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Speaker 3: Welcome to The Daily Show, Jordan Coverer. We got so
Speaker 3: much to talk about tonight. Joe Biden gets a win,
Speaker 3: Jack Smith drops his receipts, and Americans are on the
Speaker 3: brink of losing their favorite way to waste time on
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Speaker 3: off with the big news of the day.
Speaker 4: The long last I can announce a ceasefire no HOSTI
Speaker 4: Jill has been reached between Israel Hana mass huzzah.
Speaker 3: Whoa yeah, what a historic moment. Joe Biden articulately got
Speaker 3: through a sentence and also a ceasefire. And the time
Speaker 3: he couldn't be better for Biden. There's still time for
Speaker 3: him to win Michigan. So now we're in the early
Speaker 3: stages of figuring out what this means, and we'll be
Speaker 3: following it closely. But for now, let's talk about another
Speaker 3: crisis just as serious as what's happening in the Middle East.
Speaker 3: I'm talking about TikTok heyk, the reason your thumb is
Speaker 3: so frickin' jacked. I find that genuinely disturbing. TikTok is
Speaker 3: the hottest app in the US, and next week is
Speaker 3: fucking gone.
Speaker 5: First.
Speaker 6: A story that is on a lot of people's minds
Speaker 6: this morning, the looming shutdown of TikTok here in the US.
Speaker 7: Yeah, a federal ban on this popular Chinese owned app
Speaker 7: is set to take effect on Sunday.
Speaker 8: The argument from the US government is that TikTok presents
Speaker 8: a national secus already risk, and that the Chinese own
Speaker 8: company is stealing user data.
Speaker 5: Y'all, we are so indescribably cooked. I know.
Speaker 9: The government's argument is, all, we want to protect your data.
Speaker 5: Do you let the data?
Speaker 10: Bitch?
Speaker 5: The United States has done a lot of stupid things.
Speaker 5: This has to be number one.
Speaker 3: That's the number one worst thing. I mean, we did
Speaker 3: slavery in America. I mean, let's at least call it
Speaker 3: a tie, shall we. TikTok users are upset about this,
Speaker 3: but there's there's not much they can do. Congress passed
Speaker 3: to bill, the President signed it, and the Supreme Court
Speaker 3: seems ready to rule that the ban is constitutional, which
Speaker 3: I don't think we can be surprised by because this
Speaker 3: is not exactly TikTok's core demographic. I mean, they're more
Speaker 3: of a Walgreens app type of crowd. They're old and sickly,
Speaker 3: It's what I'm saying. I mean, the last time the
Speaker 3: Supreme Court heard the sound TikTok was when death was
Speaker 3: following RBG around. Although there's still a chance that TikTok
Speaker 3: can be saved before the Costco guys are euthanized on Sunday,
Speaker 3: so TikTok would be allowed to keep operating if it's
Speaker 3: sold to an American owner and there's no shortage of interest.
Speaker 11: New names are surfacing as potential buyers for the platform,
Speaker 11: including Elon Musk.
Speaker 2: Mister Beast has joined the bid to buy TikTok.
Speaker 11: Former Treasury Secretary Steve Menushan previously launched an effort to
Speaker 11: buy it, and Shark Tanks star Kevin O'Leary says he
Speaker 11: and other investors are also making a play.
Speaker 3: Yes, there's still a chance TikTok could be sold to
Speaker 3: one of America's many rich weirdos. Apparently Lex Luthor wasn't available,
Speaker 3: so this is the best America has to offer. I mean,
Speaker 3: I actually heard myself say, man, I hope that TikTok
Speaker 3: goes to someone saying like mister beasts. I mean, can't
Speaker 3: there be one cool potential buyer, Shaquille O'Neil. I'm talking
Speaker 3: to you, stop buying so many Papa John's franchises and
Speaker 3: get real about your investment future. The trad wives and
Speaker 3: the big headed bitches with the trench coach button up
Speaker 3: to the top need you. But if no American buyer emergence,
Speaker 3: there's still one more wild card, the wild card Donald Trump. Now,
Speaker 3: he tried to ban TikTok during his first term, but
Speaker 3: he's now trying to save the app. And you'll never
Speaker 3: guess why he had a change of hearts.
