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Speaker 1: Welcome to The Daily Show. I'm Michael Costa. Todnight, Donald
Speaker 1: Trump unites half the country, Democrats keep staples in business,
Speaker 1: and mice finally get their own culture war. So let's
Speaker 1: get into our ongoing Send me the second Coming of
Speaker 1: Donald J. Trump.
Speaker 3: I'm going to comedy.
Speaker 1: Last night, Donald Trump gave his first joint a dressed
Speaker 1: to Congress of his new term, and I gotta tell you,
Speaker 1: as a kid who was a bit of a Civics nerd,
Speaker 1: I used to think these were pretty sweet events. You've
Speaker 1: got the President, the Supreme Court, every member of Congress
Speaker 1: in the same room. It's basically the Oscars for people
Speaker 1: with loose skin. But these days a speech to Congress
Speaker 1: is just a theatrical production where everybody has a role
Speaker 1: and they slip right into it. So places everyone. Democrats
Speaker 1: showed up in full wardrobe dressed in pink as a
Speaker 1: symbolic protest against people who wanted them to do something meaningful.
Speaker 4: And.
Speaker 1: They came with props too, holding up little paddles like
Speaker 1: they were ready to give Mike Johnson a naughty little spanking. Huh.
Speaker 1: Either that or a pickleball match. And you know what pickleball?
Speaker 1: All right? You ever played? Yeah? Yeah, once you get
Speaker 1: to the front line, you're not even allowed to move.
Speaker 1: How stupid is that? I'm edgy. Some Democrats took the
Speaker 1: signers to the next level. Congresswoman Rashida Talib had a
Speaker 1: dry erase board that she updated throughout the night with
Speaker 1: protests messages like stop lying to the American people, or
Speaker 1: no king, or that's a lie, and she went through
Speaker 1: a lot of them. She had one that said who
Speaker 1: has Luigi's sex tape? She did that cool s. These
Speaker 1: markers are getting me high. And she had one message
Speaker 1: that especially resonated with me. It said, Lucky Loser by
Speaker 1: Michael Costa in stores March eleven. Now, yeah, I know
Speaker 1: it's not really appropriate venue for that, but I appreciate it.
Speaker 1: And I should also mention that Lucky Loser my book.
Speaker 1: It's in stores next week starting on Tuesday. You can
Speaker 1: order it now, thank you. But those were just the
Speaker 1: bit players of the night. One Democrat even gave himself
Speaker 1: a speaking.
Speaker 5: Part Democrats interrupting just four minutes into the speech, Texas
Speaker 5: Democrat Al Green heckling the president, shaking his cane at him.
Speaker 2: Members are directed to uphold and maintain the quorum in
Speaker 2: the House.
Speaker 5: Speaker Mike Johnson stopping this speech, ordering Green be removed
Speaker 5: from the chamber.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, there's some kind of badass about shaking
Speaker 1: a cane at someone. Right, don't with me unless you
Speaker 1: want to take this very slowly outside. All right, I
Speaker 1: will say props to this guy. He got to send
Speaker 1: a message to President Trump and go home early. You know,
Speaker 1: I should have I should have tried that when I
Speaker 1: wanted to leave my nephew baptism. You do not have
Speaker 1: the mandate. I'm out of here now. Let's not forget
Speaker 1: about the Republicans. They also played their part in this performance,
Speaker 1: which was to cheer and hoot for their guy and
Speaker 1: make sure that everyone knew what country this was. Yeah, Usa, USA, careful, guys.
Speaker 1: The last time Republicans got this routy at the Capitol,
Speaker 1: Nancy Pelosi had to bleach her desk. Here here's a
Speaker 1: moment that encapsulated the embarrassing theater of the entire night.
