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Speaker 3: Daily Chop with your host Jordan Clepper.
Speaker 4: What's the day, Jordan Clepper, We got so much to
Speaker 4: talk about tonight. Elon Musk wants you to stop believing
Speaker 4: his cars. Michael Costa finds out the meeting of Saint
Speaker 4: Patrick's Day, and those astronauts finally returned to Earth, and
Speaker 4: boy did they have a lot of unread emails.
Speaker 2: So let's get into headlines.
Speaker 4: First. First, some big breaking news. Donald Trump had released
Speaker 4: sixty four thousand pages of long secret JFK files so
Speaker 4: we could finally learn who really killed JFK. And guess what.
Speaker 4: Turns out it was heart disease. Yeah, the man loved
Speaker 4: his French fries. But speaking of a once in a
Speaker 4: generation charming sex machine, Elon Musk, Now, oh baby, I.
Speaker 2: Love it, I love it. Now.
Speaker 4: He's the world's richest man, the leader of Doge and
Speaker 4: guy who thinks Soren is the hero of the story.
Speaker 4: And say what you want about Elon, but he certainly
Speaker 4: has his fans.
Speaker 2: I love Tesler.
Speaker 4: I'm not saying Donald Trump is racist, but that man
Speaker 4: does love a hard r But if you step outside
Speaker 4: of the White House, you'll find a backlash brewing against
Speaker 4: the founder of Tesler.
Speaker 5: Wallmaker across the country facing anger and outrage from their
Speaker 5: constituents at town hall meetings, and the primary.
Speaker 2: Source of the blowback is Elon Musk.
Speaker 6: What are you doing to stop the activities of unelected
Speaker 6: and unconfirmed Elon Musk?
Speaker 7: Elon must have a security plan.
Speaker 8: Need to find out what Elon Musk is doing.
Speaker 1: And how you sof Elon Musk.
Speaker 4: Elon Musk has conflicts of interests out the wazoo.
Speaker 9: I support Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency.
Speaker 2: Oh tough crowd.
Speaker 4: You know you're in trouble when you even pissed off
Speaker 4: the kid with the cherry.
Speaker 2: Eight ball sweater. It's like the chillest sweater there is.
Speaker 4: These crowds have been so angry towards these congressmen, some
Speaker 4: of them have decided to stop holding town halls altogether,
Speaker 4: which feels a little thin skin considering this is basically
Speaker 4: the same kind of vitriol in Appleby's bartender gets when
Speaker 4: the white wines not filled to the brim again. Kyle
Speaker 4: I'm sorry, I flew off the handle. Papa needs is
Speaker 4: Pino Gries. And some people are not content to just
Speaker 4: scream about elot in a high school gym. They're taking
Speaker 4: to the streets or the parking lots.
Speaker 10: Should I be?
Speaker 7: FBI and ATF now investigating multiple cases of possible arson
Speaker 7: targeting Tesla's and cyber trucks.
Speaker 2: This dramatic video shows multiple cars and flames. Police say
Speaker 2: the attacker.
Speaker 1: Used molotov cocktails.
Speaker 10: It's the latest in more than a dozen instances of
Speaker 10: arson and vandalism targeting Tesla.
Speaker 7: The same suspect shot more Tesla's with a gun. Tesla
Speaker 7: cyber trucks were set on fire in Kansas City, and
Speaker 7: earlier this month, shots fired in a Tesla dealership in Oregon.
Speaker 7: Cyber trucks on fire in Seattle.
Speaker 4: Wow, you guys like pettiacs of domestic terrorism.
Speaker 8: Wow.
Speaker 4: Okay, let me just say nobody should be breaking the
Speaker 4: law and blowing up Tesla's, especially because if you just
Speaker 4: wait a few minutes, they'll probably do it by the time.
Speaker 4: And in case you're wondering why people might do this,
Speaker 4: some have been leaving helpful messages.
