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Speaker 1: great show for you tonight. We'll tell you how rats
Speaker 1: will save your life. We tiptoe are on the Senate
Speaker 1: debate that everyone is talking about, and we discovered the
Speaker 1: truth about Halloween. Plus my guest tonight is the one
Speaker 1: and only Elizabeth Banks. Everybody, I'll call the people. Let's
Speaker 1: self track into today's headlines. All right, Before we get
Speaker 1: into the big stories, let's catch up on a few
Speaker 1: other things going on in the world, starting with health
Speaker 1: news and you. Study sponsored by the National Institutes of
Speaker 1: Health has found that kids who played video games for
Speaker 1: at least three hours a day have better memory and
Speaker 1: impulse control than non gamers. Yeah, and uh, I'm not
Speaker 1: the kind of person who would say I told you
Speaker 1: so to my mom because she could still whip my ass.
Speaker 1: But I told you so, It's not okay, he's making sure,
Speaker 1: just making sure she's up behind me. But yeah, it
Speaker 1: turns out gamers have great impulse control. So the next
Speaker 1: time a teenager calls you the N word in a
Speaker 1: game of Call of Duty, he really throwed it through.
Speaker 1: In travel News, virgin Australia has announced that for the
Speaker 1: next six months, anyone who selects a middle seats will
Speaker 1: be automatically entered into a lottery with more than two
Speaker 1: hundred and thirty thousand dollars worth of prizes up for grabs. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and here's my first question. Is one of the prizes
Speaker 1: an aisle seats? Because I mean that's the only way
Speaker 1: I've ever selected a middle seat on a plane. Plus
Speaker 1: winning the lottery makes it worse. Now I'm in the
Speaker 1: middle seat and the island window seats are looking to
Speaker 1: rob my ass just like well, well if it isn't
Speaker 1: Mr Jack Park, leave me alone. Oh he's one of
Speaker 1: the strangest human interest stories I've ever heard. A hermit
Speaker 1: known as the World's dirtiest man right, actually known as
Speaker 1: that has died at the age of But get this,
Speaker 1: just a few months after bathing for the first time
Speaker 1: in sixty years, which is a real lesson here, guys.
Speaker 1: Don't try anything new because it will kill you. It will.
Speaker 1: Oh and and more importantly, congratulations to the new world's
Speaker 1: dirtiest man, Steve Bannon. Well done, but move on to
Speaker 1: start the bigger folds of the day started once again
Speaker 1: with the mid terms. You know that time of the
Speaker 1: year when your baby is at the highest risk of
Speaker 1: being kissed by Ted Cruz. There was a major debate
Speaker 1: last night that could change everything, and we'll tell you
Speaker 1: all about it in our ongoing coverage of Vote Demmick.
Speaker 1: The big question leading up to election day right now
Speaker 1: is who will control the Senate when the dust settles,
Speaker 1: And with so many close races around the country, it
Speaker 1: could still go either way. But a pivotal moment may
Speaker 1: have occurred last night at a debate in Pennsylvania. On
Speaker 1: one side of this neck and neck race you have
Speaker 1: Democrat John Federman Lieutenant governor and bounce on on the
Speaker 1: sets of Jerry Springer. And on the Republican side you
Speaker 1: have doctor Oz, not to be confused with the Wizard
Speaker 1: of Oz, who also lived in a mansion that wasn't
Speaker 1: in Pennsylvania. After securing the Republican nomination, doctor Oz has
Speaker 1: been trying to distance himself from the MAGA side of
Speaker 1: the force and reposition himself as a bipartisan voice of reason,
Speaker 1: trying to scoop up all the centrist voters on election day.
Speaker 1: You know, he's basically doing that that TikTok thing where
Speaker 1: you flip your head down and then when you come up,
Speaker 1: you act like you suddenly didn't want to hang myke pants,
Speaker 1: you know that thing. But here's the thing, here's the thing.
Speaker 1: Being pro Trump and pro reasonable is a lot harder
Speaker 1: than people think, which was apparent when doctor Oz had
Speaker 1: to explain his position on abortion. Should abortion be banned
Speaker 1: in America? Sixty seconds? There should not be involved in
Speaker 1: from the federal government and how states decide their abortion decisions.