Speaker 1: It's before the speech even started, when Donald Trump is
Speaker 1: walking down to the podium surrounded by hooting Republicans, when
Speaker 1: a Democrat walks up behind him with a sign that
Speaker 1: says this is not normal day, which, first of all,
Speaker 1: I think it is normal at this point. Trump has
Speaker 1: been in our lives for a decade. Now, sadly, this
Speaker 1: is our our normal, in the same way that twenty
Speaker 1: years ago it wasn't normal to drunkenly jump in the
Speaker 1: backseat of a stranger's car, but now it's called uber
Speaker 1: and there's only a fifty percent chance you end up murdered.
Speaker 1: So yeah, you know, shit changes. Okay, But anyway, that
Speaker 1: Democrat is holding a sign that's wrong and ineffective, and
Speaker 1: then a divorced dad Republican sees the sign, reaches over
Speaker 1: and yanks it out of her hand and chucks it
Speaker 1: onto the floor and she just stands there and does nothing.
Speaker 1: She's like, well, well, that sign was my only idea.
Speaker 1: But forget the supporting cast. The star of the night
Speaker 1: was Donald Trump. And you have to admit he showed
Speaker 1: a lot of range last night, Okay, like when he
Speaker 1: talked about doge finding social Security fraud, he got to
Speaker 1: show off his lying skills.
Speaker 6: We're also identify buying shocking levels of incompetence and probable
Speaker 6: fraud in the Social Security program. Government databases list four
Speaker 6: point seven million social Security members from people aged one
Speaker 6: hundred to one hundred nine years old, three point six
Speaker 6: million people from ages one hundred and ten to one
Speaker 6: hundred and nineteen, three point five million people from ages
Speaker 6: one hundred and forty to one hundred and forty one,
Speaker 6: and one person is listed at three hundred and sixty
Speaker 6: years of age.
Speaker 1: I can't believe we're paying that many people's social security.
Speaker 1: I can't believe it because it's not true. Okay, and
Speaker 1: I could it's been the bump. I could explain why
Speaker 1: it's false and why Trump's wasting everybody's time over an
Speaker 1: Excel spreadsheet air or in the time it would take
Speaker 1: to explain it, we could watch this video of my
Speaker 1: dog Walter fact check. He's perfect. But Trump spent a
Speaker 1: lot of his performance on the waste elon musk Is finding,
Speaker 1: while also showcasing his masterful ability to troll.
Speaker 6: Just listen to some of the appalling waste. We have
Speaker 6: already identified twenty million dollars for the Arab Sesame Street
Speaker 6: in the Middle East, Diversity equity and inclusion scholarships in Burma,
Speaker 6: improving learning outcomes in Asia, LGBTQI plus in the African
Speaker 6: nation of Lesuto. Eight million dollars for making mice transgender.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, I remember that children's book. I think
Speaker 1: it's called If You Give a Mouse a pussy Right now.
Speaker 1: To be fair, eight million dollars to transition mice is
Speaker 1: a waste of money, you know. Just look at Mickey Mouse, right,
Speaker 1: you put a six dollars bow on him and boom,
Speaker 1: Mini Mouse. But hey, Trump, maybe you shouldn't criticize weird
Speaker 1: science stuff when your new best friend is the one
Speaker 1: putting microchips in monkey brains, and when those monkeys die,
Speaker 1: your other new best friend is taking them home in
Speaker 1: a doggie bag. But still, Trump did show his range
Speaker 1: when his speech turned to Greenland. He showed off a
Speaker 1: very singular special talent, reassuring our allies in a bizarrely
Speaker 1: threatening way.
Speaker 6: I also have a message tonight for the incredible people
Speaker 6: of Greenland. We strongly support your right to determine your
Speaker 6: own future, and if you choose, we welcome you into
Speaker 6: the United States of America. We need Greenland for national security,
Speaker 6: and I think we're going to get it.
Speaker 1: One way or the other. We're going to get it.
Speaker 1: Does Trump listen to himself when he talks. He's sending
Speaker 1: a lot of mixed messages. Right now, you hear that, Greenland,
Speaker 1: it's your choice, but you will be ours. Look totally
Speaker 1: your call. It's inevitable, guys, Greenland, It's up to you.
