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Speaker 1: Driver Doul. What's going on? Everybody? Welcome to the day,
Speaker 1: Sean turning on. Thank you so much for tuning in,
Speaker 1: and thank you, thank you. He's not who show we
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Speaker 1: Take a seat. We're gonna find out why Beyonce and
Speaker 1: jay Z might have beef. We'll see where Black Friday
Speaker 1: came from. And if you love the Trump administration, then
Speaker 1: old boy, have I got some great news for you.
Speaker 1: So let's do these people. Let's I'm straight into today's headlines.
Speaker 1: All right. Before we get into the big stories, let's
Speaker 1: catch up on a few other things going on in
Speaker 1: the world, starting with the Grammy Awards. Yesterday, the full
Speaker 1: list of nominations was announced and Beyonce is leading the
Speaker 1: pack with nine nominations, which, amazingly, which amazingly ties her
Speaker 1: with her husband Jay Z for the all time record
Speaker 1: of eighty three nominations. Yeah yeah, makes your hashtag marriage
Speaker 1: goals look like shit. Oh, and congratulations to Amanda Gorman,
Speaker 1: the poet who got her first nomination for Best Spoken
Speaker 1: Word Album. That's pretty amazable with congratulations to her and
Speaker 1: to Joe Biden, who got a nomination for Best We
Speaker 1: Think Those Are the Words Album. Well done, sir well then.
Speaker 1: In tech news, Elon Musk is continuing his makeover of
Speaker 1: Twitter by telling employees that from now on, the work
Speaker 1: environment will be quote extremely hardcore. Yeah, and they should
Speaker 1: prepare themselves. But if anyone in salt shim, he'll call
Speaker 1: his mommy and fire them. That's not hardcore. It's just me.
Speaker 1: And by the way, I don't know if he can
Speaker 1: afford to fire any more employees, and he's already fired
Speaker 1: half of the company. Pretty soon, you Musk is gonna
Speaker 1: be the only one working at Twitter. We're gonna be
Speaker 1: sitting there like, why haven't my tweets updated for like
Speaker 1: twenty minutes? And you would be like, sorry, I was
Speaker 1: taking a ship. It was so hardcore, all right? Where
Speaker 1: was i? Oh? In international news, NATO has announced that
Speaker 1: the Strame missiles that hit Poland yesterday were not fired
Speaker 1: by Russia after all, as was reported. Yeah, they were
Speaker 1: actually Ukrainian missiles being launched against Russian attackers. So the
Speaker 1: good news is that nature doesn't have to go to
Speaker 1: war against Russia. The bad news is, you know, has
Speaker 1: to go against Ukraine. Yeah. Rules are rules, The rules
Speaker 1: are rules. I'm just glad it wasn't what we thought
Speaker 1: it was. And Poland is like we still got bombed.
Speaker 1: All right, Let's move on to the big story of
Speaker 1: the day. As you know, America's mid term election was
Speaker 1: just one week ago. The votes in many districts are
Speaker 1: still be encountered. The runoff for Georgia's Senate seat is
Speaker 1: still three weeks away, and Wolf Blitzer is still waking
Speaker 1: up in the middle of the night shouting, you write alert,
Speaker 1: you write alert. My point is the mid terms are
Speaker 1: not over, which means now is the perfect time to
Speaker 1: start covering the election. There have been so many times
Speaker 1: over the last two years when people have said that
Speaker 1: Donald jobless Trump was finished for sure. You know. They
Speaker 1: said he was finished when he lost to an ancient artifact.
Speaker 1: They said he was finished when he was impeached for
Speaker 1: throwing a house party without his parents permission, when he
Speaker 1: got his hand and stuck under the fridge trying to
Speaker 1: get a Cadbury cream eg that rolled underneath that just
Speaker 1: let go of the egg. Donald. I think people don't
Speaker 1: realize that Donald Trump doesn't care what anyone else thinks
Speaker 1: about his political future. And you saw that last nights
Speaker 1: because he swapped out the buffet table at mar Longo
Speaker 1: for American flags and made a big announcement on stage
Speaker 1: at the South Florida's State Donald Trump announcing the White
Speaker 1: House run he's hinted at ever since his election defeat
Speaker 1: in order to make America graded glorious again. I am
Speaker 1: tonight announcing my candidacy for president at the United States.
