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Speaker 2: Joe Gordon Clipper, we got so much to talk about tonight.
Speaker 2: Joe Biden is getting a celebrity makeover, New Yorkers are
Speaker 2: furious that traffic might go away, and Leslie Jones is
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Speaker 2: Let's begin with the breaking news. Sam Bankman freed, disgraced
Speaker 2: crypto mogul and man who got bitten by a radioactive
Speaker 2: pube has been sentenced to twenty five years in prison
Speaker 2: for all his crypto scams. Now hopefully choke it up.
Speaker 2: Hopefully this saga has taught people not to fall for
Speaker 2: the easy money scam that is bitcoin.
Speaker 4: Bitcoin on fire, touching another all time high yesterday, Bitcoin.
Speaker 2: Hits another record. The world's largest cryptocurrency surged above seventy
Speaker 2: two thousand dollars today, a new all time high. Bye
Speaker 2: Bitcoin use kids college tuition accounts, sure thing, Yeah, not
Speaker 2: a problem. Speaking of money, Let's move on. To one
Speaker 2: of the foundational principles of America democracy. Money The green
Speaker 2: was out today when President Joe Biden made history with
Speaker 2: the biggest one day cash grab of all time.
Speaker 5: The Biden campaign just announced that it's blinged out fundraiser
Speaker 5: in New York tonight has already raised twenty five million dollars.
Speaker 5: The event will feature former Presidents Barack Obama and Bill
Speaker 5: Clinton in a huge list of others.
Speaker 6: They will be assembling more than five thousand supporters at
Speaker 6: Radio City Music Hall for this first of its kind fundraiser.
Speaker 6: One batch of supporters who will have a photo taken
Speaker 6: by famed photographer Any Leibovitz of themselves and the three president.
Speaker 2: Wow Biden, Obama, and Clinton all in one show. It's
Speaker 2: like Coachella for the kids who asked the teacher for
Speaker 2: more homework. I mean, this fundraiser is serious. Some people
Speaker 2: are spending five hundred thousand dollars to be there. Guys,
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, this just feels gross. Five hundred thousand dollars
Speaker 2: for access to a president. I mean, that's that's not
Speaker 2: how democracy should work. Save that money for Supreme Court justice.
Speaker 2: Much better bang for your body. She's fart shout out
Speaker 2: for an RV and a jet ski and you're there.
Speaker 2: I will say it must be a unique experience to
Speaker 2: have your picture taken with three presidents. And it's not
Speaker 2: just any photographer, it's any Leibovitz, maybe the most famous photographer.
Speaker 2: She did that one of Debbie Moore pregnant and naked,
Speaker 2: John Lennon hugging Yoko naked, sting in the desert naked.
Speaker 2: The point is you are going to have to be naked.
Speaker 2: Don't worry. Bill Clinton is way ahead of you, so
Speaker 2: it'd be fine, totally hung Let's move on, because while
Speaker 2: the presidents are hob nobbing in New York City, the
Speaker 2: rest of us have to deal with the traffic.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 2: Every city is all too familiar with the side effects
Speaker 2: of traffic delays, pollution, flipping someone off a mile back
Speaker 2: and now you're stuck next to them for an hour.
Speaker 2: But now New York City might have just found a solution.
Speaker 6: Here in New York the first of the nation congestion
Speaker 6: pricing plans set to begin soon.
Speaker 2: Charging drivers are fifteen dollars toll to enter Midtown Manhattan.
Speaker 7: The MTA says seven hundred thousand vehicles enter this part
Speaker 7: of the city every weekday, and the new tolls will
Speaker 7: help curb congestion and possibly generate billions of dollars for
Speaker 7: improvements to mass transit. But for many New York City commuters,
Speaker 7: they're saying, no thanks.
Speaker 2: Another fifteen dollars just to get to work, which is
Speaker 2: it's absurd.
Speaker 8: For each and every one of you.
Speaker 9: There is a special place in half for you. All right,
Speaker 9: Lucifer waits for you. He waits for you.
Speaker 2: He sounds bad, but if you don't know in New York,
Speaker 2: that's a typical greeting. Hey, Jerry, Lucifer Winton, help for you?
Speaker 2: Your son of a bench? How are the kids? Sadie?
Speaker 2: Is she good? See you at the Montessori drop off?
Speaker 2: You jack off? Now, personally, I can see the upsides
Speaker 2: to congestion pricing. It's better for the environment, it reduces traffic.