Speaker 1: We're easy, okay, give us your minerals. Matter of course,
Speaker 1: part of Trump's role in this performance is also announcing
Speaker 1: a major new policy, but doing it in the Trumpiest
Speaker 1: way possible.
Speaker 6: Other countries have used tariffs against US for decades, and
Speaker 6: now it's our turn to start using them against those
Speaker 6: other countries.
Speaker 1: And so on April second.
Speaker 6: I wanted to make it April first, but I didn't
Speaker 6: want to be accused of April Fool's Day. I'm a
Speaker 6: very superstitious person. April second, reciprocal tariffs kick in.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it makes perfect sense. You know, Trump
Speaker 1: can't make announcements on April Fool's Day. Otherwise we would
Speaker 1: all be like.
Speaker 7: What.
Speaker 1: Is this a joke? You know, as opposed to every
Speaker 1: other day where that isn't our reaction to the stuff
Speaker 1: he does. I love the level of reverence Trump shows
Speaker 1: for April Fool's Day Juneteenth, that's not even a word. Now,
Speaker 1: this April Fool's Day, we will honor our ancestors by
Speaker 1: playing pranks and overall tom foolery. It's important. By the way,
Speaker 1: no one over the age of fourteen even celebrates April
Speaker 1: Fool's Day. That's like saying I was gonna end inflation
Speaker 1: next Friday. But actually that's when the Kid's Choice Awards
Speaker 1: are so we'll see. But as always, the most important
Speaker 1: part of Trump's performance needling the Democrats.
Speaker 6: Joe Biden the worst president in American history. Joe Biden
Speaker 6: especially let the price of eggs get out of control,
Speaker 6: Joe Biden's insane and very dangerous open border policies. Look
Speaker 6: where Biden took us very low, the lowest we've ever been.
Speaker 6: Do you want to keep it going for another five years? Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 6: you would say, Pocahonta says yes. I look at the
Speaker 6: Democrats in front of me, and I realize there is
Speaker 6: absolutely nothing I can say to make them happy, or
Speaker 6: to make them stand or smile or applaud Nothing I
Speaker 6: can do.
Speaker 1: I don't get why everyone that I've been bullying for
Speaker 1: ten years never smiles at me? Why don't you like me?
Speaker 1: You limptick lunatics? And by the way, how is Trump
Speaker 1: still obsessed with Biden? Move on, dude, you won right
Speaker 1: you think Mark Zuckerberg is still talking about Tom from MySpace? No,
Speaker 1: he's busy having a midlife crisis. Look at this. Also,
Speaker 1: do you busted out the Elizabeth Warren Pocahontas line? That
Speaker 1: is such an old joke you might as well have
Speaker 1: been like, hey, pokahunters. So all in all, my review
Speaker 1: of last night's theater production is that it was humiliating
Speaker 1: in a display of thirst for attention, blind partisan rage,
Speaker 1: and a total disinterest in doing anything that might benefit
Speaker 1: the people. In other words, it truly was the State
Speaker 1: of the Union. Now for more on last night's speech,
Speaker 1: we go Live to the Capitol with Ronnie Chank Ronnie Ronnie.
Speaker 1: Last Night's spectacle. Last night's spectacle had to be a
Speaker 1: new low for America.
Speaker 8: Oh yeah, sure, new low. Oh my god, it was
Speaker 8: so crazy.
Speaker 1: People are holding on signs.
Speaker 8: An old guy like yelled someday this night was nothing costa.
Speaker 8: That shit was more boring than white lotus.
Speaker 1: But wha, it's not all about the plot. They're building
Speaker 1: the character. Look, but what matters here is that our
Speaker 1: nation's leaders were acting like screaming children. That's embarrassing.
Speaker 8: Okay, let me give you some international perspective. Okay, watch
Speaker 8: what happened in Serbia's parliama yesterday.
Speaker 1: Right, Look at this. That's smoke bombs.
