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Speaker 1: Tonight's get into the headlines. Well, kick things off with
Speaker 1: the big news out of Washington, DC, where House Republicans
Speaker 1: just ended this year's session with a very special Christmas
Speaker 1: gift for Joe Biden.
Speaker 5: This morning, House Republicans are pushing ahead with an impeachment
Speaker 5: inquiry into President Biden, despite finding no evidence of wrongdoing
Speaker 5: in nearly a year of investigations. The inquiry has focused
Speaker 5: on allegations that the president abused his power to enrich
Speaker 5: his family, and whether he made decisions while vice president
Speaker 5: to boost his son Hunter's businesses. During a heated Florida debate,
Speaker 5: Democrats accuse Republicans of acting on behalf of twice impeached
Speaker 5: former President Donald Trump ahead of next year's election.
Speaker 3: Welcome to the Donald Trump revenge show.
Speaker 1: Even some Republicans openly admit they've seen no hard evidence.
Speaker 6: I'm going to just follow the facts where they are,
Speaker 6: and the facts haven't taken me to that point where
Speaker 6: I can say that the president's guilty of anything.
Speaker 5: With the presidential election in a year away, several Republicans
Speaker 5: seem to say the quiet part out loud.
Speaker 3: What are you hoping to gain from an impeachment inquiry?
Speaker 3: All I can see is Donald J.
Speaker 7: Trump twenty twenty four.
Speaker 6: Man, this has been I think the most transparent political
Speaker 6: congressional investigation since I've been in congression.
Speaker 1: Man, Now I hate when I slip up and say
Speaker 1: the thing I totally mean. Republicans have been searching for
Speaker 1: a year already, and so far it seems like Biden's
Speaker 1: only crime is having a messed up son, which would
Speaker 1: be a terrible precedent to set. I don't want to
Speaker 1: see Tom Hanks go to jail. To be fair, we
Speaker 1: can't say for sure whether Biden ever did anything shady
Speaker 1: with his son's business dealings. Their story has changed over time,
Speaker 1: but we do know that Republicans don't actually give a
Speaker 1: shit about people profiting off the presidency because Donald Trump
Speaker 1: was not president. He had so many games going on.
Speaker 1: Running the country was basically his side hustle. Republicans just
Speaker 1: want a headline that says Biden impeached.
Speaker 3: They don't care if it's legitimate.
Speaker 1: It's like how I told the Art Department to make
Speaker 1: this magazine cover of me winning Sexiest Bitch of All
Speaker 1: Time and.
Speaker 3: The enormous penis Quarterly.
Speaker 1: You don't even have to speculate about whether this is
Speaker 1: politically motivated because you literally have a GOP congressman just
Speaker 1: shouting out Trump twenty twenty four. This whole thing is
Speaker 1: such a piece of theater. I'm surprised Lauren Bobert's not
Speaker 1: in the crowd given someone a handy. It seems like
Speaker 1: impeachment is just something that's gonna happen to like every
Speaker 1: president now, which is not at all how it's supposed
Speaker 1: to be. There should be an extremely high bar for impeachment,
Speaker 1: and that doesn't mean Hunter being extremely high at a bar.
Speaker 3: But let's move on, because I.
Speaker 1: Don't want to give the impression that Congress is completely
Speaker 1: distracted by this impeachment stuff. In fact, the same day
Speaker 1: they were dealing with that, they still found time to
Speaker 1: tackle one of the biggest issues facing the country today.
Speaker 7: School kids are going to have another drink option in
Speaker 7: their cafeterias very soon. The House just passed the bill
Speaker 7: allowing schools to.
Speaker 3: Serve whole milk.
Speaker 7: Several regulations have limited what kind of milk kids could
Speaker 7: have since twenty twelve.
Speaker 3: The Whole Milk for.
Speaker 7: Healthy Kids Acts will give kids the options of whole
Speaker 7: or reduced and low fat milks.
