Speaker 1: You and Me Both is a production of I Heart Radio.
Speaker 1: I'm Hillary Clinton and this is You and Me Both.
Speaker 1: You know, this is our last episode of season two.
Speaker 1: I can hardly believe it, and so we wanted to
Speaker 1: do something a little different. We invited you, our listeners,
Speaker 1: to send in questions for me and void did you deliver.
Speaker 1: We got so many emails and voicemails with so many
Speaker 1: terrific questions. So first let me just say thank you.
Speaker 1: Thank you for everyone who participated, who called in, emailed in.
Speaker 1: I loved hearing and reading everything you sent. And I'm
Speaker 1: going to do my best to answer as many questions
Speaker 1: as we can get through. And to help me do that,
Speaker 1: I'm delighted to be joined by the one, the only,
Speaker 1: the most talented, extraordinary host of The Late Late Show,
Speaker 1: James Bordant. James is truly one of the funniest, nicest,
Speaker 1: most joyous people I've ever met. He's been spending a
Speaker 1: lot of time at home with his wife, Julia and
Speaker 1: their three kids, Max, Carrey and Charlotte. I was thrilled
Speaker 1: to talk to him. Hey, James, who is here? Well,
Speaker 1: I'm good, I hope you are you okay? Well, you
Speaker 1: know pregnant. Pause, Well, we have nothing to compare. My
Speaker 1: thing that I've found myself saying over the past twelve
Speaker 1: months is I have nothing to complain about, but I'm
Speaker 1: going to give it my best shot. You know, like
Speaker 1: we are so aware of how outrageously fortunate we are,
Speaker 1: but the homeschooling, I just realized, I'm just a disaster.
Speaker 1: I'm like, I don't know. I found myself with my
Speaker 1: son just you know, trying to help me with his homework.
Speaker 1: I would be like, You're not going to need this,
Speaker 1: You're not going to need this, You'll never need this.
Speaker 1: This is pointless. And I still have been no, no, no,
Speaker 1: But I have to do this Dad, and I go
Speaker 1: now you don't, you don't. What are you going to
Speaker 1: do when you know you're vaccinated, you're free to move around,
Speaker 1: you have plans for you know, the summer. Well, we're
Speaker 1: hopeful that we will get to go back to London
Speaker 1: to see how families. It's been a long time since
Speaker 1: we've it's been the longest time since we moved to
Speaker 1: America that we haven't been home. You know, that's been tough.
Speaker 1: I don't think we've ever been so aware of the
Speaker 1: distance of how far we are from loved ones, and
Speaker 1: that has been a challenge. And we're about to jump
Speaker 1: into questions from my listeners, but before we do that,
Speaker 1: I'm just interested in knowing what kinds of questions do
Speaker 1: you get from your fans and your viewers if they
Speaker 1: get a chance to interact with you. What do they
Speaker 1: ask you? Oh? Man, Often it's a very different place
Speaker 1: to place. So often if I'm in Los Angeles, you know,
Speaker 1: people tend to be very very cool, and they oh, yeah, sure, yeah,
Speaker 1: you're gonna show, yeah, whatever, you know. And then if
Speaker 1: I'm if I'm in London, if I'm back home, mainly
Speaker 1: people ask me about a sitcom that I wrote for
Speaker 1: the BBC called Gavin and Stacy. And it's wonderful how
Speaker 1: much people care about that show and will ask you
Speaker 1: questions about that. If I'm in New York, certainly, if
Speaker 1: I'm in sort of midtown New York, if I get
Speaker 1: stopped by anyone, they'll ask me when I'm coming back
Speaker 1: to do a play. And then I'm if I'm at home,
Speaker 1: I'm mostly asked if i'll just just shut up for
Speaker 1: a minute, Okay, Well, I'm I'm ready, I'm ready for whatever.
Speaker 1: You're going to throw at me on behalf of our listeners.
Speaker 1: We kind of gave them an open invitation, so Lord
Speaker 1: only knows what they're going to be interested in. Well,
Speaker 1: we've got a lot of questions here. This first question
Speaker 1: is from Jake, who's in Amherst, Massachusetts, and he said,
Speaker 1: how is it being a grandmother? Is it fun? Is
Speaker 1: it really stressful? It's both, Jake, I mean it's both.
