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Speaker 1: Let me tell you we we got a fantastic show
Speaker 1: for tonight. We're gonna do our program. Later on in
Speaker 1: the program, we're gonna be talking a comedian, writer, director,
Speaker 1: author Mo Amer. That's then over the very excited about that.
Speaker 1: But first, if I could have just a moment of
Speaker 1: your time, let's talk about America's Lord and Savior, Donald
Speaker 1: jehosafef for Trump. They're not doing They're saying Bruce for
Speaker 1: no apparent reason. When Trump ran for president, he had
Speaker 1: an urgent message about the state of our country.
Speaker 5: Our country is being lost. We're a failing nation.
Speaker 1: We are a nation in decline. We have to fight
Speaker 1: for our country, and we have to fight like we've
Speaker 1: never fought before. It's like we're a giant garbage can.
Speaker 1: How dare you? If anything, America's are recycling ben useless
Speaker 1: and made almost entirely of plastic. But that's it. We
Speaker 1: have to fight to save our country. And now Daddy's
Speaker 1: home and he's about to take out the trash, and
Speaker 1: two weeks into the Trump presidency, we have a better
Speaker 1: sense of the evil and powerful forces that have been
Speaker 1: dragging our once great nation into decline.
Speaker 5: The Trump administration removed transgender references from federal government websites.
Speaker 6: It now reads LGB instead of LGBT.
Speaker 1: They have no idea the damaged T was doing to
Speaker 1: our nation. Consonants, because I think you'll agree with me,
Speaker 1: there is no T in USA. If you spell it out, obviously,
Speaker 1: that becomes an issue. And if you want to belt
Speaker 1: for lunch, they just can get ugly. But nothing will
Speaker 1: stop America's low tea like no tea. What other changes
Speaker 1: are making us great again? The Trump administration ordering all
Speaker 1: gender ideology references be removed, including pronouns and email signatures.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, consonants and pronouns, your next prepositions. No more
Speaker 1: pronouns and email signatures. Good luck signing your emails now,
Speaker 1: President she, or should I say President him? Those are
Speaker 1: just the actions that this president has taken to prove
Speaker 1: that he's still kind of a dick. But believe me,
Speaker 1: he hasn't taken his eye off of America's true nation
Speaker 1: state enemies.
Speaker 6: President Trump is reiterating his threat to quote take back
Speaker 6: the Panama Canal.
Speaker 7: Trump suggesting he could use military force to take Greenland.
Speaker 1: President Trump had a fiery phone call with Denmark's Prime minister,
Speaker 1: putting the natal ally in crisis mode. Denmark, Panama, Greenland,
Speaker 1: the axis of Where are those now? Lest you think
Speaker 1: that Pronouns and Panama were the twin forces shackling America
Speaker 1: to a prison of national decay, there are also more
Speaker 1: powerful forces at play in this dangerous world, some of
Speaker 1: them closer than what you might have ever imagined. The
Speaker 1: new era of trade wars. Trump says tariffs are coming
Speaker 1: on Canada and Mexico and even the European Union. What
Speaker 1: is half the EU? Canada? Do we have any friends?
Speaker 1: I mean Mexico. I get Trump's been hateful in Mexico
Speaker 1: pretty much since the Escalator, that's the truth. But Canada cannot.
Speaker 1: We're picking a fight with our most reliable and pleasant friend,
Speaker 1: the labradoodle of allies. But I guess that's Trump tough.
Speaker 1: You know what I mean? You gotta walk into the
Speaker 1: prison yard, walk right up to the one guy who
Speaker 1: really doesn't seem to be a problem at all, and
Speaker 1: just yeah, take that best friend who has willingly signed
Speaker 1: up to fight in every ridiculous war we've ever gotten
Speaker 1: into her. Let that be a lesson to the rest.
Speaker 5: Of the world.
Speaker 1: We are a terrible friend. Denmark, Panama and can America.
Speaker 1: You used to fight the Nazis. Now we're scouring the
Speaker 1: globe for easy march. What do we laugh the Jake
Speaker 1: Paul of Nations.
Speaker 2: I know, is that what we're.
