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Speaker 4: Congress is super horny, Republicans pretend to vet Trump's cabinet,
Speaker 4: and we get mixology tips from Pete Hegseth. So let's
Speaker 4: get into another installment of Trump two point zero coming
Speaker 4: for the White House.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna come.
Speaker 5: I truly hate that.
Speaker 4: So Donald Trump becomes president on Monday, and that means
Speaker 4: I know, I hate Mondays too, but it means we're
Speaker 4: invading Greenland on Tuesday. So we got to decide who
Speaker 4: is going to lead the armada, which is why today
Speaker 4: the Senate held its first confirmation hearing for Pete Hegseeth,
Speaker 4: Trump's nominee for Defense Secretary and dude who makes sure
Speaker 4: everyone at the frat house has their stories straight. Now,
Speaker 4: since he was nominated a couple months ago, we found
Speaker 4: out a lot about Hegseeth, and most of it does
Speaker 4: not inspire confidence.
Speaker 5: He's been accused of sexual assault.
Speaker 4: He was accused of nearly running a veterans group into
Speaker 4: the ground, and he has a documented history of excessive drinking,
Speaker 4: which we learned even more about today.
Speaker 6: A Hegseeth acquaintance describes a breakfast they had with Hegxeth
Speaker 6: in the spring of twenty twenty three. We met at
Speaker 6: Fox News in New York for breakfast, and he suggested
Speaker 6: we go across the street to a bar. It was
Speaker 6: like ten in them more. Then he ordered two gin
Speaker 6: and Tonics at the same time for himself. Then he
Speaker 6: had a third gin and tonic.
Speaker 5: Whoa, whoa, whoa.
Speaker 4: He said, that's rolling up to breakfast like, I'll have
Speaker 4: the steel cut oatmeal and three Gen and tonics.
Speaker 5: Please.
Speaker 4: You know what they say, beer before liquor. Never been sicker,
Speaker 4: liquor before liquor. I'll have another liquor. It's definitely raising
Speaker 4: some questions for the person you may want to put
Speaker 4: in charge of the nukes. So let's jump into today's
Speaker 4: confirmation here in and you know what I'm not. I'm
Speaker 4: not saying he showed up drunk, but it did start
Speaker 4: at ten am. So how about we start with a
Speaker 4: quick sobriety test. You know, something simple, Pete, how about
Speaker 4: name your kids are seven?
Speaker 7: Wonderful kids, Gunner Jackson, Peter Boone, Kensington, Luke chat Rex,
Speaker 7: Sorry it's a lot of them.
Speaker 8: And Gwendolen.
Speaker 4: Little Tipsy Okay, big deal, all right, No, biggie. My
Speaker 4: dad was always mixing up me and my siblings' names,
Speaker 4: and he launched perfectly successful counteroffensive, rapid deployment, amphibious incursions
Speaker 4: into I ran.
Speaker 5: All the time.
Speaker 4: Although Pete probably should have given his kids names he
Speaker 4: could remember more easily, maybe like Don Julio, Jim Beam,
Speaker 4: Johnny Walker, Jose Cuerrevo, and don't forget little Michael hard Lemonade.
Speaker 5: Anyway.
Speaker 4: No, now that that's over, it's time for the grilling Republicans.
Speaker 4: I know he's your guy, but I also know you
Speaker 4: love the military, so I'm sure you've got some hard
Speaker 4: questions for the man who wants to run it.
Speaker 5: Why do you want to do this job?
Speaker 3: But you what drives?
Speaker 9: You?
Speaker 8: Tell me something about your wife that you love? How
Speaker 8: many push ups could you do?
Speaker 4: Follow up question, sir, I have this jar. Could a
Speaker 4: big strong man like yourself open it?
Speaker 5: Okay?
Speaker 4: Okay, But Democrats made up for those softballs with a
Speaker 4: couple of pitches that were really high and inside.
Speaker 10: I assume that in each of your weddings you've pledged
Speaker 10: to be faithful to your wife. You've taken an oath
Speaker 10: to do that, haven't you. You've admitted that you had
Speaker 10: sex at that hotel on October twenty seventeen, and you
Speaker 10: were still married, and you just had a child by
Speaker 10: another woman.
Speaker 7: Again, how do you explain, your judge?