Speaker 1: As a physician, I've been in the room when there's
Speaker 1: some difficult conversations happening. I don't want the federal government
Speaker 1: involved with that at all. I want women, doctors, local
Speaker 1: political leaders, letting the democracy that's always allowed our nation
Speaker 1: to thrive to put the best ideas forward so states
Speaker 1: can decide for themselves. Oh yeah, that's right. Dr Oz
Speaker 1: said abortion rights should be decided by women and their
Speaker 1: doctors and local political leaders, which was pretty slick right
Speaker 1: like I did, because he started that sentence like he
Speaker 1: was on the side of women when he snuck in
Speaker 1: the politicians at the end like a teenager buying condoms
Speaker 1: at a gas station. He was like, let me get
Speaker 1: those cheetos and the root beer and I canna get
Speaker 1: the terms and count You're gonna get a liserves another back,
Speaker 1: because let's be honest, if you pro choice, what doctor
Speaker 1: Oz is suggesting is bullshit. All right, I think we
Speaker 1: can all agree there is only one politician who should
Speaker 1: have a say in your abortion and that's her, Shall Walker,
Speaker 1: because it's his, it's his, it's probably his ladies check
Speaker 1: they're all his now. Unfortunately, the Democrat I couldn't exactly
Speaker 1: take a victory lap off the Dr Oz's performance at
Speaker 1: the debate because it was their own guy who was
Speaker 1: getting most of the attention. Lieutenant Governor John Fetterman started
Speaker 1: off the hour long debate assuring voters he's still capable
Speaker 1: of doing the job of senator five months after having
Speaker 1: a stroke. Let's also talk about the elephant in the room.
Speaker 1: I had a stroke. He's never let me forget that.
Speaker 1: I might miss some words during this debate, two words together.
Speaker 1: But it knocked me down, and I'm going to keep
Speaker 1: coming back up. Fetterman's use of a closed captioning device
Speaker 1: during the debate, where he read questions in real time
Speaker 1: on a screen above the moderator's sparked debate on social media,
Speaker 1: with some observers seeing a strong performance of mid recovery,
Speaker 1: while others cast him his unsteady Federman especially lost his
Speaker 1: putting on the subject of fracking when questioned about interview
Speaker 1: where he said he would never support the industry versus
Speaker 1: his current position supporting fracking. I do support fracking, and
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't I support fracking and I stand
Speaker 1: and I do support fracking. You know, what's interesting to
Speaker 1: see is how people have reacted to this clip because
Speaker 1: on the one hand, obviously that was a part of
Speaker 1: the debate that tripped him up, because he has had
Speaker 1: a shaky record on whether he's full or against the fracking,
Speaker 1: But also beyond that, people wondering about the stroke, and
Speaker 1: it was interesting to see if people support him. They're
Speaker 1: seeing a guy who's overcoming a temporary disability, but the
Speaker 1: people who are against him see a guy who's not
Speaker 1: mentally fit to be senator, and I guess because of polarization.
Speaker 1: It's like that with everything these days. You know, everyone's
Speaker 1: seeing the world from two different sides. Like if you're
Speaker 1: a die hard Christmas lover, you hate the Grinch, But
Speaker 1: if you don't like Christmas, then yeah, he's extremely faible
Speaker 1: and you smash. Everything is subjective everything. Look at that mouth.
Speaker 1: And I personally feel bad for John Federman though, because
Speaker 1: he had a stroke. And on top of that, after
Speaker 1: the debate, dr Os try to send him a sup
Speaker 1: moment that would cure him. You know, if you ask me,
Speaker 1: I don't know why Federman ever admitted to having a stroke.
Speaker 1: This is American politics. He could have just done whatever
Speaker 1: he wanted. Right he's running for the sentence of Pennsylvania.
Speaker 1: He could have just showed up to the bed and
Speaker 1: be like, sorry for my words, everyone, I'm drunk off
Speaker 1: my ask. The entire state would have been like, hell, yeah, man, Sam,
Speaker 1: your go Phillies. Yeah, I love this guy. But the
Speaker 1: truth is Fetterman's limitations right now are just something voters
Speaker 1: will have to consider when they make their choice. Like
Speaker 1: maybe they don't care whether Federment is capable of debating.
Speaker 1: Maybe voters prefer his policies, or maybe they just want
Speaker 1: a senator who can block the door the next time
Speaker 1: it's getting storn by riots. Is that could be very useful.
