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Speaker 3: I'm Roy Shang so much to talk about. Tonight, White
Speaker 3: Dudes on Man splitting their support for Kamala Harris, JD.
Speaker 3: Vans gets his own pussy tape, and Lewis Black yells
Speaker 3: at the Sun. But fus, let's get into our continuing
Speaker 3: coverage of Indecision twenty twenty four. We are now less
Speaker 3: than one hundred days on my election and Democrats are
Speaker 3: super fired up about having a candidate who isn't legally dead.
Speaker 3: Nearly every night now, huge groups are gathering on zoom
Speaker 3: to raise money. It started with black women for Harris,
Speaker 3: and then black men for Harris, and then white women,
Speaker 3: and last night, white dudes took a break from trying
Speaker 3: to have sex avasion women to do their Zoom call
Speaker 3: Monday Nights, White Dudes for Harris livestream raised more than
Speaker 3: four million dollars, according to organizers.
Speaker 4: More than one hundred and fifty thousand people were on
Speaker 4: the call. The call included possible Harris, running mates, actors,
Speaker 4: labor leaders. Among the stores were Mark Hamill, Josh Grohman,
Speaker 4: Joseph Gordon Levitt.
Speaker 1: Actor Jeff Bridge is throwing in his star power like qualifying, man,
Speaker 1: I'm white, I'm a dude, and I'm for Harold. I'm
Speaker 1: so excited a woman president. Man, how exciting?
Speaker 3: Ah. I mean, it is cool that they got Jeff Bridges,
Speaker 3: But if anyone was waiting to see who the big
Speaker 3: Lebrowski endorses, I don't think that's the group that's going
Speaker 3: to remember to votes. But one hundred and fifty thousand
Speaker 3: white dudes joined the Zoom because nothing says I would
Speaker 3: do anything for this candidate, like clicking on the Zoom
Speaker 3: link from your toilet. The white dudes did raise a
Speaker 3: lot of money, although the Zoom went off the rails
Speaker 3: when someone asked if anyone had a favorite Bob Dylan album.
Speaker 3: And I personally am glad they found a way to
Speaker 3: make segregation progressive. But I'm just saying historically, it's not
Speaker 3: great when white people develop racial awareness. Okay, it starts
Speaker 3: out like hey, let's just hang out, and then soon
Speaker 3: it's like, hey, this is fun. We should get some
Speaker 3: uniforms but even if you want in on the manbun zoom,
Speaker 3: it's obvious there's a lot of enthusiasm on the Democrat side.
Speaker 3: You can tell by who wants to debate more. I'm
Speaker 3: ready to debate Donald Trump.
Speaker 1: He agreed to that previously. Now Pearcey's backpadling.
Speaker 3: I want to do a debate.
Speaker 5: But I also can say this, everybody knows who I am,
Speaker 5: and now people.
Speaker 1: Know who she is, Well, why not debater?
Speaker 5: Well wait, but because they already know everything the answers, Yes,
Speaker 5: I'll probably end up debating, but I can also make
Speaker 5: a case for not doing it.
Speaker 3: It sounds like Trump just lost a debate with himself,
Speaker 3: but I I don't blame him for having second thoughts. Okay,
Speaker 3: I mean the last time Trump did a debate, he
Speaker 3: beat Biden so bad they gave him a tough opponent.
Speaker 3: That's crazy. It's like Trump won so hot he might
Speaker 3: lose the presidency and no shit, he doesn't want debate again.
Speaker 3: I mean, if he debates again, either he loses the
Speaker 3: Kamala or he wins and they swap out for Abraham Lincoln.
Speaker 3: It's like how many bosses are there in this game?
Speaker 3: The Democrats are not waiting for a debate to go
Speaker 3: onto offense. They've been solely field testing a new line
Speaker 3: of attack. And see if you can spot the way
Speaker 3: they address people.
Speaker 6: It is bizarre.
Speaker 1: It's weird.
Speaker 3: It is weird.
