: people normally use podcasts for a drive. You know, some
Speaker 1: people play podcasts sleep I've heard and then this slides
Speaker 1: into your playlist, you know. And this is something we
Speaker 1: we we talked about in Horror all the time, which
Speaker 1: is this idea that it's it's the things you don't
Speaker 1: see that that are the scariest. It is terrifying because
Speaker 1: you've created this podcast that is essentially it sounds real.
Speaker 1: It sounds like an actual conspiracy theorist, and we're following
Speaker 1: him and his journey of creating this radio show that
Speaker 1: sort of sets in a pre Trump world and he's
Speaker 1: talking about everything that's happening in he's digging into conspiracies,
Speaker 1: and it feels too real. Jordan's it's and if this
Speaker 1: is brilliant and Tracy Letts wonderfully plays this, this character
Speaker 1: and and this whole Faustian thing. It ends up being
Speaker 1: I'm not going to give away what the what is
Speaker 1: going on? But then but there's there's something of yeah
Speaker 1: as because Yeah As discussed we need to but it's
Speaker 1: it's a story that needs to be told in the
Speaker 1: sound medium, because there is a sound element to this
Speaker 1: parasite and the it's scary when when you tell your
Speaker 1: stories and and this is something that I feel you've
Speaker 1: always done, whether it's in a sketch, whether it's in
Speaker 1: a movie, and now even in the podcast, it feels
Speaker 1: like you're commenting on the aspects of the world that
Speaker 1: we oftentimes take for granted or ignore because they almost
Speaker 1: seamlessly happening to us, and you you take them, you
Speaker 1: amplify them, and then it becomes a horror we can't
Speaker 1: look away from. Like, why do you think it's important
Speaker 1: for us to focus on those moments, to focus on
Speaker 1: what's happening in real life? Well, it is, there's there's there.
Speaker 1: It's important for us to pay attention to the real
Speaker 1: life monsters. And I think it's important to uh too,
Speaker 1: And it's important for us to feel fear as it is.
Speaker 1: You know, so much of this, so much of this
Speaker 1: doom scrolling and stuff. It's it really is about us, uh,
Speaker 1: the fact that fear is something we bury, Fear's something
Speaker 1: that we don't like. We don't like that feeling will
Speaker 1: we will converted into anger other things, and so anyway
Speaker 1: it sgnumbs us as we scroll. Yes, So yeah, did
Speaker 1: I answer? Did I answer the question with that? I? Well,
Speaker 1: can I just say, um, I've loved everything that you've created.
Speaker 1: I I enjoy how original your art is. I I
Speaker 1: also really appreciate you know, how you work with the
Speaker 1: te them that you work with, I mean Kiky Palmer,
Speaker 1: and people have been loving her forever to see to
Speaker 1: see her in the movie, to see what you did
Speaker 1: with them. No, obviously, Daniel, you know we've loved them
Speaker 1: since forever. You don't just create a story, you also
Speaker 1: create stars. You know, you also give people an opportunity
Speaker 1: to shine on the screen. And I would love to
Speaker 1: know what you look for in these performers that you
Speaker 1: think well, I mean, as it does successfully convey the
Speaker 1: feelings that you're trying to get to the people. Well,
Speaker 1: you know, first of all, I'm also I'm trying to
Speaker 1: hitch my wagon to these moving trains, right I'm trying
Speaker 1: to find people who are ready to do their the
Speaker 1: their greatest role, you know, and in that perfect place.
Speaker 1: So I I very much. I'm so I'm so thankful
Speaker 1: that you know, the Daniels and the key keys of
Speaker 1: the world will will come out and do it. But
Speaker 1: I'm also looking for somebody who is really smart enough
Speaker 1: to take over the character for me. I I do
Speaker 1: the work to build this character up to a certain point,
Speaker 1: and then I need somebody to come in and become
Speaker 1: the expert it so I can ask them how does
Speaker 1: Emerald feel? And she can she can answer that question.
Speaker 1: We can kind of move from there. And so you know,
Speaker 1: I just I have very I have the privilege of
Speaker 1: working with people like like Daniel and like Kiki, who
Speaker 1: are just you know, the best actors in the world.
Speaker 1: And then we have the privilege of enjoying everything that
Speaker 1: you will create together, the privilege of having you on
Speaker 1: the show. Thank you, my friend. After your package will
Speaker 1: thank you again. Sure feel everybody, You're gonna take a
Speaker 1: prick break over right back after this. Well, let's o
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