Speaker 5: This is what Tesla employees and Encinitas saw when they
Speaker 5: arrived to work today. The vandalism is too graphic to
Speaker 5: show in its entirety. We blurred out the swastika on
Speaker 5: this why Tesla, as well as the F word on
Speaker 5: two different windows in front of the dealership Nazi and
Speaker 5: scum we're written as well.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: I think you you might have wanted to blur out
Speaker 2: a little more there, because I.
Speaker 4: Now it just looks like they just wrote. Obviously, Elon
Speaker 4: has a lot of kids, so he's got a lot
Speaker 4: of you know.
Speaker 2: Like you don't have to be so oberch.
Speaker 4: The point is there's a ton of rage directed at
Speaker 4: Elon right now, which is why last night he went
Speaker 4: on Sean Hannity and made the case for his victimhood.
Speaker 11: Bullets are being fired, charging stations have put a blaze,
Speaker 11: Tesla's are being put a blaze. What have you done
Speaker 11: that warrants this? Because I see nothing that you have
Speaker 11: done except help our country.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, it's really come as quite a shock
Speaker 6: to me that there's this.
Speaker 2: Level of really hatred and violence from the left. Tesla
Speaker 2: is a peaceful company. We've never done anything hopeful. I've
Speaker 2: never done anythingwful. I've only done productive things. I shouldn't
Speaker 2: have to explain this to Elon, But it's not.
Speaker 4: About the Teslas. Tesla's are actually pretty cool as a car.
Speaker 4: It's got that all glass thing going on, kind of
Speaker 4: like a popemobile that fits. It's got door handles that
Speaker 4: are hard to find, which is what everybody wants in
Speaker 4: a door handle. Everything in the car is electronics, so
Speaker 4: if it malfunctions, you just drone in it. You know,
Speaker 4: It's like a free coffin.
Speaker 1: It's cool.
Speaker 2: It's cool.
Speaker 4: I give them credit. I don't think people, though, are
Speaker 4: mad at you because of the Teslass.
Speaker 2: Elon.
Speaker 4: If I were a hazard, a guess, But why they'd
Speaker 4: be mad. It might be because in the last several
Speaker 4: weeks you fired tens of thousands of federal workers. You
Speaker 4: made cuts to veterans care, life saving for and AID
Speaker 4: and food banks. You canceled important medical research, sometimes so
Speaker 4: abruptly that this happened.
Speaker 2: Clinical trials funded by US AID. Medical experiments have been
Speaker 2: stopped midstream.
Speaker 4: Some people have medical devices still in their bodies because
Speaker 4: the trials were abruptly stopped. Yeah, people might get a
Speaker 4: little upset if you stop their medical trial halfway through them.
Speaker 4: Imagine you had to stop getting your malaria medication or
Speaker 4: going home with half a butt lift.
Speaker 2: Imagine it.
Speaker 4: Imagine it's he'll never buy pants off the rack again.
Speaker 4: Or here, here's another guess. Maybe people are mad at
Speaker 4: you because you don't seem to know what.
Speaker 1: The fuck are going I got you, I'm glessing.
Speaker 2: I guess it because.
Speaker 4: You fired aviation safety staff, then add to hire him back.
Speaker 4: You fired nuclear safety inspectors and you had to hire
Speaker 4: him back. You cut funding for ebola prevention and then said, oopsie.
Speaker 7: One of the things we absolutely canceled very briefly.
Speaker 1: I think, yeah, I think we do.
Speaker 4: And if someone just accidentally cut it, I think we'd
Speaker 4: all be pretty mad.
Speaker 2: I might even.
Speaker 4: Banksy some third Reiching jaculates, Look, I could, I could
Speaker 4: come up with more reasons, but let's be honest. Elon
Speaker 4: knows why people are mad at him. We know he's
Speaker 4: not as smart as he pretends to be, but he's
Speaker 4: also not as dumb as he's pretending to be right now,
Speaker 4: and when he goes on Sean Hannity to complain about
Speaker 4: why people hate him, he's just proving that the troll
Speaker 4: king of the Internet can't handle the consequences of the
Speaker 4: real world.