Speaker 1: That stuff is weird. They come across weird.
Speaker 2: They seem obsessed with this a super weird idea from Jdvans.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's not. I mean, it's quite weird. They're just weird,
Speaker 3: more weird.
Speaker 1: It's weird.
Speaker 3: Weird. What about Donald Trump is weird? Yeah, I just
Speaker 3: don't see it.
Speaker 6: Now.
Speaker 3: Calling someone weird is a bit of a downgrade from
Speaker 3: he tried to overthrow democracy. On the other hand, you
Speaker 3: know that message didn't really stick. I mean, Democrats spent
Speaker 3: four years being like, hey, everybody remember January sixth, and
Speaker 3: most Americans were like, we don't remember and all care.
Speaker 3: So now Democrats are like, hey, wasn't trying to overthrow
Speaker 3: the government kind of weird? Like who even does that?
Speaker 3: And now people are like, yeah, I guess that is
Speaker 3: kind of weird. The best part about this line of
Speaker 3: attack is that there is no defense to it. I mean,
Speaker 3: you can't say, guys, guys, I'm not weird, because that
Speaker 3: sounds weird. And although Democrats have to be clear about
Speaker 3: what kind of weird they're referring to, because people could
Speaker 3: think that they mean like cool weird, like dam of
Speaker 3: Bowie or Jeff Goldblum, they gotta be like, no, no,
Speaker 3: we mean weird weird, like the penguin from Batman. What
Speaker 3: was up with that guy? It's like, hey, I'm a
Speaker 3: bad guy, but I'm also into Antarctic wildlife conservation. And
Speaker 3: one of the weird things that they've been hitting them
Speaker 3: on is this comment Dvance made in twenty twenty one.
Speaker 7: We're effectively run in this country via the Democrats, via
Speaker 7: our corporate oligarchs, by a bunch of childless cat ladies
Speaker 7: who are miserable at their own lives and the choices
Speaker 7: that they've made, and so they want to make the
Speaker 7: rest of the country miserable too.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I mean, if you have friends who've chosen not
Speaker 3: to have kids, you know how totally miserable they are.
Speaker 3: I got too much disposable ankor my life is so odd,
Speaker 3: I can fly business class, I still have a sex life,
Speaker 3: Please kill me. So after getting back last Jadvans tried
Speaker 3: to do damage control, but it turns out he didn't misspeak.
Speaker 3: He's been sit talking childless people for years.
Speaker 8: The controversial comments he made questioning the judgment of people
Speaker 8: without children, they were not a one off, he told
Speaker 8: a crowd, quote, babies are good because we're not sociopaths.
Speaker 8: He appealed to donors by mentioning the quote, radical childless
Speaker 8: leaders in this country cat ladies must be stopped. You
Speaker 8: go on Twitter and almost always the people who are
Speaker 8: most deranged and most psychotic are people who don't have
Speaker 8: kids at home.
Speaker 3: Yeah, of course they're deranged and psychotic. They're on Twitter.
Speaker 3: That's where they live. It doesn't matter how many kids
Speaker 3: you have. The most deranged person on Twitter has forty
Speaker 3: five kids. For more, For more analysis on childless cat ladies,
Speaker 3: let's go live to Grace cool and Smith's Grace. Grace, Grace,
Speaker 3: what do you think about JD Van saying that childless
Speaker 3: cat ladies are bad for America?
Speaker 6: Hey?
Speaker 9: Man, when you're right, you're right back to you, Ronnie.
Speaker 3: Wait, really, what's wrong with childles's cat ladies? Uh?
Speaker 9: For starters, their houses are covered in cat hair. Look
Speaker 9: at what they did to j D when he went
Speaker 9: over to one of their houses once and his face
Speaker 9: still has cat hair all over it.
Speaker 3: I think that's his beard.
Speaker 1: Oh gross.
Speaker 9: The point is childless cat ladies are freaks.