Speaker 2: There's fewer cars on the road, so there's more space
Speaker 2: for you to get hit by delivery bikes. But understandably,
Speaker 2: people are upset, and the last thing I want is
Speaker 2: angry drivers in New York. I mean, can you imagine
Speaker 2: New York's already too expensive? A beer fifteen dollars, grab
Speaker 2: a lunch, that's forty bucks. You want to get a
Speaker 2: handy from Times Square, Elmo, not in this economy. For
Speaker 2: more on the congestion pricing, we go live to Grace
Speaker 2: Cool and Schmidt. Yeah, Grace, Grace, you're also a commuter
Speaker 2: like me. I assume you'll be sucking it up and
Speaker 2: paying the congestion fee too.
Speaker 8: Uh No, maybe you're a sheep, but.
Speaker 2: Not me, Grace. I'm not a sheep. That's what you
Speaker 2: sound like, Jordana.
Speaker 8: I'm gonna assure you and make a lovely sweater.
Speaker 10: Look, I'm not just gonna pay a congestion fee just
Speaker 10: because the law says I have to.
Speaker 8: That's not what America is about. Check your constitution, bro.
Speaker 2: You mean the document that is a collection of laws.
Speaker 2: That's what you're talking about. Okay, Okay, Grace, Grace, Grace, Grace,
Speaker 2: you can't avoid the fee. They'll have cameras that will
Speaker 2: catch you driving into the city.
Speaker 8: Yeah, on the roads. That's why I'm going to drive
Speaker 8: through the sewers.
Speaker 10: It's fast, it's efficient, and you might run into a
Speaker 10: teenage ninja turtle.
Speaker 2: I mean, ninja turtles aren't real, Grace.
Speaker 8: So I was hooking up with four normal teenage turtles.
Speaker 2: For all our sakes, I'm gonna move on. I should
Speaker 2: point out you can't actually fit a car in the sewers.
Speaker 8: Okay, then how about this. The fees only apply to
Speaker 8: cars and trucks. So I by a Boeing seven three seven.
Speaker 8: They're super cheap.
Speaker 2: Right now, those are really dangerous to fly.
Speaker 8: I'm gonna drive it, idiot, Grace.
Speaker 2: Wouldn't it just be easier to take the subway?
Speaker 8: No, it's a hell hole down there, Jordan. Have you
Speaker 8: ever heard of subway flashing?
Speaker 2: Yes, I know it's a big problem.
Speaker 8: Yeah, a lot of people don't even react when you
Speaker 8: do it. Everyone's on their phones. It's very hurtful.
Speaker 2: Hey, Rice, just take the subway.
Speaker 8: There's got to be a better way. I know.
Speaker 10: I'm gonna dig a tunnel under the camera so I
Speaker 10: can avoid them, and then over time I'll extend that
Speaker 10: tunnel to connect to different areas of the city.
Speaker 2: You're describing the subway, I'm.
Speaker 10: Describing an underground utopia, and I am gonna call.
Speaker 9: It the subway.
Speaker 2: Okay, great school and schmid everybody, We come back, Leslie Jones,
Speaker 2: I'm been joining us. Don't go away. Welcome back to.
Speaker 1: The Daily show.
Speaker 2: You know, all this week I've been sharing my opinions
Speaker 2: on the news, and rightfully so they're pretty great opinions.
Speaker 2: But studies show that other people also have opinions. So
Speaker 2: here with the installment of in my opinion is our
Speaker 2: good friend Leslie Joe.
Speaker 11: Wyes, that's right, your favorite Auntie is back to straighten out.
Speaker 9: America because America needs me. Lawd have mercy.
Speaker 11: The election is now less than eight months away, and
Speaker 11: guess what, America is on the path to doing something really,
Speaker 11: really stupid.
Speaker 4: The new Fox News polls finding former President Trump leading
Speaker 4: President Biden by five points nationally and it had to
Speaker 4: head matchup. This is his biggest lead yet against Joe
Speaker 4: Biden just over half of those voters, so that they
Speaker 4: are worse off today than compared to twenty twenty.
Speaker 12: A new CBS News poll shows forty six percent of
Speaker 12: registered voters remember the Trump error presidency as excellent or good,
Speaker 12: compared to President Biden's thirty three percent.