Speaker 10: You have admitted that you had sex while you were
Speaker 10: married to wife two, after you just had fathered a
Speaker 10: child by wife three, But you didn't reveal any of
Speaker 10: this to President Trump. Why didn't you inform the commander
Speaker 10: in chief of the transition team of this very relevant event?
Speaker 11: Oh damn, Tim Kaine would pull Maury Pulvits out there. Wow, Wow,
Speaker 11: Tim Polvitch.
Speaker 4: Oh loo, Come on, Tim, come on, you're asking why
Speaker 4: didn't Hexa tell Trump about how many times he cheated
Speaker 4: on his wife? Maybe because if he did, Trump would
Speaker 4: high fight him so hard it would break both their hands. Okay,
Speaker 4: that was a pretty wild line of questioning from Tim Kane.
Speaker 4: Any Republican want to jump to his defense here?
Speaker 8: How many senators have showed up drunk to vote at night?
Speaker 8: And then how many senators do you know have got
Speaker 8: a divorce before cheating on their wives. Did you ask
Speaker 8: them to step down?
Speaker 12: No?
Speaker 2: But it's for show, you guys.
Speaker 12: Make sure you.
Speaker 8: Make a big show and point out the hypocrisy. Because
Speaker 8: a man's made a mistake and you want to sit
Speaker 8: there and say that he's not qualified.
Speaker 5: Give me a joke, Give me a joke.
Speaker 4: Okay, okay, A priest, a rabbi, and Pete Haggs out.
Speaker 5: Walk into a bar at ten am.
Speaker 4: Are you happy now, Mark Qwain, I don't know this
Speaker 4: was really the defense that Hexeth wanted though.
Speaker 5: Look, we're all pieces.
Speaker 4: Of shit here, but he without an Ashley Madison premium
Speaker 4: account cast the first home. I'll tell you who else
Speaker 4: probably didn't appreciate that defense. The other senators, they probably
Speaker 4: got home and their wives were like I saw Mark
Speaker 4: Wayne at the confirmation hearing today.
Speaker 5: He said that everyone.
Speaker 4: In the Senate cheats on their wives. Honey, honey, you
Speaker 4: can't trust Mark Wayne.
Speaker 5: He's confused. The man has two first names.
Speaker 11: Pushed together and sunny.
Speaker 5: Okay.
Speaker 4: But after that, they did in fact get into Hegsat's
Speaker 4: policy positions, and there was one in particular policy that
Speaker 4: had people very worked up.
Speaker 3: You previously have made a series of inflammatory statements about.
Speaker 8: Women in combat.
Speaker 10: In our recent podcast, you said, quote, I'm straight up
Speaker 10: just saying we should not have women in combat roles.
Speaker 12: You say we need moms, but not in the military,
Speaker 12: especially in combat units.
Speaker 6: What's wrong with a mom?
Speaker 12: By the way, once you have babies, you therefore are
Speaker 12: no longer able to be lethal.
Speaker 11: Yeah, are you saying moms can't be lethal?
Speaker 5: Does the name Casey Anthony mean nothing to you?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 4: Thanks of that as a long record of insisting that
Speaker 4: women have no place in combat. And you know what,
Speaker 4: I'm sorry, libs, but that's just the way Pete is.
Speaker 4: Maybe he's not good at leadership or management, or money
Speaker 4: or vows or driving home past ten am, but the
Speaker 4: one thing he does is stand his ground telling Pete
Speaker 4: no women in combat roles.
Speaker 13: Let's make it very clear for everyone here today. As
Speaker 13: Secretary of Defense, will you support women continuing to have
Speaker 13: the opportunity to serve in combat roles?
Speaker 7: Yes, women will have access to ground combat roles.
Speaker 4: From Washington, DC, the flash apparently official at eleven twenty
Speaker 4: five standard time, Pete Hegseth went woke. You know, perhaps
Speaker 4: the most damning comment about Pete Hegseth came from Pete
Speaker 4: Hegseth himself. When he's explaining what the military needs in
Speaker 4: its leadership.
Speaker 7: The DEI policies of today are not putting meritocracy first.
Speaker 7: Every single senior officer will be reviewed based on meritocracy,
Speaker 7: getting anything that doesn't contribute to meritocracy out of how
Speaker 7: decisions are made inside the Pentagon. Ensuring readiness and meritocracy
Speaker 7: is front and center. Meritocracy, meritocracy, meritocracy.
