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Speaker 1: This is the Daily Show with John Stewarts.
Speaker 3: Well Dall, Sir, thank.
Speaker 1: You for joining us tonight.
Speaker 4: My name is down George, Tonight's guest from the film
Speaker 4: Dallas Buyers Club. This is a good movie. You gotta
Speaker 4: check this movie out. Jared Leto's gonna be her unbelievable
Speaker 4: job in the movie.
Speaker 3: I'd listen listen to this.
Speaker 4: We are currently in what I feel like is the
Speaker 4: most wonderful time of the year. Why not festive trees
Speaker 4: go up, carollers breakout in song, Starbucks switches out it's
Speaker 4: Vada pumpkin spice additive for it's vad of peppermint additive.
Speaker 3: It's the same additive man bag a stripe.
Speaker 4: It's truly a time to appreciate what we have, especially
Speaker 4: when in any moment.
Speaker 5: We could lose it all.
Speaker 6: The minority is becoming the majority at the community pool.
Speaker 4: How Sharia law is changing everything?
Speaker 3: Oh my god, Sharia law is changing everything.
Speaker 4: That probably not for the better, because while I'm not
Speaker 4: really clear what cheria law is, I do know it's.
Speaker 1: Relatively muslimy.
Speaker 4: And if Fox is talking about it, it's the kind
Speaker 4: of Muslim mee that's going to destroy this very nation.
Speaker 1: How is it changing everything.
Speaker 7: A YMCA in Minneapolis St. Paul, Well, it's starting a
Speaker 7: swim group from Muslim girls, but special considerations have to
Speaker 7: be made to keep with their religious beliefs.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, I'll get that as everything.
Speaker 1: Guy's changed?
Speaker 4: Wait, what's changed?
Speaker 7: During the one hour class? The pool is being shut down,
Speaker 7: the men's locker room is being locked, and female lifeguards
Speaker 7: are being brought in.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, everything I's changed.
Speaker 1: Dogs now walk babies, Dancing makes you.
Speaker 4: Sad, Tears come out of your ears and snock comes
Speaker 4: out of your butt, which is not how it.
Speaker 3: Is now, I can tell you that.
Speaker 4: Well. And actually though it seems like the only thing
Speaker 4: that has changed because of SRIA law is one ymc
Speaker 4: apool's schedule whiteboard. That seems like the only thing that
Speaker 4: But I can see how that can be traumatic. Firs.
Speaker 4: They came for hour Tuesday synchronized aquedance and I did
Speaker 4: not speak out because I prefer water exercise with a
Speaker 4: pool noodle. What is it like to live in that
Speaker 4: world of pure fear and despair, where every inconsequential change
Speaker 4: in what was becomes a harbinger of a dystopian post
Speaker 4: America apocalypse where only Muslims can swim, and the sidewalk
Speaker 4: game where decent, law abiding white folk are randomly knocked out,
Speaker 4: has replaced baseball as our national pastime, and the sense
Speaker 4: of persecution is always at its worst right around this
Speaker 4: time of year.
Speaker 8: A new battle in the War on Christmas, the war
Speaker 8: on Christmas, the war on Christmas, the school district that's
Speaker 8: now saying faith based tunes have no place in their
Speaker 8: elementary school.
Speaker 9: The majority of Americans celebrate Christmas, so everybody should have
Speaker 9: the right to enjoy the season without the interference of
Speaker 9: a few bahumbug bollys.
Speaker 4: How can I enjoy my Christmas when I know that
Speaker 4: somewhere a little Jewish boy isn't being forced to sing
Speaker 4: a little town of Bethlehem.
Speaker 3: Where's the joy there?
Speaker 4: Who will save Christmas?
Speaker 2: Sarah Palin? She has a new book out about the
Speaker 2: meaning of Christmas.
Speaker 1: I was hoping for Blitzen, but uh, she'll do carry on.