Speaker 3: Okay, I'm sorry, but on you childless?
Speaker 9: Yes, but I don't have a bunch of cats all
Speaker 9: over my apartment. I'm a normal adult.
Speaker 3: Woman, Grace. There's a whole bunch of lizes crawling all
Speaker 3: behind you.
Speaker 9: Yeah, lizards, not cats. I'm not a freak.
Speaker 3: Okay, how is that better?
Speaker 9: It's obviously better. I don't spend all day petting my
Speaker 9: lizards or making an Instagram profile for them. I just
Speaker 9: give them petticures and crochet them turtlenecks like a normal
Speaker 9: pet owner.
Speaker 3: How many Lizas do you have?
Speaker 1: I know, forty to eighty.
Speaker 3: Okay, Grace, that's a huge range. What do you mean
Speaker 3: you don't know?
Speaker 9: They come and go as they want, Ronnie, They're not animals, Jasper,
Speaker 9: Stop eating your brother's skin and goofball.
Speaker 3: Okay, Grace is not about the animals. Jdvansh was saying
Speaker 3: that if you don't have human children, you don't care
Speaker 3: about the future of America.
Speaker 9: What no, I deeply care about America because no other
Speaker 9: country will let me in with eighty to one hundred.
Speaker 1: Lizards beating time.
Speaker 3: Come on.
Speaker 9: Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to jump on
Speaker 9: Zoom lizard ladies for Kamala.
Speaker 10: We're gonna talk about how weird the Republicans are.
Speaker 3: Okay, graceful, listen everybody. When we come back, Louis Black
Speaker 3: will be yes.
Speaker 6: I don't go away.
Speaker 3: Welcome back to the Daily Show. When a news story
Speaker 3: falls through the cracks, Lewis Black catches it for a
Speaker 3: segment we call back in Black.
Speaker 2: We are officially in the dog days of summer, which
Speaker 2: means I can finally bust out my slipping.
Speaker 3: It used to.
Speaker 2: Belong to the kid next door, but it turns out
Speaker 2: a lot of kids stuff you can just walk up
Speaker 2: and take. But this summer it's so hot you can't
Speaker 2: even make it down the slide without you're not sticking
Speaker 2: to the vinyl.
Speaker 4: It's been one of the hottest summers on record across
Speaker 4: the US, relentless heat wave smashing records in the Northeast.
Speaker 10: Monday was the hottest day ever recorded on Earth.
Speaker 8: The previous record, which was that on Sunday, only lasted
Speaker 8: twenty four hours.
Speaker 1: This hot, really, really hot.
Speaker 2: The hottest day ever recorded on Earth. Suck on that dinosaurs.
Speaker 2: We can destroy the planet ourselves. We don't need an
Speaker 2: asteroid like you pussies. Yes, this summer, the heat is
Speaker 2: kicking our ass more than usual.
Speaker 1: Last week it was so hot in New York that.
Speaker 2: And I can't believe I'm gonna say this. I asked
Speaker 2: the hawk to a girl to hit me in the forehead.
Speaker 2: And this isn't just your class and heat wave that
Speaker 2: only kills some old people that no one cares about.
Speaker 2: The heat is so extreme it's causing shit that's never
Speaker 2: happened before.
Speaker 11: Blazing temperatures outdoors can wreak havoc inside airplanes. These soda
Speaker 11: cans all exploded on Southwest flights due to extreme heat exposure.
Speaker 11: The problem is widespread. Southwest Airlines has reported about twenty
Speaker 11: employees have been injured by exploding soda cans this summer alone.
Speaker 1: What the hell.
Speaker 2: It's so hot that our soda cans are joining out, Kaida.
Speaker 2: I don't want to die in a plane crash because
Speaker 2: of cherry coke. I want to die because the Boeing
Speaker 2: guys forgot to tighten the screws. This is a disaster.
Speaker 2: What happens if planes have to get rid of soda?
Speaker 2: What am I supposed to drink on a flight? Now whiskey?