Speaker 2: If the election were held today, even Democrats I know
Speaker 2: think that Trump would win. What is wrong with us?
Speaker 11: This is like a movie where you see the disaster
Speaker 11: coming from a mile away and nobody is stopping at
Speaker 11: every time I turn on the news, I'm shouting at
Speaker 11: the screen like it's a horror movie.
Speaker 9: Don't go in there, America. Land the faces in there America.
Speaker 2: I mean, are we gonna really.
Speaker 11: Bring back a man who tried to overthrow the government?
Speaker 11: This is like asking Jeffrey Epstein to watch your kids,
Speaker 11: or a pedophile priest to watch your kids, or that
Speaker 11: sixth who used to work at Nickelodeon.
Speaker 9: To watch your kids. Hey, how about we do that?
Speaker 9: Don't let anybody.
Speaker 2: Watch your cat.
Speaker 1: And listen.
Speaker 11: I know some people don't care about January sixth, but
Speaker 11: let me remind you about something real quick.
Speaker 13: He was also a terrible in president. Do you really
Speaker 13: not remember?
Speaker 11: I know we don't have the attention spans anymore, but
Speaker 11: how can you forget the man who wanted to nuke
Speaker 11: a hurricane that actually happened.
Speaker 9: And the thing that gets me the most is there
Speaker 9: are people who are saying we're worse off than we
Speaker 9: were in twenty twenty. In twenty twenty, we didn't even
Speaker 9: have toilet paper. We was wiping our ass with family photos.
Speaker 11: And listen, I know the pandemic wasn't Trump's fault, but
Speaker 11: Trump made it worse every chance he got.
Speaker 9: Don't you people remember the kind of advice he was
Speaker 9: giving us.
Speaker 12: President Trump suggested without facts that bleach injections might fight COVID.
Speaker 12: And then I see the disinfectant where it knocks it
Speaker 12: out in a minute, one minute, And is there a
Speaker 12: way we can do something like that by injection inside
Speaker 12: work or almost a cleaning.
Speaker 11: He told us to inject ourselves. We turned to him
Speaker 11: for advice and do it was I care yourself. I
Speaker 11: could go on and on about why it would be
Speaker 11: a terrible idea to bring back Trump, But you know what,
Speaker 11: I guess I shouldn't be surprised that America is about
Speaker 11: to do something that we know is harmful to us,
Speaker 11: because that is what we always do. Look at how
Speaker 11: we treat our own bodies.
Speaker 9: We know we need to sleep eight hours hours a night,
Speaker 9: but we stay.
Speaker 11: Up all night scrolling onto our phone until it falls
Speaker 11: on our damn face.
Speaker 9: We know we should take care of our mental health,
Speaker 9: but we.
Speaker 11: Entertain ourselves by watching documentaries in serial killers. We know
Speaker 11: we should go to the doctor, but instead we get
Speaker 11: medical advice from the internet.
Speaker 9: Listen, listen.
Speaker 11: I'm guilty of it too. When I feel sick, I
Speaker 11: look up symptoms on WebMD. I know it's irresponsible, but
Speaker 11: I can't control myself, probably because I'm dying of scurvy.
Speaker 14: We we are constantly making decisions that.
Speaker 9: We know are bad for us. We know we should
Speaker 9: be eating healthy, but instead we eat like shit.
Speaker 11: Were out here eating double stuff or and triple deck
Speaker 11: of sandwiches. We stack our food like a fjenga. You
Speaker 11: know what has only one layer? A goddamn carry.
Speaker 9: Just look at the Lynx we go. Just look at
Speaker 9: the Lynx we go to for fast food. Look at it.
Speaker 13: Well.
Speaker 2: This week we learned the answer to the age old
Speaker 2: question how long would you wait in line? Just for
Speaker 2: an in and out burger?
Speaker 15: At the store's first location in Idaho, some patrons had
Speaker 15: to wait as long as eight hours. This week's opening
Speaker 15: featured customers even braving cold temperatures to camp out overnight
Speaker 15: just to be the first in line.
Speaker 9: You disgusting, glutting this motherfo eight hours.
Speaker 11: I'm not a mathematician, but it's you're waiting eight hours
Speaker 11: for fast food.
Speaker 2: It ain't fast, fool.
Speaker 9: Come.
Speaker 13: I believe.
Speaker 11: Some of the stuff we eat shouldn't even be legal.