Speaker 8: Okay, this looks like Philadelphia after a Super Bowl or
Speaker 8: any day. Do you know how many smoke bombs you
Speaker 8: have to set off the overpowered cigarette smoke in Serbia?
Speaker 8: That is an abandonment of decorum. Okay, especially in Serbia,
Speaker 8: a country where eighty percent of the men work as bouncers.
Speaker 1: Okay, how about.
Speaker 8: Taiwan, longtime democracy, polite Asian country. Look at that parliament
Speaker 8: last month. Here they are politely barricading each other with
Speaker 8: chairs in a complete district golf of funks.
Speaker 1: It's like Taiwan.
Speaker 8: It's like, hey, Taiwan parliament, how about you stop fighting
Speaker 8: and comb and help me move my apartment?
Speaker 1: All right, I only have three chairs.
Speaker 8: It would take no time.
Speaker 1: All right, you know I get your point?
Speaker 8: All right, Well, too bad, because I'm not done.
Speaker 1: Okay, look at.
Speaker 8: Look at Italy. Okay, look at this. I didn't even
Speaker 8: know why the fighting is. Probably because someone voted to
Speaker 8: add pineapple on pizza, I don't know. And look up,
Speaker 8: how about the country of Georgia?
Speaker 1: All right? Is normal? Normal? So punch in the face.
Speaker 8: That guy just really snuck up on you, coming in
Speaker 8: from the front like that in a well lit room.
Speaker 1: I see what you're saying. You're saying that in America
Speaker 1: were better than that, So you're right, thank you, Ronnie.
Speaker 8: No, I'm saying I'm saying we should also be doing that,
Speaker 8: all right, Yeah, yeah, Hey, America, if you're gonna get rowdy,
Speaker 8: don't half ass it with like a little whiteboard. Okay,
Speaker 8: Congres I should have looked like Walmart on Black Friday
Speaker 8: or Philadelphia on any day.
Speaker 1: But Ronnie, Ronnie, if we do that, Congress won't get
Speaker 1: anything done.
Speaker 8: They already don't get anything done. You might as well
Speaker 8: start a raw rumble, which reminds me, I bet I
Speaker 8: get out here.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 8: Estonia has an agricultural committee meeting on pay per view.
Speaker 1: I don't want Ronnie Chang everybody, Honnie Chang everybody when
Speaker 1: we come back. Julian Baker and Torres will be joining me,
Speaker 1: so don't go away. Welcome back to Elosia. My guests
Speaker 1: tonight are critically acclaimed musicians whose forthcoming album is called
Speaker 1: Send a Prayer My Way. Please welcome Julian Baker and Torres.
Speaker 1: Who are those outfits? I mean I thought I looked good. Yeah,
Speaker 1: look at these outfits. These are amazing. Tell me about them.
Speaker 4: Uh oh, we wanted to do the classic Nudi suit thing.
Speaker 4: Got Union Western.
Speaker 1: To make us seas those are sweet, got.
Speaker 4: A little Tennessee flora and fauna.
Speaker 1: I think I even saw a marijuana leaf. Perhaps you
Speaker 1: might have yes. For those of you that know your
Speaker 1: music individually, wouldn't have necessarily thought you were going to
Speaker 1: get together and make a country album. How did we
Speaker 1: get here? Tell me what happened.
Speaker 7: Julian and I have been friends for a little while,
Speaker 7: and when the pandemic lockdown occurred, yep, I texted her
Speaker 7: kind of out of the blue because I'd been thinking
Speaker 7: about making a country record for a while, but I
Speaker 7: didn't want to do it alone. And Julian was the
Speaker 7: first person I thought of because she's Tennessee. Okay, I'm
Speaker 7: from Georgia. It just made sense and I wanted.
Speaker 1: I there's one Tennessee in here in New York, like.