Speaker 2: That another whiskey? What am I supposed to mix the
Speaker 2: whiskey with another whiskey?
Speaker 1: Now I haven't had enough? You had enough?
Speaker 2: This is clearly a reckoning, but I'm sure Ewans will
Speaker 2: take this as a sign the climate change is a
Speaker 2: serious threat and not a chance for an idiotic photo op.
Speaker 10: At Death Valley National Park, they actually embraced the heat,
Speaker 10: encouraging tourists to take pictures in front of the park's
Speaker 10: thermometer right now hovering around one hundred and thirty degrees.
Speaker 1: You can definitely feel the heat on your skin.
Speaker 3: Honestly, it's definitely shocking.
Speaker 2: I don't know how anything can survive out here. Of course,
Speaker 2: nothing can survive in Death Valley. That's why they call
Speaker 2: it Death Valley. Guess what they sell it? Burger king,
Speaker 2: You idiot? Now you Park rangers would be warning people
Speaker 2: about the deadly heat, but instead they're getting in on
Speaker 2: the fun.
Speaker 8: Park rangers have a tasty way to show you just
Speaker 8: how hot.
Speaker 1: It is inside your car.
Speaker 3: So rangers at Sakuro National Park by.
Speaker 12: Tucson made banana bread inside their car.
Speaker 3: Some other things you can make inside your car, cookies, eggs,
Speaker 3: and even stuffed bell peppers.
Speaker 1: Who stuffs a bell pepper?
Speaker 2: Yes, global warming means you can cook right in your car,
Speaker 2: which is great news for Minehu Restaurant, Lewis Blacks, Hyundai, Sonata,
Speaker 2: Chimmy Chogas. The secret ingredient is wipe or fluid. So yes,
Speaker 2: as we've known for a while, every year, the Earth
Speaker 2: is getting hotter and hotter, like me and Paul Rudd,
Speaker 2: and that's why we need every single government body working
Speaker 2: to fix the product problem. Instead of jerking us around
Speaker 2: with elementary school science projects.
Speaker 13: The National Weather Service put on a colorful display the
Speaker 13: record setting heat wave hitting Las Vegas. Check out this
Speaker 13: time lapse of the extreme temps turning crayons into colored cream.
Speaker 3: This interesting experiment.
Speaker 13: Really puts in perspective just how hot it is out there.
Speaker 4: I feel like if you could just sort of freeze
Speaker 4: that and then, you know, you make a little bit
Speaker 4: of art out of it, I think so too.
Speaker 1: Yes, Oh that's cool, but I mean really not cool.
Speaker 1: We're all gonna die.
Speaker 2: Thanks National Weather Surface. Now we all know what it
Speaker 2: would look like if a pack of Skittles got its period,
Speaker 2: so quick safety tip. Okay, if you're gonna leave your
Speaker 2: kid in a hot car, remember to grab the crayons first.
Speaker 1: It's hard to know whether to.
Speaker 2: Be more worried about the record heat or the record stupidity.
Speaker 2: But at least when the earth finally explodes, we'll be
Speaker 2: eating delicious dashboard banana bread along the way. Ronnie, thank you,
Speaker 2: look look back everybody, and when we come back, Director
Speaker 2: John Cho will be joining your other shows that don't
Speaker 2: go away.
Speaker 3: Hey, welcome back to the Daily Show. My guest sight
Speaker 3: is director of Wicked and Crazy the Rich Asians. I
Speaker 3: hope he remembers me. He is the author of You
Speaker 3: Find a memoir Seeing and Being Seen. Please welcome mister
Speaker 3: John m Cho.
Speaker 1: Cheers, come bag as they say, so good to see
Speaker 1: you here.
Speaker 3: It's great to be here. This is your new book.
Speaker 3: I immediately look for way I was mentioned and do
Speaker 3: you mind just reading this out? So I have this
Speaker 3: on video perfect, Sorry looking at the camera.
