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Speaker 3: for you tonight. So let's get into the headlines. Let's
Speaker 3: begin with.
Speaker 4: An update on former Fox News grand Wizard Tucker Carlson.
Speaker 4: Last night, Tucker re emerged for the first time since
Speaker 4: he was fired, recording a personal video from his business Sana.
Speaker 5: Good evening, It's Tucker Carlson.
Speaker 6: One of the first things you realize when you step
Speaker 6: outside the noise for a few days is how many
Speaker 6: genuinely nice people there are in this country, kind and
Speaker 6: decent people. The other thing you notice when you take
Speaker 6: a little time off is how unbelievably stupid most of
Speaker 6: the debates you see on television are. They're completely relevant,
Speaker 6: they mean nothing. In five years, we won't even remember
Speaker 6: that we have them. Where can you still find Americans?
Speaker 6: Saying true things. There aren't many places left, but there
Speaker 6: are some and that's enough. As long as you can
Speaker 6: hear the words, there is hope, See you soon.
Speaker 3: Wow. Good for Tucker.
Speaker 4: Even though he's isolated in a remote cabin somewhere, he's
Speaker 4: still getting his message out, just like the unibomber. And
Speaker 4: you know what you know, let's give Tucker credit for
Speaker 4: not saying the C word once during this video.
Speaker 3: Ramo, Tucker, I know, I know.
Speaker 4: That was really hard for you, Although it is funny
Speaker 4: how he said, when you step outside the noise, people
Speaker 4: are actually pretty nice.
Speaker 3: Buddy, you are the noise.
Speaker 4: Your entire show was you being mean to people, trans people, immigrants, women,
Speaker 4: Lady emin M's.
Speaker 3: Are complaining about people being mean.
Speaker 4: Is like Guy Fieri complaining about how there are no
Speaker 4: salad shows. Meanwhile, CNN's female expiration date checker, Don Lemon
Speaker 4: was also fired this week, and he's handling things much differently.
Speaker 7: Don Lemon spoke for the first time at a Star
Speaker 7: studed event.
Speaker 8: I'm appearing on the red carpet at the annual Time
Speaker 8: one hundred gala in New York City.
Speaker 5: What is next for you, Don?
Speaker 1: I don't know. Sitting on the beach with this gentleman
Speaker 1: all summer and having a great summer, and I'm gonna
Speaker 1: have the summer of a twelve year old.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Don Lemon's gonna have the summer of a twelve
Speaker 4: year old. So I guess getting horny while reading the
Speaker 4: Harry Potter books.
Speaker 3: I like how Tucker's like.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna do whatever it takes to fight for the truth,
Speaker 4: and Don Lemon's like, I'm gonna go boogie board. Don listen,
Speaker 4: you don't need to go back to being a twelve
Speaker 4: year old to live your best life. Don't let anyone
Speaker 4: tell you your pastor prime. Let's move on to Washington,
Speaker 4: d C. Where Congress yesterday held hearings on COVID school closings,
Speaker 4: with testimony from Teachers Union president Randy Winegarden.
Speaker 3: And I think we can agree.
Speaker 4: That this is an entirely reasonable subject for rational debate.
Speaker 4: That is, of course, unless QAnon Karen is involved.
Speaker 9: Ms.
Speaker 3: Winegarden, are you a mother?
Speaker 5: I am a mother by marriage.
Speaker 8: By marriage, I see, and my wife is.
Speaker 3: Here with me, so I'm really glad that she's here.
Speaker 8: What I'd like to talk about is your recommendations to
Speaker 8: the CDC as not a medical doctor, not a biological mother,
Speaker 8: and really not a teacher. People like you need to
Speaker 8: admit that you're just a political activist, not a teacher,
Speaker 8: not a mother, and not a medical doctor.
Speaker 4: Jesus, what the hell was that about. Listen, Marjorie, you
Speaker 4: don't get to decide who's a mother or not. That
Speaker 4: job exclusively belongs to gay men on TikTok. Also, it's
Speaker 4: a little weird to hear MTG dissing stepmothers, because this
Speaker 4: woman has the most stepmom energy I have ever seen.
Speaker 3: Remember that white.
