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Speaker 1: using tech to fight crime, herschel Walker is using gibberish
Speaker 1: to solve immigration, and Elon Musk is using free speech
Speaker 1: to try and kill us all so let's do those people.
Speaker 1: Let's come straight into today's headlines, all right. Before we
Speaker 1: get into the big stories, let's catch up on a
Speaker 1: few other things going on in the world, starting with
Speaker 1: the fact that today is Spotify Wrapped Day. Yeah, the
Speaker 1: day that Spotify looks at our music and reminds us
Speaker 1: that we're all a basic bitch? Are you're not thinking?
Speaker 1: Thank god Tender doesn't do a year and wrap up
Speaker 1: just to remind you of all the terrible decisions you
Speaker 1: made on desperate nights. It's like, wow, I did a
Speaker 1: lot of people with pet snakes this year. In international news,
Speaker 1: the United Nations has officially added the French baguette to
Speaker 1: the UNESCO World Heritage List, which is cool, but it's
Speaker 1: another reminder that the United Nations really needs to eat
Speaker 1: lunch before making big decisions. It's like, should we give
Speaker 1: Chinese food a seats on the Security Council? I'm so hungry,
Speaker 1: and you would think that this is great. He has
Speaker 1: some of you clapping, Oh yeah, I love bag atts,
Speaker 1: but remember now it's protected by the U n. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So now every time you're trying to take a bite
Speaker 1: out of the bag atte a, peacekeepers gonna jump out
Speaker 1: and kick your ass, like stop that ship. Meanwhile, in
Speaker 1: presidential news, Joe Biden's secret Service detail had a bit
Speaker 1: of a scare recently when five cars they had rented
Speaker 1: suddenly burst into flames after they were returned to her
Speaker 1: rent a car. Yeah. Now, the good news is Biden
Speaker 1: has got full coverage insurance. The bad news is Senator
Speaker 1: Republicans blocked it, so he's gonna need to borrow some
Speaker 1: money from Kamala Now, but my question is why is
Speaker 1: the why is the Secret Service even renting cars from
Speaker 1: hurts my nether person who was thrown by that with like, like,
Speaker 1: what happens if the suv they want isn't there? What
Speaker 1: now the president is rocking up to a state dinner
Speaker 1: in a hunt day? Is that how it's gonna work?
Speaker 1: Oh and while we're talking about things exploding, experts say
Speaker 1: the United States is now facing a shortage of bomb
Speaker 1: sniffing dogs. Yeah, which probably explains how Morbius made it
Speaker 1: into theaters. And it makes sense, you know when you
Speaker 1: think about it. Of course, this is always gonna happen.
Speaker 1: If you had the choice of being a bomb sniffing
Speaker 1: dog or a drug sniffing dog, what would you choose? Huh?
Speaker 1: What would you choose? So simple? Option A? You might explode?
Speaker 1: Option be freaklecame? I mean it is. It is hard
Speaker 1: for us humans, though, you know, because now you know
Speaker 1: what this means. We're gonna have to resort to bomb
Speaker 1: sniffing cats. And then those are good. They can figure
Speaker 1: out where the bombs are, but they just won't tell
Speaker 1: us about it. The cat will be there. Life. I
Speaker 1: have nine lives, bitch, not my problem all right, let's
Speaker 1: move on to some of the biggest stories of the day,
Speaker 1: starting with the two mid terms. And I know what
Speaker 1: you're saying right now, you like for Trevor, the mid
Speaker 1: terms are over. I killed them. I watched them die. Well,
Speaker 1: you thought you did, but you never took a head shot.
Speaker 1: And after you left, the mid terms busted out of
Speaker 1: the dirt. And now they're back because down in Georgia,
Speaker 1: they're just a few days away from a runoff between
Speaker 1: incumbent Senator Raphael Warnock and the reason you're pulling your
Speaker 1: soln out of football, her Shaw Walker, And we're gonna
Speaker 1: tell you all about the latest updates and other installments
Speaker 1: of Vote Demick. There is now less than one week
Speaker 1: to go until the Georgia runoff election, and once again
Speaker 1: Herschel Walker is battling controversies. First of all, he might
Speaker 1: not even live in the state that he's trying to represent. Yeah,
Speaker 1: according to new reports, the Georgia home that he's claimed
Speaker 1: as the residents has actually been rented out for years. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and apparently Walker even admits it in a speech earlier
Speaker 1: this year that he lives in Texas, which I was
Speaker 1: shocked about because I did not think herschel Walker knew
Speaker 1: the names of two different states. This sort really impressive,
Speaker 1: and I know, I know this might piss some people off,
Speaker 1: but when you think about it, this just proves that
Speaker 1: herschel Walker views Georgians as family because he's never around them.