Speaker 1: Sorry.
Speaker 12: Ronnie Chang had caught my eye when he did a
Speaker 12: piece on the Daily Show that mocked a racist Fox
Speaker 12: News segment about Chinatown. I love that he was smart
Speaker 12: and hilarious and clearly wasn't trying to please anybody.
Speaker 3: Thank you, no, but this is a crazy full social moment.
Speaker 3: It is because I guess you. I never heard the
Speaker 3: story from you, but you apparently saw me on the
Speaker 3: Daily Show and that's how you cast me on it.
Speaker 3: And now here we are, we're just talking on the
Speaker 3: Daily Show and you're the guests and I'm hosting. It's nice.
Speaker 3: It's everything.
Speaker 12: When when we were casting crazy rich Asians, yeah right,
Speaker 12: come on, when we were casting I just wanted to
Speaker 12: cast Asians that I wanted to be like or had
Speaker 12: the confidence to be like, and you had, you had
Speaker 12: all of it. Oh, then we were casting an asshole,
Speaker 12: so it's perfect, I take it.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: The story was for me was I saw you making
Speaker 3: the movie, and then at that time I just moved
Speaker 3: to America. Hollywood was such a foul away thing. I
Speaker 3: didn't not even my wildest dreams would i'd be in
Speaker 3: a movie.
Speaker 10: You know.
Speaker 3: I was just some assholes comic like running from Baba,
Speaker 3: telling big jokes and and so I didn't even think
Speaker 3: about it. Just thought, oh, it's cool that John she
Speaker 3: was doing a story set in Singapore. I was like,
Speaker 3: oh that's cool. I can't wait to watch this movie.
Speaker 3: And then I read this article that came out a
Speaker 3: few weeks later that you said, like the headline was
Speaker 3: John Chu having trouble casting authentic accents in crazy as Asians.
Speaker 3: And I did the most Hollywood thing ever. I just
Speaker 3: called my agent and I was like, yo, I will
Speaker 3: never do this. I told my agent, I'll never pull
Speaker 3: this card, but if you get me an audition, I
Speaker 3: promise you, I'm going to book this. I promise you.
Speaker 3: And then he was he got me on to send
Speaker 3: an audition in. I taped it, I sent it in
Speaker 3: a few weeks later, I got cast.
Speaker 12: Come on, I mean, the reality is you already on
Speaker 12: our list?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: I know. So then I meet you on set and
Speaker 3: you're like, oh yeah, you always on a pitch deck,
Speaker 3: literally my pitch deck.
Speaker 12: I would like, clip around and we're going to get
Speaker 12: Ronnie Chank.
Speaker 3: That's gonna be the Asian Avengers. Okay, okay, that's grand.
Speaker 1: Now you are part of the Marvel universe.
Speaker 3: Now that's great. But then that would never go back
Speaker 3: to me. No one told me I was on the
Speaker 3: pitch decks. I was auditioning.
Speaker 12: I was you gotta make it work for it.
Speaker 3: I was happy in audition for it in the first
Speaker 3: and you told me where I got on set was
Speaker 3: I just I loved how positive you are on set.
Speaker 3: It's my first time on any movie set. I was
Speaker 3: just like some small role and you know, I wasn't
Speaker 3: trying to make about me at all, but you're so
Speaker 3: you're so positive, you didn't at all. Never and you
Speaker 3: came up to me, and the first thing you said
Speaker 3: was like, hey man, you know I see auras. And
Speaker 3: I go like, I'm like, I don't want to know
Speaker 3: my aura. Please don't tell me you got you you
Speaker 3: got you got pink dots on your arm and and that,
Speaker 3: like I've injured right arm. And so I don't know
Speaker 3: how you saw that.
Speaker 12: Well, you shouldn't be on edibles when you meet your
Speaker 12: actor for the first time. But if you're outing me
Speaker 12: as a spiritualist, then you know, I don't. I don't
Speaker 12: know if I believe in all that, but I do
Speaker 12: see colors do.