Speaker 1: So all up to them. Anyway, Let's move on and
Speaker 1: talk about natural disasters, because no matter where you live,
Speaker 1: they could happen to you. One minute, you buying groceries
Speaker 1: and an earthquake hits and boom, you're buried alive. Or
Speaker 1: you're hiking suddenly and avalaunch hits, boom you're buried alive.
Speaker 1: Or et at home. You're at home watching TV. A
Speaker 1: tornado hits, picks you up, rips off all your clothes,
Speaker 1: then throws you through your neighbor's window into the bedroom
Speaker 1: with his wife. Right as your neighbor walks in, he
Speaker 1: knocks you out with a shovel and boom, buries you.
Speaker 1: In life happens all the time, all the target first
Speaker 1: and peace. But he had some good news. If you've
Speaker 1: been buried alive by a natural disaster, there's a new
Speaker 1: first responder who might be coming to your aid. An
Speaker 1: unlikely hero is being trained to help certain rescue teams
Speaker 1: during natural disasters. We're talking about rats. The rodents are
Speaker 1: fitted with tiny, high tech backpacks carrying video cameras. The project,
Speaker 1: created by Belgian nonprofit, trains the rats to help first
Speaker 1: responders search for survivors among rubble and disaster zones. Once
Speaker 1: they locate the target, they pull a switch on their
Speaker 1: little vest that triggers a beat before heading back to
Speaker 1: the trainers to get a treat. And the leader of
Speaker 1: the project says rats are perfect for the job since
Speaker 1: they're small, curious, and prone to explore. Oh oh my god,
Speaker 1: that's so adorable. Did you see the little backpack in
Speaker 1: the tiny camera. I want to be rescued by one
Speaker 1: of them. Lock the doors, let's blow the building up.
Speaker 1: You're gonna fact me when there's a bunch of rats
Speaker 1: saving all of us. No, but for real, though, this
Speaker 1: this is incredible. This is incredible. Just just take a
Speaker 1: moment to think of some of the things that rats
Speaker 1: can do. They can sniff out land mines, right, They
Speaker 1: can detect tuberculosis in New York City restaurants. They taste
Speaker 1: our food before we eat it. And yet can we
Speaker 1: appreciate that. No, we're terrible to them. We're terrible to rats.
Speaker 1: We don't treat them with any respect. In fact, we've
Speaker 1: got to pray that if we are ever trapped under
Speaker 1: the rubble, we've really got to hope that the rat
Speaker 1: that comes to rescue us doesn't hold a grudge. Well well, well,
Speaker 1: but it isn't the guy who tested that toxic makeup
Speaker 1: on my cousin. Oh look, you can't move your arms.
Speaker 1: Oh they weren't fine when you were putting out all
Speaker 1: those traps though, didn't they. Huh, but you wish you
Speaker 1: hadn't appropriated my culture for your chucky cheese now, huh, Yeah,
Speaker 1: why don't you rescue yourself? You're a little bit I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go poop in a Cheerios box bite. Okay, okay,
Speaker 1: I just realized at some point my mom is gonna
Speaker 1: be like, what do you do at your job? I'm like, don't,
Speaker 1: don't worry. All right. Finally, he's a really fun story
Speaker 1: from the world of higher education. You know, universities are
Speaker 1: always doing the utmost to try and stop students from cheating,
Speaker 1: and for good reason. For good reason, you don't want
Speaker 1: students to cheat, right, because you don't want someone cheating
Speaker 1: their way through engineering and then one day building a bridge,
Speaker 1: all right? Or what if someone cheats their way through
Speaker 1: fourteenth century? It's helly and poetry. I don't even need
Speaker 1: to tell you the chaos that that would unleash on society.
Speaker 1: For one, professor in the Philippines is going viral for
Speaker 1: how she decided to stop cheating in her class. The
Speaker 1: Washington Post says a Philippines college professor asked her students
Speaker 1: to wear anti cheating hats for a midterm exam, and
Speaker 1: they went all out. The students showed up for their
Speaker 1: mechanical engineering tests this month wearing all sorts of designs
Speaker 1: on their heads. Photos of the students in their head
Speaker 1: gear went viral, though on local news. All Right, I
Speaker 1: don't know who this professor is, but that's genius, right.