Speaker 7: I wanted to make something with her. I thought it
Speaker 7: sounded fun.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's been in the works for a little bit,
Speaker 1: right is that? Five years?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 1: Five years? Wow? A little bit. It's beautiful. I love it,
Speaker 1: Thank you. I played it for my family, I played
Speaker 1: it for me. I played it for my dog. He
Speaker 1: now was wearing outfits like yours, which is strange. It's
Speaker 1: being called a queer country album. Why not call it
Speaker 1: a queer tree album Michael Costa Trademark twenty twenty five
Speaker 1: or les Letsbentry album. Is that good? Now? I guess
Speaker 1: let's talk about genre for a second. I mean the
Speaker 1: title queer country album? Does that evoke anything? Do you
Speaker 1: do you bother that someone might call it that? Are
Speaker 1: you proud of that?
Speaker 7: I'm certainly proud of it. I mean, you know, yeah,
Speaker 7: we're queer.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 7: You know, if it were up to me, it would
Speaker 7: just be country. Yes, yes, but you know, I'm very
Speaker 7: proud to have made a queer country album. Absolutely.
Speaker 1: The title Send a Prayer My Way evokes religion. Tell
Speaker 1: me your journey with religion? Is it? Am I overthinking it?
Speaker 4: No, you're not overthinking it.
Speaker 1: I don't always think of a you know, Christianity doing
Speaker 1: such a good job with queer and gay.
Speaker 4: Absolutely not. I think Mackenzie and I know a little
Speaker 4: bit about that firsthand. We were both raised in religious
Speaker 4: household and social context and culture.
Speaker 1: But yeah, yeah, I know.
Speaker 4: I mean because you and I were talking before this,
Speaker 4: and not to diminish our spirituality is important, you know.
Speaker 4: I think there's this idea that when you talk about
Speaker 4: a practice of prayer, you're talking about a dogmatic religious belief.
Speaker 4: But I feel like organized religion is not necessarily the
Speaker 4: same thing, maybe often gets in the way of pursuit
Speaker 4: of the divine.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 4: I think that's something everybody, every human intuitively yearns for.
Speaker 4: I think definitely, you know, as musicians, as people seeking
Speaker 4: like just justice and fair treatment for ourselves and for
Speaker 4: you know, the world, and being outraged everything that's happening
Speaker 4: around us. I think that's a really normal reaction, is
Speaker 4: to idealize like a more utopian or divine destination.
Speaker 1: Of the divine. That's badass. And I can tell you
Speaker 1: I feel like only musicians can pursue the divine. No
Speaker 1: one is listening to my comedy going now that guy
Speaker 1: is in pursuit of the divine. I want to hear
Speaker 1: your thoughts on the religious component, if there is one.
Speaker 7: Yeah, it's a little bit loaded. I mean I grew
Speaker 7: up in the Baptist church, like Evangelical in Georgia. I
Speaker 7: struggled with it. I U when I left Georgia. I
Speaker 7: left the church proudly, never went back. And dare I
Speaker 7: say my relationship to what one might call God source energy,
Speaker 7: the Supreme being, the Divine, it has only become a
Speaker 7: more intimate relationship. Actually, as I've aged and I've you know,
Speaker 7: just surrounded myself with a community of people that love
Speaker 7: me and that want me to be exactly who I am.
Speaker 1: Right totally. I love that. It doesn't surprise me that
Speaker 1: you're thoughtful and kind and compassionate in speaking with you,
Speaker 1: because your music comes across that way. But you're speaking
Speaker 1: about things that love you for being you. Dogs. Holy shit,
Speaker 1: one of your songs, Sylvia, it's about your dog, right, Mackenzie.
Speaker 9: That's right.
Speaker 1: I love having a dog. Because when I go to
Speaker 1: comedy at night, I bomb I succeed, it went well,
Speaker 1: it went poorly. It doesn't matter. All these thoughts and
Speaker 1: expectations I have when I walk through the door, he's
Speaker 1: happy to see me. Is that the same for music?