Speaker 6: The nutrients and whole milk like protein, calcium, and vitamin D,
Speaker 6: provide the fuel Santa needs to travel the whole globe
Speaker 6: in one night. If whole milk is a good option
Speaker 6: to fuel Santa's extraordinary Christmas Eve journey, then why isn't
Speaker 6: it an option for American school children in their own foods?
Speaker 1: Okay, I don't know if that's the best argument.
Speaker 3: How much energy does milk give you?
Speaker 1: If Santa has to stop and drink more at every house,
Speaker 1: Santa doesn't need milk, He needs one of those Panera lemonades.
Speaker 8: Woo.
Speaker 1: Done with all the nice kids and it's only ten thirty. Screw,
Speaker 1: Let's give the naughty kids gifts two, I'm inventable.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 1: This bill passed with bipartisan support, but it was a
Speaker 1: particular priority for Republicans, which makes sense. I mean, you
Speaker 1: can't look at this party and tell me you're surprised
Speaker 1: they're obsessed with milk. By the way, are kids really
Speaker 1: out there demanding whole milk?
Speaker 3: They're school kids.
Speaker 1: They want caprice sons or at best, milk flavored vapes.
Speaker 3: But I gotta be honest, there is.
Speaker 1: Actually a good reason, like not to expand milk options
Speaker 1: for kids.
Speaker 3: Milk is kind of disgusting.
Speaker 1: Like is that weird? Like that we drink milk as
Speaker 1: a species. It's not your mom's milk. It's not even
Speaker 1: your friend's mom. It's like a completely different animal.
Speaker 3: Milk is so.
Speaker 1: Gross, except for chocolate milk that's really ummy. Finally, it's
Speaker 1: that time of the year where everyone is headed to
Speaker 1: their office holiday parties. It's the big night where you
Speaker 1: get to see which one of your coworkers is married
Speaker 1: to an ugo. Usually a holiday party is a chance
Speaker 1: for everyone to have fun together, but for the Boston
Speaker 1: Mayor's party, it was a vipoc's event.
Speaker 9: Only Mayor Michelle Wu gives hugs and gifts to the
Speaker 9: outgoing counselors during the final Boston City Council meeting of
Speaker 9: the year. But not everyone is feeling the love. After
Speaker 9: the city disinvited the white counselors to a holiday party.
Speaker 9: Seven News obtained this email sent to all the city
Speaker 9: councilors Tuesday. It is from one of the mayor's staffers
Speaker 9: and reads, I cordially invite you and a guest to
Speaker 9: the electeds of color holiday party. But fifteen minutes later
Speaker 9: another email went out. That's staffer clarifying quote. I did
Speaker 9: send that to everyone by accident. I apologize if my
Speaker 9: email may have offended. I think we've all been in
Speaker 9: a position at one point where an email went out
Speaker 9: and there was a mistake in the recipients, and so
Speaker 9: there was truly just an honest mistake.
Speaker 3: I do find a device, But you know, what are
Speaker 3: you gonna do about it?
Speaker 10: You don't want me at a party.
Speaker 3: I'm not gonna come to the parties.
Speaker 1: I feel bad now, guys, come on, let them come
Speaker 1: to the patty.
Speaker 3: This is this is rough, all right, this is rough.
Speaker 1: They planned a party just for the people of color,
Speaker 1: and then they accidentally invited the white people too, and
Speaker 1: then they uninvited them like it's a whole mess. And
Speaker 1: I'll be honest, this is actually a tough.
Speaker 3: One for me.
Speaker 1: I understand where they're coming from, right, I've been to
Speaker 1: too many parties where one of my coworkers asks me
Speaker 1: if I know Seema Anti from Indian.
Speaker 3: Matchmaking, and I do, But like, that's not the point.
Speaker 1: And listen, white friends, I know what you're thinking, but
Speaker 1: your coworkers aren't excluding you from a party so that
Speaker 1: they can talk shit about you. That's what our WhatsApp
Speaker 1: group is for. But be that as it made. Okay
Speaker 1: in this case, the invitations already went out to their
Speaker 1: white colleagues.