Speaker 4: Coat, Okay, that is not the coat you wear when
Speaker 4: you're a mom. That's the coat you wear when you're
Speaker 4: finding someone's dad. And finally, you may have noticed that
Speaker 4: air travel has been kind of a shit show lately,
Speaker 4: between unruly passengers, delays, long security lines thanks to the
Speaker 4: TSA's policy of finding every dildo, well.
Speaker 3: Not every dildo.
Speaker 4: And all of that was bad enough before a new
Speaker 4: problem showed up, actual angry birds.
Speaker 10: Four dramatic bird strikes over Texas, all within twenty four hours,
Speaker 10: forcing planes packed with passengers to turn around. Listen as
Speaker 10: pilots on a United flight from Houston to Santiago, Chile
Speaker 10: describe it right.
Speaker 5: After take off.
Speaker 11: We are declarity for the.
Speaker 10: Two other flights, an American Airlines flight from McCallan to
Speaker 10: Dallas and a Southwest flight from Houston to Corpus Christy, all.
Speaker 5: Colliding with birds.
Speaker 10: These strikes come after that terrifying incident over the weekend.
Speaker 5: May Day, May Day, maybe we had a birth. It
Speaker 5: is Tillia. And we are only going to.
Speaker 10: Hear about more of these as we go into the summer,
Speaker 10: because more than half of all bird strikes happen between
Speaker 10: July and October, not July through October.
Speaker 3: What about Don Lemon's twelve year old summer.
Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, birds flying into play that's terrifying, But I
Speaker 4: kind of get it. I just watched the Avatar sequel
Speaker 4: on a flight, and I also wanted to throw myself
Speaker 4: into a Jetta engeta. The question is how can we
Speaker 4: make the skies safer? To get every perspective, we turn
Speaker 4: to our news team.
Speaker 3: Starting with our Ya golst Clane. Don't say what can
Speaker 3: be done about the bird strikes?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 12: Nothing, Look, this is a vival of the fittest baby girl. Okay,
Speaker 12: if a bird can't see or hear a seven forty
Speaker 12: seven it's time for that bird to meet bird Jesus.
Speaker 7: Stick to me.
Speaker 12: I mean that bird is not the best or the brightest.
Speaker 12: If it wasn't going to be a plane, it was
Speaker 12: going to be a glass door.
Speaker 3: Sorry, bird Jesus.
Speaker 7: The point is.
Speaker 12: We've had planes for over seventy years. If the birds
Speaker 12: don't know about it yet, that's on them. I'm not
Speaker 12: letting this stop me from going to Barbados. There's a
Speaker 12: nice man there called win Stone looking for me.
Speaker 3: Okay, good for.
Speaker 4: You, They'll say, okay, yeah, that's a hard line position.
Speaker 4: So you're saying you don't care about any of the birds.
Speaker 12: Does the Elizabeth lydac that's of course I care about
Speaker 12: the birds. Chickens are birds, and I with chickens because
Speaker 12: they know their place, and that place is in a sandwich.
Speaker 3: Fair point. Fair point.
Speaker 4: Now we turn to the forest with our very own
Speaker 4: Jordan Klepper. So should humans show no regard for birds
Speaker 4: in the sky?
Speaker 5: Of course not, daisi.
Speaker 13: This is such a typical human response to colonize the air. First,
Speaker 13: we appropriate bird culture by flying into their home uninvited.
Speaker 13: We mock their bird at the cuisine by eating their
Speaker 13: little nuts in.
Speaker 5: A bag, and then tell them they're not welcome.
Speaker 13: No, I will not be co opting Avian spaces.
Speaker 5: The right brothers h more like the wrong brothers.
Speaker 13: If you want to get to Houston, just do what
Speaker 13: I do.
Speaker 5: Hop on an ee bike Boom. Thirty days later you're there.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 4: Okay, so you're clearly team Bird.
Speaker 3: Interesting. Well let's turn to Roywood Junior.
Speaker 4: Roy, Roy, what side are you on?
Speaker 1: DESI I'm on n their side. The solution is to
Speaker 1: come together and share the skies. That's why we need
Speaker 1: to convince the birds to fly in the planes with us.