Speaker 4: Now, I have a warm spot in my heart for
Speaker 4: TikTok because I won youth by thirty four points, and
Speaker 4: there are those that say that TikTok has something to.
Speaker 12: Do with it.
Speaker 8: I was on TikTok for the election and I won
Speaker 8: the young people by thirty six points.
Speaker 3: I'm not opposed to TikTok, that's right. TikTok helped Trump,
Speaker 3: so now TikTok is good. And by the way, if
Speaker 3: you're wondering whether Trump won the youth vote by thirty
Speaker 3: four points or thirty six points. The answer is he
Speaker 3: lost the youth vote by eleven points. So slight to sir,
Speaker 3: slight discrepanty, iagas basically the same thing. All this is
Speaker 3: up in the air, but TikTok users are not waiting
Speaker 3: around to find out how this is going to play out.
Speaker 11: Idfear a TikTok band could take effect later this week.
Speaker 11: Some Americans flocking to Chinese apps like red Note.
Speaker 5: I'm a TikTok Refugee.
Speaker 11: And Lemon eight. Both apps have similarities to TikTok, and
Speaker 11: Lemon eight shares a parent company, byte Edance.
Speaker 7: Red Note is owned and operated by the Chinese Communist Party,
Speaker 7: and users must agree to adhere to the Chinese constitution,
Speaker 7: practice socialist values, and promote the traditional culture of China.
Speaker 3: Yeah, good job US government and told Americas they couldn't
Speaker 3: see China anymore, and now they're running off to Vegas
Speaker 3: with it. I mean, this has got to be so
Speaker 3: frustrating for she just spent a whole election fighting accusations
Speaker 3: that she's a socialist, and now every American is like,
Speaker 3: I would literally pledge to be a Chinese socialist for
Speaker 3: a good TikTok replacement. The question is why would Americans
Speaker 3: be so cavalier about the threat of China spying. Maybe
Speaker 3: it's because after years of receiving monthly emails about how
Speaker 3: every American company has lost or stolen our data, we've
Speaker 3: become cynical about the concept of privacy. Or maybe we
Speaker 3: actually get off on knowing China is spying on us
Speaker 3: the whole time. Maybe it's gotten so bad I can't
Speaker 3: even enjoy a cat video anymore unless I know Jijingping
Speaker 3: is watching me from some digital cup chair in the corner.
Speaker 3: So looks like this new app Red Note is exploding.
Speaker 3: And the last time something from China went this viral
Speaker 3: was it's not important. What do you see what people
Speaker 3: are discovering once they're onto.
Speaker 9: One thing that I've noticed since beinging on Red Note
Speaker 9: for like the last two days is how much more
Speaker 9: advanced the Chinese culture is than what I had in
Speaker 9: my brain.
Speaker 13: Most of these Chinese people, if they look so much
Speaker 13: less traumatized than most Americans, I am no longer convinced
Speaker 13: that we are living in a first world country. While
Speaker 13: lurking on Red Note, I found out about this car.
Speaker 13: We can't sell this car because it's Chinese.
Speaker 5: Look how cute it is.
Speaker 13: They sell in pink. It's like fifteen thousand dollars, which
Speaker 13: is affordable.
Speaker 3: I made a new bestie.
Speaker 1: She ended up going to the market and sent me
Speaker 1: a picture of her local market. Corn on the cob
Speaker 1: ninety four cents? What would it be here in America?
Speaker 3: You might ask?
Speaker 10: Seven dollars?
Speaker 3: Is this what they don't want us to know? That's
Speaker 3: not a good sign for America. I was made to
Speaker 3: think of communist dictator was bad. But check out these
Speaker 3: corn prices, Daddy like, come on America, fight back. If
Speaker 3: Chinese people show you their cheap corn, you show them
Speaker 3: are robust, free press, okay, okay? Or you show them
Speaker 3: are fair and impartial justice not that okay? Daved Busters
Speaker 3: show them are Dave and Busters. Hell yeah? In your
Speaker 3: COMMI fasis for more and all the TikTok alternatives. Let's
Speaker 3: go live to Beijing with Michael Costa. Michael, Michael, what
Speaker 3: do you think about apps like Lemonade and red Notes?