Speaker 11: In fact, in some countries it's not legal. Their shit.
Speaker 9: That's been bad in Europe because it gives you cancer,
Speaker 9: and we're like.
Speaker 8: Nah, we good.
Speaker 9: Because we don't care enough to make good decisions.
Speaker 11: It's even acceptable in America to binge drink as an adult. Listen,
Speaker 11: it's cute at twenty one, but baby at forty five,
Speaker 11: that's called alcoholism.
Speaker 9: And after eating like shit, we.
Speaker 11: Know we should be exercising, but instead we're doing shit
Speaker 11: like this.
Speaker 16: And next, you've always wanted six pack ads but.
Speaker 2: Can't seem to get to the gym.
Speaker 8: Now there's a shortcut for that.
Speaker 16: Researchers at the University of Miami have developed a new
Speaker 16: plastic surgery technique called abdominal etching. It can reshape belly
Speaker 16: fat to make you look like you spent a lot
Speaker 16: of time in the gym. Tools and some foam it's
Speaker 16: a surgery, are used as sculpt abdominal fat to accentuate
Speaker 16: muscle lines, typically six for men and three vertical lines
Speaker 16: for women.
Speaker 9: Jesus wept, what is wrong with you people? You can't
Speaker 9: trick people into thinking that you got fake and that's
Speaker 9: why we got spikes.
Speaker 11: I can't believe that this is what we got. Our
Speaker 11: scientists working on. Forget about curing diseases. We got to
Speaker 11: make Jordans look like he doing sit ups.
Speaker 2: I mean, maybe he use a different name for that joke.
Speaker 9: No, I think that's a good name. I think I
Speaker 9: think it makes a joke.
Speaker 2: Personally, Paul or a Steve or a great I mean,
Speaker 2: there's a lot of but.
Speaker 9: It's not just Jordan's.
Speaker 11: We all make wrong decisions, from food to exercise to
Speaker 11: mental health. Last, but not least most importantly, we know
Speaker 11: we shouldn't be dating DJs. But here I am swipe
Speaker 11: it right on everything God with DJ and his bio.
Speaker 11: Now I'm on the third hour of listening to his
Speaker 11: new song and the beat still hasn't dropped.
Speaker 9: Drop the big DJ, I drive. I gotta go get
Speaker 9: the fleet. So here's an idea, America.
Speaker 11: How about for at least this election, for this one thing,
Speaker 11: Let's not do the.
Speaker 9: Obviously stupid thing that we know we shouldn't do. And
Speaker 9: that means you're gonna have to put in some effort.
Speaker 11: It means getting involved in the political process.
Speaker 9: It means not sitting on your ass just because you're
Speaker 9: not in love with the choices.
Speaker 11: I know you like fast food, but this time let's
Speaker 11: eat a carrot instead of voting for a guy who
Speaker 11: looks like a carry.
Speaker 6: There you want?
Speaker 2: Look about hearing Lewis. When we're going around this, Joe,
Speaker 2: don't go along. We've the bag of the daily shoe.
Speaker 2: My guess. Tonight is a Grammy Award for the artist
Speaker 2: who sold over thirty million records. His songs inspired the
Speaker 2: new Broadway musical The Heart of Rock and Roll. Please
Speaker 2: welcome Huey Lewis. Wonderful. I know that helps helps with
Speaker 2: the hearing.
Speaker 1: How do I sound, Huey, Yeah, that helps my hearing.
Speaker 2: Wonderful.
Speaker 1: Thanks to Starky Hearing Institute for that.
Speaker 2: The Starky Hearing Institute. Yep, thank you very much.
Speaker 1: You know what they did exactly.
Speaker 2: They brought together Huey Lewis and the fake news finally
Speaker 2: together together at once. It is an honor to have
Speaker 2: you here in New York.
Speaker 1: Thank I hate tell you my news is kind of
Speaker 1: fake too.
Speaker 2: So what don't break my heart? Hueye you're here. You
Speaker 2: got a big Broadway musical opening tomorrow. The preview start tomorrow,
Speaker 2: right and I'm sure you thirty million records sold, twelve
Speaker 2: ten hits. How do you start to narrow down what
Speaker 2: makes it into the heart of rock and roll?
Speaker 1: Which songs make it into them? Yeah, well it's it's
Speaker 1: a It came about because a producer called Tyler Mitchell,
Speaker 1: who's my neighbor's friend, was a big fan of ours.
