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Speaker 2: January seventh, twenty fourteen, Comedy Central's Worldviews headquarters in New York.
Speaker 3: This is the Daylie Show with John Study.
Speaker 1: Oh my dad, So.
Speaker 3: My name is John Stewart.
Speaker 1: We have a nice quarter for tonight. Very got it.
Speaker 1: Our guest tonight.
Speaker 4: Guest tonight from the new movie Filhmina, Steve Coogan, the
Speaker 4: Great Steve Coogan is.
Speaker 1: Gonna be joining us right here in our studio. We'll
Speaker 1: be talking to him.
Speaker 4: But top story tonight, I'm about to roll a clip.
Speaker 4: Chances are when you hear this clip, when you see
Speaker 4: this clip, you will applaud two reasons. One, it will
Speaker 4: be a feeble attempt to keep yourselves warm, which, uh,
Speaker 4: let's face facts.
Speaker 1: Not gonna happen.
Speaker 4: Seriously, Even inside here, I see the audience looking around
Speaker 4: to see which one of them to eat first. And two,
Speaker 4: you will applaud because you people are moral degenerates.
Speaker 1: Roll the clip.
Speaker 5: In Colorado today the start of a brand new industry,
Speaker 5: as that state became the first in the country to
Speaker 5: make it legal for most people to buy marijuana.
Speaker 1: You're saying something.
Speaker 4: Right here, right now, I know my audience, recreational pot
Speaker 4: is now legal in Colorado, which will, according to Lester Holt,
Speaker 4: create a brand new industry in that state, A pot
Speaker 4: selling industry, brand news. I guess Lucky for Colorado, it's
Speaker 4: stores selling water pipes for tobacco and black light posters.
Speaker 4: Infrastructure can easily be repurposed for this new pot industry.
Speaker 4: But I imagine you know it's not gonna be like
Speaker 4: the Wild West out there in Colorado.
Speaker 1: There's gonna be some stringent limits on this new law.
Speaker 4: Pot purchases must be at least twenty one years old.
Speaker 1: Check rules out the kiddies.
Speaker 2: You can't light up in public and police warn you
Speaker 2: still can't drive high.
Speaker 4: What well, then riddle me this, batman. Why does Taco
Speaker 4: Bell have a drive through that?
Speaker 1: My friends, that's a trap. Can't drive hi, that is entrapman?
Speaker 1: All right?
Speaker 4: Getting restrict to here any restrictions on the sale of marijuana.
Speaker 6: Pot shops cannot open until eight am and must close
Speaker 6: by midnight.
Speaker 4: You know, given your clientele, I'm pretty sure you could
Speaker 4: have gone with noon till midnight.
Speaker 1: It would have been fine.
Speaker 4: But sixteen hours a day's pretty good window of opportunity
Speaker 4: for recreational users to head down to their local pot ateria,
Speaker 4: their local pottery barn, if you will get a little
Speaker 4: bit of a sweet buzz on any restriction on how
Speaker 4: much they can have.
Speaker 5: An individual can have one ounce of marijuana in their possession.
Speaker 1: So no restrictions.
Speaker 4: Holy, an ounce that is a lot of pot? Is
Speaker 4: that for recreational use or industrial use? An ounce was
Speaker 4: a lot of the low grade pot I used to smoke.
Speaker 4: I can't even imagine how far an educated pot consumer
Speaker 4: could stretch an ounce of today's hydroponic non nineteen eighties
Speaker 4: Jersey schwag pot. Of course, like in most instances where
Speaker 4: America is slightly changing, the interesting take came from our
Speaker 4: friend Bill O'Reilly's the old timey Americana Restoration Hour, Crack.
Speaker 1: Up the Grumpllodian.
Speaker 7: If you use any intoxicating agent, your goal is to
Speaker 7: leave reality. You're not satisfied with your current state of mind.
Speaker 7: You want to get high, buzz, blasted whatever. Some adults
Speaker 7: can handle that on occasion. Oh, this cannot. So it's
Speaker 7: literally Russian roulette.
Speaker 1: Literally Russian roulette? Well, what are you talking about?