Speaker 1: The former president impeached twice, including for his role in
Speaker 1: the January six insurrection, placing himself at the head of
Speaker 1: a movement to take power back for his supporters. This
Speaker 1: is our country. Our government now at the center of
Speaker 1: multiple investigations. Mr Trump said a weaponized justice system is
Speaker 1: the greatest threat to the US. We must conduct a
Speaker 1: top to bottom overhaul to clean out out the festering
Speaker 1: rod and corruption of Washington, d C. And I'm a victim.
Speaker 1: I will tell you I'm a victim. That's right, folks,
Speaker 1: and the biggest victim of all. Every time I do
Speaker 1: something illegal, they come after me. I've done thirty illegal things.
Speaker 1: They've come after me at least twenty times. It's so unfair.
Speaker 1: So I'm there, you know. As ridiculous as this is,
Speaker 1: I'm actually glad he's being honest about why he's running.
Speaker 1: He's running for the same reason every shirtless gown cops runs.
Speaker 1: The POPEO is chasing him. He said it. But this,
Speaker 1: this is what Trump does. He's always the victim, the
Speaker 1: poor billionaire who only owns fifteen golf courses and got
Speaker 1: to run the world's most powerful country for four years.
Speaker 1: Oh whoa is me? If Trump was a prince in
Speaker 1: a fairy tale, the movie would suck and the princess
Speaker 1: would never get saved. Yeah, the dwarfs would be like, please,
Speaker 1: we need you to save snow White, and He's like,
Speaker 1: who is gonna save me? Do you know how many
Speaker 1: scares right in my castle? I'm so tired. You know
Speaker 1: how hard it is typic from the lavish banquet my
Speaker 1: service prepared for me. I'd be like, but she's poisoned
Speaker 1: to eternal sleep, and like I wish I could sleep.
Speaker 1: You know how hard it is to get comfortable in
Speaker 1: a bed? Of coins so high. But that's right. Trump
Speaker 1: is getting the old team back together for one more
Speaker 1: run at the White House. And of course I say
Speaker 1: that metaphorically, since most of the old teams in jail.
Speaker 1: The point is, though he's officially in the race, and
Speaker 1: you have to admit, this is an interesting way to
Speaker 1: kick off your presidential campaign. Vote for me. I'm a
Speaker 1: whiney piss baby, because that's what most of his speech
Speaker 1: was about. And apparently he's not the only victim. No.
Speaker 1: According to the Donalds, running America into the ground was
Speaker 1: also very hard on his family. And it hasn't been
Speaker 1: a joy ride for a great first lady either. I
Speaker 1: go home and he says, you look angry and upset.
Speaker 1: I said, just leave me alone. I got hasn't been
Speaker 1: the easiest thing. In fact, my one boy, stand up. Eric.
Speaker 1: I think he got more subpoenas than any man in
Speaker 1: the history of our country. So unfair al Capone, you've
Speaker 1: heard of the great gangster. Al Capone got far less.
Speaker 1: Billy the Kid got almost done, Jesse James. Now Eric
Speaker 1: Trump got more subpoenas. He's he's a PhD in subpoena.
Speaker 1: As they come from Congress. They Yeah, that's right. No
Speaker 1: one suffered more from the Trump presidency than the Trump family. Yeah,
Speaker 1: while the rest of you were living it up in
Speaker 1: your border cages and enjoying an endless buffet of COVID.
Speaker 1: Eric Trump was being asked to answer some questions what
Speaker 1: a hard life and look, to be fair, I will
Speaker 1: admit that Eric has gotten more subpoenas and gun slingers
Speaker 1: like Billy the Kid and Jesse James and those guys
Speaker 1: in the Wild West, or they got a lot of subpoenas.
Speaker 1: You know, we've all seen the movies. Yeah, I have
Speaker 1: papers for Mr Ugly? Is Mr Ugly here? You know what?
Speaker 1: You guys look busy. I'll come back later. Yeah. By
Speaker 1: the way, By the way, that that story that he
Speaker 1: told that Trump told about him and Millannia was, was
Speaker 1: anyone else's surprised as I was to hear it was
Speaker 1: Trump telling Millannia to leave him alone. Yeah. Milannia was
Speaker 1: probably like, oh, no, anything but that. I'll give you
Speaker 1: some space, how about forever. Now, you might be thinking
Speaker 1: the speech probably sucked, right because you're not a fan
Speaker 1: of Donald Trump, But it turns out even the people
Speaker 1: who were there to see him didn't exactly want to stay.