Speaker 3: Y'all, come on. At that point, it's too late.
Speaker 1: Your only option is to say the holiday party this
Speaker 1: year will center and honor of the narratives of the
Speaker 1: bipock community, and then nobody's gonna want to come. For
Speaker 1: more on the fallout of the Boston Holiday party scandal,
Speaker 1: we go live on the scene, Detroit, Iwata, Troy.
Speaker 4: Don't identity based parties like this hurt the feelings of
Speaker 4: the people they leave out?
Speaker 11: You know, maybe, but I wouldn't know because I'm half
Speaker 11: Japanese and Jewish and gay, and I look kind of white.
Speaker 11: So I've never been excluded from a party in.
Speaker 3: My life, and I never will.
Speaker 11: Because that would be a hate crime. So yeah, I
Speaker 11: go to them all. The American Jewish Council's annual Hanika Hobnan,
Speaker 11: the AAP I B Yob, the KKK Christmas Keger.
Speaker 3: You go to the KKK holiday party? Okay? One word?
Speaker 11: Open bar, that's free.
Speaker 3: That's four words. What's in that cup?
Speaker 1: The point is, if you're gonna exclude people from your
Speaker 1: holiday party, why announce it?
Speaker 3: Just like meet quietly for drinks. That's what I did
Speaker 3: on my birthday.
Speaker 11: Oh cow, that's so so, so so sad. There's no
Speaker 11: point in having an exclusive party if everyone else doesn't
Speaker 11: know how exclusive the party is. Okay, Denise, the woman
Speaker 11: who accidentally sent that email out, she did that on purpose, Like, oops,
Speaker 11: I guess you found out I'm attending a private soiree
Speaker 11: this weekend. How embarrassing, I see what Denise did? I
Speaker 11: love Denise, But did you still have to work with
Speaker 11: all those people?
Speaker 3: Is it less awkward to just invite everybody?
Speaker 11: No? Now, Frankly, the only reason to invite everyone is
Speaker 11: so you can stand in the corner and talk about
Speaker 11: your coworkers. A party is a lot more fun if
Speaker 11: you can be like, don't look now, but Keith brought
Speaker 11: his ex wife as a date, Like, we don't know,
Speaker 11: we did, God.
Speaker 1: Move on, Keith, wait, focus focus Troy. Leaving people out
Speaker 1: feels cruel to me.
Speaker 11: Okay, well we can talk about that tonight at the
Speaker 11: Daily Show holiday party for gay and Asian on camera talent.
Speaker 11: It's called the GAAOCT the Geta.
Speaker 1: But that's just gonna be you and me. That's not
Speaker 1: a party.
Speaker 3: That's like the perfect party.
Speaker 11: We don't have to remember anyone's names. I don't have
Speaker 11: to make a second tray of potato skins because someone's
Speaker 11: vegan this week, and we already know who our secret
Speaker 11: Santa is. I got you nothing. You have enough stuff.
Speaker 11: Plus when we get tired, we can just Irish exit
Speaker 11: each other.
Speaker 1: Oh I feel like the term Irish exit is offensive
Speaker 1: to Irish people.
Speaker 11: Okay, well they're not invited, so it's just US Asian
Speaker 11: gay half Jews.
Speaker 3: I'm not half Jewish.
Speaker 11: Cal I'm really sorry, but I'm gonna have to rescind
Speaker 11: your invitation. This is just a very exclusive party.
Speaker 3: Sounds like it's just you at home alone.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 11: Yeah, that's the ultimate party. I'm just gonna I'm gonna
Speaker 11: order takeout and I'm gonna watch the holiday try on everybody.
Speaker 12: When we come back, we'll talk about prostitutes. So don't
Speaker 12: go away, Welcome back to the Daily Show. Let's talk
Speaker 12: about sex.