Speaker 1: Doing no offense. I know China's out there, but Panama
Speaker 1: is a legitimate fight. In fact, I'm gonna call everyone
Speaker 1: out in FIFA's Conca Calf Division. Yeah, oh, Trinidad and Tobago,
Speaker 1: you got a gang up? Huh that honestly, like, I
Speaker 1: can't believe you laughed at a Conca Calf joke. After
Speaker 1: it's back baby, Oh, I'm look at me getting all
Speaker 1: skewed in the tie.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 1: In Trump's defense, he did explain today why we're going
Speaker 1: after Canada. I mean, I look at some of the
Speaker 1: deals made. I say, who the hell made?
Speaker 3: These deals are so bad.
Speaker 1: So bad, the trade deals with Canada, They're so bad.
Speaker 1: He's just looking and saying, who made these? Ladies and gentlemen,
Speaker 1: don't get ahead of me. Ladies and gentlemen, for your
Speaker 1: dining and dancing pleasure, come with me into the wayback
Speaker 1: machine to twenty at eighteen, I give you the culprit
Speaker 1: of the terrible deal with Canada.
Speaker 6: This morning, President Trump signed a new trade deal to
Speaker 6: replace NAFTA with the leaders of Mexico and Canada.
Speaker 1: The best trade deal they say, ever made, A deal
Speaker 1: done by Trump's greatest nemesis Trump. Now, hold on Phil
Speaker 1: all right, but President Trump, this trade war has awoken
Speaker 1: a sleeping giant. Not Canada, not Mexico, but the Democratic
Speaker 1: Minority Senate leader, release the Shumer. It's going to affect beer.
Speaker 7: Okay, most of it corona here comes from Mexico. It's
Speaker 7: going to affect your guac because what is guacamole made
Speaker 7: of avocados?
Speaker 1: Your response to the trade war is to tell us
Speaker 1: guacamole is made of avocados? Is that? What?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 1: Then when the people found out, When the people find
Speaker 1: out the precious Super Bowl dip is comprised of mainly avocado,
Speaker 1: also tomato, sometimes onion, It's a bit much for me,
Speaker 1: obviously with the spielkiss and excuse me one second, Democrats,
Speaker 1: can you please stop trotting Schumer out there every time
Speaker 1: Trump traverses into the unreal It's not good at this.
Speaker 1: What is the decision making process here? Hey, who should
Speaker 1: we get out there to effectively battle one of the
Speaker 1: most savvy presidential media manipulators in history. I don't know
Speaker 1: how about Schumer. He's uninteresting, but at least he's monitored.
Speaker 1: Oh wait, and Chuck, before you go out there, you
Speaker 1: look too young. Put on these readers and lower them
Speaker 1: on your nose perfect. Honestly, listening to Chuck Schumer speak
Speaker 1: on almost any tomic makes me want to bomb Canada.
Speaker 1: Kidding of course. By the way, we have a couple
Speaker 1: of Canadians chair from Montreal, and I don't want to
Speaker 1: upset them because I'm gonna need an apartment suit. Now
Speaker 1: before we I don't know, now, before we get rattled
Speaker 1: by Trump's two to two and a half front trade war.
Speaker 1: Please understand, Mexico has already today received a thirty day
Speaker 1: stay on tariffs by promising ten thousand troops to the board,
Speaker 1: and we've promised to stop the inflow of guns, so
Speaker 1: self invented crisis averted. But what can Canada do? I'm
Speaker 1: sure there's an equally performative gesture. Canada could make what
Speaker 1: I'd like to see, Canada become our fifty first date. Mexico,
Speaker 1: you just sent a few troops to the border, But Canada,
Speaker 1: if you could, I don't know, cease to exist as
Speaker 1: an independent entity.
Speaker 3: Fair?