Speaker 6: Jordan? Those apps are as useless as Grinder. None of
Speaker 6: the dudes I met on Grinder even knew how to grind,
Speaker 6: pesto at all great sex. Though, luckily I found a
Speaker 6: new TikTok alternative. It's called syop and it's the best
Speaker 6: app yet.
Speaker 3: But the app is called psyop is in psychological operation.
Speaker 4: What No?
Speaker 6: Why do people keep asking that it's just a great
Speaker 6: app that my camp counselors here have assured me is
Speaker 6: all for fun?
Speaker 3: I'm wait, what is that about a camp?
Speaker 6: Well, the app is a bit complicated and there is
Speaker 6: a learning curve, of course, so I had to educate myself,
Speaker 6: which is why I'm here at the syop re education
Speaker 6: camp for a few weeks to learn the user interface
Speaker 6: and the brilliant philosophies of chairman Mao Cossa.
Speaker 3: Cosa, you're clearly being groomed into a spy.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 6: They told me the haters would say that, But Jordan's
Speaker 6: don't be such a wang badang. They're just showing me
Speaker 6: how to use the app, and they're teaching me English.
Speaker 3: You already speak English.
Speaker 6: Now it turns out there's tons of words I didn't know,
Speaker 6: strych nine, ricin, hydrogen cyanide. And this is all helping
Speaker 6: me to become a better influencer so I can make
Speaker 6: funny dances and take down the electrical grid.
Speaker 3: Take down the electrical grid.
Speaker 6: I didn't say take down the electrical grid. The point
Speaker 6: is forget TikTok. Everybody needs to get on Psyop now.
Speaker 6: I mean it has the best features. It's easy to upload,
Speaker 6: and you can record any time. Because the mic never
Speaker 6: shuts off, it keeps track of your location data and
Speaker 6: all the conversations you've had with elected officials.
Speaker 3: It's very convenient if you're a.
Speaker 6: Busy dad like me who's swamped with soccer practice and
Speaker 6: taking down the electrical grid.
Speaker 13: Content.
Speaker 3: Buddy, you've lost your mind.
Speaker 6: On the contrary, corrupt capitalist swine. I haven't lost my mind.
Speaker 6: I've gained tons of followers. Commandment ping first Lieutenant Yoo,
Speaker 6: Katie Perry, hold.
Speaker 5: On, I just got to block her.
Speaker 3: Hold on. Michael, Michael, don't you want a social media
Speaker 3: platform that isn't stripping you of all your personal information
Speaker 3: and influencing you into carrying out the agenda of authoritarian rulers.
Speaker 6: You're right, I guess I'll get back on X and
Speaker 6: Facebook and Instagram.
Speaker 3: You know what, Never mind, tell me more about this app, dude.
Speaker 6: You gotta get on Jordan. We can be friends, Ben Shizzy,
Speaker 6: Jong gau Sezi?
Speaker 5: What is that?
Speaker 3: Is that Mandarin? What does that mean?
Speaker 6: I don't know, but the voice in my head keeps
Speaker 6: yelling at.
Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, Michael Kassa, everybody, when we come back over,
Speaker 3: Donald Trump to justice, don't go away, Welcome back to
Speaker 3: the Daily Show. Donald Trump becomes president on Monday, but
Speaker 3: that hasn't stopped Jack Smith, the special prosecutor and son
Speaker 3: of Kevin McAllister's scary neighbor. Now yesterday he released this
Speaker 3: his special report on Trump trying to overturn the results
Speaker 3: of the twenty twenty election, and it's very damning.
Speaker 10: Special counsel Jack Smith, in a new report, is calling
Speaker 10: out President Trump and Blutley, stating he brought the case
Speaker 10: because he believed he would have gotten a conviction.
Speaker 8: Smith writes, quote, when it became clear mister Trump had
Speaker 8: lost the election and that lawful means of challenging the
Speaker 8: election results had failed, he resorted to a series of
Speaker 8: criminal efforts to retain power.
Speaker 6: Suggesting that Trump's actions warranted prosecution, saying that no quote
Speaker 6: man in this country is so high that he is
Speaker 6: above the law.