Speaker 1: It's the thing America makes its gym teachers explained. For
Speaker 1: some reason, America has been legalizing a lot of vices, weed, gambling,
Speaker 1: breakfast for dinner, but one activity is still relegated to
Speaker 1: the shadows, sex work, which is weird because it's the
Speaker 1: oldest profession in the world and Americans love old stuff.
Speaker 1: Just look at our presidential candidates. But why is sex
Speaker 1: work still stigmatized in twenty twenty three. It's something I
Speaker 1: want to discuss in Tonight's long story short Ever, since
Speaker 1: the nineteen hundreds, sex work has been mostly illegal in
Speaker 1: the United States, and none of those laws have actually
Speaker 1: stopped it, which makes sense, right. Usually banning something just
Speaker 1: makes you want it more. It's like when gay marriage
Speaker 1: was banned. It's the whole reason I'm with my husband.
Speaker 1: I'm not even gay, it's just spite what these laws
Speaker 1: have done is stigmatize sex work as dirty and nemoral,
Speaker 1: pushing it further into the shadows of society, and that
Speaker 1: has made it one of the most dangerous professions in
Speaker 1: the country. It's even more dangerous on average than being
Speaker 1: a cop. And like you wouldn't think those jobs have
Speaker 1: anything in common, right for one, sex workers only choke
Speaker 1: you if you ask them to.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah.
Speaker 1: But there's one place in America where things aren't quite
Speaker 1: so dire for sex workers, Nevada. Nevada shows us that
Speaker 1: when you get sex work out of the shadows, it
Speaker 1: becomes something much less scandalous a job.
Speaker 13: Nevada the only state where sex work is legal in
Speaker 13: some areas. There are about two dozen brothels across Nevada
Speaker 13: where sex workers have to pay taxes and get regular
Speaker 13: STV checks.
Speaker 10: A lot of people think that we're dirty, when in
Speaker 10: all actuality, I've been tested more than probably like ninety
Speaker 10: five percent of the human population.
Speaker 14: Just like any other business, there are safety regulations here.
Speaker 14: There are security cameras and panic buttons, which is a
Speaker 14: lot different than the outside world of illegal prostitution. The
Speaker 14: women here go through thorough background checks.
Speaker 15: Everybody working there is licensed, legal verified has cleared their
Speaker 15: SDD and STI testing and have ski jumped through all
Speaker 15: the requisite hoops.
Speaker 3: That's right.
Speaker 1: In Nevada, all sex workers have to get background checked,
Speaker 1: STD tested. They literally have to be licensed to smash,
Speaker 1: which also happens to be my favorite James Bond movie.
Speaker 3: By the way.
Speaker 1: By the way, not once has Bond ever pulled out
Speaker 1: a condom. That's why they have to keep replacing him.
Speaker 1: He dies of syphilis. This is why we should want
Speaker 1: sex work to be regulated. Regulations keep sex workers safe
Speaker 1: from nearly every single job hazard, except for the clients
Speaker 1: who just want to talk and then end up crying
Speaker 1: for an hour. Now, look, Nevada isn't perfect. They have
Speaker 1: issues with monopolies, licensing fees. They're in the desert, so
Speaker 1: sand gets all up in everything. But it has been
Speaker 1: the lone bright spot in America when it comes to
Speaker 1: regulating sex work, at least for now. Multiple states across
Speaker 1: the country are looking to decriminalize prostitution, and Maine just
Speaker 1: did it last summer. Although it's main so you know,
Speaker 1: the prostitutes are lobsters and you don't have sex with them,
Speaker 1: you just eat them. Come to think of it, I
Speaker 1: think I may have just gone to a lobster shack. Anyway,
Speaker 1: there's momentum to protect sex workers. Even some people who
Speaker 1: oppose prostitution say that we should leave sex workers alone
Speaker 1: and arrest clients instead, although studies have shown that reducing
Speaker 1: client demand doesn't reduce the supply of sex workers. Remember,
Speaker 1: it takes two to tango and three to Eiffel Tower.