Speaker 1: What's that Mexico? No, No, there's only fifty one stays,
Speaker 1: there's no fifty second. I'm sorry that hold. I want
Speaker 1: to say, Washington, d c up by what's that? Puerto
Speaker 1: Rico nows to Canada. I think you know why. I
Speaker 1: think you know why Canada? All right? Of course, by
Speaker 1: the way, since we even were writing this show at
Speaker 1: like four pm, Trump has already said now he's going
Speaker 1: to pause the tariff war with Canada as well, because fuck,
Speaker 1: of course it makes sense to wrap up the trade
Speaker 1: war right now so that we as a country can
Speaker 1: focus on the biggest thing that's weakening our great.
Speaker 5: Nation, diversity, equity and inclusion.
Speaker 1: Yes, DEI, diversity, equity and inclusion. Maggot worlds. Blame this
Speaker 1: scourge for everything from the fires in California to the
Speaker 1: attack on Bourbon Street, to inflation to the Baltimore Bridge
Speaker 1: collapse to why your children are confused about the race
Speaker 1: of mermaids because mermaids, boys and girls are gingers. They've
Speaker 1: always been there, the latest example being the plane crash
Speaker 1: in Washington. It was the deiest. But don't take my
Speaker 1: word for it. Let's let MTV's road Rules Star and
Speaker 1: Fox and Friends b teamer explain DEI, you can't focus
Speaker 1: on diversity, equity and inclusion when you try to higher
Speaker 1: air traffic controllers.
Speaker 5: You want the best?
Speaker 1: Do you want the brightest protecting yourself and your family?
Speaker 1: We will have the best and brightest in every position possible.
Speaker 5: It is color blind and merit based.
Speaker 1: Look, there's a lot of reasons why the FA is
Speaker 1: in a bad place, but these guys would have you
Speaker 1: believe that the main problem is that standards were somehow
Speaker 1: lowered to make sure that a black person or a
Speaker 1: gay person gets the chance to land your plane, even
Speaker 1: though the requirements to become an air traffic controller are
Speaker 1: the same. But by culture warring this tragedy, Americans spent
Speaker 1: that terrible night holding their breath that the pilot or
Speaker 1: the air traffic controller wouldn't be a woman, or a
Speaker 1: black person or in a wheelchair. Because what they're trying
Speaker 1: to do is make the default setting on competence in
Speaker 1: America a white guy. That's what this is, a reset
Speaker 1: to the factory default, because of course these two are
Speaker 1: there purely based on merit and smarts. It's and it's
Speaker 1: just taking for granted. It undercuts every black person of
Speaker 1: color woman in this country that the job that they
Speaker 1: have they don't deserve. It's the mantra in the Republican
Speaker 1: Party that gives you brain turning moments like this.
Speaker 6: In the United States of America, we get ahead and
Speaker 6: succeed by merit and merit alone.
Speaker 1: Yes, merit and merit alone, says RNC chairwoman Lara hold On,
Speaker 1: Let me get my glasses. Trump, it was the blind submission,
Speaker 1: never saw any money application. That's the irony of this
Speaker 1: whole thing. The people standing next to Trump on that
Speaker 1: terrible night blaming DEI and trying to reinstall white guys
Speaker 1: as the only non suspect pool of hires are themselves
Speaker 1: DEI hires for one particular identity that they possess, the
Speaker 1: ass kisser. The President's leadership has been remarkable during this crisis.
Speaker 3: Mister President, you make our jobs a lot easier.
Speaker 1: I want to echo what the Transportation Secretary said about
Speaker 1: your leadership.
Speaker 5: Thank you for your leadership and courage on that, Sir, I.
Speaker 3: Think you make a really important point on that, mister President.
Speaker 3: The President is right, and.
Speaker 1: Again I want to thank you for your leadership, mister President.
Speaker 1: D d I sucking ego inflation obviously if you think
Speaker 1: of sucking as a compound work. But you can gaslight
Speaker 1: us all you on because the one thing you didn't
Speaker 1: count on is our secret weapon.
Speaker 7: The roots of democracy are deep. People are aroused. I
Speaker 7: haven't seen people so aroused in a very very long
Speaker 7: time in terms of going trying to get this done.
Speaker 1: Aroused. For more on DEI and what it's going to
Speaker 1: do to our country, let's go line to the White
Speaker 1: House correspondent Josh Johnson. Josh, let me ask you. I
Speaker 1: know there's an important subject to you, Josh. What are
Speaker 1: you hearing about the DEI initiatives?