Speaker 3: Oh that's right, you hear that, mister Trump. No man,
Speaker 3: I mean, no man is above the law.
Speaker 8: Jack Smith resigned Friday night and there will be no prosecution.
Speaker 3: All right, one man is above the law. But that
Speaker 3: doesn't mean this report is useless. No, we can. We
Speaker 3: can frame it, and we can put it on our wall.
Speaker 3: We could pretend it had meaningful results like we do
Speaker 3: with our liberal arts degrees. And his democracy wildly unstable.
Speaker 3: Sure you know what isn't a wobbly table after I
Speaker 3: jam this report under one of its short legs. But
Speaker 3: it seems like Trump's election has allowed him to avoid
Speaker 3: accountability for all of his crimes. The strategy that law
Speaker 3: firms might start picking up soon.
Speaker 5: Are you in legal trouble?
Speaker 12: Are you facing life in the slammer?
Speaker 5: Is your lawyer trying to win your case in court?
Speaker 12: Then ditch that loser and called James and Carino. We'll
Speaker 12: keep you out of prison a better way by getting
Speaker 12: you elected president of the United States.
Speaker 5: Here's how it works. Step one, we gather evidence.
Speaker 11: Step two, you.
Speaker 12: Tossed that shit in the trash and didn't you want
Speaker 12: to play in Michigan.
Speaker 5: We'll get you.
Speaker 12: Lawn signs, campaign rallies, national TV ads of you hugging
Speaker 12: your family.
Speaker 5: Don't have a family.
Speaker 12: We'll get you one, and while you run for president,
Speaker 12: we'll use your campaign to delay your trial.
Speaker 11: You're on.
Speaker 5: My client is preparing for a national debate. He does
Speaker 5: not have time for this parking ticket. This case is
Speaker 5: for murder, murder ticket whatever. He's busy.
Speaker 12: And if somehow you aren't elected president, we'll just get
Speaker 12: you pardoned by the president.
Speaker 3: He's a former client, So.
Speaker 12: Stop trying to beat the law and start putting yourself
Speaker 12: above it.
Speaker 3: Counselor, your client is clearly guilty.
Speaker 5: Well well, well, looks like we just won Pennsylvania. Be
Speaker 5: free to go. Oh one eight hundred b press today.
Speaker 12: We'll get you out of the Big House and into
Speaker 12: the White House.
Speaker 3: We come back a look, we'll be joining me on
Speaker 3: the show. Don't go away. Welcome back to the Daily Show.
Speaker 3: My guest tonight is a comedian, actor, and poet whose
Speaker 3: new comedy special is called Biology. Please welcome Elok. Well,
Speaker 3: first of all, congratulations on your first comedy special. How
Speaker 3: does it feel?
Speaker 5: You know?
Speaker 10: It feels quite funny, does it. I just look at
Speaker 10: myself and I'm like, yeah, yeah, you did it. It
Speaker 10: also feels kind of traumatizing because I have a yellow
Speaker 10: tongue in it from taking cough drops before.
Speaker 3: Oh I thought that was a creative choice.
Speaker 10: You know, No, I am a person of color, but
Speaker 10: I tend to go that.
Speaker 3: It's not that color. It feels like a vulnerable choice
Speaker 3: to show that you carry sickness into performance and you
Speaker 3: let us see that part of you.
Speaker 10: Well, actually I was sick right before taping this. Uh huh,
Speaker 10: And so I texted all my friends, like, what do
Speaker 10: you do when you're sick and you have to be
Speaker 10: on live television? Maybe you'll be one of those people
Speaker 10: I text in the future, and everyone said like, go
Speaker 10: get an infusion. Really, I just went to go get
Speaker 10: an infusion, and they're like, what do you want to
Speaker 10: put in it? And I'm like, okay, give me the
Speaker 10: ego of a white man who thinks AI can in
Speaker 10: climate change like that in right there, and give me
Speaker 10: the confidence to do this.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and then and you perform with that kind of
Speaker 3: confidence and privilege. It's very nice.
Speaker 10: Okay, science matters.
Speaker 3: I wanted this, You didn't. You didn't necessarily come from
Speaker 3: a comedy background. Is that fair to say that?