Speaker 3: So long story shorts.
Speaker 1: This is not an easy issue to fix, and there's
Speaker 1: no agreement on how to do it. But what we
Speaker 1: do know is that sex work is not going away
Speaker 1: anytime soon. So let's find a solution that protects sex
Speaker 1: workers safety and treats them with dignity, because after giving
Speaker 1: out so many happy endings, it's about time they get
Speaker 1: one themselves. When we come back, Taraji p Henson will
Speaker 1: be joining me on the show Don't Go Away.
Speaker 3: Her Welcome back to the show.
Speaker 1: My guest tonight is an Academy Award nominated actor who
Speaker 1: stars in the new film The Color Purple.
Speaker 3: Please welcome Tara G.
Speaker 2: P Henson, Hello, welcome back.
Speaker 3: You can't cry.
Speaker 2: You haven't.
Speaker 15: Oh my god, you thank you.
Speaker 3: Oh my god? What happened?
Speaker 9: You guys made me cry?
Speaker 8: I wasn't expecting that this is you.
Speaker 2: Talking about.
Speaker 8: That's what the world needs, more love.
Speaker 3: Thank you.
Speaker 1: This is before you've seen The Color person I mean incredible.
Speaker 1: I had the chance to see the film early. I
Speaker 1: know it comes out on Christmas Day. It's fantastic. I'm
Speaker 1: curious what your first experience with The Color Purple was.
Speaker 3: Was the book? Was it the earlier film?
Speaker 8: It was the first film. I was fifteen and I
Speaker 8: was just trying to figure out what I wanted to
Speaker 8: do with my future, and I started falling in love
Speaker 8: with acting. And you know, a little girl coming from
Speaker 8: Southeast DC, I lived in the hood.
Speaker 3: You know, you know, I lived in the hood.
Speaker 8: And you know sometimes when you come from places like that,
Speaker 8: your dreams are stifled.
Speaker 3: But I just remember.
Speaker 8: Seeing all those black faces and I was like, I.
Speaker 3: Want to do that. I want to do that.
Speaker 8: And that's why representation is so important.
Speaker 1: And I want to ask you about that film is incredible.
Speaker 1: It's about community, it's about women, especially Black women.
Speaker 3: What was the vibe like on set?
Speaker 15: So much fun?
Speaker 8: I mean, like the support that we gave each other.
Speaker 8: You know, I this is my first time really singing
Speaker 8: like this, and you know it's not something that I'm
Speaker 8: very confident in. I'm more confident in my acting than
Speaker 8: I am I singing. Singing is something I can do.
Speaker 8: I studied musical theater in college, but you know, when
Speaker 8: I became pregnant, I kind of turned my back on
Speaker 8: the music industry because it seemed a little dark to me.
Speaker 3: I was like, Hey, they don't have a union. Who's
Speaker 3: protecting the artists?
Speaker 8: So I packed my baby up and I moved west
Speaker 8: because I felt more secure with acting.
Speaker 3: I think I made the right choice.
Speaker 8: Yeah, but you know, we supported each other, like this
Speaker 8: was Fantasia Barrino and Danielle Brooks's first studio film, so
Speaker 8: where they felt like they were inadequate, I held their
Speaker 8: hands as far as being their first feature film and
Speaker 8: and for me the singing, and so they held my
Speaker 8: hand and it was just beautiful. Like the sisterhood and
Speaker 8: the camaraderie that we had on the set is why
Speaker 8: you feel it so much coming through the screen, because
Speaker 8: we really had a good time.
Speaker 1: And you you were a huge Fantasia fan from American
Speaker 1: iol Right.
Speaker 8: Now, I still have callouses on those voting.
Speaker 3: Voting for her. Had you all met each other before
Speaker 3: this movie, I never met her before.