Speaker 1: And of course, of course there's the other problem for
Speaker 1: herschel Walker, which is that every time he speaks, things
Speaker 1: go wrong. For instance, Walker was recently had a campaign
Speaker 1: stop giving his views on the border and any speech,
Speaker 1: he's trying to explain why he will build Donald Trump's
Speaker 1: border wall, but in a way that only herschel Walker can.
Speaker 1: He goes on to debunk his own argument about a
Speaker 1: war and then takes us on a wild ride that
Speaker 1: somehow involves his dog. He border. How are you gonna
Speaker 1: do that? I said, way I can do it. Then
Speaker 1: you didn't put up a wall to wall new World
Speaker 1: wall working around your house? Where you gotta wall around
Speaker 1: your house. They can get in, but you know what
Speaker 1: they get in to BeO hard to get out because
Speaker 1: I got a dog. Get my dog rid of the
Speaker 1: bite when he put vad anyway, But anyway, I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: what did this man just win an argument with himself?
Speaker 1: Because he's like, I think his plan is to what
Speaker 1: build a border wall so that he can trap immigrants
Speaker 1: inside America? Is that what he's doing? You see? He
Speaker 1: once they get in, they can't get out. Then they
Speaker 1: got a good job and read the family settles down,
Speaker 1: and that's how we get him. Yeah, it's it's almost
Speaker 1: like it's so it's like it's always like Walker started
Speaker 1: out talking about border security and then ended up telling
Speaker 1: everyone how to break into his house. And personally, I
Speaker 1: don't think he needs a wall, you know, because the
Speaker 1: hottest part about breaking into hertual Walker's house is figuring
Speaker 1: out which state it's in. Jokes on, You've actually live
Speaker 1: in Kansas, Hawaii. Yeah, but let's move on to some
Speaker 1: news from social media. Ever since Elon Musk pranked himself
Speaker 1: into buying Twitter forty four billion dollars, he has been
Speaker 1: trying to reshape the entire website according to what he likes.
Speaker 1: He's brought back thousands of suspended accounts, He's made it
Speaker 1: easier to get a blue check mark, and now any
Speaker 1: number you tweets automatically changed to sixty nine. Yeah, you
Speaker 1: post that your dad only has three days left, Now
Speaker 1: he has sixty nine. Nice resting peace, but nice. But
Speaker 1: Elon's biggest promise is that under his leadership, Twitter is
Speaker 1: completely open for free speech, no matter how wrong that
Speaker 1: speech might be potentially dangerous. New change on Twitter, the
Speaker 1: social media side, is no longer enforcing its policy against
Speaker 1: COVID misinformation. Twitter suspended more than eleven thousand accounts for
Speaker 1: breaking the policy and removed almost one hundred thous and
Speaker 1: pieces of content between January in September, and Musk is
Speaker 1: promising to restore many previously Bay and Twitter accounts as
Speaker 1: soon as this week. Health experts are concerned that it
Speaker 1: could diminish efforts to stop the spread of the virus
Speaker 1: and could discourage vaccinations. Okay, look, maybe this is my
Speaker 1: vaccine microchip talking, But I don't think it's responsible for
Speaker 1: Twitter to bring back the people who are spreading COVID misinformation.
Speaker 1: But but on the other hand, on the other hand,
Speaker 1: it is like, how can you still be misinformed about COVID?
Speaker 1: You know, we're just running around like I heard the
Speaker 1: vaccine churns you into It's been three years. Do you
Speaker 1: see any lizards? You see any lisztens here? You probably
Speaker 1: had it. I forget COVID for a second. It's crazy
Speaker 1: that anyone would go to Twitter for any medical information.
Speaker 1: You know, people should be going to the doctor for
Speaker 1: this stuff, but because no one can afford a doctor
Speaker 1: and am America, people are out here searching hashtag bump
Speaker 1: on my dick and hoping to find the cure for
Speaker 1: like cocaine on my penis. That's not what I was
Speaker 1: looking for anyway. Let's move on to some news coming
Speaker 1: out of San Francisco. Like many big city, San Francisco
Speaker 1: has been struggling to get crime under control. And if
Speaker 1: you're thinking, oh, it's San Francisco, what are they doing
Speaker 1: prescribing all the criminals CBD oil? No? I mean yes,
Speaker 1: but not just that. They also have more hardcore solution here.