Speaker 2: Literally?
Speaker 4: In fact, I think the only difference between a bong
Speaker 4: hint and pointing a loaded.
Speaker 1: Gun at your own skull is that the gun can kill.
Speaker 4: You instantly and must never be criminalized or restricted in
Speaker 4: any way, ever, ever.
Speaker 3: But then.
Speaker 4: Other way, I just want to point out to the
Speaker 4: audience at home, they are plotting ironically. But then the
Speaker 4: just say no part of the program took a bit
Speaker 4: of a hairpin turn.
Speaker 7: Now more bad news. Combine the drug aspect with the Internet.
Speaker 7: According to report by the American Academy of Pediatrics, seventy
Speaker 7: twelve to seventeen year olds in the USA of cell
Speaker 7: phones and virtually all of them text.
Speaker 1: What the hell just happened? How do we go from
Speaker 1: just say no?
Speaker 3: To and what's what? Ought?
Speaker 5: To beat?
Speaker 3: People?
Speaker 4: Boo boo machines and with the lol and the dd
Speaker 4: y K and the music and the dancing, with the
Speaker 4: pelvision what have you.
Speaker 1: But you should not.
Speaker 4: Well, you wouldn't happen to have a surprising exemplar of
Speaker 4: a society and a culture that's getting it right here
Speaker 4: that perhaps undercuts the inherent message and everything else you
Speaker 4: and your colleagues at Fox have ever said.
Speaker 7: And China, young people are encouraged to compete, be disciplined,
Speaker 7: to live in the real world, not here.
Speaker 4: Why can't America be more like the People's Republic of China.
Speaker 4: And well, the truth is the Chinese used text messaging
Speaker 4: more than anybody.
Speaker 1: Else in the world.
Speaker 4: I guess the thought behind this is you could keep
Speaker 4: kids from texting so much by restricting the size of
Speaker 4: their families through central planning. My favorite part, however, was
Speaker 4: watching a Columbia professor, an expert on drug policy, taking
Speaker 4: this new drug and texting phenomenon.
Speaker 7: Kids in pot. You don't recommend that, right, I.
Speaker 8: Don't recommend kid taking alcohol or smoking.
Speaker 7: All right, thank you, and I appreciate that.
Speaker 3: Texting.
Speaker 7: You know it's an addiction. It's going crazy. Are you
Speaker 7: aware of that?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 8: No, I'm not aware that it's an addiction.
Speaker 4: Wait wait, smart black guy with dreads disagrees with me.
Speaker 1: I will do the opposite. Get me a bald white idiot.
Speaker 9: Texting, the incessant use of Facebook, the use of marijuana.
Speaker 3: Now you'll do just fine.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry I interrupted you.
Speaker 4: You were railing against the marijuana texting industrial complex. And
Speaker 4: by the way, for extra bonus pleasure, watch the guest
Speaker 4: reaction to doctor Ablow's expertise.
Speaker 9: Even the people who can identify this as a huge
Speaker 9: problem are using texting. It deposits them in a versetual
Speaker 9: world where their feelings don't need to have integrity, where
Speaker 9: their intentions can be the same as a potsmoker's, non
Speaker 9: motivational looking for the next high.
Speaker 8: And you say to that, well, I don't know what
Speaker 8: to say.
Speaker 1: I guess I could say you're ape idiot.
Speaker 4: But of course many establishment figures are wringing their hands,
Speaker 4: even former potsmokers, like The New York Times David.
Speaker 6: Brooks, most of us age out of marijuana use because
Speaker 6: it's not that exciting when you find more severe, more serious,
Speaker 6: and more uplifting pleasures. I think the state, through its laws,
Speaker 6: should encourage a culture that discourages the use of marijuana
Speaker 6: on both moral grounds and health grounds.
Speaker 4: Now that I no longer use it, you just don't
Speaker 4: get it, Brooks. You don't understand the exuberance of the
Speaker 4: field East. You know, I read a great thing recently.
Speaker 4: This guy wrote happily about having an orgy of excess.