Speaker 8: But I lost my grandfather about twenty years ago and
Speaker 8: he was a huge Fantasia fan. But I still have
Speaker 8: my grandma. She's turning one hundred in April.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, well, Grandma, she's in good hands and sending
Speaker 1: her law.
Speaker 3: God.
Speaker 1: So this is this is a musical adaptation of the
Speaker 1: Color Purple. And I'm curious how for you how the
Speaker 1: music adds to the storytelling.
Speaker 8: Oh my goodness. I mean, I think Scott Sanders is
Speaker 8: who we need to give the credit to for that.
Speaker 8: He's the producer who was the first person to bring
Speaker 8: music even to the musical, and so he's the one
Speaker 8: of the producers on this, and he's the pioneer of
Speaker 8: the musical.
Speaker 3: That we have Color Purple. But I thought it was.
Speaker 8: Brilliant and I had to give him his credit. I
Speaker 8: was like, you know, because as black people, that's what
Speaker 8: we are. Like I have like my little nephew. I
Speaker 8: remember one day, the washing machine was on and it
Speaker 8: was in this kind of like percussion beat and he
Speaker 8: started dancing.
Speaker 3: And that's just how we are.
Speaker 8: We We will dance to you know, we banjo, We
Speaker 8: like make sounds on our chest and we dance and
Speaker 8: I just thought, Wow, what an interesting concept to bring
Speaker 8: music to.
Speaker 3: This this this this, this.
Speaker 8: Beautiful piece of literature. And it just makes sense because
Speaker 8: we are musical.
Speaker 11: You know.
Speaker 8: And and and what I love about this musical and
Speaker 8: why we use musical music and how it's used in
Speaker 8: the film is most times you sing a song where
Speaker 8: you don't have the words, When you can't find the words,
Speaker 8: you sing a song. And that's why it makes so
Speaker 8: much sense, because these characters are going through so much trauma,
Speaker 8: you know, And that's what we are as a people.
Speaker 8: We don't wallow in them up. We don't let ours
Speaker 8: trauma consume us. We dance, we sing, we go to church,
Speaker 8: we laugh.
Speaker 15: You know.
Speaker 1: I wanted to ask about that the music was part
Speaker 1: of it, but then blitch your director. Also, I wanted
Speaker 1: to ask you about the the I feel like a
Speaker 1: lot of times when you see communities of color film,
Speaker 1: especially if something is a period piece, and especially if
Speaker 1: it's through the lens of someone who is not from
Speaker 1: that community, you often end up just really focusing on
Speaker 1: the victim, hit on the trauma. And this was such
Speaker 1: a celebratory, beautiful film. Especially when you're on screen singing,
Speaker 1: you just you bring so much joy with every frame.
Speaker 1: Talk me through what it was like making those choices,
Speaker 1: and then what the director's vision was, because that was
Speaker 1: very affecting.
Speaker 8: Oh absolutely, And for me, I remember when I got
Speaker 8: the call my manager, cause is during the pandemic, we
Speaker 8: had nothing going on. We're sitting around talking heads on
Speaker 8: zoom and he calls and he's like, you know, you're
Speaker 8: being tapped for sugar. I said, sug what and he
Speaker 8: was like, sug avery.
Speaker 11: For the color purple.
Speaker 8: I said, oh god, why are we That's a classic
Speaker 8: leave it alone. But then I met with Blitz and
Speaker 8: for one I knew I had to do it because
Speaker 8: I've I've been a part of some incredible cinema that
Speaker 8: was about black people but was not told by black people.
Speaker 8: So I knew for that, for that alone, I needed
Speaker 8: to be a part of it because I knew it
Speaker 8: would look different. And when he started explaining his radical
Speaker 8: reimagining of it, I was like, oh my god, I
Speaker 8: have to be a part of this. This is literally
Speaker 8: who we are. You know, the trauma is there, absolutely,
Speaker 8: but we fight, we have imagination. And when he said someone,
Speaker 8: you know, people who have been through trauma have often
Speaker 8: been labeled as docile and you know, looking for help.