Speaker 10: Can you understand why somebody who is not a self
Speaker 10: identified Christian would feel uncomfortable with demonstration of something from
Speaker 10: the Bible, from the New Testament coming from the government,
Speaker 10: because to them that might feel like their government is
Speaker 10: picking a religion and it's not there.
Speaker 6: Well, there are things that we can do about that too,
Speaker 6: I guess lessen that offense. We can do that in
Speaker 6: our personal lives. For instance, in my family, we have
Speaker 6: the manora out on it through December on our kitchen table.
Speaker 6: I want to teach my children about the Jewish faith.
Speaker 4: Quick word to the paling kids. Well, I appreciate the gesture.
Speaker 4: Jews don't actually just leave a manora out for the
Speaker 4: month of December like a like a knickknack and a
Speaker 4: curio case goes in the window and you only put
Speaker 4: it there for eight days. And also, paling kids, this
Speaker 4: is not a menora.
Speaker 3: Now, there's got to be someone.
Speaker 4: Who can defend Christmas with a little more authority.
Speaker 9: Over the years, we've taken on the role of acting
Speaker 9: the federal holiday of Christmas.
Speaker 1: Even though it is not in any way threatened. But
Speaker 1: I'll bite.
Speaker 4: Since we do this dance every year, tell me why
Speaker 4: this year it is especially egregious to use the phrase
Speaker 4: happy holidays.
Speaker 9: What is interesting this year is that Hanukkah will be
Speaker 9: over on Thursday, so there are no more holidays between
Speaker 9: then and Christmas Day.
Speaker 3: Damn you, O'Reilly, We've been checkmated.
Speaker 1: Without Honukkah.
Speaker 4: We have no excuse to say happy holidays plural, because
Speaker 4: apparently you can include anything past Christmas, like Quand's Epiphany
Speaker 4: and New Year's although by that logic it means that
Speaker 4: up until Hanakah you can only say happy Hankah. But
Speaker 4: do the cares about that? But I'm sorry I interrupted
Speaker 4: your flow, mister O'Reilly. What other secular humanists are peeing
Speaker 4: on your u law this year?
Speaker 9: Macy's a company that I generally.
Speaker 1: Like, Macy's.
Speaker 4: Macy's isn't Christmasy enough for You's?
Speaker 3: Mis Macy's the one emblazoned with a bejeweled Believe sign.
Speaker 4: That should be seen from space, the one that looks
Speaker 4: as though someone ejaculated tinsel all over.
Speaker 3: That Macy's, what have they done this year?
Speaker 9: They're chatting Santa Claus, who will help you quote with
Speaker 9: your holiday wish list? So here's my question to Macy's.
Speaker 9: What holiday is Santa celebrating?
Speaker 4: Nah, that is a good question. Santa or Center Claus
Speaker 4: is celebrating the Feast of Saint Nicholas, which originated in
Speaker 4: the Netherlands in the Middle Ages and occurs every December sixth.
Speaker 4: But you might not have heard about that because, like
Speaker 4: every other December holiday, it was long ago sucked into
Speaker 4: the insatiable black hole that is Christmas. And by the way,
Speaker 4: you're upset with the department store because in their effort
Speaker 4: to get you to buy a Swarowski crystal Hello Kitty
Speaker 4: Snowman figurine, they're not invoking Christ's name enough. I thought
Speaker 4: Christians used to complain that their holiday was getting commercialized.
Speaker 4: Are those days gone?
Speaker 6: I love the commercialization of Christmas because it spreads the
Speaker 6: Christmas cheer. It's the most jolly holiday obviously on our calendar.
Speaker 4: Obviously, so commercialization is what's spreading Christmas cheer.
Speaker 1: Oh, I've been so confused about the message of that
Speaker 1: holiday for so long.