Speaker 5: Oh, I know what his next kid's going to be named.
Speaker 5: You heard him? Though you heard him, folks.
Speaker 4: A military cannot function unless it's staffed by a system
Speaker 4: based on pure merit where only the most qualified people
Speaker 4: rise to the top. So says your next Secretary of
Speaker 4: Defense will run the most complicated, powerful, deadly organization the
Speaker 4: world has ever known, and his only qualification is that
Speaker 4: Trump liked watching him sit on a couch on Saturday mornings.
Speaker 4: But I'm listening to Republicans today it seems like that's
Speaker 4: going to be enough to get him confirmed.
Speaker 9: I just want to say, for all the talk of
Speaker 9: experience and not coming from the same cocktail parties that
Speaker 9: Permanent Washington is used to you were a breath of
Speaker 9: fresh air.
Speaker 5: Well that's not what the breathalyzer said.
Speaker 4: But but okay, form more like Pete haiks scatary as
Speaker 4: we go live to the Capitol. We know he Seth
Speaker 4: apparently has a history being drunk and abusive and corrupt.
Speaker 4: What else has your reporting uncovered?
Speaker 14: I didn't do any reporting, Jordan, back to you, What.
Speaker 4: Do you mean there's there's gotta be more shady stuff
Speaker 4: in his past?
Speaker 14: Of course there is. He's Pete Hegseth.
Speaker 15: When you start drinking at ten am, you have a
Speaker 15: full day of bad decisions. I'm sure he crashed his
Speaker 15: second wife's jet ski into his third wife's beach house,
Speaker 15: but I'm not going to torture myself reporting on it.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 4: The less I know, the better, DESI. Transparency is important.
Speaker 4: We need to know the extent of his drinking problem.
Speaker 14: We need to know the extent of his drinking problem.
Speaker 15: Come on, you really think that learning more about Pete's
Speaker 15: past is going to actually stop his confirmation? Give me
Speaker 15: a joke. So this is like going through your dad's
Speaker 15: browser history. He's still going to be your dad, but
Speaker 15: now there's a bunch of stuff you cann.
Speaker 5: See it's not that simple.
Speaker 15: I'll tell you it's not so simple. Your dad's browser
Speaker 15: history because I went through it. Illiteratemilfs dot com. Okay,
Speaker 15: good network, nip slips, nude Africa dot com.
Speaker 5: Okay, all right, No, there's no way that's.
Speaker 14: My dad, map quest dot com.
Speaker 5: Oh god, that's my dad.
Speaker 15: Amtrak sluts, Janet, renocameltoe dot gut.
Speaker 5: Stop it. Okay.
Speaker 14: See, ain't not so fun knowing things you can't do
Speaker 14: anything about. Huh.
Speaker 15: Look, I spent Trump's first term knowing every single sexist, misogynist,
Speaker 15: racist detail about his freak squad.
Speaker 14: And where did that get us? Four more years of
Speaker 14: this freak squad?
Speaker 5: So what you're just gonna ignore it and not do
Speaker 5: your job.
Speaker 15: It's called self care, Jordan. It was invented by Gwyneth
Speaker 15: Paltrow in two thousand and eight. So at this point,
Speaker 15: I don't want to know any of the disturbing details
Speaker 15: about Trump's nominee. I don't want to ruin my day
Speaker 15: finding out one of them killed a puppy.
Speaker 4: Actually, Christy nom did kill a puppy.
Speaker 14: My god, why would you say that, you jack off?
Speaker 4: Because she's nominated for Homeland Security?
Speaker 3: Stop it?
Speaker 4: Stop it, Stop it, so you can't just give up
Speaker 4: knowing things? Does he Democracy dies in darkness, yes.
Speaker 15: But democracy also sleeps better in darkness. You can bundle
Speaker 15: up all cozy and hide under its weighted blanket, numb
Speaker 15: itself with CBD gummies until it wakes up in twenty
Speaker 15: twenty eight?
Speaker 14: Doesn't that sound nice?
Speaker 5: Oh? Do look? I know, I know it is hard.