Speaker 1: This morning, San Francisco officials voted to allow city police
Speaker 1: to have remote controlled robots that could use deadly force
Speaker 1: in extreme situations. Critics of the decision say it militarizes
Speaker 1: San Francisco's police, but city Supervisor Raphael Mandelman, who voted
Speaker 1: in favor of the robots, said that the killer machines
Speaker 1: would only be used if lives are at stake. A
Speaker 1: SFPD said they don't have pre armed robots and they
Speaker 1: don't plan to arm the ones they do have with guns.
Speaker 1: Assistant Chief David Lasar said they could deploy robots they
Speaker 1: quid with explosives. Wait wait, wait, what what They're not
Speaker 1: gonna on the robots, They're just gonna give them explosive.
Speaker 1: That is much worse. Who who came up with that
Speaker 1: pr state? But don't worry, people, the robots aren't gonna
Speaker 1: have guns. They're just gonna be suicide bombers. Okay, calm down,
Speaker 1: everyone's going this is such a bad idea. Do you
Speaker 1: know how often robots make mistakes? Can you imagine if
Speaker 1: Siri had a bomb? It was like, hey, Siri played
Speaker 1: twenty one savage now killing your family? No, no, wait,
Speaker 1: which which members of my family? But still know? But
Speaker 1: let's talk about it now. To be clear, just so
Speaker 1: we're on the same page, the robots will not actually
Speaker 1: be deciding when to use deadly force, all right. They
Speaker 1: will still be trained human police officers on the remote
Speaker 1: control triggers, So don't worry. It's still gonna be mostly
Speaker 1: black people that get killed. And it's wild. It's wild
Speaker 1: how since these can always find money for high tech
Speaker 1: gadgets for cops. But when it comes to investigat sing
Speaker 1: or like investing in long term solutions that might actually
Speaker 1: fix the problems, then they pockets are empty. If you
Speaker 1: even noticed that. Yeah, they're like, oh yeah, robots, money,
Speaker 1: we got that, we got that. People ask things. You're like, wait,
Speaker 1: you're building robots that a police with bombs? Can we
Speaker 1: do something about like the homeless people. They're like, oh yeah,
Speaker 1: the robosts can blow them off too, Yeah, we can
Speaker 1: handle that. It makes no sense. But that's it for
Speaker 1: the headlines before we go. That's checking on the traffic
Speaker 1: without very own right with Junior, everybody, what's happening out
Speaker 1: praying with a little bit. It's all a lover's time, tragic. Ye,
Speaker 1: what's happening in the traffic? Man? You see the traffic.
Speaker 1: Some people out there and some people at home. They
Speaker 1: ain't out there. That's how it is here. They need
Speaker 1: to get a robot to do this ship. This would
Speaker 1: need to be automated. Also, Man, I don't know why
Speaker 1: everybody's so worried about these robot cops. Man, because truth
Speaker 1: be told, this ain't the first time that this happened.
Speaker 1: There was a robot cop program in in Detroit back
Speaker 1: in the late eighties, and it was a robot officer.
Speaker 1: He's gonna handus drug dealer named Clarence Body. But ultily
Speaker 1: the program got scrapped because the robot thought he was
Speaker 1: a real person on some Pinocchio ship today and stopped
Speaker 1: that roy that that was robocr Yes, it's that was
Speaker 1: RoboCop whose real name was Officer Alex J. Murphy who
Speaker 1: was shot in the line of duty and they turned
Speaker 1: him into the robot copy. That's not a true story.
Speaker 1: That was a movie new bullshit for the movie. Okay,
Speaker 1: well if you say so, man. But anyway, I don't
Speaker 1: know why everybody's assuming that the robots are gonna be bad.
Speaker 1: Why do you assume that the robot cops are gonna
Speaker 1: be bad? If anything, the robot cops would get all
Speaker 1: of the messed up cops off the street. I ain't
Speaker 1: scared no robot up. You're scared. You're scared of the robots.