Speaker 1: It's a win win, It's a win win. Look at
Speaker 1: me right now, Look at me right now, Daisy. I'm
Speaker 1: on a flight to Miami sharing a seat with this
Speaker 1: little guy. His name's Daryl, and we've become great friends
Speaker 1: on this flight. And is there that right now?
Speaker 3: Roy? That's so cute.
Speaker 4: That's very inspiring. I love that, dul Saint Roy says
Speaker 4: that we can share the skies.
Speaker 12: Listen, you know what birds are like. If you give
Speaker 12: them an inch, they'll share on it. Now, I don't
Speaker 12: trust animals at poop hit. I mean, is this how
Speaker 12: you make white out?
Speaker 2: Anybody know what.
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 12: I didn't think so.
Speaker 3: Know about that. But Jordan, what do you think?
Speaker 5: No, that's not how they make white out.
Speaker 13: Frankly, the only upside to humans in the sky is
Speaker 13: that we might die.
Speaker 5: That's when we're reminded we are alive. Does he.
Speaker 13: I'm gonna tell you a story a while ago, before
Speaker 13: I was versed in the oppressive structures of aerodynamics, I
Speaker 13: was on a flight that was hit by a bird strike,
Speaker 13: and I thought I was going to perish. And while
Speaker 13: the plane was going down, I called a girl I
Speaker 13: had a crush on in high school and told her
Speaker 13: I loved her.
Speaker 3: Oh, well, it's a really sweet story.
Speaker 13: Well my wife didn't think so, neither d Tanya or
Speaker 13: her husband. By the time I landed, two marriages were
Speaker 13: in shambles. That's twy Man doesn't belong in the sky,
Speaker 13: DESSI will only end in tears in three months in
Speaker 13: a Buffalo airport laking to inn.
Speaker 3: Oh, that's sad. I have to say. I like the
Speaker 3: idea of sharing our planes with the birds. Roy, I
Speaker 3: think I agree with you.
Speaker 5: No object.
Speaker 11: The plane hit the figs, some of the bits was
Speaker 11: spread to the conflict.
Speaker 1: Love we all my great and south.
Speaker 5: To win again.
Speaker 11: You betrayed me. Then share about creating the I'm going
Speaker 11: to get n tell you and love you and thank you,
Speaker 11: the gee and me and the light man.
Speaker 10: What what.
Speaker 5: I'm telling.
Speaker 2: Guys?
Speaker 5: What are you quickly right?
Speaker 3: Why don't they enjoy? And everybody? When we come back,
Speaker 3: we'll find out what not.
Speaker 14: To put your vajina? So don't go away.
Speaker 2: Welcome back to today.
Speaker 4: So let's talk about wellness. It's a one point five
Speaker 4: trillion dollar industry and I'm obsessed.
Speaker 3: I've tried it all.
Speaker 4: I drink mushroom coffee, I've done ice baths, I've tried
Speaker 4: meditation apps. I gave my meditation app an ice bath.
Speaker 4: I don't know if it worked because my phone won't
Speaker 4: turn on. But like a ski trip with Gwyneth Paltrow,
Speaker 4: wellness has a dark side, and that is what I
Speaker 4: want to talk about in tonight's installment of Long Story Short.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 4: You might think that the term wellness started in the nineties,
Speaker 4: back when white women invented yoga, but it's actually been
Speaker 4: around for at least a century, and until very recently,
Speaker 4: there's been zero government regulation to make sure that wellness
Speaker 4: products are legit. A company could claim that their Pandaceman
Speaker 4: protein powder will give you that glow, but.
Speaker 3: They don't have to show receips, so it's no surprise
Speaker 3: that they sell a lot of snake oil.
Speaker 15: The US Preventive Services Task Force reviewed eighty four studies
Speaker 15: involving hundreds of thousands of people over thirty years. The
Speaker 15: task Force concluded there was little or no benefit in
Speaker 15: using vitamin and mineral supplements to prevent cancer, cardiovascular disease,
Speaker 15: and death.
Speaker 3: There is a new study that failed.
Speaker 9: Some of those melitonin gummies that are so popular actually
Speaker 9: contain way more of the hormone than they advertise.
Speaker 15: Wellness influencers promoting products like colloidal silver drops they say
Speaker 15: can combent where there is infection.