Speaker 8: John What this administration is doing is dangerous. It is
Speaker 8: the perversion of the dream of manin Luther King Junior.
Speaker 8: They've turned it into a nightmare where the content of
Speaker 8: a of a person's character is judged by the collar.
Speaker 6: I love their skin. From the White House, I'm Daisy lighteck.
Speaker 5: Wait, what's going On.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Desi, this is the Josh's report.
Speaker 6: Oh you guys didn't get the executive order. We can't
Speaker 6: do DEI anymore.
Speaker 5: You're replacing me. But you're a woman.
Speaker 6: Yeah, a white woman.
Speaker 5: White woman beats black guy.
Speaker 6: Look, white women don't make the rules. We just tacitly
Speaker 6: embrace them through our overwhelming supportive Donald Trump is a
Speaker 6: voting block.
Speaker 5: We should be on the same side.
Speaker 8: Okay, white women, black men both held down by the
Speaker 8: white man.
Speaker 6: Yes, but the white man is my husband and sometimes
Speaker 6: he lets me have rights as a treat and I
Speaker 6: love my little treat.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Desi, but what about the executive orders changes
Speaker 1: our current situation.
Speaker 6: Well, the fact is that DEI is over John, which
Speaker 6: means only the most competent people will jisted with my
Speaker 6: own petard.
Speaker 9: That's right, it's totally petarded, which is something we can
Speaker 9: say now, thanks to Trump and thank you, Desi.
Speaker 1: But I'll take it from here.
Speaker 9: You can go back to the milking room or wherever
Speaker 9: women lay eggs.
Speaker 6: No, no, no, no, this is bullshit. I stole this
Speaker 6: job from josh On Merrit.
Speaker 1: Yes, isn't this the problem? Guys? Trump's producing us to
Speaker 1: rooms on a racial and gender hierarchy. We shouldn't be
Speaker 1: ranking our identities.
Speaker 5: Exactly, but if we did, I should outright, DESI I mean,
Speaker 5: back me up here, Costa. At the end of the day,
Speaker 5: we've all got homes.
Speaker 3: No no, no.
Speaker 6: No, no no no no no. It goes raised, then gender,
Speaker 6: then height, and then the time breaker is a list
Speaker 6: of establishments your father owns.
Speaker 9: Listen up, petards. All right, I don't see sex or color.
Speaker 3: Okay, I just.
Speaker 1: See SAT scores.
Speaker 9: And I don't mean to brag, but the kid my
Speaker 9: parents paid to take the SATs for me knocked it
Speaker 9: out of the park.
Speaker 5: Oh oh, I'm sorry.
Speaker 2: Are we talking.
Speaker 5: SAT scores?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 1: No, really, we're not talking.
Speaker 5: We're not talking your SAT scores. Oh yeah, that's right,
Speaker 5: because it's all about merit and high test scores until
Speaker 5: it looks like this, and then suddenly we got to.
Speaker 1: Defend the white boys like it's a rate case that
Speaker 1: Kapa sigma five that was settled out of court. Yeah.
Speaker 7: Yeah, So it's all meritocracy until we get those h
Speaker 7: one b's and take a coding jobs.
Speaker 5: And oh it's not there. Does black beat Asian?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 5: No, your day's a number. Cost Hang out.
Speaker 1: Back to you, John, Thank you very much about it.
Speaker 1: You know, I guess if there's one thing that we've
Speaker 1: learned here, is it because of the Jewish thing or
Speaker 1: the age thing?
Speaker 3: Does it matter?
Speaker 1: I guess that. Well, we come back.
Speaker 6: My guests will be Moe Amber stick around.
Speaker 5: I'm gentile.
Speaker 1: Stores he love back.
Speaker 5: To the dail.
Speaker 1: Shout my guest tonight. Oh he's lovely, I got tonight.
Speaker 1: A writer in stentive comedian, he stars in the Peabody
Speaker 1: Award win Netflix series Mo.