Speaker 1: You're scared of a robot cor No, I'm not scared
Speaker 1: of no robot cop. Man. Half of these robots don't
Speaker 1: even recognize black people. I can't get the same Fox
Speaker 1: and turn on. What are you talking about? Robots don't
Speaker 1: recognize black thin. I can't get wored out the sink,
Speaker 1: the facial recognition, don't see me. Bring on the robot cops,
Speaker 1: because maybe now black people will finally be invisible to
Speaker 1: the police. I'm winning a perfectly father with that, black
Speaker 1: people invisible to the police, and now finally we can
Speaker 1: commit our crimes in peace. Just like like, but you
Speaker 1: want the traffic dog, you know, the traffic His thing
Speaker 1: with with the with the with the bomb dogs is
Speaker 1: this is the question. I feel like nobody's asking about
Speaker 1: the bomb dogs. If there is a shortage, if there
Speaker 1: is a shortage of bomb sniffing dogs, shouldn't you shut
Speaker 1: your asks up about it and not telling anybody? Shouldn't
Speaker 1: you not telling any about it? Just just you just
Speaker 1: can't let everybody know you ain't got enough bomb sniffing dogs.
Speaker 1: Ice at home watching CBS, like, yes, now is the time. Plus,
Speaker 1: you don't need a bomb sniffing dog. You just need
Speaker 1: people to think you got a bomb sniffing dog. Just
Speaker 1: put regular dogs in the airport. That's all you have
Speaker 1: to do. All these dogs up for doctor, put them
Speaker 1: in the airport. It's just in yes, all the illusion
Speaker 1: of security. That's all you got to do is make
Speaker 1: people think of stuff. I got a car and they've
Speaker 1: got no car. Long people walk pass my car, make
Speaker 1: a noise for my mop Plus Win got a wing
Speaker 1: here out of really worry about bomb sniffing dogs because,
Speaker 1: let you tell it, the bomb sniffing dogs will eventually
Speaker 1: be replaced by robot dogs, right probably, and then robot
Speaker 1: dogs will be operated by fully robot cops. And eventually
Speaker 1: one of those robot cops will go haywhi and kill
Speaker 1: a bunch of people because it needed drugs. And the
Speaker 1: only way to stop a crazy robot cop is to
Speaker 1: get a brave robot cop to jump on the back
Speaker 1: of that robot cop and it off his access panel,
Speaker 1: get into the newal cortex, pull out the brain, and
Speaker 1: bash the brain on the ground. That's how you stopped
Speaker 1: crazy road dot com. I feel like that's the plot
Speaker 1: of RoboCop two. Yes, based on the life of Officer
Speaker 1: Alex Jane Murphy. Robo cop to was a brave biopick.
Speaker 1: How do you not know this ship? Man? I thought
Speaker 1: you was educated. Man, Let me just do the traffic.
Speaker 1: You know what, we don't have the top row he's
Speaker 1: gonna time. We don't have the top. He got time,
Speaker 1: you gotta robot to do that. Let me said, all right,
Speaker 1: don't go away, because when we come back, we're gonna
Speaker 1: tell you how you can kill yourself legally at Gabrielle Union.
Speaker 1: This SHOs right up on myself. Let's go away, RoboCop
Speaker 1: the Top Pop Welcome back to the Day the Show.
Speaker 1: My first guest Tonight is an internationally acclaimed filmmaker whose
Speaker 1: latest film is about her father, who chose to die
Speaker 1: at the age of ninety two on the California's End
Speaker 1: of Life Option Act. The film is called Last Flights
Speaker 1: Home and it's streaming on Paramount Plus. Please welcome, Andy,
Speaker 1: Tomonaco and Tomora. Welcome to the Day Show. Thank you
Speaker 1: for having me. Um. You know the clip that we
Speaker 1: play from the movie, we can only play a clip
Speaker 1: because we can't play the whole movie. Makes it seem
Speaker 1: like this is a sad story. It even sounds like
Speaker 1: a sad story. If you tell anybody that somebody made
Speaker 1: a film about their father choosing to end their own life,
Speaker 1: you would go this is a sad story that no
Speaker 1: one might even want to watch. Why would I want you?