Speaker 8: But that's that couldn't be farthest from the truth, because
Speaker 8: what happens is they use imagination and they imagine themselves
Speaker 8: in better situations and better circumstances. When he explained that
Speaker 8: to me, I was like, I'm in, I'm in. I
Speaker 8: want to do this.
Speaker 3: The Regids knew it would look zo.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, I want to ask you about the foundation,
Speaker 1: the Boris Lawrence Penson Foundation.
Speaker 3: It just tell me about it. I've read a little
Speaker 3: bit and I thought it was trua So I'm.
Speaker 8: Very proud of the work I'm doing for black and
Speaker 8: brown and underserved communities and mental wellness because you know,
Speaker 8: we're just learning to talk about it.
Speaker 14: Guys.
Speaker 8: You know, we have been suffering and since slavery, we've
Speaker 8: been passing down dysfunctional ways of functioning, and it's time
Speaker 8: for us to heal. It's time for us to break
Speaker 8: generational curses.
Speaker 3: And so when I.
Speaker 8: Was looking it, it was all out of my own
Speaker 8: necessity because I'm ra raising a young man by myself,
Speaker 8: and thank.
Speaker 3: You, I wouldn't.
Speaker 8: I wouldn't with that on my worst enemy. But you know, ah,
Speaker 8: becoming a young man, and I'm not a man. You know,
Speaker 8: his father was murdered when he was nine, and then
Speaker 8: my dad died two years after that. So I what
Speaker 8: am I? You know, I I N I S And
Speaker 8: so now the rose colored glasses are coming off and
Speaker 8: he's understanding that he's a black man in America, which
Speaker 8: is different from being a kid, cause he's not cute anymore.
Speaker 8: It it became difficult and when it was time for
Speaker 8: me to look for help, I just didn't see anybody
Speaker 8: that looked like me, and I was like, what is wrong?
Speaker 8: So I called my best friend, Tracy Cheri j who
Speaker 8: runs my foundation, and since my best friend since the
Speaker 8: seventh grade, and she used to suffer well, she has
Speaker 8: had her issues with panic attacks and since we were kids,
Speaker 8: and we used to laugh about it when we were
Speaker 8: children because we were ignorant, we did not know. And
Speaker 8: the same thing that we used to laugh about, we
Speaker 8: cry about it today because now we have the information.
Speaker 8: And so when I, you know, I'm privileged, I can
Speaker 8: afford three to fifty a pop. Whatever it costs is
Speaker 8: for therapy. But then I just thought about an entire
Speaker 8: community that one doesn't even talk about it. And two
Speaker 8: don't have the resources on the money, and I just
Speaker 8: couldn't sit idle. I had to do something, and so
Speaker 8: that's when I broke.
Speaker 1: The forest launch time, breaking down that Sigma is so critical.
Speaker 11: Thank you for doing us.
Speaker 1: Last question I want to ask you is a little
Speaker 1: bit of a fellow actor nerd question. What was it
Speaker 1: like working with Oprah and Steven Spielberg on this.
Speaker 8: Oh, I didn't see much of Steven Spielberg, But what
Speaker 8: I will I'll find this funny. My entire career on sets,
Speaker 8: never knew Steven, never met him. I would always go
Speaker 8: hold my phone and if Steven Spielberg calls, tell him
Speaker 8: I call him after this tape, and finally he called.
Speaker 3: But I will never.
Speaker 8: Forget the first shot that we the first scene that
Speaker 8: we shot was the very last scene of the film,
Speaker 8: and that's everybody around that big oak tree. And I
Speaker 8: remember that day. Oprah was there and everybody's like, oh God, Oprah,
Speaker 8: see you got to be.
Speaker 3: On your best behavior.
Speaker 8: And so after they yelled it's a picture wrap for
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Speaker 3: Oprah Winfrey say that.
Speaker 8: I'm sure someone has it out there.
Speaker 3: Well, thank you.
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