Speaker 2: You know what, you know what love, you know what?
Speaker 4: No heure, Elon, If you genuinely want people to not
Speaker 4: hate you, you could focus on the things you are
Speaker 4: good at.
Speaker 2: I mean, you did get those astronauts back.
Speaker 11: It was It was a beautiful moment, the astronaut pair
Speaker 11: who faced a prolonged stay in space nine months versus
Speaker 11: a plan one week or back on Earth tonight.
Speaker 8: It was a team effort between the Trump administration, Elon Musk,
Speaker 8: and SpaceX.
Speaker 7: And how about this welcoming committee, Like we just mentioned,
Speaker 7: a pod of dolphins scenes swimming around as the astronauts
Speaker 7: waited to be escorted out of the SpaceX dragging capsule.
Speaker 4: You know what, I think that's great. I have to
Speaker 4: I have to not be a hater for a second. Okay,
Speaker 4: Elon brought them back safely from space after being stranded
Speaker 4: there for months, and.
Speaker 2: Dolphins even showed up to say hi. This is incredible.
Speaker 4: I mean, I wish the dolphins hadn't welcomed them back
Speaker 4: with a seeghile, but still, it's a beautiful moment for humanity. Now,
Speaker 4: it was a joyous moment, but those astronauts were gone
Speaker 4: A long, long time. Thankfully, the good folks at NASA
Speaker 4: prepared a video to help them acclimate to the world.
Speaker 2: They're coming back too.
Speaker 12: Hello astronauts, and welcome back to Earth. You got to
Speaker 12: see dolphins before they went extinct.
Speaker 1: How cool is that?
Speaker 12: As you are flown back to the US, this video
Speaker 12: will reacclimate your mind on what you missed while you
Speaker 12: were in space. First, the Gulf of Mexico you landed
Speaker 12: in is now the Gulf of America.
Speaker 9: But don't worry.
Speaker 12: The name change is symbolic. We're not going to war
Speaker 12: with Mexico. We're going to war with Canada and Greenland,
Speaker 12: maybe Panama, also Mexico. Oh, speaking of wars. When you left,
Speaker 12: it was Russia that invaded Ukraine. Now it's the other
Speaker 12: way around.
Speaker 2: Don't worry about it for now.
Speaker 12: Just focus on resting. And after you enter US territory,
Speaker 12: your space capsule will face crippling steel tariffs and you
Speaker 12: will be deported to an El Salvador in prison just
Speaker 12: until we're sure that you're not Venezuelan gang members. And
Speaker 12: after your release in twenty twenty six, you will be
Speaker 12: honored at the White House, which is now run by
Speaker 12: Fox News.
Speaker 1: Anchors.
Speaker 12: Also, the anti vaccine guy is now in charge of vaccines,
Speaker 12: the anti FBI guy is now in charge of the FBI,
Speaker 12: and the lady in charge of the WWE runs the
Speaker 12: Education Department, which is gone. These great leaders will welcome
Speaker 12: you all back, except for astronaut Sunny Williams. See when
Speaker 12: you left, you were a female astronaut, and now you're
Speaker 12: a DEI astronaut. And also you're fired, but don't worry,
Speaker 12: you'll find another job. Although just a heads up, the
Speaker 12: stock market is down an eggs are four hundred dollars,
Speaker 12: but those are both good things and also Joe Biden's fault.
Speaker 12: At this point, you're probably wondering, when can NASA send
Speaker 12: me back up to space. Well it probably can't. NASA
Speaker 12: just got doged, which is a real sentence. Now, So
Speaker 12: from all of us here in America, welcome to Hell, Earth.
Speaker 12: Welcome back to Earth.
Speaker 2: When we come back, we honor the luck of the Irish.
Speaker 13: Don't go away, go back to the Daily Show.
Speaker 4: Monday was Saint Patrick's Day, when Irish Americans honor their
Speaker 4: heritage with careful readings of the writings of James Joyce,
Speaker 4: group performances of traditional Irish music and a somber reflection
Speaker 4: of the beauty of the Celtic language. But how do
Speaker 4: you celebrate being Irish in the Donald Trump era? Michael
Speaker 4: Costa hit the streets to find out one of.