Speaker 4: Do I know it's scary, But it is the sacred
Speaker 4: duty of journalists to investigate our leaders, to uncover the truth,
Speaker 4: no matter how uncomfortable or upsetting it may be.
Speaker 15: Junkyard sluts, butt stuff. Junkyard sluts butt stuff, redheads okayse
Speaker 15: hunting their own banks, Glenn Close, Cruella.
Speaker 4: Ignorance is bliss, Daisy Laik Everyone, we come back and
Speaker 4: find out more on America's Defense secretary. Don't go away,
Speaker 4: Welcome back to the Daily Show. We've been following the
Speaker 4: confirmation hearings for Secretary of Defense all day. But who
Speaker 4: is the real Pete Hegseth. Let's find out in a
Speaker 4: brand new Daily Shoography.
Speaker 12: Across the globe, the enemies of Uncle Sam are on
Speaker 12: the much and the biggest war of all is the
Speaker 12: culture war. Taking on these kinky booted thugs demands a
Speaker 12: hero like no other, a man who will fight for America,
Speaker 12: for Mecca, and most of all, for his right to party.
Speaker 12: This is the daily geography of Pete Hegseth, over served
Speaker 12: with honor. Pete Hegseth grew up in the Midwest, the
Speaker 12: most American part of America. He was the all American boy,
Speaker 12: the varsity athlete who married his high school sweetheart, his
Speaker 12: best girl, who would then go on to be his
Speaker 12: second best girl, and then his third best girl. A
Speaker 12: family man through and through, he went through several families.
Speaker 12: It was at Princeton University that Pete first enlisted in
Speaker 12: the Culture War.
Speaker 7: I ran the conservative publication at on our campus.
Speaker 12: We were like bomb throwing fighting valiantly against the forces
Speaker 12: of diversity and gay. He championed traditional relationships between men
Speaker 12: and women, even if the woman is passed out drunk,
Speaker 12: I mean technically being unconscious, as anti woke as you
Speaker 12: can get. After graduation, haig Seth joined the military, having
Speaker 12: given the matter careful consideration.
Speaker 5: I didn't know the army from the Marine Corps. I
Speaker 5: mean I didn't know anything back home.
Speaker 12: In twenty twelve, he decided to serve his country in
Speaker 12: another way.
Speaker 7: My name's Pete, hegseth, and I'm running to be your
Speaker 7: next United States Senator.
Speaker 12: Sadly, it was not to be, and Pete dropped out
Speaker 12: of the race to spend more time with whichever wife
Speaker 12: and family he was up to. About that, honestly, it's
Speaker 12: hard to keep track. Instead, Pete landed a job as
Speaker 12: the head of a small nonprofit veterans group, which became
Speaker 12: even more nonprofit after he nearly drove it into bankruptcy.
Speaker 8: Don't worry, the.
Speaker 12: Money went to a good cause.
Speaker 6: Partying.
Speaker 12: He was once again a man with a mission, and
Speaker 12: the stories of his exploits became legendary, with the organization's
Speaker 12: HR department, passing out in party buses, urinating on hotel lawns,
Speaker 12: leading a bar in chance of kill all Muslims, and
Speaker 12: getting kicked out of a strip club for trying to
Speaker 12: dance on stage. Eventually, his luck ran out, and Pete
Speaker 12: found himself dishonorably discharged from his nonprofit platoon. He was
Speaker 12: now almost completely without friends.
Speaker 5: Almost come on a Bete, your next don.
Speaker 12: Fox and Friends, And while even Fox News had a
Speaker 12: employees who quietly complained about Hegseth's habit of showing up
Speaker 12: Trump for work at six am. The network was mostly
Speaker 12: a perfect culture fit.
Speaker 14: I've always wanted to do this.
Speaker 7: I will not be abstaining from alcohol.
Speaker 12: Maybe if I do well, I'll get a pint, a
Speaker 12: little bit of champagne.
Speaker 7: There you go.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna get another rebuild.
Speaker 13: Hold on Champagne is my problem when it comes to hangovers.
Speaker 7: It just it fixes the problem in the morning, because
Speaker 7: when you have a little bit more champagne and then
Speaker 7: your problem goes away.
Speaker 12: Who better to fight terrorism than the only soldier who's
Speaker 12: been waterboarded was Champagne. More importantly, Fox brought Hegseth back
Speaker 12: to the front lines of the culture war.