Speaker 1: Trump displayed a fraction of his si energy. The speech
Speaker 1: ran twice as long as scheduled, and for long stretches
Speaker 1: left his crowd restless and silent. This was a teleprompter
Speaker 1: Trump low energy, very very unusual. He started to get
Speaker 1: bored and started to add lib and it just turned
Speaker 1: into a rambling mess. In my opinion, katedly, he was
Speaker 1: quite subdued, low energy. I thought this feature night was lame.
Speaker 1: I thought the crowd was lame. Reporters inside the ballroom
Speaker 1: at Moral Logo noticed a handful of Trump supporters attempting
Speaker 1: to leave before Trump was done speaking, but security won't
Speaker 1: let them. Oh damn, say what you will about Trump,
Speaker 1: but the man takes these bought of security seriously, nobody's
Speaker 1: gonna out. We're gonna build a wall, build a wall,
Speaker 1: keep them in. But for really, you know what club
Speaker 1: is shitty When you need a bouncer to keep people in.
Speaker 1: That's where you know things are not going well. And
Speaker 1: actually feel bad for the crowd. They're probably scared as hell.
Speaker 1: They're like, oh no, we're trapped in here. Trump has
Speaker 1: us locked up. He's locked us up, He's locked us up,
Speaker 1: and you know Trump aside. I will say, I will
Speaker 1: say it is a little strange. I'll be honest. I
Speaker 1: think it is a little strange that so many people
Speaker 1: in the news media with fixates it on how boring
Speaker 1: the speech was, like who cares. For years they were like,
Speaker 1: this is not normal, and now they're like, this is
Speaker 1: two normal. Say say something about the Mexicans. We need ratings.
Speaker 1: Donald Now. Despite Trump's triumphant return, the world on the
Speaker 1: streets is that he might not have the support that
Speaker 1: he needs to win. Yeah, apparently Republican elites are clamoring
Speaker 1: for Rhonda Sanctis all right. Major Republican donors have announced
Speaker 1: that they won't back Trump this time, even if Anka
Speaker 1: released a statement saying she doesn't want to be a
Speaker 1: part of the campaign. Instead, she wants to focus on
Speaker 1: her family, which of course I understand. I mean, she's
Speaker 1: got that adorable little boy at home, and I think
Speaker 1: she has kids, you know. So, Yeah, a lot of
Speaker 1: major players in the Republican world are not thrilled that
Speaker 1: Donald Trump is running again, although apparently many Democrats are happy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: including people like Bernie Sanders, who said Trump running maybe
Speaker 1: a horror show for the country. But I've got to
Speaker 1: say that as a politician who wants to see that
Speaker 1: no Republican is elected to the White House. In from
Speaker 1: that perspective, his candidacy is probably a good thing. And yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, Bernie, Bernie's probably rights. Democrats should be praying
Speaker 1: for Donald Trump to win the nomination so that they
Speaker 1: can easily crush him in the general election. Here kind
Speaker 1: of thinking has never horribly backfired. Just ask President Hillary
Speaker 1: Clinton what could go wrong? But for real, people, are
Speaker 1: we really gonna do this again? We're gonna do everything
Speaker 1: to say the Democrats are gonna hope to face Trump.
Speaker 1: The media is gonna write him off because Republicans don't
Speaker 1: support him. Forgetting that Republicans didn't support him the first time.
Speaker 1: Then he got on stage, roasted Chris Christie, slapped Jim
Speaker 1: Wech so hard his whole family felt it. And then
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, the whole Republican Party was like,
Speaker 1: you are our king now, and Ted Cruzer's wife is ugly.
Speaker 1: And before you say, but this time is different, we
Speaker 1: beat him already. Yeah, I remember that he only lost
Speaker 1: to Joe Biden by forty four thousand votes, and that
Speaker 1: was during a pandemic where Trump told everyone to bleach
Speaker 1: their lungs. He's probably not gonna do that again. Probably,
Speaker 1: And you're probably like, yeah, but but this year all
Speaker 1: of Trump's mega election deniers lost. Yeah, but they lost
Speaker 1: by like one percent. Those are not round and find
Speaker 1: out margins, people, Those are kind of margins. Way, if
Speaker 1: anything is a little bit different next time, Trump could
Speaker 1: win those states, gas prices could be higher, the economy
Speaker 1: could be worse, Joe Biden could keep getting older. Anything
Speaker 1: is possible. But no, I guess everyone's gonna act out
Speaker 1: the same roles as the Democrats are gonna hope he wins.