Speaker 1: I love that. No, No, because instead of just telling
Speaker 1: kids not to cheat, obstruct their field of vision. Because
Speaker 1: most of the time teachers can't actually stop anyone from cheating, alright,
Speaker 1: The best they can do is walk up and down
Speaker 1: the aisles like a pigeon looking for pieces of bread.
Speaker 1: You know, just do that thing. Hey hey hey, hey,
Speaker 1: hey hey hey. I like the system. It helps the
Speaker 1: students focus, and it removes the temptation, because, let's be honest,
Speaker 1: that's what it's temptation. Most of the time, cheating is
Speaker 1: a spur of the moment thing. All right, don't go
Speaker 1: into the test intending to cheat. What happens is you
Speaker 1: realize you know none of the answers, and then you
Speaker 1: notice out of the corner of your eye that Angie's flying.
Speaker 1: And now, if you know that you're probably wrong, why
Speaker 1: would you just stick with your wrong answers? Right? In
Speaker 1: a real will situation, we want to encourage people to
Speaker 1: go with whoever has the best ideas. It's not cheating.
Speaker 1: It's called having an open mind. People, You're gonna explore
Speaker 1: your opportunities. That's why my uncle was in his neighbor's
Speaker 1: bedroom's wife with All right, that's it for the headlines.
Speaker 1: But before we go to a quick break, let's check
Speaker 1: it on the stock market. Very on finance expert Michael
Speaker 1: Cost to everybody, Michael, crazy time, man, crazy crazy time
Speaker 1: in the markets? Right now? What's happening? I am shing it.
Speaker 1: I mean you might need to call a rescue rat
Speaker 1: because my crushing has caused a lot of people to
Speaker 1: be trapped under rubbles. So well, it sounds like your
Speaker 1: financial advice has buried people in debts. Well, if and
Speaker 1: if you want to get out of that debt, I
Speaker 1: got a hot tip for you. So stay tuned. Okay,
Speaker 1: all right, let's do it. Let's do it. So this week,
Speaker 1: multiple corporations had their third corner earnings reports, which included
Speaker 1: Google and Microsoft, both of whom had disappointing numbers. Okay,
Speaker 1: but before we get into that, that the rescue rats, right,
Speaker 1: I found this story so useful. Okay, When my landlord
Speaker 1: came by to evict me because about rat infestation, I
Speaker 1: told them, Hey, you're wrong, I'm actually training an elite
Speaker 1: group of search and rescue rats. Bought me twenty four hours.
Speaker 1: But you're right. Animals are amazing. I mean, pigs can
Speaker 1: hunt truffles, dolphins are helping the Navy with their Sonarn't
Speaker 1: my dog. He'll lick peanut butter off my body wherever
Speaker 1: I put it. Okay, look, look that's a lot of
Speaker 1: sex thing. I'd just eat peanut butter sloppily. Okay. And
Speaker 1: I heard Trevor in Africa that you can hang wet
Speaker 1: laundry on a rhinoceros is horn. Michael, that that is
Speaker 1: not true. That is, it's not true because you don't
Speaker 1: have laundry. I'm sorry, I'm sorry, honestly, I'm just you know,
Speaker 1: can you just get to the well, here's the thought.
Speaker 1: Anybody asks, what cats do you know? How do they
Speaker 1: contribute to society? To me, it seems like cats have
Speaker 1: nine lines, and they're waste in every single one of them.
Speaker 1: If you were trapped under your building and your cat
Speaker 1: saw you, it would yawn and go back to sleep,
Speaker 1: or even worse, it would kill a rat, the one
Speaker 1: thing that's trying to save your ass. Trevor's right, Rats
Speaker 1: need more respect. That's why it's called respect. Okay, think
Speaker 1: about it. They're basically fireman, okay. And that's why it
Speaker 1: wasn't weird that I made a sexy rat calendar. What
Speaker 1: does this even Mike, Let's get let's do the markets. Okay, okay.
Speaker 1: So Alphabet okay, which is Google's parent company, I binged
Speaker 1: it all right and Microsoft both had their quarterly earnings
Speaker 1: calls which were so bad it led the stock to
Speaker 1: a dramatic fall. Look at that, which makes me say,
Speaker 1: it's all the company owners. If you know your earnings
Speaker 1: calls are gonna be so bad Why aren't you making
Speaker 1: that call? Okay, if you have bad news, don't call people.