Speaker 4: Please welcome, Mama. I would see my man you.
Speaker 5: I can't sit before.
Speaker 10: You see you said, hospitality, hospitality, my man?
Speaker 3: How's it going?
Speaker 1: Show? So good?
Speaker 3: Thank you?
Speaker 1: Season two? Uh? It just is out on Netflix right now,
Speaker 1: right now, and people should I binged it and it's
Speaker 1: just let me tell you something that bothers me. And
Speaker 1: this is not I'm not trying to obviously, you know,
Speaker 1: get off on the wrong foot. And obviously there's a
Speaker 1: lot to talk about.
Speaker 3: Is it what bothers you? I want to know?
Speaker 10: So friends, people their windows open on aircrafts because oh
Speaker 10: my god, yeah, so frus.
Speaker 5: What are you doing what you're looking at at seven am?
Speaker 3: Out there?
Speaker 1: Try to keep things more. Yeah, when you're so funny
Speaker 1: and your comedy is so good, and then I find
Speaker 1: out watching the show that you're also a great actor,
Speaker 1: and that bothers me. You're so good.
Speaker 3: I've seen tremendous, so tremendous.
Speaker 1: You know, my kids don't even believe that that was me.
Speaker 1: That's how that's how bad Erosion has taken its force.
Speaker 1: You can get to like a very emotional place in
Speaker 1: this thing in a way. And I've known you for
Speaker 1: a very long time and I know that you cry
Speaker 1: all the time just generally. How was that like to
Speaker 1: even get to that?
Speaker 10: Yeah, I mean, I mean, you know, it was my
Speaker 10: first experience of that in the first season in the
Speaker 10: in the confessional. But really it's just you know, it's
Speaker 10: such a personal story, right, and I mean some of
Speaker 10: the things that we're doing in the show was like
Speaker 10: recreating actual memories of mine with my grandmother. I mean,
Speaker 10: that's I'm like, Grammy, you know what I mean. Like
Speaker 10: it's like, it's it's a very painful thing to go through.
Speaker 10: But I also knew that it was the realist way
Speaker 10: to tell the story. It's a grounded way to tell
Speaker 10: the story, and it's very hard and you have to
Speaker 10: be as controlled and composed as possible, and sometimes you
Speaker 10: lose it and that's okay, right, And.
Speaker 1: It's also you know, for those who don't know, So
Speaker 1: it's the story. Your story is is complex, and it's
Speaker 1: you're born in Kuwait, right yep. Then you have to flee, correct,
Speaker 1: and you end in Houston.
Speaker 3: Yes, which is the natural place you land.
Speaker 1: Most people go from Kuwait generally to Fort Worth. And
Speaker 1: so what's so interesting about your story is what's great
Speaker 1: about the show is you don't sugarcoat the absurd measures
Speaker 1: that we in this country have around our immigration system
Speaker 1: and the various questions and steps. There's one of my
Speaker 1: favorite scenes in the show in the second season. I
Speaker 1: love the first one. You're trying to get he gets
Speaker 1: kidnapped and taken in Mexico and now he's got to
Speaker 1: get back as a stateless person. You're there. You need
Speaker 1: this what's called a les passe?
Speaker 3: Correct? What is that? I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 10: It's basically like a pass, a day pass to re
Speaker 10: enter the country legally since I exited illegally. Right, But
Speaker 10: there's like this you know, blurred line in my character
Speaker 10: obviously runs with it. I was kidnapped, you know, the
Speaker 10: whole thing would play up right show, but it's about
Speaker 10: re entering back, and I want to you know, speak
Speaker 10: about this like we you know, I deliberately wanted him
Speaker 10: to be stuck in Mexico, and I wanted to show
Speaker 10: the journey of a refugee, right because the first season
Speaker 10: is he's all already there, right and you're just in
Speaker 10: and the show takes place in Houston with some minor
Speaker 10: flashbacks here and there to show like the beginning of
Speaker 10: their story. But you know, I wanted to I wanted
Speaker 10: people see what it takes to actually get to America
Speaker 10: because most people see immigrants are coming asil, these are
Speaker 10: coming and they immediately think they're going to become American
Speaker 10: citizens like overnight. It's a long process. And I also
Speaker 10: wanted to show how absurd the system is, and I
Speaker 10: wanted to see for people to see, like also, my
Speaker 10: character is also very privileged in this scenario. You know,
Speaker 10: he's crossing the border. He ends up in some spoilers here.