Speaker 1: Republicans aren't gonna stand up to him until it's too late,
Speaker 1: and the news will give him live coverage for every
Speaker 1: single word that he utters. I just pooped again, breaking news.
Speaker 1: But I'll tell you what, if we're all going to
Speaker 1: do the same things again, just let me know now,
Speaker 1: because this time I'll be prepared. I'll go visit all
Speaker 1: the ship whole countries before the borders are closed. I'll
Speaker 1: invest in tiki torches, and best believe, I'm gonna stock
Speaker 1: up on a ship ton of toilet paper because I'm
Speaker 1: not using my socks again. You hear me, that's not
Speaker 1: happening again. All right, that's it for the headlines. But
Speaker 1: before we go, let's check it on the traffic without
Speaker 1: very on Royalo Junior. Everybody's got what is happening where?
Speaker 1: What is happening in the traffic? Well, what's happening in
Speaker 1: the try? Why do you want me to turn around
Speaker 1: and tell you the Trump like facing the wall, you
Speaker 1: tell me what's happen for you to tell me what
Speaker 1: to tell me what's happening. Not focus on the traffic
Speaker 1: right now. I'm more focused on you telling us to
Speaker 1: take Trump serious, like Trump, don't take Trump serious. Trump
Speaker 1: don't take himself Si broke. He announced it from the crib.
Speaker 1: He announced he runs from president. Right. He was upstairs
Speaker 1: in his drawls, and it was like, let me go
Speaker 1: downstairs real quick and do this president thing. Rick. He
Speaker 1: needn't change his slogan. He's just doing this to get
Speaker 1: rid of all the old, the older, old Maga marks
Speaker 1: from last time. Man. Hell, if he said it all,
Speaker 1: he might drop out. I bought three boxes of Maga
Speaker 1: hats for you know, for democracy, plus the other thing
Speaker 1: with this man Trump, deep down Trump though he can't
Speaker 1: beat the Santas keeping Look at the Santus. Look at
Speaker 1: that man. Look at that man, some bad bitch boots
Speaker 1: right there. Trump could never Trump can't think that man.
Speaker 1: He got all the phone he got to can serving
Speaker 1: to vote up top, he got the gay vote down low.
Speaker 1: The iron tracks, the the Santus look so good in
Speaker 1: the boots. Trump might try to grab him by the pussy.
Speaker 1: It's all my boots. Okay, you know, let's just get
Speaker 1: Let's just get to the traffic. Traffic here. Here's the
Speaker 1: thing about Elon Musk. Can we keep me talking to him?
Speaker 1: Can we talk about Elon must supposed say, I mean
Speaker 1: traffic talking crazy to people in the emails every every day,
Speaker 1: Ellen doing something, send out the email telling all the
Speaker 1: employees to step it up. Also sidebar, if I worked
Speaker 1: at Twitter, I just wouldn't open my emails. Stop opening
Speaker 1: your email. If you work at Twitter, it's like divorce.
Speaker 1: You got to hand me to pay us. You can't
Speaker 1: find me if I don't open my email. Email, Elon,
Speaker 1: I've been slinging them emails for two weeks, man, and
Speaker 1: there ain't been no good news. And something like you
Speaker 1: working Twitter, open your email and good news. Everybody strippers
Speaker 1: in the break room like, all right, thank you. Elon
Speaker 1: the emails, why did did you read the email? They
Speaker 1: were insane. He had this whole thing he was He
Speaker 1: was like, from now on, we're gonna be extremely hardcore,
Speaker 1: working long hours. It was like high intensity. And then
Speaker 1: he said like an only exceptional performance will constitute a
Speaker 1: passing grade. If you don't want to be part of
Speaker 1: the new Twitter, then you can get out. It's something
Speaker 1: crazy to be honest, Yeah, I mean, well crazy for
Speaker 1: a ceo. What do you mean not that? Like it's
Speaker 1: crazy if a CEO said that, that was Ellen's mistake.
Speaker 1: You want to talk to people like that, fine, but
Speaker 1: you can't call yourself a CEO. If you wanna talk
Speaker 1: to people crazy, you got to call yourself ahead coach.