Speaker 14: Trump's top priorities is getting rid of.
Speaker 8: DEI would have ruined our country and now it's dead.
Speaker 10: Identity months are dead some of the months that they're
Speaker 10: targeting Black History Month, Pride Month, National Hispanic Heritage Month,
Speaker 10: Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month.
Speaker 14: But even though he hates celebrating these minority groups, for
Speaker 14: some reason, there's one group he loves to celebrate, the Irish.
Speaker 6: Oh.
Speaker 7: I think the Irish loved Trump when won the Irish
Speaker 7: with a tremendous amount of earth.
Speaker 2: Great people, and they voted for me at heavy numbers.
Speaker 1: So I like them even there.
Speaker 14: So I stopped by New York Saint Patti's Day Parade
Speaker 14: to see how Irish Trump supporters were celebrating their new
Speaker 14: status as Trump's bff.
Speaker 2: All right, what brings you here today?
Speaker 6: Come here to be with my friends, saying to charn
Speaker 6: Trump that I support them.
Speaker 14: Yeah, I guess I'll give you. Is this a Trump
Speaker 14: rally or Is this an Irish parade.
Speaker 1: It's an Irish trump relly.
Speaker 2: Men and skirts.
Speaker 14: Trump is not gonna like that New Stanford y.
Speaker 2: No, But we're here celebrating the minorities.
Speaker 1: There are the Irish.
Speaker 9: Well look, I'm very any you know back in the
Speaker 9: eighteen hundreds, the Irish minorities, they were coming overseas and
Speaker 9: you know when they came across the ocean, I mean
Speaker 9: they were discriminated against. They signed up and fought for
Speaker 9: the Union in the Civil War.
Speaker 14: Right, you can connect without difficult It must have been
Speaker 14: for people to come over to the United States be
Speaker 14: discriminated against.
Speaker 2: Not the favorite nation.
Speaker 6: You can connect with that.
Speaker 14: Yeah, well what about other people that are doing that?
Speaker 7: Now?
Speaker 1: They need to wait in line.
Speaker 9: Look, I had you know, former life I had. I
Speaker 9: had a foreign born spouse.
Speaker 14: Bye, just me, I'm Irish.
Speaker 10: That sure, it's DEEI kids.
Speaker 2: This should be merit based.
Speaker 9: Hey.
Speaker 10: Look, I think celebrating Black History Month is good. I
Speaker 10: think celebrating MLK, Yeah, who fought for our civil rights?
Speaker 1: It is incredible.
Speaker 10: I went up against the mand aids in New York City.
Speaker 10: I fought for my civil rights because I being discriminated
Speaker 10: against for not getting vaccinated.
Speaker 14: Right, So this guy was just like MLK, except he
Speaker 14: didn't take a shot from the government. These Trump supporters
Speaker 14: also had a lot of other important observations.
Speaker 6: When I went to school, we had welding up shop.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the kids don't have nothing anymore. They don't have nothing.
Speaker 1: All that stuff, those kids don't not for.
Speaker 6: You don't think dads are teaching kids out to but
Speaker 6: wires in anymore? Really?
Speaker 14: But is that the Is that on the government.
Speaker 6: Or that on the dad?
Speaker 1: I've charged the comment.
Speaker 2: You think Trump's out to be wires anything?
Speaker 10: Trump?
Speaker 5: But wires in here?
Speaker 6: You bet he does.
Speaker 2: All right, there you have it.
Speaker 14: As long as Trump teaches kids how to put wires
Speaker 14: back in, he and the Irish are building a friendship
Speaker 14: that will last a lifetime.
Speaker 4: The EU were set up in order to take advantage
Speaker 4: of the United States.
Speaker 6: Including Ireland.
Speaker 2: Is Ireland taking advantage of the US.
Speaker 11: Of course they are.
Speaker 14: Well, that was quick.