Speaker 10: That just asked me where I came from?
Speaker 3: Oh? Boy?
Speaker 10: In this political climate.
Speaker 12: I know.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry.
Speaker 10: You can ask me what my genitals next.
Speaker 3: Well, that was the fourth I was gonna warm up
Speaker 3: to the genitals. I always like to end with a
Speaker 3: good classic genitals question. You know everybody likes that.
Speaker 5: That was just me kidding with you.
Speaker 10: I just know that your community is so worried about
Speaker 10: getting it wrong and potentially getting canceled.
Speaker 3: Yes, we're just trying to be allies.
Speaker 10: I can't imagine how difficult that must feel for you.
Speaker 3: Do you understand the difficulty I'm having right now just
Speaker 3: trying to walk the roan. Thank you very much.
Speaker 10: You dis comfort its valet. Huh, we're just afraid of
Speaker 10: being murdered. It's not the same, and I don't want
Speaker 10: to say that it's not the same.
Speaker 3: You don't think I'm afraid of being murdered. I go
Speaker 3: to Trump rallies every other weekend. Come on, I would
Speaker 3: I find really refreshing and interesting about this, specially you
Speaker 3: deal with big issues. Yeah, but you also you have
Speaker 3: a quote it here you said transphobia is merely a
Speaker 3: distraction from our shared humanity. Yeah, we should be talking
Speaker 3: about the fact that we're all gonna die. Yeah, talk
Speaker 3: to me about that death is a real I don't
Speaker 3: know how else to tell you this, Like, I'm gonna
Speaker 3: die and you're gonna die.
Speaker 10: That's true, and we've created an entire society that pretends
Speaker 10: that that's not the case, which is just ridiculous. So
Speaker 10: people keep on thinking that if they imbibe the but
Speaker 10: the blood of their like eighteen year old son, that's
Speaker 10: gonna stave off death, or like find the next cryptocurrency
Speaker 10: or something.
Speaker 5: But you're gonna die, you know.
Speaker 10: Actually, the real biological truth in our society is our mortality.
Speaker 10: And so when people say we're racing biology or racing biology,
Speaker 10: I'm like, mmm, okay, maybe, but just your point of
Speaker 10: the wrong thing.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 10: And so from the perspective of death, I believe that
Speaker 10: all living is just stand up comedy, because that's kind
Speaker 10: of looking at us being like, oh my god, that's
Speaker 10: so funny and so cute that you think that, like
Speaker 10: that new shoe is going to prevent you from dying.
Speaker 3: Yeah, silly little bitch.
Speaker 10: And so I kind of wanted to make a show
Speaker 10: that was basically about having to reckon with the fact
Speaker 10: that we waste so much of our time with absurd
Speaker 10: antics like hating other people judging other people when at
Speaker 10: the end of the day, we're all human, which means
Speaker 10: we're going to die. If we remember that, then we
Speaker 10: have the potential for profound empathy because we're all in
Speaker 10: this together.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I love that.
Speaker 4: I love that.
Speaker 3: It's there's something unified about that absurdism. Like if I
Speaker 3: were to make a pretentious reference, Albert Camu would talk
Speaker 3: about imagining Sisyphus happy that it's an absurd life that
Speaker 3: we leave. Can you just give give me my space?
Speaker 3: Will you give me my space? Sorry? Would say, imagine
Speaker 3: Sisypus happy as he pushes this rock up because all
Speaker 3: of existence is inherently meaningless, and so reckon with that
Speaker 3: and then connect with your neighbors.
Speaker 10: I identify as a pretentious piece of shit.
Speaker 5: So you are speaking my love language right now.
Speaker 12: I'm like Camui the goat.
Speaker 3: I want to quote you back at yourself, and I
Speaker 3: want you to talk about this too. You also say
Speaker 3: humorlessness is what loses any campaign for social change. Talk
Speaker 3: to me about that.