Speaker 1: And I was over at my neighbor's house for my
Speaker 1: birthday and he was there, and my neighbor's a big
Speaker 1: musical theater buff and said, you know, suggested to his
Speaker 1: son in law Tyler, you should do a musical. We
Speaker 1: started talking about Mama Mia and how much we love
Speaker 1: Mama Mia, and he says, you should do a musical
Speaker 1: with Hughey's music. And so he said, what do you think.
Speaker 1: I said, sure, give it a try, and he went
Speaker 1: off with his pal John Abras came back with a
Speaker 1: very nice idea.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're saying, that's all it take. If I ran
Speaker 2: into you like a decade ago and said your music,
Speaker 2: your music is great, it's known worldwide, people love it.
Speaker 2: You should do more of it publicly, like I could
Speaker 2: be working with you right now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well shit, Actually, you know it took nine years.
Speaker 1: So and what they did, what Tyler and John did,
Speaker 1: was they printed out all of our lyrics right and
Speaker 1: put them up on the wall and then just lived
Speaker 1: with them. And I guess there's some jogging involved and
Speaker 1: listening to lyrics, and this story emerged that it's rhyth relic,
Speaker 1: you know, pretty compelling.
Speaker 2: I was going to say, now, in creating a musical,
Speaker 2: you have to create a narrative, but these songs are
Speaker 2: written singularly.
Speaker 13: Do you.
Speaker 2: How does that look to take a step back? Do
Speaker 2: you feel like there was a sense of narrative to
Speaker 2: those songs to begin with, or is it sort of
Speaker 2: a reinvention of what was there?
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's reimagining the tunes really, and you know, they
Speaker 1: worked in a certain way anyway, but we had to
Speaker 1: tweak them a little bit in order to push the
Speaker 1: story forward, because the songs have to push the story forward,
Speaker 1: you know. But by the same token, you don't want
Speaker 1: to lose the integrity of the song. So that's the
Speaker 1: little balancing act, you know.
Speaker 2: So now the music set in the eighties, correct, It's just.
Speaker 1: Set in the eighties. And we had a lot of
Speaker 1: fun with that. We had a lot of fun with that.
Speaker 1: I'm sure.
Speaker 2: I'm sure it's so interesting because I will I will
Speaker 2: admit the first cast out I ever bought The Small
Speaker 2: World by Huey Lewis and the News.
Speaker 8: Wow.
Speaker 2: Yes, And I used to dance around the house to
Speaker 2: sports with my family.
Speaker 1: You better that's a little too much information.
Speaker 2: Sorry, Okay, my child was conceived. Do you want more?
Speaker 2: Do you want more? Rock and roll is still beating.
Speaker 2: I gotta tell you it works.
Speaker 13: You were.
Speaker 2: Say, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb dump. It really sets
Speaker 2: them food. What I will say is, as a fan,
Speaker 2: it was it's fun to go back and look at
Speaker 2: some of the videos from the eighties because you look
Speaker 2: at the music videos in the eighties and you were
Speaker 2: sort of on the forefront of a new art form.
Speaker 2: The music video is on MTV, and I when I'm
Speaker 2: reapproaching watching some of them, what's so interesting is I
Speaker 2: feel like your music video is, unlike many of the
Speaker 2: ones at the time, had a real comedic sensibility that
Speaker 2: you're not only presenting the songs, you found a way
Speaker 2: to inject humor into it. And so you're sort of
Speaker 2: at this new art form. You're you're you're pushing this forward,
Speaker 2: this this art and this music beyond, but you're also
Speaker 2: finding your way sort of as a comedic character and
Speaker 2: a comedian. Right, did you feel yourself doing that at
Speaker 2: the time?
Speaker 1: I think I should get some kind of an award
Speaker 1: for that.
Speaker 2: God, well, you know you like Fiji water Ship. Did
Speaker 2: Joey Lewis an award? For God's sakes?
Speaker 1: I honestly MTV of the videos were a necessary evil.
Speaker 13: You know.
Speaker 1: We we started off as an audio band and and
Speaker 1: you write this song which tells this story, and now,
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, you got to make a video. So
Speaker 1: and so what we decided we were going to do
Speaker 1: them ourselves. We had a very Hollywood producer of the
Speaker 1: record company, got him to do our very first video,
Speaker 1: This is do You Believe in Love? Where we're all
Speaker 1: in bed and we're we're pointing at the girl. There's
Speaker 1: sex of us in bed pointing to the girl singing,
Speaker 1: and and he did. We shot this video all day
Speaker 1: and then and I remember we went to see the
Speaker 1: rough cut and oh my gosh, there was the record
Speaker 1: company was there and the video company and all of it.