Speaker 1: Nobody nobody is more verbally abusive to their employees than
Speaker 1: a head coach. You have played a sport, you have
Speaker 1: that your coach coach always talking great, want want blood,
Speaker 1: I want pain. Water makes you weak. You can't have
Speaker 1: no water. If Ellen want to keep from getting in trouble,
Speaker 1: run Twitter like a head coach. First off, stop emailing everybody,
Speaker 1: call a huddle, bring all your what easy in because
Speaker 1: everything in the Elon email. If everything Elon said in
Speaker 1: that email, if he said it in a locker room,
Speaker 1: it don't sound it's bad. Like Elon could be a
Speaker 1: Twitter coach. He just happens a little coaching and bring
Speaker 1: it in, Bring it in, Bring it in, Twitter, Team,
Speaker 1: bring it in, Okay, Twitter, Twitter Three. We're in a
Speaker 1: competitive world. We need to be hard core, long hours,
Speaker 1: high intensity. Only the exceptional performance will constitute the passing
Speaker 1: great engineers, I need you to drive us. We are
Speaker 1: software and serve us company. If you are sure that
Speaker 1: you want to be a part of Team Twitter, then
Speaker 1: please click yes on the link below in the email,
Speaker 1: and you make sure that they remember forever the night
Speaker 1: they played the Titans. He's blue. Check on three. Don't
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Speaker 1: don't go away because after the break, Desert Line is
Speaker 1: gonna expose the truth about Black Friday. We'll be right back.
Speaker 1: I want to do it for Trap. I'm I'm proba
Speaker 1: gonna do tex I'm gonna go who do we go to? Tecad?
Speaker 1: What's to do? Who's going to Welcome back to the
Speaker 1: day to Show. Next Thursday Nights America celebrates the holiday
Speaker 1: that defines it as a nation Black Friday. But where
Speaker 1: did Black Friday come from? Mull you find out we
Speaker 1: turned to daisi Lin like another episode of why do
Speaker 1: we celebrate this? Hey? Get back? This one's my You
Speaker 1: are ready to die for this flat screen because I
Speaker 1: am Hello, my shopoholics, Maxinista's small rads, coupon clippers, bargain bitches,
Speaker 1: capitalism warriors, and sales slugs. It's the holidays, then that
Speaker 1: means one thing family. No, I'm kidding, that means shopping family.
Speaker 1: What the fuck? Like many of you, I too will
Speaker 1: be going out on Black Friday, one of America's most
Speaker 1: treasured excuses to buy ship and Black Friday seems like
Speaker 1: something that's been around forever. I mean, I can't remember
Speaker 1: a time when Black Friday didn't exist. Then again, my
Speaker 1: memory is a little fuzzy from all the head trauma
Speaker 1: from previous Black Fridays. The history of Black Friday is
Speaker 1: actually quite interesting. It started in the nineteen twenties when
Speaker 1: retail stores wanted to set a clear beginning to the
Speaker 1: Christmas shopping season, so department stores like Macy's created grand
Speaker 1: parades to signal to Americans it's time to start spending cash.
Speaker 1: Although back then parade balloons weren't as cute as the
Speaker 1: ones today. You know classics like Puff the meth Fuel Dragon,
Speaker 1: Whimsical Drifter, Murderer, and Thick Daddy Superman. They were hoping
Speaker 1: to scare people to run inside the stores. I don't know.
Speaker 1: The point is, retailers dependent on a big Christmas shopping season,
Speaker 1: and we're willing to do whatever it took to make
Speaker 1: it as long as possible. In fact, during the Great Depression,
Speaker 1: they even lobbied President Franklin Roosevelt to move Thanksgiving a
Speaker 1: week earlier to allow for more Christmas shopping, and after
Speaker 1: his cousin finished giving him a hand job, fdr agreed.
Speaker 1: Eventually they moved Thanksgiving back. But the retailers got what
Speaker 1: they wanted, because over the next few decades, more and
Speaker 1: more people began their Christmas shopping the day after Thanksgiving.