Speaker 4: I thought it was about opening one's homes to friends
Speaker 4: and family, not opening one's present and then returning it
Speaker 4: for store credit. Look, if the true spirit of Christmas
Speaker 4: is best spread and expressed through commercialism materialism, than anyone
Speaker 4: who denounces those things is by the transit of property,
Speaker 4: waging war on Christmas Sarah Palin Bill, O'Reilly meet your
Speaker 4: newest nemesis.
Speaker 11: Today, Pope Francis denounced trickle down economics as unfair to
Speaker 11: the poor.
Speaker 4: He takes a shot at commercialism, calling for Catholics everywhere
Speaker 4: to resist excessive capitalism and materialism. When will the Pope
Speaker 4: stop his war on Christmas? Well, I hope his message
Speaker 4: is heard and someday Macy's will truly honor the spirit
Speaker 4: of Christmas.
Speaker 1: We'll be right back.
Speaker 3: Well the marg.
Speaker 4: Now, Like most people these days, I have one source
Speaker 4: for news that I turned to more than any other
Speaker 4: tweetar because I likes my news like I likes my ladies,
Speaker 4: short and punchy and delivered secondhand by anonymous sociopaths. That
Speaker 4: doesn't really speak very highly of me. It does it
Speaker 4: without Twitter. How else, what I learned about revolutions in
Speaker 4: Iran or non existent fights with angry ladies on airplanes.
Speaker 4: And this weekend Twitter came through again.
Speaker 1: The Republican National Committee had tweeted a photo of Rosa Parks.
Speaker 12: The caption on that said, today we remember Rosa Parks's
Speaker 12: bold stand and a role in ending racism.
Speaker 5: It's over.
Speaker 1: It's official stick forking racism.
Speaker 3: It's done.
Speaker 4: Thanks to Rosa Parks, racism completely ended. That's why all
Speaker 4: history books on racism post ninety fifty five.
Speaker 1: Are completely empty. You may ask why did they make
Speaker 1: it so big?
Speaker 4: Then shut up? Now you may say to yourself, Well,
Speaker 4: you may say to yourself, what qualifies the RNC to
Speaker 4: make the call about racism being over? Well? Who would
Speaker 4: know better whether racism had ended than a group of
Speaker 4: old white men. And they're now saying racism is done.
Speaker 4: I mean, once something's been tweeted, you can't take you back, right, Darren.
Speaker 12: See later tweak their tweet after many expressed anger and
Speaker 12: dismay at the commenting.
Speaker 4: Me, you officially announced an end of racism. Three hours later,
Speaker 4: you start racism again. You know what that makes you?
Speaker 4: Indian givers? No, No, I know that's racist because racism
Speaker 4: is back now, That's why I said it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's right, I'm allowed to. Yeah, racism is back.
Speaker 4: If it was, if it was over, Archie Bunker died
Speaker 4: in right view. What did the rnc's correction say exactly?
Speaker 12: The new tweet read previous tweet should have read. Today,
Speaker 12: we remember Rosa Park's bull stand and her role in
Speaker 12: fighting to end racism.
Speaker 4: Okay, I suppose that is a little more accurate, although
Speaker 4: they did later have to issue a third tweet clarifying also,
Speaker 4: instead of Rosa Parks bold stand, we probably should have
Speaker 4: gone with refusal to stand, which is.
Speaker 5: What she did.
Speaker 4: And again we today remember hashtag ood twitch as you know,
Speaker 4: was quickly followed by and I remember, we don't mean
Speaker 4: we ever forgot her, but there's a long time ago.
Speaker 4: And wow, am I still not out of characters yet?
Speaker 4: Hashtag twitter is hard? Hashtag still not out of characters?
Speaker 4: Hashtag O fuc And then the final tweet and can
Speaker 4: we just say how good was the Butler? I mean,
Speaker 4: the movie, not black people, as Butler's not to say
Speaker 4: they're bad at it? Oh no, here we go again?
Speaker 3: Hashtag go Latinos?
Speaker 1: Hashtag why do I keep hitting send?