Speaker 1: I mean there is so much fun associated with being
Speaker 1: a grandmother now that I am a grandmother of three,
Speaker 1: and it's fascinating because they're all so different. And it
Speaker 1: is also stressful because you're the grandparent, you're not the parent,
Speaker 1: and I have learned that, you know, I have to
Speaker 1: back up the parents no matter what, because that's the
Speaker 1: right thing for a grandparent to do. So I'm constantly worried, like,
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, you know what if I give them
Speaker 1: a piece of candy and it ruins their dinner? I mean,
Speaker 1: how's that going to play? And as a brit James,
Speaker 1: you know, one of the things that I did last winter,
Speaker 1: which was so much fun, was to give really deluded
Speaker 1: tea with sugar to my granddaughter. We would have tea
Speaker 1: in the afternoon and we would have a you know,
Speaker 1: a little cookie or sometimes made little sandwiches, and it
Speaker 1: was such a delightful time. And then her parents they
Speaker 1: made my daughter and sudden law said, you're giving her
Speaker 1: caffeinated tea and I said, well, so deluded, and they said,
Speaker 1: she'll be up for hours. So it's an awesome, overwhelmingly
Speaker 1: positive experience. But it is one that I don't think
Speaker 1: you just automatically know how to do. You have to
Speaker 1: kind of grow into it. When Max is born, my
Speaker 1: mom and dad they were on vacation. They were flying
Speaker 1: back on the day that Max is born, and they
Speaker 1: came straight from the airport, you know. And I'll never
Speaker 1: you never forget those moments when see your parents holding
Speaker 1: your child. Me and my dad was sat in this
Speaker 1: little waiting him and I said, all right, what do
Speaker 1: you got You got any advice for me? And he's
Speaker 1: he's pretty good with with advice, my daunt And I'll
Speaker 1: never forget it, he said. He said, Look, you're going
Speaker 1: to You're gonna figure out a lot of this on
Speaker 1: your own, he said, But it's physically impossible, it's an
Speaker 1: impossibility that you can love that child too much. He said,
Speaker 1: you can't. He said, no child ends up in a
Speaker 1: therapist share saying, Ah, my parents they just loved me
Speaker 1: too much. They were around all the time. They if
Speaker 1: I wanted a cuddle, they'd give me. What you know,
Speaker 1: And and I've I've never I've never ever forgotten that.
Speaker 1: That's a great piece of advice. All Right, we've got
Speaker 1: another question here. Pamela has sent in and this is
Speaker 1: about something that I'm very passionate about too. So let's
Speaker 1: see what she's got to say. I live here in
Speaker 1: Hell's Kitchen, and our Broadway neighborhood is so important to us.
Speaker 1: We're all anxious for normal to return. Two questions, Number one,
Speaker 1: what Broadway show did you not get to see that
Speaker 1: you are looking forward to seeing when Broadway reopens? And also,
Speaker 1: your two signature policies remain the glue that holds global
Speaker 1: democracies together. That's a j C. P o A and
Speaker 1: the Paris Climate of Court. What do you think the
Speaker 1: future is for both of those critical unifying global policies.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Senator Clinton. New York City loves you, and
Speaker 1: I love you for everything you've done for us and
Speaker 1: the way you helped us recover. On nine eleven. Thank you,
Speaker 1: oh gosh, so much. Well, it really really touches me.
Speaker 1: Pamela Pama really did it there. She managed to move
Speaker 1: us and also might be the only personal planet Earth
Speaker 1: to ask question, what is about a Broadway show? In
Speaker 1: the second about the Paris climate? New York, James, that's
Speaker 1: New York. I mean, you know, okay, so two answers
Speaker 1: to that. I was really looking forward to seeing West
Speaker 1: Side Story the revival, which I didn't get to see.
Speaker 1: And I was looking forward to seeing Music Man with
Speaker 1: Hugh Jackman, which I also didn't get to see. Now
Speaker 1: I'm hoping that when Broadway does reopen, and I am
Speaker 1: fervently hoping that is, you know, as soon as it's
Speaker 1: safe to do, I hope both of those big productions
Speaker 1: are going to be there so I can see both
Speaker 1: of them. You know, your question is such a really
Speaker 1: important and smart one. Now, the good news is that
Speaker 1: under the Biden administration, our government has re entered the
Speaker 1: j c p o A, otherwise known as the Iran
Speaker 1: Nuclear Deal, to try to figure out how to once
Speaker 1: again put a lid on the Iranian nuclear program. And
Speaker 1: we've gone back into the Climate Accord because, as you know, Pamela.