Speaker 1: And yet I feel like it's an firing story. It's
Speaker 1: a beautiful story, it's a funny story. It's made me
Speaker 1: see life in a completely different way. So let's talk
Speaker 1: a little bit about your dad. I mean, he has
Speaker 1: lived quite the life. There are a few human beings
Speaker 1: who can say that they have personally known kings and
Speaker 1: princesses who somebody who started their own airline. Essentially, you know,
Speaker 1: somebody's running an airline, getting low cost airlines for people
Speaker 1: to fly around, wanting everybody's able to travel, having this
Speaker 1: infectious attitude that that lits up every single room. We
Speaker 1: see you chronicling this life. We see you telling us
Speaker 1: the story, and we we also see how quickly it
Speaker 1: can change. Your father was fifty howe and then had
Speaker 1: a stroke and everything changed. Yeah, he went in for
Speaker 1: a massage and his neck was manipulated and uh and
Speaker 1: ten minutes later he was in perfect health. I mean,
Speaker 1: he had run six miles that morning. And at the
Speaker 1: height of his career. Um, he had the fastest growing
Speaker 1: airline in the history of the world. And uh, he
Speaker 1: led with love, he led with loving kindness, and the
Speaker 1: airline and just was really at its height, and uh,
Speaker 1: and then he was ousted. There were no you know,
Speaker 1: rights for the disabled from that point and lost everything
Speaker 1: financially and all the social standing. But the greatest thing
Speaker 1: about Dad is he never complained. He just rooted for
Speaker 1: all of us. He was paralyzed for forty years, um,
Speaker 1: but he he suffered with such grace, you know. So
Speaker 1: when he said he needed to die at the end,
Speaker 1: it was something we all had to get behind, you know,
Speaker 1: and thank God for that law. The law was a gift. Um.
Speaker 1: We didn't know there was a right to die with
Speaker 1: a medically assisted death in in California, and it's it's
Speaker 1: only in nine states in America. You know. We expected
Speaker 1: Dad to be there forever. I don't know, we just
Speaker 1: never thought about it. Um. He always said he'd be
Speaker 1: there forever. And suddenly he was not going to walk again.
Speaker 1: He had been put in the hospital for breathing issues
Speaker 1: and not to do with COVID, but he was isolated
Speaker 1: in there and he was terrified and he wanted to go,
Speaker 1: and he needed to go. And my brother found this
Speaker 1: law and it was a gift. I mean, having these
Speaker 1: fifteen days, it allowed us to really celebrate his life
Speaker 1: and to really look at his achievements and also to
Speaker 1: help him through a shame that he deeply held. My
Speaker 1: sister of his, a rabbi, came with these age old rituals,
Speaker 1: and um, we all kind of came together, you know,
Speaker 1: like Dad was an exemplary human being, and he showed
Speaker 1: us how to love and how to live and um,
Speaker 1: and so yeah, it was. It was terrifying, but also
Speaker 1: the most beautiful and sacred space any of us had
Speaker 1: ever been in. It really is a story that touches
Speaker 1: on everything, because, as you said, you know, one part
Speaker 1: of the story gets into how much people with disabilities
Speaker 1: lose not just their income, but their access to a
Speaker 1: life of dignity. You know, your father experienced that when
Speaker 1: he pushed out of a company that he was running
Speaker 1: successfully because they didn't like the optics of a person
Speaker 1: in a wheelchair running this company, even though he could.
Speaker 1: We see him lose everything. We we we get into
Speaker 1: that conversation, then we get into the conversations around the
Speaker 1: morality and and you know, it's interesting that you bring
Speaker 1: up the fact that your sister is a rabbi and
Speaker 1: how so many of us have these ideas of how
Speaker 1: your life should end or shouldn't end. It's not your decision,
Speaker 1: but there's a line in the film and someone says
Speaker 1: what they say, none of us chooses how to come
Speaker 1: into this world, but we should be allowed to choose
Speaker 1: how and when we leave. And for many people that's
Speaker 1: a controversial state. I know that the family was on
Speaker 1: a journey, and I'd love to know what changed some
Speaker 1: people's minds about your dad being able to make that choice.
Speaker 1: You know, it was Dad's spirit that was just so
Speaker 1: uplifted by finally having agency and power to make a
Speaker 1: determination over his own body. Um, and what would happen
Speaker 1: with his own life. It was just an incredible shift
Speaker 1: that happened and we all saw it, and I I mean,
Speaker 1: I am very passionate now and our whole family is
Speaker 1: that this law be past in every state where it's
Speaker 1: being because I think it's in front of twenty two
Speaker 1: state legislatures right now. It's not a law here in
Speaker 1: New York, but it's a basic human right, you know,
Speaker 1: it's a it's a basic human right. Who who should
Speaker 1: make that determination? And um, even when the film, I
Speaker 1: was terrified sharing my family at this at this you know,
Speaker 1: their most row vulnerable, but especially for my sister who's
Speaker 1: the rabbi, because it was against Jewish Jewish law for
Speaker 1: the millennia. You know, you can't you can't end your life. Um.