Speaker 4: Hashtag We'll be right back. Welcome back my guest tonight
Speaker 4: actor the lead vocalist of thirty Seconds to Marris. This
Speaker 4: new film is called Dallas Buyers Club. Please welcome to
Speaker 4: Jared little.
Speaker 1: Token in boyak it in. Enjoy the feeling.
Speaker 5: Why did you? Why did you sit down?
Speaker 4: I feel like you're s older brother right now, trying
Speaker 4: to convince you to go back to school. All right,
Speaker 4: sick my friend. Yes, what a performance you've given and
Speaker 4: a beautiful film and well done.
Speaker 1: The Dallas box Shop have you it's it's out.
Speaker 4: They can see it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you can see it. You you can walk through.
Speaker 4: You must go see it the performances. You won an
Speaker 4: award just today? I did the New York Circle Critic Circle.
Speaker 5: Yeah I did.
Speaker 1: Is that a ceremony?
Speaker 4: Do they call you?
Speaker 5: Just a couple of hours? I didn't even know about it?
Speaker 5: But uh uh well I know now. She didn't just
Speaker 5: tell me.
Speaker 4: I'm a huge man.
Speaker 3: Breaking news.
Speaker 5: You're an award winning actor.
Speaker 11: Yes, finally, but yeah, I did this New York Film
Speaker 11: Critics Circle award, and it's it's quite an honor.
Speaker 5: It's really humbling.
Speaker 11: I hadn't made a film in almost six years, so
Speaker 11: to come back and get this kind of love and
Speaker 11: support is his nuts.
Speaker 1: That's amazing.
Speaker 4: You hadn't made Was there something in particular about this
Speaker 4: story that you thought, well, I just I need to
Speaker 4: get back in the game, or had you decided prior
Speaker 4: to that.
Speaker 5: Well, I thought I'd look pretty good on a skirt.
Speaker 4: I think most people here would agree. I think you
Speaker 4: pretty much look good. I don't think it matters.
Speaker 3: Skirt, bad top, half beard, It don't really, you know.
Speaker 4: It's it's a it's a it's a nice thing for it.
Speaker 4: The thing that surprised me about this, so most people,
Speaker 4: you know, they do a role, they have to maybe
Speaker 4: lose a little weight or change. But you had to
Speaker 4: do all these things. Yeah, but you had to do
Speaker 4: them in three weeks.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Now that seems like not a tremendous amount of preparation time.
Speaker 5: It's not.
Speaker 11: And I lost about thirty forty pounds. So the first
Speaker 11: thing I did, as I'm sorry, I lost about the
Speaker 11: thirty forty pounds in three weeks. No through the course,
Speaker 11: but the majority I did lose in the first few weeks.
Speaker 5: And so basically I just stopped eating.
Speaker 1: And so that's your plan, huh, Jared Leto's diet plan.
Speaker 4: Don't eat.
Speaker 5: The less you eat, the better of an actor you are.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 11: And then when I did start eating, I basically kept
Speaker 11: it to about three or four hundred calories a day.
Speaker 3: You should laugh cheese doodle, my god man.
Speaker 4: As you're working, because the days are long, you're in
Speaker 4: all this character. It's a very intense emotional movie, playing
Speaker 4: all these scenes. Do you feel like you're going to
Speaker 4: pass out at some point? Like, how is the don't
Speaker 4: you need the energy?
Speaker 11: That's a good question, and that's kind of the point
Speaker 11: you lose the weight, you stop eating because not just
Speaker 11: because of the way it looks, which is great, it's
Speaker 11: a benefit, but because.
Speaker 5: It they just laughed, right, I'm on to you.
Speaker 11: But it changes the way you talk, the way you walk,
Speaker 11: the way people treat you.
Speaker 5: It changes your energy. So you do it for the
Speaker 5: way it affects you.