Speaker 10: What's really frustrating is most people think that trans people
Speaker 10: are just snowflakes, humorless, hyper sensitive. But if you spend
Speaker 10: a couple of centuries surviving attempt at eradication. You get
Speaker 10: kind of bored with being depressed. It's just a major buzzkill.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 10: So then you do a lot of time on your
Speaker 10: hand to do something else, and so you just start
Speaker 10: like cracking jokes or whatever to survive. And then you
Speaker 10: begin to realize, actually, maybe part of the oppression is
Speaker 10: keeping you miserable, because whenever you're in a space that's comedic,
Speaker 10: that's a space of possibility and expansion. And so what
Speaker 10: I started to realize in my own life was there
Speaker 10: are powers that be that want me to hate myself
Speaker 10: and to be sad, but it's profoundly rebellious when you're
Speaker 10: a marginalized person. Is recognizing that people might have the
Speaker 10: ability to take your rights, they might have the ability
Speaker 10: to take away your safety, but they can't take away
Speaker 10: your joy. And so what humor has become for me
Speaker 10: is a practice of resistance of saying, oh, you're oppressing me,
Speaker 10: thank you so much for the comedic material. You are
Speaker 10: going to keep me.
Speaker 5: Dainfully employ it.
Speaker 3: And you see, there's no secret a lot of people
Speaker 3: do feel scared right now. They feel like it's a
Speaker 3: time for social change. Activist movements and I think they
Speaker 3: can be called that they don't see a space for humor.
Speaker 3: Do you fear that the people who are looking to
Speaker 3: make a change in the next regime, whether it's this
Speaker 3: next administration or just the time that we're in, that
Speaker 3: they will lose that sense of humor and in fact
Speaker 3: lose some power with that.
Speaker 10: Yes, I do fear that. Yeah, But then I hang
Speaker 10: out with my friends and I think that there's two
Speaker 10: conversations happening in this country. There's a conversation we're having
Speaker 10: with the people that we love, and then the performance
Speaker 10: bit we have to put on. And what I noticed
Speaker 10: in my own career is I was afraid that people
Speaker 10: would not take seriously the critiques I had if I
Speaker 10: showed how funny I was, which is so ironical, Like
Speaker 10: here I was of being like I came out of
Speaker 10: the closet when I was eighteen, and then I was
Speaker 10: closeted as a funny person, which is way harder. Actually,
Speaker 10: you just constantly have to repress yourself. And then I
Speaker 10: started to realize this is dishonest, because with my friends,
Speaker 10: humor is the first point of activation on how we
Speaker 10: process our worlds. And so what my stand up became
Speaker 10: was an imprint of the jokes I was templating first
Speaker 10: with my friends. It's so annoying. I take out my iPhone.
Speaker 10: I'm like, I am really funny. I just said this,
Speaker 10: and then I don't remember the context with which I
Speaker 10: said that, and it's no longer funny that right, And
Speaker 10: so I actually think we just need to start being honest.
Speaker 10: We cannot combat a world that ritualizes lying with more lying.
Speaker 10: The only way is to operate at a different frequency.
Speaker 10: And what I think is so honest to the human
Speaker 10: condition is that at every funeral, some cracks a joke,
Speaker 10: and that joke allows people to feel deeper.
Speaker 5: And if we.
Speaker 10: Forget that truth, we forget who we are.
Speaker 3: You speak about that, you speak about death a lot.
Speaker 3: It's funny you say this. Eric Idle was here from
Speaker 3: Money Python a month ago saying that exact same thing.
Speaker 3: The humor that you find in death in funerals is
Speaker 3: sort of our humanity. Looking at the news right now,
Speaker 3: places like Meta, we see what's happening with Mark Zuckerberg
Speaker 3: and the threat of a MAGA administration, and they're removing
Speaker 3: the any kind of guardrails they had towards hate speech.
Speaker 3: How do we combat something like that in your mind.
Speaker 10: So, to be really honest with you, caught me in January,
Speaker 10: and I take New Year's extremely seriously. So I listened
Speaker 10: to a lot of white women podcasts, and what they
Speaker 10: have been teaching me is I need to manifest what
Speaker 10: I want to see in the world, and I don't
Speaker 10: really have space for negative vibes like sure, no bad energy.
Speaker 8: Oka.
Speaker 10: So I read that news and I was like, it's
Speaker 10: not why this is happening to me, it's why is
Speaker 10: this happening for me?
Speaker 5: You know?