Speaker 4: His head fogged with wine and bourbon made him realize
Speaker 4: how much he hates living in the age of the
Speaker 4: lily livered quote lily livered when everything is a pallid
Speaker 4: parody of itself gone. He wrote, sadly is the exuberance
Speaker 4: of the feast. Gone is the grand and pointless gesture.
Speaker 1: I believe that's stirring.
Speaker 4: Tribute to hedonism was written by David Brooks.
Speaker 1: How weird is that? That's so weird? I wonder, I
Speaker 1: wonder how we forgot about that?
Speaker 2: Probably a little bit of oll right back.
Speaker 4: So you got your recreational marijuana. It's not legal in Colorado.
Speaker 4: You know, we've heard how potuse has recently combined with
Speaker 4: texting to devastating consequence. But there's another reason why America
Speaker 4: should reconsider this liberalization of pot law.
Speaker 1: Pot just makes you dumb. It just makes you dumb.
Speaker 4: It just does in the same way that Santa Claus
Speaker 4: just is white, unassailable truth.
Speaker 1: And that's not all that pot does.
Speaker 4: Most people that do smoke pot, I watch their ambition
Speaker 4: being curtailed steadily, and they never reach their potential.
Speaker 10: I know on pot because I believe it is addictive
Speaker 10: and it leads to more serious drugs.
Speaker 7: What's to keep somebody from getting old potted up on
Speaker 7: weed and then getting behind the wheel?
Speaker 10: Right?
Speaker 1: Nothing, No, No, that is just too tasty. Hit me again.
Speaker 7: What's to keep somebody from getting old potted up on
Speaker 7: weed and then getting behind the wheel.
Speaker 1: Nothing sample that audio Beyoncey. That is okay.
Speaker 4: There's no question that pot, like everything else, can have
Speaker 4: its downside. But you know a recent you see San
Speaker 4: Diego study found that alcohol appears the harm of the
Speaker 4: teenage brain even more than and I'm using clinical terminology
Speaker 4: here getting potted up on wheaton. So your argument against marijuana,
Speaker 4: it would carry a lot more weight if these same
Speaker 4: individuals had a similar perspective on America's alcohol usage and go.
Speaker 1: It's Windesday Wednesday, best.
Speaker 7: Day of the week.
Speaker 1: Great job getting as drunk. You can all use a
Speaker 1: stiff drink, fantastic margarita day. You're not gonna drink it,
Speaker 1: pass it around.
Speaker 5: Damn had a beer and ever would make a Beers
Speaker 5: New Year's Eve.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna get real drunk.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm gonna get real drunk.
Speaker 4: I just hope I don't see it in loser podtheads
Speaker 4: while I'm getting off up, because that would kill my
Speaker 4: totally socially acceptable alcohol buzz. So we clearly know that
Speaker 4: marijuana is a deadly gateway drug from which you know
Speaker 4: sane person can never.
Speaker 1: Hope to escape.
Speaker 4: But our view of alcohol is not even benign indifference
Speaker 4: but celebratory, where marijuana always leads.
Speaker 1: You to a dark path. How do we view the
Speaker 1: effect of beer?
Speaker 3: Coarse light?
Speaker 1: Holy beer is matchic.
Speaker 4: It turns an overcrowded, sweltering cityescape into a beach party
Speaker 4: where skateboards become surfboards and.
Speaker 1: Business suits become bikinis.
Speaker 4: But rest assured, our children will never be exposed to
Speaker 4: this potentially overstated fantasy world that glorifies alcoholic consumption, unless
Speaker 4: unless they watch TV.
Speaker 10: It's not just a good time, it's millery time, cross
Speaker 10: glod cores, light, the world's most refreshing beer, make a
Speaker 10: love all trades.
Speaker 3: That's a perior like beer.
Speaker 9: But light here we go.
Speaker 4: That's one afternoon of watching football. It gives me cirrhosis
Speaker 4: of the eyeballs. I can't sit down with my kid
Speaker 4: for a pleasant afternoon watching grown men give each other
Speaker 4: concussions without being bombarded by the Harry Potter esque transformative
Speaker 4: power of fermented hops. Not that they aren't looking out
Speaker 4: for the kids.