Speaker 1: They've since reversed that decision. Yeah, they've reversed that law. Yeah. Wow,
Speaker 1: reform Judism has law. Um. And the reason they say
Speaker 1: a law without tenderness is wickedness, and that when the
Speaker 1: rabbis wrote that law, suffering lasted maybe five days with
Speaker 1: your terminal illness. But now there are thousands, tens of
Speaker 1: thousands of terminally patients who need and their families who
Speaker 1: should have this right. It's compassionate, it's it's a it's
Speaker 1: a really powerful storm. And like I can see, you
Speaker 1: know when you when you watch it, when you watch
Speaker 1: you can see why the film is getting Oscar buzz
Speaker 1: because it's made so well. Congratulations honestly, because you bring
Speaker 1: us into a world where you really you bring us
Speaker 1: into a world that's that's really gripping. It feels like
Speaker 1: we've there with your family. I feel like I know
Speaker 1: your family. Your dad seems like the wisest human being.
Speaker 1: There's like no moment where he goes like I don't
Speaker 1: really know. He just he says, he just says things.
Speaker 1: He answers so confidently and also so so earnestly as well,
Speaker 1: and so honestly, and you know, one of the one
Speaker 1: of the most amazing aspects in it for me is
Speaker 1: him talking to his wife and they're having this conversation
Speaker 1: and and it's so it's so fascinating to see what
Speaker 1: happens when people also have the chance to say goodbye,
Speaker 1: you know, where people have the chance to say this
Speaker 1: is how I wish for it to end. I wish
Speaker 1: to still have this dignity and to have this moment.
Speaker 1: But taught me through that, you know, before you go,
Speaker 1: just that part of their love story and and and
Speaker 1: witnessing that, you know, which many children never get to see.
Speaker 1: This is a double happiness heart that mom bought for dad.
Speaker 1: Um and further one year anniversary and they broke it
Speaker 1: in half and each war one half. Yeah, so I
Speaker 1: wear it for good luck and just to keep them close. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1: She's a fell mom and a woman. Um, she's a
Speaker 1: phenomenal woman. You know, fifty four years they were together.
Speaker 1: Seventeen of those he was able bodied and she was
Speaker 1: jet setting and the rest she was caregiving and um
Speaker 1: and she you know, we were just doing a Q
Speaker 1: and A together last Night's four years old. Such a firecracker.
Speaker 1: She really is. Um. But you know, the film, the
Speaker 1: filmmaking wasn't really the main event. The main event was
Speaker 1: getting Mom to face the fact that her partner of
Speaker 1: this many years was going to be gone and to
Speaker 1: really spend time with him. And it was hard with
Speaker 1: all the hospice workers around and everyone around, you know,
Speaker 1: to kind of get her to zero in. But she
Speaker 1: finally did face it at the end, and she's seen
Speaker 1: the film. She watched the film every day for a year.
Speaker 1: First year he was Yeah, she watched it. She watched
Speaker 1: it like a few times a week, just to spend
Speaker 1: time with him. Now I can see why, Yeah, I
Speaker 1: can see what you Honestly, you have captured a human
Speaker 1: being in a way that few films have captured anybody.
Speaker 1: You've told a story that I think millions of people,
Speaker 1: not just in America but around the world will will
Speaker 1: connect with. And congratulations, Thank you so much. Thank it wonderful.
Speaker 1: Have more of boform. Make sure to catch the film.
Speaker 1: It is chilling, spectacular on camera. Plus well, I think
Speaker 1: show because when we come back, Gabrielle Union will be
Speaker 1: joining me right now on the show. Don't go away.
Speaker 1: That's a bad. Welcome back to Good Day to Show.
Speaker 1: My next guest is an actor, a producer, and a
Speaker 1: best selling author. She was just nominated for an Independent
Speaker 1: Spirits Award for her role in the new film The Inspection,
Speaker 1: which is now in select theaters and opens nationwide December two.
Speaker 1: Please welcome Gabrielle Union. Thank you, Thank you guys, as
Speaker 1: I live and breathe one of my favorite people in
Speaker 1: the wall. Gabriel Union, Welcome back to the Daily Show.