Speaker 16: Non prescription products that contain colloidal silver are not recognized
Speaker 16: as safe by the FDA.
Speaker 9: There's a lot of buzz around tea tooxes, but dietitians
Speaker 9: and doctors will tell you detoxing.
Speaker 3: Is a myth.
Speaker 9: There is one ingredient, though, that takes some tetoxes to
Speaker 9: another level. It's called senile, and the thing is Sena
Speaker 9: can also cause stomach problems, cramps, and diarrhea.
Speaker 5: After using sena for a while, you might not.
Speaker 9: Be able to poop without it.
Speaker 3: That's right.
Speaker 4: If you take some of these products, you might be
Speaker 4: as full of shit as the influencers who sell them. Look,
Speaker 4: I get why people want to believe this stuff works,
Speaker 4: but if just drinking tea was the key to looking snatched,
Speaker 4: the British royal family would look a lot different. But look,
Speaker 4: the truth is, you don't have to spend a single
Speaker 4: dollar to try a bullshit wellness trend.
Speaker 3: Just go on social media and.
Speaker 4: You'll find plenty of ways to jeopardize your health for free.
Speaker 8: Advocates of the saltwater flush claim chugging water mixed with
Speaker 8: two tablespoons of salt is a healthy way to clean
Speaker 8: out your colon, but experts are issuing stern warnings.
Speaker 3: Dangerous as it literally napon free your bowels.
Speaker 7: It's the latest viral health trend, with nearly forty million
Speaker 7: views on TikTok the claim that putting a tape on
Speaker 7: your mouth at night can help you get better sleep.
Speaker 7: It's a trend that has some medical experts sounding the alarm.
Speaker 3: You're risking thing like cardiac arrest. It can induce seizures.
Speaker 3: There's a lot of risks to it.
Speaker 5: Doctors are warning against a viral wellness trend called paraneum sunning.
Speaker 1: They say it's not worth the risk of sun damage
Speaker 1: or even skin cancer.
Speaker 4: Just a general rule, never try a trend that seems
Speaker 4: like it was invented by the guy next door with binoculars.
Speaker 3: Please please do not try that at home.
Speaker 4: If you want to see a sunburnt asshole, just watch
Speaker 4: the next presidential campaign.
Speaker 3: That's the last we'll see a him nailed his ass.
Speaker 4: But maybe the darkest side of wellness is that too
Speaker 4: often it's not even about wellness. It's about targeting women's insecurities,
Speaker 4: whether it's eliminating your wrinkles, flattening your abs, or the
Speaker 4: industry's favorite targets are extremely disappointing vaginas. Apparently it needs
Speaker 4: a full renno down there talk in detox, pearls to
Speaker 4: stay clean, vaginal eggs to tighten its core, and of course,
Speaker 4: gummies to improve its taste.
Speaker 3: Because it's not.
Speaker 4: Enough that your vagina can regulate its own pH and
Speaker 4: be a pleasure center and deliver a baby. It also
Speaker 4: needs to taste so good it gets a Michelin star.
Speaker 3: We don't need any of this.
Speaker 4: The vagina is a self cleaning organ It's not like
Speaker 4: you need a tiny rumba in there getting all those
Speaker 4: hard to reach corners. In fact, if your vagina has corners,
Speaker 4: please go see a doctor. But the fact is the
Speaker 4: reason the wellness industry is making so much money off women.
Speaker 3: In the first place is because of doctors.
Speaker 4: The American healthcare industry is constantly failing women, whether it's
Speaker 4: doctors dismissing their symptoms or telling them that their pain
Speaker 4: isn't as bad as they're claiming, or prescribing them less
Speaker 4: medicine than men for the same issues. And keep in mind,
Speaker 4: this is all even worse for women of color, and
Speaker 4: it's happening as the courts and states are rapidly eroding
Speaker 4: women's access to reproductive health care. And all of this
Speaker 4: is stressing me out so much. I could really use
Speaker 4: a pantace em and smoothie like meditation app when I
Speaker 4: need it. So it's no wonder that women turn to
Speaker 4: wellness despite all its faults, Because what's more ridiculous a
Speaker 4: healthcare system that denies women treatment and tells them that
Speaker 4: they're pains all in their head or this so long
Speaker 4: story short until American healthcare takes women's concerns serious. We're
Speaker 4: going to continue to be targets for alternative solutions.