Speaker 1: When we were pulled out of the Climate Accord, we
Speaker 1: were the only country in the world not in it,
Speaker 1: even though we had been largely behind the negotiations. So
Speaker 1: thankfully President Biden and Vice President Harris and former Secretary
Speaker 1: carry who was appointed Global Climate Envoy, are really back
Speaker 1: in full speed and they just had a big climate
Speaker 1: virtual gathering at the White House. They're getting ready for
Speaker 1: trying to get some of the legislation we need and
Speaker 1: regulation we need in this country to fulfill President Biden's commitments.
Speaker 1: So I've got every finger and toe crossed that we're
Speaker 1: going to make progress with the Iranians, no easy matter
Speaker 1: for a lot of reasons, as I am sure you know,
Speaker 1: and that we are going to make real progress on
Speaker 1: climate because getting back into the agreement was the first step,
Speaker 1: but by no means uh the end of the effort.
Speaker 1: It has to be well thought out and implemented in
Speaker 1: order for us to deal with the impending consequences of
Speaker 1: the climate crisis. We're taking a quick break. Stay with us.
Speaker 1: We have a question here from Franka. Dear Madam Secretary
Speaker 1: Hillary Roding Clinton. She's gone full name, She's gone the
Speaker 1: whole thing. Dear Madam Secretary Hillary Rodington. I am a
Speaker 1: nineteen year old German girl and freshman in law school
Speaker 1: in northern Germany. I've always been very good at school
Speaker 1: and graduated top of my class, and even though I
Speaker 1: knew law school is very demanding, I feel as though
Speaker 1: everyone is smarter and I cannot keep up with them. Thus,
Speaker 1: I often doubt myself, although I know that I can
Speaker 1: actually do this. Knowing that you also dealt with self doubts,
Speaker 1: especially when you are refreshman in Wellesley, my question is
Speaker 1: how do you overcome self doubts and remind yourself that
Speaker 1: you are smart and strong enough to face all kinds
Speaker 1: of challenges and achieve your own dreams. What a wonderful question.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much for asking. Because you are not alone.
Speaker 1: So many young people, and disproportionately young women, begin to
Speaker 1: doubt themselves as you are expressing. You've done well in
Speaker 1: school all the way up until now, and now you
Speaker 1: start to worry that you're not smart enough, you're not
Speaker 1: good enough, and I'm here to tell you that you are.
Speaker 1: And there is an affliction that affects too many people,
Speaker 1: particularly again women, called the impostor syndrome. You think that
Speaker 1: you don't belong that everybody is better prepared, everybody is
Speaker 1: going further than you, and you just have to take
Speaker 1: some deep breaths, go for some long walks, and recognize
Speaker 1: that you're good enough. In fact, you're better than good enough.
Speaker 1: But you're going to have to find some ways of
Speaker 1: coping with your doubt. And I'm serious about exercise, about meditation,
Speaker 1: about yoga, about time with friends, about enough sleep. I mean,
Speaker 1: lack of sleep can make you doubt everything about yourself.
Speaker 1: You know, I both went to law school and I
Speaker 1: taught law school, and I remember telling a lot of
Speaker 1: my law students that it was like learning a new language,
Speaker 1: because it is you are learning the language of the law.
Speaker 1: So sometimes it's a little bit awkward, it can take
Speaker 1: real effort, and you just have to stick with it.
Speaker 1: And the final thing I will say is look for
Speaker 1: ways to study with your peers. Don't be afraid to
Speaker 1: say what you don't know in front of your fellow students.
Speaker 1: Learn from them, find a way to get what they have,
Speaker 1: and you share what you have so that the end
Speaker 1: of that cooperation as you're both better than you were.
Speaker 1: Don't try to go it alone. Don't feel like you
Speaker 1: know you're not good enough to study with other people,
Speaker 1: open up that possibility. There's a lot of evidence that
Speaker 1: students who study with each other actually do better than
Speaker 1: students who feel that they have got to do it
Speaker 1: by themselves. So don't get so hard on yourself that
Speaker 1: you go into a downward spiral. Find a way to
Speaker 1: feel that you're doing what you need to do, that
Speaker 1: you're brave because you're still going forward and you don't
Speaker 1: have to be perfect because guess what, nobody else is either.