Speaker 1: I've been wonderful. I've been wonderful. Is that is that?
Speaker 1: Is that Africa? I smell on you? What is that?
Speaker 1: What is that? What? It is familiar to me? Now?
Speaker 1: What is happening here? How was your trip? You just
Speaker 1: go back? It was amazing? It was amazing, you know,
Speaker 1: of course I had I had called Trevor as one
Speaker 1: does when you when you go to the Motherland, and
Speaker 1: I was like, tell me where to goes one does,
Speaker 1: Like everyone just called Trevor. I'm going to Africa. I
Speaker 1: feel like you pick up I do I do? You
Speaker 1: do you actually pick up the phone? I do, like, yeah,
Speaker 1: let me give you some suggestions. But we started off
Speaker 1: in Tanzania, then went to Ghana, then Namibia and then
Speaker 1: to your home countries. That's amazing. Yeah, but this was
Speaker 1: this was a different trip. This was a big trip
Speaker 1: because you were learning, you were exploring. You also celebrating.
Speaker 1: They wrote fiftieth birthday, but that's not right though, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: fiftieth Yeah. Yeah. As you've seen me drop it low
Speaker 1: and you see how long it takes me to get back.
Speaker 1: You know, you know, are like yo's please please. I
Speaker 1: don't think so. I feel like you are one of
Speaker 1: those people who is eternally young. You are. You're You're
Speaker 1: so curious about life. You know everything you do, whether
Speaker 1: it's in the writing of your books, whether it's in
Speaker 1: you know, how you travel the world, what projects you
Speaker 1: engage yourself in, you know, in Broadway productions. I mean,
Speaker 1: this film is another example of that. We've seen Garriel
Speaker 1: Union in so many different types of movies. Forgive me
Speaker 1: if if if I'm wrong in saying this, but I've
Speaker 1: never seen you like this. I've never seen you in
Speaker 1: a role like this. I can see why people are saying, oh, man,
Speaker 1: if the Oscars are not watching this movie, then they're
Speaker 1: not watching movies. Because you play a character in a
Speaker 1: movie that is so touching, painful and brilliant, and it's
Speaker 1: it's the story of a young black man, as we
Speaker 1: saw just in that in that preview, whose mother basically says,
Speaker 1: because you are gay, I'm going to disown you, and
Speaker 1: he goes off to join the Marines, and her hope
Speaker 1: is that this will this will turn him straight. Talk
Speaker 1: me through you know how you even get into this
Speaker 1: project and everything that the story was because it has
Speaker 1: a lot more do with real life than most people
Speaker 1: would think, way too much to do with real life
Speaker 1: than I like, Um, elegants Bratton are director, writer, other producer.
Speaker 1: He came to me, sent me this scripts him along
Speaker 1: with Effie Brown, and they're like, what do you think
Speaker 1: of the script? I was like, this is a winner.
Speaker 1: I absolutely want to be a part of this. I
Speaker 1: will come on as an executive producer. I know how
Speaker 1: I can be additive. And he's like, great, Um, I
Speaker 1: want you to play my mother. Oh. I tend to
Speaker 1: you know, when when I come across people who behave
Speaker 1: and speak like this, I tend to read them for
Speaker 1: filth Um. I tend to not be inspired to want
Speaker 1: to play them in a film. Uh. And I just
Speaker 1: didn't think that I was the right fit, and he said, no,
Speaker 1: it has to be you. It can only be you.
Speaker 1: And later I come to I came to find out that,
Speaker 1: you know, him and his mom had been estranged for
Speaker 1: about eighteen years. Uh. And he knew that I was
Speaker 1: one of his mom's favorites, and he knew that if
Speaker 1: I played her, she couldn't deny him and she would
Speaker 1: she would reconnect. Unfortunately, we got greenlit February. His mom
Speaker 1: passed February, so I'm not only playing a real person.
Speaker 1: I'm playing my director and writer's mother who has passed
Speaker 1: and they've had, you know, a pretty fraught relationship. And
Speaker 1: I just wasn't I just wasn't sure this was the
Speaker 1: right time for any of us. And he assured me.
Speaker 1: He said, no, we we have to tell this story.