Speaker 3: So the next time a.
Speaker 4: Wellness brand tries to sell you a product, here's some advice.
Speaker 4: Pretend like you're a doctor listening to a female patient.
Speaker 4: Don't take their word for it.
Speaker 3: Stay tuned because when we come back.
Speaker 5: So Fia Bush.
Speaker 3: Will be joining me on the show. Duncle Welcome.
Speaker 8: As with a daily show.
Speaker 4: My guest tonight is an actor an activist who will
Speaker 4: be starring in London's popular West End production two twenty
Speaker 4: two A Ghost Story, beginning May fourteenth. Please welcome Sophia Bush.
Speaker 5: Hi.
Speaker 3: Who this been so nice? Feels good?
Speaker 8: Right?
Speaker 3: Power at it?
Speaker 16: Yes, ladies running the daily show sad very into this.
Speaker 14: Yeah, now guess this week that's what we got.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's great to see. Welcome to the show. Thank
Speaker 3: you so much. Thanks for having me. Hi, everybody.
Speaker 4: You You've been busy on many things, but one of
Speaker 4: them is your very popular podcast Drama Queens, Yes, which
Speaker 4: is basically a rewatch podcast of One Tree Hill.
Speaker 3: Right, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 16: We realized that the nine years of that show that
Speaker 16: we made were sort of a blur, and people at
Speaker 16: these lovely events always ask us you remember when, and
Speaker 16: we were like, we don't.
Speaker 3: I'm so sorry, I don't remember.
Speaker 16: And our sort of COVID project was launching this podcast,
Speaker 16: and it's actually been really special to relive it, and
Speaker 16: every so often we're all just sitting on zoom sobbing
Speaker 16: and we're like, we get it.
Speaker 3: It's really good.
Speaker 4: This is super emotional, very therapeutic, I would imagine, because
Speaker 4: when you started that show, you were really young.
Speaker 3: You were like twenty years old.
Speaker 16: I had just turned twenty one. Hillary Burton and I
Speaker 16: actually our birthdays are one week apart. We had both
Speaker 16: just shredded our fake id's I'm so sorry mom, and
Speaker 16: we were.
Speaker 3: Like, we can get into bars now.
Speaker 5: We are so grown up.
Speaker 16: Turns out, at twenty one, you are still absolutely a child,
Speaker 16: and it's really weird to look back and see.
Speaker 4: Well, there are so many documentaries that have come out
Speaker 4: recently about women entering the entertainment industry at that time
Speaker 4: in the early two thousands, Paris, Hilton, Britney, Spears Anderson
Speaker 4: and hearing their side of the story, what was that
Speaker 4: like going into the industry that young?
Speaker 16: You know that famous adage, it was the best of
Speaker 16: times and the worst of times. It was that, you know,
Speaker 16: it's it's so special to go and do what you
Speaker 16: love and to get to do art for a living.
Speaker 16: And we worked for a total pig and that was awful,
Speaker 16: and so it was very confusing. I mean, I'm like,
Speaker 16: women are laughing, I'm like, you know what I'm talking
Speaker 16: about where you're like, I love my job, but I
Speaker 16: was really hated here.
Speaker 4: Ooh, I don't know any pigs at this job.
Speaker 15: I love this job.
Speaker 3: We love this job.
Speaker 5: It's a lot.
Speaker 3: This is different. This is different. This truly is different.
Speaker 3: It is, and you know when it is.
Speaker 16: I worked on this amazing show in Toronto last year.
Speaker 3: That was different.
Speaker 16: And you know, when I look at sort of what's
Speaker 16: on my resume, almost everything has been amazing. It just
Speaker 16: sucks in the things that you've done the longest have
Speaker 16: been sort of.
Speaker 3: Toxic and awful.
Speaker 4: How amazing that you talk about it with your castmates
Speaker 4: because having those conversations and I want to believe that
Speaker 4: things are different now. Women still struggle with these things.
Speaker 4: But by you talking about it, it makes other women
Speaker 4: not feel alone.
Speaker 16: That's been the really special part of it. And when
Speaker 16: people ask women like why are you so obsessed with this.