Speaker 2: You'll come back.
Speaker 8: Anthony Carrigan will be joining me on the show Don't
Speaker 8: Go Away. Welcome back to the Dana flum My guest
Speaker 8: tonight is an Emmy nominated actor whose new film is
Speaker 8: called Death of a Unicorn.
Speaker 2: Please welcome Anthony Kerrigan.
Speaker 6: Welcome, Anthony, welcome, Thank you so much. Great to be here.
Speaker 4: This Death of a Unicorn, they tell you what happens
Speaker 4: right there in the title.
Speaker 6: It's a bit of a spoiler in the title. It's true.
Speaker 6: But in a lot of ways, it's your classic you know,
Speaker 6: unicorn horror comedy, just run of the mill. Yeah, unicorn
Speaker 6: horror comedy.
Speaker 4: I was gonna say, unicorns are real in this horror comedy.
Speaker 6: Oh, they sure are.
Speaker 4: Did you find out if they didn't got into it
Speaker 4: in the movie? Is the unicorn blood what keeps Paul
Speaker 4: Rudd's face so young and smooth?
Speaker 6: Oh my god, that's been this entire like press campaign
Speaker 6: is like unicorn blood for for for Paul. But uh no,
Speaker 6: I mean no, truly these things. I mean because there
Speaker 6: were a lot of practical effects, which which is I think,
Speaker 6: what are people gonna you know, they didn't even.
Speaker 2: They didn't use They did use real unicorns, you know,
Speaker 2: they built them.
Speaker 6: They look cool, they looked like they were real, but
Speaker 6: they were huge, and these massive set pieces that were
Speaker 6: just so cool to look at. And it's it's kind
Speaker 6: of a throwback to like Jim Henson in like eighties
Speaker 6: and nineties movies. Yeah, yeah, so it's so much fun.
Speaker 2: I feel like they moved through the space almost like velociraptors, like.
Speaker 6: They sure do. Yeah, there's definitely some Jurassic Park moments
Speaker 6: to this.
Speaker 4: There was, although I wanted it to be a little
Speaker 4: bit more real, like not not that unicorns aren't real,
Speaker 4: but that if they were, RFK Junior be eating them.
Speaker 6: You know, listen, it's still early in the year, so like,
Speaker 6: who knows really what's gonna happen.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you're silent for the majority of this, It's true.
Speaker 4: How do you prep to be a to find are
Speaker 4: you looking in the mirror? Are you practicing responses? How
Speaker 4: do you how do you find your silence?
Speaker 6: You know? Funnily enough, it's pretty much just listening. What
Speaker 6: it's just listening And I know, truly it's just listening.
Speaker 6: It's just a lot of showing. I mean, you know,
Speaker 6: you need to no know all the beats. You actually
Speaker 6: have to kind of know what's going on more because
Speaker 6: you don't have any lines to kind of fill fill
Speaker 6: things with, fill the moments with. Uh So instead you
Speaker 6: kind of have to be really paying attention, listening and knowing,
Speaker 6: knowing what's up so.
Speaker 2: You can't just bullshit with words. Well, ione go that far.
Speaker 4: It's a great tech use it often totally you You
Speaker 4: find you find so much on all the characters that
Speaker 4: you do. I love you on Barry as No ho
Speaker 4: Hank and.
Speaker 2: Yeah, amazing I did.
Speaker 4: Is it true that you were only supposed to be
Speaker 4: in the first episode and you were going to die
Speaker 4: at the end?
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, right, my character was supposed to be killed
Speaker 6: off in the first episode. And uh yeah, like my
Speaker 6: character gets shot. Sorry spoiler from like eight eight years ago.
Speaker 4: Yeah, come on stream it you guys catch up.
Speaker 6: But yeah, then Bill just decided, you know, when after
Speaker 6: I was shot, you know, because it was in a car,
Speaker 6: he was just like just just open open the car
Speaker 6: door and fall out. Really so he opened a literal
Speaker 6: door for.
Speaker 3: Me to survive.