Speaker 1: I didn't call my landlord. When I found ninety three
Speaker 1: rats in my apartment. I put little bells and backpacks
Speaker 1: on them, and now I gave them names. I'm helping society.
Speaker 1: So look, this is Google and Microsoft. Everything's going fine. Right.
Speaker 1: There's a little dip here in October, but that's not
Speaker 1: a big deal. The guy that draws the lines actually
Speaker 1: just sneeze. Sometimes that happens. But what the hell is
Speaker 1: going on here? Well, turns out Microsoft's cloud company didn't
Speaker 1: generate as much revenue as they thought. Well, obviously clouds
Speaker 1: just disappear, right, But the bigger drop came from Google.
Speaker 1: Ad revenues down on YouTube because advertisers don't want to
Speaker 1: advertise to us, knowing the economy struggling and we don't
Speaker 1: want to buy anything. Well, well you don't, I'm crushing okay,
Speaker 1: but here's some advice to YouTube. If your ad revenue
Speaker 1: is down and it's affecting your stock, why are you
Speaker 1: letting us skip ads? Of course I'm gonna skip your
Speaker 1: ad for road Game. My two pay is perfect. Okay.
Speaker 1: No other company has a skip revenue button. CBS doesn't
Speaker 1: have a skip payment button. They do have those self
Speaker 1: checkout things, though, and those are pretty much the same thing. Hey,
Speaker 1: hot tip, hot tip to media companies, force your viewers
Speaker 1: to watch profitable ads. Trevor throw to commercial and the
Speaker 1: cost of don't tell me what you do, right, Okay, sorry, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you're right, You're right. Sorry, I'm gonna do whatever I want.
Speaker 1: Are We're gonna go to a commercial break right now,
Speaker 1: Michael Coast to everybody, stay two because when we come back,
Speaker 1: let it, it's gonna scat ship alloy. Were welcome back
Speaker 1: to the Divine Show. Next Monday is Halloween. It's the
Speaker 1: reason we've been mutilating pumpkins all months. But where did
Speaker 1: Halloween come from all? Daisy Lak has the answer. Hello,
Speaker 1: my dearies, Halloween is right around the corner, which reminds
Speaker 1: me we need to get a costume now. According to
Speaker 1: my local CBS, Halloween is a two month festival beginning
Speaker 1: September one, which celebrates the worst candy of all time.
Speaker 1: But actually, Halloween is an ancient holiday with a rich
Speaker 1: and spooky history, and by spooky, I mean interesting. It
Speaker 1: all started in ancient Ireland, where they celebrated the earliest
Speaker 1: version of Halloween, the Festival of Sawin. That's right, the
Speaker 1: Irish gave us not one, but two holidays where people
Speaker 1: get wasted and have sex behind the dunkin donuts. Hey, Ireland,
Speaker 1: thank you. They believe that on the night of October
Speaker 1: thirty one, the veil between the world and the afterlife
Speaker 1: was lifted, and that spirits returned for one night, like
Speaker 1: a divorced dad on your birthday. So to win favor
Speaker 1: with the spirits, they lit bond buyers and offered gifts
Speaker 1: to them. But most importantly, they disguised themselves in costumes
Speaker 1: so the dead wouldn't recognize them. Because trust me, no
Speaker 1: one wants to get stuck in a conversation with the ghosts.
Speaker 1: They're always like, avenge me, avenge me. It's like, okay, weirdo,
Speaker 1: I just met you. Costume during Sawin consisted of animal
Speaker 1: heads and skins you. But in their defense, it was
Speaker 1: ancient times. Those were the only costumes Party City had
Speaker 1: back then. For thousands of years, someone was celebrated in
Speaker 1: Ireland by the Celtics, sorry Celtics, until Ireland got a
Speaker 1: very special delivery on its doorstep Catholicism, and the Catholics
Speaker 1: gave the festival a holy makeover, naming November one All
Speaker 1: Saints Day a k a. All Hallows Making the night
Speaker 1: before Hallow's Eve. Eventually this evolved into Halloween. Like many
Speaker 1: other scary things, you have the Catholic Church to think
Speaker 1: After this transition, the earliest version of trigger treating began.