Speaker 1: But the first time the day was called Black Friday
Speaker 1: was in the nineteen sixties. It was actually coined by
Speaker 1: the Philadelphia Police Department because the day brought tons of
Speaker 1: traffic and chaos, and for shopping to cause chaos in Philadelphia,
Speaker 1: it has to really be chaos. I once set fire
Speaker 1: to a mannequin at a Tzara in Philadelphia, and they
Speaker 1: didn't even kick me out at the store. They just
Speaker 1: threw it in the burnt mannequin pile. Sorry. It was
Speaker 1: in the nineteen eighties that Black Friday finally went nationwide,
Speaker 1: and it was all thanks to America's obsession with the
Speaker 1: adorable little vegetable human monster hybrids known as the Cabbage
Speaker 1: Patch Kid. I got this one for three thousand dollars
Speaker 1: and I had to get punched by a lot of
Speaker 1: grandmas to get it, but it was worth it. The
Speaker 1: toys were in such high demand that it caused literal
Speaker 1: riots across America. People fought their neighbors tooth and nail
Speaker 1: to pay for some lettuce shaped plastic. But all the
Speaker 1: violence was worth it for that precious Christmas morning when
Speaker 1: their kids would open the box, see the Cabbage Patch Kid,
Speaker 1: and then play with the box. The Cabbage Patch Kids
Speaker 1: set the standard for all sorts of Black Friday crazes
Speaker 1: throughout the nineties, from furbies to Beanie babies, to tickle
Speaker 1: Me Elmos to countless other toys bought by newly divorced
Speaker 1: dads trying to buy their way into their kids Hearts.
Speaker 1: By two thousand two, nearly three quarters of all shoppers
Speaker 1: were in stores over Black Friday weekend. It was paradise
Speaker 1: for people looking for deals and robbers looking for unguarded homes.
Speaker 1: Black Friday was so successful that stores started pushing the
Speaker 1: start time back from Friday morning to Friday at midnight,
Speaker 1: and then all the way back to Thanksgiving night it's self.
Speaker 1: They called the new holiday Gray Thursday, as a tribute
Speaker 1: to the moral gray area of abandoning your family on
Speaker 1: Thanksgiving to choke out a stranger for an instant pot Oh,
Speaker 1: that's ready. And throughout this time, Black Friday doorbuster sales
Speaker 1: became more dangerous as consumers turned every big box store
Speaker 1: into a big octagon arena. It got so bad than
Speaker 1: in two thousand eleven, you were statistically more likely to
Speaker 1: be injured in a Black Friday sale than from a
Speaker 1: shark attack, unless that shark is also at the Black
Speaker 1: Friday sale, and then it depends on whoever wants that
Speaker 1: blender more. You get it. But sadly the good times
Speaker 1: and horrific injuries couldn't last forever. With the dawn of
Speaker 1: online shopping, Black Friday became less relevant and the newer,
Speaker 1: shinier two day primier holiday that took its place along
Speaker 1: came Cyber Monday, an easier way to score deals while
Speaker 1: avoiding the mobs that in person stores. Just another way
Speaker 1: technology has pulled us further apart. I mean, sure, it's
Speaker 1: more convenient, but think of what we lose when we
Speaker 1: no longer have that one on one air frior to
Speaker 1: skull contact sad. Also, in recent years, retail employees have
Speaker 1: begun pushing back on so called holiday creek, which is
Speaker 1: a term for stores expanding their holiday shopping periods into Thanksgiving.
Speaker 1: Not what happens when you're weird cousin hits the egg
Speaker 1: not too hard and tries to go f DR on
Speaker 1: your underparts. But even as it's golden days are behind it,
Speaker 1: Black Friday is still an American institution, standing tall beside
Speaker 1: Thanksgiving and the super Bowl and the Purge. And now
Speaker 1: that you know its history, don't forget to keep it
Speaker 1: in perspective. Sure, saving money is great, but this season
Speaker 1: isn't about fighting some stranger at a store. It's about
Speaker 1: gathering your family and fighting with them. So happy shopping
Speaker 1: season now, if you'll excuse me, I gotta start practicing
Speaker 1: for the big day. Hey, step away from that dicen.
Speaker 1: You think I won't pull out this pen, Well, guess
Speaker 1: what tiktop mother imrectate tuned because when we come back,
Speaker 1: Jonathan Major's will be joining me right here on the show.
Speaker 1: You know what I miss it? Open back to the
Speaker 1: m show my guest tonight as an Emmy nominated actor
Speaker 1: who plays the first black aviator in Navy history in
Speaker 1: the new film Devotion, which will be exclusively in Theater's November.
Speaker 1: Please welcome Jonathan Major's. Welcome to the show. Sai, this
Speaker 1: is uh am. I am I holding these for you?