Speaker 7: Well, Black Lives matter, trying to destroy Christmas as we
Speaker 7: know it.
Speaker 16: It's actually not hyperbole, indoctrinating our kids, opening our borders,
Speaker 16: canceling individuals, Wuhan virus, Chinese virus, maybe even the Kung flu.
Speaker 2: Apparently there's new lesbian characters.
Speaker 7: It's a female empowerment.
Speaker 16: Can the black panther be played by a white guy.
Speaker 12: With brain power like that? It was no wonder heg
Speaker 12: Seth decided he didn't need his grad school diploma anymore,
Speaker 12: by the way.
Speaker 14: Harvard University.
Speaker 5: Let's see, let's do that.
Speaker 12: And there were still some challenges along the way, like
Speaker 12: the time heg Seth was banned from an assignment with
Speaker 12: his National Guard unit because someone noticed what looked like
Speaker 12: a white nationalist tattoo. But soon this recipient of two
Speaker 12: Bronze Stars earned the respect of America's greatest Bronze Star.
Speaker 12: And when Trump was re elected in twenty twenty four,
Speaker 12: he knew where to find his Secretary of Defense who
Speaker 12: was willing to get his hands dirty.
Speaker 14: I don't think I've washed my hands for ten years.
Speaker 12: Pete had his plans for winning the culture War ready.
Speaker 7: Any general that was involved, general, admiral, whatever, that was
Speaker 7: involved in any of the DEI woke, shit, it's gotta go.
Speaker 7: I'm straight up just saying we should not have women
Speaker 7: in comment roles.
Speaker 12: His confirmation seemed like a sure thing, but then.
Speaker 9: In ambush breaking news, the president of Lex Team has
Speaker 9: been caught off guard by a sexual assault allegation against.
Speaker 5: A whistleblower report.
Speaker 8: It claims when Hegseeth was president of Concerned Veterans for America,
Speaker 8: he was quote repeatedly intoxicated to the point of needing
Speaker 8: to be carried out of the organizations of bents.
Speaker 12: The allegations of hegseth debauchery were overwhelming. Nothing now would
Speaker 12: be able to persuade the Senate that he was fit for.
Speaker 2: I intend to support Pete.
Speaker 4: He made the pledge to me that.
Speaker 13: He will not touch a drop of alcoholis secretary.
Speaker 9: He offered up to me that he's not drinking, and
Speaker 9: that's not something he's going to do when he's confirmed here.
Speaker 12: Oh well, never mind then, and so America's war on
Speaker 12: woke is now truly ready to begin. With Pete Hegseth
Speaker 12: at the Helm, the Department of Defense will finally have
Speaker 12: a true leader. May if I do well, I'll get
Speaker 12: a pint, and one can only assume absolutely insane Christmas parties.
Speaker 4: We come back, Boyd Holbrook, if you're joining me on
Speaker 4: the show, don't go away, Welcome.
Speaker 3: Back to the Daily Show.
Speaker 4: My guest tonight as an actor who plays Johnny Cash
Speaker 4: and the film A Complete Unknown.
Speaker 5: Please welcome, Boyd Holbrook, Welcome.
Speaker 3: Thank you for having, of course thang.
Speaker 4: You just watching that scene a convincing drunk right, Yes,
Speaker 4: you're both Johnny Cash and an inebriated Johnny Cash in
Speaker 4: that specific scene.
Speaker 5: How do you how do you prepare? Do you go
Speaker 5: method in a drunk scene?
Speaker 1: Yeah, you definitely want to go method for a twelve
Speaker 1: hour shoot. It's really hard to keep that up.
Speaker 5: Yeah, what do you do in that?
Speaker 4: I've heard detail and sometimes as you pretend not to
Speaker 4: be drunk, and that's how you become drunk or look drunk.
Speaker 12: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well, Ray Liota used to say you should just have
Speaker 1: your head stand upside down for you know, a minute
Speaker 1: or two. But really it's just about playing. It's just
Speaker 1: about finding your way around the sets. Yeah, and trying
Speaker 1: to you know, crash into thing, just.