Speaker 1: Get the same for your dog? What's the name of
Speaker 1: your dog? My dog is Sylvia. That's that's what the
Speaker 1: name of the song is.
Speaker 7: Born on Sylvia Platt's birthday.
Speaker 1: She was born on Sylvia Platt's birthday. Let's yeah, let's
Speaker 1: let's state that because I asked you what your dog's
Speaker 1: name was after I told you what your dog.
Speaker 7: Could have been my dog?
Speaker 1: So what's your relationship with dog? With your dog and music?
Speaker 7: And yeah, I mean it's the same thing. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 7: You you have maybe a gig that you're not like
Speaker 7: super stoked about. Uh, maybe you messed up a little bit,
Speaker 7: and you come home. And for me, it's usually after
Speaker 7: a maybe a more extended thing like a tour, and
Speaker 7: then I come home and Sylvia is just oh god,
Speaker 7: she's just uh yeah, always the same. She's so loving.
Speaker 1: That's great, precious.
Speaker 4: What about you, Jane, No, it's the same. I It's funny.
Speaker 4: I love dogs because their relationship is out, you know,
Speaker 4: it's extra lingual. There's nothing you can say really to
Speaker 4: a dog to manipulate them or to reframe a situation.
Speaker 4: Either you're showing up for them, you put food in
Speaker 4: the bowl, you.
Speaker 1: Take him out, or you don't.
Speaker 4: But weirdly, there's this like capacity for grace that extends,
Speaker 4: I feel like a human relationship, or you know, surpasses
Speaker 4: a human relationship. I got beans when I was going
Speaker 4: through kind of like tough time in my life, and
Speaker 4: I was thinking, you know, man, I don't have my
Speaker 4: shit together enough to have a dog. And the dog
Speaker 4: made me get my shit together, you know, because now
Speaker 4: there's something else I have to take care of her.
Speaker 4: When she's just sitting looking at me with the sweetest,
Speaker 4: most innocent eyes, I'm like, okay, yeah.
Speaker 1: And I brought my asshole dog to the green room
Speaker 1: and he was dog well yeah, well he was very
Speaker 1: warm with you two. He sensed your your kindness.
Speaker 4: Yeah, sense my love.
Speaker 1: I came home one time and I said hi to
Speaker 1: my dog before my wife, and she said, why are
Speaker 1: you saying hi to the dog first? Say hi to
Speaker 1: your wife first? And I said, I'm saying hi to
Speaker 1: who's excited to see me. How cool is it that
Speaker 1: you're going to play for us? I mean, this is
Speaker 1: really amazing. I love your album. Everyone needs to listen
Speaker 1: to it. Send a Prayer My Way, Julian Baker and Torres.
Speaker 1: Now you're gonna play bottom of the Bottle for us.
Speaker 1: What can you tell us about that song?
Speaker 7: It's a drinking song.
Speaker 1: Hell yeah, I had a feeling. I had a feeling.
Speaker 4: So that's the first song you sent me.
Speaker 7: I believe it was the first demo that I sent Julian.
Speaker 7: When we were passing ideas back and forth.
Speaker 4: You send me an email. The subject line was pastiche.
Speaker 7: Yeah, okay, it was a little it was a little
Speaker 7: nod to some of my you know, my country boy here, Yeah,
Speaker 7: the George Straits and whatnot.
Speaker 1: Yeah, right, well, it's a great song. George Strait is
Speaker 1: here tonight. It's a great song. We're looking forward to it.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much for being here and talking with us.
Speaker 1: Send a Prayer My Way comes out April eighteenth. It's
Speaker 1: available for.
Speaker 4: Free one now.
Speaker 1: That's our show for tonight. Now here it is their
Speaker 1: moment of za.
Speaker 9: But I think the thing remarkable about it is this
Speaker 9: was a very very positive speech. The fact is it
Speaker 9: was a combination of wonderful poetry, particularly at the end,
Speaker 9: and about a substance of a state of the union
Speaker 9: speech that I've ever heard.
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