Speaker 1: We speak English perfectly, Williams all the time.
Speaker 10: And that happened to me actually when I would travel
Speaker 10: overseas to do stand up but I would come back
Speaker 10: in the States, and I would be in the immigration part,
Speaker 10: like because I didn't have a passport, I had a
Speaker 10: refugee travel document, and I'd be on the side and
Speaker 10: they would look at me like, do you speak English.
Speaker 10: I'm like, yelling and speaking slowly doesn't fix it if
Speaker 10: I don't speak English. I don't speak English. And I
Speaker 10: would reply I was like, whoah, this is nice.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, and you start quoting Hank Williams.
Speaker 3: I started quoting Hank Williams.
Speaker 10: So no, but that was the idea, is to show
Speaker 10: the absurdity of the system itself, to show how privileged
Speaker 10: the character is as well, even though he's an asyle
Speaker 10: and the refugee. I mean, there's a scene in the
Speaker 10: detention center where there's a detainee there talking about how
Speaker 10: he has to you know, had to go through mud
Speaker 10: slides and jungles and snakes and then the cartel and
Speaker 10: drank the juice of a Vienna sau.
Speaker 3: As you can.
Speaker 10: And he looks at me, it's like, how'd you get here?
Speaker 10: I'm like, I took a bus Mexico.
Speaker 1: It's but it what it really demonstrates is the tenuousness
Speaker 1: that somebody who is stateless or on these asylum papers
Speaker 1: or in this process, like you can't up at all,
Speaker 1: like you can't make one mistake. At one point they
Speaker 1: put the U you get deported, Yes, because as it's
Speaker 1: a great scene and he he needs the ambassador of
Speaker 1: Mexico because he needs a les passe.
Speaker 10: Yeah, that's the only way. So I'm stuck in Mexico.
Speaker 10: I have to get to the ambassador. It's really the
Speaker 10: only way I could re enter legally is for him
Speaker 10: to sign off on a lazy passe, which is extremely
Speaker 10: hard to get.
Speaker 1: He finally gets in to see the ambassador to Mexico
Speaker 1: and it's there, it's right there in front of him,
Speaker 1: and they happen to get on a conversation about Israel Palestine,
Speaker 1: and the ambassador doesn't use the word yeah occupied occupation,
Speaker 1: that's right, and mo and this is so great in
Speaker 1: the scene because he's right there just blows up the
Speaker 1: whole process and goes, that's it.
Speaker 5: I'm out.
Speaker 10: Yeah, well yeah, it's like something you just can't let
Speaker 10: go of him. He says, a peaceful end of the conflict.
Speaker 10: And you know, there's so much complexity to it, I mean,
Speaker 10: so many layers nuanced to it and history to it,
Speaker 10: and it's just frustrating. I couldn't let it go. I mean,
Speaker 10: I it's really from my own life. Really, if I'm
Speaker 10: sitting there, I will not be able to let it go.
Speaker 10: And he could have solved everything. I could have said it,
Speaker 10: but I will never be able to figure out myself.
Speaker 10: And I thought, how funny would that be if he's
Speaker 10: just a massive up in the show, but he's like,
Speaker 10: has his morals intact and his ethics attacking.
Speaker 1: But even bringing that complexity, you know, you have this
Speaker 1: whole complexity of statelessness and asylum and all the process
Speaker 1: they have to go through through the first season, and
Speaker 1: a special needs brother who is fashioned out of your
Speaker 1: actual brother, yes, who's got on the spectrum but doesn't
Speaker 1: know it.
Speaker 3: Yes, and is almost.
Speaker 10: Forty Yes, oh my brother's older than that now. But yes,
Speaker 10: in the show.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, in the show and in this season. You
Speaker 1: couldn't also escape the Israel Palestine of it all, correct,
Speaker 1: and the complexity that must have brought to the writer's room,
Speaker 1: to your heart and you and I've talked about this
Speaker 1: a lot.