Speaker 4: Just bump into the and literally they let you do
Speaker 4: this with a car, that's right. Yeah, So you played
Speaker 4: Johnny Cash, which is a tough thing to do an
Speaker 4: iconic character in American history. But James Mangle, who directed this,
Speaker 4: also directed Walk the Line, famously Walking Phoenix played Johnny Cash.
Speaker 4: So you're walking into that. You got a lot of
Speaker 4: a lot of big shoes to fill, big shoes to fill.
Speaker 4: Did you guys discuss like how your Johnny Cash would
Speaker 4: be different than Johnny Cash or how is there an
Speaker 4: mcu metaverse, separate thing going on here.
Speaker 1: Well, you know, I probably wouldn't have touched this role
Speaker 1: if it went for James Mangold. You know, as you said,
Speaker 1: he made Walk the Line very big shoes to field
Speaker 1: playing Johnny Cash after Walking Phoenix. But you know, it
Speaker 1: was in the research that James had done with Bob
Speaker 1: found out their pin pals and they'd written all these
Speaker 1: letters back and forth to each other. Johnny had reached
Speaker 1: out to him the beginning. Yea, So I saw the
Speaker 1: importance of Johnny and Bob's life at that time. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And I've worked with Jim two previous times and it's
Speaker 1: just the best working experience I've ever had, So it
Speaker 1: was definitely a leap of faith to go there. But yeah,
Speaker 1: uh yeah, he's.
Speaker 4: The captain, he's now. The letters are fascinating because they
Speaker 4: truly are. They're very They showed like a personal side
Speaker 4: to Cash and that kind of they found that they
Speaker 4: lived isolated lives in their own fame, but were able
Speaker 4: to sort of reach out and talk to one of them.
Speaker 4: Did you did you see those letters? Did you work
Speaker 4: off of those letters? I know they show up in
Speaker 4: the film. Yeah, this seems very honest to that part
Speaker 4: of the history.
Speaker 1: Mm hmm, yeah, I'd reread them on the way over here,
Speaker 1: and they're written on the back of airplanes, sickness bags
Speaker 1: and and really just two guys at the you know,
Speaker 1: the you know, epic of.
Speaker 5: Fame without stationary.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, that's such a comment on face.
Speaker 5: You know, it's so.
Speaker 4: Famous, but you can't afford stationary and you're the top
Speaker 4: of your game at this time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's no spell check or autocorrect at that.
Speaker 9: No.
Speaker 4: Well, this film takes a lot of efforts to be
Speaker 4: honest to the time period, and a lot of nerds,
Speaker 4: dilenologists go over little bits and pieces of this movie
Speaker 4: call out things, and this movie takes good care. And
Speaker 4: as somebody who's definitely not a dilenologist or a weird
Speaker 4: nerd like this, I had a question about the bugles
Speaker 4: that you.
Speaker 5: Used in that scene. There's a moment in that drunk.
Speaker 4: Scene where you're holding bugles and you offer them to
Speaker 4: Bob Dylan, and a nerdy dilenologist might point out the
Speaker 4: fact that bugles weren't nationally around in nineteen sixty four,
Speaker 4: let alone in Newport, Rhode Island, And I wonder that
Speaker 4: was a choice that you.
Speaker 1: Were making with You totally got us on that one.
Speaker 1: It was the Deridos the of the era. Yeah, uh huh, yeah.
Speaker 1: You know, Jim has this great way of just finding
Speaker 1: these little moments and films and if you come in prepared,
Speaker 1: you can you know, have the coke bottle flying off
Speaker 1: the car. We can create a prop in the in
Speaker 1: the car. It's just really coming up with those.
Speaker 5: Ideas, why bugles, why the bule?
Speaker 1: Because I think there's so what are they They're just
Speaker 1: they're they're not They're not in modern day.
Speaker 5: I guess well, I mean you can get bugles.
Speaker 4: My mom puts Bugles in checks mix, which is a
Speaker 4: real good hack for anybody out there at all. Is
Speaker 4: it a musical reference because the bugle itself is musical.
Speaker 4: It says if Johnny Cash is passing the.
Speaker 1: Music of I didn't want to spell it out.
Speaker 5: For you, Okay, you.
Speaker 1: You're kind of painted me into a corner.
Speaker 4: So yeah, I've leave a little bit of mystery out
Speaker 4: there as well. Right, do you like do you like
Speaker 4: creating a character based on somebody that's that already exists,
Speaker 4: or do you like the idea of creating a character
Speaker 4: from scratch?