Speaker 1: Please drink responsibly.
Speaker 4: What I'm sorry, I couldn't hear you over the snowing
Speaker 4: bikini party. Maybe if pod had as many commercials as beer.
Speaker 4: We wouldn't let it worry us so much. Honestly, it
Speaker 4: wouldn't even be that hard. You could use the same commercials.
Speaker 4: Most of them barely even need to be changed. You
Speaker 4: know that Doseki's guy.
Speaker 1: He is the most interesting man in the world.
Speaker 4: Actually he is just an actor, but you get high,
Speaker 4: he will become the most interesting man in the world.
Speaker 4: That's the beauty of marijuana.
Speaker 1: And if I may say so, at.
Speaker 4: The same time, your couch will become the most interesting couch.
Speaker 4: Most beer commercials could easily be retrofitted.
Speaker 10: Bud smoke, bud.
Speaker 4: That actually, even that even makes more sense, because you
Speaker 4: might buy beer if a frog tells you to, but only.
Speaker 10: Weed really makes you believe the frog. We'll be right back,
Speaker 10: old boy.
Speaker 1: I guess tonight.
Speaker 4: An actor a comedian in his new film, which he produced,
Speaker 4: co wrote and stars.
Speaker 1: In, is called Filmina. Please walk with Steve Coogan. Thank
Speaker 1: you very much for being here.
Speaker 3: Got to get here now.
Speaker 4: It's you know, for everybody that that that that knows
Speaker 4: you and and your great comedy. This is a surprising
Speaker 4: project for you to take on. What just briefly, what
Speaker 4: is the story of this, and how did you even.
Speaker 1: Get involved in this?
Speaker 11: I read an article in the Guardian newspaper and I
Speaker 11: was here in New York doing making a movie called
Speaker 11: The Other Guys with Will Ferrell, and and my downtime
Speaker 11: between my scenes playing a.
Speaker 3: British as.
Speaker 11: Quite good at I saw this article in the newspaper
Speaker 11: about this old lady. The article was entitled the Catholic
Speaker 11: Church Stole My Child and it was about her being
Speaker 11: and being adopted and forcibly and taken to America and
Speaker 11: her search to find her son.
Speaker 3: And that sounded like a full of.
Speaker 1: Laughs to me, a good sequel, Yeah, sure.
Speaker 3: But it was. It's quite a harrying story.
Speaker 11: But alongside the article was a photograph of Philamina and
Speaker 11: Martin Sixsmith, the journalists I play, and they were laughing
Speaker 11: in the photograph, and I thought, well, if I can
Speaker 11: get some of the laughs into this tragic story, maybe
Speaker 11: I can get some something that's worth watching.
Speaker 4: That was I thought the incredible because it is man is,
Speaker 4: it's a moving story, it's a dark story at times,
Speaker 4: it's powerful.
Speaker 1: There are a ton of laughs in it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, I mean it's great.
Speaker 11: Well, the thing is, if you I was you know
Speaker 11: this you know, if you if you want to talk
Speaker 11: about serious topics and you want to win over an
Speaker 11: argument or make your point, if you get people laughing,
Speaker 11: then they let the guard down and then more open
Speaker 11: to the argument you're putting. So uh so, putting laughs
Speaker 11: into serious topics is a good thing.
Speaker 1: How hard was it for you?
Speaker 4: Because there's moments in the film where I'm watching you
Speaker 4: be serious and earnest, and there is the comedian in me.
Speaker 1: My heart just wants to reach out and go do.
Speaker 3: A dick joke And why don't you fart? Yeah, well
Speaker 3: I was tempted. I was tempt you know.
Speaker 11: And and uh and there are there are plenty of
Speaker 11: jokes in that. But sometimes you got the balls to say, okay,
Speaker 11: no jokes.
Speaker 3: Now, you know you should practice that.
Speaker 1: Sometimes I won't be I won't. I'm uncomfortable. No, I'm
Speaker 1: I'm a typical repressed brand. It's how I am.
Speaker 4: It's what uh this Now, obviously you do something about this.