Speaker 2: But what what do you think? What was it? You
Speaker 2: guys just had a connection.
Speaker 4: It was like, oh, there's more here than just killing
Speaker 4: somebody in a car.
Speaker 2: I guess.
Speaker 6: So, I don't know. He just liked my goofy accent
Speaker 6: and what what I was doing.
Speaker 2: So this is you hide behind goofy X.
Speaker 6: I sure do this. Yeah, we're really kind of coming
Speaker 6: to the let's get to the crux of it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're not a Chechnian gangster.
Speaker 6: No, no, which is a big surprise to a lot
Speaker 6: of people.
Speaker 4: Even throw a Scottish accent in the death of a unit.
Speaker 6: I sure did, Yes, I sure did. I mean I
Speaker 6: auditioned with it and then it was like months until
Speaker 6: I got you know, I got the call to come
Speaker 6: do it, only at which point I realized, oh, no,
Speaker 6: like I have to now do a Scottish accent, Like
Speaker 6: what am I gonna do?
Speaker 2: But what are you hiding from?
Speaker 6: Truly? Yeah, just I don't know. I'm from Massachusetts and
Speaker 6: maybe at some point, you know, yeah, I'll we'll do
Speaker 6: the mass accent.
Speaker 2: I was gonna say, that's a fun one to play around. Yeah,
Speaker 2: sure is, Ben Affleck.
Speaker 4: Isn't creating some wild drama right now that you could
Speaker 4: sneak into?
Speaker 1: Probably?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Probably?
Speaker 10: You know.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you've also been working on the new Superman movie.
Speaker 6: That's right, right, yes, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah you are Metamorpho? Is that correct? Yeah?
Speaker 6: I play a character named Metamorpho. And I feel like
Speaker 6: I've already talked too much about the movie because it's
Speaker 6: so top secret, But honestly, it was such such a
Speaker 6: blast to work on. James Gunn is just a phenomenal director,
Speaker 6: and and even though it was just this massive movie,
Speaker 6: it really did feel like really small and intimate and
Speaker 6: like we were doing something really special, had a lot
Speaker 6: of heart.
Speaker 4: Can can you tell us, like what drew you to
Speaker 4: the character? Like, what was it about Metamorpho that you
Speaker 4: wanted to play outside of the obvious paycheck?
Speaker 6: Yeah? Yeah, there's that.
Speaker 1: That was pretty much it.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think the I try to find just kind
Speaker 6: of some level of pathos and whatever whatever character I'm playing, Yeah, Pathos, Pathos,
Speaker 6: Athos draws.
Speaker 2: You to it?
Speaker 6: Yeah yeah, yeah, just trying to find the humanity and
Speaker 6: whatever and whatever person I'm playing that in an accent,
Speaker 6: you know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you get to do it, you can. Can you
Speaker 2: tell us right now? Do you hide who you are
Speaker 2: in this movie? No?
Speaker 6: But like there's still time to do adr, you know,
Speaker 6: there's still time to do it.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 4: So if if hopefully the Superman Universe can get just
Speaker 4: a little bit more money, I bet they could scratch
Speaker 4: it up and you could really add some new layers.
Speaker 2: Awesome.
Speaker 4: Well, Death of a Unicorn will be in theaters everywhere
Speaker 4: March twenty eighth.
Speaker 2: Anthony Kerrigan We're Jella, I Love Joh.
Speaker 4: For tonight now here it is eight.
Speaker 1: Days that turned into nine months.
Speaker 4: It's like a space age Gilligan's Island.
Speaker 11: You guys are way too young to remember this, but
Speaker 11: in the nineteen sixties early seventies, there was a show
Speaker 11: called Gilligan's Island.
Speaker 2: This was like as close as you get to Gilligan's Island.
Speaker 2: These days like modern day Gilligan's Islands. It's like Gilligan's
Speaker 2: Island but crazier, sort of a space version of Gilligan's Island.
Speaker 2: Here love the Gilligan's Island. Okay, that's not the news,
Speaker 2: my bad.
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