Speaker 1: Medieval beggars would pray for people's dead relatives in exchange
Speaker 1: for food. And that's pretty depressing, outsourcing your praying to
Speaker 1: the less fortunate. I mean, how lazy are you? Oh
Speaker 1: my postmates with a single bottle of water is here,
Speaker 1: bring it in. But there was fun trigger treating too.
Speaker 1: Kids dressed up and cost jumes and offered to sing
Speaker 1: or recite a poem and exchanged for food or money
Speaker 1: or wine. And I know what you're thinking, kids drinking wine,
Speaker 1: But don't worry. It's Irish wine, so it's basically just
Speaker 1: rancid grape juice. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Halloween
Speaker 1: started getting popular around the world, especially in America, after
Speaker 1: a Halloween poem by Robert Burns became popular. And I
Speaker 1: know it might seem weird that something became mainstream due
Speaker 1: to poetry. But if you think about it, it's the
Speaker 1: same way we all learned about scissors. At the turn
Speaker 1: of the century, the influx of Irish immigrants made Halloween
Speaker 1: even bigger in the US, and it actually started to
Speaker 1: get a little rowdy. Kids used the day as an
Speaker 1: excuse for vandalism and general assholoy, a tradition that continues
Speaker 1: to this day. I will kick your ass at soccer practice, Timmy.
Speaker 1: It was so bad some politicians wanted to cancel Halloween altogether. Luckily,
Speaker 1: the solution was already built in trigger treating. Everyone figured
Speaker 1: out that if they gave kids treats in exchange for
Speaker 1: not acting like little dickheads, they'd be chill. Trigger treating
Speaker 1: exploded by the nineteen fifties with the mass production of candy.
Speaker 1: Although back then candy was weird. They had all these
Speaker 1: suggestive names like zag nuts and sugar daddies. If you
Speaker 1: like candy, kids, you'll love Uncle Jimmy's pull smokers whole.
Speaker 1: By the nineteen seventies, Halloween wasn't just for kids anymore.
Speaker 1: Adults started to get into it too. They threw parties,
Speaker 1: they wore costumes, some sexy and some really sexy. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: Dick Nick's high. Where are you at these days? Halloween
Speaker 1: has taken on a new meaning, celebrating the maccab and
Speaker 1: having a safe space to explore our identities with our
Speaker 1: friends and family. I'm just working with you. It's about
Speaker 1: making as much money as possible. It's the most expensive
Speaker 1: holiday after Christmas, and we don't even get a PlayStation
Speaker 1: out of it. Just some highly regrettable photos and a
Speaker 1: mouthful like avities lost another one. So now you know
Speaker 1: how Halloween got to be so spectacular. I hope everyone
Speaker 1: out there has a safe and fun time this year.
Speaker 1: Enjoy it because the next holiday is Thanksgiving, when you
Speaker 1: have to spend the whole day with your entire family.
Speaker 1: Ha ha ha ha. Thank you so much about daddy.
Speaker 1: All Right, stay tuned because when we come back and listen,
Speaker 1: thanks for joining me on the show, so don't go away.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Boy Show. My guests as an
Speaker 1: actor and a director, you know from Mrs America, The
Speaker 1: Hunger Games and Pitch Perfect. She's going to talk about
Speaker 1: starring in the new film called Jane, which will be
Speaker 1: in theass October. Is welcome, Elizabeth. Thanks they were a
Speaker 1: wonderful audiens. Welcome to the Daily Show. Thank you, thanks
Speaker 1: for having me, and congratulations on creating what I think
Speaker 1: everyone is going to enjoy as not just a heart
Speaker 1: felt film, but a film that, in more ways than most,
Speaker 1: feels completely apt for these times. My character j Joy
Speaker 1: seeks out an abortion when her life is in danger
Speaker 1: and it's life or death for her. And this is
Speaker 1: a woman who never thought she'd seek out abortion care.