Speaker 16: It's like, why were you never paying attention? Why when
Speaker 16: we were all crying for help, did you go like,
Speaker 16: it's not that bad, You're lucky. That's weird, But you know,
Speaker 16: I think for us, it's been really the unexpected side
Speaker 16: effect of this podcast job is that it's been really
Speaker 16: healing and it's been really empowering. And what's been really
Speaker 16: beautiful is the sort of connections that we've been making
Speaker 16: with listeners, with other women in our industry, with women
Speaker 16: who were directing on our show back then who listen
Speaker 16: to an episode reach out and say that was totally
Speaker 16: going on. I heard that or I was told this.
Speaker 16: It's been really affirming and so so I don't really
Speaker 16: care who's mad about it. We're here to heal and
Speaker 16: we are very much reclaiming our territory.
Speaker 3: Good Kael's nice.
Speaker 4: So much of what you do is you do so
Speaker 4: much activism. You are extremely vocal about issues that you
Speaker 4: care about, gun reform, voting rights, women's reproductive health. You
Speaker 4: were just honored yesterday by the National Institution of Reproductive
Speaker 4: Health for your work.
Speaker 3: How do I feel for gradually Wild.
Speaker 16: It was so vile and they gave me this like big, gorgeous,
Speaker 16: heavy award, and I was like, wonderful. I can leave
Speaker 16: here and feel very special and also have a weapon
Speaker 16: just in case, because that is being a woman in
Speaker 16: the world.
Speaker 15: You know.
Speaker 16: I was like, I don't have to carry my keys today.
Speaker 16: I got this jokes aside though it was, it was
Speaker 16: very special. And I think.
Speaker 3: Having a platform is a privilege.
Speaker 16: And I don't expect anybody to do what I do
Speaker 16: or believe what I believe necessarily, but I do think
Speaker 16: for me, knowing that this is a megaphone means that
Speaker 16: what I've been privileged enough to have access to, you know,
Speaker 16: study education, the words of women like Gloria Steinhem and
Speaker 16: Brittany Pacnett Cunningham and my friends who run the media
Speaker 16: are like I get to listen to incredible leaders and
Speaker 16: to amplify those voices and to talk about equity, whether
Speaker 16: it's in reproductive justice or justice for women of color,
Speaker 16: or black maternal mortality rates, or gun reform, because gun
Speaker 16: violence touches all of us.
Speaker 5: That's that's my work.
Speaker 16: And you know, in the same way that we as
Speaker 16: women need men to talk about sexual violence because like,
Speaker 16: it can't just be us. We're like please help us
Speaker 16: then talk to each other, my god, Like, it's the
Speaker 16: same way that I feel about as women when we
Speaker 16: look at the diversity within you know, our gender group,
Speaker 16: and then we look outward at how we need to
Speaker 16: stand up for our trans friends and folks like you know,
Speaker 16: all of the beautiful black women I see in this audience,
Speaker 16: Like racial justice among in feminism can't be your job, Like,
Speaker 16: that's our job women.
Speaker 3: Who look I gus of the problem.
Speaker 16: So for me, what has been, you know, a privilege
Speaker 16: and an awakening and hard and inspiring, has been getting
Speaker 16: really fired up about an injustice and then starting to
Speaker 16: pull the thread and going, oh my god, it's all connected.
Speaker 16: It's systemic everywhere. We have work to do, but I
Speaker 16: do think we can do it together. Organizations like the
Speaker 16: ANIRH are doing incredible work. They're proactive for us and
Speaker 16: our and our freedoms and our rights. And it's those
Speaker 16: sorts of groups, and obviously this group, because y'all are fabulous.
Speaker 4: But you're about to start a play in London called
Speaker 4: twenty two a Ghost Story.
Speaker 3: Till I get that right, twenty two a ghost Story?
Speaker 4: Are you excited to go work in a country where
Speaker 4: they have access to healthcare.
Speaker 3: Wow, that might be nice.
Speaker 5: I realized it was.
Speaker 16: It was a really big deal when I had to
Speaker 16: apply for my work visa and they were like, have
Speaker 16: you ever tried to sneak into the United Kingdom to
Speaker 16: access healthcare? And I was like, oh, yeah, we have
Speaker 16: to do that. I guess that's weird.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no that.