Speaker 4: And and did that then? Did you find people believed
Speaker 4: you to be more fragile?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 11: And that provided I mean, that's very a great way
Speaker 11: to put it. Yeah, it provided a lot of fragility.
Speaker 4: Right, and that when you were done with that process? Yeah,
Speaker 4: how do you come back?
Speaker 5: How long is therapy?
Speaker 1: It stays with you?
Speaker 11: That but it does you know in this film particularly
Speaker 11: you know I play a well you guys just saw
Speaker 11: the clips, so I don't have to say. But it
Speaker 11: was a really unique situation. And so again there was
Speaker 11: a voice, there's a walk, a talk, a whole thing.
Speaker 11: And it takes a little while to lose the muscle memory.
Speaker 11: I stayed in character the whole time.
Speaker 9: Uh.
Speaker 5: And I was very night like, like not when you're
Speaker 5: not on set, you know, you can't really let go
Speaker 5: of that.
Speaker 11: You're you're constantly in that place. At least I was,
Speaker 11: and uh, you know I needed to be there in
Speaker 11: order to do what I had to do.
Speaker 5: Did you not?
Speaker 4: You know? The hardest thing I think for me, other
Speaker 4: than obviously being a good actor, would be, uh, would
Speaker 4: be when when not working, not doing food stuff because
Speaker 4: so much of my downtime is food based, is based
Speaker 4: on like, oh, I'm going to ship sports centers on
Speaker 4: and that looks like a pizza. I think. I think
Speaker 4: I'm going to go have myself a pizza and sports center.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 11: You get a pretty empty life very quickly, yes, which
Speaker 11: is good for the film because all you really have
Speaker 11: left is your work.
Speaker 4: Yes. And did you give up during that time?
Speaker 5: No music, no nothing, you know.
Speaker 11: I was very focused on the film and unfortunately we
Speaker 11: shot it in twenty five days.
Speaker 5: Wow, it was very quick. And and that that was
Speaker 5: was great and the band is coming back.
Speaker 4: You have there's a documentary out today, yeah about your
Speaker 4: battle with your record label. Yeah, m I yes, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: in which they suit us for thirty million dollars after
Speaker 4: we found out that we had sold millions of albums
Speaker 4: and not only were we not going to be paid
Speaker 4: a single penny, but that we were millions of dollars
Speaker 4: in debt. We started to look into it contested or contract,
Speaker 4: and then they promptly suit us for thirty million bucks.
Speaker 5: We fought them for a few years and filmed it all.
Speaker 4: The upshot of it, though, is when they informed you
Speaker 4: that you had sold millions of records and you owed
Speaker 4: them millions of dollars, did you have to come to
Speaker 4: them and say, oh, but we sold millions of records
Speaker 4: and like, oh you found out about that? Like is that?
Speaker 1: How do they how do they deal with that?
Speaker 11: You know, that's the question really, And that's what we
Speaker 11: talk about in artifact and talk about this crazy business
Speaker 11: and that that really on a holy relationship between art
Speaker 11: and commerce.
Speaker 4: And that's I'm telling you record companies that were going
Speaker 4: away this whole the whole new distribution model, they're going
Speaker 4: to be a thing of the past. That's why they
Speaker 4: want thirty million because they realized, like in a couple
Speaker 4: of years, I.
Speaker 5: Didn't get it. Fortunately we didn't. You know.
Speaker 11: We ended up making an album called This Is War
Speaker 11: that did really really well, went on to some millions
Speaker 11: of albums, and the guy who was at the helm
Speaker 11: of the company who suit us lost control of the
Speaker 11: company and lost almost a billion dollars or maybe a
Speaker 11: little more in the process.
Speaker 5: So I just gave away these.
Speaker 1: Is that how the movie ends.
Speaker 4: Yes, wonderful Dallas Buyer's Club. It's in the theaters now.
Speaker 4: Thirty seconds to marts. Documentary from Artifact on iTunes as well,
Speaker 4: Jared Letto.
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