Speaker 1: Am I? No? No, no, no goes it for You's
Speaker 1: it for me? I think I heard you've got two
Speaker 1: weeks left maybe and so you you brought me my
Speaker 1: flowers from the culture. Oh man, this is your flowers.
Speaker 1: And I heard the South Africa. Yeah, this is beautiful. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's amazing. Yeah. No, no one else has brought me flowers. Man,
Speaker 1: this is uh wow. Had questions to grill you on,
Speaker 1: but now and we'll take it easy. Now, we'll just
Speaker 1: we'll just take it easy. No, We're welcome. It is
Speaker 1: an absolute pleasure to have you here. I mean obviously
Speaker 1: for the new movie, but for everything that you've been doing.
Speaker 1: You know, you you you hopped on too many people's
Speaker 1: screens for the first time. Last Black Man in San
Speaker 1: Francisco amazing film that I think everybody should watch. You know,
Speaker 1: the way you carry a character, and obviously love of Country,
Speaker 1: which you got your Emmy nomination for. Congratulations on that,
Speaker 1: you know, and and now and now in this film,
Speaker 1: you know, it's it's it's amazing to be playing a
Speaker 1: character that more people should know about because of what
Speaker 1: they represented. But to be playing the first black pilot
Speaker 1: in the Navy. You know, many people talk about how
Speaker 1: black service members were fighting a war on two fronts.
Speaker 1: They weren't just fighting against what was happening outside America,
Speaker 1: they were fighting against what was happening inside America. And you,
Speaker 1: you portrayed in this from Talk Me Through the Wise,
Speaker 1: I know you're very intentional about why why this movie
Speaker 1: and why this character. Um, well, I play a super
Speaker 1: villain and I thought this was an opportunity to play
Speaker 1: a hero. I love that When I saw I'm from Texas, Dallas, Texas,
Speaker 1: um came up, came up a certain way. Jesse Brown
Speaker 1: is uh from Mississippi and was the son of a
Speaker 1: sharecropper and somehow he made his way from those sharecropping
Speaker 1: fields to the sky and became not just a black
Speaker 1: naval aviator but the best black naval aviator. Um And
Speaker 1: I thought, Okay, we've got stories about King and Rosa
Speaker 1: Parks and Harriet Tubman, and we don't have a story
Speaker 1: about this guy. And this is his handshake. This is
Speaker 1: the first time they're gonna say, Okay, this is this
Speaker 1: is Jesse. This is Jesse, you know. And I wanted
Speaker 1: to be responsible for that, and uh, I also wanted
Speaker 1: to fly some planes. What did you go on from
Speaker 1: that experience that helped you in telling the story? Well,
Speaker 1: it was access. I mean, that was the whole thing
Speaker 1: that was That's Jesse's saying access. It's it's quite poetic.
Speaker 1: It's a metaphor in a way. You know, if you can,
Speaker 1: if you can touch the sky in your life in
Speaker 1: that way, you know you can pretty much do do anything.
Speaker 1: Truly can you truly can? What I what I love.
Speaker 1: What I what I love noticing is how many times
Speaker 1: the parallels will be drawn between characters that that that
Speaker 1: great actors are playing and the lives that they themselves
Speaker 1: are living. I think you're no different. You know you
Speaker 1: you you're sending at a rate that everybody is enjoying.
Speaker 1: You know you you you truly are you. You're flying
Speaker 1: from you know, from indie films, you know, to to
Speaker 1: to a show that was beloved on on on HBO
Speaker 1: and then now, as you said, you're gonna be in
Speaker 1: a Marvel movie. In Marvel movies plural. You know, it's
Speaker 1: it's it's the the opposite end of the spectrum. You know,
Speaker 1: it's it's so big. How do you hold onto the
Speaker 1: small that you love in acting? Because I know that
Speaker 1: about you. You love the minute, you know. But at
Speaker 1: the same time we saw you and you know, when
Speaker 1: you're in Loki, that was one of the best surprises you.
Speaker 1: You made a pretty kick ass villain. Yeah. You blow
Speaker 1: it up, you blow it up. I mean, I just,
Speaker 1: I just I love acting. It's thank you bro for me.
Speaker 1: It's um, it's my way of it's my way of healing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, you you see a character, you go okay,
Speaker 1: it's like getting to know somebody, you know, you go okay, cool.
Speaker 1: And I though I am you know, pretty antisocial. Ye,
Speaker 1: I do love people. It makes sense. Yeah, clapping for that.