Speaker 16: But while I'm doing this job, can I go to
Speaker 16: the doctor?
Speaker 3: That's so cool and tell us what the play is about.
Speaker 4: It's a supernatural story, right, and involves ghosts.
Speaker 16: It is, so I don't want to give it away.
Speaker 16: But the thing we all loved about Friends was watching
Speaker 16: a group of people in an apartment hang out, right,
Speaker 16: so imagine it's four instead of six friends, and when
Speaker 16: they're party gets like.
Speaker 3: A little bit lit.
Speaker 16: People start up a conversation essentially of who does and
Speaker 16: doesn't believe in ghosts, and suddenly we're talking about belief
Speaker 16: and faith and upbringing and education and what's bigger than us?
Speaker 16: And it's very spicy fun and I love a.
Speaker 4: Good ghost story to do research for this role. Did
Speaker 4: you just go visit the Senate?
Speaker 8: I know I should have.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Okay, I'm sorry, Yeah.
Speaker 6: I should have.
Speaker 3: Who's the first time we were doing theater.
Speaker 16: It is a West End. Will be my stage debut,
Speaker 16: unless you count our.
Speaker 3: Town in the eighth grade. Same tame, SAME's same, same.
Speaker 3: You're gonna You're gonna be brilliant. You're gonna be brilliant.
Speaker 3: I can't wait to see you in this.
Speaker 16: I'm really excited and completely terrified. And then I have
Speaker 16: these moments where I'm like, Okay, we're doing eight shows
Speaker 16: a week in.
Speaker 3: Front of people. What if someone has a bad day?
Speaker 5: Like what?
Speaker 3: I don't know?
Speaker 16: And then it was actually one of my girlfriends from
Speaker 16: the podcast, Hillary said, Dude, when you do a TV show,
Speaker 16: you're on set for like fourteen to seventeen hours a day.
Speaker 16: This will literally be the least amount of hours you've
Speaker 16: ever worked in a week. And I went, oh, yeah, okay,
Speaker 16: I get it. Oh right, maybe I can read more
Speaker 16: books or something downtime.
Speaker 4: Yeah, great, okay, please with an audience, this is well,
Speaker 4: they're lovely. You once said that you weren't interested in
Speaker 4: a in working in politics back in twenty thirteen. You
Speaker 4: said this, but you said, ask me in ten years,
Speaker 4: So what's up?
Speaker 3: What do you think?
Speaker 16: Well, so interesting, so many people for the last number
Speaker 16: of years UH have said to me like please run,
Speaker 16: and then Nancy Pelosi is what a weird thing I'm
Speaker 16: about to say to you. Nancy Pelosi said to me
Speaker 16: one day like it'll all be better when you're president,
Speaker 16: and I went, I.
Speaker 3: Bet you say that to all the girls. But thank
Speaker 3: you so much. Hey, that is an endorsement. It was
Speaker 3: so it was so deeply flattering.
Speaker 16: And then I went like, well, I guess if we're
Speaker 16: electing people from TV, anyone who knows anything about public
Speaker 16: policy or public health or education or like women would
Speaker 16: be cool.
Speaker 3: I'll get stringing sentence together.
Speaker 16: Yeah, you know, articulate humans who like other people instead
Speaker 16: of wish ill upon their lives, it would be nice.
Speaker 16: I think, as i've as I've learned so much over
Speaker 16: the last ten years, I don't know what it's going
Speaker 16: to look like. I don't know where I'm supposed to
Speaker 16: go yet, because I want to do what is the
Speaker 16: most useful. And I think a lot of people, whether
Speaker 16: they want to run for office or run a company,
Speaker 16: do it because they want to center themselves in the experience.
Speaker 16: If I could be most useful serving an elected office, great.
Speaker 16: If I can be most useful raising money for incredible
Speaker 16: C four candidates across the country and making sure we
Speaker 16: flip state houses so we're not you know, thrown back
Speaker 16: to the dark ages into it like literally just tell
Speaker 16: me how to help, and I'm down.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 4: I so appreciate, we so appreciate all the work that
Speaker 4: you do, and I really appreciate you coming on too.
Speaker 3: You are a delight Thank you.
Speaker 4: I where did?
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