Speaker 1: They're probably twenty people. And he announced that this was
Speaker 1: going to see the run through. It hadn't been colorized yet.
Speaker 1: It's going to be amazing when it's colorized. But here
Speaker 1: we go and he plays this video and turns the
Speaker 1: lights off, and my heart sank. I thought it was
Speaker 1: the worst thing I'd ever seen, just horrible. And when
Speaker 1: it ended, everybody stood up and gave us a standing ovation.
Speaker 1: So I remember thinking to myself, clearly, clearly, there's no really,
Speaker 1: nobody knows anything about this. We're writing our own songs,
Speaker 1: and we're producing our own music. We should be doing
Speaker 1: our own videos. So and that's what we did, and
Speaker 1: we we you know, through the song in the in
Speaker 1: the dumper, as it were. Don't retell the story. Just
Speaker 1: goof around and have fun and be funny.
Speaker 2: I think, in David, you said that a little better
Speaker 2: than I did. Actually, I want to give you credit.
Speaker 2: I would give you a ward. I feel like you
Speaker 2: perfected the comical take over the fancy sunglasses.
Speaker 1: It was one for me.
Speaker 2: It was a big one. Right, did you practice that
Speaker 2: in the mirror?
Speaker 1: That Varney Varney sunglasses.
Speaker 2: By the way, at the time, are you trying to
Speaker 2: get a sponsorship? Here is this heuie always always moving
Speaker 2: to Sarky Varney. Okay, Fiji water, we get it, hewing hee.
Speaker 2: It's not Huey Lewis blues in the plugs. All right. Uh,
Speaker 2: there was a wonderful documentary that came out recently that
Speaker 2: looked at the behind the scenes of We Are the World,
Speaker 2: and you talk about your experiences in that amazing, wild
Speaker 2: night of pop music. I think it was so fascinating
Speaker 2: about watching that documentary is when I was I was wondering,
Speaker 2: on a night like that, are people aware of the
Speaker 2: cameras there? There's no cell phones, people don't have assistance
Speaker 2: in that room. And then I was shocked by how
Speaker 2: sober everybody was, except for Algio Algiou. But it's surprising.
Speaker 2: I don't know if you could do something like that day.
Speaker 2: Were people as sober as well?
Speaker 1: I mean, you know there was check your ego at
Speaker 1: the door. Well, clearly nobody's going to pull an ego
Speaker 1: trip on this group, right, And so I think we
Speaker 1: all were a little nervous except Stevie Wonder, who was
Speaker 1: not nervous.
Speaker 2: No, no, not at all.
Speaker 1: And I don't think Stevie's ever nervous, to be honest.
Speaker 2: And so was there again something like that had never
Speaker 2: happened before. I think with the presence of cameras there,
Speaker 2: did that add attention in that room?
Speaker 1: Well? Actually, there weren't that many cameras, and we were
Speaker 1: so focused on the I think it was pretty pretty transparent, actually.
Speaker 1: I mean what was interesting is that I think we
Speaker 1: all realized, I certainly did, that this was going to
Speaker 1: be the career event of my life. You know, I
Speaker 1: was I was barely thirty years old, and I'm thinking,
Speaker 1: what could be more amazing than this? And I think
Speaker 1: a lot of us kind of felt that way. There's
Speaker 1: still a kind of a bond between all the people
Speaker 1: who were on that night, and it was it was
Speaker 1: just an amazing evening.
Speaker 2: Obviously, there's a moment in there where Stevie Wonder throws
Speaker 2: out the idea of singing in Swahili, which seemed to
Speaker 2: really split the room. Yeah, Waylon Jennings, I believe walked out.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and actually what happened, and I don't think it's
Speaker 1: in the documentary, but yeah, whalee walked out. But and
Speaker 1: it clearly wasn't going to happen. And as we were
Speaker 1: kind of getting involved there and it was late, it
Speaker 1: was like three or four in the morning at this point,
Speaker 1: and Ray Charles is in the front row and he
Speaker 1: goes ring the bell. Quincy rang the bell.