Speaker 3: It was so easy.
Speaker 10: I mean, like, no, no, I'm sorry to cut you off,
Speaker 10: but it's like the way to just ease the tension,
Speaker 10: because it was excruciating making the show right, It was
Speaker 10: absolutely one, and I feel shameful even saying it was
Speaker 10: excruciating or painful to know what they were going through, right, Gossa,
Speaker 10: you know it's a hard one as well. But you know,
Speaker 10: there were so many voices like are you gonna talk
Speaker 10: about October seventh? You have to talk about it, You
Speaker 10: can't not talk about it, and everyone has their own opinions.
Speaker 10: And I discussed it with you thirly, and you were
Speaker 10: just like the best human on earth, like thank you
Speaker 10: so no really, because in a moment where I felt
Speaker 10: so lonely, you were one of the people that I
Speaker 10: could call and really talk to about this. And it
Speaker 10: was very difficult, and then it was very easy once
Speaker 10: you know, I spoke to you, and I you know,
Speaker 10: obviously the writing room was integral to this process, and
Speaker 10: I love them so much for having such difficult conversations.
Speaker 10: Because we started on April first, we went on strike
Speaker 10: May first, We came back October first of twenty three,
Speaker 10: six days later, the only Palastini show on television. You
Speaker 10: can imagine the conversations that were had and so I decided, like,
Speaker 10: absolutely not, We're not going to talk about October seven.
Speaker 10: There's several problems with it. Number one is that you know,
Speaker 10: it's been a year, you know, since we started productions.
Speaker 3: You have a whole year that lapsed that.
Speaker 10: You know, so many things change and you could write
Speaker 10: something that wouldn't be correct. Second of all is that
Speaker 10: now you know it needs a lot of context, and
Speaker 10: everything that you write about October seventh makes it sound
Speaker 10: like everything started on October seventh, and I felt like
Speaker 10: it was a trap. It really felt like every time
Speaker 10: we went down that rabbit hole, the show just became
Speaker 10: didactic and we lost everything became like a full blown drama.
Speaker 10: And this is a comedy show, and it's a massive
Speaker 10: disservice to the characters. Let the characters tell the story.
Speaker 10: Let's build off of that, and it'll take us exactly
Speaker 10: where we need to go.
Speaker 3: And that's what happened.
Speaker 1: I think what you did so well that I was
Speaker 1: so impressed with was navigating all those artistic difficulties. What
Speaker 1: you seem to settle on was and it's a show
Speaker 1: about statelessness and not belonging, and in that final episode
Speaker 1: you show that connection to the land that your family
Speaker 1: has to the land that your father in that you know,
Speaker 1: he has a videotape of his father, an actual, real
Speaker 1: videotape of your actual father. Yes, unfortunately you LOSAs. And
Speaker 1: to see that it made it all. I thought it
Speaker 1: was such a beautiful moment that contextualized this in such
Speaker 1: a way of humanity, of like, oh right, it's just
Speaker 1: people who live on a plot of land with some
Speaker 1: olive trees who've been there since their grandparents and their
Speaker 1: great grandparents. And the boy you did it just so beautifully. No,
Speaker 1: I can't give you enough flowers for And I know
Speaker 1: there's always that you just said, like the pressure on
Speaker 1: you're the only Palestinian chose you. You have to do it
Speaker 1: right this way, or you've got to tell the Israeli stories.
Speaker 1: The thing about art that you did so well was
Speaker 1: you told your story. It's just one story, but boy
Speaker 1: is it resonant, and boy is it fun and complex
Speaker 1: and beautiful like you, and and I just so appreciate you.
Speaker 3: Thank you, I appreciate.
Speaker 5: Anybody.
Speaker 1: Thank you special. I'll also say this, I've also seen
Speaker 1: you riding a moped and that's very funny.
Speaker 3: Well, I gotta do I ride motorcycles.
Speaker 1: Okay, that's right, except when you're in Ohio.