Speaker 1: And I wish you the very very best. That's a
Speaker 1: great answer to a great question. And there's a big
Speaker 1: difference between self doubt and realistic determination. You know, like
Speaker 1: I would be filled with self doubt if I, you know,
Speaker 1: decided after today that I was going to be in
Speaker 1: the Olympics and that I was going shampion diver. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's not going very well, and it isn't because it's
Speaker 1: excited about totally realistic. But you know, if I want
Speaker 1: to work on my you know, how I could do
Speaker 1: a plank? You know that's realistic. So I've got to
Speaker 1: work out there. How long can you do a plank?
Speaker 1: I can go two minutes? No, you I can't I
Speaker 1: can go two minutes. You need some more self doubt. Okay,
Speaker 1: we've got a question here from Lex, who, very much
Speaker 1: unlike Franco, who went with Dear Madam Secretary Hillary Rodin Clinton,
Speaker 1: Lex has gone Hi Hillary, Hi, Lex. Lex has said,
Speaker 1: I'm curious how important comedy has been to you while
Speaker 1: processing dark realities and maintaining sanity in this crazy, crazy world.
Speaker 1: What are your favorite sources of comedy and do you
Speaker 1: remember any recent stand up specials to Oaks or skits
Speaker 1: that made you laugh? Really? Has you know, humor and comedy,
Speaker 1: not just professional comedy, but also just day to day humor,
Speaker 1: is you know, one of the saving graces of my life.
Speaker 1: I mean, honestly, I don't know how I would survive
Speaker 1: if I didn't have, you know, funny things happening to me,
Speaker 1: or people telling me funny things that I can laugh about,
Speaker 1: because it's just too hard out there. And when you're
Speaker 1: in the public eye the way I am, you know,
Speaker 1: you get kind of anxious that you know you're gonna
Speaker 1: make a mistake or you're gonna be misunderstood, all of
Speaker 1: which happens on a regular basis, and you just gotta
Speaker 1: let it go and the best way to do that
Speaker 1: is through comedy. So besides James Cordner, you know, there
Speaker 1: are people who make me think when I laugh, like
Speaker 1: the comedian Hannah Gadsby who's from Australia, who is an
Speaker 1: unlikely comedian. I mean she if you've ever seen her
Speaker 1: stand up or any other format, you know she is
Speaker 1: somebody who is very almost flat in her delivery of
Speaker 1: devastating observations about how people treat each other and how
Speaker 1: they treated her. She's gay, she's on the autism spectrum.
Speaker 1: But wow, has she been able talk about self doubt
Speaker 1: and circumstances in your life? Has she been able to
Speaker 1: sort of turn it and make something of it? I also,
Speaker 1: you know, I am somebody who likes the comedy that
Speaker 1: is about nothing like Jerry Seinfeld. I think he has
Speaker 1: a kind of almost casual approach to comedy, which I
Speaker 1: know it works like crazy to you know, get himself ready.
Speaker 1: That is just so so relatable. That's the word I'm
Speaker 1: looking for. He has an unbelievable brain where he can
Speaker 1: take something that you do in your life sometimes daily,
Speaker 1: that you might perhaps think is particular to you, and
Speaker 1: he has a way of making a joke out of
Speaker 1: something so ordinary, that's such, that's part of the fabric
Speaker 1: of your very life, and you see it in a
Speaker 1: new way. And exactly why did I ever see that before?
Speaker 1: Somebody else who does that for me is Amy Schumer.
Speaker 1: I mean I I love her personally. I find her,
Speaker 1: you know, incredibly open to the point of almost transparent.