Speaker 10: And so what I actually started to realize is this
Speaker 10: was actually really brave because Meta is accusing us of
Speaker 10: misgendering a corporation, which is extremely serious business, and when
Speaker 10: you really think about it, it's kind of trans They're like,
Speaker 10: who you see me as is not who I actually
Speaker 10: want to be. Oh, it's like a gender reveal. Actually,
Speaker 10: uh huh okay, and like that is so powerful, and.
Speaker 5: This is one of the I meant. I was like whoa.
Speaker 3: But then I.
Speaker 10: Started to do some research and I found out that
Speaker 10: Meta is technically only twenty years old, and that's kind
Speaker 10: of young to be making such a serious decision.
Speaker 5: It might be that is that is very Yeah.
Speaker 3: I mean, they might not have the they might not
Speaker 3: really know who they are at this point.
Speaker 10: It might cause irreversible damage to democracies across the world.
Speaker 10: And usually I support freedom, except when it comes to that.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 10: I was okay with the name change, you know, call
Speaker 10: me meta. I was like, okay, I can do that,
Speaker 10: but this that, this just feels like too much.
Speaker 5: Yeah. But then back to the podcast.
Speaker 10: I was like, no, no, no positive thinking, positive thinking, no
Speaker 10: space for negativity. It was like Mark Zuckerberg is saying
Speaker 10: masculine energy. Imagine a white man forty years ago saying
Speaker 10: masculine energy. Okay, masculine energy. That is the accomplishment of
Speaker 10: the transgender movement. All right, we are setting the terms
Speaker 10: of the debate. I feel like he lifted that from
Speaker 10: a Tumblr post of mine from twenty eleven.
Speaker 5: Masculine energy, Like what the does that mean?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 5: All right.
Speaker 10: So then I started to realize, like, we might not
Speaker 10: be winning the like the short term thing, but we're
Speaker 10: winning the long term thing because even the rhetoric and
Speaker 10: the language that they're.
Speaker 5: Using to approcess is our own. And that's kind of sweet.
Speaker 10: Like what my hope for the Trump administration is that
Speaker 10: they're going to take this trend and they're gonna not
Speaker 10: deport migrants. They're gonna make migrants hold space for the
Speaker 10: lyrics of Proud to be an American.
Speaker 3: Wow, you have really an optimistic eye, George. What's gonna
Speaker 3: happen in these next few months? Hey, I'm just saying
Speaker 3: there's a name out here that's very exciting to see
Speaker 3: as well. Your Specialist Executive produced by Christopher Guest. Yes,
Speaker 3: how did that come about?
Speaker 10: Okay, So here's the thing I asked him to direct.
Speaker 10: He said, alok, we both know you could do a
Speaker 10: better job directing than me, which is the first time
Speaker 10: in history that a British Man has ever said that
Speaker 10: to an Indian person.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 5: I was blown away. My god, I felt like my
Speaker 5: ancestral healing.
Speaker 3: I was like, whoa, I will take it from you, Chris, And.
Speaker 10: So I said, like, I want to learn from you,
Speaker 10: like I want to and he's like, I have nothing
Speaker 10: to teach, and so I said, Okay, tell me stories
Speaker 10: about what it was like to be on set. And
Speaker 10: then that's where the wisdom came. It's just from his
Speaker 10: storytelling and when he was speaking to me, he really
Speaker 10: I think spoke to something I truly believe, which is
Speaker 10: the kind of sacredness of comedy, that comedy actually is
Speaker 10: a sacred ritual where we can alchemize and detoxify things
Speaker 10: that are so profoundly painful and turn them into something
Speaker 10: beautiful and bountiful. And he said to me, there's going
Speaker 10: to be a knowing in you that a lot of
Speaker 10: people are going to doubt. Only you can make that decision,
Speaker 10: which is how I justified spending hundreds of hours making
Speaker 10: every single editing decision in my own special. I was
Speaker 10: looking at every single camera angle and making every single choice,
Speaker 10: and my manager is like, do other things, and I
Speaker 10: was like, this is anti religious, because this is a
Speaker 10: sacred practice for me right now. Sorry, Christopher guests to
Speaker 10: think for that.
Speaker 3: Well, it's a truly remarkable special. I hope people go
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