Speaker 2: It's time to move on, Like let's go. Yeah, somebody
Speaker 2: brought a fact up there were like you're nineteen eighty
Speaker 2: four Sports was number one album. They were only it
Speaker 2: was on the charts for quite some time. In fact,
Speaker 2: that year there are only four other albums that were
Speaker 2: the number one album that year that was.
Speaker 1: Thanks for pointing that out.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I want to humble you here a little bit. Okay,
Speaker 2: see if you can turn this in a way to
Speaker 2: get some sponsorship. Okay. Thriller was a number one album
Speaker 2: Footloose Born in the USA and Purple Rain. That's a
Speaker 2: good year for music. It was a good year if
Speaker 2: you had to marry or kill Footloose Born in the USA,
Speaker 2: Purple Rain, or Thriller?
Speaker 1: What do you do if you have to do?
Speaker 14: What now?
Speaker 1: What do I have to do?
Speaker 2: Think back to the harder rock and roll of what
Speaker 2: happened back in my bedroom back in the day. You
Speaker 2: have to you have to walk one of these albums,
Speaker 2: So make love to the album one of those, the hypothetical,
Speaker 2: the metaphorical idea of the album. Okay, make love to
Speaker 2: the album. You have to marry the album, like engage
Speaker 2: in matrimony with the album, a real commitment with the
Speaker 2: album okay, or kill be done with one of the albums.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 2: Out of those four albums, you have to make love
Speaker 2: to one, you have to commit yourself Mary to the other,
Speaker 2: and you have to execute one.
Speaker 1: Wow. Wow, that that's tough.
Speaker 2: Tough.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm gonna execute Footloose because Kenny Loggins won't mind.
Speaker 1: He's a good guy.
Speaker 2: Okay, I'm gonnabody.
Speaker 1: Uh, I'm gonna. I'm gonna make love to Born in
Speaker 1: the USA, and I'm gonna fall in love with Thriller.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're gonna fall in love with Thriller.
Speaker 1: I actually I actually will.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I actually like.
Speaker 1: I like Off the Walls Out Michael's album a little
Speaker 1: better actually than Thriller even really, if I don't mind
Speaker 1: me saying that, you.
Speaker 2: Like a little bit of that disco dance vibe to
Speaker 2: it all?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, rock with you? Listen to that overnamed I.
Speaker 2: Think dangerous, dangerous, an underrated album.
Speaker 1: There you go, look at this.
Speaker 2: We can do this forever. I could pitch you on
Speaker 2: a musical, like, hey, why don't you use your own
Speaker 2: songs as a great hits? We can make some money
Speaker 2: off this. Yeway before I let you go. It's so interesting.
Speaker 2: You are a beloved musician. It's so funny. I was
Speaker 2: talking to you a little bit backstage when I told
Speaker 2: the folks, or when we were told that Huey Lewis
Speaker 2: was coming on the Daily Show. People of all ages
Speaker 2: who work on this show, they love you, and they're
Speaker 2: so excited that you hear you bring such goodwill to people.
Speaker 2: And I heard the story that back to the Future,
Speaker 2: Robert Zemeckis told you that Marty McFly his favorite the
Speaker 2: fictional character Marty McFly, his favorite band would be Huey
Speaker 2: Lewis in the News. Then in American Psycho Patrick Bateman's
Speaker 2: favorite band to kill Jared leto Jo is Huey Lewis
Speaker 2: in the News. And so in a fictional universe, you
Speaker 2: appeal both to a person who is a time traveler
Speaker 2: and a person who is a psycho killer. You are
Speaker 2: You are that universe.
Speaker 1: And you know what that's that's that that is fresh
Speaker 1: material for a musical.
Speaker 2: Three Here for the Hunger rock and roll again tomorrow,
Speaker 2: Mark on and Night at the Days All Drongs Theater,
Speaker 2: Joy Lowie, We're gonna take a twick place to do
Speaker 2: the WiFi postle.
Speaker 14: M.
Speaker 2: That's our show for to night out here.
Speaker 1: It is your a moment of that.
Speaker 2: You might not like what I'm saying, but it's a fact.
Speaker 2: You are bass in New Yorkers. The Damnita is a
Speaker 2: money pitch.
Speaker 9: We pay taxes. Where's the money going now? You're going
Speaker 9: to Texas again? Just to move around New York City.
Speaker 1: Walking is better than pay.
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