Speaker 1: It's it's about this woman's story. The Catholic Church. There's
Speaker 1: there's been controversy now about this whole.
Speaker 4: Thing, uh, that it's anti Catholic. You had said that
Speaker 4: you felt like the Pope would like it.
Speaker 11: Well, I think listen, I think I think as popes go, uh,
Speaker 11: you know that's that he seems pretty good, you know,
Speaker 11: as popes.
Speaker 1: Go, he does, he's out top of the pope less.
Speaker 11: Yeah, well, you know, we we we we hope he'll
Speaker 11: he'll take a look at it, because you know it's
Speaker 11: not it's not untitled, just because you know it's also
Speaker 11: about forgiveness. I mean, I I play the kind of smug,
Speaker 11: conceited liberal. I don't know if you know any of those.
Speaker 4: No, I don't, not not here in New York, maybe
Speaker 4: out in the Midwest, not here.
Speaker 11: So and he kind of gets his come up and
Speaker 11: at the end of the movie, so it's it's there's
Speaker 11: a bit of balance in there.
Speaker 4: And she retains faith even even under it seemed like
Speaker 4: not a story necessarily of of the church, but of
Speaker 4: the times of a of an error. When this was
Speaker 4: viewed very differently than it is now.
Speaker 11: It's it is about that, it's about how things have changed,
Speaker 11: but it's also about the nature of of of faith.
Speaker 11: And it's it's what it says is no one has
Speaker 11: a monopoly on wisdom. You know that we can all
Speaker 11: learn from each other and Mike, Mike, that Martin you know,
Speaker 11: is secular in the movie, he's non religious, and Filomena
Speaker 11: is religious right to the end, and he doesn't unders
Speaker 11: undergo a Damascene conversion and find God, and.
Speaker 3: She continues to believe in God.
Speaker 11: But they love each other and respect each other, and
Speaker 11: you know, that's that's the way forward.
Speaker 1: Did she has has she seen it? Was she able
Speaker 1: to see it?
Speaker 3: The real Filomena? Yes, yeah, she's seen.
Speaker 11: She's been out on the on the publicity trail with us.
Speaker 11: In fact, sometimes you can't shut her up.
Speaker 1: Oh have you have you ever just tried just leaning
Speaker 1: in and going shut.
Speaker 3: I have, but it didn't work. What yeah?
Speaker 4: I know?
Speaker 1: What did she?
Speaker 4: Because you must feel incredible burden when you're telling someone's
Speaker 4: story like that, to be the caretaker of that story.
Speaker 1: Did you watch it with her? Were you in the room?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 11: No, I wouldn't do that, you no, no, no, But
Speaker 11: you know, she she she she was at first, she
Speaker 11: was a little nervous about it because we kind of
Speaker 11: poke fun at her, you know, and her kind of
Speaker 11: little old conservative, blue collar ways. But in the end
Speaker 11: she emerges heroically, so so you know, she gets a
Speaker 11: free pass and and and you know, I mean for
Speaker 11: some of the criticisms, some of it came from the
Speaker 11: New York Post.
Speaker 1: I'm not familiar with that.
Speaker 11: No, no, no, it's it's a highly intelligent newspaper.
Speaker 1: Okay, I'm gonna take a look at it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, sometimes owned by I assume a brilliant media magnet.
Speaker 3: I love. I love the guy called Rupert Murdoch. He's
Speaker 3: not familiar. Oh he's a lovely man.
Speaker 11: He's so kind, and he's about people and and and
Speaker 11: good values.
Speaker 4: Yeah, sounds like a good Christian fella.
Speaker 11: Yeah, yeah, so, but no, I think if you get
Speaker 11: criticized by the New York Post, then you're doing something right.
Speaker 4: Or you're in a tub, topless sucking on someone's toes.
Speaker 1: That's the most recent, that's right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, yeah, that's next on my list.
Speaker 1: No, well, welcome to the city.
Speaker 4: Then to well filmingas in theaters now it's doing gang
Speaker 4: busses and it's great and you're great in it.
Speaker 1: Steve Coogan Go sick.
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