Speaker 3: Yeah. So I've never said that publicly, just to I'm
Speaker 3: trying to get I'm trying to get you say stuff
Speaker 3: you didn't say on Colbert. It is true, It's true. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I see it. I see you have a lot.
Speaker 12: Of blue spikes right now, right now, all over your head.
Speaker 12: I don't know what it means, so I cannot actually
Speaker 12: tell you.
Speaker 3: You think it's the lighting, man, it's true, but you
Speaker 3: know edible, so I'm not. Yeah, but you are always
Speaker 3: relentlessly very positive, you know. And that was a tough
Speaker 3: film to make. And I mean when you were making it,
Speaker 3: did you did you know that it was going to
Speaker 3: become what it was?
Speaker 9: No?
Speaker 12: I don't think any of us could have known. I
Speaker 12: think when we were there and we're all together, we're
Speaker 12: talking about our experiences of being an Asian person in
Speaker 12: entertainment from all around the world, wherever anyone came from,
Speaker 12: I think we shared something and that was really powerful,
Speaker 12: that hey, this is actually really important. Whether people see
Speaker 12: it or not, we didn't know it, didn't really care.
Speaker 12: It was like for us to show off what we
Speaker 12: could do. We could make fun of ourselves and our
Speaker 12: culture and our people, and we could show them as
Speaker 12: beautiful and as heroes and as villains in any way
Speaker 12: we wanted. And I think it was when we were
Speaker 12: making it is when I felt like, if people get
Speaker 12: a load of this, they're.
Speaker 11: Not even ready.
Speaker 3: So you could feel it on set I could.
Speaker 12: Feel it on set, but you don't know until the
Speaker 12: audience shows up in that first weekend, when people brought
Speaker 12: their grandmothers and people who had go on the movies
Speaker 12: for all these years, and we're crying outside and would
Speaker 12: just congregate in the lobby. You just felt that like
Speaker 12: we were part of something, something, something bigger than us.
Speaker 3: And I guess I want to talk about that, this
Speaker 3: relentless positivity that I felt back then and I still
Speaker 3: feel now. And I guess I don't know if you
Speaker 3: have any woods of how to stay positive in these times,
Speaker 3: because I feel like, if anything, like the world has
Speaker 3: gone less positive after we made this movie, but you
Speaker 3: never stopped with the positivity. So I don't know if
Speaker 3: you have any Yeah, I'm expective on that.
Speaker 12: That's part of the reason why I wrote the book
Speaker 12: is you know, I grew up in America where people
Speaker 12: believed in their dreams that you could achieve these things.
Speaker 12: My parents have a Chinese restaurant. I grew up as
Speaker 12: a restaurant kid, doing my whole tek at the bar. Yeah,
Speaker 12: you go there all the time, and that's right, that's right,
Speaker 12: And I feel like, you know, the American dream still exists. Yes,
Speaker 12: it was maybe not what our parents said it was,
Speaker 12: and maybe not what we hoped it would be, but
Speaker 12: the idea of it still exists, and we have the
Speaker 12: power to control what that narrative will be in the future.
Speaker 12: And I really wanted in the book to show any
Speaker 12: young dreamer out there, old dreamer, when you're on the
Speaker 12: cusp of chasing your dream, that it can happen, and
Speaker 12: that it's hard, and that there's ups and downs and
Speaker 12: it's not overnight. But if you just keep walking, you'll
Speaker 12: end up at some place. And I think that's necessary
Speaker 12: in this world right now.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I did read this, and it's a
Speaker 3: patient I did read it. I did. I was looking
Speaker 3: for my name. I was the it's already at the end,
Speaker 3: so I had to read the whole book before I
Speaker 3: could find out what you said about me. But no,
Speaker 3: this book is a very positive book. I feel like
Speaker 3: I almost feel like you wrote it for kids to read,
Speaker 3: almost in a way for them to read and see, yeah,
Speaker 3: you know how to navigate kind of dream chasing.