Speaker 1: And when she gets there, it's it's the Chicago abortion
Speaker 1: is illegal. This is pre ro versus Wade. And she
Speaker 1: meets a collective of women called the Jans. These are
Speaker 1: real life women's The stories based on real life group
Speaker 1: the Jane Collective of Chicago, who provided abortion care abortion
Speaker 1: healthcare to nearly eleven thousand women in the late sixties
Speaker 1: before abortion was legal in Illinois and Chicago. It's it's
Speaker 1: a it's a story about bravery in the face of
Speaker 1: everything that stands against you. Because in the story, you know,
Speaker 1: we we we meet a woman who's living like a
Speaker 1: cookie cut to life. You know, your characters just like
Speaker 1: she's living her life. She comes from a conservative family,
Speaker 1: but we don't really talk about that, and it's almost
Speaker 1: not about the politics per se, but it's about how
Speaker 1: society was was oppressing women at this time. And what
Speaker 1: feels again put in too this moment is seeing her
Speaker 1: not just fight for herself, but for every other woman
Speaker 1: who needs to have an abortion and can't afford it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's exactly right. You know, I'm I'm pro abortion, and
Speaker 1: I like to tell people who aren't pro abortion that
Speaker 1: I'm fighting for them to have that abortion that they
Speaker 1: don't need, know they need yet? Right, all right, I'll
Speaker 1: fight for you. I'll fight for you. I'll fight for
Speaker 1: your daughter and your wife and your mom. Don't worry.
Speaker 1: It really is a powerful story though, because you know it.
Speaker 1: This this is what this is What what gets me
Speaker 1: about the film is you think, first of all, you
Speaker 1: would think this film was made now, that's the first thing.
Speaker 1: You you started planning this, and you filmed this how
Speaker 1: long ago? I first read the script nearly three years ago,
Speaker 1: and you know, we we had the pandemic and we
Speaker 1: finally got to make it. Get Sigourney Weaver in to
Speaker 1: be this amazing activists and you know, I think at
Speaker 1: the time, we knew that there were what we call
Speaker 1: abortion deserts in America, which are areas where abortion was
Speaker 1: so inaccessible that basically people were living in in a
Speaker 1: time that was like pre row And this film really
Speaker 1: presents the dangerous, um often desperate situations that pregnant people
Speaker 1: found themselves in when they didn't want to be pregnant.
Speaker 1: And you know, we all know that abortion bands don't
Speaker 1: ban you know, they don't they don't solve abortion because
Speaker 1: as long as they've been pregnant people that we people
Speaker 1: that don't want to be pregnant, And this film reminds
Speaker 1: us that their safety matters, right, that we can recenter
Speaker 1: women and the health care that they need um and
Speaker 1: make make sure that it's safe for them. And safety
Speaker 1: relies on legality frankly, um, and that that's that's sort
Speaker 1: of the time that we are now talking about. It
Speaker 1: was in the in the movie, but it's today in
Speaker 1: fourteen states. It also showed a side of the conversation
Speaker 1: that is necessary but painful at the same time. You know,
Speaker 1: the film isn't flippant when it comes to talking about abortion.
Speaker 1: You know, you know, there's there's the scene, for instance,
Speaker 1: where we're in the room. We're seeing a lot of
Speaker 1: what the procedure is, We're seeing the pain. We're seeing
Speaker 1: what the woman goes through, and I wanted to know
Speaker 1: why you felt it. What's so important to have that
Speaker 1: in the story. Some would gloss over it, some would say,
Speaker 1: oh no, no no, we don't want to put that in
Speaker 1: because it makes it complicated. But it felt like it
Speaker 1: was kept in for that reason. You know, one in
Speaker 1: four women American women and have an abortion, so it's
Speaker 1: a pretty common practice. And there's this mythology, there's this lie,
Speaker 1: frankly that that anti abortion activists will say, which is
Speaker 1: that abortion can kill you, and that is simply not true.
Speaker 1: Abortion is very, very It's safer than getting your wisdom
Speaker 1: teeth out, it's safer than a colonoscopy. So the James
Speaker 1: didn't lose a single life. They performed eleven thousand abortions,
Speaker 1: didn't lose a single life. And so I think partly
Speaker 1: why we wanted to put the procedure in was just
Speaker 1: to normalize it, you know, just to destigmatize the entire
Speaker 1: process and to show you that she was fine after
Speaker 1: and went and had spaghetti. She's like, it's a it's
Speaker 1: a it's a procedure that somebody is having to have
Speaker 1: autonomy over their lives. You also choose to have many
Speaker 1: funny moments in the film, which which somebody wouldn't think
Speaker 1: at first. You know, if I said to you, oh,
Speaker 1: there's this film and it's about abortion, it's about people
Speaker 1: go like, oh wow, this is going to be a
Speaker 1: very serious one. And it is serious. But there are
Speaker 1: so many moments where you find like laughing out loud
Speaker 1: as well, like any really laughing out loud in a
Speaker 1: in a human way. You know, that also feels very intentional.