Speaker 1: I mean, what she went through when she was pregnant,
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, talk about relatable. It was heartbreaking. But
Speaker 1: she took even that daily experience, you know, of being
Speaker 1: pregnant and suffering so much through it and got laughs
Speaker 1: out of it. And you almost were when you When
Speaker 1: I watched her special, it was almost like, oh, gosh,
Speaker 1: am I supposed to laugh? Well she is, and everybody
Speaker 1: else is. I think I will. So those are just
Speaker 1: some of the people that you know, I've watched over
Speaker 1: the last year or two. She's incredible. Amy once, I
Speaker 1: think she's so deaf when she's on stage, and she's
Speaker 1: just incredible. It's people like Amy Schumer, Jerry Seinfeld. Whenever
Speaker 1: I think, oh, maybe I could try to stand up comedy,
Speaker 1: I watched their specials and go, don't be an idiot.
Speaker 1: Of course you can't do this. They're just incredible. Is
Speaker 1: that a realistic self doubt we've we've got it's a
Speaker 1: genuine that's not self doubt. That's my that's my brain
Speaker 1: looking after me. That's my Yeah, we'll be right back. Okay.
Speaker 1: We've got a question here from Alexandria. Hi, this is
Speaker 1: Alexandria calling from Vermont. I'd really like to know if
Speaker 1: you had not been a lawyer or go into politics,
Speaker 1: what other career would you have life have done or
Speaker 1: what do you wish you could still pursue. Thanks so much. Oh,
Speaker 1: what a great question. You know. I've always loved to teach.
Speaker 1: I could have very happily stayed in teaching at some level.
Speaker 1: I also really like to write. I'm writing a political
Speaker 1: thriller right now with my good friend Louise Penny, the
Speaker 1: mystery writer, and I find that both challenging and gratifying.
Speaker 1: I think those are the two things that I would have,
Speaker 1: you know, maybe pursued more full time. We have a
Speaker 1: question here from Rachel. He says, based on your experience
Speaker 1: as a U. S. Senator, secretary of state, presidential candidate,
Speaker 1: informed citizens, etcetera, what national security issue gives you the
Speaker 1: most concerned and what can average folks like yours truly
Speaker 1: due to impact policies. Besides supporting, voting, donating to leaders
Speaker 1: who do the right thing, Rachel, there are two things
Speaker 1: that really do keep me up at night. One we
Speaker 1: talked about briefly already climate change, because I think there's
Speaker 1: gonna be a cascade of effects a lot of coastal areas,
Speaker 1: including in the United States, but most particularly small island nations,
Speaker 1: poor nations with you know, low lying coastland are going
Speaker 1: to be facing terrible consequences quite soon. It's going to
Speaker 1: be difficult to reverse quickly, so we're going to have
Speaker 1: to figure out how to help people. We've already moved
Speaker 1: villages in Alaska away from the coast. So climate change
Speaker 1: is a truly serious threat, and you do have to
Speaker 1: keep the pressure on political leaders to do the right thing.
Speaker 1: The second is the constant worry about nuclear weapons falling
Speaker 1: into the wrong hands, either a rogue state like North
Speaker 1: Korea or a nihilistic terrorist group that would use them
Speaker 1: for impact. How many people they could kill, how many
Speaker 1: people they literally could terrorize. And I know from the
Speaker 1: experiences that you recounted that I've had that keeping nuclear
Speaker 1: weapons material out of the hands of bad guys is
Speaker 1: a constant worry for those of us who have any
Speaker 1: kind of position of responsibility. So those are the two
Speaker 1: things that I think about a lot. But to Rachel's point,
Speaker 1: because I think sometimes it can feel so overwhelming, where
Speaker 1: if I allow myself to think about artificial intelligence, which
Speaker 1: I get terrified by, or in this past twelve months
Speaker 1: of the pandemic, I found myself reading about things like
Speaker 1: the neper virus, which I suddenly just feel an overwhelming
Speaker 1: sort of tightening in my chest. Like to Rachel's point,
Speaker 1: sometimes the problems feel so huge, yes, and we feel
Speaker 1: so small, so irrelevant, indise outside of supporting, voting, donating
Speaker 1: that she says, what are some of those things? Well,
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't want to quickly gloss over what
Speaker 1: she listed because think of the difference it makes, you know,
Speaker 1: if I think about the two issues I mentioned or
Speaker 1: the one you just mentioned, pandemics, what a difference leadership makes,
Speaker 1: you know, to have the movement from a president who
Speaker 1: denied climate change, a president who has quoted in public
Speaker 1: saying what good or nuclear weapons if you don't use them?