Speaker 12: I also think like everyone has a camera now, everyone's
Speaker 12: a creator. Everyone has a you know, on their phones
Speaker 12: or editing for TikTok or whatever it may be.
Speaker 1: And there's that's power.
Speaker 3: That is a very powerful thing in your hand.
Speaker 12: And I you know, when I started making videos, it
Speaker 12: was for weddings and bar mitzvah and high school and
Speaker 12: I was like the only kid doing it and now
Speaker 12: everyone does it. So I think there's like a responsibility
Speaker 12: when you realize the power that you have, and I
Speaker 12: think there is. I think there's a there's understanding what
Speaker 12: that grammar is of audio visual storytelling and what you
Speaker 12: want to say is more important than ever and owning
Speaker 12: who you are. That's why it's called viewfinder, is to
Speaker 12: find who you are and how you want to express that.
Speaker 12: And you may have mistakes that you make along the way,
Speaker 12: but that's okay. It's it's a constant, it's a it's
Speaker 12: a routine. Chasing your dreams a routine. It isn't a
Speaker 12: goal or destination.
Speaker 3: And no, I do want to talk about this next
Speaker 3: project you're doing. So you've helped Asian representation in film,
Speaker 3: and you've helped Latino representation in film, and now you're
Speaker 3: helping green people. Yeah, be representative film. So this next
Speaker 3: movie project wick good? Yeah? Well when yeah, when is it.
Speaker 12: It's coming out in November twenty second, and we have
Speaker 12: Aurana Grande Cynthia Rivo playing the two witches.
Speaker 3: And I mean, just set it up. What made you
Speaker 3: want to choose to walk on Wicked.
Speaker 12: Well, it's about the backstory of the Wicked Witch of
Speaker 12: the West. So Cynthia Riva plays Elphaba, who in the
Speaker 12: story of the Wizard of Oz, which is probably one
Speaker 12: of the greatest American fairy tales out there, she is
Speaker 12: seen as like the Wicked Witch, but there's a deeper planned,
Speaker 12: a darker plan that has made her the Wicked Witch.
Speaker 12: And when you get to meet her as a young
Speaker 12: dreamer that you find out that there's more than meets
Speaker 12: the eye. And seeing that story in a totally different
Speaker 12: point of view is fascinating, interesting, and you get to
Speaker 12: almost like take apart the American story and put it
Speaker 12: back together. And I loved it so that it had
Speaker 12: a lot of meeting to me in terms of, you know,
Speaker 12: anyone who feels different and what does it feel like
Speaker 12: to come through And also for Glinda, who's Glinda the
Speaker 12: Good in Wizard of Oz, that she goes through a
Speaker 12: transition that she could live in a bubble, her whole
Speaker 12: life and never have to fight for anything because she
Speaker 12: has that privilege. But at some point Glinda also has
Speaker 12: to pop her own bubble, and I think that is
Speaker 12: as much bravery as anyone else to get off your
Speaker 12: uh you know, your your privilege for a moment to
Speaker 12: confront some of the things that we have to confront
Speaker 12: these days.
Speaker 3: So, yeah, this is the way you talk about your
Speaker 3: all your projects. It's all like that. That's how he
Speaker 3: talks about everything on set. He's always it's it's real.
Speaker 3: It's real for him. It's in here, it's really here.
Speaker 3: And I just want to say, you know, thanks so
Speaker 3: much for believing in me on your project. I love
Speaker 3: you so much. You change my life by putting me on,
Speaker 3: and thanks for trusting me, and thanks for making all
Speaker 3: these really great films, don't you. Everybody jus.
Speaker 1: Take a quick break.
Speaker 3: We'll be right back after this. That's all show up
Speaker 3: for tonight. Now here it is is your moment of that.
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Speaker 14: Satch and right and what's the other guy, Muggsy? Yeah,
Speaker 14: but wait, almost everybody that we watched on television growing
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