Speaker 1: Why not just have it to be very drab and
Speaker 1: and and and I think we all felt like the
Speaker 1: way to de politicize this whole thing, which has become
Speaker 1: so politicized, is um to remind people about the stories, right.
Speaker 1: It's really it's these are real people's lives that these
Speaker 1: politicians are messing with. You know. These are real women
Speaker 1: who have hopes and dreams or already have kids for
Speaker 1: whatever reason, are making the decision to seek out abortion healthcare,
Speaker 1: and regular real women. They have fun too. You know,
Speaker 1: they laughed too. You know. I also have my rule
Speaker 1: about this character was I just said, I don't want
Speaker 1: to cry after because she's so relieved after her abortion,
Speaker 1: she chooses her life she's the very life affirming decision
Speaker 1: for her um. She's not particularly tortured over it. She's
Speaker 1: already a mom and her pregnancy is threatening her life
Speaker 1: and she wants to stay alive, to your mom, to
Speaker 1: her daughter. And because she suddenly realizes when she's faced
Speaker 1: with life or death, wow, I have so much more
Speaker 1: life to live. I have so many things to do. Shit,
Speaker 1: I gotta I gotta list, I gotta get through, you know.
Speaker 1: And she's really has a real awakening, political awakening and
Speaker 1: emotional awakening. And I love that for the character. I mean,
Speaker 1: total right turn in her life, right right right now.
Speaker 1: It's it's it's a it's a change in direction because
Speaker 1: it's a moment where, you know, we don't want to
Speaker 1: spoil it for everyone, but it's just that that key
Speaker 1: moment where somebody realizes their life is at risk, they
Speaker 1: need to have this procedure and then they have to
Speaker 1: fight to basically save their own life. It's it's a
Speaker 1: powerful one. I feel like you're one of the more
Speaker 1: perfect people to tell this story. No, because because of
Speaker 1: what what you represent. You know, you you've been a
Speaker 1: champion of women in all fields, with its business, with
Speaker 1: its film, You know, people have come up to you
Speaker 1: and they've they've gone, like, you are you know, you
Speaker 1: create some of the funniest films for women to act in.
Speaker 1: You You're You're funny behind the camera. You're funny when
Speaker 1: it comes to the writing. And what I loved is
Speaker 1: something that you said recently, which which was everyone will
Speaker 1: say to you A many people will say, oh, it's
Speaker 1: it's powerful that you're doing this, because you're doing this
Speaker 1: to show that women can do it, and you make
Speaker 1: films for the women. You You said something to the
Speaker 1: effect of, what I make films because I like making
Speaker 1: films and I am a woman and I'm having fun.
Speaker 1: What do you think people miss sometimes about a woman
Speaker 1: doing any type of job that they just want to do?
Speaker 1: You know, well, do we have three hours? You know?
Speaker 1: I think there's a lot we live row For me,
Speaker 1: I'll speak to it in terms of the film right now,
Speaker 1: which was when Dobbs. The DBS decision is a decision
Speaker 1: that overturned rob Way, that came down this summer. When
Speaker 1: it happened, I felt foundationally like less of a free
Speaker 1: person than I did the day before, and so and
Speaker 1: I and and so. When you live in a society
Speaker 1: where your human rights can be taken a from you.
Speaker 1: You're kind of a second class citizen. And when you're
Speaker 1: considered a second class citizen, everybody thinks, how does the
Speaker 1: second class citizen get to direct of Hollywood movie? Like
Speaker 1: it's that deep, you know what I mean. It's like
Speaker 1: it's the way. It's that there are people that are
Speaker 1: entitled to do things, and then there are women who
Speaker 1: have to fight to do things right. It's almost you're lucky.
Speaker 1: It's like you to do it. Well, You're not lucky.
Speaker 1: You're amazing. You truly one of the funniest people I know.
Speaker 1: And the film is amazing. Thank you so much for
Speaker 1: joining me again. I appreciate you. Thank you so much
Speaker 1: for big deal. When you fact everyone make sure to
Speaker 1: check out the film. It's gonna be in theaters everywhere
Speaker 1: you watch a movie. We're gonna tell you quick right, well,
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