Speaker 1: A president who's in difference and negligence cost us lives
Speaker 1: in the pandemic. It really does make a difference who
Speaker 1: you vote for and who you elect. And we've got
Speaker 1: to elect people who are competent to do the complicated
Speaker 1: work of making these difficult decisions. We've got to get
Speaker 1: away from entertainers and bomb throwers and conspiracy theorists in
Speaker 1: order to get people frankly like Joe Biden, who has
Speaker 1: lived through a lot, He's learned from his mistakes, He's
Speaker 1: seen what works and doesn't work. And you can agree
Speaker 1: or disagree with him, but you know that he's giving
Speaker 1: the kind of thoughtful consideration that you want from a leader.
Speaker 1: The additional thing is be active on social media on
Speaker 1: behalf of you know, sensible approaches, like people who won't
Speaker 1: get vaccinated. You know, try to think through who do
Speaker 1: you know that won't get vaccinated? Is there any way
Speaker 1: that they would listen to, any reason as to why
Speaker 1: it would make a difference. So how can you help
Speaker 1: convince people to make decisions that are in our interests
Speaker 1: and their interests first and foremost? And call out the
Speaker 1: disinformation and the efforts to send people down rabbit holes
Speaker 1: of conspiracy theories and the like. Trying within your own
Speaker 1: community to you know, be an active participant in these
Speaker 1: kinds of discussions. You never know who might respond. I
Speaker 1: think that's a big part of citizenship these days. That's
Speaker 1: a great answer and a great question, Rachel. And this
Speaker 1: next question is from Kelly. She said, Hi, Hillary, we
Speaker 1: know that Mr Clinton played the saxophone. I'm curious if
Speaker 1: he still plays today, and if you play any instruments
Speaker 1: and do you ever have family jam sessions? Bill does
Speaker 1: still practice his saxophone as annoying as it sounds, No,
Speaker 1: because it makes him so happy. Uh, And the fact
Speaker 1: is that he, uh, he doesn't practice enough anymore because
Speaker 1: he's he's tied up in writing a book himself and
Speaker 1: doing some other things. But it makes him really happy.
Speaker 1: And I, unfortunately, you know, took piano lessons for a
Speaker 1: number of years, but I'm not in any way up
Speaker 1: to accompanying him. He at one time, many years ago,
Speaker 1: was had a good saxophonist, but he wasn't as good
Speaker 1: as he wanted to beat um. He made a very
Speaker 1: difficult personal decision because when he was getting out of
Speaker 1: high school, he got a lot of scholarships to play
Speaker 1: in bands at schools that were really well known for
Speaker 1: their music programs, and he decided that he would never
Speaker 1: be as good as he would want to be to
Speaker 1: make it a professional living for himself. So he ended
Speaker 1: up going to Georgetown. Obviously, you know, politics was another
Speaker 1: real interest of his. But he's always loved music. We
Speaker 1: have a little music room where he keeps all of
Speaker 1: his saxophones, and he brings our grandchildren up there. He
Speaker 1: has harmonicas and horns to blow, and so the closest
Speaker 1: we get to a jam session is me being a
Speaker 1: very appreciative audience of Bill and our grandchildren making lots
Speaker 1: and lots of noise, which they love to do, and hopefully,
Speaker 1: you know, the years to come it might actually turn
Speaker 1: into music. Is fantastic, What an incredible thing. My father
Speaker 1: was a saxophone plan so that around the house. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it really is. If you could be gifted to any instrument,
Speaker 1: which instrument would you pick? I would go back to
Speaker 1: the piano. I really regret not sticking with it. You know,
Speaker 1: I got into high school. There were other things I
Speaker 1: was more interested in. My mother was self taught and
Speaker 1: then took lessons when she was much older. I have
Speaker 1: her piano in our house in Washington with literally the
Speaker 1: sheet music on it that she was practicing the days
Speaker 1: she passed away. And so for me, the piano is
Speaker 1: an instrument that you can, you know, enjoy for yourself,
Speaker 1: but also be part of a group that is having
Speaker 1: fun with it. And yeah, I wish I had had
Speaker 1: stuck with the piano. Yes, if I could pause on
Speaker 1: any advice to a young person, it would be, don't
Speaker 1: give up the instrument you're learning, because you never meet
Speaker 1: you never meet anybody in adult life who goes I
Speaker 1: wish I couldn't play the piano exactly, if only I
Speaker 1: couldn't play this guitar. You know, it's always always going
Speaker 1: to be a skill. Where did you know you could sing? James? When?