Speaker 10: Okay, maybe in Ohio during the pandemic, I was riding mopeds,
Speaker 10: but other than that, and then people were making fun
Speaker 10: of me because I was bigger than the moped. Everyone
Speaker 10: was like, maybe you should get a motorcycle. I was
Speaker 10: like fine, And I was divorced right then and there
Speaker 10: at that time, so I was like maybe eight motorcycles.
Speaker 10: You know, they just kept buying more motorcycles.
Speaker 1: Was like, so what divorce guys?
Speaker 2: Do have a kid?
Speaker 10: It's backstage, It's right backstage.
Speaker 3: Yeah, uh.
Speaker 1: Now this do you feel like this is completed? And
Speaker 1: now it's off to the races for stand up and
Speaker 1: all the other things that you that you do.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm touring.
Speaker 10: I'm doing the also a Palaestino Tour, which is based
Speaker 10: off of a character in the show, which translates to
Speaker 10: the Palestinian Bear Comedy Tour U. But yeah, I'm doing that.
Speaker 10: I'm going into a next special. But there's so much
Speaker 10: more storytell. I mean, there's there's so much more to do.
Speaker 10: But yeah, and you mentioned like the ankle monitor, I
Speaker 10: do get deported in the Yeah, but it's also going
Speaker 10: to confuse people because how'd you get deported? But there's
Speaker 10: a thing. It's actually very very it's very very common.
Speaker 10: You can get deported and released on your own recognissance,
Speaker 10: which means you're deported, but you can stay right, but
Speaker 10: you're deported.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you played it like an abbit and cascel Rotine
Speaker 1: on the show's deported. Yes, but I can't leave. Correct.
Speaker 1: One of the reasons that you were giving in the
Speaker 1: show for that are those real? Would you not be
Speaker 1: deported because they wouldn't send you tout because you're stateless?
Speaker 3: Yeah, because you're stayless.
Speaker 10: No, but this is apparently a really common thing, whether
Speaker 10: you're staateless or not. I thought, you know, you don't
Speaker 10: want palsing. He's returning anyway, so stop, You're not gonna
Speaker 10: we're going to pour you back to wear.
Speaker 3: Stay in Houston.
Speaker 10: Relax, We'll give you a work perm it, do your thing.
Speaker 10: But but no, it's apparently like really really common. I
Speaker 10: forgot what the percentages, but it's in like the thirty
Speaker 10: plus percent time. Wow, where people get deported regularly but
Speaker 10: they can stay.
Speaker 1: Was can I answer? This was the ankle monitor thing?
Speaker 10: I know, Look at this guy, he's so confused, right,
Speaker 10: Oh yeah, jaw dropping.
Speaker 3: His brain almost short circuit.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the ankle bracelet does it have a communication device?
Speaker 1: Is that a real thing? It is?
Speaker 3: This is a real thing.
Speaker 10: We had someone consult on the show who was actually
Speaker 10: was an intention center and was random. It's all at random.
Speaker 10: You get an ankle device, just like, hey, you know
Speaker 10: you're number seven. Sorry the first say didn't get.
Speaker 1: It, but but you got it, and then.
Speaker 10: That's not real to my life. But when I heard
Speaker 10: about it, I'm like, we got to put that in
Speaker 10: the show. It's gonna be hilarious because the guy could
Speaker 10: chime in at any moment in time and be like,
Speaker 10: please tell me your location, Like that could really happening.
Speaker 10: I mean, how embarrassing and horrible is that?
Speaker 1: So it's one of my favorite moments of the show.
Speaker 1: You're having you have very painful discussions with your old
Speaker 1: girlfriend and you guys, and they have a really painful discussion,
Speaker 1: they break up, and you just hear from the ankle
Speaker 1: monitor brutal. Such a dirty ball. My brother, My brother,
Speaker 1: I love you so much. I'm so just delighted for
Speaker 1: you in your life and in your art and all
Speaker 1: those different things. And I can't wait to see what
Speaker 1: the next thing is.
Speaker 3: Thank you so much, Ben, I love you so much,
Speaker 3: John so much.
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