Speaker 1: That person's cool. People. I love people, but we love people.
Speaker 1: We love peopul uh And the cool part about people
Speaker 1: that is really you know, we're all. We're all the
Speaker 1: same in a way. You know, I'm not gonna get
Speaker 1: on soapbox, but we really are. And older I get
Speaker 1: the more you know, rearing a kid and building a career,
Speaker 1: you go, you go, oh, he's the same. It's like
Speaker 1: everybody's hurting, you know. And and there's something about you know,
Speaker 1: find just finding purpose. You know, all the all the
Speaker 1: homies talk about it. I mean Momightly talked about purpose.
Speaker 1: You know, Nipsey Hus talking about purpose. You know what
Speaker 1: I mean, um um man search for meaning. That whole
Speaker 1: book is about people surviving this hard time because of purpose,
Speaker 1: you know. And I feel quite fortunate that this is
Speaker 1: my purpose. I I look at somebody and go, okay,
Speaker 1: tell me where it hurts. What's going on? Like, okay, cool?
Speaker 1: Whereas that hurt on me? And you try and you
Speaker 1: grow that way. I mean you can make some really
Speaker 1: great friends that way too. Wow, And you tell you
Speaker 1: tell amazing stories that way. You know hopefully that yeah,
Speaker 1: because it connects to what people are experiencing, whether it
Speaker 1: is the housing crisis in San Francisco, you know, whether
Speaker 1: it whether it is you know, people being forced out
Speaker 1: of where they live with it it is you know,
Speaker 1: civil rights in America where you know? And I think
Speaker 1: I think you show that in everything. People are so
Speaker 1: excited to see you, not not just in in in
Speaker 1: Marvel films, but you know, everyone was shocked and amazed.
Speaker 1: Not just that the fact that you're going to be
Speaker 1: in Creed three Trade looks amazing right directed directed by
Speaker 1: Michael b Joining. I'm not gonna be starting across from him.
Speaker 1: But then the images came out of you on men's health. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was definitely here we go because I think we
Speaker 1: have the image here. Ye, why why are you doing
Speaker 1: this to us? I'm doing this for us. You realize that,
Speaker 1: you realize there are normal men out there. We're living
Speaker 1: our lives eating bread and then and then you do,
Speaker 1: what is your body fat percentage? Yet? Right now? Three
Speaker 1: point six? Three point six six? I feel like athletes
Speaker 1: are like five. So what do you what don't you eat?
Speaker 1: What do I not eat? Can you eat? I can't?
Speaker 1: I can? How is it that everybody who gets a
Speaker 1: Marvel movie gets a six pack. What is happening there?
Speaker 1: Why is Disney not not releasing I want to know
Speaker 1: what this is? How many hours? What do you eat? Like?
Speaker 1: What is your life? Uh? I mean what is my life?
Speaker 1: Oh so I woke up this morning? No, I want
Speaker 1: to know what I'm talking about. Man, just trained, Man,
Speaker 1: I trained, I trained, probably to train two times a day. Um.
Speaker 1: I stay away from carbs, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: unless you need the car's on the morning. That's a
Speaker 1: car you can put some you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: It's pizza carbs. It's like someone's like you want to
Speaker 1: come to a party and you're like yeah, and then
Speaker 1: like it's a political I see the game. Okay, hope
Speaker 1: it was like I thought it was a hack. Well
Speaker 1: about this? Um, I ate shake shock the day before.
Speaker 1: That's a secret you see. Now this is something I
Speaker 1: can do. Yeah. Yeah, I'm gonna incorporate this into Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1: If once you've once you've gotten yourself to a certain point.
Speaker 1: Oh no, the deep before, man, before before I let
Speaker 1: you go. I remember the first time I saw you
Speaker 1: on the screen and I was like, this guy, I
Speaker 1: don't know how he's doing it, how he's making it
Speaker 1: so you sucked me into your will. I promise you
Speaker 1: not you just everyone knows that you're gonna be the
Speaker 1: biggest star anyone who's ever seen, and everyone's gonna be
Speaker 1: giving you the flowers. Thank you for being here, thank
Speaker 1: you for joining me on the show. Thank you for
Speaker 1: creating what you creates. Congratulations and everything you do. Jonathan
Speaker 1: Major's everybody, I want to think a break, but we'll
Speaker 1: go right back after this. For ELM, I mean it's
Speaker 1: we'll not start up tonight. Thank you so much for
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