Speaker 1: When were you a young young child? Well, I don't
Speaker 1: remember a time I didn't want to perform. And my
Speaker 1: when I was younger, we were. My parents aren't part
Speaker 1: of it anymore. They go to a different church. But
Speaker 1: we grew up in the Savage An Army, so we
Speaker 1: would sing music everywhere. We would sing every weekend. There
Speaker 1: was brass bands, all those things. And then my dad
Speaker 1: started getting me and my sister's singing lessons, and I
Speaker 1: also I started learning the piano and gave up, which
Speaker 1: I regret hugely. I also used to play the trumpet,
Speaker 1: which I gave up, and I don't regret that for
Speaker 1: a second because I can't think of anything worse than
Speaker 1: me being like, hey, guys, I want to listen to
Speaker 1: me play the trump but no, So it was a
Speaker 1: round about then, really, I guess, but I don't know.
Speaker 1: I can carry a tune. I wouldn't say I'm in
Speaker 1: any way remotely a singer. Oh I would disagree with that.
Speaker 1: Well we will, we will agree to disagree. That's all
Speaker 1: of our questions, James. I. I love talking with you,
Speaker 1: and what's questions from our listeners? Thank you for facilitating
Speaker 1: that for them. Incredible. You know what I think we
Speaker 1: should do, Henry. Next time Kelly and Ryan want to
Speaker 1: take a week off, we shall do it. We'll do
Speaker 1: live with Hillary and James. I am so ready for that.
Speaker 1: You they can take a week off whenever we want
Speaker 1: and we'll be there. Sign me up, Sign me up, James,
Speaker 1: I am more than ready. And you know I'll even
Speaker 1: practice my singing so I can, you know, try to
Speaker 1: do karaoke with you. Nothing would give me more pleasure.
Speaker 1: Thank you, my friend, and I love being with you
Speaker 1: under any certain come stands anywhere anytime. You can find
Speaker 1: James Cordon hosting the Late Late Show every weeknight on CBS.
Speaker 1: You know, going back to Rachel's question, there is another
Speaker 1: issue that's kept me up at night, though thankfully not
Speaker 1: one pertaining to national security. And that is all the
Speaker 1: questions we didn't get to answer for this episode. So
Speaker 1: we're going to try to fit a few more in
Speaker 1: right here, right now, with the help of my friend Nick.
Speaker 1: You may recognize his voice, Okay, Nick, fire away, Okay, okay,
Speaker 1: So this first one is a voicemail. Hi. My name
Speaker 1: is Jeremy from Minneapolis, Minnesota. The first time I ever
Speaker 1: voted was in the election for Secretary Clinton. I was
Speaker 1: curious about carried in risk tax loopholes and other capital
Speaker 1: games laws that have favored the rich. I want to
Speaker 1: know why it's taken so long for the party to
Speaker 1: try and close these loopholes, and why we think it's
Speaker 1: important to do so, or if we don't think it's
Speaker 1: a big issue to focus on. Oh, Jeremy, it's wonderful
Speaker 1: hearing from you. And I have tried to get rid
Speaker 1: of the carried interests tax loophole for a really long time.
Speaker 1: It was in my platform when I ran for president.
Speaker 1: I talked about it even when I was in the Senate.
Speaker 1: The problem is we just didn't have the votes. But
Speaker 1: now I think under the Biden Harris administration, it's clear
Speaker 1: they're going to try to close loopholes like the carried
Speaker 1: interest one, and also try to increase taxes on the
Speaker 1: wealthiest of us and on corporations so that our tax
Speaker 1: laws are fairer number one. But number two, the taxes
Speaker 1: raised from doing that will help to fund the American
Speaker 1: Family's Plan and more of the terrific ideas that the
Speaker 1: Biden Harris administration has put forth. Okay, turning now to
Speaker 1: some of the emails we got. This one is from Takuma.
Speaker 1: Takuma wrote, have you ever spoken to Prime Minister Jacinda
Speaker 1: ar Turn And if so, what did you two speak about? Oh?