Speaker 1: If I've kind of made a living playing all these
Speaker 1: little small characters in these films, and I prefer character work.
Speaker 1: But when you play an iconic person like this, you
Speaker 1: do have some sort of a pocket to be in.
Speaker 1: You know, there's the iconic voice that you're that you're
Speaker 1: making impression of, there's the sound of him, and so
Speaker 1: I had two interviews that I just knew verbatim, and
Speaker 1: if I went out to my own speaking voice, I
Speaker 1: could always refer back to that. So it's almost like
Speaker 1: you're in a pocket of an e or a certain
Speaker 1: like a song is in c So you just know
Speaker 1: where this character lies all the time.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm curious what response you've gotten, because I mean,
Speaker 4: just as an audience, people watch a performance, but they
Speaker 4: know what you're aiming at. They have they have a
Speaker 4: reference point for the attempt. In some ways, in watching
Speaker 4: your performance is sort of like watching you as a
Speaker 4: trap peece artist. We know, we know what the pract
Speaker 4: falls could be and what you want to what your
Speaker 4: goal is at the end, as opposed to watching a
Speaker 4: complete creation, a new creation, which was sort of investing
Speaker 4: in the discovery of what you find. Have you noticed
Speaker 4: a different response from movies where you are portraying people
Speaker 4: who do exist that an audience watches.
Speaker 1: Oh gosh, you know my whole thing. With a legendary
Speaker 1: person like this, you really just don't want to tarnish
Speaker 1: their image, and to take this on was a real challenge.
Speaker 1: But in difference of character to this character, there was
Speaker 1: a I would say there was a lot of pressure
Speaker 1: in terms of that of just taking them out of
Speaker 1: the movie. And I think that's really the important part
Speaker 1: of this. And you can really get lost in this
Speaker 1: film and taken back to the sixties of when all
Speaker 1: this iconic music was being made in such a pivotal time.
Speaker 4: I'm curious because sort of embedded in this relationship are
Speaker 4: these these two artists who sort of found a companionship
Speaker 4: through these weird times. Is there in your creative life?
Speaker 4: Is there somebody else who's a cash or a Dylan
Speaker 4: in your uh?
Speaker 5: In your creative pursuit?
Speaker 4: Are you writing on the back of any kind of
Speaker 4: barf bags to anybody?
Speaker 1: I'm not riding on the back of any airplanes thickness bags.
Speaker 1: I have my own heroes that I look up to.
Speaker 1: Michael Shannon is a great actor. He's from Kentucky. He
Speaker 1: really inspired me to be an actor. Christian Bale threw
Speaker 1: me a bone and brought me onto a film early
Speaker 1: in my career. You know, I think it's sometimes you
Speaker 1: don't want to meet your your you know, your your heroes.
Speaker 5: Yeah, this must be awkward for you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it is strange. Well, I.
Speaker 5: Hope I lived up to everything that.
Speaker 3: Was in your head.
Speaker 1: It was truly an honor, truly good luck.
Speaker 4: And when you get to play me in that biopic
Speaker 4: years down the line, should we get a pick after this?
Speaker 4: We can totally get a picked. We can totally get
Speaker 4: a pick, all right, but don't but just let me
Speaker 4: know if you use bugle, I'll give you a little
Speaker 4: secret for me.
Speaker 5: It's not bugles, okay, it's freedoms. Okay.
Speaker 4: So yeah, just live hour patch my mythology. The movie
Speaker 4: is truly wonderful. I loved it, Thank you very much.
Speaker 4: A Complete Unknown is in theaters now, Boyd brom gonna
Speaker 4: take quick.
Speaker 3: Right, that's a show for tonight now here.
Speaker 10: It is another of By the way, would you explain
Speaker 10: what a jag off is?
Speaker 7: I don't think I need to, sir. Why not because
Speaker 7: the men and women watching understand?
Speaker 10: Well, perhaps some of my colleagues don't understand.
Speaker 7: It would be a JAG officer who puts his or
Speaker 7: her own priorities in front of the warfighters, their promotions,
Speaker 7: their medals, in front of having the backs that those
Speaker 7: are making the tough calls on the front lines.
Speaker 1: Thank you so interesting.
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