Speaker 1: We have to tell the story, and and we know
Speaker 1: that you can do this. I was like, and he
Speaker 1: was like, you know, the black community has known that
Speaker 1: you've had the range to do this. Uh. And I
Speaker 1: had to admit to myself that I had put myself
Speaker 1: in a in a cage in a box and decided
Speaker 1: what I could do and couldn't do. You would type
Speaker 1: cost yourself and the rules that you could play because
Speaker 1: of the roles that were afforded to you. Absolutely right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: so I had to break out and give myself the
Speaker 1: opportunity to try to, I don't know, to try to
Speaker 1: grow creative. It's terrifying, It's absolutely terrifying. I don't want
Speaker 1: to ruin this man's story, you know, with you know,
Speaker 1: pulling like an isis from bring it on. You know,
Speaker 1: I don't know what he's expecting yet, and yet I
Speaker 1: feel like, I feel like, you know, it seems so
Speaker 1: perfect and it seems so obvious now because because when
Speaker 1: you see you in the film, I can see I
Speaker 1: can see what he saw like you know, And it's interesting.
Speaker 1: I would love to know how your your opinion of
Speaker 1: his mom changed in hearing his story and his side
Speaker 1: of it, because to your point, there are many scripts,
Speaker 1: and there are many stories that are told of people
Speaker 1: that give us an idea of them, and then once
Speaker 1: we're forced to be them in some way, once we're
Speaker 1: forced to empathize and get into their lives, our opinion
Speaker 1: of them changes. Taught me through that change, because you
Speaker 1: don't play her like somebody that you hate. You don't
Speaker 1: play her like somebody that we even hate. So I'd
Speaker 1: love to know what you understand differently about her. That
Speaker 1: doesn't condone her views on her son being gay, but
Speaker 1: in some way, empathy, you know, creates empathy in us.
Speaker 1: For her, I had to find her humanity and I
Speaker 1: had to figure out how to keep the love not
Speaker 1: just on the set as a producer, but the love
Speaker 1: between these characters. And the more I talk to parents
Speaker 1: who struggle in the way that she struggles, they none
Speaker 1: of them deny that they love their children deeply, and
Speaker 1: a lot of them truly believe that by rejecting their
Speaker 1: child or denying their identity, which unfortunately denies their humanity,
Speaker 1: is the way to love them properly, is the way
Speaker 1: to protect them, is the way to save them, which
Speaker 1: sounds very backwards, right, but that's firmly in their hearts.
Speaker 1: They believe that. And the more I started asking about
Speaker 1: her background, she was orphaned at ten. She was a
Speaker 1: top student, she was a top athlete, and she just
Speaker 1: wanted people to think that she was good and worthy
Speaker 1: and deserving. And I was like, now that's where I
Speaker 1: can relate. You know. We we have these conversations often
Speaker 1: where all the shape shifting that you will do to
Speaker 1: get someone to say, oh, yeah, you right, whether it's
Speaker 1: a relationship or a business opportunity, or just how you
Speaker 1: move through the world surviving as a person of color
Speaker 1: in this In this world, you will minimize yourself. You
Speaker 1: will barter with anything to try to get this much
Speaker 1: closer to the power structures or opportunities or whatever. And
Speaker 1: that we had in common, because I've bartered with many things,
Speaker 1: just not my kids, but I've bartered with my soul
Speaker 1: plenty of times. You know. We talk about soul sacrifices
Speaker 1: and those those moments that you will never get back,
Speaker 1: that that that live in your memory, that you that
Speaker 1: you're ashamed of. And I have those as well. And
Speaker 1: I was like, Okay, now I figured out how I
Speaker 1: can get in. How do I keep the love in
Speaker 1: this space but still show that this is the most
Speaker 1: unhealthy way of showing your love for your child, And
Speaker 1: hopefully I can be a mirror to some parents. I
Speaker 1: don't think. I don't think to hope for me. I
Speaker 1: think he would be. I think it's it's it's brilliant.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's access. The film is phenomenal. The story
Speaker 1: that you tell is phenomenal. It is everything and as
Speaker 1: I say, if if the Oscars people don't come knocking,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm gonna be free in like a few weeks.
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna go chase them. You you call me
Speaker 1: and you let me know, you know, I answer the phone.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna chase the people. You're a phenomenal Thank you
Speaker 1: so much for joining on the show. The Wall. I
Speaker 1: thank the Goat Real Union. Everybody. Make sure to catch
Speaker 1: the film. I promise you you will not regret. We're
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