Speaker 1: Thank you so much to Kuma. And yes, I have
Speaker 1: not only spoken to Prime Minister just Sinda Artern. I
Speaker 1: have actually met her when I was in New Zealand back.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, when was it. I lose track of time.
Speaker 1: She was very pregnant and we had a breakfast meeting
Speaker 1: and I got a chance to talk with her about
Speaker 1: number one being in public life, being an elected official,
Speaker 1: being pregnant, how her life was going to change, how
Speaker 1: she was going to handle the challenges of motherhood, plus
Speaker 1: being a prime minister. And I have to say I
Speaker 1: am such a fan. She has done an extraordinary job,
Speaker 1: first with the horrific mosque shooting, the way that she
Speaker 1: comforted people making sure it didn't happen again by introducing
Speaker 1: and getting past gun safety measures, and then of course
Speaker 1: the way she and her government led through the COVID
Speaker 1: nineteen crisis. New Zealand is back to normal. You know,
Speaker 1: they're holding concerts and sporting events because they had smart,
Speaker 1: science based leadership that made the right decisions when it
Speaker 1: was really important. So I looked to her as one
Speaker 1: of my favorite leaders in the entire world. So I
Speaker 1: was with you on this trip, and I remember what
Speaker 1: I was struck by the most is the thing that
Speaker 1: I sort of say to people about you, which is
Speaker 1: that she's got this very warm, approachable way about her
Speaker 1: that you conveys power and authority and competence, but also
Speaker 1: just feels like a way. I hope this is a
Speaker 1: favorable description that I described you to people at sometimes,
Speaker 1: which is you're just like the really smart mom from
Speaker 1: down the street who's a lawyer and does all these things,
Speaker 1: but like, at the end of the day, you're a
Speaker 1: human being who just wants to do some good in
Speaker 1: the world and cares about the people around you and
Speaker 1: takes an interest in their lives. And it was the
Speaker 1: same with the Prime Minister. She's the real deal. Okay,
Speaker 1: So here is another email. This one is from Emma,
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna read it to you. What can teens
Speaker 1: do right now if they have an interest in a
Speaker 1: job in public service? And what are some fundamental skills
Speaker 1: that we can build upon? Now? Oh am, I love
Speaker 1: this question because there's a lot you can do. Obviously,
Speaker 1: I'm a huge believer in getting the best education you
Speaker 1: can possibly get because that's going to prepare you for
Speaker 1: whatever happens next. But get involved in uh charitable events,
Speaker 1: community activities, volunteer on a campaign in turn for a
Speaker 1: local official. And the fundamental skills not only obviously that
Speaker 1: educational base which is so important, but getting to know
Speaker 1: how to communicate with different kinds of people, Uh, know
Speaker 1: how to make an argument, know how to do research
Speaker 1: about a problem. Maybe there's an environmental issue that you're
Speaker 1: really focused on in your community. Well, educate yourself, do
Speaker 1: everything you can to find out what could be done.
Speaker 1: Who are the decision makers. Maybe there's something at your
Speaker 1: school that you think needs to be fixed or changed.
Speaker 1: Just dive in and look for opportunities that can not
Speaker 1: only teach you and prepare you, but where you could
Speaker 1: really make some actual change. Okay, I'm so glad that
Speaker 1: we had a chance to take some more of these
Speaker 1: great questions from your listeners. And um, you know, while
Speaker 1: I have some got your questions of my own, I
Speaker 1: think yeah, we'll do those offline. Okay, Nick, I'm wondering
Speaker 1: about a lot of things. Okay, As I said earlier,
Speaker 1: this is the last episode of the season. It has
Speaker 1: gone by so fast, but we'll be back this fall
Speaker 1: with season three. So please stay tuned. Thanks for listening,
Speaker 1: and I hope you too can take a little break,
Speaker 1: read some great books, spend time outside, see your friends
Speaker 1: and family, especially if you've been vaccinated, and if you haven't,
Speaker 1: please do it. And of course now is a great
Speaker 1: time to catch up on any episodes you might have
Speaker 1: missed from seasons one and two. We'll be back before
Speaker 1: you know it. Stay safe, get vaccinated, and enjoy your
Speaker 1: post vaccinated life. My Friend, You, Me Both is brought
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Speaker 1: Kathleen Russo and Lauren Peterson, with help from Kuma Aberdeen,
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